Evolution Book Summaries

The Selfish Gene Summary
The Selfish Gene
by Richard Dawkins 1976 360 pages
4.16
100k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Evolution
Sperm Wars Summary
Sperm Wars
Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles
by Robin Baker 1964 375 pages
3.91
2k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Biology
Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation Summary
Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex
by Olivia Judson 2002 320 pages
4.06
3k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Humor
The Red Queen Summary
The Red Queen
Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
by Matt Ridley 1993 405 pages
4.05
17k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology Summary
Evolutionary Psychology
The New Science of the Mind
by David M. Buss 2014 518 pages
4.34
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Evolution
The Case Against Reality Summary
The Case Against Reality
Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
by Donald D. Hoffman 2019 272 pages
3.87
3k+ ratings
Science
Philosophy
Psychology
Oxygen Summary
Oxygen
The Molecule that Made the World
by Nick Lane 2002 384 pages
4.14
2k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Chemistry
The Naked Ape Summary
The Naked Ape
by Desmond Morris 1967 256 pages
3.93
11k+ ratings
Science
Anthropology
Psychology
The Moral Animal Summary
The Moral Animal
Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
by Robert Wright 1994 496 pages
4.08
11k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
The Evolution of Cooperation Summary
The Evolution of Cooperation
by Robert Axelrod 1984 264 pages
4.25
2k+ ratings
Economics
Science
Psychology
Life Ascending Summary
Life Ascending
The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
by Nick Lane 2009 352 pages
4.12
5k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Evolution
Genome Summary
Genome
The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
by Matt Ridley 1999 344 pages
4.06
27k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Genetics
Sapiens and Homo Deus Summary
Sapiens and Homo Deus
The E-book Collection: A Brief History of Humankind and A Brief History of Tomorrow
by Yuval Noah Harari 2017 816 pages
4.42
1k+ ratings
History
Science
Philosophy
Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language Summary
Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language
by Robin I.M. Dunbar 1996 240 pages
4.17
500+ ratings
Science
Anthropology
Evolution
Freedom Evolves Summary
Freedom Evolves
by Daniel C. Dennett 2003 368 pages
3.82
2k+ ratings
Philosophy
Science
Evolution
The Secret of Our Success Summary
The Secret of Our Success
How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
by Joseph Henrich 2015 456 pages
4.38
1k+ ratings
Science
History
Psychology
Blueprint Summary
Blueprint
How DNA Makes Us Who We Are
by Robert Plomin 2018 288 pages
3.96
2k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Biology
The Ape that Understood the Universe Summary
The Ape that Understood the Universe
How the Mind and Culture Evolve
by Steve Stewart-Williams 2018 378 pages
4.25
1k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Evolution
What Is Life? Summary
What Is Life?
Five Great Ideas in Biology
by Paul Nurse 2020 160 pages
3.95
2k+ ratings
Science
Biology
History
The Human Animal Summary
The Human Animal
A Personal View of the Human Species
by Desmond Morris 1994 224 pages
3.91
100+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Evolution
The Consuming Instinct Summary
The Consuming Instinct
What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature
by Gad Saad 2011 374 pages
3.71
500+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Business
Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters Summary
Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters
From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming a Billionaire — Two Evolutionary Psychologists Explain Why We Do What We Do
by Alan S. Miller 2006 252 pages
3.56
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Sociology
The Evolution Of Desire Summary
The Evolution Of Desire
Strategies of Human Mating
by David M. Buss 1994 354 pages
4.16
3k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Relationships
The Story of the Human Body Summary
The Story of the Human Body
Evolution, Health, and Disease
by Daniel E. Lieberman 2013 480 pages
4.27
8k+ ratings
Science
Health
Biology
Consilience Summary
Consilience
