Books like The Mismeasure of Man

The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould reads as critical, academic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

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Jared Diamond · 2005

Same nonfiction feel

52% genome match

The human web

John Robert McNeill · 2002

Same nonfiction feel

57% genome match

Time Travel

James Gleick · 2016

Same nonfiction feel

58% genome match

Nature's metropolis

William Cronon · 1991

Same nonfiction feel

57% genome match

Biology

Neil Alexander Campbell · 1987

Same nonfiction feel

52% genome match

The Collapse of Western Civilization

Naomi Oreskes · 2014

Same nonfiction feel

58% genome match

1493

Charles C. Mann · 2011

Same nonfiction feel

55% genome match

The Great Divergence

Kenneth Pomeranz · 2000

Same nonfiction feel

57% genome match

War and Peace and War

Peter Turchin · 2005

Same nonfiction feel

57% genome match

Civilization

Niall Ferguson · 2011

Same nonfiction feel

55% genome match

A new green history of the world

Clive Ponting · 2007

Same nonfiction feel

57% genome match

Sapiens

Yuval Noah Harari · 2011

Same nonfiction feel

83% genome match