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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New Releases Tagged "Evolution"

The God Test: Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning
Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
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
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
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A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
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The God Test: Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning
Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
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
Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution
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
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Books about Invertebrates
402 books — 52 voters
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Evolutionary Psychology
238 books — 98 voters

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Nonfiction Books about Plants
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Sapiens by Yuval Noah HarariGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingCollapse by Jared Diamond
Big History
273 books — 113 voters

The Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsThe Origin of Species by Charles DarwinYour Inner Fish by Neil ShubinThe Ancestor's Tale by Richard DawkinsThe Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins
On Evolution - Love It Or Hate It
202 books — 111 voters
Darwin's Black Box by Michael J. BeheSignature in the Cell by Stephen C. MeyerDarwin's Doubt by Stephen C. MeyerIcons of Evolution by Jonathan WellsThe Design of Life by William A. Dembski
Best Books against Darwinism
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

Richard Dawkins
The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. It must be so. If there ever is a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an incre ...more
Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

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