📚 Social Evolution

Books with social evolution on their catalogue record, first published between 1851 and 2021, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject social evolution in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 2,366 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
	Mutual Aid	Peter Kropotkin	1891	173
	Der Ursprung der Familie, des Privateigenthums und des Staats	Friedrich Engels	1884	65
	Primitive Culture	Edward Burnett Tylor	2010	51
	The principles of sociology	Herbert Spencer	1880	29
	Primitive culture	Edward B. Tylor	1871	27
	Social statics	Herbert Spencer	1851	25
	The Age of Empathy	Frans de Waal	2009	22
	Our Kind	Marvin Harris	1989	18
	Social Darwinism in American thought, 1860-1915	Richard Hofstadter	1944	17
	The End of History and the Last Man	Francis Fukuyama	1992	16
	The world until yesterday	Jared M. Diamond	2012	14
	Continuities in cultural evolution	Margaret Mead	1964	13
	Cannibals and kings	Marvin Harris	1977	13
	The cultural unity of Negro Africa	Cheikh Anta Diop	1959	9
	Human societies	Lenski, Gerhard Emmanuel	1970	9
	Traumzeit	Hans Peter Duerr	1978	9
	Evolution et révolution	Élisée Reclus	1890	8
	Societal evolution	Albert Galloway Keller	1915	8
	Seeds of liberty	Max Savelle	1948	8
	Beyond culture	Edward Twitchell Hall	1976	8
	The Chalice and the Blade	Riane Tennenhaus Eisler	1988	8
	The Stag Hunt and the Evolution of Social Structure	Brian Skyrms	2003	8
	Sex at Dawn	Christopher Ryan	2010	8
	Ecological Transition	John W. Bennett	2014	7
	The Social Instinct	Nichola Raihani	2021	7
	Natural Selection and Social Theory	Robert Trivers	1972	6
	The evolution of human societies	Allen W. Johnson	1987	6
	The Red Queen	Matt Ridley	1993	6
	The evolving self	Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi	1993	6
	The human animal	Desmond Morris	1994	6

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

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