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Meme Streak

From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds

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Words to the Wise

The Kingdom of Speech

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Not Enough Selection

Darwin

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Transmuting the Point

A Foot in the River: Why Our Lives Change – and the Limits of Evolution

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1953 and All That

Life’s Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code

By Matthew Cobb

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Little by Little

The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge

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Of Cells & Chutzpah

The Vital Question: Why Is Life the Way It Is?

By Nick Lane

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Shaggy Elephant Story

How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction

By Beth Shapiro

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Evolutionary Minds

A Devil's Chaplain

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DNA: The Secret of Life

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A Theory to Believe In

A Reason for Everything: Natural Selection and the English Imagination

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Backwards In Time

The Ancestor's Tale

By Richard Dawkins

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Arguments Ad Hominin

The Origin of Our Species

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Decoding Darwin

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

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The Unity of Man

Darwin’s Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins

By Adrian Desmond and James Moore

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And God Created…

Dissent Over Descent: Intelligent Design’s Challenge to Darwinism

By Steve Fuller

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Selectioneering

Darwin’s Ghosts: In Search of the First Evolutionists

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Ignoble Savages

Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us About Sex, Diet, and How We Live

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The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates

By Frans de Waal

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Survival of the Kindest

Why Genes are Not Selfish and People are Nice: A Challenge to the Dangerous Ideas that Dominate Our Lives

By Colin Tudge

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Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters from the Malay Archipelago

By John van Wyhe & Kees Rookmaaker (edd)

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The Evolution of a Theory

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