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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The Story of Birds: A New History from Their Dinosaur Origins to the Present ― A Bestselling Paleontologist's Sweeping Story of Birds
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 God Test: Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning
Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
Charlie Thorne and the Lost City (Charlie Thorne #2)
Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie
The Selfish Gene
The Origin of Species
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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
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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Evolutionary Psychology
240 books — 99 voters

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Every 9 Minutes by Christina VitaglianoThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootStiff by Mary RoachA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill  BrysonGod's Existence by Gary R. Lindberg
Modern Science Nonfiction
492 books — 451 voters

The Madness of Crowds by Douglas MurrayThe Righteous Mind by Jonathan HaidtFactfulness by Hans RoslingThe Coddling of the American Mind by Jonathan HaidtSapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
The Intellectual Dark Web
263 books — 58 voters
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. KuhnA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingTimaeus by PlatoGuns, Germs and Steel by Jared DiamondRelativity by Albert Einstein
History and Philosophy of Science
73 books — 29 voters


Charles Darwin
“ Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved ...more ”
― Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

G.K. Chesterton
“ 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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