📚 Biological Evolution

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with biological evolution on their catalogue record, first published between 1845 and 2001, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject biological evolution in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 2,841 works the catalogue holds under that subject. 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
L'Évolution créatrice	Henri Bergson	1907	125
Life and Habit	Samuel Butler	1877	69
First principles	Herbert Spencer	1860	54
The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex	Charles Darwin	1870	48
Mendel's principles of heredity	William Bateson	1902	42
Biogeography	C. Barry Cox	1973	39
The Ascent of Man	Henry Drummond	1894	34
The God Delusion	Richard Dawkins	2001	34
The Phenomenon of Man	Pierre Teilhard de Chardin	1955	28
The Blind Watchmaker	Richard Dawkins	1986	28
The principles of biology	Herbert Spencer	1864	27
Darwin and after Darwin	George John Romanes	1892	24
The evolution of sex	Patrick Geddes	1889	23
Ever since Darwin	Stephen Jay Gould	1977	23
The Grammar of Science	Karl Pearson	1892	21
The Wellsprings of Life	Isaac Asimov	1960	21
The Panda's Thumb	Stephen Jay Gould	1980	19
Explanations	Robert Chambers	1845	18
The riddle of the universe at the close of the nineteenth century	Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel	1900	18
African Genesis	Robert Ardrey	1961	18
Darwinism, and other essays	John Fiske	1879	17
From fish to philosopher	Homer William Smith	1953	16
Darwinism	Alfred Russel Wallace	1889	15
The meaning of evolution	George Gaylord Simpson	1949	15
The human animal	Weston La Barre	1954	15
Evolution, Genetics, and Man	Theodosius Grigorievich Dobzhansky	1955	15
Evolution	Carl Zimmer	2001	15
Evolution	Julian Huxley	1942	14
Man's emerging mind	N. J. Berrill	1955	14

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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