The best underappreciated but eminently readable books that tell us who we are

Book cover of Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic Book cover of Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst Book cover of Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America Book cover of The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention Book cover of The Invisible History of the Human Race: How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures

The best books about mind bending scientific discovery and courageous rethinking of conventional wisdom

Book cover of Climbing Mount Improbable Book cover of The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention Book cover of The Art of Genes: How Organisms Make Themselves Book cover of Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Book cover of Quantum Space: Loop Quantum Gravity and the Search for the Structure of Space, Time, and the Universe

Want books like The Unfolding of Language?

Our community of 12,000+ authors has personally recommended 100 books like The Unfolding of Language.

Book cover of Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America Book cover of Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Book cover of Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic Book cover of Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst Book cover of Quantum Space: Loop Quantum Gravity and the Search for the Structure of Space, Time, and the Universe Book cover of The Art of Genes: How Organisms Make Themselves

Browse books like The Unfolding of Language

5 book lists we think you will like!

Interested in language, philosophy, and linguistics?

Language 93 books
Philosophy 1,933 books
Linguistics 43 books