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.

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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

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Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

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Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality

Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding

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The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World

The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters

Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life

A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters

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Evolution Books

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

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

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

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The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins

Creation vs. Evolution

215 books — 97 voters

The Evolution Of Desire by David M. Buss

Evolutionary Psychology

234 books — 95 voters

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey

Life in the Undergrowth by David Attenborough

Books about Invertebrates

400 books — 50 voters

From Mountains to Medicine by Erica M. Elliott

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness by Patrick House

Medicine and Miracles in the High Desert by Erica M. Elliott

Sciency Books For Every Curious Mind

98 books — 60 voters

Monogamy's DNA. Monogamy is genetic and impossible to avoid it romance novels!

223 books — 114 voters

Technological Slavery by Theodore John Kaczynski

Anti-Tech Revolution by Theodore John Kaczynski

Industrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John Kaczynski

The Human Animal

143 books — 101 voters

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Quotes Tagged “Evolution”

“ But Phidias was better than most men since he made beautiful sculptures. He was even making one of her—well, he called it “Athena,” but anyone could see it looked like her. ”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

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“ Folks, it's time to evolve. That's why we're troubled. You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything's failing? It's because, um – they're no longer relevant. We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right? ...more ”
― Bill Hicks

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