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Evolution
In biology, evolution is change in the genetic material of a population of organisms through successive generations. Although the changes produced in a single generation are normally small, the accumulation of these differences over time can cause substantial changes in a population, a process that...
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (1995) is a book by Daniel Dennett which argues that Darwinian processes are the central organizing force that gives rise to complexity. Dennett asserts that natural selection is a blind...
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- 1995
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- 1995
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The Origin of Species
Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, published on 24 November 1859, is a seminal work of scientific literature, considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. Its full title was On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection,...
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- Jan 2004
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- Nov 24, 1859
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- 153674
The Selfish Gene
The Selfish Gene is a book on evolution by Richard Dawkins, published in 1976. It builds upon the principal theory of George C. Williams's first book Adaptation and Natural Selection. Dawkins coined the term "selfish gene" as a way of expressing the...
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- 1976
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The Blind Watchmaker
The Blind Watchmaker is a 1986 book by Richard Dawkins in which he presents an explanation of, and argument for, the theory of evolution by means of natural selection. He also presents arguments to refute certain criticisms made on his previous book...
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- 1986
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The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (ISBN 0-679-40003-6) is a 1994 nonfiction book about evolutionary biology, written by Jonathan Weiner. It won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. The finches of the title are the...
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- 1994
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The Extended Phenotype
The Extended Phenotype (subtitled "The Gene as the Unit of Selection", and later, "The Long Reach of the Gene") is a 1982 book by Richard Dawkins. A revised edition was published in 1999 with an afterword by the philosopher Daniel Dennett. Dawkins...
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- 1982
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Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers
Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers: How Agriculture Really Began is a book by the British science writer Colin Tudge. The book is one of a series of long essays by respected contemporary Darwinian thinkers, which were published under the collective...
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- 1998
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The Voyage of the Beagle
The Voyage of the Beagle is a title commonly given to the book written by Charles Darwin published in 1839 as his Journal and Remarks, which brought him considerable fame and respect. The title refers to the second survey expedition of the ship HMS...
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The Dragons of Eden
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence is a Pulitzer prize winning 1977 book by Carl Sagan. In it, he combines the fields of anthropology, evolutionary biology, psychology, and computer science to give a well...
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- 1977
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Evolution
Evolution is a collection of short stories that work together to form an episodic science fiction novel by author Stephen Baxter. It follows 565 million years of human evolution, from shrewlike mammals 65 million years in the past to the ultimate...
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- 2002
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- Nov 30, 2002
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- 23350
Of Moths and Men: Intrigue, Tragedy & The Peppered Moth
Of Moths and Men is a controversial book by the journalist Judith Hooper about the Oxford University ecological genetics school led by E.B. Ford. The book specifically concerns Bernard Kettlewell's experiments on the peppered moth which were...
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- 2002
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The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex is a book on evolutionary theory by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871. It was Darwin's second great book on evolutionary theory, following his 1859 work, On The Origin of...
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- Feb 24, 1871
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River out of Eden
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life is a 1995 popular science book by Richard Dawkins. The book is about Darwinian evolution and includes summaries of the topics covered in his earlier books, The Selfish Gene, The Extended Phenotype and The...
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- 1995
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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species In 23 Chapters
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (ISBN 0-00-763573-7) is a 1999 popular science book by Matt Ridley, published by Fourth Estate.
The book devotes one chapter to each pair of human chromosomes. Since one (unnumbered) chapter is...
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- 1999
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Icons of Evolution
Icons of Evolution is a pseudoscientific book by the intelligent design advocate and fellow of the Discovery Institute, Jonathan Wells, and a 2002 video about the book. In the book, Wells criticized the paradigm of evolution by attacking how it is...
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- Jan 2002
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The Major Transitions in Evolution
The Major Transitions in Evolution is a book written by John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry (Oxford University Press, 1995). This was a seminal publication that continues to contribute to ongoing issues in evolutionary biology.
Maynard Smith and...
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Wonderful Life
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (1989) is a book on the evolution of Cambrian fauna by Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. The volume was the 1991 winner of The Aventis Prizes for Science Books, and a 1991 finalist...
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- 1989
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World is a 2001 nonfiction book by journalist Michael Pollan. This work explores the nature of domesticated plants from the dual perspective of humans and the plants themselves. Pollan presents case...
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- 2001
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- 2001
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- 103554
The Ancestor's Tale
The Ancestor's Tale (subtitled A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life) is a 2004 popular science book by Richard Dawkins, with contributions from Dawkins' research assistant Yan Wong. It follows the path of humans backwards through evolutionary history,...
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- 2004
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Climbing Mount Improbable
Climbing Mount Improbable is a 1996 popular science book by Richard Dawkins. The book is about probability and how it applies to the theory of evolution, and specifically is designed to debunk claims by creationists about the probability of...
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- 1996
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Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution (1996, first edition; 2006, second edition) is a book written by Michael J. Behe and published by Free Press in which he presents his notion of irreducible complexity and claims that its...
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- Sep 1996
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature is a best-selling 2002 book by Steven Pinker arguing against tabula rasa models of the social sciences. Pinker argues that human behavior is substantially shaped by evolutionary psychological...
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- 2002
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Darwin on Trial
Darwin on Trial is a controversial 1991 book by the University of California, Berkeley law professor Phillip E. Johnson. A neo-creationist polemic, Darwin on Trial is considered to be part of the central canon of the intelligent design movement, of...
