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1.
The Origin of Species
by:
Charles Darwin
4.01 avg rating β 120,190 ratings
2.
The Selfish Gene
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.16 avg rating β 189,063 ratings
3.
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.16 avg rating β 55,477 ratings
4.
Why Evolution Is True
by:
Jerry A. Coyne
4.19 avg rating β 25,752 ratings
5.
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
by:
Neil Shubin
4.04 avg rating β 28,100 ratings
6.
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.14 avg rating β 28,421 ratings
7.
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.09 avg rating β 41,144 ratings
8.
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by:
Yuval Noah Harari
4.34 avg rating β 1,201,858 ratings
9.
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
by:
Daniel C. Dennett
4.07 avg rating β 16,863 ratings
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Cosmos
by:
Carl Sagan
4.40 avg rating β 155,628 ratings
11.
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
by:
Jared Diamond
4.08 avg rating β 28,336 ratings
12.
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
by:
Matt Ridley
4.05 avg rating β 17,202 ratings
13.
The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution
by:
Sean B. Carroll
4.06 avg rating β 3,141 ratings
14.
The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
by:
Stephen Jay Gould
4.13 avg rating β 6,871 ratings
15.
Voyage of the Beagle
by:
Charles Darwin
4.02 avg rating β 8,291 ratings
16.
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
by:
Matt Ridley
4.06 avg rating β 27,646 ratings
17.
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
by:
Richard Dawkins
3.98 avg rating β 8,824 ratings
18.
Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters
by:
Donald R. Prothero
4.12 avg rating β 3,161 ratings
19.
The Descent of Man
by:
Charles Darwin
4.04 avg rating β 4,411 ratings
20.
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.12 avg rating β 9,500 ratings
21.
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by:
Jared Diamond
4.04 avg rating β 445,054 ratings
22.
Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species
by:
Sean B. Carroll
4.11 avg rating β 1,443 ratings
23.
Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea
by:
Carl Zimmer
4.11 avg rating β 5,160 ratings
24.
The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
by:
Robert Wright
4.08 avg rating β 11,843 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 β 2,095 ratings
26.
The Naked Ape
by:
Desmond Morris
3.93 avg rating β 11,900 ratings
27.
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis
by:
Edward O. Wilson
4.23 avg rating β 1,786 ratings
28.
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
by:
Stephen Jay Gould
4.14 avg rating β 10,151 ratings
29.
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo
by:
Sean B. Carroll
4.08 avg rating β 5,698 ratings
30.
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
by:
Carl Sagan
4.26 avg rating β 6,153 ratings
31.
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
by:
Elizabeth Kolbert
4.15 avg rating β 77,288 ratings
32.
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
by:
Jonathan Weiner
4.17 avg rating β 9,808 ratings
33.
The Diversity of Life
by:
Edward O. Wilson
4.21 avg rating β 6,189 ratings
34.
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
by:
Michael Shermer
3.86 avg rating β 9,953 ratings
35.
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
by:
Stephen Jay Gould
4.05 avg rating β 1,308 ratings
36.
What Evolution Is (Science Masters Series)
by:
Ernst W. Mayr
4.02 avg rating β 3,893 ratings
37.
Climbing Mount Improbable
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.11 avg rating β 9,953 ratings
38.
Speciation
by:
Jerry A. Coyne
4.22 avg rating β 161 ratings
38.
Ontogeny and Phylogeny
by:
Stephen Jay Gould
4.16 avg rating β 271 ratings
40.
Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind
by:
Donald C. Johanson
4.15 avg rating β 2,843 ratings
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Darwin's Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind
by:
Kevin N. Laland
4.08 avg rating β 156 ratings
42.
Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design
by:
Michael Shermer
3.99 avg rating β 5,430 ratings
43.
A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
by:
Richard Dawkins
3.98 avg rating β 7,922 ratings
44.
Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
by:
Stephen Jay Gould
4.13 avg rating β 3,561 ratings
45.
Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History
by:
Stephen Jay Gould
4.17 avg rating β 3,132 ratings
45.
Dinosaur in a Haystack
by:
Stephen Jay Gould
4.11 avg rating β 2,522 ratings
47.
GalΓ‘pagos
by:
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
3.87 avg rating β 86,768 ratings
47.
Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution
by:
Richard Fortey
4.11 avg rating β 2,382 ratings
49.
DNA : The Secret of Life
by:
James D. Watson
4.11 avg rating β 2,805 ratings
50.
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
by:
David Quammen
4.29 avg rating β 8,561 ratings
51.
Animal Behavior: An Evolutionary Approach
by:
John Alcock
4.10 avg rating β 393 ratings
52.
The Theory of Evolution
by:
John Maynard Smith
4.05 avg rating β 121 ratings
52.
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 β 3,014 ratings
52.
Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding
by:
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
4.13 avg rating β 639 ratings
55.
