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Books like On the Origin of Species

On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is about evolution, natural selection, biodiversity. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. The Selfish Gene
    The Selfish Gene

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    The Selfish Gene

    Richard Dawkins · Science

    The Selfish Gene reframes evolution from the organism's point of view to the gene's.

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  2. The Ancestor's Tale
    The Ancestor's Tale

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    The Ancestor's Tale

    Richard Dawkins · Science

    The Ancestor's Tale is Richard Dawkins's account of the history of life on Earth, told backwards: beginning with humans and traveling back in evolutionary time to meet successive ancestors at the points where different lineages join.

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  3. The Blind Watchmaker
    The Blind Watchmaker

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    The Blind Watchmaker

    Richard Dawkins · Science

    The Blind Watchmaker is Richard Dawkins's argument that natural selection — cumulative, non-random selection acting on random variation — is sufficient to explain the apparent design in biological organisms.

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  4. The Extended Phenotype
    The Extended Phenotype

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    The Extended Phenotype

    Richard Dawkins · Science

    The Extended Phenotype is Richard Dawkins's most technical and, by his own account, most important book.

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  5. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
    The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

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    The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

    Elizabeth Kolbert · Science

    The Sixth Extinction is Elizabeth Kolbert's account of the mass extinction event currently underway — the sixth in Earth's history, and the first caused by a single species.

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  6. A Brief History of Time
    A Brief History of Time

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    A Brief History of Time

    Stephen Hawking · Science

    A Brief History of Time is Stephen Hawking's attempt to explain the biggest questions in physics — where the universe came from, how it behaves, and where it might be going — to readers with no scientific training.

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