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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
Richard Dawkins
4.15 average rating, · 29k ratings
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
Jared Diamond
4.09 average rating, · 29k ratings
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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
Matt Ridley
4.05 average rating, · 17.4k ratings
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The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
Robert Wright
4.08 average rating, · 12.1k ratings
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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
Adam Rutherford
4.03 average rating, · 12.5k ratings
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Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
David Christian
4.06 average rating, · 7.8k ratings
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The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
Bryan Sykes
4.00 average rating, · 7.7k ratings
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Carl Sagan
4.26 average rating, · 6.3k ratings
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The Ascent of Man
Jacob Bronowski
4.21 average rating, · 6.4k ratings
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Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
David Reich
4.14 average rating, · 6.3k ratings
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Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are
Frans de Waal
4.20 average rating, · 4.5k ratings
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The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
Guy Deutscher
4.22 average rating, · 4.1k ratings
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The Social Conquest of Earth
Edward O. Wilson
4.02 average rating, · 4.3k ratings
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Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
Rebecca Wragg Sykes
4.04 average rating, · 3.9k ratings
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On Human Nature
Edward O. Wilson
4.14 average rating, · 3.7k ratings
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Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes
Svante Pääbo
4.08 average rating, · 3.5k ratings
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The Human Zoo: A Zoologist's Study of the Urban Animal
Desmond Morris
4.00 average rating, · 3.1k ratings
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Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind
Donald C. Johanson
4.15 average rating, · 2.9k ratings
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The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
Geoffrey Miller
4.11 average rating, · 2.8k ratings
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The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
Joseph Henrich
4.39 average rating, · 2.3k ratings
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Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story
Lee Berger
4.22 average rating, · 2.2k ratings
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The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos
Leonard Mlodinow
4.13 average rating, · 2.2k ratings
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The Social Leap: The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come From, and What Makes Us Happy
William Von Hippel
4.23 average rating, · 2k ratings
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Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity
Brian Hare
4.02 average rating, · 1.9k ratings
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