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

Sigmund Freud
Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities. But it cannot achieve its end. Its doctrines carry with them the stamp of the times in which they originated, the ignorant childhood days of the human race. Its consolations deserve no trust. Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery. The ethical commands, to which religion seeks to ...more
Sigmund Freud , Moses and Monotheism

Yvonne Korshak
But  Phidias was better than most men since he made beautiful sculptures. He was even making one of her—well, he called it “Athena,” but anyone could see it looked like her.
Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

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