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Revolutions that Made the Earth by Tim Lenton
RRP: $151.20$136.12The Earth that sustains us today was born out of a few remarkable, near-catastrophic revolutions, started by biological innovations and marked by global environmental consequences. The revolutions have certain features in common, such as an increase in... -
Microlands: The Future of Life on Earth (and Why It's Smaller Than You Think) J. Craig Venter 9781472144171
RRP: $52.50$29.95'An epic travelogue, brimming with the excitement of discovery. With characteristic panache, Venter unveils the teeming array of bacteria, viruses, and eukaryotes that crowd our planet's oceans' - Siddhartha Mukherjee'This page-turner gives . . . the... -
The Great Silence: Science and Philosophy of Fermi's Paradox by Milan M. Cirkovic
RRP: $79.78$70.50The Great Silence explores the multifaceted problem named after the great Italian physicist Enrico Fermi and his legendary 1950 lunchtime question "Where is everybody?" In many respects, Fermi's paradox is the richest and the most challenging problem for... -
A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution by Samuel Bowles
RRP: $58.80$45.78Why 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... -
Understanding Charles Darwin by Erik L. Peterson 9781009338592
RRP: $31.48$26.31The legend of Charles Darwin has never been more alive or more potent, but by virtue of this, his legacy has become susceptible to myths and misunderstandings. Understanding Charles Darwin examines key questions such as what did Darwin's work change... -
Creation and Doxology: The Beginning and End of God's Good World by Gerald L. Hiestand 9780830853861
RRP: $44.08$31.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830853861Author Gerald L. HiestandFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 338gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 154mm... -
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition by Edward O. Wilson
RRP: $111.20$91.79When 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... -
The Evolution of Parental Care by Mathias Kolliker 9780199692583
$186.25Parental care includes a wide variety of traits that enhance offspring development and survival. It is taxonomically widespread and is central to the maintenance of biodiversity through its close association with other phenomena such as sexual selection,... -
Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity by Jamie Metzl 9781492670094
RRP: $41.98$37.32"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... -
First Steps: How Walking Upright Made Us Human by Jeremy DeSilva 9780008342876
RRP: $23.08$15.23Humans 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 Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert 9780805092998
RRP: $75.58$43.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (Nonfiction) 2015 and L.A. Times Book Prize (Science/Technology) 2014 and ALA Notable Books (Nonfiction) 2015 and Massachusetts Book Award... -
Human Origins: 7 million years and counting by New Scientist
RRP: $31.48$20.58Where did we come from? Where are we going?Homo sapiens is the most successful, the most widespread and the most influential species ever to walk the Earth. In the blink of an evolutionary eye we have spread around the globe, taken control of Earth's... -
On Natural Selection by Charles Darwin
RRP: $16.78$12.16Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched... -
The Story of Earth & Life: A southern African perspective on a 4.6-billion-year journey by Terence McCarthy 9781770071483
$42.38Southern Africa is without equal in terms of geology, a treasure trove of valuable minerals with a geological history dating back some 3 600 million years. In addition, the evolution of plants and animals, especially mammals and dinosaurs, is well... -
Darwin's Backyard: How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory by James T. Costa 9780393239898
RRP: $46.18$39.80James T. Costa takes readers on a journey from Charles Darwin's youth and travels on the HMS Beagle to Down House, his bustling home of forty years. To test his insights into evolution, Darwin devised experiments using his garden and greenhouse, the... -
Purpose: What Evolution and Human Nature Imply about the Meaning of Our Existence by Samuel T Wilkinson 9781639365173
RRP: $62.90$38.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639365173Author Samuel T WilkinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 150mm... -
Our Oldest Companions: The Story of the First Dogs by Pat Shipman
RRP: $46.10$37.00How did the dog become man's best friend? A celebrated anthropologist unearths the mysterious origins of the unique partnership that rewrote the history of both species.Dogs and humans have been inseparable for more than 40,000 years. The relationship... -
The Story of Life by Richard Southwood 9780198607861
RRP: $35.68$27.17How did life begin? What was 'snowball earth'? Why did the dinosaurs become extinct? Are we all descended from 'African Eve'? Will humans be responsible for the next major extinction? These and many other fundamental questions are addressed in this... -
Life as We Made It: How 50,000 years of human innovation refined - and redefined - nature Beth Shapiro 9780861544370
RRP: $23.08$14.70A Times Best Book of 2021 From the very first dog to glowing fish and designer pigs - the human history of remaking nature. Virus-free mosquitoes, resurrected dinosaurs, designer humans - such is the power of the science of tomorrow. But the idea... -
Wondrous Healing: Shamanism, Human Evolution, and the Origin of Religion by James McClenon
RRP: $48.28$42.02For thousands of years, spiritual questions have haunted the hearts and minds of humankind. Do higher powers exist, and if so, what is our relationship to them? And how else might we interpret seemingly miraculous events such as faith healing,... -
The Equations of Life: The Hidden Rules Shaping Evolution by Charles Cockell 9781786493026
