r/evolution is a subreddit with 167k members. The community frequently discusses evolution, species, humans, life, and ancestor, and they frequently recommend/review literature, and the most common flair used is question, article, discussion, image, and academic.
A community to discuss evolutionary biology
Popular Topics in r/evolution
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Evolution
91 posts
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Species
19 posts
#3
Humans
11 posts
#4
Life
10 posts
#5
Ancestor
6 posts
#6
Mutation
5 posts
#7
Adaptation
5 posts
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Intelligence
4 posts
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Mammals
4 posts
#10
Evolve
4 posts
Products Discussed in r/evolution
Literature
2 reviews
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Carl Zimmer
5.0★ from 1 review
Flair Used in r/evolution
#1
question
: "Why does this keep happening?"
86 posts
#2
article
: "Our eyes descend from a worm-like ancestor that was roaming the oceans 600 million years ago. The same also applies to all bilateral animals, meaning animals whose bodies can be divided into roughly mirror-image left and right halves"
41 posts
#3
discussion
: "Birds are dinosaurs and reptiles, humans and other apes are monkeys, and tetrapods are land fish. You can't evolve out of a clade."
15 posts
#4
image
: "Found this emoji cladogram of angiosperms I made back in 2024"
14 posts
#5
academic
: "Dawkins’s paradox: dissecting the body’s battle to keep selfish genes in check"
5 posts
#6
fun
: "Technically correct, the best kind of correct."
4 posts
#7
video
: ""We are fundamentally, at the end of the day, animals." New Scientist sat down with biological anthropologist Alice Roberts to talk about the wonderful benefits bestowed on us by animals from our evolutionary past and the myth of human exceptionalism."
3 posts
#8
meta
: "New Rule 11: Images"
1 post
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Paper of the Week
: "New paper on evolution of starch digestion in Andeans"
1 post
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Last updated: June 24, 2026