Evolution

Usually refers to Darwinian evolution.

Publications

On the Origin of Species (Charles Darwin): The book that established the theory of evolution by natural selection.
The Selfish Gene (Richard Dawkins): An accessible explanation of the major concepts established in the fifty years since the modern synthesis. Dawkins’s contributions were (1) proposing the metaphor of the “selfish” gene, (2) proposing the concept of the meme, and (3) explaining post-synthesis developments in a way the general public could easily understand.