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What We Are: The Evolutionary Roots of Our Future by Lonnie Aarssen 9783031058783
RRP: $54.58$42.47Other animals are driven to spend essentially their whole lives just trying to get fed, stay alive, and get laid. That's about it. The same was true for our proto-human ancestors. And modern humans of course also require a Survival Drive and a Sex... -
A Most Interesting Problem: What Darwin's Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong about Human Evolution by Jeremy DeSilva 9780691242064
RRP: $33.13$24.41Leading 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... -
Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree: Ecology and Adaptive Radiation of Anoles by Jonathan B. Losos 9780520269842
RRP: $107.25$85.62Adaptive radiation, which results when a single ancestral species gives rise to many descendants, each adapted to a different part of the environment, is possibly the single most important source of biological diversity in the living world. One of the... -
How and Why Species Multiply: The Radiation of Darwin's Finches by Peter R. Grant
RRP: $62.40$48.28Charles Darwin's experiences in the Galapagos Islands in 1835 helped to guide his thoughts toward a revolutionary theory: that species were not fixed but diversified from their ancestors over many generations, and that the driving mechanism of... -
Animal Personalities: Behavior, Physiology, and Evolution by Claudio Carere
RRP: $87.75$85.04Ask anyone who has owned a pet and they'll assure you that, yes, animals have personalities. And science is beginning to agree. Researchers have demonstrated that both domesticated and non domesticated animals - from invertebrates to monkeys and apes -... -
Shaping Humanity: How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins by John Gurche 9780300216844
$54.46How an artist draws on fossil discoveries and forensic techniques to create transfixing reconstructions of long-lost human ancestors What did earlier humans really look like? What was life like for them, millions of years ago? How do we know? In this... -
The Evolution of Everything: The Patterns and Causes of Big History by Brian Villmoare 9781108495653
RRP: $116.98$105.59Big History seeks to retell the human story in light of scientific advances by such methods as radiocarbon dating and genetic analysis. This book provides a deep, causal view of the forces that have shaped the universe, the earth, and humanity. Starting... -
Exuberant Life: An Evolutionary Approach to Conservation in Galapagos by William H Durham
RRP: $86.76$72.29The terrestrial organisms of the Galapagos Islands live under conditions unlike those anywhere else. At the edge of a uniquely rich mid-ocean upwelling, their world is also free of mammalian predators and competitors, allowing them to live unbothered,... -
Darwin's Finches by David Lack 9780521272421
RRP: $38.98$35.28David Lack's classic work on the finches of the Galapagos Islands (Darwin's Finches) was first published in 1947; few books have had such a great impact on evolutionary biology, indeed it is still one of the most succinct and fascinating treatises ever... -
Nature's Machines: An Introduction to Organismal Biomechanics by David E. Alexander 9780128044049
RRP: $77.90$70.34Nature's Machines: An Introduction to Organismal Biomechanics presents the fundamental principles of biomechanics in a concise, accessible way while maintaining necessary rigor. It covers the central principles of whole-organism biomechanics as they... -
The Causes of Evolution by John Burdon Haldane
RRP: $62.40$48.28J.B.S. Haldane (1892-1964), one of the founders of the science of population genetics, was also one of the greatest practitioners of the art of explaining science to the layperson. Haldane was a superb story-teller, as his essays and his children's books... -
Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence by Richard Wrangham
$22.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395877432Author Richard WranghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 500g -
Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution by Jonathan B. Losos 9780525534136
RRP: $46.80$33.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525534136Author Jonathan B. LososFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)... -
Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution by Richard Fortey
RRP: $37.05$27.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375706219Author Richard ForteyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 202mm... -
Evolution and the Myth of Creationism: A Basic Guide to the Facts in the Evolution Debate by Tim M. Berra
RRP: $40.93$34.13A Stanford University Press classic.Reviews'Berra's brilliant exposition offers a refreshing, lucid, and insightful view of one of the most important ideas in the history of science. After readingthis superb book, anyone with prior qualms about the... -
Lovelock and Gaia by Jon Turney 9781840464580
RRP: $19.48$13.07Gaia is a theory of the Earth that has revolutionised how we see this 'pale blue dot': all living things are part of one great organism and life as a whole shapes the planetary environment. Lovelock and Gaia tells how that came about including the... -
Lovelock and Gaia by Jon Turney 9781840464580 [USED COPY]
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On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin 9781645178644
RRP: $21.43$13.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645178644Author Charles DarwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Readerlink Distribution Services, LLCPublisher Readerlink Distribution Services,... -
The Intervention of Ecocide: Agent Orange, Vietnam and the Scientists Who Changed the Way We Think about the Environment by David Zierler 9780820338279
$52.85As the public increasingly questioned the war in Vietnam, a group of American scientists deeply concerned about the use of Agent Orange and other herbicides started a movement to ban what they called "ecocide."David Zierler traces this movement, starting... -
The Evolution of Life by Graham Bell 9780198712572
RRP: $124.78$118.19The Evolution of Life stands alone amongst the major textbooks by focusing on key principles to offer a truly accessible, unintimidating treatment of evolutionary biology. With adaptation through natural selection - how the integrated complexity of... -
The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms by Robert F Shedinger 9781532658334