The Evolution Underground: Burrows, Bunkers, and the Marvelous Subterranean World Beneath our Feet
by:
Anthony J. Martin
4.14 avg rating β 144 ratings
56.
The Book of Life: An Illustrated History of the Evolution of Life on Earth
by:
Stephen Jay Gould
4.23 avg rating β 162 ratings
57.
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
by:
Carl Sagan
4.19 avg rating β 21,188 ratings
58.
Naturalist
by:
Edward O. Wilson
4.33 avg rating β 1,782 ratings
59.
Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History
by:
Stephen Jay Gould
4.11 avg rating β 2,235 ratings
60.
Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
by:
Stephen Jay Gould
3.96 avg rating β 2,195 ratings
61.
Fossils
by:
Niles Eldredge
4.20 avg rating β 41 ratings
62.
Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation
by:
Bill Nye
4.14 avg rating β 13,630 ratings
63.
The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection
by:
Ronald A. Fisher
4.38 avg rating β 39 ratings
64.
The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
by:
Nichola Raihani
3.93 avg rating β 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 β 445 ratings
66.
The Descent of Woman: The Classic Study of Evolution
by:
Elaine Morgan
4.14 avg rating β 951 ratings
67.
The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
by:
Neil Shubin
3.87 avg rating β 2,902 ratings
67.
Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution
by:
Lynn Margulis
4.02 avg rating β 935 ratings
67.
The Ascent of Man
by:
Jacob Bronowski
4.21 avg rating β 6,285 ratings
70.
The Battle Over the Meaning of Everything: Evolution, Intelligent Design, and a School Board in Dover, PA
by:
Gordy Slack
3.60 avg rating β 101 ratings
70.
The Malay Archipelago
by:
Alfred Russel Wallace
4.18 avg rating β 959 ratings
72.
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
by:
Andrea Wulf
4.32 avg rating β 28,488 ratings
73.
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
by:
Riley Black
3.93 avg rating β 3,703 ratings
74.
The Tinkerer's Accomplice: How Design Emerges from Life Itself
by:
J. Scott Turner
4.19 avg rating β 37 ratings
75.
The 10000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
by:
Gregory Cochran
3.94 avg rating β 1,834 ratings
75.
The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
by:
Matt Ridley
4.03 avg rating β 4,184 ratings
75.
Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution
by:
Kenneth R. Miller
3.94 avg rating β 1,512 ratings
78.
Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality
by:
Jared Diamond
3.70 avg rating β 7,180 ratings
79.
Evolution: The First Four Billion Years
by:
Michael Ruse
4.32 avg rating β 195 ratings
79.
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
by:
Nick Lane
4.12 avg rating β 5,281 ratings
81.
The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack: and Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution
by:
Ian Tattersall
3.64 avg rating β 352 ratings
82.
Evolution: The Story of Life on Earth
by:
Jay Hosler
3.96 avg rating β 533 ratings
83.
Evolutionary Pathways in Nature: A Phylogenetic Approach
by:
John C. Avise
3.72 avg rating β 18 ratings
84.
Scientists Confront Creationism: Intelligent Design and Beyond
by:
Andrew J. Petto
3.98 avg rating β 165 ratings
84.
Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated
by:
Steve Jones
3.88 avg rating β 1,506 ratings
84.
Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human
by:
Matt Ridley
4.06 avg rating β 4,224 ratings
84.
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
by:
Daniel E. Lieberman
4.26 avg rating β 8,654 ratings
88.
The Monkey's Voyage: How Improbable Journeys Shaped the History of Life
by:
Alan de Queiroz
3.78 avg rating β 324 ratings
89.
The Mismeasure of Man
by:
Stephen Jay Gould
4.05 avg rating β 9,212 ratings
89.
Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution
by:
Menno Schilthuizen
4.10 avg rating β 2,087 ratings
91.
Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution
by:
Jonathan B. Losos
4.07 avg rating β 1,352 ratings
92.
The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems
by:
Fritjof Capra
4.18 avg rating β 1,910 ratings
93.
Introducing Evolutionary Psychology
by:
Dylan Evans
3.79 avg rating β 1,072 ratings
94.
Relics of Eden: The Powerful Evidence of Evolution in Human DNA
by:
Daniel J. Fairbanks
4.18 avg rating β 195 ratings
94.
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
by:
Michael Pollan
4.06 avg rating β 58,655 ratings
96.
The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World
by:
Shelley Emling
3.84 avg rating β 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 β 504 ratings
98.
Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives
by:
David Sloan Wilson
3.90 avg rating β 905 ratings
99.
The Major Transitions in Evolution
by:
John Maynard Smith
4.25 avg rating β 154 ratings
100.
Gaining Ground: The Origin and Early Evolution of Tetrapods
by:
Jennifer A. Clack
4.16 avg rating β 50 ratings
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