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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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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
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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
First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human
Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future
Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist
A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
Big Meg: The Story of the Largest and Most Mysterious Predator that Ever Lived
The Age of Dinosaurs: The Rise and Fall of the World’s Most Remarkable Animals
The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie
Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion
Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction
The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears them Down
Why Rats Laugh and Jellyfish Sleep: And Other Enchanting Stories of Evolution
Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World
Charles Darwin (Pequeña & Grande)
How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures
Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution
The Magic School Bus Explores Human Evolution
Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence
Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction
Intraterrestrials: Discovering the Strangest Life on Earth
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
Outraged: Why We Fight About Morality and Politics and How to Find Common Ground
The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
The Mind of a Bee
Fowl Play: A History of the Chicken from Dinosaur to Dinner Plate
Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution
Birds, Sex and Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications of Charles Darwin's Strangest Idea – Evolutionary Theory, Sexual Selection, and the Mystery of Attraction
The Origin of Language: How We Learned to Speak and Why
How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
The Evolution of Charles Darwin: The Epic Voyage of the Beagle That Forever Changed Our View of Life on Earth
When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance
Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change
Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human
Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
A Most Interesting Problem: What Darwin’s Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong about Human Evolution
Notes from Deep Time
Being Human: How Our Biology Shaped World History
The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature
The Invention of Tomorrow: A Natural History of Foresight
The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life
Slime: A Natural History
Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined―and Redefined―Nature
A History of the Human Brain
The Tree of Life: Solving Science's Greatest Puzzle
Dinosaurs: 10 Things You Should Know
The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins
Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious
Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World
The Cat's Meow: How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa
A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species
Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness
Our Tribal Future: How to Channel Our Foundational Human Instincts into a Force for Good
Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation
Where Are You Really From?: Our Amazing Evolution, What Race Really Is and What Makes Us Human
Homo Sapiens Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution Rewriting Our Origins (The Rediscovered Series)
The Parrot in the Mirror: How Evolving to Be Like Birds Makes Us Human
How the Sea Came to Be: And All the Creatures In It (Spectacular STEAM for Curious Readers (SSCR))
Tiny Dino
Impact: How Rocks from Space Led to Life, Culture, and Donkey Kong
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas
The Darwinian Trap: The Hidden Evolutionary Forces That Explain Our World (and Threaten Our Future)
Islam: An Evolutionary Perspective (Brevis)
Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils
The Secret History of Sharks: The Rise of the Ocean's Most Fearsome Predators
The Liars of Nature and the Nature of Liars: Cheating and Deception in the Living World
Growing Up Human: The Evolution of Childhood (Bloomsbury Sigma)
Infinite Life: An Epic New Story of Life on Earth
The Five-Million-Year Odyssey: The Human Journey from Ape to Agriculture
Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness
Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals
The Stone Age: The History and Legacy of the Prehistoric Period When Humans Started Using Stone Tools
The Horse: A Galloping History of Humanity
Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing
Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace
First Friend: How Dogs Evolved from Wolves to Become Our Best Friends
The Museum of Odd Body Leftovers
Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work (Or Don't)

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Quotes Tagged “Evolution”

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
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Carl Sagan
“ For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. ”
― Carl Sagan
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