On Human Nature
5. 
Denial: Self-Deception, False Beliefs, and the Origins of the Human Mind
by:
Ajit Varki
3.54 avg rating — 262 ratings 
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The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature 3.70 avg rating — 2,971 ratings
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Mixed Messages: Cultural and Genetic Inheritance in the Constitution of Human Society
by:
Robert Paul
3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings 
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The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit Disorder
by:
Richard Louv
3.87 avg rating — 1,913 ratings 12. 
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by:
Steven Pinker
4.09 avg rating — 25,079 ratings 
15. 
The Future of Nature: Writing on Human Ecology from Orion Magazine
by:
Barry Lopez
4.11 avg rating — 121 ratings 15. 
Despotism and Differential Reproduction: A Darwinian View of History
by:
Laura Betzig
3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings 17. 
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The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit
by:
Melvin Konner
4.12 avg rating — 216 ratings 
21. 
Adventures in Human Being: A Grand Tour from the Cranium to the Calcaneum
by:
Gavin Francis
3.90 avg rating — 4,433 ratings 22. 
Einstein's God: Conversations About Science and the Human Spirit
by:
Krista Tippett
3.81 avg rating — 791 ratings 23. 
Braindance: New Discoveries about Human Origins and Brain Evolution
by:
Dean Falk
4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings 24. 
Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins
by:
Carl Zimmer
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 227 ratings 
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The Invisible History of the Human Race: How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures 3.81 avg rating — 1,640 ratings
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The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive
by:
Brian Christian
3.94 avg rating — 4,652 ratings 28. 
The Big Ratchet: How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis: A Biography of an Ingenious Species
by:
Ruth DeFries
3.54 avg rating — 188 ratings 29. 
A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History
by:
Nicholas Wade
3.73 avg rating — 1,541 ratings 30. 
The Monkey in the Mirror: Essays on the Science of What Makes Us Human
by:
Ian Tattersall
3.38 avg rating — 73 ratings 31. 
The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World
by:
David Eagleman
3.80 avg rating — 2,298 ratings 32. 
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
by:
Adam Rutherford
4.03 avg rating — 11,640 ratings 33. 
Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea, and Human Life
by:
George Monbiot
4.16 avg rating — 5,312 ratings 34. 
The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional
by:
Agustín Fuentes
3.91 avg rating — 532 ratings 
38. 
The Human Superorganism: How the Microbiome Is Revolutionizing the Pursuit of a Healthy Life
by:
Rodney Dietert
3.96 avg rating — 693 ratings 
40. 
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
by:
David Quammen
4.42 avg rating — 20,025 ratings 
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The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
by:
Sam Kean
4.26 avg rating — 13,464 ratings 43. 
Database of Dreams: The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity
by:
Rebecca Lemov
3.55 avg rating — 20 ratings