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.

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Evolution Books

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

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

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

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)

River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

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Technological Slavery by Theodore John Kaczynski

Anti-Tech Revolution by Theodore John Kaczynski

Industrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John Kaczynski

The Human Animal

144 books — 101 voters

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

A Brief History of Time by Stephen W. Hawking

Big History

269 books — 110 voters

Impregnation Stories are Domination at its Finest

226 books — 228 voters

The Secret of Our Success by Joseph Henrich

Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language by Robin I.M. Dunbar

Darwin's Unfinished Symphony by Kevin N. Laland

Not by Genes Alone by Peter J. Richerson

Cultural Evolution & Biological Evolution

80 books — 14 voters

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey

Life in the Undergrowth by David Attenborough

Books about Invertebrates

400 books — 50 voters

The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert

The Natural World: Natural Science and Natural History for Adults

799 books — 303 voters

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“ Those who do not move, do not notice their chains. ”
― Rosa Luxemburg

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“ Running out the anchor line, the pirates babbled to one another, and in the tangle of their barbaric language, Aspasia listened for one word—Athens. It lit up the darkness in her mind, like the single glint her eyes fixed on above the distant gray-green hills. ”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

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