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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $10.26Why do human beings behave as they do? 'Awe-inspiring... You will learn more about human nature than in any other book I can think of' Henry Marsh, bestselling author of And Finally.We are capable of... -
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $14.72THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022'Pacey and potentially revolutionary' Sunday Times ... -
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us by Steve Brusatte
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $10.09'Steve Brusatte, the author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, brings mammals out from the shadow of their more showy predecessors in a beautifully written book that . . . makes the case for them... -
Otherlands: A World in the Making - A Sunday Times bestseller by Dr Thomas Halliday
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.98FOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARA SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERTHE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING - HIGHLY COMMENDEDLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONA BEST BOOK OF... -
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (10 Year Anniversary Edition) by Yuval Noah Harari 9781529913934
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $18.76A beautiful new hardback anniversary edition of the multi-million copy sensationINCLUDES A NEW AFTERWORD FROM YUVAL NOAH HARARIWhat makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?One... -
The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes by Donald D. Hoffman
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $9.98SHORTLISTED FOR THE PHYSICS WORLD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019'One of the deepest and most original thinkers of his generation of cognitive scientists. His startling argument has implications for... -
How to Sleep Like a Caveman: Ancient Wisdom for a Better Night’s Rest Merijn van de Laar 9780008717612
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.07Sleep has hardly changed since Paleolithic humans snoozed soundly in their caves. While sabre-toothed tigers were their biggest night-time worry, today it's stress and social media that... -
A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters by Henry Gee
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Winner of the Royal Society Science Book.'Exhilaratingly whizzes through billions of years . . . Gee is a marvellously engaging writer' - The TimesFor billions of years, Earth was an inhospitably... -
Lifespan: Why We Age - and Why We Don't Have To by David Sinclair
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $20.00In this paradigm-shifting book from acclaimed Harvard Medical School doctor and one of TIME magazine's 100 most influential people on earth, Dr. David Sinclair reveals that everything we think we... -
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World by Steve Brusatte
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95The Times Science Book of the Year.A Sunday Times Bestseller.66 million years ago the dinosaurs were wiped from the face of the earth. Today, Dr. Steve Brusatte, one of the leading scientists of a... -
Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon 9781529156171
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024FOYLE'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023LONGLISTED FOR BLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023ONE OF THE... -
The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous by Joseph Henrich
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.71'A landmark in social thought. Henrich may go down as the most influential social scientist of the first half of the twenty-first century' MATTHEW SYEDDo you identify yourself by your profession or... -
Bitch: What does it mean to be female? by Lucy Cooke
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.36'A dazzling, funny and elegantly angry demolition of our preconceptions about female behaviour and sex in the animal kingdom ... Bitch is a blast. I read it, my jaw sagging in astonishment, jotting... -
The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition by Richard Dawkins
RRP: $16.11Booksplease Price: $11.60The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages. As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic... -
The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins 9780141026169
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $12.72***30th Anniversary Edition***Acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution written in the last hundred years, The Blind Watchmaker offers an inspiring and accessible introduction to one of the... -
Rutherford and Fry's Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged): new from the stars of BBC Radio 4 by Adam Rutherford
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.36THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Explores just about every area of life' DAILY MAIL'If only Adam Rutherford and Hannah Fry were on tap to all of us, all the time . . . The pair have such a gift for making... -
Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life by Peter Godfrey-Smith
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.68BBC R4 Book of the Week 'Brilliant' Guardian 'Fascinating and often delightful' The Times What if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice?... -
Earth: Over 4 Billion Years in the Making by Chris Packham 9780008507206
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $24.17'Combines the natural history of programmes such as David Attenborough's Planet Earth with the planetary focus of Brian Cox's Universe' Guardian A beautiful, full... -
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin 9780565095024
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.65An instant bestseller in 1859, few books have had such a revolutionary impact and left such a lasting impression as On the Origin of Species. Possibly the most important and challenging scientific... -
Charles Darwin: Volume 53 by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.18From the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Charles Darwin, the scientist who changed the way people see the world. Although he... -
Britain: One Million Years of the Human Story by Rob Dinnis 9780565093372
