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Phenotypic Plasticity: Functional and Conceptual Approaches by Thomas J. DeWitt 9780195138962
Booksplease Price: €128.09Phenotypic plasticity is the range and process of variation in body plan and physiology. This book pulls together recent theoretical advances in phenotypic plasticity, as influenced by evolution and development. The editors and the chapter authors are... -
A Search for Origins: Science, History and South Africa's Cradle of Humankind by Phillip Bonner 9781868144181
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €35.75The 'Cradle of Humankind' (COH), bordering Gauteng and the North-West Province in South Africa, was declared a World Heritage Site for the wealth of the human and animal fossils found there. Research based on fossils found in the area as well as signs of... -
The Metabolic Ghetto: An Evolutionary Perspective on Nutrition, Power Relations and Chronic Disease by Jonathan C. K. Wells 9781107009479
RRP: €124.95Booksplease Price: €119.27Chronic diseases have rapidly become the leading global cause of morbidity and mortality, yet there is poor understanding of this transition, or why particular social and ethnic groups are especially susceptible. In this book, Wells adopts a... -
God Is: A Matter of Fact - The Scientific Theory of Supreme Intelligence by Marc Alan Watson 9781936883004
RRP: €20.17Booksplease Price: €15.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936883004Author Marc Alan WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Imagine Creative Technology LLCPublisher Imagine Creative Technology... -
God Is: A Matter of Fact - The Scientific Theory of Supreme Intelligence by Marc Alan Watson 9781936883011
RRP: €35.64Booksplease Price: €26.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936883011Author Marc Alan WatsonFormat HardbackPage Count 202Imprint Imagine Creative Technology LLCPublisher Imagine Creative Technology... -
Evolutionary Medicine Stephen C. Stearns 9780192871978
Booksplease Price: €134.39Evolutionary thinking provides insights into many different areas in the research and practice of medicine and public health. It takes specialties such as medical microbiology, epidemiology, oncology, gynecology, and psychiatry that had become... -
The Biodemography of Ageing and Longevity Jean-François Lemaître 9781316519196
RRP: €83.29Booksplease Price: €72.41Why and how we age are probably two of science's oldest questions, echoing personal beliefs and concerns about our own finitude. From the earliest musings of ancient philosophers to recent pharmacological trials aimed at slowing ageing and prolonging... -
Attraction, Love, Sex: The Inside Story Simon LeVay 9780231219143
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €20.29Sex, 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:... -
Evolutionary Genetics: Concepts and Applications by Lauren Acosta 9781682867952
RRP: €133.28Booksplease Price: €121.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682867952Author Lauren AcostaFormat HardbackPage Count 211Imprint Syrawood Publishing HousePublisher Syrawood Publishing HouseWeight(grams)... -
How We Got to Be Human: Subjective Minds With Objective Bodies by William H. Libaw 9781573928137
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €35.31This book is about what science frequently dodges or even denies: subjective life as experienced by animals as well as humans. Mixing what is known from science with some novel ideas, science writer William Libaw provides a provocative and stimulating... -
Man's Selection: Charles Darwin's Theory of Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design by Marc a Watson 9781936883127
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €18.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936883127Author Marc a WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Imagine Creative Technology LLCPublisher Imagine Creative Technology LLCWeight(grams)... -
Evolutionary Biology: Concepts and Theories by Richard Arber 9781632399243
RRP: €126.74Booksplease Price: €111.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632399243Author Richard ArberFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Callisto ReferencePublisher Callisto ReferenceWeight(grams) 794gDimensions(mm) 276mm *... -
A Student Guide to Man's Selection: Charles Darwin's Theory of Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design by Marc Watson 9781936883165
RRP: €17.79Booksplease Price: €12.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936883165Author Marc WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Imagine Creative Technology LLCPublisher Imagine Creative Technology LLCWeight(grams)... -
Do Elephants Have Knees?: And Other Stories of Darwinian Origins by Charles R. Ault 9781501704673
Booksplease Price: €35.74Thinking whimsically makes serious science accessible. That's a message that should be taken to heart by all readers who want to learn about evolution. Do Elephants Have Knees? invites readers into serious appreciation of Darwinian histories by deploying... -
Principles of Evolution by Solomon Stevens 9781641162340
RRP: €130.90Booksplease Price: €119.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641162340Author Solomon StevensFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint Callisto ReferencePublisher Callisto ReferenceWeight(grams) 617gDimensions(mm) 254mm... -
Origins: The Story of the Beginning of Everything by Bahram Mobasher 9781626614819
RRP: €115.43Booksplease Price: €108.25About 13.8 billion years ago the universe was born, with space and time coming into being in the same instant. By the time the universe was 1 second old, the four forces in nature had acquired their present characteristics, elementary particles had... -
Human Origins: What Bones and Genomes Tell Us about Ourselves by Rob DeSalle 9781603445184
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €24.59Ever since the recognition of the Neanderthals as an archaic human in the mid-nineteenth century, the fossilized bones of extinct humans have been used by paleoanthropologists to explore human origins. These bones told the story of how the earliest... -
Understanding Life in the Universe by Wallace Arthur 9781009207362
Booksplease Price: €53.92The 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... -
Carnivore Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution by John L. Gittleman 9780801482168
RRP: €61.88Booksplease Price: €49.80Because carnivores are at the top of the food chain, their status is an important indicator of the health of the world ecosystem. They are intensely interesting to zoologists and uniquely intriguing to the general public. Devoted primarily to terrestrial... -
Interpreting Evolution by H. James Birx 9780879756369
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €36.85Professor H James Birx shows how the never-ending controversy of human evolution came to be. He details the events that caused thinkers like Charles Darwin to develop his theory of evolution, and what ideas caused some people to reconcile a somewhat... -
The Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight by Pat Shipman 9780684849652
Booksplease Price: €21.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684849652Author Pat ShipmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 500gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm -
Fossil Mammals of Asia: Neogene Biostratigraphy and Chronology by Xiaoming Wang 9780231150125
RRP: €129.71Booksplease Price: €104.45Fossil Mammals of Asia, edited by and with contributions from world-renowned scholars, is the first major work devoted to the late Cenozoic (Neogene) mammalian biostratigraphy and geochronology of Asia. This volume employs cutting-edge biostratigraphic... -
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin 9780375751462
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375751462Author Charles DarwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 584gDimensions(mm)... -
Organismic Animal Biology: An Evolutionary Approach by Ariel D. Chipman 9780192893581
Booksplease Price: €103.46Neither cellular/molecular nor ecosystem processes can be fully understood without a detailed understanding of the biology of the whole organism. Despite this, much of modern biology teaching tends to be focused on the cellular and molecular level, with... -
From That to This by Namat Saidi 9781955690287
Booksplease Price: €26.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955690287Author Nemat Saidi LavasaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Di Angelo PublicationsPublisher Di Angelo PublicationsWeight(grams)... -
Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies by Edward O. Wilson 9781631496677
Booksplease Price: €12.79An "endlessly fascinating" (Michael Ruse) work of scientific thought and synthesis, Genesis is Edward O. Wilson's twenty-first-century statement on Darwinian evolution. Asserting that religious creeds and philosophical questions can be reduced to purely... -
Evolving: The Human Effect and Why it Matters by Daniel J. Fairbanks 9781616145651
Booksplease Price: €18.43This persuasive, elegantly written book argues that understanding evolution has never mattered more in human history. The author uses evidence from archaeology, geography, anatomy, biochemistry, radiometric dating, cell biology, chromosomes, and DNA to... -
The Upright Ape: A New Origin of the Species by Aaron G. Filler 9781564149336
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €21.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781564149336Author Aaron G. FillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Career PressPublisher Red Wheel/WeiserWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
The Pygmy Chimpanzee: Evolutionary Biology and Behavior by Randall L. Susman 9781475700848
Booksplease Price: €111.15Historical Remarks Bearing on the Discovery of Pan paniscus Whether by accident or by design, it was most fortunate that Robert M. Yerkes, the dean of American primatologists, should have been the first scientist to describe the characteristics of a... -
Creationism's Upside-Down Pyramid by Lee Tiffin 9780879758981
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €32.32Scientists and educators are deeply concerned that as fundamentalists gain ever more political power, their clout will be used to foist creationism onto the curriculums of tax-supported educational institutions. In recent years, creationists have invoked... -
Time's Arrow and Evolution by Harold Francis Blum 9780691622293
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €43.59In a book that has become a milestone of scientific writing Dr. Blum uses "time's arrow," the second law of thermodynamics, as a key concept to show how the nature and evolution of the nonliving world place limits on the nature and evolution of life. He... -
Ecology and Evolution of Darwin's Finches (Princeton Science Library Edition): Princeton Science Library Edition by Peter R. Grant 9780691607979
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €49.96After his famous visit to the Galapagos Islands, Darwin speculated that "one might fancy that, from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends." This book is the classic account of how... -
The Evolution of Biological Information: How Evolution Creates Complexity, from Viruses to Brains by Christoph Adami 9780691241166
RRP: €148.75Booksplease Price: €116.08Why information is the unifying principle that allows us to understand the evolution of complexity in natureMore than 150 years after Darwin's revolutionary On the Origin of Species, we are still attempting to understand and explain the amazing... -
Fitness Landscapes and the Origin of Species (MPB-41) by Sergey Gavrilets 9780691119830
RRP: €104.72Booksplease Price: €82.92The origin of species has fascinated both biologists and the general public since the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859. Significant progress in understanding the process was achieved in the "modern synthesis," when Theodosius Dobzhansky,... -
Sex and Evolution. (MPB-8), Volume 8 by George C. Williams 9780691081526
RRP: €69.02Booksplease Price: €55.38This book explores the relationship between various types of reproduction and the evolutionary process. Starting with the concept of meiosis, George C. Williams states the conditions under which an organism with both sexual and asexual reproductive... -
Female Control: Sexual Selection by Cryptic Female Choice by William G. Eberhard 9780691010847
RRP: €113.05Booksplease Price: €102.92A growing body of evidence has begun to reveal flaws in the traditional assumption of female passivity and lack of discrimination after copulation has begun. William Eberhard has compiled an impressive array of research on the ability of females to shape... -
Sexual Selection by Malte B. Andersson 9780691000572
RRP: €85.68Booksplease Price: €69.02Bright colors, enlarged fins, feather plumes, song, horns, antlers, and tusks are often highly sex dimorphic. Why have males in many animals evolved more conspicuous ornaments, signals, and weapons than females? How can such traits evolve although they... -
The Enigma of Evolution and the Challenge of Chance by Denise Carrington-Smith 9780648364016
RRP: €33.20Booksplease Price: €31.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648364016Author Denise Carrington-SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 692Imprint various Australia publishersPublisher various Australia... -
The Genial Gene: Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness by Joan Roughgarden 9780520265936
RRP: €27.37Booksplease Price: €26.68Are selfishness and individuality - rather than kindness and cooperation - basic to biological nature? Does a 'selfish gene' create universal sexual conflict? In "The Genial Gene", Joan Roughgarden forcefully rejects these and other ideas that have come... -
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham 9780465020416
Booksplease Price: €25.79Ever since Darwin and The Descent of Man , the existence of humans has been attributed to our intelligence and adaptability. But in Catching Fire , renowned primatologist Richard Wrangham presents a startling alternative: our evolutionary success is...