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The Mass-Extinction Debates: How Science Works in a Crisis by William Glen 9780804722865
RRP: $71.40$62.98This book is the first to examine the arguments and behavior of the scientists who have been locked in conflict for a decade over two competing hypotheses for the cause of the mass extinction, some 65 million years ago, of most of life on earth,... -
The Problem of Increasing Human Energy: With Special Reference to the Harnessing of the Sun's Energy by Nikola Tesla 9781603868709
$25.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603868709Author Nikola TeslaFormat HardbackPage Count 76Imprint Merchant BooksPublisher Merchant BooksWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm -
Dinner with Darwin: Food, Drink, and Evolution by Jonathan Silvertown
RRP: $50.40$48.36What do eggs, flour, and milk have in common? They form the basis of waffles, of course, but these staples of breakfast bounty also share an evolutionary function: eggs, seeds (from which we derive flour by grinding), and milk have each evolved to... -
The Evolution of Power: A New Understanding of the History of Life by Geerat Vermeij 9780691250410
RRP: $52.50$40.28A sweeping new account of the role of power in the evolution of all life on EarthPower has many dimensions, from individual attributes such as strength and speed to the collective advantages of groups. The Evolution of Power takes readers on a... -
The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution by Elisabeth A. Lloyd 9780674022461
RRP: $56.60$44.04Why women evolved to have orgasms--when most of their primate relatives don't--is a persistent mystery among evolutionary biologists. In pursuing this mystery, Elisabeth Lloyd arrives at another: How could anything as inadequate as the evolutionary... -
A Taste for the Beautiful: The Evolution of Attraction by Michael Ryan 9780691167268
RRP: $46.20$35.68From one of the world's leading authorities on animal behavior, the astonishing story of how the female brain drives the evolution of beauty in animals and humans Darwin developed the theory of sexual selection to explain why the animal world abounds in... -
A Different Kind of Animal: How Culture Transformed Our Species by Robert Boyd 9780691177731
RRP: $46.20$35.68How our ability to learn from each other has been the essential ingredient to our remarkable success as a species Human beings are a very different kind of animal. We have evolved to become the most dominant species on Earth. We have a larger... -
The Princeton Guide to Evolution by David A. Baum 9780691175874
RRP: $105.00$84.02The Princeton Guide to Evolution is a comprehensive, concise, and authoritative reference to the major subjects and key concepts in evolutionary biology, from genes to mass extinctions. Edited by a distinguished team of evolutionary biologists, with... -
Foraging Theory by David W. Stephens 9780691084428
RRP: $176.40$165.08This account of the current state of foraging theory is also a valuable description of the use of optimality theory in behavioral ecology in general. Organizing and introducing the main research themes in economic analyses of animal feeding behavior, the... -
Life: The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science by John Brockman 9780062296054
RRP: $27.28$24.11The 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. ... -
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... -
Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame by Christopher Boehm
RRP: $63.00$44.63From the age of Darwin to the present day, biologists have been grappling with the origins of our moral sense. Why, if the human instinct to survive and reproduce is"selfish," do people engage in self-sacrifice, and even develop ideas like virtue and... -
The Inner Bird: Anatomy and Evolution by Gary W. Kaiser
RRP: $81.90$71.17Birds are among the most successful vertebrates on Earth. An important part of our natural environment and deeply embedded in our culture, birds are studied by more professional ornithologists and enjoyed by more amateur enthusiasts than ever before... -
Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought by George Christopher Williams 9780691182865
RRP: $39.88$31.75Biological 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... -
Homo Mysterious: Evolutionary Puzzles of Human Nature by David P. Barash
RRP: $39.88$31.98For all that science knows about the living world, notes David P. Barash, there are even more things that we don't know, genuine evolutionary mysteries that perplex the best minds in biology. Paradoxically, many of these mysteries are very close to home,... -
Unwinding the Maze: Six Myths to Challenge the Paradoxes of Evolution by Simon Conway Morris
RRP: $58.78$46.33In 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... -
Darwin's Pharmacy: Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of the Noosphere by Richard M. Doyle
RRP: $62.98$55.42Are humans unwitting partners in evolution with psychedelic plants? Darwin's Pharmacy shows they are by weaving the evolutionary theory of sexual selection and the study of rhetoric together with the science and literature of psychedelic drugs. Long... -
Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human by Richard E. Leakey 9780385467926
RRP: $36.48$28.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385467926Author Richard E. LeakeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing... -
Species Tree Inference: A Guide to Methods and Applications by Laura Kubatko
RRP: $88.20$68.10An up-to-date reference book on phylogenetic methods and applications for evolutionary biologistsThe increasingly widespread availability of genomic data is transforming how biologists estimate evolutionary relationships among organisms and broadening... -
Evolution: A Little History of a Great Idea by Gerard Cheshire
RRP: $12.58$8.63Why did Darwin find tortoises so interesting? Are humans really descended from ancient apes? How did the peacock get its tail? What might life look like elsewhere in the universe? In this fascinating and highly-illustrated book, science writer Gerard... -
Evolvability: A Unifying Concept in Evolutionary Biology? by Thomas F. Hansen
