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Books like On Natural Selection

Readers who finished On Natural Selection by Charles Darwin and wanted more will find 24 strong picks here, all connected by Natural History, Evolution, Philosophy & Social Aspects, and Biology.

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Top related books to On Natural Selection

Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of On Natural Selection.

The Origin of Species

Charles Darwin

Themes: Natural History • Evolution • Philosophy & Social Aspects

First Steps How Upright Walking Made Us Human

Jeremy DeSilva

Themes: Natural History • Evolution • Biology

The Ancestor’s Tale A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

Richard Dawkins

Themes: Natural History • Evolution • Biology

The Triumph of Sociobiology

John Alcock

Themes: Evolution • Philosophy & Social Aspects • Biology

The Evolution of Human Sociability Desires, Fears, Sex and Society

Ron Vannelli

Themes: Evolution • Philosophy & Social Aspects • Anthropology

Nature Via Nurture Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human

Matt Ridley

Themes: Evolution • Biology • Anthropology

The Phenomenon of Man

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Themes: Evolution • Biology • Anthropology

Cultural Selection

A. Fog

Themes: Evolution • Biology • Anthropology

Death, Hope and Sex Steps to an Evolutionary Ecology of Mind and Morality

James S. Chisholm

Themes: Evolution • Biology • Anthropology

#10

Behave The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Robert M. Sapolsky

Themes: Evolution • Philosophy & Social Aspects • Biology

#11

Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex

Olivia Judson

Themes: Natural History • Evolution • Biology

#12

Death As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal

Juan José Millás

Themes: Natural History • Evolution • Biology

#13

A Legacy for Living Systems Gregory Bateson as Precursor to Biosemiotics

Jesper Hoffmeyer

Themes: Evolution • Philosophy & Social Aspects • Biology

#14

Evolution Is Wrong A Radical Approach to the Origin and Transformation of Life — Erich von Däniken

Erich Von Daniken

Themes: Evolution • Philosophy & Social Aspects • Biology

#15

On Human Nature Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition, With a New Preface — Edward O. Wilson

Edward O Wilson

Themes: Evolution • Philosophy & Social Aspects • Biology

#16

Sapiens [Tenth Anniversary Edition] A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval N. Harari

Themes: Natural History • Evolution • Anthropology

#17

Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval N. Harari

Themes: Natural History • Evolution • Anthropology

#18

Evolution and Human Behaviour Darwinian Perspectives on Human Nature

John Cartwright

Themes: Evolution • Biology • Anthropology

#19

The Social Leap The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come From, and What Makes Us Happy

William von Hippel

Themes: Evolution • Biology • Anthropology

#20

The Secret of Our Success How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter

Joseph Henrich

Themes: Evolution • Biology • Anthropology

#21

Why We Do it Rethinking Sex and the Selfish Gene

Niles Eldredge

Themes: Evolution • Biology • Anthropology

#22

The World in Six Songs How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature

Daniel Levitin

Themes: Evolution • Philosophy & Social Aspects • Anthropology

#23

Darwin’s Conservatives The Misguided Quest

John G. West

Themes: Evolution • Philosophy & Social Aspects • Anthropology

#24

Wired for Culture The Natural History of Human Cooperation

Mark Pagel

Themes: Evolution • Biology • Anthropology

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Natural History, Evolution, Philosophy & Social Aspects — the same threads that run through On Natural Selection by Charles Darwin. Among the authors featured: Charles Darwin, Jeremy DeSilva, Richard Dawkins, John Alcock, and others.