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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"

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

The Story of Birds: A New History from Their Dinosaur Origins to the Present

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

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

Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity

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

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

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

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

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

Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life

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

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

The Genius of Trees: How They Mastered the Elements and Shaped the World

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

Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life

Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious

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

Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution

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

Bonded by Evolution: The New Science of Love and Connection

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

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

Intraterrestrials: Discovering the Strangest Life on Earth

Lena the Chicken (But Really a Dinosaur!)

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

The Horse: A Galloping History of Humanity

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

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

Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World

Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics

Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death

Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie

The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature

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

Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness

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

Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will

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

How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures

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

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

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

The Tree of Life: Solving Science's Greatest Puzzle

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

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

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

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

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

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

Being Human: How Our Biology Shaped World History

Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing

Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals

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

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

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

The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality

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

The Magic School Bus Explores Human Evolution

Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science

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

Infinite Life: An Epic New Story of Life on Earth

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

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

The Master Builder: How the New Science of the Cell Is Rewriting the Story of Life

Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils

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

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

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

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

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

The Invention of Tomorrow: A Natural History of Foresight

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

Islam: An Evolutionary Perspective (Brevis)

How the Mind Changed: A Human History of Our Evolving Brain

The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth

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

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

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Quotes Tagged “Evolution”

“ The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg. ”
― Richard Dawkins

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“ The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. It must be so. If there ever is a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an incre ...more ”
― Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

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