This is a list of popular science

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evolution Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. These characteristics are the expressions of genes, which are passed on from parent to offspring during reproduction. Variation ...

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* Paul M. Bingham and Joanne Souza (2009). '' Death from a Distance and the Birth of a Humane Universe: Human Evolution, Behavior, History, and Your Future''.

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Sean B. Carroll Sean B. Carroll (born September 17, 1960) is an American Evolutionary developmental biology, evolutionary developmental biologist, author, educator and executive producer. He is a distinguished university professor at the University of Marylan ...

(2006). '' The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution''. * Sean B. Carroll (2005). '' Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo''. *

Brian Charlesworth Brian Charlesworth (born 29 April 1945) is a British evolutionary biologist at the University of Edinburgh, and editor of ''Biology Letters''. Since 1997, he has been Royal Society Research Professor at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IE ...

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Deborah Charlesworth Deborah Charlesworth (née Maltby; born 1943) is a population geneticist from the UK, notable for her important discoveries in population genetics and evolutionary biology. Her most notable research is in understanding the evolution of recomb ...

(2003). '' Evolution: A Very Short Introduction''. * Matteo Conti (2008). '' The Selfish Cell: An evolutionary defeat''. *

Jerry Coyne Jerry may refer to: Animals * Jerry (Grand National winner), racehorse, winner of the 1840 Grand National * Jerry (St Leger winner), racehorse, winner of 1824 St Leger Stakes Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Jerry'' (film), a 2006 Indian fi ...

(2009). '' Why Evolution Is True''.

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Charles Darwin Charles Robert Darwin ( ; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended ...

(1859). ''

The Origin of Species ''On the Origin of Species'' (or, more completely, ''On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life''),The book's full original title was ''On the Origin of Species by Me ...

''. * Charles Darwin (1871). ''

The Descent of Man ''The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex'' is a book by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871, which applies evolutionary theory to human evolution, and details his theory of sexual selection, a form of biol ...

''. * Richard Dawkins (1976). ''

The Selfish Gene ''The Selfish Gene'' is a 1976 book on evolution by the ethologist Richard Dawkins, in which the author builds upon the principal theory of George C. Williams's '' Adaptation and Natural Selection'' (1966). Dawkins uses the term "selfish gen ...

''. * Richard Dawkins (1982). ''

The Extended Phenotype ''The Extended Phenotype'' is a 1982 book by the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, in which the author introduced a biological concept of the same name. The main idea is that phenotype should not be ''limited'' to biological processes such ...

''. * Richard Dawkins (1986). ''

The Blind Watchmaker ''The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design'' is a 1986 book by Richard Dawkins, in which the author presents an explanation of, and argument for, the theory of evolution by means of natural selecti ...

''. * Richard Dawkins (1995). ''

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 summarizes the topics covered in his earlier books, ''The Selfish Gene'', '' The Extended Phenotype'' a ...

''. * Richard Dawkins (1996). ''

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. It is designed to debunk claims by creationists about the probability of naturalistic ...

''. * Richard Dawkins (2004). ''

The Ancestor's Tale ''The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life'' is a science book by Richard Dawkins and Yan Wong on the subject of evolution, which follows the path of humans backwards through evolutionary history, describing some of humanity's cou ...

''. * Richard Dawkins (2009). '' The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution''. * Daniel Dennett (1995). ''

Darwin's Dangerous Idea ''Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life'' is a 1995 book by the philosopher Daniel Dennett, in which the author looks at some of the repercussions of Darwinian theory. The crux of the argument is that, whether or not Darwin ...

''. * Daniel Dennett (2003). ''

Freedom Evolves ''Freedom Evolves'' is a 2003 popular science and philosophy book by Daniel C. Dennett. Dennett describes the book as an installment of a lifelong philosophical project, earlier parts of which were '' The Intentional Stance'', ''Consciousness Ex ...

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Jared Diamond Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American geographer, historian, ornithologist, and author best known for his popular science books '' The Third Chimpanzee'' (1991); ''Guns, Germs, and Steel'' (1997, awarded a Pulitzer Priz ...

(1992). ''

The Third Chimpanzee ''The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal'' is a 1991 book by academic and popular science author Jared Diamond, in which the author explores concepts relating to the animal origins of human behavior. The book follows a ...

: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal '' *

Theodosius Dobzhansky Theodosius Grigorievich Dobzhansky (russian: Феодо́сий Григо́рьевич Добржа́нский; uk, Теодо́сій Григо́рович Добржа́нський; January 25, 1900 – December 18, 1975) was a prominent ...

(1937; 2nd ed 1941; 3rd ed 1951). ''

Genetics and the Origin of Species ''Genetics and the Origin of Species'' is a 1937 book by the Ukrainian-American evolutionary biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky. It is regarded as one of the most important works of the modern synthesis, and was one of the earliest. The book populari ...

