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
Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
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
Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
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 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...
267 books — 216 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

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
Gut by Giulia EndersFed Up by Sophia ElanThe End of Alzheimer's by Dale E. BredesenUndoctored by William  DavisThe Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases  by Paul Ola
Healthy Aging
396 books — 120 voters


Carl Sagan
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

Jared Diamond
Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices.
Jared Diamond, Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality

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