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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... -
Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time by Stephen Jay Gould
RRP: €35.64€34.57Rarely has a scholar attained such popular acclaim merely by doing what he does best and enjoys most. But such is Stephen Jay Gould's command of paleontology and evolutionary theory, and his gift for brilliant explication, that he has brought dust and... -
Probably Approximately Correct: Nature's Algorithms for Learning and Prospering in a Complex World by Leslie G. Valiant
RRP: €19.03€16.42From 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... -
Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution by Peter J. Richerson
RRP: €32.13€31.50Humans are a striking anomaly in the natural world. While we are similar to other mammals in many ways, our behavior sets us apart. Our unparalleled ability to adapt has allowed us to occupy virtually every habitat on earth, and our societies are larger,... -
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... -
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,... -
Super Fly: The Unexpected Lives of the World's Most Successful Insects by Jonathan Balcombe
RRP: €15.46€10.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143134275Author Jonathan BalcombeFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed by Douglas Axe 9780062349590
RRP: €20.22€13.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062349590Author Douglas AxeFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperCollins (USA)Publisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 330g -
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... -
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... -
The Origin and Nature of Life on Earth: The Emergence of the Fourth Geosphere by Eric Smith
RRP: €47.59€44.97Uniting the conceptual foundations of the physical sciences and biology, this groundbreaking multidisciplinary book explores the origin of life as a planetary process. Combining geology, geochemistry, biochemistry, microbiology, evolution and statistical... -
Handbook of Meta-analysis in Ecology and Evolution by Julia Koricheva 9780691137292
RRP: €89.25€70.32Meta-analysis is a powerful statistical methodology for synthesizing research evidence across independent studies. This is the first comprehensive handbook of meta-analysis written specifically for ecologists and evolutionary biologists, and it provides... -
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... -
The Origin of Species: A Variorum Text by Charles Darwin
RRP: €88.06€77.89The theories propounded by Charles Darwin in The Origin of Species have had a profound and revolutionary effect, not only on biology but also on philosophy, history, and theology. His concept of natural selection has created eruptive disputes among... -
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... -
The Self-Actualizing Cosmos: The Akasha Revolution in Science and Human Consciousness by Ervin Laszlo 9781620552766
RRP: €13.08€8.33Science evolves through alternating phases of "normal science" and radical shifts that create scientific revolutions. We saw this at the turn of the 20th century, when science shifted from a Newtonian worldview to Einstein's relativity paradigm, and... -
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... -
Evolution: Making Sense of Life by Douglas J. Emlen
€76.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781319322199Author Douglas J. EmlenFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint W.H.Freeman & Co LtdPublisher Macmillan Learning -
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... -
The Improbable Primate: How Water Shaped Human Evolution by Clive Finlayson
RRP: €15.46€10.82Taking an ecological approach to our evolution, Clive Finlayson considers the origins of modern humans within the context of a drying climate and changing landscapes. Finlayson argues that environmental change, particularly availability of water, played... -
The Social Conquest of Earth Edward O. Wilson (Harvard University) 9780871404138
RRP: €28.55€24.41Where did we come from? What are we? Where are we going? In a generational work of clarity and passion, one of our greatest living scientists directly addresses these three fundamental questions of religion, philosophy, and science while "overturning the... -
How We Talk by N. J. Enfield
€38.28We all had teachers who scolded us over the use of um, uh-huh, oh, like, and mm-hmm. But as linguist N. J. Enfield reveals in How We Talk, these "bad words" are fundamental to language. Whether we are speaking with the clerk at the store, our boss, or... -
Principles of Visual Anthropology by Paul Hockings 9783110179309
RRP: €38.08€31.77This edition contains 27 articles, written by scholars and filmmakers who are generally acknowledged as the international authorities in the field, and a new preface by the editor. The book covers ethnographic filming and its relations to the cinema and... -
The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals by Simon Conway Morris
€37.60'tells a great story and manages to be informative at all levels. Conway Morris has a collector's eye for the sort of entertaining yet informative snippets that keep readers on their toes.' New Scientist Located in the west of Canada, the Burgess... -
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari 9780062316110
RRP: €30.93€12.83Apologies 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)... -
The Secret Life of Bones: Their Origins, Evolution and Fate by Brian Switek
RRP: €11.89€8.03Bone is a marvel, an adaptable and resilient building material developed over 500 million years of evolutionary history. It has manifested itself in wings, sails, horns, armour, and an even greater array of appendages since the time of its origin. In... -
Evolutionary Ecology of Amphibians by Gregorio Moreno-Rueda 9780367553968
RRP: €130.90€113.18Amphibians are the oldest tetrapod group and show an astonishing diversity in lifestyles, many of them being unique. However, globally, they are on a decline. Hence, their study is fundamental to understanding the evolution of diversity and conserving... -
Origins of Life by Freeman Dyson
RRP: €19.03€14.59How did life on earth originate? Did replication or metabolism come first in the history of life? In this book, Freeman Dyson examines these questions and discusses the two main theories that try to explain how naturally occurring chemicals could... -
Alpha God: The Psychology of Religious Violence and Oppression by Hector A. Garcia 9781633880207
RRP: €17.84€13.72This book uses evolutionary psychology as a lens to explain religious violence and oppression. The author, a clinical psychologist, examines religious scriptures, rituals, and canon law, highlighting the many ways in which our evolutionary legacy has... -
Evolution, the Extended Synthesis by Massimo Pigliucci
€53.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262513678Author Massimo PigliucciFormat PaperbackPage Count 504Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
The Cradle of Humanity: How the changing landscape of Africa made us so smart by Mark A. Maslin 9780198704539
RRP: €14.27€10.03Humans are rather weak when compared with many other animals. We are not particularly fast and have no natural weapons. Yet Homo sapiens currently number nearly 7.5 billion and are set to rise to nearly 10 billion by the middle of this century. We have... -
The Biological Universe: Life in the Milky Way and Beyond by Wallace Arthur 9781108836944
RRP: €27.36€21.38Are we alone in the universe, or are there other life forms 'out there'? This is one of the most scientifically and philosophically important questions that humanity can ask. Now, in the early 2020s, we are tantalizingly close to an answer. As this book... -
Early Humans (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 134) by Nicholas Ashton
RRP: €41.65€27.39Our 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... -
Introducing Epigenetics: A Graphic Guide by Cath Ennis 9781848318625
RRP: €9.51€7.20Epigenetics is the most exciting field in biology today, developing our understanding of how and why we inherit certain traits, develop diseases and age, and evolve as a species. This non-fiction comic book introduces us to genetics, cell biology and the... -
Imperfection: A Natural History by Telmo Pievani
RRP: €27.37€20.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047418Author Telmo PievaniFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Life Itself: A Comprehensive Inquiry Into the Nature, Origin, and Fabrication of Life by Robert Rosen 9780231075657
RRP: €29.75€23.31Why are living things alive? As a theoretical biologist, Robert Rosen saw this as the most fundamental of all questions-and yet it had never been answered satisfactorily by science. The answers to this question would allow humanity to make an enormous...