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Evolutionary Science
1.
The Origin of Species
by:
Charles Darwin
4.01 avg rating β 120,197 ratings
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The Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases : The Effort Theory of Evolution, Chronic Diseases and Extinction
by:
Paul Ola
3.70 avg rating β 27 ratings
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Our Tribal Future: How to Channel Our Foundational Human Instincts into a Force for Good
by:
David R. Samson
4.16 avg rating β 111 ratings
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The Selfish Gene
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.16 avg rating β 189,070 ratings
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
by:
Stephen Jay Gould
4.14 avg rating β 10,151 ratings
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.16 avg rating β 55,479 ratings
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
by:
Mary Roach
3.85 avg rating β 59,581 ratings
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The Descent of Man
by:
Charles Darwin
4.04 avg rating β 4,411 ratings
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The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
by:
Nichola Raihani
3.93 avg rating β 618 ratings
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Sex in the Sea: Our Intimate Connection with Sex-Changing Fish, Romantic Lobsters, Kinky Squid, and Other Salty Erotica of the Deep
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Marah J. Hardt
4.01 avg rating β 725 ratings
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Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, And Symbolic Variation in the History of Life (Life And Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology And Philosophy Series)
by:
Eva Jablonka
4.19 avg rating β 634 ratings
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
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Richard Dawkins
4.14 avg rating β 28,421 ratings
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The Trouble with Testosterone and Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament
by:
Robert M. Sapolsky
4.20 avg rating β 2,095 ratings
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Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?: Bodies, Behavior, and Brains--the Science Behind Sex, Love, and Attraction
by:
Jena Pincott
3.67 avg rating β 813 ratings
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Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human
by:
Rob Dunn
3.59 avg rating β 412 ratings
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Punctuated Equilibrium
by:
Stephen Jay Gould
4.07 avg rating β 183 ratings
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Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
by:
Neil Shubin
4.04 avg rating β 28,102 ratings
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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
by:
Matt Ridley
4.05 avg rating β 17,202 ratings
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Voyage of the Beagle
by:
Charles Darwin
4.02 avg rating β 8,292 ratings
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Odd Couples: Extraordinary Differences between the Sexes in the Animal Kingdom
by:
Daphne J. Fairbairn
3.59 avg rating β 68 ratings
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Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World
by:
Malcolm Potts
4.01 avg rating β 238 ratings
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The Language Impact: Evolution β System β Discourse
by:
Alwin Frank Fill
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection
by:
Peter Godfrey-Smith
4.04 avg rating β 74 ratings
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What Makes Biology Unique?: Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline
by:
Ernst W. Mayr
4.13 avg rating β 181 ratings
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A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
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Henry Gee
4.05 avg rating β 2,896 ratings
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The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
by:
David Quammen
3.98 avg rating β 4,475 ratings
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The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance
by:
Ernst W. Mayr
4.29 avg rating β 214 ratings
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The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
by:
Riley Black
3.93 avg rating β 3,704 ratings
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The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution
by:
Alison Bashford
3.84 avg rating β 68 ratings
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The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction
by:
Henry Gee
3.75 avg rating β 204 ratings
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The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
by:
Stephen Jay Gould
4.13 avg rating β 6,871 ratings
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Night Comes to the Cretaceous: Comets, Craters, Controversy, and the Last Days of the Dinosaurs
by:
James Lawrence Powell
4.14 avg rating β 65 ratings
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Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters: From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming a Billionaire-- Two Evolutionary Psychologists Explain Why We Do What We Do
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Alan S. Miller
3.56 avg rating β 1,870 ratings
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The "Origin" Then and Now: An Interpretive Guide to the "Origin of Species"
by:
David N. Reznick
4.05 avg rating β 40 ratings
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Relentless Evolution
by:
John N. Thompson
3.90 avg rating β 20 ratings
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The Evolution of Charles Darwin: The Epic Voyage of the Beagle That Forever Changed Our View of Life on Earth
by:
Diana Preston
4.21 avg rating β 208 ratings
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T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
by:
Walter Γlvarez
4.05 avg rating β 1,980 ratings
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Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction
by:
David George Haskell
3.97 avg rating β 370 ratings
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The Comedy of Error: why evolution made us laugh
by:
Jonathan Silvertown
3.55 avg rating β 51 ratings
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The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment
by:
Paul R. Ehrlich
3.57 avg rating β 141 ratings
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The Sex Contract: The Evolution of Human Behavior
by:
Helen Fisher
3.90 avg rating β 113 ratings
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Principles of Geology
by:
Charles Lyell
3.91 avg rating β 355 ratings
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Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
by:
Brian Greene
4.04 avg rating β 5,902 ratings
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Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind
by:
Donald C. Johanson
4.15 avg rating β 2,843 ratings
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Evolutionaries: Unlocking the Spiritual and Cultural Potential of Science's Greatest Idea
by:
Carter Phipps
4.04 avg rating β 207 ratings
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Body by Darwin: How Evolution Shapes Our Health and Transforms Medicine
by:
Jeremy Taylor
3.95 avg rating β 75 ratings
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Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life's Fundamental Bond
by:
Lydia Denworth
3.64 avg rating β 785 ratings
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Ontogeny and Phylogeny
by:
Stephen Jay Gould
4.16 avg rating β 271 ratings
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The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution
by:
