Best Books on Evolution...
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.16 avg rating — 55,474 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 — 28,098 ratings 6. 
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.14 avg rating — 28,420 ratings 7. 
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.09 avg rating — 41,140 ratings 
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
by:
Jared Diamond
4.08 avg rating — 28,333 ratings 12. 
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
by:
Matt Ridley
4.05 avg rating — 17,201 ratings 13. 
The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution
by:
Sean B. Carroll
4.06 avg rating — 3,141 ratings 
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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
by:
Matt Ridley
4.06 avg rating — 27,645 ratings 
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The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.12 avg rating — 9,499 ratings 21. 
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by:
Jared Diamond
4.04 avg rating — 445,030 ratings 22. 
Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species
by:
Sean B. Carroll
4.11 avg rating — 1,443 ratings 
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The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
by:
Robert Wright
4.08 avg rating — 11,842 ratings 25. 
At the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea
by:
Carl Zimmer
4.08 avg rating — 2,095 ratings 
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Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo
by:
Sean B. Carroll
4.08 avg rating — 5,698 ratings 
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The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
by:
Jonathan Weiner
4.17 avg rating — 9,807 ratings 
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Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
by:
Michael Shermer
3.86 avg rating — 9,953 ratings 
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Darwin's Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind
by:
Kevin N. Laland
4.08 avg rating — 156 ratings 42. 
Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design
by:
Michael Shermer
3.99 avg rating — 5,430 ratings 43. 
A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
by:
Richard Dawkins
3.98 avg rating — 7,922 ratings 
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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
by:
David Quammen
4.29 avg rating — 8,561 ratings 
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The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
by:
Thor Hanson
4.10 avg rating — 3,014 ratings 52. 
Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding 4.13 avg rating — 639 ratings
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The Evolution Underground: Burrows, Bunkers, and the Marvelous Subterranean World Beneath our Feet 4.14 avg rating — 144 ratings
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The Book of Life: An Illustrated History of the Evolution of Life on Earth 4.23 avg rating — 162 ratings
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The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
by:
Carl Sagan
4.19 avg rating — 21,187 ratings 
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Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History 4.11 avg rating — 2,235 ratings
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The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
by:
Nichola Raihani
3.93 avg rating — 618 ratings 64. 
A Modest Genius: The story of Darwin's Life and how his ideas changed everything
by:
Hanne Strager
4.14 avg rating — 445 ratings 66. 
The Descent of Woman: The Classic Study of Evolution
by:
Elaine Morgan
4.14 avg rating — 950 ratings 67. 
The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
by:
Neil Shubin
3.87 avg rating — 2,902 ratings 
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The Battle Over the Meaning of Everything: Evolution, Intelligent Design, and a School Board in Dover, PA
by:
Gordy Slack
3.60 avg rating — 101 ratings 
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
by:
Andrea Wulf
4.32 avg rating — 28,485 ratings 73. 
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
by:
Riley Black
3.93 avg rating — 3,700 ratings 74. 
The Tinkerer's Accomplice: How Design Emerges from Life Itself
by:
J. Scott Turner
4.19 avg rating — 37 ratings 75. 
The 10000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
by:
Gregory Cochran
3.94 avg rating — 1,834 ratings 75. 
The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
by:
Matt Ridley
4.03 avg rating — 4,184 ratings 75. 
Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution 3.94 avg rating — 1,512 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 — 352 ratings 
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Evolutionary Pathways in Nature: A Phylogenetic Approach
by:
John C. Avise
3.72 avg rating — 18 ratings 84. 
Scientists Confront Creationism: Intelligent Design and Beyond
by:
Andrew J. Petto
3.98 avg rating — 165 ratings 
84. 
Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human
by:
Matt Ridley
4.06 avg rating — 4,224 ratings 
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The Monkey's Voyage: How Improbable Journeys Shaped the History of Life
by:
Alan de Queiroz
3.78 avg rating — 324 ratings 
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The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems
by:
Fritjof Capra
4.18 avg rating — 1,910 ratings 
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
by:
Michael Pollan
4.06 avg rating — 58,652 ratings 96. 
The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World
by:
Shelley Emling
3.84 avg rating — 1,340 ratings 97. 
The Language of Genes: Solving the Mysteries of Our Genetic Past, Present and Future
by:
Steve Jones
3.88 avg rating — 504 ratings 98. 
Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives 3.90 avg rating — 905 ratings