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Niles Eldredge Niles Eldredge (; born August 25, 1943) is an American biologist and paleontologist, who, along with Stephen Jay Gould, proposed the theory of punctuated equilibrium in 1972. Education Eldredge began his undergraduate studies in Latin at Columb ...

(2001). '' The Triumph of Evolution: and the Failure of Creationism''.

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* Daniel J. Fairbanks (2007). '' Relics of Eden: The Powerful Evidence of Evolution in Human DNA''.

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* Ann Gibbons (2007). '' The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors''. * Stephen Jay Gould (1977). '' Ever Since Darwin''. * Stephen Jay Gould (1989). '' Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History''. * Stephen Jay Gould (1996). '' Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin''.

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Marc Hauser Marc D. Hauser (born October 25, 1959) is an American evolutionary biologist and a researcher in primate behavior, animal cognition and human behavior and neuroscience. Hauser was a professor of psychology at Harvard University from 1998 to 2 ...

(2006). ''

Moral Minds ''Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong'' is a 2006 book by former Harvard psychologist Marc Hauser in which he develops an empirically grounded theory to explain morality as a universal grammar. He draws eviden ...

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Jay Hosler Jay Hosler is the author and illustrator of science-oriented comics. He is best known for his graphic novels '' Clan Apis'', '' The Sandwalk Adventures'', and '' Optical Allusions''. '' Clan Apis'', a Xeric Foundation Award winner, follows the li ...

(2011). '' Evolution: The Story of Life on Earth''. * Julian Huxley (1942). '' Evolution: The Modern Synthesis''. *

Thomas Henry Huxley Thomas Henry Huxley (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist and anthropologist specialising in comparative anatomy. He has become known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. The stori ...

(1863). ''

Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature ''Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature'' is an 1863 book by Thomas Henry Huxley, in which he gives evidence for the evolution of humans and apes from a common ancestor. It was the first book devoted to the topic of human evolution, and discusse ...

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* Donald Johansson (2006). '' From Lucy to Language: Revised, Updated, and Expanded''. * Shaun Johnston (2017). '' Re-thinking What it Means We Evolved: A new framework for universal moral values''. * Shaun Johnston (2020). '' Are You wonderful? Good Science Says, Yes: How to tell good science from bad''. *

Alison Jolly Alison Jolly (May 9, 1937 – February 6, 2014) was a primatologist, known for her studies of lemur biology. She wrote several books for both popular and scientific audiences and conducted extensive fieldwork on Lemurs in Madagascar, primari ...

(2001). '' Lucy's Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution''. * Steve Jones (1995). '' The Language of the Genes''. * David Starr Jordan (1901). '' The Blood of the Nation: A Study in the Decay of Races by the Survival of the Unfit''. * Joseph Jordania (2006). ''

Who Asked the First Question? Joseph Jordania ( Georgian იოსებ ჟორდანია, born February 12, 1954 and also known under the misspelling of Joseph Zhordania) is an Australian– Georgian ethnomusicologist and evolutionary musicologist and professor. He is ...

: The Origins of Human Choral Singing, Intelligence, Language and Speech''. * Joseph Jordania (2011). ''

Why do People Sing? Music in Human Evolution Joseph Jordania (Georgian იოსებ ჟორდანია, born February 12, 1954 and also known under the misspelling of Joseph Zhordania) is an Australian–Georgian ethnomusicologist and evolutionary musicologist and professor. He is ...

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Marc W. Kirschner Marc Wallace Kirschner (born February 28, 1945) is an Americans, American cell biologist and biochemist and the founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School. He is known for major discoveries in cell and developmen ...

and John C. Gerhart (2006). '' The Plausibility of Life: Resolving Darwin's Dilemma''. * Peter Kropotkin (1902). '' Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution''. * Arik Kershenbaum (2020). '' The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy - What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves''.

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Nick Lane Nick Lane (born 1967) is a British biochemist and writer. He is a professor in evolutionary biochemistry at University College London. He has published five books to date which have won several awards. Career Educated at Imperial College, Lon ...

(2010). '' Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution''. * Gabriel E. Lasker (1961). '' The Evolution of Man: A Brief Introduction to Physical Anthropology''. * Daniel Levitin (2008). '' The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature''.

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John Maynard Smith John Maynard Smith (6 January 1920 – 19 April 2004) was a British theoretical and mathematical evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Originally an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War, he took a second degree in genetics un ...

(1958). '' The Theory of Evolution''. * John Maynard Smith (1972). '' On Evolution''. * John Maynard Smith (1978). '' The Evolution of Sex''. * John Maynard Smith (1982). ''

Evolution and the Theory of Games ''Evolution and the Theory of Games'' is a book by the British evolutionary biologist John Maynard Smith on evolutionary game theory. The book was initially published in December 1982 by Cambridge University Press. Overview In the book, John Ma ...

