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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,318,286 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 — 6,325 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 — 4,709 ratings — published 2006
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.04 — 470,507 ratings — published 1997
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 16 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.18 — 294,663 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 — 29,027 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 — 1,601 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 4.03 — 12,551 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 — 29,768 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 — 1,358 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 — 17,453 ratings — published 1993
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.16 — 197,036 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 — 1,247 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 — 28,997 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 — 21,782 ratings — published 1977
Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,512 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 — 2,219 ratings — published 2017
The 10000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,871 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 — 18,217 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 — 34,002 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 — 29,957 ratings — published 2010
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,976 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 — 7,717 ratings — published 2001
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 — 6,142 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 — 1,042 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 — 2,875 ratings — published 2016
Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,300 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 — 1,555 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 — 9,101 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 — 5,761 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 — 12,154 ratings — published 1994
Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,891 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 — 1,847 ratings — published 2010
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.19 — 28,461 ratings — published 2021
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 — 2,326 ratings — published 2020
Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,516 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 — 4,464 ratings — published 2005
The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 3.90 — 505 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 — 11,288 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 — 4,177 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 — 2,794 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 — 983 ratings — published 2009
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 3.97 — 32,137 ratings — published 2010
The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,633 ratings — published 2002
Homo Sapiens Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution Rewriting Our Origins (The Rediscovered Series)
by (shelved 5 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.08 — 179 ratings — published 2023
First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as human-evolution)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,381 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 — 2,292 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 — 2,027 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 — 5,235 ratings — published 2018
“You have given much to the Fleet and the empire, and humanity needs you one last time. Standby for quantum drive. We are the sword of humanity. We will prevail. Battle stations.”
― Revelation: The Globur Incursion Book 10
― Revelation: The Globur Incursion Book 10
“She stood panting as adrenalin fired up her muscles. Flipping open the safety catches on both of her laser pistols, she set them for maximum delivery. Anything or anyone on the receiving end of these weapons would never survive, even as atoms.”
― The Girl with the Porcelain Lips
― The Girl with the Porcelain Lips
