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
Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
Charlie Thorne and the Lost City (Charlie Thorne #2)
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
Stalactite & Stalagmite: A Big Tale from a Little Cave (Caldecott Honor)
Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
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
The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal
Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2 - The Pillars of Civilization
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
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
Sapiens by Yuval Noah HarariGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingCollapse by Jared Diamond
Big History
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The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova BaileyCharlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteJames and the Giant Peach by Roald DahlWonderful Life by Stephen Jay GouldLife in the Undergrowth by David Attenborough
Books about Invertebrates
400 books — 50 voters
Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterChaos by James GleickThe Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas TalebThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanThe Information by James Gleick
Complexity
161 books — 164 voters


Upton Sinclair
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked

Leon C. Megginson
It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.
Leon C. Megginson

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