RRP: $130.20$89.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545624Author Thomas F. HansenFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Evolution as Entropy: Toward a Unified Theory of Biology by Daniel R. Brooks
RRP: $75.60$73.98"By combining recent advances in the physical sciences with some of the novel ideas, techniques, and data of modern biology, this book attempts to achieve a new and different kind of evolutionary synthesis. I found it to be challenging, fascinating,... -
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... -
The Politics of Evolution: Morphology, Medicine and Reform in Radical London by Adrian J. Desmond
RRP: $90.30$87.68Looking for the first time at the cut-price anatomy schools rather than genteel Oxbridge, Desmond winkles out pre-Darwinian evolutionary ideas in reform-minded and politically charged early nineteenth-century London. In the process, he reveals the... -
A Brief History of Intelligence: Humans, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains by Max Solomon Bennett 9780063286344
RRP: $54.60$42.99Equal parts Sapiens, Behave, and Superintelligence, but wholly original in scope, A Brief History of Intelligence offers a paradigm shift for how we understand neuroscience and AI. Artificial intelligence entrepreneur Max Bennett chronicles the five... -
We, Hominids: An anthropological detective story by Frank Westerman
RRP: $42.00$37.00The Dutch bestseller Nominated for Le Prix Nicolas Bouvier 'A masterclass in storytelling, exploring who we are and where we came from' Danielle Clode 'Gripping and brilliantly told, We Hominids deftly blends personal experience with a... -
The Ant and the Peacock: Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to Today by Helena Cronin
$80.75This book is a success story. It explains two long-running puzzles of the theory of natural selection. How can natural selection favour those, like the ant, that renounce tooth and claw in favour of the public-spirited ways of the commune? How can it... -
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari 9780062464347
RRP: $54.58$20.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062464347Author Yuval Noah HarariFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 971gDimensions(mm)... -
Evolution and Human Sexual Behavior by Peter B. Gray 9780674660007
RRP: $50.30$39.35Few things come more naturally to us than sex-or so it would seem. Yet to a chimpanzee, the sexual practices and customs we take for granted would appear odd indeed. He or she might wonder why we bother with inconveniences like clothes, why we prefer to... -
Darwinism Under the Microscope: How Recent Scientific Evidence Points to Divine Design by James P. Gills
$34.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884199250Author James P GillsFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Creation HousePublisher Creation HouseWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 222mm * 159mm *... -
Attraction, Love, Sex: The Inside Story by Simon LeVay
RRP: $58.80$44.86Sex, after hunger, may be the most powerful motivating force in our lives. It drives us to seek intimate contact with others and to form relationships that may be fleeting or lifelong, blissful or troubled. Yet many mysteries surround sex and sexuality:... -
Evolution by Nicholas H. Barton 9780879696849
RRP: $149.10$124.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879696849Author Nicholas H. BartonFormat HardbackPage Count 833Imprint Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press,U.S.Publisher Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory... -
The Evidence for Evolution by Alan R. Rogers
RRP: $48.30$46.47According to polling data, most Americans doubt that evolution is a real phenomenon. And it's no wonder that so many are skeptical: many of today's biology courses and textbooks dwell on the mechanisms of evolution - natural selection, genetic drift, and... -
The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent by Danielle J. Whittaker 9781421443478
RRP: $48.30$39.65The untold story of a stunning discovery: not only can birds smell, but their scents may be the secret to understanding their world.Winner of the PROSE Award for Best Book in Popular Science and MathematicsThe puzzling lack of evidence for the peculiar... -
Animal Beauty: On the Evolution of Biological Aesthetics by Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
RRP: $29.38$20.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262039949Author Christiane Nusslein-VolhardFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 178mm * 102mm * 16mm -
Evidence of Evolution by Mary Ellen Hannibal
$45.80Published to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, Evidence of Evolution uses exquisite images by distinguished photographer Susan Middleton to reveal beautiful and surprising patterns of evolutionary development... -
Urban Evolutionary Biology by Marta Szulkin 9780198836858
RRP: $101.83$96.24Urban Evolutionary Biology fills an important knowledge gap on wild organismal evolution in the urban environment, whilst offering a novel exploration of the fast-growing new field of evolutionary research. The growing rate of urbanization and the... -
Darwin and the General Reader: The Reception of Darwin's Theory of Evolution in the British Periodical Press, 1859-72 by Alvar Ellegard 9780226204871
RRP: $84.00$81.80Drawing on his investigation of over one hundred mid-Victorian British newspapers and periodicals, Alvar Ellegard describes and analyzes the impact of Darwin's theory of evolution during the first dozen years after the publication of the Origin of... -
Ingenious: The Unintended Consequences of Human Innovation by Sir Peter Gluckman
RRP: $56.60$44.04As humans evolved, we developed technologies to modify our environment, yet these innovations are increasingly affecting our behavior, biology, and society. Now we must figure out how to function in the world we've created.Over thousands of years, humans... -
Adaptive Oncogenesis: A New Understanding of How Cancer Evolves inside Us by James DeGregori
RRP: $86.00$67.66Popular understanding holds that genetic changes create cancer. James DeGregori uses evolutionary principles to propose a new way of thinking about cancer's occurrence. Cancer is as much a disease of evolution as it is of mutation, one in which mutated...