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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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Charlie Thorne and the Lost City (Charlie Thorne #2)
Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
Stalactite & Stalagmite: A Big Tale from a Little Cave (Caldecott Honor)
Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us – A Bestselling Book on the Natural History of Mammalian Evolution
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters
When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance
Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2 - The Pillars of Civilization
The Genius of Trees: How They Mastered the Elements and Shaped the World
The Mind of a Bee
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 Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

Mark Haddon
And people who believe in God think God has put human beings on earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human beings are just an animal and they will evolve into another animal, and that animal will be cleverer and it will put human beings into a zoo, like we put chimpanzees and gorillas into a zoo. Or human beings will all catch a disease and die out or they will make too much pollution and kill themselves, and then there will only be insects in the world and they will be ...more
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

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

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