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The Social Amoebae: The Biology of Cellular Slime Molds by John Tyler Bonner
RRP: $58.80$45.78Noted biologist and author John Tyler Bonner has experimented with cellular slime molds for more than sixty years, and he has done more than anyone else to raise these peculiar collections of amoebae from a minor biological curiosity to a major model... -
Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn to be Animals by Carl Safina
RRP: $23.08$14.95A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 'Bracing and enlightening' Science Culture is something exclusive to human beings, isn't it? Not so, says intrepid researcher Carl Safina. Becoming Wild reveals the rich cultures that survive in some of... -
Morphic Resonance: The Nature of Formative Causation by Rupert Sheldrake 9781594773174
RRP: $35.68$26.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594773174Author Rupert SheldrakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Park Street Press,U.S.Publisher Inner Traditions Bear and Company -
The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul: Learning and the Origins of Consciousness by Simona Ginsburg
RRP: $100.80$79.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262039307Author Simona GinsburgFormat HardbackPage Count 640Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 40mm -
Intelligent Design as Proof of Creation: A scientific analysis by Uditha Jayatunga 9781035809653
RRP: $20.98$14.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035809653Author Uditha JayatungaFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
The Mysterious World of the Human Genome by Frank Ryan 9780007549085
RRP: $23.08$17.41How could a relatively simple chemical code give rise to the complexity of a human being? How could our human genome have evolved? And how does it actually work? Over the past 50 years we have deciphered the inner workings of the human genome. From the... -
The Evolution of the Human Head by Daniel E. Lieberman 9780674046368
RRP: $100.70$82.40In one sense, human heads function much like those of other mammals. We use them to chew, smell, swallow, think, hear, and so on. But, in other respects, the human head is quite unusual. Unlike other animals, even our great ape cousins, our heads are... -
Stepping-Stones: A Journey through the Ice Age Caves of the Dordogne by Christine Desdemaines-Hugon
RRP: $52.50$43.93An awe-inspiring study of the enduring power of Paleolithic art The cave art of France's Dordogne region is world-famous for the mythology and beauty of its remarkable drawings and paintings. These ancient images of lively bison, horses, and mammoths, as... -
Period: The Real Story of Menstruation by Kate Clancy
RRP: $46.20$34.92A bold and revolutionary perspective on the science and cultural history of menstruationMenstruation is something half the world does for a week at a time, for months and years on end, yet it remains largely misunderstood. Scientists once thought of an... -
Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will by Kevin J. Mitchell
RRP: $52.50$39.67An evolutionary case for the existence of free willScientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As we probe ever deeper into the mechanics of decision... -
Pathogenesis: How germs made history by Jonathan Kennedy 9781911709060
RRP: $35.68$27.97A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKA TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEARA SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Powerfully argued... Fascinating and pacy' Sunday Times, Book of the Week'Superbly written... sure to please readers of Yuval Noah Harari or Rutger... -
Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion and the Nature of Society by David Sloan Wilson 9780226901350
RRP: $33.60$29.06Until recently, evolution and religion have been considered contending, irreconcilable theories of origin and existence. David Sloan Wilson takes the radical step of joining the two, while thinking of society as an organism, one in which morality and... -
The Woman That Never Evolved: With a New Preface and Bibliographical Updates, Revised Edition by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
RRP: $56.60$44.96What does it mean to be female? Sarah Blaffer Hrdy--a sociobiologist and a feminist--believes that evolutionary biology can provide some surprising answers. Surprising to those feminists who mistakenly think that biology can only work against women. And... -
The Darwin Awards by Wendy Northcutt
RRP: $35.70$22.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452283442Author Wendy NorthcuttFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 184mm * 133mm *... -
Fossils: A Very Short Introduction by Keith Thomson
RRP: $18.88$13.55Fossils have been vital to our understanding of the formation of the earth and the origins of all life on it. However, their impact has not been limited to debates about geology and evolution: attempts to explain their existence has shaken religion at... -
How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction by Beth Shapiro
RRP: $27.28$21.32An insider's view on bringing extinct species back to lifeCould extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? In How to Clone a Mammoth, Beth Shapiro, an evolutionary biologist and pioneer in ancient DNA research,... -
Man's Place In Nature by T. H. Huxley 9780375758478
RRP: $25.18$19.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375758478Author T. H. HuxleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 234g -
The Network of Life: A New View of Evolution by David P. Mindell 9780691228778
RRP: $46.20$36.46Why evolution is like a network, not a family tree—and why it matters for understanding the health of all living thingsIn The Network of Life, David Mindell explains why the conventional narrative of evolution needs to evolve. Ever since Darwin,... -
The Emergence of Life: From Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology by Pier Luigi Luisi
RRP: $65.08$54.29Addressing the emergence of life from a systems biology perspective, this new edition has undergone extensive revision, reflecting changes in scientific understanding and evolution of thought on the question 'what is life?'. With an emphasis on the... -
The Tree of Life: A Phylogenetic Classification by Guillaume Lecointre 9780674021839
RRP: $75.50$64.18Did you know that you are more closely related to a mushroom than to a daisy? That crocodiles are closer to birds than to lizards? That dinosaurs are still among us? That the terms "fish," "reptiles," and "invertebrates" do not indicate scientific... -
