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Charles Darwin’s most famous book has the long title of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.

Physica by Aristotle was written around 330 BCE. Aristotle got a lot of things wrong, but his logical way of looking at the world paved the way for modern science.

True. Jane Goodall is considered the leading authority on chimpanzee social behaviour. Her book weaves scientific observation with a memoir of her life studying chimpanzees.

Cellulose is a complex carbohydrate commonly found around the cells of plants, such as wood, straw, and bamboo. The cellulose from these plants are used to make book pages.

Andy Weir’s The Martian is about an astronaut stranded on Mars. In reality, no human has made it to Mars yet.