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How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity by Douglas J. Futuyma
RRP: €41.65€28.58A marvelous journey into the world of bird evolutionHow Birds Evolve explores how evolution has shaped the distinctive characteristics and behaviors we observe in birds today. Douglas Futuyma describes how evolutionary science illuminates the wonders of... -
The Karma of Materialism by Rudolf Steiner
RRP: €41.65€27.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621483120Author Rudolf SteinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher SteinerBooks, Inc -
Retrieving Augustine's Doctrine of Creation: Ancient Wisdom for Current Controversy by Gavin Ortlund 9780830853243
RRP: €29.74€20.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830853243Author Gavin OrtlundFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 368gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 153mm * 21mm -
Our Political Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us by Avi Tuschman
RRP: €16.65€12.08By blending serious research with relevant contemporary examples, Our Political Nature casts important light on the ideological clashes that so dangerously divide and imperil our world today. It shows how political orientations arise from three clusters... -
Picturing the Mind: Consciousness Through the Lens of Evolution by Simona Ginsburg
RRP: €42.84€27.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046756Author Simona GinsburgFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Evolutionary Humanism by Julian Huxley 9780879757786
RRP: €16.65€12.90In this dazzling collection of essays covering a broad range of fields, from Darwinism and the global population explosion to bird watching, distinguished scientist and philosopher Sir Julian Huxley points out new frontiers for scientific research and... -
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas by Jennifer Raff
RRP: €35.70€20.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538749715Author Jeniffer RaffFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Little, Brown & Company -
Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History by Xiaoming Wang
RRP: €26.18€20.86Xiaoming Wang and Richard H. Tedford have spent the past 20 years studying the evolutionary history of the family Canidae. Both are well known for having established the modern framework for the evolutionary relationship of canids. Combining their... -
The Gene's-Eye View of Evolution by J. Arvid Agren 9780192872593
RRP: €28.55€24.24'Arvid Agren has undertaken the most meticulously thorough reading of the relevant literature that I have ever encountered, deploying an intelligent understanding to pull it into a coherent story. As if that wasn't enough, he gets it right.' (Richard... -
Mismatch: How Our Stone Age Brain Deceives Us Every Day (And What We Can Do About It) Ronald Giphart 9781472139726
RRP: €11.89€8.09Our brains evolved to solve the survival problems of our Stone Age ancestors, so when faced with modern day situations that are less extreme, they often encounter a mismatch. Our primitive brains put us on the wrong foot by responding to stimuli that -... -
Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles?: An MIT Professor Answers Questions on God and Science by Ian Hutchinson
RRP: €24.98€13.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830845477Author Ian HutchinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm)... -
Baby Dinosaurs on the Ark?: The Bible and Modern Science and the Trouble of Making It All Fit by Janet Ray
RRP: €16.65€11.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802879448Author Janet Kellogg RayFormat PaperbackPage Count 227Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing... -
What Is Health?: Allostasis and the Evolution of Human Design by Peter Sterling
RRP: €32.13€27.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262043304Author Peter SterlingFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 22mm -
Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life by Dacher Keltner 9780393337136
RRP: €15.46€13.20In this startling study of human emotion, Dacher Keltner investigates an unanswered question of human evolution: If humans are hardwired to lead lives that are "nasty, brutish, and short," why have we evolved with positive emotions like gratitude,... -
Darwin Devolves: The New Science About DNA That Challenges Evolution by Michael J. Behe
RRP: €21.41€11.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062842664Author Michael J. BeheFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth - Updated Edition by Andrew H. Knoll 9780691165530
RRP: €20.22€14.28Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites--such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form only the half-billion-year tip of a nearly... -
The Ascent of Birds: How Modern Science is Revealing their Story by John Reilly
RRP: €23.80€20.03When and where did the ancestors of modern birds evolve? What enabled them to survive the meteoric impact that wiped out the dinosaurs? How did these early birds spread across the globe and give rise to the 10,600-plus species we recognise today from... -