RRP: $10.48$8.21One of Britain's foremost astrobiologists offers an accessible and game-changing account of life on Earth.__________________Why is all life based on carbon rather than silicon? And beyond Earth, would life - if it exists - look like our own?... -
Earth before the Dinosaurs by Sebastien Steyer
RRP: $73.50$58.82This beautiful volume introduces the incredible animals that populated the planet before the Age of the Dinosaurs. Readers voyage to a time, beginning about 370 million years ago, when the first four-footed vertebrates appeared, and ending 200 million... -
Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection by Evelleen Richards 9780226436906
RRP: $86.10$74.32Darwin's concept of natural selection has been exhaustively studied, but his secondary evolutionary principle of sexual selection remains largely unexplored and misunderstood. Yet sexual selection was of great strategic importance to Darwin because it... -
Good Enough: The Tolerance for Mediocrity in Nature and Society by Daniel S. Milo 9780674504622
RRP: $52.40$41.77In this spirited and irreverent critique of Darwin's long hold over our imagination, a distinguished philosopher of science makes the case that, in culture as well as nature, not only the fittest survive: the world is full of the "good enough" that... -
Pollination: The Enduring Relationship between Plant and Pollinator by Pollination Timothy Walker
RRP: $52.50$43.24An enticing illustrated look at pollination, one of the most astonishing marvels of the natural worldPollination is essential to the survival of most plants on Earth. Some plants rely on the wind to transport pollen from one flower to another. Others... -
Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You, Second Edition: Busting Myths about Human Nature by Agustin Fuentes
RRP: $52.50$40.28A 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 Isis Thesis: A Study Decoding 870 Ancient Egyptian Signs by Judy Kay King 9780976281405
RRP: $79.80$74.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976281405Author Judy Kay KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint Envision Editions, Ltd.Publisher Envision Editions, Ltd.Weight(grams)... -
An Introduction to Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics by Lindell Bromham
RRP: $121.78$115.75DNA can be extracted and sequenced from a diverse range of biological samples, providing a vast amount of information about evolution and ecology. The analysis of DNA sequences contributes to evolutionary biology at all levels, from dating the origin of... -
Evolution: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Robin Dunbar
RRP: $23.08$16.32Evolution is one of the most important processes in life. It not only explains the detailed history of life on earth, but its scope also extends into many aspects of our own contemporary behavior-who we are and how we got to be here, our psychology, our... -
Evolved by DK
RRP: $20.98$14.36Follow 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 are fish scaled? Why do birds have wings? Find out... -
Human Evolution: An Illustrated Introduction Roger Lewin (Harvard University) 9781405103787
RRP: $117.50$102.77The brief length and focused coverage of Human Evolution: An Illustrated Introduction have made this best-selling textbook the ideal complement to any biology or anthropology course in which human evolution is taught. The text places human evolution in... -
Sabertooth by Mauricio Anton
RRP: $81.90$73.75With their spectacularly enlarged canines, sabertooth cats are among the most popular of prehistoric animals, yet it is surprising how little information about them is available for the curious layperson. What's more, there were other sabertooths that... -
Behavioural Ecology by Etienne Danchin 9780199206292
$150.76Why are some species monogamous while others are polygamous? Why are males usually more ornamented than females? What makes one organism the hunter and another the hunted? Why do some creatures stick together in groups while others prefer to go it alone?... -
Genomes 5 by Terry A. Brown
RRP: $140.68$121.44Genomes 5 has been completely revised and updated. It is a thoroughly modern textbook about genomes and how they are investigated. As with previous Genomes editions, techniques come first, then genome anatomies, followed by genome function, and finally... -
Why We Run: A Natural History by Bernd Heinrich 9780060958701
RRP: $35.68$23.46Apologies 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)... -
Cultural Evolution: Conceptual Challenges by Tim Lewens 9780198801191
$56.11Tim Lewens aims to understand what it means to take an evolutionary approach to cultural change, and why it is that this approach is often treated with suspicion. Convinced of the exceptional power of natural selection, many thinkers--typically working... -
Invertebrate Zoology: A Tree of Life Approach by Bernd Schierwater
RRP: $94.48$85.85Invertebrate Zoology: A Tree of Life Approach is a comprehensive and authoritative textbook adopting an explicitly phylogenetic organization. Most of the classical anatomical and morphological work has not been changed - it established the foundation of... -
Evolution Carl T. Bergstrom (University of Washington) 9781324033714
$218.42A thorough and current introduction to evolutionary biology reinforced by tools that improve learning. Every chapter has been updated to provide a more focused, accessible introduction to core topics reflecting exciting new research, anthropogenic... -
The Waterside Ape: An Alternative Account of Human Evolution by Peter H. Rhys Evans 9780367145484
RRP: $54.58$47.52Why are humans so fond of water? Why is our skin colour so variable?Why aren't we hairy like our close ape relatives?A savannah scenario of human evolution has been widely accepted primarily due to fossil evidence; and fossils do not offer insight into... -
Predator Ecology: Evolutionary Ecology of the Functional Response by John P. DeLong 9780192895509
$204.27Predator-prey interactions are ubiquitous, govern the flow of energy up trophic levels, and strongly influence the structure of ecological systems. They are typically quantified using the functional response - the relationship between a predator's...