The American Scientist list of “100 or so Books that shaped a Century of Science” includes the following 20th-century volumes about evolutionary science:
- Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker (1986)
- Stephen Jay Gould, Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History (1977)
- Jonathan Weiner, The Beak of the Finch (1994)
- Richard Goldschmidt, The Material Basis of Evolution (1940)
- Ronald Aylmer Fisher, The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection (1930)
- George Williams, Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought (1966)
- Howard Gruber, with Paul H. Barrett, Darwin on Man: A Psychological Study of Scientific Creativity (1974)