''. * John Maynard Smith (1989). ''

Evolutionary Genetics Population genetics is a subfield of genetics that deals with genetic differences within and between populations, and is a part of evolutionary biology. Studies in this branch of biology examine such phenomena as adaptation, speciation, and popu ...

''. * John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry (1997). ''

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). Also Maynard Smith and Szathmary authored a review article in ''Nature''. Maynard Smith and Szathmáry ident ...

''. * John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry (1999). '' The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language''. * Ernst Mayr (2002). '' What Evolution Is''. * Ernst Mayr (2007). '' One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought''. * Kenneth R. Miller (2000). '' Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution''. * Kenneth R. Miller (2008). '' Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul''.

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National Academies of Science The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Nati ...

(2008). '' Science, Evolution, and Creationism''. * Bill Nye (2014). '' Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation''.

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* Jean-Baptiste De Panafieu (2011). ''Evolution''. *

Donald Prothero Donald Ross Prothero (February 21, 1954) is an American geologist, paleontologist, and author who specializes in mammalian paleontology and magnetostratigraphy, a technique to date rock layers of the Cenozoic era and its use to date the climate ...

(2006). '' After the Dinosaurs: The Age of Mammals''. *

(2007). '' Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters''. *

Steven Pinker Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954) is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author, and public intellectual. He is an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. ...

(1997). ''

How the Mind Works ''How the Mind Works'' is a 1997 book by the Canadian-American cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, in which the author attempts to explain some of the human mind's poorly understood functions and quirks in evolutionary terms. Drawing heavily on th ...

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Matt Ridley Matthew White Ridley, 5th Viscount Ridley, (born 7 February 1958), is a British science writer, journalist and businessman. He is known for his writings on science, the environment, and economics and has been a regular contributor to ''Th ...

(1994). '' The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature''. * Matt Ridley (1997). ''

The Origins of Virtue ''The Origins of Virtue'' is a 1996 popular science book by Matt Ridley, which has been recognised as a classic in its field.T. Kealey (2000), ''Nature Genetics'', 24 (21) In the book, Ridley explores the issues surrounding the development of h ...

''. * Matt Ridley (1999). '' Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters''. * Matt Ridley (2003). ''

Nature Via Nurture ''Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience, and What Makes us Human'' is a 2003 book by Matt Ridley, in which Ridley discusses the interaction between environment and genes and how they affect human development. It was the 2003 winner of the Nation ...

: Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human''. ** Reprinted as ''The Agile Gene: How Nature Turns on Nurture''. * Michael Ruse (1998). '' Taking Darwin Seriously: A Naturalistic Approach to Philosophy''. * Michael Ruse (1999). '' The Darwinian Revolution: Science Red in Tooth and Claw''. * Michael Ruse (2001). '' The Evolution Wars: A Guide to the Debates''. * Michael Ruse (2001). '' Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction?''. * Michael Ruse (2006). '' Darwinism and Its Discontents''. * Michael Ruse (2006). '' Evolution-Creation Struggle''.

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* Carl Sagan (1977). ''

The Dragons of Eden ''The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence'' is a 1977 book by Carl Sagan, in which the author combines the fields of anthropology, evolutionary biology, psychology, and computer science to give a perspective on ho ...

: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence''. *

Neil Shubin Neil Shubin (born December 22, 1960) is an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science writer. He is the Robert R. Bensley Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, Associate Dean of Organismal Biology and Anatomy and ...

(2008). '' Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body''. * John Skoyles and Dorion Sagan (2002). '' Up from Dragons: The evolution of human intelligence''. * Cameron M. Smith and Charles Sullivan (2006). '' The Top 10 Myths About Evolution''.

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Nicholas Wade Nicholas Michael Landon Wade (born 17 May 1942) is a British author and journalist. He is the author of numerous books, and has served as staff writer and editor for ''Nature'', ''Science'', and the science section of ''The New York Times''. ...

(2006). '' Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors''. * Jonathan Weiner (1994). '' The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time''. *

David Sloan Wilson David Sloan Wilson (born 1949) is an American evolutionary biologist and a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences and Anthropology at Binghamton University. He is a son of author Sloan Wilson, and co-founder of the Evolution ...

(2007). '' Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives''. *

(2019). ''This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution'' * Bernard Wood (2006). '' Human Evolution: A Very Short Introduction''.

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Carl Zimmer Carl Zimmer (born 1966) is a popular science writer, blogger, columnist, and journalist who specializes in the topics of evolution, parasites, and heredity. The author of many books, he contributes science essays to publications such as ''The Ne ...

(2001). '' Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea''. * Carl Zimmer (2005). '' Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins''. {{DEFAULTSORT:Popular science books on evolution Evolution-related lists * Lists of books