Evolution

Evolution is the change in the inherited characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organisation, including species, individual organisms and molecules such as DNA and proteins.

See also Science.
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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
Stalactite & Stalagmite: A Big Tale from a Little Cave (Caldecott Honor)
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
Charlie Thorne and the Lost City (Charlie Thorne #2)
A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2 - The Pillars of Civilization
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters
The Selfish Gene
The Origin of Species
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Why Evolution Is True
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

Charles Darwin
Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved ...more
Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

Ursula K. Le Guin
The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness. ...more
Ursula K. Le Guin

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