 | The Origin of Species (Modern Library Paperbacks) by Charles Darwin
Buy new: $9.35 / Used from: $1.88 The seminal work
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 | The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Buy used from: $1.39 Challenging but essential to understanding the current thinking
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 | The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science) by Richard Dawkins
Buy new: $13.59 / Used from: $9.00 The logical extensions of the selfish gene approach
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 | The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design by Richard Dawkins
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $4.91 A good place to start, if you don't know much about evolution
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 | River Out Of Eden: A Darwinian View Of Life (Science Masters Series) by Richard Dawkins
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.99 A lot like The Blind Watchmaker, but with a new metaphor and different examples
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 | Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $6.25 More of the same, again with a new metaphor and different examples
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 | Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life by Daniel C. Dennett
Buy new: $12.53 / Used from: $4.48 The best explanation of the philosophical underpinnings and implications of evolutionary theory
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 | Genome by Matt Ridley
Buy used from: $0.01 A fascinating, fun-filled tour of the human genome
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 | The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared Diamond
Buy used from: $0.70 A real page-turner
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 | Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine by Randolph M. Nesse
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $5.95 Applied Darwinism. Buy a copy for your doctor.
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 | The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology by Robert Wright
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $4.99 Good intro to evolutionary psychology, and a decent bio of Darwin to boot
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 | The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $6.98 More evolutionary psychology. Provocative stuff.
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 | Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts by Terry Burnham
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.00 Finally, a Darwinian self-help book!
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 | Freedom Evolves by Daniel C. Dennett
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $3.99 See my review
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 | The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore
Buy new: $17.05 / Used from: $4.86 Evolution applied to ideas and culture - this one will blow your mind
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 | Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $4.16 This book will change the way you think about human history
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 | Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $3.88 Ditto. See my in-depth review of this book here on Amazon
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 | The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress by Joel Mokyr
Buy new: $17.95 / Used from: $4.50 Applies Gould's punctuated equilibrium to technological development
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 | The Lie: Evolution by Ken Ham
Buy new: $8.79 / Used from: $0.34 What other people think. Please read my in-depth review
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 | Remaking Eden by Lee M. Silver
Buy used from: $0.01 What happens when humans take over their own evolutionary destiny
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 | Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future by Gregory Stock
Buy used from: $0.01 More of the same
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 | Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution by Francis Fukuyama
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $2.94 More of the same, but with pessimism
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