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
The Quantum Dream by One IamThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. KuhnA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingTimaeus by PlatoGuns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
History and Philosophy of Science
71 books — 33 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
201 books — 105 voters

Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonA Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldThe Song of the Dodo by David QuammenThe Flight of the Iguana by David QuammenThe Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Best of Natural History
362 books — 69 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
200 books — 61 voters


Rosa Luxemburg
Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.
Rosa Luxemburg

Friedrich Nietzsche
At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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