This is a list of popular science books concerning
evolution, sorted by surname of the author.
== B ==
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.
== C ==
Sean B. Carroll (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 and Deborah Charlesworth
(2003). Evolution: A Very Short Introduction.
Matteo Conti (2008). The Selfish Cell: An
evolutionary defeat.
Jerry Coyne (2009). Why Evolution Is True.
== D ==
Charles Darwin (1859). The Origin of Species.
Charles Darwin (1871). The Descent of Man.
Richard Dawkins (1976). The Selfish Gene.
Richard Dawkins (1982). The Extended Phenotype.
Richard Dawkins (1986). The Blind Watchmaker.
Richard Dawkins (1995). River out of Eden.
Richard Dawkins (1996). Climbing Mount Improbable.
Richard Dawkins (2004). The Ancestor's Tale.
Richard Dawkins (2009). The Greatest Show
on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution.
Daniel Dennett (1995). Darwin's Dangerous
Idea.
Daniel Dennett (2003). Freedom Evolves.
Jared Diamond (1992). The Third Chimpanzee:
The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
Theodosius Dobzhansky (1937; 2nd ed 1941;
3rd ed 1951). Genetics and the Origin of Species.
== E ==
Niles Eldredge (2001). The Triumph of Evolution:
and the Failure of Creationism.
== F ==
Daniel J. Fairbanks (2007). Relics of Eden:
The Powerful Evidence of Evolution in Human
DNA.
== G ==
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.
== H ==
Marc Hauser (2006). Moral Minds.
Jay Hosler (2011). Evolution: The Story of
Life on Earth.
Julian Huxley (1942). Evolution: The Modern
Synthesis.
Thomas Henry Huxley (1863). Evidence as to
Man's Place in Nature.
== J ==
Donald Johansson (2006). From Lucy to Language:
Revised, Updated, and Expanded.
Alison Jolly (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?: The Origins of Human Choral Singing,
Intelligence, Language and Speech.
Joseph Jordania (2011). Why do People Sing?
Music in Human Evolution.
== K ==
Marc W. Kirschner and John C. Gerhart (2006).
The Plausibility of Life: Resolving Darwin's
Dilemma.
== L ==
Nick Lane (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.
== M ==
John Maynard Smith (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.
John Maynard Smith (1989). Evolutionary Genetics.
John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry (1997).
The Major Transitions in Evolution.
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.
== N ==
National Academies of Science (2008). Science,
Evolution, and Creationism.
Bill Nye (2014). Undeniable: Evolution and
the Science of Creation.
== P ==
Jean-Baptiste De Panafieu (2011). Evolution.
Donald Prothero (2006). After the Dinosaurs:
The Age of Mammals.
Donald Prothero (2007). Evolution: What the
Fossils Say and Why It Matters.
Steven Pinker (1997). How the Mind Works.
== R ==
Matt Ridley (1994). The Red Queen: Sex and
the Evolution of Human Nature.
Matt Ridley (1997). The Origins of Virtue.
Matt Ridley (1999). Genome: The Autobiography
of a Species in 23 Chapters.
Matt Ridley (2003). Nature Via Nurture: 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.
== S ==
Carl Sagan (1977). The Dragons of Eden: Speculations
on the Evolution of Human Intelligence.
Neil Shubin (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.
== T ==
== W ==
Nicholas Wade (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 (2007). Evolution for Everyone:
How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We
Think About Our Lives.
Bernard Wood (2006). Human Evolution: A Very
Short Introduction.
== Z ==
Carl Zimmer (2001). Evolution: The Triumph
of an Idea.
Carl Zimmer (2005). Smithsonian Intimate Guide
to Human Origins.
