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Evolutionary Biology Books
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The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.16 — 193,564 ratings — published 1976
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.01 — 122,436 ratings — published 1859
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,886 ratings — published 1986
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,253 ratings — published 2009
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.04 — 29,017 ratings — published 2008
Why Evolution Is True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.19 — 26,096 ratings — published 2008
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.15 — 28,764 ratings — published 2004
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,273,126 ratings — published 2011
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)
by (shelved 29 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,609 ratings — published 1982
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.07 — 17,030 ratings — published 1995
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.09 — 28,728 ratings — published 1991
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.05 — 17,339 ratings — published 1993
The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.08 — 12,019 ratings — published 1994
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,285 ratings — published 1989
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 3.90 — 284,144 ratings — published 2006
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.38 — 32,281 ratings — published 2017
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,379 ratings — published 2009
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,107 ratings — published 1999
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 3.98 — 8,984 ratings — published 1995
Climbing Mount Improbable (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,117 ratings — published 1996
The Descent of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,479 ratings — published 1871
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.04 — 460,123 ratings — published 1997
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.35 — 56,145 ratings — published 2016
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.01 — 11,511 ratings — published 2000
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,488 ratings — published 1839
The Social Conquest of Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,332 ratings — published 2012
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.19 — 21,547 ratings — published 1977
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,739 ratings — published 2017
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,751 ratings — published 2005
Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,728 ratings — published 2020
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.09 — 25,374 ratings — published 2002
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.17 — 9,970 ratings — published 1994
The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—And Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,857 ratings — published 2017
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,410 ratings — published 2018
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,115 ratings — published 2018
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,007 ratings — published 2015
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,796 ratings — published 1975
The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,929 ratings — published 1980
Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,635 ratings — published 1977
The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,659 ratings — published 2013
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,323 ratings — published 2002
Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea – From Darwin's Natural Selection to Modern Genetics: A Compelling Science Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,199 ratings — published 2001
The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,202 ratings — published 1997
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,763 ratings — published 2005
The Future of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,269 ratings — published 2002
The Diversity of Life (Questions of Science)
by (shelved 8 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.22 — 6,252 ratings — published 1992
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.25 — 16,381 ratings — published 2023
Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.21 — 145 ratings — published 1966
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.18 — 289,020 ratings — published 2015
What Evolution Is (Science Masters Series)
by (shelved 7 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,916 ratings — published 2001
“If you make yourself really small, you can externalize virtually everything.”
― Freedom Evolves
― Freedom Evolves
“Humans have moved from 'object-assisted' to an 'object-dependent' species, and this has bidirectionally influenced brain development, notably visuospatial integration in the parietl lobes.”
― Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health
― Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health