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $12.65When did the first humans arrive in Britain? Where did they come from? And what did they look like? This is the amazing story of human life in Britain. It begins nearly one million years ago, during... -
The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us Alice Roberts 9781848664791
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95'From your brain to your fingertips, you emerge from her book entertained and with a deeper understanding of yourself' Richard Dawkins'A masterful account of why our bodies are the way they are . . ... -
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health and Disease by Daniel Lieberman
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56In The Story of the Human Body, Daniel Lieberman, Professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard, shows how we need to change our world to fit our hunter-gatherer bodiesThis ground-breaking book... -
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself by Sean Carroll
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $10.93'Fascinating' - Brian Cox, Mail on Sunday Books of the Year Where are we? Who are we? Do our beliefs, hopes and dreams hold any significance out there in the void? Can human purpose and meaning... -
Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity by Jamie Metzl
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95"A gifted and thoughtful writer, Metzl brings us to the frontiers of biology and technology, and reveals a world full of promise and peril." -Siddhartha Mukherjee MD, New York Times bestselling... -
The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress by Peter Singer 9780691150697
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.16What is ethics? Where do moral standards come from? Are they based on emotions, reason, or some innate sense of right and wrong? For many scientists, the key lies entirely in biology - especially in... -
The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates by Frans De Waal
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.16For many years, de Waal has observed chimpanzees soothe distressed neighbors and bonobos share their food. Now he delivers fascinating fresh evidence for the seeds of ethical behavior in primate... -
Your Inner Fish: The amazing discovery of our 375-million-year-old ancestor by Neil Shubin
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.91Neil Shubin's Your Inner Fish is the unexpected story of how one creature's journey out of the water made the human body what it is today - and one man's voyage of discovery in search of our origins... -
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life by Daniel C. Dennett
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.03In Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life Daniel C. Dennett argues that the theory of evolution can demystify the miracles of life without devaluing our most cherished beliefs. ... -
Our Human Story by Louise Humphrey 9780565093914
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $14.95Our Human Story is a guide to our fossil relatives, from what may be the earliest hominins such as Sahelanthropus, dating back six to seven million years, through to our own species, Homo sapiens... -
The Story of Life: Evolution (Extended Edition) by Katie Scott
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $10.09This new extended edition of Story of Life is the perfect gift for those with a love of the natural world. Wander the galleries - open 365 days a year - and discover a collection of curated exhibits... -
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley 9780007267125
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.17Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction 2011. Life is on the up. We are wealthier, healthier, happier, kinder, cleaner, more peaceful, more equal and... -
The Book of Humans: The Story of How We Became Us by Adam Rutherford
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $8.51*FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A BRIEF HISTORY OF EVERYONE WHO EVER LIVED and HOW TO ARGUE WITH A RACIST* WHAT MAKES US HUMAN?Waging war?Sex for pleasure?Creating art?Mastery of fire?In this... -
Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life by Jason Roberts 9781529400465
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.81The dramatic, globe-spanning and meticulously-researched story of two scientific rivals and their race to survey all life.In the 18th century, two men dedicated their lives to the same daunting task:... -
The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity by Bobby Azarian
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $22.42Why do we exist? For centuries, this question was the sole province of religion and philosophy. But now science is ready to take a seat at the table.According to the prevailing scientific paradigm,... -
This Thing Of Darkness by Harry Thompson
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55The 15th anniversary edition of a brilliant, action-packed and gripping novel of Charles Darwin's voyage on the Beagle - longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. New introduction from Daisy Goodwin.'A... -
Evolved by DK
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.93Follow the story of evolution! The illustrated children's book is a beautiful introduction to the evolution of species over millions of years.What's made animals survive and naturally go extinct? Why... -
How to Be Human: The Manual by Ruby Wax
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.08'With this marvellous book, Ruby Wax has confirmed her position as one of the most readable, inspirational and engaging writers in the field of human mental health, happiness and fulfilment.' Stephen... -
The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens - and Ourselves by Arik Kershenbaum
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.08A Times/Sunday Times Book of the Year DISCOVER HOW LIFE REALLY WORKS - ON EARTH AND IN SPACE 'A wonderfully insightful sidelong look at Earthly biology' Richard Dawkins'Crawls with curious facts'... -
Nonzero: History, Evolution & Human Cooperation by Robert Wright
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.75In a book sure to stir argument for years to come, Robert Wright challen+ges the conventional view that biological evolution and human history are aimless. Ingeniously employing game theory - the...