The Unity of Knowledge
by Edward O. Wilson 1998 368 pages
3.99
4k+ ratings
Science
Philosophy
Biology
Power, Sex, Suicide Summary
Power, Sex, Suicide
Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
by Nick Lane 2005 354 pages
4.25
3k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Evolution
The Meme Machine Summary
The Meme Machine
by Susan Blackmore 1999 288 pages
3.86
4k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Philosophy
The Expanding Circle Summary
The Expanding Circle
Ethics and Sociobiology
by Peter Singer 1981 190 pages
4.05
500+ ratings
Philosophy
Science
Psychology
Richard Dawkins Summary
Richard Dawkins
How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think
by Alan Grafen 2006 283 pages
3.76
100+ ratings
Science
Biography
Biology
Humans are not from Earth Summary
Humans are not from Earth
A scientific evaluation of the evidence
by Ellis Silver 2013 57 pages
3.74
500+ ratings
Science
Evolution
History
The Origins of Virtue Summary
The Origins of Virtue
Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
by Matt Ridley 1997 265 pages
4.03
4k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Philosophy
At Home in the Universe Summary
At Home in the Universe
The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
by Stuart A. Kauffman 1995 336 pages
4.02
1k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Physics
Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality Summary
Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality
by Jared Diamond 1997 176 pages
3.70
7k+ ratings
Science
Anthropology
Psychology
Human Instinct Summary
Human Instinct
How our primeval impulses shape our modern lives
by Robert Winston 2002 352 pages
4.00
100+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Evolution
The Epigenetics Revolution Summary
The Epigenetics Revolution
by Nessa Carey 2011 320 pages
4.06
5k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Genetics
From Darwin to Derrida Summary
From Darwin to Derrida
Selfish Genes, Social Selves, and the Meanings of Life
by David Haig 2020 512 pages
3.66
50+ ratings
Philosophy
Science
Evolution
The Origin of Species Summary
The Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin 1859 703 pages
4.01
100k+ ratings
Science
Classics
Biology
Everyone Is African Summary
Everyone Is African
How Science Explodes the Myth of Race
by Daniel J. Fairbanks 2015 191 pages
4.10
100+ ratings
Science
Race
History
She Has Her Mother's Laugh Summary
She Has Her Mother's Laugh
The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
by Carl Zimmer 2018 657 pages
4.16
6k+ ratings
Science
Biology
History
Why We Lie Summary
Why We Lie
The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind
by David Livingstone Smith 2004 256 pages
3.63
100+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
Moral Minds Summary
Moral Minds
How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong
by Marc Hauser 2006 512 pages
3.74
1k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Philosophy
The Evolution of Everything Summary
The Evolution of Everything
How New Ideas Emerge
by Matt Ridley 2015 368 pages
3.92
3k+ ratings
Science
History
Philosophy
Nature Via Nurture Summary
Nature Via Nurture
Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human
by Matt Ridley 2003 352 pages
4.06
4k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Psychology
The Magic of Reality Summary
The Magic of Reality
How We Know What's Really True
by Richard Dawkins 2011 271 pages
4.05
26k+ ratings
Science
Philosophy
Religion
The Dragons of Eden Summary
The Dragons of Eden
Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
by Carl Sagan 1977 271 pages
4.19
20k+ ratings
Science
Philosophy
Evolution
Big History Summary
Big History
The Big Bang, Life On Earth, And The Rise Of Humanity
by David Christian 2008
4.42
500+ ratings
History
Science
Evolution
Darwin Comes to Town Summary
Darwin Comes to Town
How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution
by Menno Schilthuizen 2018 304 pages
4.10
2k+ ratings
Science
Nature
Biology
Nonzero Summary
Nonzero
The Logic of Human Destiny
by Robert Wright 2001 448 pages
3.98
2k+ ratings
History
Science
Philosophy
The Human Zoo Summary
The Human Zoo
A Zoologist's Study of the Urban Animal
by Desmond Morris 1969 320 pages
4.00
2k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Anthropology
The Ascent of Man Summary
The Ascent of Man
by Jacob Bronowski 1973 448 pages
4.20
6k+ ratings
Science
History
Philosophy
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