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

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Stalactite & Stalagmite: A Big Tale from a Little Cave (Caldecott Honor)

The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

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

Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity

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

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)

A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life

Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2 - The Pillars of Civilization

A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters

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

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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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Quotes Tagged “Evolution”

“ It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything. ”
― G.K. Chesterton

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