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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 — 192,185 ratings — published 1976
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.01 — 121,737 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 — 41,677 ratings — published 1986
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,059 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 — 28,754 ratings — published 2008
Why Evolution Is True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.19 — 26,019 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 — 28,676 ratings — published 2004
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,250,441 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 — 9,575 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 — 16,989 ratings — published 1995
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.08 — 28,607 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 — 17,313 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 — 11,970 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 — 10,251 ratings — published 1989
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 3.90 — 282,647 ratings — published 2006
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,352 ratings — published 2009
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.06 — 27,989 ratings — published 1999
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 3.98 — 8,935 ratings — published 1995
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.38 — 31,478 ratings — published 2017
Climbing Mount Improbable (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,072 ratings — published 1996
The Descent of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,459 ratings — published 1871
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.04 — 455,394 ratings — published 1997
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.35 — 55,501 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 — 11,483 ratings — published 2000
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,413 ratings — published 1839
The Social Conquest of Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,321 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 — 21,453 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 — 3,706 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 — 5,736 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 4.15 — 2,698 ratings — published 2020
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.09 — 25,279 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 — 9,916 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 — 2,839 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 — 7,315 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 — 6,049 ratings — published 2018
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,795 ratings — published 1975
The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,911 ratings — published 1980
The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,620 ratings — published 2013
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,319 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 — 5,181 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 — 4,204 ratings — published 1997
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,732 ratings — published 2005
The Future of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,258 ratings — published 2002
The Diversity of Life (Questions of Science)
by (shelved 8 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,232 ratings — published 1992
Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.22 — 143 ratings — published 1966
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.18 — 286,312 ratings — published 2015
What Evolution Is (Science Masters Series)
by (shelved 7 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,919 ratings — published 2001
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,927 ratings — published 2015
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.15 — 79,045 ratings — published 2014
Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as evolutionary-biology)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,613 ratings — published 1977
“While many things that seem useless turn out to have a function, others are abysmal designs. The eye would be better without a blind spot. The birth canal is too narrow. Cancer protection mechanisms are insufficient, as are those that protect against infection. Ability to regulate eating is weak. Anxiety and pain are often excessive.”
― Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
― Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
“Karl Marx suggested that people should produce according to their abilities but share according to their needs, and this maxim describes hunter-gatherers reasonably well. But the history of communism suggests that agricultural people don’t share very well outside their family. The problem with the Marxist utopia is that people can free-ride on the efforts of others. If you are required to share with me, then I’m tempted to put in a little less effort because I know your hard work will leave me well fed. Once you see me slacking off, you don’t want to be a sucker, so you slack off a bit yourself, and pretty soon everyone is barely working. The free-rider problem is a vicious circle and can quickly destroy a productive community if there is no way to police everyone’s contribution.”
― The Social Leap: The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come From, and What Makes Us Happy
― The Social Leap: The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come From, and What Makes Us Happy
