List of popular science books on evolution

B

• Paul M. Bingham and Joanne Souza. Death from a Distance and the Birth of a Humane Universe: Human Evolution, Behavior, History, and Your Future.

C

• Sean B. Carroll. The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution.
• Sean B. Carroll. Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo.
• Brian Charlesworth and Deborah Charlesworth. Evolution: A Very Short Introduction.
• Matteo Conti. The Selfish Cell: An evolutionary defeat.
• Jerry Coyne. Why Evolution Is True.

D

• Charles Darwin. The Origin of Species.
• Charles Darwin. The Descent of Man.
• Richard Dawkins. The Selfish Gene.
• Richard Dawkins. The Extended Phenotype.
• Richard Dawkins. The Blind Watchmaker.
• Richard Dawkins. River out of Eden.
• Richard Dawkins. Climbing Mount Improbable.
• Richard Dawkins. The Ancestor's Tale.
• Richard Dawkins. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution.
• Daniel Dennett. Darwin's Dangerous Idea.
• Daniel Dennett. Freedom Evolves.
• Jared Diamond. The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
• Theodosius Dobzhansky. Genetics and the Origin of Species.

E

• Niles Eldredge. The Triumph of Evolution: and the Failure of Creationism.

F

• Daniel J. Fairbanks. Relics of Eden: The Powerful Evidence of Evolution in Human DNA.

G

• Ann Gibbons. The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors.
• Stephen Jay Gould. Ever Since Darwin.
• Stephen Jay Gould. Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History.
• Stephen Jay Gould. Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin.

H

• Marc Hauser. Moral Minds.
• Jay Hosler. Evolution: The Story of Life on Earth.
• Julian Huxley. Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.
• Thomas Henry Huxley. Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature.

J

• Donald Johansson. From Lucy to Language: Revised, Updated, and Expanded.
• Shaun Johnston. Re-thinking What it Means We Evolved: A new framework for universal moral values.
• Shaun Johnston. Are You wonderful? Good Science Says, Yes: How to tell good science from bad.
• Alison Jolly. Lucy's Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution.
• Steve Jones. The Language of the Genes.
• David Starr Jordan. The Blood of the Nation: A Study in the Decay of Races by the Survival of the Unfit.
• Joseph Jordania. Who Asked the First Question?: The Origins of Human Choral Singing, Intelligence, Language and Speech.
• Joseph Jordania. Why do People Sing? Music in Human Evolution.

K

• Marc W. Kirschner and John C. Gerhart. The Plausibility of Life: Resolving Darwin's Dilemma.
• Peter Kropotkin. Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution.
• Arik Kershenbaum. The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy - What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves.

L

• Nick Lane. Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution.
• Gabriel E. Lasker. The Evolution of Man: A Brief Introduction to Physical Anthropology.
• Daniel Levitin. The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature.

M

• John Maynard Smith. The Theory of Evolution.
• John Maynard Smith. On Evolution.
• John Maynard Smith. The Evolution of Sex.
• John Maynard Smith. Evolution and the Theory of Games.
• John Maynard Smith. Evolutionary Genetics.
• John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry. The Major Transitions in Evolution.
• John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry. The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language.
• Ernst Mayr. What Evolution Is.
• Ernst Mayr. One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought.
• Kenneth R. Miller. Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution.
• Kenneth R. Miller. Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul.

N

• National Academies of Science. Science, Evolution, and Creationism.
• Bill Nye. Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation.

P

• Jean-Baptiste De Panafieu. Evolution.
• Donald Prothero. After the Dinosaurs: The Age of Mammals.
• Donald Prothero. Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters.
• Steven Pinker. How the Mind Works.

R

• Matt Ridley. The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature.
• Matt Ridley. The Origins of Virtue.
• Matt Ridley. Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters.
• Matt Ridley. Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human.
• * Reprinted as The Agile Gene: How Nature Turns on Nurture.
• Michael Ruse. Taking Darwin Seriously: A Naturalistic Approach to Philosophy.
• Michael Ruse. The Darwinian Revolution: Science Red in Tooth and Claw.
• Michael Ruse. The Evolution Wars: A Guide to the Debates.
• Michael Ruse. Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction?.
• Michael Ruse. Darwinism and Its Discontents.
• Michael Ruse. Evolution-Creation Struggle.

S

• Carl Sagan. The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence.
• Neil Shubin. Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body.
• John Skoyles and Dorion Sagan. Up from Dragons: The evolution of human intelligence.
• Cameron M. Smith and Charles Sullivan. The Top 10 Myths About Evolution.

W

• Nicholas Wade. Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors.
• Jonathan Weiner. The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time.
• David Sloan Wilson. Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives.
• David Sloan Wilson. This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution
• Bernard Wood. Human Evolution: A Very Short Introduction.

Z

• Carl Zimmer. Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea.
• Carl Zimmer. Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins.