📚 Molecular Evolution

Books with molecular evolution on their catalogue record, first published between 1929 and 2018, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject molecular evolution in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 609 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.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Life Ascending	Nick Lane	2009	13
	The Making of the Fittest	Sean B. Carroll	2006	10
	Molecular evolution on rugged landscapes	Workshop on Applied Molecular Evolution and the Maturation of the Immune Response (1989 Santa Fe, N.M.)	1990	7
	The journey of man	Spencer Wells	2002	7
	Molecular approaches to evolution	Jacques Ninio	1982	6
	Handbook of comparative genomics	Cecilia Saccone	2002	6
	Power, Sex, Suicide	Nick Lane	2005	6
	Form and function in developmental evolution	Manfred D. Laubichler	2008	6
	DNA Nanoscience	Kenneth Douglas	2016	6
	Darwin's Black Box	Michael J. Behe	1996	5
	Molecular evolution	Werner E. G. Müller	1998	5
	Techniques in molecular systematics and evolution	Rob DeSalle	2001	5
	The Evolution of the Genome	T. Ryan Gregory	2004	5
	Horizontal gene transfer in the evolution of pathogenesis	Michael Hensel	2008	5
	Natural Selection	Mario A. Fares	2014	5
	Invasion Genetics	Spencer C. H. Barrett	2016	5
	Biochemical Evolution	Athel Cornish-Bowden	2016	5
	Modern materialism and emergent evolution	McDougall, William	1929	4
	Evolution and impact of transposable elements	Pierre Capy	1997	4
	Thermophiles	Juergen Wiegel	1998	4
	Investigations	Stuart A. Kauffman	2000	4
	Bioinformatics and Molecular Evolution	Paul G. Higgs	2009	4
	The viral storm	Nathan Wolfe	2011	4
	Aging Is a Group-Selected Adaptation	Joshua Mitteldorf	2017	4
	What Species Mean	Julia D. Sigwart	2018	4
	Molecular Evolution	Duane L. Rohlfing	1972	3
	The neutral theory of molecular evolution	Motoo Kimura	1983	3
	The major transitions in evolution	John Maynard Smith	1995	3
	The shape of life	Rudolf A. Raff	1996	3
	Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics	Masatoshi Nei	2000	3

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

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