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Viruses as Complex Adaptive Systems by Ricard Sole 9780691158846
RRP: $67.20$52.00How complex systems theory sheds new light on the adaptive dynamics of viral populationsViruses are everywhere, infecting all sorts of living organisms, from the tiniest bacteria to the largest mammals. Many are harmful parasites, but viruses also play a... -
Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters by Donald R. Prothero
RRP: $63.00$51.01Donald R. Prothero's Evolution is an entertaining and rigorous history of the transitional forms and series found in the the fossil record. Its engaging narrative of scientific discovery and well-grounded analysis has led to the book's widespread... -
Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism by Raphael Aron 9781634310789
RRP: $33.50$27.34Religious fundamentalists and biblical literalists present any number of arguments that attempt to disprove evolution. Those with a sympathetic ear often fail to critically examine these creationist claims, leading to an ill-informed public and, perhaps... -
The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould 9780393308198
RRP: $31.48$25.98With sales of well over one million copies in North America alone, the commercial success of Gould's books now matches their critical acclaim. The Panda's Thumb will introduce a new generation of readers to this unique writer, who has taken the art of... -
Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution by Kenneth R. Miller
$27.47Miller is a believer, but he is also certain that we evolved - and this book is about why the two are not mutually exclusive; in fact, the idea of each enriches the other. There is an enormous market out there for whom this issue is of real interest and... -
The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language by John Maynard Smith
RRP: $44.08$37.99In this fascinating book, John Maynard Smith and Eors Szathmary present an original picture of evolution. They propose that during evolution there have been a number of major transitions in the way in which information is passed between generations... -
Virusphere: Ebola, AIDS, Influenza and the Hidden World of the Virus by Frank Ryan
RRP: $20.98$13.94A virologist's insight into how viruses evolve and why global epidemics are inevitable In 1993 a previously healthy young man was drowning in the middle of a desert, in fluids produced by his own lungs. This was the beginning of the terrifying... -
Understanding Natural Selection by Michael Ruse 9781316514788
RRP: $83.98$71.88Natural selection, as introduced by Charles Darwin in the Origin of Species (1859), has always been a topic of great conceptual and empirical interest. This book puts Darwin's theory of evolution in historical context showing that, in important respects,... -
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life by Nick Lane 9780393352979
RRP: $31.48$24.93The Earth teems with life: in its oceans, forests, skies and cities. Yet there's a black hole at the heart of biology. We do not know why complex life is the way it is, or, for that matter, how life first began. In The Vital Question, award-winning... -
The Human Lineage Matt Cartmill (Boston University) 9781119086703
RRP: $237.20$207.12Newly revised and thoroughly updated standard source for mastering the human fossil record. The Human Lineage, 2nd Edition is the best and most current guide to the morphological, geological, paleontological, and archeological evidence for the story of... -
The Science of Animal Welfare: Understanding What Animals Want by Marian Stamp Dawkins
RRP: $76.63$72.35What is animal welfare? Why has it proved so difficult to find a definition that everyone can agree on? This concise and accessible guide is for anyone who is interested in animals and who has wondered how we can assess their welfare scientifically. It... -
Biological Essentialism by Michael Devitt
RRP: $155.40$141.35Biological Essentialism addresses three main issues. The first concerns the essences (natures, identities) of biological taxa, particularly species. Kripke and other metaphysicians hold that these essences are (at least partly) intrinsic, underlying,... -
Plant Evolution: An Introduction to the History of Life by Karl J. Niklas
RRP: $81.90$81.12Although plants comprise more than 90% of all visible life, and land plants and algae collectively make up the most morphologically, physiologically, and ecologically diverse group of organisms on earth, books on evolution instead tend to focus on... -
Understanding Race Rob DeSalle (American Museum of Natural History, New York) 9781009055581
RRP: $25.18$20.37The human species is very young, but in a short time it has acquired some striking, if biologically superficial, variations across the planet. As this book shows, however, none of those biological variations can be understood in terms of discrete races,... -
God Is Watching You: How the Fear of God Makes Us Human by Dominic Johnson 9780199895632 [USED COPY]
RRP: $49.33$13.76"And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die." The Flood that God used to destroy the sinful race of man on the... -
God Is Watching You: How the Fear of God Makes Us Human by Dominic Johnson
RRP: $49.33$34.88"And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die." The Flood that God used to destroy the sinful race of man on the... -
Avian Evolution: The Fossil Record of Birds and its Paleobiological Significance Gerald Mayr 9781119020769
RRP: $149.00$129.34Knowledge of the evolutionary history of birds has much improved in recent decades. Fossils from critical time periods are being described at unprecedented rates and modern phylogenetic analyses have provided a framework for the interrelationships of the... -
Darwin's Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind by Kevin N. Laland
RRP: $42.00$34.21Humans possess an extraordinary capacity for culture, from the arts and language to science and technology. But how did the human mind-and the uniquely human ability to devise and transmit culture-evolve from its roots in animal behavior? Darwin's... -
A Most Interesting Problem: What Darwin’s Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong about Human Evolution by Jeremy DeSilva
RRP: $46.20$36.46Leading scholars take stock of Darwin's ideas about human evolution in the light of modern scienceIn 1871, Charles Darwin published The Descent of Man, a companion to Origin of Species in which he attempted to explain human evolution, a topic he called... -
The Horse: The Epic History of Our Noble Companion by Wendy Williams 9780374536602
