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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Charlie Thorne and the Lost City (Charlie Thorne #2)

Stalactite & Stalagmite: A Big Tale from a Little Cave

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Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding

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

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

Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity

Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity

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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)

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A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Modern Science Nonfiction

443 books — 299 voters

Best Essays about Plants, Animals and Nature

253 books — 56 voters

The Evolution Of Desire by David M. Buss

Evolutionary Psychology

233 books — 94 voters

A Brief History of Time by Stephen W. Hawking

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266 books — 107 voters

Signature in the Cell by Stephen C. Meyer

The Design of Life by William A. Dembski

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199 books — 60 voters

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Quotes Tagged “Evolution”

“ Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception. ”
― Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

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“ The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness. ...more ”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

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