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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Steve Brusatte
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £13.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062490438Author Steve BrusatteFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint -
Quaternary Vegetation Dynamics: The African Pollen Data Base by Jurgen Runge
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68This book celebrates the relaunch of the African Pollen Database, presents state-of-the-art of modern and ancient pollen data from sub-Saharan Africa, and promotes Open Access science. Pollen grains... -
Save the People!: Halting Human Extinction by Stacy McAnulty
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759553941Author Stacy McAnultyFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint -
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553214635Author Charles DarwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint -
Wondrous Healing: Shamanism, Human Evolution, and the Origin of Religion by James McClenon
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89For thousands of years, spiritual questions have haunted the hearts and minds of humankind. Do higher powers exist, and if so, what is our relationship to them? And how else might we interpret... -
Optima for Animals: Revised Edition by R.McNeill Alexander
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £72.43Optimization theory is designed to find the best ways of doing things. The structures of animals, their movements, their behavior, and their life histories have all been shaped by the optimizing... -
Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy by Melvin Konner 9780393352313
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30In Women After All, anthropologist Melvin Konner traces the arc of evolution to explain the relationships between women and men. Drawing on colourful examples from the natural world-the octopus, the... -
The Balance of Nature: Ecology's Enduring Myth by John Kricher 9780691138985
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £25.21The idea of a balance of nature has been a dominant part of Western philosophy since before Aristotle, and it persists in the public imagination and even among some ecologists today. In this lively... -
Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth by Richard Fortey
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £14.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375702617Author Richard ForteyFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint -
Principles of Social Evolution by Andrew F.G. Bourke 9780199231164
Booksplease Price: £84.65Living things are organized in a hierarchy of levels. Genes group together in cells, cells group together in organisms, and organisms group together in societies. Even different species form... -
Behavioural Ecology by Etienne Danchin 9780199206292
Booksplease Price: £83.12Why are some species monogamous while others are polygamous? Why are males usually more ornamented than females? What makes one organism the hunter and another the hunted? Why do some creatures stick... -
The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates by Frans De Waal 9780393073775
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.47For 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... -
Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul by Kenneth R. Miller 9780143115663
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £18.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143115663Author Kenneth R. MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint -
Darwin's Backyard: How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory by James T. Costa 9780393356304
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.11James 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... -
Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth by Chris Stringer 9781250023308
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £15.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250023308Author Chris StringerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint -
The Major Transitions in Evolution by John Maynard Smith 9780198502944
Booksplease Price: £86.15During evolution, there have been several major changes in the way that genetic information is organized and transmitted from one generation to the next. These transitions include the origin of life... -
Principles of Evolutionary Medicine by Peter Gluckman
Booksplease Price: £46.58Evolutionary science is critical to an understanding of integrated human biology and is increasingly recognised as a core discipline by medical and public health professionals. Advances in the field... -
Good Enough: The Tolerance for Mediocrity in Nature and Society by Daniel S. Milo 9780674504622
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.38In this spirited and irreverent critique of Darwin's long hold over our imagination, a distinguished philosopher of science makes the case that, in culture as well as nature, not only the fittest... -
Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution by Jonathan B. Losos 9780525534136
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £19.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525534136Author Jonathan B. LososFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint -
Evolution's Witness: How eyes evolved by Ivan R. Schwab 9780195369748
Booksplease Price: £118.88With predation and carnivory as catalysts, the first known eye appeared in a trilobite during the Cambrian explosion approximately 543 million years ago. This period was a crucible of evolution and... -
Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution by Richard Fortey
