Read-alikes and related books

Books like Darwin

If you loved Darwin by Adrian J. Desmond, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Evolution, Science & Technology, Life Sciences, and Science.

Evolution Science & Technology Life Sciences Science Biography & Autobiography

Top related books to Darwin

A diverse selection of titles that share the core themes and atmosphere of Darwin.

Darwin’s Sacred Cause Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins — Adrian J. Desmond

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

Adrian J. Desmond

Themes: Evolution • Science & Technology • Life Sciences

An Appetite for Wonder The Making of a Scientist — Richard Dawkins

An Appetite for Wonder The Making of a Scientist

Richard Dawkins

Themes: Evolution • Science & Technology • Life Sciences

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs The Untold Story of a Lost World — Steve Brusatte

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs The Untold Story of a Lost World

Themes: Evolution • Science & Technology • Life Sciences

Saving Darwin How to Be a Christian and Believe in Evolution — Karl Giberson

Saving Darwin How to Be a Christian and Believe in Evolution

Themes: Evolution • Science & Technology • Life Sciences

Darwinian Evolution and Classical Liberalism Theories in Tension — Stephen C. Dilley

Darwinian Evolution and Classical Liberalism Theories in Tension

Stephen C. Dilley

Themes: Evolution • Science & Technology • Life Sciences

Darwin’s Bluff — Robert Shedinger

Darwin’s Bluff

Robert Shedinger

Themes: Evolution • Science & Technology • Life Sciences

A Voyage Round the World Charles Darwin and the Beagle Collections in the University of Cambridge — Alison M. Pearn

A Voyage Round the World Charles Darwin and the Beagle Collections in the University of Cambridge

Alison M. Pearn

Themes: Evolution • Science & Technology • Life Sciences

Charles Darwin Destroyer of Myths — Andrew Norman

Charles Darwin Destroyer of Myths

Themes: Evolution • Science & Technology • Life Sciences

What is Life? With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches — Erwin Schrodinger

What is Life? With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches

Erwin Schrodinger

Themes: Evolution • Science & Technology • Life Sciences

Darwin Devolves The New Science about DNA that Challenges Evolution — Michael J. Behe

Darwin Devolves The New Science about DNA that Challenges Evolution

Michael J. Behe

Themes: Evolution • Science & Technology • Life Sciences

A Voice in the Wilderness A Pioneering Biologist Explains How Evolution Can Help Us Solve Our Biggest Problems — Joseph L. Graves

A Voice in the Wilderness A Pioneering Biologist Explains How Evolution Can Help Us Solve Our Biggest Problems

Joseph L. Graves

Themes: Evolution • Science & Technology • Life Sciences

An Intimate History of Evolution The Story of the Huxley Family — Alison Bashford

An Intimate History of Evolution The Story of the Huxley Family

Alison Bashford

Themes: Evolution • Science & Technology • Life Sciences

French Botany in the Enlightenment The Ill-fated Voyages of La Pérouse and His Rescuers — R.L. Williams

French Botany in the Enlightenment The Ill-fated Voyages of La Pérouse and His Rescuers

Themes: Evolution • Science & Technology • Life Sciences

Neanderthal Man In Search of Lost Genomes — Svante Pääbo

Neanderthal Man In Search of Lost Genomes

Themes: Evolution • Science & Technology • Life Sciences

A Crack in Creation Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution — Jennifer A. Doudna

A Crack in Creation Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

Jennifer A. Doudna

Themes: Evolution • Science & Technology • Life Sciences

Making Contact Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence — Sarah Scoles

Making Contact Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Themes: Evolution • Science & Technology • Life Sciences

Evolution’s Captain — Peter Nichols

Evolution’s Captain

Themes: Evolution • Science & Technology • Life Sciences

Darwin’s Conservatives The Misguided Quest — John G. West

Darwin’s Conservatives The Misguided Quest

Themes: Evolution • Science & Technology • Life Sciences

Human Nature After Darwin A Philosophical Introduction — Janet Radcliffe Richards

Human Nature After Darwin A Philosophical Introduction

Janet Radcliffe Richards

Themes: Evolution • Science & Technology • Life Sciences

The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin’s Journal of Researches — Charles Darwin

The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin’s Journal of Researches

Themes: Evolution • Science & Technology • Life Sciences

Darwin’s Notebook The Life, Times and Discoveries of Charles Robert Darwin — Jonathan Clements

Darwin’s Notebook The Life, Times and Discoveries of Charles Robert Darwin

Jonathan Clements

Themes: Evolution • Science & Technology • Life Sciences

The Book that Changed America How Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation — Randall Fuller

The Book that Changed America How Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation

Themes: Evolution • Science & Technology • Life Sciences

Darwin Portrait of a Genius — Paul Johnson

Darwin Portrait of a Genius

Themes: Evolution • Science & Technology • Life Sciences

Dear Mr. Darwin Letters on the Evolution of Life and Human Nature — Gabriel A. Dover

Dear Mr. Darwin Letters on the Evolution of Life and Human Nature

Gabriel A. Dover

Themes: Evolution • Science & Technology • Life Sciences

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Darwin by Adrian J. Desmond. Connected by Evolution, Science & Technology, Life Sciences. Authors featured include Adrian J. Desmond, Richard Dawkins, Steve Brusatte, Karl Giberson, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

More by Adrian J. Desmond

Huxley From Devil’s Disciple to Evolution’s High Priest — Adrian J. Desmond

Huxley From Devil’s Disciple to Evolution’s High Priest

Adrian J. Desmond

Explore more

More by Adrian J. Desmond More books tagged Evolution Explore Science & Technology

An informational database of English-language books