Back in late 2009, we started offering free evolution book excerpts on the NCSE web site and via Facebook. The excerpts—often complete chapters—were culled from a range of tomes, from illustrated versions of the Origin to textbooks (such as Douglas Futuyma's Evolution) to kids books (such as Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be).

These excerpts are still accessible for your delectation:

Evolution vs. Creationism, 2nd edition (Greenwood) by Eugenie C. Scott

Charles Darwin's On the Origin Of Species: A Graphic Adaptation (Rodale) by Michael Keller

The Tangled Bank (Roberts and Company) by Carl Zimmer

Evolution, Second Edition (Sinauer Associates) by Douglas J. Futuyma

Evidence of Evolution (Abrams Books) by Susan Middleton and Mary Ellen Hannibal

Evolution: The Story of Life (UC Press) by Douglas Palmer

Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be (Kids Can Press) by Daniel Loxton

Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk (University Of Chicago Press) by Massimo Pigliucci

Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution (W.W. Norton) by Nick Lane

Darwin's Universe: Evolution from A to Z (UC Press) by Richard Milner.

CONTACT: Robert Luhn, Director of Communications, NCSE, 510-601-7203, luhn@ncse.com

Web site: www.ncse.com

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