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The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.16 — 198,169 ratings — published 1976
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.01 — 124,733 ratings — published 1859
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,547 ratings — published 1986
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.16 — 57,115 ratings — published 2009
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.04 — 29,994 ratings — published 2008
Why Evolution Is True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.19 — 26,435 ratings — published 2008
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.15 — 29,048 ratings — published 2004
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,332,383 ratings — published 2011
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)
by (shelved 28 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,737 ratings — published 1982
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.07 — 17,216 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 — 29,090 ratings — published 1991
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.05 — 17,466 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 — 12,192 ratings — published 1994
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.37 — 34,559 ratings — published 2017
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,464 ratings — published 2009
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 3.90 — 288,507 ratings — published 2006
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,417 ratings — published 1989
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,604 ratings — published 1999
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.04 — 473,756 ratings — published 1997
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 3.98 — 9,098 ratings — published 1995
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.34 — 58,248 ratings — published 2016
Climbing Mount Improbable (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.12 — 10,207 ratings — published 1996
The Descent of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,531 ratings — published 1871
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,804 ratings — published 2005
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.01 — 11,591 ratings — published 2000
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,691 ratings — published 1839
The Social Conquest of Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,376 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 — 21,861 ratings — published 1977
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 3.78 — 3,823 ratings — published 2017
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.09 — 25,690 ratings — published 2002
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 — 2,847 ratings — published 2020
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.24 — 18,708 ratings — published 2023
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,396 ratings — published 2018
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,168 ratings — published 2015
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,864 ratings — published 2005
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,163 ratings — published 1994
The Future of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,310 ratings — published 2002
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 — 7,686 ratings — published 2018
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,797 ratings — published 1975
Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,526 ratings — published 2014
The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,786 ratings — published 2013
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 4.12 — 5,217 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 — 4,228 ratings — published 1997
The Diversity of Life (Questions of Science)
by (shelved 8 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.22 — 6,284 ratings — published 1992
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.37 — 9,025 ratings — published 2022
The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—And Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,933 ratings — published 2017
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.18 — 296,366 ratings — published 2015
What Evolution Is (Science Masters Series)
by (shelved 7 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,932 ratings — published 2001
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.15 — 82,275 ratings — published 2014
The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,992 ratings — published 1980
“All roots lead to Africa, all atoms, to the stars.”
― Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
― Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
“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
