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The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 198,613 ratings — published 1976
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 124,973 ratings — published 1859
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 565 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,337,539 ratings — published 2011
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 562 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.16 — 57,167 ratings — published 2009
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 514 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,604 ratings — published 1986
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 464 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.04 — 30,208 ratings — published 2008
Why Evolution Is True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 433 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.19 — 26,479 ratings — published 2008
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 425 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.15 — 29,083 ratings — published 2004
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 318 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.07 — 17,214 ratings — published 1995
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 314 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.09 — 29,113 ratings — published 1991
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 271 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.05 — 17,486 ratings — published 1993
The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.08 — 12,215 ratings — published 1994
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.04 — 475,098 ratings — published 1997
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)
by (shelved 186 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,746 ratings — published 1982
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 181 times as evolution)
avg rating 3.98 — 9,108 ratings — published 1995
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,689 ratings — published 1999
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 166 times as evolution)
avg rating 3.90 — 288,894 ratings — published 2006
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 164 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,432 ratings — published 1989
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 160 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,479 ratings — published 2009
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.19 — 21,907 ratings — published 1977
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,185 ratings — published 2015
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,810 ratings — published 2005
Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea – From Darwin's Natural Selection to Modern Genetics: A Compelling Science Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,218 ratings — published 2001
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 141 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.18 — 297,077 ratings — published 2015
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 141 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.15 — 82,548 ratings — published 2014
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,179 ratings — published 1994
Climbing Mount Improbable (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.12 — 10,212 ratings — published 1996
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.22 — 44,287 ratings — published 2018
Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,172 ratings — published 2007
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease (ebook)
by (shelved 124 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.27 — 9,185 ratings — published 2013
The Descent of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,535 ratings — published 1871
The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,183 ratings — published 2006
What Evolution Is (Science Masters Series)
by (shelved 115 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,933 ratings — published 2001
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.21 — 437,664 ratings — published 2003
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as evolution)
avg rating 3.88 — 29,949 ratings — published 2016
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.37 — 9,126 ratings — published 2022
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,426 ratings — published 2018
The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,805 ratings — published 2000
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.09 — 25,737 ratings — published 2002
The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,999 ratings — published 1980
The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,232 ratings — published 1997
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as evolution)
avg rating 3.97 — 32,277 ratings — published 2010
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,706 ratings — published 1839
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.02 — 12,713 ratings — published 2016
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.05 — 27,890 ratings — published 2011
The Social Conquest of Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,379 ratings — published 2012
The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—And Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,944 ratings — published 2017
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.34 — 58,418 ratings — published 2016
Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.14 — 14,026 ratings — published 2014
Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,685 ratings — published 1977
“Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”
― Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
― Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
“At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.”
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