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Extended Heredity: A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution by Russell Bonduriansky 9780691204147
RRP: $46.20$36.46There is much more to heredity than genesFor much of the twentieth century it was assumed that genes alone mediate the transmission of biological information across generations and provide the raw material for natural selection. Yet, it's now clear that... -
Molecular Evolution: A Statistical Approach by Ziheng Yang 9780199602612
$165.50Studies of evolution at the molecular level have experienced phenomenal growth in the last few decades, due to rapid accumulation of genetic sequence data, improved computer hardware and software, and the development of sophisticated analytical methods... -
Evolution: The History of an Idea, 25th Anniversary Edition, With a New Preface by Peter J. Bowler 9780520261280
RRP: $63.00$49.75Since its original publication in 1989, "Evolution: The History of an Idea" has been recognized as a comprehensive and authoritative source on the development and impact of this most controversial of scientific theories. This twentieth anniversary... -
The Origin of Species and the Voyage of the 'Beagle': Introduction by Richard Dawkins by Professor Charles Darwin 9781400041275
RRP: $84.00$57.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400041275Author Charles DarwinFormat HardbackPage Count 1024Imprint Everyman's Library USAPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 890gDimensions(mm)... -
On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson 9780486671352
$87.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486671352Author D'Arcy Wentworth ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 1116Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc. -
The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries: The Evidence and the People Who Found It by Donald R. Prothero
RRP: $63.00$48.91The theory of evolution unites the past, present, and future of living things. It puts humanity's place in the universe into necessary perspective. Despite a history of controversy, the evidence for evolution continues to accumulate as a result of many... -
Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century by Howard Bloom 9780471419198
RRP: $29.38$27.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471419198Author Howard BloomFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Evolution: Still a Theory in Crisis by Michael Denton 9781936599325
RRP: $52.40$44.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936599325Author Michael DentonFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Discovery InstitutePublisher Discovery InstituteWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm)... -
Mate Choice: The Evolution of Sexual Decision Making from Microbes to Humans by Gil G. Rosenthal 9780691150673
RRP: $105.00$84.25A major new look at the evolution of mating decisions in organisms from protozoans to humans The popular consensus on mate choice has long been that females select mates likely to pass good genes to offspring. In Mate Choice, Gil Rosenthal overturns much... -
The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates by Frans De Waal 9780393073775
RRP: $46.18$39.80For many years, de Waal has observed chimpanzees soothe distressed neighbors and bonobos share their food. Now he delivers fascinating fresh evidence for the seeds of ethical behavior in primate societies that further cements the case for the biological... -
Evolution: A Developmental Approach Wallace Arthur (National University of Ireland Galway) 9781405186582
RRP: $121.70$107.56This book is aimed at students taking courses on evolution in universities and colleges. Its approach and its structure are very different from previously-published evolution texts. The core theme in this book is how evolution works by changing the... -
Darwin in Ilkley by Mike Dixon 9780752452838
RRP: $27.28$20.20When the Origins of Species was published on 24 November 1859, its author, Charles Darwin, was near the end of a nine-week stay in the remote Yorkshire village of Ilkley. He had come for the 'water cure'- a regime of cold baths and wet sheets - and for... -
Speciation Jerry A. Coyne 9780878930890
RRP: $304.48$158.59Published by Sinauer Associates, an imprint of Oxford University Press. Over the last two decades, the study of speciation has expanded from a modest backwater of evolutionary biology into a large and vigorous discipline. Thus, the literature on... -
Biogeography: An Ecological and Evolutionary Approach C. Barry Cox 9781118968581
RRP: $117.50$104.01Through eight successful editions, and over nearly 40 years, Biogeography: An Ecological and Evolutionary Approach has provided a thorough and comprehensive exploration of the varied scientific disciplines and research that are essential to understanding... -
Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth by Chris Stringer 9781250023308
RRP: $44.08$26.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250023308Author Chris StringerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm)... -
The Rise of Horses: 55 Million Years of Evolution by Jens Lorenz Franzen 9780801893735
$132.93One of the world's leading experts on horse evolution traces the origins, evolution, and diversification of the equines. Long domesticated, related to rhinoceroses, and descended from a creature the size of a hare, horses are a fascinating study in... -
The Fruit, the Tree, and the Serpent: Why We See So Well by Lynne A. Isbell
RRP: $48.20$38.60From the temptation of Eve to the venomous murder of the mighty Thor, the serpent appears throughout time and cultures as a figure of mischief and misery. The worldwide prominence of snakes in religion, myth, and folklore underscores our deep connection... -
The Butterfly Hunter: The Life of Henry Walter Bates by Anthony Crawforth 9780956071613
RRP: $52.50$39.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956071613Author Dr Anthony CrawforthFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint The University of Buckingham PressPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams)... -
Fires of Life: Endothermy in Birds and Mammals by Barry Gordon Lovegrove
RRP: $63.00$53.03A groundbreaking argument on how endothermy-arguably the most important innovation in vertebrate evolution-developed in birds and mammals"Vividly narrated and illustrated. . . . Provocative and fascinating for specialists and lay readers alike... -
The Talking Ape: How Language Evolved by Robbins Burling
RRP: $31.48$24.21In this mind-opening book, Robbins Burling presents the most convincing - and the most readable - account of the origins of language yet published. He sheds new light on how language affects the way we think, behave, and relate to each other, and he... -
Domesticated: Evolution in a Man-Made World by Richard C. Francis 9780393064605
RRP: $46.18$39.80The wolf evolved into the Pekingese, the wildcat into the tabby cat and the auroch into the milk-producing cow. This happened through the process called "domestication". Domesticated creatures have served us well- without them, civilisation as... -
Investigations: Investigations by Stuart A. Kauffman 9780195121056
RRP: $39.88$28.01In the tradition of Schroedinger's classic What Is Life?, this book is a tour-de-force investigation of the basis of life itself, with conclusions that radically undermine the scientific approaches on which modern science rests-the approaches of Newton,... -
Understanding Life in the Universe by Wallace Arthur
RRP: $31.48$26.36The two most fascinating questions about extraterrestrial life are where it is found and what it is like. In particular, from our Earth-based vantage point, we are keen to know where the closest life to us is, and how similar it might be to life on our... -
Ancestors in Our Genome: The New Science of Human Evolution by Eugene E. Harris 9780199978038
RRP: $62.98$46.22In 2001, scientists were finally able to determine the full human genome sequence, and with the discovery began a genomic voyage back in time. Since then, we have sequenced the full genomes of many of mankind's primitive relatives at a remarkable rate... -
Does Altruism Exist?: Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others by David Sloan Wilson
RRP: $29.38$29.27A powerful treatise that demonstrates the existence of altruism in nature, with surprising implications for human society Does altruism exist? Or is human nature entirely selfish? In this eloquent and accessible book, famed biologist David Sloan Wilson... -
The Evolutionary Road to Human Memory by Elisabeth A. Murray 9780198828051
RRP: $58.78$54.22We tend to think about memory in terms of the human experience, neglecting the fact that we can trace a direct line of descent from the earliest vertebrates to modern humans. But the evolutionary history that we share with other vertebrates has left a... -
Understanding Reproduction by Giuseppe Fusco 9781009225939
RRP: $31.48$26.25Our understanding of reproduction and reproductive processes is often biased towards the behaviour of organisms most familiar to us. As such, the amazing disparity of the phenomena of reproduction and sex is often overlooked. Understanding Reproduction... -
Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World by Oren Harman
RRP: $18.88$13.55'Daring, learned and humane... A revelatory restoration of wonder' Stephen Greenblatt. We no longer think, like the ancient Chinese did, that the world was hatched from an egg, or, like the Maori, that it came from the tearing-apart of a love embrace... -
Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago - Updated Edition by Douglas H. Erwin 9780691165653
RRP: $35.68$27.64Some 250 million years ago, the earth suffered the greatest biological crisis in its history. Around 95 percent of all living species died out--a global catastrophe far greater than the dinosaurs' demise 185 million years later. How this happened remains... -
Life: The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science by John Brockman 9780062296054
RRP: $27.28$23.14The newest addition to John Brockman's Edge.org series explores life itself, bringing together the world's leading biologists, geneticists, and evolutionary theorists-including Richard Dawkins, Edward O. Wilson, J. Craig Venter, and Freeman Dyson. ... -
Tree of Origin: What Primate Behavior Can Tell Us about Human Social Evolution by Frans De Waal 9780674010048
RRP: $65.00$51.28How did we become the linguistic, cultured, and hugely successful apes that we are? Our closest relatives--the other mentally complex and socially skilled primates--offer tantalizing clues. In Tree of Origin nine of the world's top primate experts read... -
Close Encounters with Humankind: A Paleoanthropologist Investigates Our Evolving Species by Sang-Hee Lee 9780393356762
RRP: $27.28$21.61In Close Encounters with Humankind, paleoanthropologist Sang-Hee Lee explores some of our biggest evolutionary questions from unexpected new angles. Amongst other questions, she looks at what fossilised teeth tell us about our ancient life expectancy,... -
Neptune's Ark: From Ichthyosaurs to Orcas by David Rains Wallace 9780520258143
RRP: $48.30$38.01"Neptune's Ark" illuminates the dramatic saga of evolution spanning 500 million years of marine life along the magnificent Pacific coast of western North America. In an engaging narrative that artfully blends elements of science, history,... -
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Richard Dawkins
RRP: $52.48$38.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544859937Author Richard DawkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 862g -
The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism by Jason Rosenhouse
RRP: $62.98$54.47Anti-scientific misinformation has become a serious problem on many fronts, including vaccinations and climate change. One of these fronts is the persistence of anti-evolutionism, which has recently been given a superficially professional gloss in the... -
Debating Darwin's Doubt: A Scientific Controversy that Can No Longer Be Denied by David Klinghoffer 9781936599288
RRP: $52.40$42.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936599288Author David KlinghofferFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Discovery InstitutePublisher Discovery InstituteWeight(grams) 558gDimensions(mm)... -
The Evolved Apprentice: How Evolution Made Humans Unique by Kim Sterelny 9780262526661
RRP: $50.40$42.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2012 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780262526661Author Kim SterelnyFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT... -
Darwin's Backyard: How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory by James T. Costa 9780393356304
RRP: $29.38$25.73James 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... -
Supercooperators: Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed by Martin Nowak 9781451626636
RRP: $39.88$26.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451626636Author Martin NowakFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 214mm *... -
The Invertebrate Tree of Life by Gonzalo Giribet 9780691170251
RRP: $163.80$131.82The most up-to-date book on invertebrates, providing a new framework for understanding their place in the tree of life In The Invertebrate Tree of Life, Gonzalo Giribet and Gregory Edgecombe, leading authorities on invertebrate biology and paleontology,...