Most Read This Week In 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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Most Read This Week Tagged "Evolution"

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

Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

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

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

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

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

Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity

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

Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

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

Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization

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

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

The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World

A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters

The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie

Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence

When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance

Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World

Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future

The Origin of Language: How We Learned to Speak and Why

Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist

Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution

Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals

The Horse: A Galloping History of Humanity

The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal

How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures

The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins

Infinite Life: An Epic New Story of Life on Earth

How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason

Birds, Sex and Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications of Charles Darwin's Strangest Idea – Evolutionary Theory, Sexual Selection, and the Mystery of Attraction

Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas

The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction

Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death

Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious

Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work (Or Don't)

First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human

Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils

Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation

Homo Sapiens Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution Rewriting Our Origins (The Rediscovered Series)

Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution

The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World

Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life

Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness

Fowl Play: A History of the Chicken from Dinosaur to Dinner Plate

Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change

Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction

Why Rats Laugh and Jellyfish Sleep: And Other Enchanting Stories of Evolution

Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive

Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing

The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality

The Magic School Bus Explores Human Evolution

The Cat's Meow: How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa

The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved

Our Tribal Future: How to Channel Our Foundational Human Instincts into a Force for Good

Where Are You Really From?: Our Amazing Evolution, What Race Really Is and What Makes Us Human

Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human

Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will

Outraged: Why We Fight About Morality and Politics and How to Find Common Ground

The Secret History of Sharks: The Rise of the Ocean's Most Fearsome Predators

The Liars of Nature and the Nature of Liars: Cheating and Deception in the Living World

Growing Up Human: The Evolution of Childhood (Bloomsbury Sigma)

The Five-Million-Year Odyssey: The Human Journey from Ape to Agriculture

Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics

The Parrot in the Mirror: How Evolving to Be Like Birds Makes Us Human

A Most Interesting Problem: What Darwin’s Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong about Human Evolution

A Story of Us: A New Look at Human Evolution

How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology

The Ghost in the Garden: In Search of Darwin’s Lost Garden

The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins

Being Human: How Our Biology Shaped World History

Impact: How Rocks from Space Led to Life, Culture, and Donkey Kong

How the Sea Came to Be: And All the Creatures In It (Spectacular STEAM for Curious Readers (SSCR))

The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears them Down

Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness

The Evolution of Charles Darwin: The Epic Voyage of the Beagle That Forever Changed Our View of Life on Earth

Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science

Big Meg: The Story of the Largest and Most Mysterious Predator that Ever Lived

Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace

A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species

The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature

The Invention of Tomorrow: A Natural History of Foresight

The Darwinian Trap: The Hidden Evolutionary Forces That Explain Our World (and Threaten Our Future)

The Age of Dinosaurs: The Rise and Fall of the World’s Most Remarkable Animals

Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion

The Stone Age: The History and Legacy of the Prehistoric Period When Humans Started Using Stone Tools

Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined―and Redefined―Nature

Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils

Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World

First Friend: How Dogs Evolved from Wolves to Become Our Best Friends

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Quotes Tagged “Evolution”

“ Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities. But it cannot achieve its end. Its doctrines carry with them the stamp of the times in which they originated, the ignorant childhood days of the human race. Its consolations deserve no trust. Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery. The ethical commands, to which religion seeks to ...more ”
― Sigmund Freud , Moses and Monotheism

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“ The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder. ”
― Jim Morrison

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