Richard W. Wrangham
4.19 avg rating β 1,001 ratings
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Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
by:
Stephen Jay Gould
4.13 avg rating β 3,561 ratings
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A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
by:
Jennifer A. Doudna
4.13 avg rating β 6,304 ratings
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The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar: Evolution's Most Unbelievable Solutions to Life's Biggest Problems
by:
Matt Simon
4.13 avg rating β 1,217 ratings
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What Evolution Is (Science Masters Series)
by:
Ernst W. Mayr
4.02 avg rating β 3,893 ratings
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Why Evolution Is True
by:
Jerry A. Coyne
4.19 avg rating β 25,753 ratings
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Humanimal: How Homo Sapiens Became Natureβs Most Paradoxical CreatureβA New Evolutionary History
by:
Adam Rutherford
3.83 avg rating β 2,681 ratings
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Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals
by:
Charles Darwin
3.99 avg rating β 1,291 ratings
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The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art
by:
Anjan Chatterjee
3.73 avg rating β 393 ratings
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Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
by:
Nicholas A. Christakis
3.96 avg rating β 2,440 ratings
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The Origin of Species
by:
Charles Darwin
4.01 avg rating β 120,197 ratings
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Once a Wolf: The Science Behind Our Dogs' Astonishing Genetic Evolution
by:
Bryan Sykes
3.48 avg rating β 311 ratings
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Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything
by:
Robert M. Hazen
3.98 avg rating β 591 ratings
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Lamarck's Revenge: How Epigenetics Is Revolutionizing Our Understanding of Evolution's Past and Present
by:
Peter D. Ward
3.28 avg rating β 96 ratings
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Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World
by:
Oren Harman
3.43 avg rating β 320 ratings
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The Human Instinct: How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will
by:
Kenneth R. Miller
3.82 avg rating β 314 ratings
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Ape Mind, Old Mind, New Mind: Emotional Fossils and the Evolution of the Human Spirit (1)
by:
John V. Wylie
3.79 avg rating β 24 ratings
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Loren Eiseley: Collected Essays on Evolution, Nature, and the Cosmos: A Library of America Boxed Set
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Loren Eiseley
4.73 avg rating β 30 ratings
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Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution
by:
Menno Schilthuizen
4.10 avg rating β 2,087 ratings
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Close Encounters with Humankind: A Paleoanthropologist Investigates Our Evolving Species
by:
Sang-Hee Lee
3.91 avg rating β 885 ratings
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Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution
by:
Jonathan B. Losos
4.07 avg rating β 1,353 ratings
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The Book That Changed America: How Darwin's Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation
by:
Randall Fuller
3.61 avg rating β 527 ratings
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The Evolution Underground: Burrows, Bunkers, and the Marvelous Subterranean World Beneath our Feet
by:
Anthony J. Martin
4.14 avg rating β 144 ratings
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Human Evolution: A Very Short Introduction
by:
Bernard Wood
3.63 avg rating β 800 ratings
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Life: The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science
by:
John Brockman
3.61 avg rating β 351 ratings
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Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy
by:
Melvin Konner
3.65 avg rating β 355 ratings
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Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils
by:
Lydia Pyne
3.55 avg rating β 592 ratings
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The New York Times Book of Medicine: More than 150 Years of Reporting on the Evolution of Medicine
by:
Gina Kolata
3.92 avg rating β 36 ratings
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The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World
by:
Shelley Emling
3.84 avg rating β 1,339 ratings
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Braindance: New Discoveries about Human Origins and Brain Evolution
by:
Dean Falk
4.24 avg rating β 21 ratings
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The Jesuit and the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man
by:
Amir D. Aczel
3.76 avg rating β 600 ratings
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Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory
by:
Edward J. Larson
3.93 avg rating β 647 ratings
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Darwin's Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution
by:
Iain McCalman
4.20 avg rating β 481 ratings
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Evolution: The Story of Life on Earth
by:
Jay Hosler
3.96 avg rating β 533 ratings
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Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation: The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex
by:
Olivia Judson
4.06 avg rating β 3,622 ratings
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Homo Mysterious: Evolutionary Puzzles of Human Nature
by:
David Philip Barash
3.54 avg rating β 163 ratings
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A Voice in the Wilderness: A Pioneering Biologist Explains How Evolution Can Help Us Solve Our Biggest Problems
by:
Joseph L. Graves Jr.
3.94 avg rating β 48 ratings
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Kinship to Mastery: Biophilia In Human Evolution And Development
by:
Stephen R. Kellert
3.56 avg rating β 9 ratings
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The Magic School Bus Explores Human Evolution
by:
Joanna Cole
4.28 avg rating β 139 ratings
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Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution
by:
Richard Fortey
4.11 avg rating β 2,382 ratings
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The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack: and Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution
by:
Ian Tattersall
3.64 avg rating β 352 ratings
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WTF, Evolution?!: A Theory of Unintelligible Design
by:
Mara Grunbaum
3.98 avg rating β 604 ratings
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After Eden: The Evolution of Human Domination
by:
Kirkpatrick Sale
3.82 avg rating β 50 ratings
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Collected Essays on Evolution, Nature, and the Cosmos, Vol. 2: The Invisible Pyramid / The Night Country / Essays from The Star Thrower
by:
Loren Eiseley
4.30 avg rating β 23 ratings
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The Sandwalk Adventures: An Adventure in Evolution Told in Five Chapters
by:
Jay Hosler
4.06 avg rating β 144 ratings
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
by:
Jared Diamond
4.08 avg rating β 28,337 ratings
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Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology
by:
Gregory Bateson
4.26 avg rating β 1,457 ratings
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Animal Welfare Science, Husbandry and Ethics: The Evolving Story of Our Relationship with Farm Animals
by:
Mark Fisher
4.27 avg rating β 11 ratings