The Ontogeny of Information: Developmental Systems and Evolution by Susan Oyama 9780822324669
RRP: $50.38$43.76The Ontogeny of Information is a critical intervention into the ongoing and perpetually troubling nature-nurture debates surrounding human development. Originally published in 1985, this was a foundational text in what is now the substantial field of... -
Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils by Dale Greenwalt
RRP: $46.20$34.78The revolution in science that is transforming our understanding of extinct lifeWe used to think of fossils as being composed of nothing but rock and minerals, all molecular traces of life having vanished long ago. We were wrong. Remnants of Ancient Life... -
I, Mammal: The Story of What Makes Us Mammals by Liam Drew
RRP: $31.48$24.68Humans are mammals. Most of us appreciate that at some level. But what does it mean for us to have more in common with a horse and an elephant than we do with a parrot, snake or frog? After a misdirected football left new father Liam Drew clutching a... -
First Steps: How Walking Upright Made Us Human by Jeremy DeSilva
RRP: $42.00$30.85Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is an illogical development, as it slows us down. But here we are, suggesting there must have been something tremendous to gain from... -
The Comparative Method in Evolutionary Biology by Paul H. Harvey 9780198546405
$128.73From Darwin onward, it has been second nature for evolutionary biologists to think comparatively because comparisons establish the generality of evolutionary phenomena. Do large genomes slow down development? What lifestyles select for large brains? Are... -
Why We Talk: The Evolutionary Origins of Language by Jean-Louis Dessalles 9780199563463
RRP: $89.23$71.06Jean-Louis Dessalles explores the co-evolutionary paths of biology, culture, and the great human edifice of language, linking the evolution of the language to the general evolutionary history of humankind. He provides searchingly original answers to such... -
Mean Genes: From Sex To Money To Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts by Jay Phelan
RRP: $41.98$41.87Why do we want- and why do we do- so many things that are bad for us? And how can we stop? In Mean Genes economist Terry Burnham and biologist Jay Phelan offer advice on how to conquer our own worst enemy- our survival-minded genes. Having evolved in a... -
A Human History of Emotion: How the Way We Feel Built the World We Know by Richard Firth-Godbehere 9780008393793
RRP: $20.98$13.94How have our emotions shaped the course of human history? And how have our experience and understanding of emotions evolved with us? We humans like to think of ourselves as... -
A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History by Nicholas Wade
RRP: $35.68$25.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143127161Author Nicholas WadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 264g -
Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior by Geoffrey Miller 9780143117230
RRP: $50.40$36.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143117230Author Geoffrey MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 346gDimensions(mm) 213mm *... -
Mathematical Models of Social Evolution: A Guide for the Perplexed by Richard McElreath 9780226558271
RRP: $63.00$62.27Over the last several decades, mathematical models have become central to the study of social evolution, both in biology and the social sciences. But students in these disciplines often seriously lack the tools to understand them. A primer on behavioral... -
The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals died out and we survived by Clive Finlayson
RRP: $27.28$19.09Just 28,000 years ago, the blink of an eye in geological time, the last of Neanderthals died out in their last outpost, in caves near Gibraltar. Thanks to cartoons and folk accounts we have a distorted view of these other humans - for that is what they... -
Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity by Jamie Metzl
RRP: $27.28$19.09"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 author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The... -
Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind by Kermit Pattison
RRP: $27.28$17.81"Riveting. ... Pattison's uncanny ability [is] to write evocatively about science. ... In this, he is every bit as good as the best scientist writers." -New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) "Brilliant. ... A work of staggering depth."... -
Travels with Trilobites: Adventures in the Paleozoic by Andy Secher
RRP: $73.50$61.61Trilobites were some of the most successful and versatile organisms ever to exist. Among the earliest forms of complex animal life, these hard-shelled marine invertebrates inhabited the primal seas of the Paleozoic Era. Their march through evolutionary... -
Soil Grown Tall: The Epic Saga of Life from Earth by Gregory J. Retallack 9783030887414
RRP: $69.28$53.42This book is designed as an easy night's read and introduction to fossil soils and the relatively new disciplines of Paleopedology and Astropedology. It includes line art and color illustrations to visualize the topic for the informed layperson or... -
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari 9780062316097
RRP: $78.75$45.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062316097Author Yuval Noah HarariFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint HarperPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Origins: The Scientific Story of Creation Jim Baggott (Freelance science writer) 9780198826002
RRP: $41.98$30.83What is life? Where do we come from and how did we evolve? What is the universe and how was it formed? What is the nature of the material world? How does it work? How and why do we think? What does it mean to be human? How do we know? There are many... -
The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct by Bert Holldobler 9780393338683
RRP: $33.58$27.41The Leafcutter Ants is the most detailed and authoritative description of any ant species ever produced. With a text suitable for both a lay and a scientific audience, the book provides an unforgettable tour of Earth's most evolved animal societies. Each... -
Prehistoric Australasia: Visions of Evolution and Extinction by Michael Archer 9780643108059
RRP: $149.10$116.26For most of the past 300 million years, the world's continents were interlinked as the supercontinents Pangaea and then Gondwana. Around 50 million years ago, Australia tore itself free from Antarctica to become the huge, splendidly isolated island it is...