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Books like The Blind Watchmaker
The best books like The Blind Watchmaker are The Selfish Gene, The Extended Phenotype, and A Short History of Nearly Everything. The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins is about evolution, natural selection, complexity. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Selfish Gene
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Richard Dawkins · Science
The Selfish Gene reframes evolution from the organism's point of view to the gene's.
Shares evolution and natural selection with The Blind Watchmaker.
Read the summary → - The Extended Phenotype
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Richard Dawkins · Science
The Extended Phenotype is Richard Dawkins's most technical and, by his own account, most important book.
Shares evolution and adaptation with The Blind Watchmaker.
Read the summary → - A Short History of Nearly Everything
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson · Science
A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's attempt to understand the scientific story of everything — from the Big Bang to the emergence of modern humans — by spending three years talking to scientists and reading science history.
Both dig into evolution.
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- On the Origin of Species
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Charles Darwin · Science
On the Origin of Species, published in 1859, is the book in which Charles Darwin presented the theory of evolution by natural selection to the general reading public.
Shares evolution and natural selection with The Blind Watchmaker.
Read the summary → - Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Robert M. Sapolsky · Science
Behave is Robert Sapolsky's attempt to explain why humans do what they do — the violence, the altruism, the tribalism, the heroism — by working through every layer of biology that contributes to a single act.
Both dig into evolution.
Read the summary → - Climbing Mount Improbable
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Richard Dawkins · Science
Climbing Mount Improbable is Richard Dawkins's response to the persistent intuition that complex biological structures — the vertebrate eye, insect wings, spider webs — are too improbable to have evolved by chance.
Shares evolution and natural selection with The Blind Watchmaker.
Read the summary → - Life Ascending
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Nick Lane · Science
Life Ascending is Nick Lane's examination of what he calls evolution's ten greatest inventions: the origin of life itself, DNA, photosynthesis, the complex cell, sex, movement, sight, hot blood, consciousness, and death.
Shares evolution and natural selection with The Blind Watchmaker.
Read the summary → - The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Richard Dawkins · Science
The Greatest Show on Earth is Richard Dawkins's systematic presentation of the evidence for evolution by natural selection.
Shares evolution and natural selection with The Blind Watchmaker.
Read the summary → - The Vital Question
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Nick Lane · Science
The Vital Question asks why life is the way it is — why all complex life is eukaryotic, why eukaryotes all have mitochondria, why sex exists, why organisms age and die, and why life may be exceedingly rare in the universe.
Shares evolution and complexity with The Blind Watchmaker.
Read the summary → - Why Evolution Is True
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Jerry A. Coyne · Science
Why Evolution Is True is evolutionary geneticist Jerry Coyne's systematic case for evolution, written for readers who want a rigorous but accessible treatment of the evidence.
Shares evolution and natural selection with The Blind Watchmaker.
Read the summary → - A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
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A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
Jennifer A. Doudna and Samuel H. Sternberg · Science
A Crack in Creation is Jennifer Doudna and Samuel Sternberg's account of how CRISPR-Cas9 works, what it can do, and why its possibilities should give everyone pause.
Both dig into evolution.
Read the summary → - Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Frans de Waal · Science
Frans de Waal's central argument is that we've spent most of the last century asking the wrong questions about animal intelligence.
Both dig into evolution.
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Books like The Blind Watchmaker: quick answers
What are the best books like The Blind Watchmaker?
The best books like The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins are The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, The Extended Phenotype by Richard Dawkins, A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Blind Watchmaker, such as evolution, natural selection, complexity.
What should I read after The Blind Watchmaker?
A natural next read after The Blind Watchmaker is The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. Shares evolution and natural selection with The Blind Watchmaker. Other strong choices are The Extended Phenotype by Richard Dawkins, A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin.
What books are similar to The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins?
The Blind Watchmaker centers on evolution, natural selection, complexity. Books with a similar feel include The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, The Extended Phenotype by Richard Dawkins, A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky, Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
