unique features and faculties of life in different species starting from amoeba to animals to rocks.

 Times of India every Saturday Evoke section brings out such excellent articles. 

The New Scientist Magazine too has such articles. 

Best part is books on evolutionary biology ( my favorite subject from 91 more so after 2011 ).

I was fortunate enough to read some of the best authors and books and thanks to SM interacting​​ on twitter with some of the best brains. 

In fact, one good thing with the BBC used to be serious interviews and healthy discussions sessions with top evolutionary biologists. 

Matt Ridley's book Genome clearly explains how the 23 pairs of chromosomes are inherently responsible for the fabric of almost most aspects of our life and its faculties. 

Guy Murchie's The seven mysteries of Life takes you through the journey of various unique features and faculties of life in different species starting from amoeba to animals to rocks. 

The reason for scientific study of those subjects in the West was they did not continue to allow the dictates of religious strictures and enforced templates beyond a period as they realized they were stumbling blocks whereas, in intellectually advanced civilization in the Orient like India and China some of great knowledge was embedded deep inside religious texts in very abstract way that people like Kak are still scrupulously deciphering them.

Though LeComte Du Noüy's Human Destiny, an excellent book, is considered a masterpiece of biophysics and philosophy it delves deeper into scientific study of biophysical and spiritual dimensions of human life. 

Some people like Washington Carver ( called the black Da Vinci) could feel the pulse of every plant in nature, then lived, experienced and explained the many facets of nature. 

Best deduction is only through using the canine sense of dogs as they can simultaneously smell and process a few million distinct odors/ fragrances /stinks..