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The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 198,900 ratings — published 1976
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 125,175 ratings — published 1859
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 566 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,341,028 ratings — published 2011
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 564 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.16 — 57,202 ratings — published 2009
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 518 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,644 ratings — published 1986
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 466 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.04 — 30,308 ratings — published 2008
Why Evolution Is True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 434 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.19 — 26,495 ratings — published 2008
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 426 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.15 — 29,106 ratings — published 2004
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 318 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.07 — 17,210 ratings — published 1995
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 314 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.09 — 29,123 ratings — published 1991
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 271 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.05 — 17,495 ratings — published 1993
The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.08 — 12,232 ratings — published 1994
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)
by (shelved 187 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,758 ratings — published 1982
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.04 — 476,044 ratings — published 1997
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 182 times as evolution)
avg rating 3.98 — 9,116 ratings — published 1995
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,733 ratings — published 1999
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 166 times as evolution)
avg rating 3.90 — 289,169 ratings — published 2006
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 164 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,439 ratings — published 1989
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 160 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,483 ratings — published 2009
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.19 — 21,924 ratings — published 1977
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,205 ratings — published 2015
Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea – From Darwin's Natural Selection to Modern Genetics: A Compelling Science Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,223 ratings — published 2001
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,815 ratings — published 2005
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 142 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.18 — 297,530 ratings — published 2015
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 141 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.15 — 82,936 ratings — published 2014
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,196 ratings — published 1994
Climbing Mount Improbable (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.12 — 10,214 ratings — published 1996
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.22 — 44,530 ratings — published 2018
Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,173 ratings — published 2007
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease (ebook)
by (shelved 125 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.27 — 9,201 ratings — published 2013
The Descent of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,542 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 — 3,185 ratings — published 2006
What Evolution Is (Science Masters Series)
by (shelved 115 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,935 ratings — published 2001
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.21 — 438,499 ratings — published 2003
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as evolution)
avg rating 3.88 — 30,055 ratings — published 2016
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.37 — 9,180 ratings — published 2022
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,444 ratings — published 2018
The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,808 ratings — published 2000
The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,004 ratings — published 1980
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.09 — 25,760 ratings — published 2002
The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,234 ratings — published 1997
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as evolution)
avg rating 3.97 — 32,296 ratings — published 2010
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.02 — 12,737 ratings — published 2016
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.05 — 27,905 ratings — published 2011
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,719 ratings — published 1839
The Social Conquest of Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,387 ratings — published 2012
The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—And Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,951 ratings — published 2017
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.34 — 58,616 ratings — published 2016
Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.14 — 14,029 ratings — published 2014
Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,690 ratings — published 1977
“Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth clean. We destroy things so well that I sometimes think, maybe that's our function. Maybe every few eons, some animal comes along that kills off the rest of the world, clears the decks, and lets evolution proceed to its next phase.”
― The Lost World
― The Lost World
“What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.”
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