RRP: $58.50$44.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532658334Author Robert F ShedingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)... -
Odd Couples: Extraordinary Differences between the Sexes in the Animal Kingdom by Daphne J. Fairbairn 9780691169781 [USED COPY]
RRP: $39.00$22.66Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Odd Couples: Extraordinary Differences between the Sexes in the Animal Kingdom by Daphne J. Fairbairn 9780691169781
RRP: $39.00$30.99While we joke that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, our gender differences can't compare to those of many other animals. For instance, the male garden spider spontaneously dies after mating with a female more than fifty times his size. And... -
Human Flourishing in an Age of Gene Editing by Erik Parens 9780190940362
RRP: $71.16$61.09International uproar followed the recent announcement of the birth of twin girls whose genomes had been edited with a breakthrough DNA editing-technology. This technology, called clustered regularly interspaced short palindrome repeats or CRISPR-Cas9,... -
The Evolutionary Strategies that Shape Ecosystems by J. Philip Grime 9780470674826
RRP: $128.60$111.09THE EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGIES THAT SHAPE ECOSYSTEMS In 1837 a young Charles Darwin took his notebook, wrote "I think", and then sketched a rudimentary, stick-like tree. Each branch of Darwin's tree of life told a story of survival and adaptation -... -
Death from a Distance and the Birth of a Humane Universe: Human Evolution, Behavior, History, and Your Future by Paul M Bingham 9781439254127
RRP: $50.68$48.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439254127Author Paul M BinghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 714Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 1043gDimensions(mm)... -
Understanding Species by John S. Wilkins
RRP: $29.23$24.51Are species worth saving? Can they be resurrected by technology? What is the use of species in biomedicine? These questions all depend on a clear definition of the concept of 'species', yet biologists have long struggled to define this term. In this... -
Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction by Eugenie C. Scott 9780520261877
RRP: $48.75$38.98More than eighty years after the Scopes trial, the debate over teaching evolution continues in spite of the emptiness of the creationist positions. This accessible resource, now completely revised and updated, provides an essential introduction to the... -
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chambers 9780226100739
RRP: $72.15$71.70Originally published anonymously in 1844, "Vestiges" proved to be as controversial as its author expected. Integrating research in the burgeoning sciences of anthropology, geology, astronomy, biology, economics and chemistry, it was the first attempt to... -
Carnivoran Evolution: New Views on Phylogeny, Form and Function by Anjali Goswami 9780521735865
RRP: $77.98$68.70Members of the mammalian clade Carnivora have invaded nearly every continent and ocean, evolving into bamboo-eating pandas, clam-eating walruses and of course, flesh-eating sabre-toothed cats. With this ecological, morphological and taxonomic diversity... -
The Brain: Big Bangs, Behaviors, and Beliefs by Rob DeSalle
RRP: $33.13$28.49What evolutionary process could have resulted in the unique and amazing human brain? New research by neuroscientists, paleontologists, and others reveals startling answers. After several million years of jostling for ecological space, only one survivor... -
Landscapes of Human Evolution: Contributions in Honour of John Gowlett by James Cole
$92.96Landscapes of Human Evolution is an edited volume in honour of John Gowlett. John has a wide range of research interests primarily focused on the human genus Homo, and is a world leader in understanding the cognitive and behavioural preconditions... -
Understanding Evolution by Kostas Kampourakis 9781108478694
RRP: $87.73$74.84Why do the debates about evolution persist, despite the plentiful evidence for it? Breaking down the notion that public resistance to evolution is strictly due to its perceived conflict with religion, this concise book shows that evolution is in fact a... -
Epigenetic Inheritance and Evolution: The Lamarckian Dimension by Eva Jablonka
$196.13Since first publication of this controversial book, much of the initial opposition to the ideas it contained has been replaced by a general, although often grudging, acceptance of them. Advances in knowledge, especially at the molecular level, have... -
The Origin and Early Evolutionary History of Snakes by David J. Gower
RRP: $155.98$142.66Snakes comprise nearly 4,000 extant species found on all major continents except Antarctica. Morphologically and ecologically diverse, they include burrowing, arboreal, and marine forms, feeding on prey ranging from insects to large mammals. Snakes are... -
Architecture Follows Nature-Biomimetic Principles for Innovative Design by Ilaria Mazzoleni
RRP: $93.58$81.53Applying Properties of Animals Skins to Inspire Architectural EnvelopesBiology influences design projects in many ways; the related discipline is known as biomimetics or biomimicry. Using the animal kingdom as a source of inspiration, Ilaria Mazzoleni... -
Evolutionary History of the Robust Australopithecines by Frederick E. Grine
RRP: $97.48$85.61In paleoanthropology the group of hominids known as the "robust" australopithecines has emerged as one of the most interesting. Through them we have the opportunity to examine the origin, natural history, and ultimate extinction of not just a single... -
The Descent of Man: The Concise Edition by Charles Darwin 9780452288881
RRP: $37.25$28.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452288881Author Charles DarwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 137mm * 25mm -
Crumbling Genome: The Impact of Deleterious Mutations on Humans by Alexey S. Kondrashov 9781118952115
RRP: $169.55$147.26A thought-provoking exploration of deleterious mutations in the human genome and their effects on human health and wellbeing Despite all of the elaborate mechanisms that a cell employs to handle its DNA with the utmost care, a newborn human carries about... -
Observing Evolution: Peppered Moths and the Discovery of Parallel Melanism by Bruce S. Grant
RRP: $100.43$88.55A firsthand account of how a modest moth demonstrated Darwin's theory of natural selection.The extraordinary tale of the humble peppered moth is at the very foundation of our acceptance of Darwinian evolution. When scientists in the early twentieth...