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The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 900 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.16 — 195,214 ratings — published 1976
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 625 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.01 — 123,337 ratings — published 1859
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 565 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,625 ratings — published 2009
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 546 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,293,562 ratings — published 2011
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 508 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,104 ratings — published 1986
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 451 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.04 — 29,421 ratings — published 2008
Why Evolution Is True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 432 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.19 — 26,225 ratings — published 2008
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 428 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.15 — 28,890 ratings — published 2004
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 320 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.07 — 17,107 ratings — published 1995
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 311 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.09 — 28,848 ratings — published 1991
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 271 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.05 — 17,395 ratings — published 1993
The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology (Paperback)
by (shelved 193 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.08 — 12,070 ratings — published 1994
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)
by (shelved 186 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,642 ratings — published 1982
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.04 — 464,850 ratings — published 1997
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 182 times as evolution)
avg rating 3.98 — 9,019 ratings — published 1995
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,282 ratings — published 1999
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 163 times as evolution)
avg rating 3.90 — 285,742 ratings — published 2006
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,330 ratings — published 1989
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 160 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,405 ratings — published 2009
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.19 — 21,660 ratings — published 1977
Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea – From Darwin's Natural Selection to Modern Genetics: A Compelling Science Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,209 ratings — published 2001
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,067 ratings — published 2015
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,761 ratings — published 2005
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 138 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.15 — 80,763 ratings — published 2014
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 137 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.18 — 291,850 ratings — published 2015
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,046 ratings — published 1994
Climbing Mount Improbable (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.12 — 10,151 ratings — published 1996
Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,169 ratings — published 2007
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.21 — 42,076 ratings — published 2018
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease (ebook)
by (shelved 123 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.27 — 8,988 ratings — published 2013
The Descent of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,503 ratings — published 1871
The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,176 ratings — published 2006
What Evolution Is (Science Masters Series)
by (shelved 117 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,923 ratings — published 2001
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.22 — 428,944 ratings — published 2003
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as evolution)
avg rating 3.88 — 28,790 ratings — published 2016
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,214 ratings — published 2018
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.37 — 8,376 ratings — published 2022
The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,786 ratings — published 2000
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.09 — 25,493 ratings — published 2002
The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,953 ratings — published 1980
The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,214 ratings — published 1997
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,576 ratings — published 1839
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.03 — 12,352 ratings — published 2016
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as evolution)
avg rating 3.97 — 31,941 ratings — published 2010
The Social Conquest of Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,348 ratings — published 2012
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.05 — 27,593 ratings — published 2011
The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—And Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,886 ratings — published 2017
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.35 — 56,943 ratings — published 2016
Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,654 ratings — published 1977
Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality (Science Masters)
by (shelved 86 times as evolution)
avg rating 3.71 — 7,349 ratings — published 1997
“People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.”
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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.”
― Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina
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