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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari 9780062316110
RRP: €30.93€12.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062316110Author Yuval Noah HarariFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 975gDimensions(mm)... -
Vital Dust: The Origin and Evolution of Life on Earth by Christian De Duve 9780465090457
€32.61Is the emergence of life on Earth the result of a single chance event or combination of lucky accidents, or is it the outcome of biochemical forces woven into the fabric of the universe? And if inevitable, what are these forces, and how do they account... -
Carnivore Minds: Who These Fearsome Animals Really Are by G. A. Bradshaw 9780300218152
€71.00Myth and media typically cast animals we consider predators or carnivores as unthinking killers-dangerous, unpredictable, and devoid of emotion. But is this portrait valid? By exploring their inner lives, this pioneering book refutes the many... -
Introducing Genetics: A Graphic Guide by Steve Jones
RRP: €10.70€2.69Genetics is the newest of all sciences - nothing useful was known about inheritance until just over a century ago. Now genetics is exploding, and before long we will have the complete code, written in three thousand million letters of DNA, of what makes... -
Understanding the Christianity–Evolution Relationship by Michael Ruse 9781009277280
RRP: €17.84€14.93The relationship between science and religion is a topic that runs rife with misconceptions, misunderstandings and debates. Are science and religion always in conflict? Is Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection atheistic? How does history... -
Evolutionary Dynamics: Exploring the Equations of Life by Martin A. Nowak
RRP: €82.05€66.02At a time of unprecedented expansion in the life sciences, evolution is the one theory that transcends all of biology. Any observation of a living system must ultimately be interpreted in the context of its evolution. Evolutionary change is the... -
The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies by Bert Holldobler 9780393067040
RRP: €52.35€40.33The Superorganism promises to be one of the most important scientific works published in this decade. Coming eighteen years after the publication of The Ants, this new volume expands our knowledge of the social insects (among them, ants, bees, wasps, and... -
Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You, Second Edition: Busting Myths about Human Nature by Agustin Fuentes
RRP: €29.75€22.82A compelling takedown of prevailing myths about human behavior, updated and expanded to meet the current moment. There are three major myths of human nature: humans are divided into biological races; humans are naturally aggressive; and men and... -
The Living Origin of Rocks and Minerals by Walther Cloos 9781782501732
RRP: €20.22€14.61An increasing number of enthusiasts are attracted by the rich variety of rocks and minerals around us, and new ways of looking at them.In this book, Walther Cloos views the Earth as a living organism, with different kingdoms of nature -- mineral, plant... -
Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics and Life by Eric D. Schneider 9780226739373
RRP: €21.42€21.41Scientists, theologians, and philosophers have all sought to answer the questions of why we are here and where we are going. Finding this natural basis of life has proved elusive, but in the eloquent and creative Into the Cool, Eric D. Schneider and... -
A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution by Samuel Bowles
RRP: €33.32€25.94Why do humans, uniquely among animals, cooperate in large numbers to advance projects for the common good? Contrary to the conventional wisdom in biology and economics, this generous and civic-minded behavior is widespread and cannot be explained simply... -
Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love by Elizabeth A. Johnson
RRP: €19.03€14.83For millennia plant and animal species have received little sustained attention as subjects of Christian theology and ethics in their own right. Focused on the human dilemma of sin and redemptive grace, theology has considered the doctrine of creation... -
The Science of Love and Betrayal by Robin Dunbar
RRP: €13.08€9.25Falling in love is one of the strangest things we can do - and one of the things that makes us uniquely human. But what happens to our brains when our eyes meet across a crowded room? Why do we kiss each other, forget our friends, seek a 'good sense of... -
Why We Run: A Natural History by Bernd Heinrich 9780060958701
RRP: €20.22€13.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060958701Author Bernd HeinrichFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)... -
Heredity: A Very Short Introduction by John Waller
RRP: €9.51€7.06The concept of heredity is fundamental to how we see ourselves and others. It goes far beyond the obvious continuity of physical traits across generations. We routinely ascribe similarities in personality, intellect, outlook, and aptitude between family... -
Prehistoric Australasia: Visions of Evolution and Extinction by Michael Archer 9780643108059
RRP: €84.49€65.50For 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... -
Engineering Animals: How Life Works by Mark Denny 9780674048546
RRP: €42.78€35.65The alarm calls of birds make them difficult for predators to locate, while the howl of wolves and the croak of bullfrogs are designed to carry across long distances. From an engineer's perspective, how do such specialized adaptations among living things... -
Ecological Speciation by Patrik Nosil 9780199587117
€78.66The origin of biological diversity, via the formation of new species, can be inextricably linked to adaptation to the ecological environment. Specifically, ecological processes are central to the formation of new species when barriers to gene flow... -
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition by Edward O. Wilson
RRP: €63.01€52.01When this classic work was first published in 1975, it created a new discipline and started a tumultuous round in the age-old nature versus nurture debate. Although voted by officers and fellows of the international Animal Behavior Society the most... -
Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life by Eva Jablonka
€47.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262525848Author Eva JablonkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 30mm -
Probably Approximately Correct: Nature's Algorithms for Learning and Prospering in a Complex World by Leslie G. Valiant