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £12.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375706219Author Richard ForteyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
Avoiding Attack: The Evolutionary Ecology of Crypsis, Aposematism, and Mimicry by Graeme D. Ruxton 9780199688685
Booksplease Price: £67.25Avoiding Attack discusses the diversity of mechanisms by which prey avoid predator attacks and explores how such defensive mechanisms have evolved through natural selection. It considers how... -
Becoming Undone: Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics, and Art by Elizabeth Grosz
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In Becoming Undone, Elizabeth Grosz addresses three related concepts-life, politics, and art-by exploring the implications of Charles Darwin's account of the evolution of species. Challenging... -
What Is Health?: Allostasis and the Evolution of Human Design by Peter Sterling
Booksplease Price: £39.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262043304Author Peter SterlingFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint -
Only in Africa: The Ecology of Human Evolution by Norman Owen-Smith
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £35.77That humans originated from Africa is well-known. However, this is widely regarded as a chance outcome, dependant simply on where our common ancestor shared the land with where the great apes lived... -
Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life by Dacher Keltner 9780393337136
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.84In this startling study of human emotion, Dacher Keltner investigates an unanswered question of human evolution: If humans are hardwired to lead lives that are "nasty, brutish, and short," why have... -
God Is Watching You: How the Fear of God Makes Us Human by Dominic Johnson
RRP: £24.49Booksplease Price: £19.69"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... -
Thermal Adaptation: A Theoretical and Empirical Synthesis by Michael J. Angilletta Jr. 9780198570882
Booksplease Price: £94.34Temperature profoundly impacts both the phenotypes and distributions of organisms. These thermal effects exert strong selective pressures on behaviour, physiology and life history when environmental... -
Phylogenetic Trees Made Easy: A How-To Manual by Barry G. Hall
Booksplease Price: £102.81Phylogenetic Trees Made Easy, Fifth Edition leads the reader, step by step, through identifying and acquiring the sequences to be included in a tree, aligning the sequences, estimating the tree by... -
Explaining Life through Evolution by Prosanta Chakrabarty 9780262546256
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £15.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546256Author Prosanta ChakrabartyFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Im -
The Evolution of Social Behaviour: Conflict and Cooperation by Michael Taborsky
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £40.79How can the stunning diversity of social systems and behaviours seen in nature be explained? Drawing on social evolution theory, experimental evidence and studies conducted in the field, this book... -
Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create by Pascal Boyer
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.84A watershed book that masterfully integrates insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and more to explore the development and workings of human societies "There is no good... -
Dinner with Darwin: Food, Drink, and Evolution Jonathan Silvertown 9780226760094
Booksplease Price: £16.75What 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... -
Why the Wheel Is Round: Muscles, Technology, and How We Make Things Move by Steven Vogel
Booksplease Price: £20.12There is no part of our bodies that fully rotates-be it a wrist or ankle or arm in a shoulder socket, we are made to twist only so far. And yet there is no more fundamental human invention than the... -
Origins: The Scientific Story of Creation Jim Baggott (Freelance science writer) 9780198826002
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.31What is life? Where do we come from and how did we evolve? What is the universe and how was it formed? What is the nature of the material world? How does it work? How and why do we think? What does... -
Agents and Goals in Evolution by Samir Okasha 9780192894434
Booksplease Price: £31.52Samir Okasha approaches evolutionary biology from a philosophical perspective in Agents and Goals in Evolution, analysing a mode of thinking in biology called agential thinking. He considers how the... -
Vital Dust: The Origin and Evolution of Life on Earth by Christian De Duve 9780465090457
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.03Is the emergence of life on Earth the result of a single chance event or combination of lucky accidents, or is it the outcome of biochemical forces woven into the fabric of the universe? And if... -
A Taste for the Beautiful: The Evolution of Attraction by Michael Ryan 9780691191393
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.46From one of the world's leading authorities on animal behavior, the astonishing story of how the brain drives the evolution of beauty in animals and humansIn A Taste for the Beautiful, Michael Ryan,... -
Living Computers: Replicators, Information Processing, and the Evolution of Life by Prof Alvis Brazma 9780192871947
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £29.90This accessible and entertaining book explores the fundamental connections between life and information and how they emerged inextricably linked, taking the reader on a journey through all the major... -
Purpose and Desire by J. Scott Turner 9780062651570
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £14.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062651570Author J. Scott TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint