The Human Animal
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The Human Zoo: A Zoologist's Study of the Urban Animal
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
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4.01 avg rating — 22,310 ratings 8. 
Our Tribal Future: How to Channel Our Foundational Human Instincts into a Force for Good
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David R. Samson
4.16 avg rating — 111 ratings 9. 
Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are
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Frans de Waal
4.19 avg rating — 4,317 ratings 10. 
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
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Jared Diamond
4.08 avg rating — 28,335 ratings 11. 
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
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Neil Shubin
4.04 avg rating — 28,099 ratings 12. 
Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding 4.13 avg rating — 639 ratings
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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Steven Pinker
4.09 avg rating — 25,079 ratings 15. 
Intimate Behaviour: A Zoologist's Classic Study of Human Intimacy
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Desmond Morris
3.78 avg rating — 497 ratings 
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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Jared Diamond
4.04 avg rating — 445,036 ratings 19. 
The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
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Nichola Raihani
3.93 avg rating — 618 ratings 20. 
The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story 3.94 avg rating — 1,490 ratings
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Darwin's Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind
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Kevin N. Laland
4.08 avg rating — 156 ratings 22. 
Scars of Evolution: What Our Bodies Tell Us About Human Origins
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Elaine Morgan
4.13 avg rating — 245 ratings 23. 
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Tree of Origin: What Primate Behavior Can Tell Us about Human Social Evolution
by:
Frans de Waal
4.22 avg rating — 124 ratings 
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The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
by:
Joseph Henrich
4.39 avg rating — 2,080 ratings 27. 
Last Ape Standing: The Seven-Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived
by:
Chip Walter
4.01 avg rating — 1,233 ratings 
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The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve 4.25 avg rating — 1,520 ratings
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The Descent of Woman: The Classic Study of Evolution
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4.14 avg rating — 951 ratings 
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Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
by:
Christopher Ryan
3.98 avg rating — 31,320 ratings 
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The Human Animal: A Personal View of the Human Species
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Desmond Morris
3.90 avg rating — 255 ratings 35. 
Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent
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Meredith Small
4.18 avg rating — 2,049 ratings 37. 
The 10000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
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Gregory Cochran
3.94 avg rating — 1,834 ratings 38. 
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The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional
by:
Agustín Fuentes
3.91 avg rating — 532 ratings 
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Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
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David Reich
4.13 avg rating — 5,852 ratings 43. 
The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today
by:
Rob Dunn
3.91 avg rating — 1,259 ratings 
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The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals Died Out and We Survived
by:
Clive Finlayson
3.88 avg rating — 970 ratings 46. 
Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans
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Brian M. Fagan
3.69 avg rating — 1,822 ratings 
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The Language Impact: Evolution ― System ― Discourse
by:
Alwin Frank Fill
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
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Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils
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Lydia Pyne
3.55 avg rating — 592 ratings 47. 
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DNA Nation: How the Internet of Genes is Changing Your Life
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4.09 avg rating — 46 ratings 47. 
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by:
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4.67 avg rating — 42 ratings 47. 
Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Illness
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A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
by:
Henry Gee
4.05 avg rating — 2,896 ratings 47. 
From Molecule To Modern Human: The 4.4-Billion-Year Evolution of Homo sapiens
by:
Frank Dunne
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
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T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us
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4.02 avg rating — 1,671 ratings 47. 
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
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4.20 avg rating — 63,327 ratings 
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The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
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3.93 avg rating — 3,701 ratings 62. 
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
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4.35 avg rating — 3,767 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 — 203 ratings 67. 
The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body
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Steven Mithen
3.89 avg rating — 653 ratings 
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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
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Matt Ridley
4.06 avg rating — 27,645 ratings 70. 
The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry Into the Animal Origins of Property and Nations
by:
Robert Ardrey
3.89 avg rating — 283 ratings 71. 
Close Encounters with Humankind: A Paleoanthropologist Investigates Our Evolving Species
by:
Sang-Hee Lee
3.91 avg rating — 885 ratings 71. 
Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity
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Brian Hare
4.03 avg rating — 1,620 ratings 71. 
African Genesis: A Personal Investigation Into the Animal Origins and nature of Man
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Robert Ardrey
4.02 avg rating — 327 ratings 71. 
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Frans de Waal
3.97 avg rating — 16,185 ratings 75. 
Living in the Anthropocene: Earth in the Age of Humans
by:
W. John Kress
4.07 avg rating — 90 ratings 
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The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
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Sam Kean
4.01 avg rating — 10,632 ratings 
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The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit
by:
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4.12 avg rating — 216 ratings 
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The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World 4.01 avg rating — 415 ratings
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Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
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Gaia Vince
3.98 avg rating — 868 ratings 90. 
Not a Chimp: The Hunt to Find the Genes that Make Us Human
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3.60 avg rating — 40 ratings 90. 
Seasonality and Human Mobility Along the Georgia Bight it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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On Genetic Interests: Family, Ethnicity and Humanity in an Age of Mass Migration
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Frank K. Salter
4.32 avg rating — 31 ratings 
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The Forgotten Exodus: The Into Africa Theory of Human Evolution
by:
Bruce R. Fenton
4.13 avg rating — 145 ratings 
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A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History
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3.73 avg rating — 1,541 ratings 99. 
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Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums
by:
Samuel J. Redman
3.76 avg rating — 125 ratings