Why We Believe: Evolution and the Human Way of Being by Agustin Fuentes 9780300243994
RRP: €26.78€22.55A wide-ranging argument by a renowned anthropologist that the capacity to believe is what makes us human Why are so many humans religious? Why do we daydream, imagine, and hope? Philosophers, theologians, social scientists, and historians have offered... -
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... -
The Chosen Species: The Long March of Human Evolution by Juan Luis Arsuaga 9781405115339
RRP: €42.78€38.69This engaging book tells the story of human evolution, asking if man is indeed the "chosen species" or merely an evolutionary accident. Written by world-renowned paleoanthropologists who are co-directors of the excavations at Atapuerca---a World... -
Fynbos: Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation of a Megadiverse Region by Nicky Allsopp 9780198777762
€74.62South Africa's fynbos region has intrigued biologists for centuries. It has achieved iconic status as a locus of megadiversity and therefore a place to study the ecological underpinnings of massive evolutionary radiations. Researchers have made great... -
On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction by Brian Boyd
RRP: €28.50€23.25A century and a half after the publication of Origin of Species, evolutionary thinking has expanded beyond the field of biology to include virtually all human-related subjects-anthropology, archeology, psychology, economics, religion, morality, politics,... -
Feathered Dinosaurs: The Origin of Birds by John L. Long
RRP: €57.11€41.46Scientists have recovered more than a billion fossils, but no discovery has been more breath-taking than the fossils recently found in northern China, findings which prove that several families of dinosaurs had feathers, or feathery hair-like coverings,... -
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... -
Can Science Resolve the Nature / Nurture Debate? Margaret M. Lock (Mcgill University, Canada) 9780745689975
RRP: €11.89€10.65Following centuries of debate about "nature and nurture" the discovery of DNA established the idea that nature (genes) determines who we are, relegating nurture (environment) to icing on the cake. Since the 1950s, the new science of epigenetics has... -
The Cat: A Natural and Cultural History by Sarah Brown
RRP: €26.18€23.50A comprehensive, richly illustrated introduction to the behavior and qualities of the catOf all the domesticated species, cats have enjoyed the most complex relationship with people-one that still leads to arguments about whether you can truly call the... -
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... -
Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species by Ursula K. Heise
RRP: €28.56€27.41We are currently facing the sixth mass extinction of species in the history of life on Earth, biologists claim the first one caused by humans. Activists, filmmakers, writers, and artists are seeking to bring the crisis to the public's attention through... -
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... -
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... -
Randomness in Evolution by John Tyler Bonner 9780691157016
RRP: €35.70€27.72John Tyler Bonner, one of our most distinguished and insightful biologists, here challenges a central tenet of evolutionary biology. In this concise, elegantly written book, he makes the bold and provocative claim that some biological diversity may be... -
Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience by Michael S A Graziano
RRP: €27.36€23.00Tracing evolution over millions of years, Michael Graziano shows how neurons first allowed animals to develop simple forms of attention: taking in messages from the environment, prioritising them and responding as necessary. Then covert attention... -
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... -
The Eye: A Very Short Introduction by Michael F. Land
RRP: €10.70€7.68The eye is one of the most remarkable achievements of evolution, and has evolved up to 40 times in different parts of the animal kingdom. In humans, vision is the most important sense, and much of the brain is given over to the processing of visual... -
Comparative Social Evolution by Dustin R. Rubenstein
RRP: €65.44€56.03Darwin famously described special difficulties in explaining social evolution in insects. More than a century later, the evolution of sociality - defined broadly as cooperative group living - remains one of the most intriguing problems in biology... -
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... -
A Natural History of Human Thinking by Michael Tomasello
RRP: €23.74€19.18A Wall Street Journal Favorite Read of the YearA Guardian Top Science Book of the YearTool-making or culture, language or religious belief: ever since Darwin, thinkers have struggled to identify what fundamentally differentiates human beings from other... -
The Deep History Of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains by Joseph LeDoux
RRP: €32.12€21.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735223837Author Joseph LeDouxFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press