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"

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

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains

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

The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us – A Bestselling Book on the Natural History of Mammalian Evolution

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

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

Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

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

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

Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity

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

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

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

Lena the Chicken (But Really a Dinosaur!)

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

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

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

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

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

The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie

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

Being Human: How Our Biology Shaped World History

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

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

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

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

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

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

Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death

How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures

Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious

The Magic School Bus Explores Human Evolution

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

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

The Horse: A Galloping History of Humanity

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

Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life

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

Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas

The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality

Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution

First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human

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

Intraterrestrials: Discovering the Strangest Life on Earth

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

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

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

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

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

The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature

Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness

Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils

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

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

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

Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals

The Invention of Tomorrow: A Natural History of Foresight

Islam: An Evolutionary Perspective (Brevis)

Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics

Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist

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

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

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

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

Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness

A Story of Us: A New Look at Human Evolution

Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science

The Tree of Life: Solving Science's Greatest Puzzle

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

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

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

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

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

Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will

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

Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing

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

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

Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“ For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. ”
― Carl Sagan

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“ I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. ”
― Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina

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