Most Read This Week In 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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Most Read This Week Tagged "Evolution"

Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 1 - The Birth of Humankind

Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding

La vida contada por un sapiens a un neandertal

The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters

The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality

Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity

Charlie Thorne and the Lost City (Charlie Thorne #2)

A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters

Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2 - The Pillars of Civilization

Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference

The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous

Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life

A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life

Stalactite & Stalagmite: A Big Tale from a Little Cave

The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World

Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art

Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence

The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie

Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization

Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future

Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters

The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves

Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics

If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity

Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist

Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind

Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious

First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human

What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology

The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins

Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA

The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention

A Series of Fortunate Events: Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You

Being Human: How Our Biology Shaped World History

Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution

Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life

Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness

Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are

The Origin of Language: How We Learned to Speak and Why

The Horse: A Galloping History of Humanity

Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death

The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life

Homo Sapiens Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution Rewriting Our Origins (The Rediscovered Series)

Tapestries of Life: Uncovering the Lifesaving Secrets of the Natural World

Why Rats Laugh and Jellyfish Sleep: And Other Enchanting Stories of Evolution

Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas

Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive

The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins

How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology

Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity

Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World

Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion

Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life's Fundamental Bond

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

The Genome Odyssey: Medical Mysteries and the Incredible Quest to Solve Them

How to Be Animal: A New History of What It Means to Be Human

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

The Sediments of Time: My Lifelong Search for the Past

The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature

Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils

Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness

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

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

Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind

The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World

Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe

A Story of Us: A New Look at Human Evolution

The Language of Butterflies: How Thieves, Hoarders, Scientists, and Other Obsessives Unlocked the Secrets of the World's Favorite Insect

How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures

Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old

Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind

The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved

Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction

Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time

The Evolution of Charles Darwin: The Epic Voyage of the Beagle That Forever Changed Our View of Life on Earth

Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work (Or Don't)

Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science

Our Tribal Future: How to Channel Our Foundational Human Instincts into a Force for Good

Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human

Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will

Big Meg: The Story of the Largest and Most Mysterious Predator that Ever Lived

Fowl Play: A History of the Chicken from Dinosaur to Dinner Plate

Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils

The Darwinian Trap: The Hidden Evolutionary Forces That Explain Our World (and Threaten Our Future)

Infinite Life: An Epic New Story of Life on Earth

Birds, Sex and Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications of Charles Darwin's Strangest Idea – Evolutionary Theory, Sexual Selection, and the Mystery of Attraction

When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance

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Quotes Tagged “Evolution”

“ 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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“ The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. It must be so. If there ever is a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an incre ...more ”
― Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

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