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- 1991
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How the Mind Works
How the Mind Works (ISBN 0-393-31848-6) is a book by Canadian-American cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, published in 1997. The book attempts to explain some of the human mind's poorly understood functions and quirks in evolutionary terms. Drawing...
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- 1997
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Evolution and the Theory of Games
Evolution and the Theory of Games is a 1982 book by the British evolutionary biologist John Maynard Smith on evolutionary game theory. In it, Maynard Smith summarises work on evolutionary game theory that had developed in the 1970s, to which he made...
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- 1982
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The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin is the autobiography of the British naturalist Charles Darwin which was published in 1887, five years after his death.
Darwin wrote the book, which he entitled Recollections of the Development of my Mind and...
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- 1887
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The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals is a book by the British naturalist Charles Darwin published in 1872, on how humans and non-human animals express their emotions. It was, along with his 1871 book The Descent of Man and Selection in...
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The Great Monkey Trial
The Great Monkey Trial is a 1968 book on the Scopes Trial by L. Sprague de Camp, first published in hardcover by Doubleday. This history of the trial was based on the memoirs of John T. Scopes, the archives of the A.C.L.U., assorted newspaper files,...
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- 1968
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The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
The Seven Daughters of Eve (2001, ISBN 0-393-02018-5) is a book by Bryan Sykes that presents the theory of Human mitochondrial genetics to a general audience. Sykes explains the principles of genetics and human evolution, the particularities of...
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- 2001
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Dinosaur in a Haystack
Dinosaur in a Haystack (1995) is the seventh volume of collected essays by the Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. The essays were culled from his monthly column "The View of Life" in Natural History magazine, to which Gould contributed for 27...
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- Dec 12, 1995
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Steps to an Ecology of Mind
Steps to an Ecology of Mind is a collection of Gregory Bateson's short works over his long and varied career. Subject matter includes essays on anthropology, cybernetics, psychiatry and epistemology. It was originally published by Chandler...
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The Real Eve
The Real Eve is the title of a popular science book written by Stephen Oppenheimer and a documentary based on the book. The book is largely based on the "Out of Africa theory" of human origins. Oppenheimer uses information from various disciplines...
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- 2002
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Future Evolution
Future Evolution is a book written by paleontologist Peter Ward and illustrated by Alexis Rockman. He addresses his own opinion of future evolution and compares it with Dougal Dixon's After Man: A Zoology of the Future and H. G. Wells's The Time...
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- 2001
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The Case for a Creator
The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence that Points Towards God (2004) is a book by Christian apologist and former journalist Lee Strobel supporting the controversial notion of Intelligent Design. In the book, Strobel...
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Big Bang
Big Bang: The most important scientific discovery of all time and why you need to know about it is a book written by Simon Singh and published in 2004 by Fourth Estate.
Big Bang chronicles the history and development of the Big Bang model of the...
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- Oct 2004
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- 840205
The Naked Woman
The Naked Woman (2004) is a book by zoologist Desmond Morris.
It describes the female body from an evolutionary point of view. It is divided in several chapters, each dedicated to a part of the body, from hair to foot. For each, Morris explains the...
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- 2004
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Full House: The Spread of Excellence From Plato to Darwin
Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin is a book by evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould, published in 1996. It was released in the UK as Life's Grandeur, with the same subtitle.
In Full House, Gould demonstrates how one type...
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- 1996
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- 1996
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Darwin and His Great Discovery
Darwin and His Great Discovery is a 1972 science book by L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp, published by Macmillan.
The work is an examination of naturalist Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution he proposed and marshalled evidence...
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- 1972
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The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory (2002) is a technical book on macroevolutionary theory by the Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, published only two months before his death. The volume is divided into two parts. The first is a historical...
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- Mar 21, 2002
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design is a 2006 book by the American intelligent design activist Jonathan Wells, published by the conservative Regnery Publishing. In a sense, it builds upon The Politically Incorrect...
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Ever Since Darwin
Ever Since Darwin was the paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould's first book of collected essays. Published in 1977, the collection originated from his monthly column "This View of Life," published in Natural History magazine. Edwin Barber—who was then...
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- 1977
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I Have Landed
I Have Landed (2002) is the 10th and final volume of collected essays by the Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. The essays were culled from his monthly column "This View of Life" in Natural History magazine, to which Gould contributed for 27...
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- May 14, 2002
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The Science of Good and Evil
The Science of Good and Evil is a book by Michael Shermer on ethics and evolutionary psychology. The book was published in 2004 by Henry Holt and Company under the full title The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and...
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- 2004
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Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul
Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul is a 2007 non fiction book about the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial of 2005. Author Edward Humes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist,...
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- Jan 2007
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Survival of The Sickest
Survival of the Sickest: The Surprising Connections Between Disease and Longevity is a 2007 popular science book by Sharon Moalem, a medical student at the University of Toronto with a Ph.D. in neurogenetics, and Jonathan Prince, senior advisor and...
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- Feb 6, 2007
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At home in the universe
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A Sacred Unity - Further Steps to an Ecology of Mind
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- 1991
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The Theory of Evolution
The Theory of Evolution is a book by English evolutionary biologist and geneticist John Maynard Smith, originally published in 1958. It serves as a general introduction to the eponymous subject, intended to be accessible to those with little...
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The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation is a book written by Matt Ridley and concerns his views on morality seen from a biological perspective. According to Ridley's arguments, which are based on Richard Dawkins'...
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- 1996
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The Evolutionist At Large
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The Rise of Man
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On evolution
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