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
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
The Story of Birds: A New History from Their Dinosaur Origins to the Present
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
The God Test: Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning
Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
Charlie Thorne and the Lost City (Charlie Thorne #2)
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
Bonded by Evolution: The New Science of Love and Connection
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
The Power of Myth by Joseph CampbellThe Man Without Qualities by Robert MusilThe Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph CampbellThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsThe Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
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Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonA Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldThe Song of the Dodo by David QuammenThe Flight of the Iguana by David QuammenThe Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Best of Natural History
365 books — 72 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
162 books — 164 voters

The Origin of Species by Charles DarwinThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsThe Greatest Show on Earth by Richard DawkinsWhy Evolution Is True by Jerry A. CoyneYour Inner Fish by Neil Shubin
Best Books on Evolution...
283 books — 220 voters
The Botany of Desire by Michael PollanThe Hidden Life of Trees by Peter WohllebenBraiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererLab Girl by Hope JahrenGathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Nonfiction Books about Plants
440 books — 153 voters


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

Yvonne Korshak
Aspasia had herself fallen into very good fortune. So good that at the age of twenty years, she’d probably used up the whole life’s portion of good luck that Tyche had allotted her. To make good fortune last—for herself and the child in her womb—would be up to her.
Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

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