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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,333,067 ratings — published 2011
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,398 ratings — published 2018
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,715 ratings — published 2006
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.04 — 473,932 ratings — published 1997
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 16 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.18 — 296,472 ratings — published 2015
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.09 — 29,095 ratings — published 1991
Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,604 ratings — published 2011
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.02 — 12,671 ratings — published 2016
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.04 — 30,013 ratings — published 2008
Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,360 ratings — published 2012
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.05 — 17,473 ratings — published 1993
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.16 — 198,235 ratings — published 1976
Last Ape Standing: The Seven-Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,248 ratings — published 2013
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.15 — 29,050 ratings — published 2004
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.19 — 21,862 ratings — published 1977
Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,527 ratings — published 2014
Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,237 ratings — published 2017
The 10000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,875 ratings — published 2009
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.24 — 18,743 ratings — published 2023
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.37 — 34,598 ratings — published 2017
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.15 — 30,030 ratings — published 2010
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,070 ratings — published 2020
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,733 ratings — published 2001
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.19 — 29,048 ratings — published 2021
A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 3.74 — 6,180 ratings — published 2021
The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,064 ratings — published 2021
The Book of Humans: A Brief History of Culture, Sex, War and the Evolution of Us (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,890 ratings — published 2016
Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,341 ratings — published 2019
The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,563 ratings — published 2013
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.27 — 9,161 ratings — published 2013
The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,788 ratings — published 2013
The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.08 — 12,196 ratings — published 1994
Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,894 ratings — published 1981
Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,848 ratings — published 2010
Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,367 ratings — published 2020
Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,523 ratings — published 2019
Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,479 ratings — published 2005
The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 3.90 — 510 ratings — published 2013
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 3.78 — 11,335 ratings — published 2012
Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,563 ratings — published 2013
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,201 ratings — published 2009
The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,806 ratings — published 2000
The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals Died Out and We Survived (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 3.88 — 984 ratings — published 2009
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 3.97 — 32,242 ratings — published 2010
The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,642 ratings — published 2002
Homo Sapiens Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution Rewriting Our Origins (The Rediscovered Series)
by (shelved 5 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.09 — 183 ratings — published 2023
First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,403 ratings — published 2021
The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,333 ratings — published 2015
A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,043 ratings — published 2019
Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,279 ratings — published 2018
“The morgue was the name the human workers gave to this room in the facility. They were careful not to utter it in front of the androids, for fear of offending them.”
― The Girl with the Porcelain Lips
― The Girl with the Porcelain Lips
“Perhaps the most chaotic of Divisions Ke Hui Feng 第一 Ψ
visited was Recycling. First, it was mammoth, so big most of
her tour was spent aboard a drone. Thousands of Dazhong
used the 401 thoroughfares from both east and west, the 427
from the south and the 400 from the north to bring their loads of
recyclables from the MASS to the enormous MEG Recycling Centre.
The roadways might be in ruins outside the MEG boundaries, jagged
fragments of pavement between cavernous potholes and trails made by
traders, but within the MEG the wide lanes had been cleared and
covered with recycled rubber. They were smooth and divided, one lane
in—one lane out, between hundred-metre high foamstone walls on
either side. No one from the MASS would ever get into the MEG illegally;
at least, that was how it seemed.
Only those with proper credentials could enter the massive gates:
MASS traders, or trading companies, who specialized as middlemen
between the gatherers and the Recycling Centre. Not far outside the
gates the MASS traders had rebuilt ancient warehouses in which they
received goods, stored, and sorted them, then brought them, usually
by land freighters, down the ingress roads to meet MEG approved Di
sān overseers and, of course, decontaminated Dazhong who further
sorted the goods.”
― Against the Machine: Evolution
visited was Recycling. First, it was mammoth, so big most of
her tour was spent aboard a drone. Thousands of Dazhong
used the 401 thoroughfares from both east and west, the 427
from the south and the 400 from the north to bring their loads of
recyclables from the MASS to the enormous MEG Recycling Centre.
The roadways might be in ruins outside the MEG boundaries, jagged
fragments of pavement between cavernous potholes and trails made by
traders, but within the MEG the wide lanes had been cleared and
covered with recycled rubber. They were smooth and divided, one lane
in—one lane out, between hundred-metre high foamstone walls on
either side. No one from the MASS would ever get into the MEG illegally;
at least, that was how it seemed.
Only those with proper credentials could enter the massive gates:
MASS traders, or trading companies, who specialized as middlemen
between the gatherers and the Recycling Centre. Not far outside the
gates the MASS traders had rebuilt ancient warehouses in which they
received goods, stored, and sorted them, then brought them, usually
by land freighters, down the ingress roads to meet MEG approved Di
sān overseers and, of course, decontaminated Dazhong who further
sorted the goods.”
― Against the Machine: Evolution
