📚 Evolution

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Descent with modification: the idea that reorganised biology, and the evidence gathered since Darwin first hesitated to publish it.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject evolution (biology) 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
Life on Earth	David Attenborough	1705	35
The Phenomenon of Man	Pierre Teilhard de Chardin	1955	28
The Blind Watchmaker	Richard Dawkins	1986	28
Evolutionary Biology	Max Hecht	1978	25
Ever since Darwin	Stephen Jay Gould	1977	23
Lay sermons, addresses, and reviews	Thomas Henry Huxley	1870	22
Evolutionary analysis	Freeman, Scott	1920	22
The Wellsprings of Life	Isaac Asimov	1960	21
The Book of Life	Stephen Jay Gould	1993	21
The Ancestor's Tale	Richard Dawkins	2004	20
Genetics and the origin of species	Theodosius Grigorievich Dobzhansky	1937	17
Darwinism	Alfred Russel Wallace	1889	15
Evolution	Carl Zimmer	2001	15
Evolution	Julian Huxley	1942	14
The microcosmos coloring book	Lynn Margulis	1986	14
Evolution	Linda Gamlin	1993	14
What is Darwinism?	Christoph Ernst Luthardt	1874	13
Evolution	Joseph Le Conte	1891	13
From the Greeks to Darwin	Henry Fairfield Osborn	1894	13
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors	Carl Sagan	1992	13
Darwin's dangerous idea	Daniel C. Dennett	1995	13
Life Ascending	Nick Lane	2009	13
Darwin for beginners	Jonathan Miller	1982	12
Darwiniana	Asa Gray	1876	11
Evolution	Carl T. Bergstrom	2011	11
Organic evolution	Richard Swann Lull	1917	10
The Making of the Fittest	Sean B. Carroll	2006	10
Finding Darwin's God	Kenneth R. Miller	1999	9
Evolution	Mark Ridley	1988	8

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 28 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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