Evolution

Evolution is the change in the inherited characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organisation, including species, individual organisms and molecules such as DNA and proteins.

See also Science.
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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 1 - The Birth of Humankind
La vida contada por un sapiens a un neandertal
Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2 - The Pillars of Civilization
Bitch: On the Female of the Species
Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
Charlie Thorne and the Lost City (Charlie Thorne #2)
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
The Selfish Gene
The Origin of Species
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Why Evolution Is True
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
The God Delusion
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

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Bill Hicks
Folks, it's time to evolve. That's why we're troubled. You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything's failing? It's because, um – they're no longer relevant. We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right? ...more
Bill Hicks

Sigmund Freud
Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities. But it cannot achieve its end. Its doctrines carry with them the stamp of the times in which they originated, the ignorant childhood days of the human race. Its consolations deserve no trust. Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery. The ethical commands, to which religion seeks to ...more
Sigmund Freud , Moses and Monotheism

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