On the origin of species by means of natural selection

Charles Darwin

1860 ★ 4.3

Childhood’s End

Arthur C. Clarke

1952 ★ 3.9

The Greatest Show on Earth

Richard Dawkins

2009 ★ 4.5

Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

Valentina de Angelis, James Patterson

2007 ★ 4.0

What is life? The physical aspect of the living cell

Erwin Schrödinger, Roger Penrose

1945 ★ 4.7

The Singularity Is Near

Ray Kurzweil

2005 ★ 4.0

Your inner fish

Neil Shubin

2008 ★ 4.2

Sex at Dawn

Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jethá

2010 ★ 4.7

How the Mind Works

3, Mel Foster, Steven Pinker

1997 ★ 4.0

The human animal

Desmond Morris

1994

The Third Chimpanzee

Jared M. Diamond, Rebecca Stefoff, María Corniero Fernández

1991 ★ 4.2

The Human Zoo

Desmond Morris

1969 ★ 3.5

The Ancestor's Tale

Richard Dawkins

2004 ★ 4.8

The Seven Daughters of Eve

Bryan Sykes

2001

The ghost in the machine

Arthur Koestler

1967 ★ 4.7

Darwin's radio

Greg Bear

1999 ★ 3.6

Hothouse

Brian W. Aldiss

1962 ★ 4.0

Sperm Wars

Robin Baker

1996

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived

Adam Rutherford, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Elizabeth Garay

2016 ★ 4.1

Survival of the Sickest

Jonathan Prince, Sharon Moalem

2007

Darwin's dangerous idea

Daniel C. Dennett

1995 ★ 3.8

Why Is Sex Fun?

Jared M. Diamond, VICTORIA LAPORTA GONZALO

1998 ★ 3.6

The Phenomenon of Man

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

1955

Our final invention

James Barrat

2013 ★ 3.3

The Human Past

Chris Scarre, Christopher Scarre

2005

The descent of man

Charles Darwin

1871

Ever since Darwin

Stephen Jay Gould

1977 ★ 5.0

The prehistory of the mind

Steven J. Mithen

1996

Supernatural

Graham Hancock

2005

Evolutionary psychology

David M. Buss

2004