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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,333,057 ratings — published 2011
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,398 ratings — published 2018
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,715 ratings — published 2006
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.04 — 473,931 ratings — published 1997
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 16 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.18 — 296,471 ratings — published 2015
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.09 — 29,095 ratings — published 1991
Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,604 ratings — published 2011
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.02 — 12,671 ratings — published 2016
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.04 — 30,013 ratings — published 2008
Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,360 ratings — published 2012
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.05 — 17,473 ratings — published 1993
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.16 — 198,235 ratings — published 1976
Last Ape Standing: The Seven-Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,248 ratings — published 2013
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.15 — 29,050 ratings — published 2004
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.19 — 21,862 ratings — published 1977
Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,527 ratings — published 2014
Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,237 ratings — published 2017
The 10000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,875 ratings — published 2009
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.24 — 18,742 ratings — published 2023
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.37 — 34,597 ratings — published 2017
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.15 — 30,030 ratings — published 2010
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,069 ratings — published 2020
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,733 ratings — published 2001
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.19 — 29,048 ratings — published 2021
A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 3.74 — 6,180 ratings — published 2021
The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,064 ratings — published 2021
The Book of Humans: A Brief History of Culture, Sex, War and the Evolution of Us (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,890 ratings — published 2016
Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,341 ratings — published 2019
The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,563 ratings — published 2013
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.27 — 9,161 ratings — published 2013
The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,788 ratings — published 2013
The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.08 — 12,196 ratings — published 1994
Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,894 ratings — published 1981
Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,848 ratings — published 2010
Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,367 ratings — published 2020
Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,523 ratings — published 2019
Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,479 ratings — published 2005
The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 3.90 — 510 ratings — published 2013
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 3.78 — 11,335 ratings — published 2012
Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,563 ratings — published 2013
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,201 ratings — published 2009
The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,806 ratings — published 2000
The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals Died Out and We Survived (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 3.88 — 984 ratings — published 2009
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 3.97 — 32,242 ratings — published 2010
The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,642 ratings — published 2002
Homo Sapiens Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution Rewriting Our Origins (The Rediscovered Series)
by (shelved 5 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.09 — 183 ratings — published 2023
First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,403 ratings — published 2021
The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,333 ratings — published 2015
A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,043 ratings — published 2019
Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,279 ratings — published 2018
“Rule # 1: keep the crowd’s interest.”
― Against the Machine: Evolution
― Against the Machine: Evolution
“Humans are apes, and the alpha monkeys on the top of the food chain will always dominate the herd. That's why they created religion, to make the job easier.”
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