RRP: €19.03€15.23From a leading computer scientist, a unifying theory that will revolutionize our understanding of how life evolves and learns.How does life prosper in a complex and erratic world? While we know that nature follows patterns,such as the law of gravity,our... -
Selfish Genes to Social Beings: A Cooperative History of Life by Jonathan Silvertown 9780198876397
RRP: €23.80€15.30For all the "selfishness" of genes, they team up to survive. Is the history of life in fact a story of cooperation? Amid the violence and brutality that dominates the news, it's hard to think of ourselves as team players. But cooperation, Jonathan... -
The Equations of Life: The Hidden Rules Shaping Evolution by Charles Cockell
RRP: €13.08€8.71Britain's foremost astrobiologist offers an accessible and game-changing account of why life is like it is.The puzzles of life astound and confuse us like no other mystery. But in this revolutionary new book, Charles Cockell reveals how nature is far... -
SuperCooperators Martin Nowak 9781847673381
RRP: €17.84€11.66Beyond The Survival of the Fittest: Why Cooperation, not Competition, is the Key to LifeIf life is about survival of the fittest, then why would we risk our own life to jump into a river to save a stranger? Some people argue that issues such as charity,... -
Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition Ken Wilber 9781570627446
RRP: €48.79€33.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570627446Author Ken WilberFormat PaperbackPage Count 880Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
The Evolution of the Human Head by Daniel E. Lieberman 9780674046368
RRP: €57.06€46.70In 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... -
The Calculus of Selfishness by Karl Sigmund
RRP: €35.70€32.59How does cooperation emerge among selfish individuals? When do people share resources, punish those they consider unfair, and engage in joint enterprises? These questions fascinate philosophers, biologists, and economists alike, for the "invisible hand"... -
Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils by Dale Greenwalt
RRP: €26.18€19.61The 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... -
Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution by Lynn Margulis
RRP: €32.13€25.06This title is back in print with a revised preface. "Microcosmos" brings together the remarkable discoveries of microbiology of the past two decades and the pioneering research of Dr. Margulis to create a vivid new picture of the world that is crucial to... -
The Wolf Within: The Astonishing Evolution of the Wolf into Man's Best Friend by Professor Bryan Sykes 9780008244453
RRP: €11.89€7.90The evolution of dogs and the forces that drove its amazing transformation from a fierce wild carnivore, the wolf, to the astonishing range of comparatively docile domesticated dogs that we know today. Sykes paints a vivid picture of the dog... -
The Wolf Within: The Astonishing Evolution of the Wolf into Man's Best Friend by Professor Bryan Sykes 9780008244453 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89€3.15The evolution of dogs and the forces that drove its amazing transformation from a fierce wild carnivore, the wolf, to the astonishing range of comparatively docile domesticated dogs that we know today. Sykes paints a vivid picture of the dog... -
Biogeography: A Very Short Introduction by Mark V. Lomolino 9780198850069
RRP: €10.70€7.68Biogeography is the study of geographic variation in all characteristics of life - ranging from genetic, morphological and behavioural variation among regional populations of a species, to geographic trends in diversity of entire communities across our... -
Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould 9780393311037
RRP: €26.78€21.91Over a century after Darwin published the Origin of Species, Darwinian theory is in a "vibrantly healthy state," writes Stephen Jay Gould, its most engaging and illuminating exponent. Exploring the "peculiar and mysterious particulars of nature," Gould... -
Processes in Human Evolution: The journey from early hominins to Neanderthals and modern humans by Francisco J. Ayala 9780198739913
RRP: €77.35€73.23The discoveries of the last decade have brought about a completely revised understanding of human evolution due to the recent advances in genetics, palaeontology, ecology, archaeology, geography, and climate science. Written by two leading authorities in... -
An Enthusiasm for Orchids: Sex and Deception in Plant Evolution by John Alcock 9780195182743
€54.92The male thynnine wasp's extreme sexual enthusiasm is crucial to reproduction of hammer orchids in the wild. Hammer orchids have co-evolved to produce odors identical to those manufactured by female thynnine wasps. The male wasp's superb sensitivity to... -
Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary perspectives on human behaviour by Kevin N. Laland 9780199586967
RRP: €52.35€44.68Evolutionary theory is one of the most wide-ranging and inspiring of scientific ideas. It offers a battery of methods that can be used to interpret human behaviour. But the legitimacy of this exercise is at the centre of a heated controversy that has... -
The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life by Robert L. Trivers
€26.45A New York Times Notable Book of 2012Whether it's in a cockpit at takeoff or the planning of an offensive war, a romantic relationship or a dispute at the office, there are many opportunities to lie and self-deceive- but deceit and self-deception carry... -
Phylogenetics by Charles Semple 9780198509424
RRP: €157.68€122.77'Phylogenetics' is the reconstruction and analysis of phylogenetic (evolutionary) trees and networks based on inherited characteristics. It is a flourishing area of intereaction between mathematics, statistics, computer science and biology. The main role... -
Early Humans (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 134) by Nicholas Ashton 9780008150334
RRP: €71.40€47.75Our understanding of the British Palaeolithic and Mesolithic has changed dramatically over the last three decades, and yet not since H. J. Fleure's A Natural History of Man in Britain (1951) has the New Naturalist Library included a volume... -
Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna and the Future of our Oceans by Karen Pinchin 9780008467814
RRP: €26.18€17.03This is a tale of human obsession, one intrepid tuna, the dedicated fisherman who caught and set her free, the promises and limits of ocean science and the big truth of how our insatiable appetite for bluefin transformed a cottage industry...