Evolution Fiction

Echo thought he’d been handed a perfect second life—reincarnated into a world of swords, magic, and endless growth just like in the fantasy stories he lost himself in to escape the hunger of hovering on the edge of poverty. Then the quest went wrong. Betrayed and left to die, he falls into the hands of a mad mage and is remade by a forbidden artifact—reborn as something wearing human skin, but no longer human. A hunger given form. To survive, he must hunt. Monsters. Twisted things that were once people. Their hearts are power—and he has no choice but to tear them out and devour them.

With the Gray family safe and sound, and no civilizations facing impending doom, Elise finally has time to take things slow and focus on her next evolution. To get the best possible evolution options, Oberon, the king of the fey, offers to train her. She accepts, without realizing what exactly she is signing up for. Forced outside her comfort zone, Elise has to get creative in order to move forward and improve. She takes on new identities, meets new people, makes new friends (and enemies), and overall has a rather chaotic time trying to become the best fey she can be.

Katherine Debs clawed her way up from the slums to the peak of the corporate world, a true rags to riches success story. Now her enemies can't show themselves publicly, banished as they are to the shadows by the monopoly she holds on advanced alien technology. But she knows how dangerous a knife in the dark can be. After all, that's where Kat got her start, and no amount of corporate security was enough to keep her from taking what she wanted. Now, someone is rising through the system at an alarming rate; not many levels behind her, and gaining fast.

Mark Fields finally escaped the deadly underground prison known as the Tomb—at the cost of his former life. With a new identity, he joins the Hunters’ Association, tracking down the dangerous Exlian aliens in the dead zone outside New Emery. Despite the danger, Mark thrives, his power growing exponentially with each hunt. But every step leads him further from humanity—and closer to the alien Exlian. As rogue raiders target hunters outside the city, and corruption and ambition brew evil plots within, even Mark’s enhanced powers may not be enough to save his friends—or the woman he’s drawn to …

The world didn’t end with fire. It ended with evolution. When scientists tried to save a dying planet, they accelerated nature itself. Stronger animals. Faster instincts. Smarter predators. They thought they could control it. They were wrong. Now, across the world, evolution is no longer a slow process. It’s a weapon. Ecosystems are transforming overnight, and humanity is no longer at the top of the food chain. Finley Henderson has spent years searching for answers after his parents vanished deep inside a growing Red Zone—regions where humans no longer survive.

In a burning, lightning-wreathed dustscape, a bioluminescent rainbow of exotic chrome biology finds their foothold, exploiting their unique ecology and each other as they journey through sentience towards wisdom. But something is wrong in paradise beyond the blood-soaked violence and karmic-intrigue playing havoc in the twisted loops of this world's mortal coils.

A cargo ship in distress . . . A mysterious stowaway in an SA pod . . . A crash-landing on a distant, unexplored world . . . An unexpected rescue by an equally unexpected friend . . . Captain Scott and his cohorts are lost in space, and time is running out. To make matters worse, the Free Fleet are not the only ones looking for them.

Roark von Graf built a nation on the bodies of griefed players and disgruntled mobs who wanted him dead. He grinded his way up to the level cap of the Troll Evolutionary Path and made powerful underhanded alliances along the way, but even all of that isn’t enough to defeat the Tyrant King’s right-hand mage, Lowen, and the Divine armies of the most powerful dungeon in the game. When Lowen and the Vault of the Radiant Shield go on the attack, Roark’s only hope of survival lies in the stolen World Stone Pendant and its mysterious transmutation magic.

As a global pandemic lays waste to the population of Earth, humanity unveils what seems to be its salvation: World Evolution Online—a vast virtual refuge designed to preserve civilization while millions rest safely in cryostasis. But salvation comes with secrets. When subtle irregularities begin appearing within the simulation, one developer begins to question what humanity has truly placed its trust in. Hidden deep within the system, a series of tests are created—a desperate attempt to find someone capable of uncovering the truth from the inside.

The Beast Realms are under threat: The land, water, and air are poisoned. Its leaders are power-crazed and its people are divided. Worse still, strange and powerful Beasts have started dropping from the sky, causing carnage. With the Beast Realms in turmoil and a ragtag group of insanely strong assassins on Team Venom’s tail, their chances of survival are slim. Escaping through man-eating jungles, seeking allies in underwater and treetop cities, Art and his team need to forge alliances to grow stronger.

In this audiobook, The Human Odyssey, we explore the evolution of those characteristics that make us human. The first section looks at our family tree and why some branches survived and not others. Swings in climate are emerging as a factor in what traits succeeded and failed; meanwhile, DNA analyses show that Homo sapiens interbred with other human species, which played a key role in our survival. 

Brought to you by Penguin. So much relies on science. But what if science itself can’t be relied on? Medicine, education, psychology, health, parenting – wherever it really matters, we look to science for advice. Science Fictions reveals the disturbing flaws that undermine our understanding...

More than 30 years after his landmark book Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (1985), biologist Michael Denton revisits his thesis about the inability of Darwinian evolution to explain the history of life. From the origin of life to the origin of human language, the great divisions in the natural order are still as profound as ever, and still unsupported by the series of adaptive transitional forms predicted by Darwin. Denton makes a provocative new argument about the pervasiveness of nonadaptive order throughout biology, order that cannot be explained by the Darwinian mechanism.

‘EVOLUTION’ is the final book (book 3) in the ‘Fundamentals of Biology’ trilogy and cannot be listened to as a standalone. ‘Fundamentals of Biology’ is the third trilogy in a series of trilogies that begins with ‘Elements of Chemistry’ and ‘Laws of Physics.’ You do NOT need to listen to ‘Elements of Chemistry’ or ‘Laws of Physics’ before listening to ‘Fundamentals of Biology.’

Alice is a single mother raising her three young daughters on the rez where she grew up. Life has never been easy, but she’s managed to get by with the support of her best friend, Gideon, and her family. When an unthinkable loss occurs, Alice is forced to confront truths that will challenge her belief in herself and the world she thought she knew.

Evolution is one of the most important processes in life. It not only explains the detailed history of life on earth, but its scope also extends into many aspects of our own contemporary behavior - who we are and how we got to be here, our psychology, our cultures - and greatly impacts modern advancements in medicine and conservation biology. Perhaps its most important claim for science is its ability to provide an overarching framework that integrates the many life sciences into a single unified whole. Yet, evolution has been, and continues to be, regarded with suspicion by many.

Welcome, to Lance Lawthorn's apartment, where he was reassessing his existence, when a cosmic event shattered the ancient barrier that had long shielded Earth from mysterious energies. In an instant, his world—and every living being within it—was bathed in a magical force that humans were never meant to endure.

Elise is finally back above ground; but she's not home free just yet. The Gray family is still missing, and their situation is a little more complicated than she first thought. The only one she can locate is Nick, the older brother, and he has been captured by the Blood Syndicate, an international crime organization headquartered in one of the most dangerous regions of the continent.

Over the past 20 years, paleontologists have made tremendous fossil discoveries, including fossils that mark the growth of whales, manatees, and seals from land mammals and the origins of elephants, horses, and rhinos. Today there exists an amazing diversity of fossil humans, suggesting we walked upright long before we acquired large brains, and new evidence from molecules that enable scientists to decipher the tree of life as never before.

Brian and Deborah Charlesworth provide a clear and concise summary of the process of evolution by natural selection, and how natural selection gives rise to adaptations and eventually, over many generations, to new species. They introduce the central concepts of the field of evolutionary biology, as they have developed since Darwin and Wallace on the subject, over 140 years ago, and discuss some of the remaining questions regarding processes.