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The Beak of the Finch
Popular Science
Pulitzer Prize–winning account of Peter and Rosemary Grant's decades of fieldwork on the Galápagos finches, watching natural selection happen in real time rather than inferring it from the fossil record. Altman holds it up as the rare science book that shows how knowledge actually accumulates—through patient measurement and willingness to be surprised.
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Sam Altman
Picked in the AMA for its portrait of how rigorous empirical observation produces real scientific knowledge—Altman values books that show the scientific method at its best.