SMITHSONIAN.COM’S ‘10 BEST SCIENCE BOOKS OF 2018’
“Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm,” by author Isabella Tree
“First in Fly: Drosophila Research and Biological Discovery,” by Harvard genetics lecturer Stephanie Elizabeth Mohr
“The Poison Squad: One Chemist's SingleMinded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century,” by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author Deborah Blum
“She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity,” by science journalist Carl Zimmer
“Close Encounters with Humankind: A Paleoanthropologist Investigates Our Evolving Species,” by leading Korean paleoanthropologist Sang-Hee Lee
“The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World,”
by American paleontologist Steve Brusatte
“The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy,” by author Paige Williams
“Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray,” by author and theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder
“Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto,”
by principle investigator Alan Stern and planetary scientist David Grinspoon
“What the Future Looks Like: Scientists Predict the Next Great Discoveries—and Reveal How Today’s Breakthroughs Are Already Shaping Our World,” edited by Theoretical physicist Jim Al-Khalili