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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Evolution Books

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

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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 Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)

The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

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A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Modern Science Nonfiction

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Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Complexity

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Mind-changing Nonfiction

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We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor

Protagonist is a Dungeon

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The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins

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“ It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. ”
― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked

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“ People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers. ...more ”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

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