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
A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
Stalactite & Stalagmite: A Big Tale from a Little Cave (Caldecott Honor)
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
Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
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
Dinosaurs: 10 Things You Should Know
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)
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
Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterChaos by James GleickThe Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas TalebThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanThe Information by James Gleick
Complexity
161 books — 164 voters

DMT by Rick StrassmanThe Cosmic Serpent by Jeremy NarbyTao Te Ching by Lao TzuLife Revisited by Laurent  GrenierThe Secret Life of Plants by Peter Tompkins
Curious Minds
182 books — 155 voters
The Madness of Crowds by Douglas MurrayThe Righteous Mind by Jonathan HaidtFactfulness by Hans RoslingThe Coddling of the American Mind by Jonathan HaidtSapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
The Intellectual Dark Web
263 books — 56 voters

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova BaileyCharlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteJames and the Giant Peach by Roald DahlWonderful Life by Stephen Jay GouldLife in the Undergrowth by David Attenborough
Books about Invertebrates
400 books — 50 voters
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. KuhnThe Quantum Dream by One IamA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingTimaeus by PlatoGuns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
History and Philosophy of Science
71 books — 32 voters


Christopher Hitchens
[Said during a debate when his opponent asserted that atheism and belief in evolution lead to Nazism:] Atheism by itself is, of course, not a moral position or a political one of any kind; it simply is the refusal to believe in a supernatural dimension. For you to say of Nazism that it was the implementation of the work of Charles Darwin is a filthy slander, undeserving of you and an insult to this audience. Darwin’s thought was not taught in Germany; Darwinism was so derided in Germany along w ...more
Christopher Hitchens

Galileo Galilei
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina

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