Allgemeine und einführende Literatur
– Dupré, John. Darwin’s Legacy. What Evolution Means Today. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
– Bowler, P. J. Evolution : the history of an idea. 3rd edition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.
– Mayr, Ernst. One Long Argument. Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1991.
– Larson, Edward J. Evolution. The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory. New York: Modern Library, 2004.
– Ruse, Michael, and Robert J. Richards, eds. The Cambridge Companion to the Origin of Species. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
– Hodge, Jonathan, and Gregory Radick, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Darwin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
– Weber, Thomas P. Darwinismus. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 2002.
– Sarasin, Philipp, and Marianne Sommer, eds. Evolution. Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2010.
– Lennox, James, “Darwinism”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2010 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2010/entries/darwinism/.

Werke von Darwin
– Darwin, Charles. The Origin of Species. London: Wordsworth Editions, 1998.
———. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication (1868). New York: Appleton, 1915.
———. The Voyage of the Beagle. London: Wordsworth Editions, 1996.
———. Autobiography of Charles Darwin (1929). Edited by Francis Darwin. London: Icon Books, 2003.

Werke über Darwin
– Browne, Janet. Charles Darwin: Voyaging: Volume 1 of a Biography. London: Random House, 2010.
———. Charles Darwin Volume 2: The Power at Place. London: Random House, 2010.
– Engels, Eve-Marie. Charles Darwin. München: C.H.Beck, 2007.
– Neffe, Jürgen. Darwin. München: Bertelsmann, 2008.

Allgemeine und einführende Literatur zur Philosophie der Biologie
– Sterelny, Kim and Paul E. Griffiths. Sex and Death. An Introduction to Philosophy of Biology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
– Sober, Elliott. Philosophy of Biology. 2nd ed. Boulder: Westview Press, 2000.
– Sober, Elliott, ed. Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology. 3rd ed. Cambridge MA: The MIT Press, 2006.
– Gould, Stephen Jay. The Structure of Evolutionary Theory. Cambridge MA; London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002.
– Mayr, Ernst. Die Entwicklung der biologischen Gedankenwelt. Translated by Karin – De Sousa Ferreira. Berlin; New York: Springer-Verlag, 1984.
– Ruse, Michael, and David Lee Hull, eds. The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Biology. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
– Dembski, William A, and Michael Ruse, eds. Debating Design. From Darwin to DNA. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
– Griffiths, Paul, “Philosophy of Biology”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2011/entries/biology-philosophy/.