📚 Human Evolution

30 works · ordered by editions in print

From australopithecine to us: fossils, tools, genes, and a family tree redrawn almost every year.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject human evolution in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
On the origin of species by means of natural selection	Charles Darwin	1859	259
The Human Zoo	Desmond Morris	1705	57
What is life? The physical aspect of the living cell	Erwin Schrödinger	1944	40
The Ascent of Man	Henry Drummond	1894	34
The Phenomenon of Man	Pierre Teilhard de Chardin	1955	28
World Prehistory and Archaeology	Michael Chazan	2007	28
Why Is Sex Fun?	Jared Diamond	1997	23
L' espèce humaine	Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau	1877	20
The Ancestor's Tale	Richard Dawkins	2004	20
African Genesis	Robert Ardrey	1961	18
Our Kind	Marvin Harris	1989	18
The human animal	Weston La Barre	1954	15
Evolutionary Psychology	David Buss	2003	14
World prehistory	Brian M. Fagan	1979	13
Darwin's dangerous idea	Daniel C. Dennett	1995	13
Your inner fish	Neil Shubin	2008	12
The Greatest Show on Earth	Richard Dawkins	2009	12
The Seven Daughters of Eve	Bryan Sykes	2001	11
How Humans Evolved	Boyd, Robert	2010	11
Testosterone rex	Cordelia Fine	2017	10
Sperm Wars	Robin Baker	1996	9
Maps of Time	David Christian	2004	9
Book of Humans	Adam Rutherford	2017	9
Sperm Wars	Robin Baker	1996	8
How Humans Evolved	Boyd, Robert	1998	8
Evolutionary psychology	David M. Buss	1998	8
Sex at Dawn	Christopher Ryan	2010	8
Human Evolution	Steven J. C. Gaulin	2011	8
Up from Eden	Ken Wilber	1981	7
A natural history of rape	Randy Thornhill	2000	7

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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