 | What Evolution Is by Ernst Mayr
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $1.27 When people ask whether there is a single book I can recommend on evolution to get a good perspective, this is the one.
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 | Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution by Kenneth R. Miller
Buy used from: $1.82 Evolutionary science is not anti-God, but does need to avoid supernatural explanations.
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 | Sex and Death: An Introduction to Philosophy of Biology (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series) by Kim Sterelny
Buy new: $15.23 / Used from: $7.99 Brilliant and clear introduction to the ideas and scientific critiques of evolutionary theory
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 | When Science Meets Religion: Enemies, Strangers, or Partners? by Ian G. Barbour
Buy new: $13.25 / Used from: $2.43 Insightful and balanced view of the ways science and religion interact
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 | The Darwin Wars: The Scientific Battle for the Soul of Man by Andrew Brown
Buy used from: $47.62 Some of the best insights come from studying controversies
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 | Defending Evolution : A guide to the creation/evolution controversy by Stephen Jay Gould
Buy used from: $4.99 Splendid teachers guide to the logic and issues around evolutionary theory
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 | Evolution by Mark Ridley
Buy used from: $0.25 One of the best textbooks: one of the most reliable descriptions of mainstream Darwinian theory
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 | The Evolution Explosion: How Humans Cause Rapid Evolutionary Change by Stephen R. Palumbi
Buy used from: $0.79 Why we desperately need to know evolutionary science: because of the ways we are influencing the future of life.
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 | Investigations by Stuart A. Kauffman
Buy new: $42.00 / Used from: $2.58 Protoscience speculations for expanding biological science
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 | Get a Grip on Evolution by David Burnie
Buy used from: $0.01 Great fun, a non-scholarly amusing tour with excellent content. A perfect introduction.
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 | Evolving Brains (Scientific American Library Paperback) by John Allman
Buy used from: $14.98 Demonstrates by example why evolutionary theory is so powerful
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 | The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance by Ernst Mayr
Buy new: $26.43 / Used from: $9.95 Get the whole story behind modern biology, from its best
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 | On the Origin of Species: A Facsimile of the First Edition (Harvard Paperbacks) by Charles Darwin
Buy new: $18.45 / Used from: $7.55 The source, of course
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 | Science as a Process: An Evolutionary Account of the Social and Conceptual Development of Science (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series) by David L. Hull
Buy new: $31.50 / Used from: $17.97 A powerful and carefully reasoned application of Darwinian principles to cultural evolution
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 | The Evolution Wars: A Guide to the Debates by Michael Ruse
Buy new: $26.95 / Used from: $6.21 A broadly sweeping coverage of the history of evolutionary thinking, its controversies, and its opponents
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 | Dawkins vs Gould: Survival of the Fittest (Revolutions in Science) by Kim Sterelny
Buy used from: $2.00 Particularly good coverage of the points of contention between these proponents over applying evolutionary theory to human social behavior
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 | The Evolutionists: The Struggle for Darwin's Soul by Sifu Richard Morris
Buy used from: $0.23 Good review of basic controversies within evolutionary thinking, and how they keep biology vital
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 | Darwinizing Culture: The Status of Memetics as a Science
Buy new: $63.00 / Used from: $51.32 A well chosen selection of papers about the application of Darwinian principles to culture, covers both pro and con well
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 | Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea by Carl Zimmer
Buy used from: $3.38 Good intro, broad scope, nicely done.
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 | The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould
Buy new: $38.80 / Used from: $18.99 A rare gem: all the conceptual sticking points in evolutionary theory in one place, but huge and very bloated in spots.
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 | Games of Life: Explorations in Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour (Penguin science) by Karl Sigmund
Buy used from: $4.97 Wide-ranging thought-provoking intro to an important trend in modern evolutionary theory, evolution as self-organizing play.
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 | The Cuvier-Geoffrey Debate: French Biology in the Decades before Darwin (Monographs on the History and Philosophy of Biology) by Toby A. Appel
Buy new: $210.00 / Used from: $120.00 The roots of Darwinian Design: The fundamental debate over form vs. function that was resolved by descent with modification and common origins
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 | Trine Erotic by Alice Andrews
Buy used from: $8.99 Genes and memes and their results in human beings are seen in action in this clever novel
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 | From Genesis to Genetics: The Case of Evolution and Creationism by John A. Moore
Buy used from: $0.53 Respectful to both faith and science, patiently and clearly explains the case for how much we can learn through evolutionary theory.
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 | Evolution: The History of an Idea by Peter J. Bowler
Buy used from: $8.50 A particularly well-written introduction to the intellectual history of the concept of evolution, with constant attention to cultural and social context.
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