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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Stalactite & Stalagmite: A Big Tale from a Little Cave

Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2 - The Pillars of Civilization

Charlie Thorne and the Lost City (Charlie Thorne #2)

A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters

Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding

The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters

A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life

Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality

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Evolution Books

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

The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal

The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)

The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

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The Coddling of the American Mind by Jonathan Haidt

The Intellectual Dark Web

256 books — 52 voters

A Brief History of Time by Stephen W. Hawking

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Scientific Readings for Everyone

150 books — 72 voters

The Secret of Our Success by Joseph Henrich

Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language by Robin I.M. Dunbar

Darwin's Unfinished Symphony by Kevin N. Laland

Not by Genes Alone by Peter J. Richerson

Cultural Evolution & Biological Evolution

80 books — 14 voters

The Slime Dungeon by Jeffrey "Falcon" Logue

We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor

Protagonist is a Dungeon

66 books — 164 voters

Get Smart!

253 books — 113 voters

Impregnation Stories are Domination at its Finest

225 books — 227 voters

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“ People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers. ...more ”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

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