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Evolution Books
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The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 899 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.16 — 194,711 ratings — published 1976
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 622 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.01 — 122,991 ratings — published 1859
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 565 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,451 ratings — published 2009
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 547 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,287,358 ratings — published 2011
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 506 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,024 ratings — published 1986
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 450 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.04 — 29,279 ratings — published 2008
Why Evolution Is True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 433 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.19 — 26,185 ratings — published 2008
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 426 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.15 — 28,847 ratings — published 2004
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 319 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.07 — 17,085 ratings — published 1995
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 309 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.09 — 28,789 ratings — published 1991
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 272 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.05 — 17,376 ratings — published 1993
The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.08 — 12,057 ratings — published 1994
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)
by (shelved 187 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,633 ratings — published 1982
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 185 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.04 — 463,318 ratings — published 1997
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as evolution)
avg rating 3.98 — 9,008 ratings — published 1995
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 178 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,221 ratings — published 1999
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 164 times as evolution)
avg rating 3.90 — 285,196 ratings — published 2006
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,314 ratings — published 1989
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 161 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,397 ratings — published 2009
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.19 — 21,631 ratings — published 1977
Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea – From Darwin's Natural Selection to Modern Genetics: A Compelling Science Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,205 ratings — published 2001
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,046 ratings — published 2015
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,757 ratings — published 2005
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 138 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.18 — 290,969 ratings — published 2015
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 138 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.15 — 80,386 ratings — published 2014
Climbing Mount Improbable (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,137 ratings — published 1996
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,023 ratings — published 1994
Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,171 ratings — published 2007
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 123 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.21 — 41,734 ratings — published 2018
The Descent of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,496 ratings — published 1871
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease (ebook)
by (shelved 122 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.27 — 8,963 ratings — published 2013
What Evolution Is (Science Masters Series)
by (shelved 118 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,921 ratings — published 2001
The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,177 ratings — published 2006
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.22 — 427,632 ratings — published 2003
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as evolution)
avg rating 3.88 — 28,610 ratings — published 2016
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,178 ratings — published 2018
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.37 — 8,261 ratings — published 2022
The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,780 ratings — published 2000
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.09 — 25,449 ratings — published 2002
The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,951 ratings — published 1980
The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,212 ratings — published 1997
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,549 ratings — published 1839
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as evolution)
avg rating 3.97 — 31,876 ratings — published 2010
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.03 — 12,284 ratings — published 2016
The Social Conquest of Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,346 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 — 2,873 ratings — published 2017
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.05 — 27,526 ratings — published 2011
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.35 — 56,662 ratings — published 2016
Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as evolution)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,651 ratings — published 1977
Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality (Science Masters)
by (shelved 86 times as evolution)
avg rating 3.71 — 7,343 ratings — published 1997
“Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices.”
― Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality
― Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality
“What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.”
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