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.

See also Science.
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Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 1 - The Birth of Humankind
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
La vida contada por un sapiens a un neandertal
The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
Charlie Thorne and the Lost City (Charlie Thorne #2)
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2 - The Pillars of Civilization
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
The Selfish Gene
The Origin of Species
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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
Why Evolution Is True
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
The Quantum Dream by One IamThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. KuhnA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingTimaeus by PlatoGuns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
History and Philosophy of Science
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Life Revisited by Laurent  GrenierNineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness by Patrick  HouseA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases  by Paul OlaStiff by Mary Roach
Sciency Books For Every Curious Mind
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The Power of Myth by Joseph CampbellThe Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph CampbellThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsThe Man Without Qualities by Robert MusilThe Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
How we see the world
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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
201 books — 105 voters


Friedrich Nietzsche
At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Rosa Luxemburg
Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.
Rosa Luxemburg

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