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The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.16 — 196,955 ratings — published 1976
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.01 — 124,205 ratings — published 1859
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,361 ratings — published 1986
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,922 ratings — published 2009
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.04 — 29,751 ratings — published 2008
Why Evolution Is True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.19 — 26,363 ratings — published 2008
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.15 — 28,997 ratings — published 2004
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,316,996 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 — 9,696 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 — 17,169 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 — 29,017 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 — 17,448 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 — 12,149 ratings — published 1994
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,439 ratings — published 2009
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,381 ratings — published 1989
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.37 — 33,956 ratings — published 2017
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,478 ratings — published 1999
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 3.90 — 287,427 ratings — published 2006
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.04 — 470,252 ratings — published 1997
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 3.98 — 9,058 ratings — published 1995
Climbing Mount Improbable (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.12 — 10,184 ratings — published 1996
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.34 — 57,744 ratings — published 2016
The Descent of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,519 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 — 5,792 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 — 11,572 ratings — published 2000
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,644 ratings — published 1839
The Social Conquest of Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,361 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 — 21,779 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 — 3,796 ratings — published 2017
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 — 2,815 ratings — published 2020
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.09 — 25,612 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 — 10,122 ratings — published 1994
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.24 — 18,173 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 — 6,319 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 — 6,121 ratings — published 2015
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,840 ratings — published 2005
The Future of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,302 ratings — published 2002
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 — 2,913 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 — 7,632 ratings — published 2018
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,798 ratings — published 1975
The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,977 ratings — published 1980
Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,670 ratings — published 1977
Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,511 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 — 5,757 ratings — published 2013
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,327 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 4.12 — 5,218 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 — 4,224 ratings — published 1997
The Diversity of Life (Questions of Science)
by (shelved 8 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,276 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 — 8,766 ratings — published 2022
Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.22 — 149 ratings — published 1966
“The greatest boon of modern life is also the greatest villain: the availability of plentiful food. Or, rather, foodlike substances manufacturers concoct with the exact combinations of sugar, salt, and fat that we most desire. Those desires were helpful on the African savanna, where sugar, salt, and fat were scarce; now our preferences make us obese and ill. Addiction to tobacco was not much of a problem until the breeding of milder strains and the invention of cigarette papers; now smoking causes a third of all cancers and much heart disease. Fermented beverages were sometimes available, but now readily available beer, wine, and spirits cause alcoholism worldwide. Advances in chemistry and transport make concentrated drugs such as heroin and amphetamine available everywhere; in combination with novel means of administration such as needles, they cause massive modern epidemics.”
― Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
― Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
“True. And there are an infinite number of universes, of course, in which we don't exist at all - that is, no creatures similar to us exist at all. In which the human race doesn't exist at all. There are an infinite number of universes, for instance, in which flowers are the predominant form of life -or in which no form of life has ever developed or will develop.”
― "FREDRIC BROWN" BOOKS: What Mad Universe / Space on My Hands / Honeymoon in Hell
― "FREDRIC BROWN" BOOKS: What Mad Universe / Space on My Hands / Honeymoon in Hell
