Evolution

Evolution is the change in the inherited characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organisation, including species, individual organisms and molecules such as DNA and proteins.

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A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work (Or Don't)
Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior
A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe
Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
Charlie Thorne and the Lost City (Charlie Thorne #2)
Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind
The Selfish Gene
The Origin of Species
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
Why Evolution Is True
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan HaidtFactfulness by Hans RoslingThe Madness of Crowds by Douglas MurrayThe Coddling of the American Mind by Jonathan HaidtMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
The Intellectual Dark Web
180 books — 40 voters
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldThe Song of the Dodo by David QuammenThe Flight of the Iguana by David QuammenSilent Spring by Rachel CarsonThe Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
Best of Natural History
270 books — 52 voters

The Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases  by Paul OlaA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonStiff by Mary RoachWhat If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Qu... by Randall MunroeGuns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
Sciency Books For Every Curious Mind
79 books — 28 voters
The Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsThe Origin of Species by Charles DarwinYour Inner Fish by Neil ShubinThe Ancestor's Tale by Richard DawkinsThe Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins
On Evolution - Love It Or Hate It
200 books — 113 voters

Stiff by Mary RoachThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah BlumThe Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean
Modern Science Nonfiction
346 books — 273 voters
Darwin's Black Box by Michael J. BeheSignature in the Cell by Stephen C. MeyerDarwin's Doubt by Stephen C. MeyerIcons of Evolution by Jonathan WellsThe Design of Life by William A. Dembski
Best Books against Darwinism
207 books — 59 voters


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