RRP: $33.60$24.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374536602Author Wendy WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Scientific AmericanPublisher Scientific AmericanWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)... -
Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection by Peter Godfrey-Smith 9780199596270
RRP: $88.18$53.45In 1859 Darwin described a deceptively simple mechanism that he called "natural selection," a combination of variation, inheritance, and reproductive success. He argued that this mechanism was the key to explaining the most puzzling features of... -
Introducing Evolutionary Psychology: A Graphic Guide by Dylan Evans
RRP: $18.88$14.07How did the mind evolve? How does the human mind differ from the minds of our ancestors, and from the minds of our nearest relatives, the apes? What are the universal features of the human mind, and why are they designed the way they are? If our minds... -
Supernormal Stimuli: How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpose by Deirdre Barrett 9780393068481
RRP: $71.40$52.94Have you ever wondered why some men choose pornography over actual women? Why so many people watch Friends instead of going out with their own buddies? Why a person would "feed" a plastic Pocket Pet while shirking real duties? Why both sides of every war... -
Why Honor Matters by Tamler Sommers 9780465098873
RRP: $39.88$33.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780465098873Author Tamler SommersFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Basic Civitas BooksPublisher INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES USWeight(grams)... -
Evolutionary Dynamics: Exploring the Equations of Life by Martin A. Nowak
RRP: $144.80$116.51At 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... -
From Observations to Optimal Phylogenetic Trees: Phylogenetic Analysis of Morphological Data Pablo A Goloboff 9781032114873
RRP: $96.58$84.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781032114873Author Pablo A GoloboffImprint Taylor & Francis LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd -
The Theory of Evolution by John Maynard Smith 9780521451284
RRP: $48.28$41.08All living plants and animals, including man, are the modified descendants of one or a few simple living things. A hundred years ago Darwin and Wallace in their theory of natural selection, or the survival of the fittest, explained how evolution could... -
Host Manipulation by Parasites by David P. Hughes 9780199642243
$165.63Parasites that manipulate the behaviour of their hosts represent striking examples of adaptation by natural selection. This field of study is now moving beyond its descriptive phase and into more exciting areas where the processes and patterns of such... -
Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution Is Wrong by Jonathan Wells 9780895262004
RRP: $41.98$27.38How would you react if told that you and your children have been lied to in science lessons at school and university? Yet this is exactly what has been happening for decades, as Icons of Evolution' demonstrates.The author, a Berkeley Ph.D in Biology, is... -
Sleeping Beauties: The Mystery of Dormant Innovations in Nature and Culture by Andreas Wagner 9780861548064
RRP: $25.18$15.94Life innovates constantly, producing perfectly adapted species – but there’s a catch. A TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BEST BOOK OF 2023 'Hopeful and fascinating.' THE TIMES Many animals and plants eke out seemingly unremarkable lives. Passive, constrained,... -
Refining Phylogenetic Analyses Pablo A Goloboff 9781032274676
RRP: $96.58$84.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781032274676Author Pablo A GoloboffImprint Taylor & Francis LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd -
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction by Annalee Newitz 9780307949424
RRP: $36.75$26.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307949424Author Annalee NewitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 252gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
You: A Natural History by William B. Irvine
RRP: $49.33$34.88What are you? Obviously, you are a person with human ancestors that can be plotted on a family tree, but you have other identities as well. According to evolutionary biologists, for example, you are a member of the species Homo sapiens. To a... -
Introducing Genetics: A Graphic Guide by Steve Jones
RRP: $18.88$7.18Genetics 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... -
Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought by George Christopher Williams 9780691182865
RRP: $39.88$30.56Biological evolution is a fact-but the many conflicting theories of evolution remain controversial even today. When Adaptation and Natural Selection was first published in 1966, it struck a powerful blow against those who argued for the concept of group... -
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Eli Sagan
RRP: $37.80$33.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345384720Author Carl SaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 234mm... -
The Human Instinct: How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will by Kenneth R. Miller 9781476790268
RRP: $54.60$33.37A radical, optimistic exploration of how humans evolved to develop reason, consciousness, and free will.Lately, the most passionate advocates of the theory of evolution seem to present it as bad news. Scientists such as Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss,... -
Where Are We Heading?: The Evolution of Humans and Things by Ian Hodder
RRP: $47.25$39.80A theory of human evolution and history based on ever-increasing mutual dependency between humans and things In this engaging exploration, archaeologist Ian Hodder departs from the two prevailing modes of thought about human evolution: the older idea... -
30-Second Evolution: The 50 most significant ideas and events, each explained in half a minute by Mark Fellowes 9781848318403
RRP: $31.48$21.42Adapt or die: it's nature's most famous imperative. But how does evolution actually happen? It's too slow to see, but it's going on all around you, all the time. Even if you're on top of the key terms - variation? Natural selection? Parent-offspring... -
Unwinding the Maze: Six Myths to Challenge the Paradoxes of Evolution by Simon Conway Morris
RRP: $54.58$48.07In this learned romp of science writing, Cambridge professor Simon Conway Morris cheerfully challenges six assumptions-what he calls 'myths'-that too often pass as unquestioned truths amongst the evolutionary orthodox. His convivial tour begins with...