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Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul by Kenneth R. Miller 9780143115663
RRP: €28.56€19.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143115663Author Kenneth R. MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
Natural Selection and Social Theory: Selected Papers of Robert Trivers by Robert L. Trivers 9780195130621
€61.01Robert Trivers is one of the leading figures pioneering the field of sociobiology. For Natural Selection and Social Theory, he has selected eleven of his most influential papers, including several classic papers from the early 1970s on the evolution of... -
Dispelling The Darkness: Voyage In The Malay Archipelago And The Discovery Of Evolution By Wallace And Darwin by John Van Wyhe
RRP: €38.08€34.26"The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness... -
Mutation-Driven Evolution by Masatoshi Nei 9780198724100
€70.58The purpose of this book is to present a new mechanistic theory of mutation-driven evolution based on recent advances in genomics and evolutionary developmental biology. The theory asserts, perhaps somewhat controversially, that the driving force behind... -
Agents and Goals in Evolution by Samir Okasha 9780198815082
€62.21Samir Okasha offers a philosophical perspective on evolutionary biology in Agents and Goals in Evolution. His focus is on "agential thinking", which is a mode of thought commonly employed in evolutionary biology. The paradigm case of agential thinking... -
Information Theory, Evolution, and the Origin of Life by Hubert P. Yockey 9780521169585
RRP: €53.54€45.39Originally published in 2005, Information Theory, Evolution and the Origin of Life presents an introduction to the use of information theory and coding theory in molecular biology. The genetical information system, because it is linear and digital,... -
The Speciation of Modern Homo Sapiens by T. J. Crow 9780197263112
€35.46This is the first volume to address directly the question of the speciation of modern Homo sapiens. The subject raises profound questions about the nature of the species, our defining characteristic (it is suggested it is language), and the brain changes... -
God and Evolution: Protestants, Catholics, and Jews Explore Darwin's Challenge to Faith by Jay W Richards 9780979014161
RRP: €20.23€15.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979014161Author Jay W RichardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Discovery InstitutePublisher Discovery InstituteWeight(grams) 568g -
Darwin's On the Origin of Species: A Modern Rendition by Daniel Duzdevich 9780253011701
RRP: €28.55€24.80Charles Darwin's most famous book On the Origin of Species is without question, one of the most important books ever written. While even the grandest works of Victorian English can prove difficult to modern readers, Darwin wrote his text in haste and... -
Beyond Evolution: Human Nature and the Limits of Evolutionary Explanation by Anthony O'Hear 9780198242543
RRP: €119.00€112.23Anthony O'Hear takes a stand against the fashion for explaining human behaviour in terms of evolution. He maintains, controversially, that while the theory of evolution is successful in explaining the development of the natural world in general, it is of... -
Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life by David Harry Grinspoon 9780060959968
€13.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060959968Author David Harry GrinspoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 478Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
The Meaning of Evolution: A Study of the History of Life and of Its Significance for Man by George Gaylord Simpson 9780300002294
€31.32A world-famous scientist presents a synthesis of modern views on the principles of evolution. The result of twenty-five years of research, "The Meaning of Evolution" follows the rise and fall of the dynasties of life through the 2,000,000,000... -
Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior - Revised Edition by Bobbi S. Low 9780691163888
RRP: €38.08€29.94Why are men, like other primate males, usually the aggressors and risk takers? Why do women typically have fewer sexual partners? In Why Sex Matters, Bobbi Low ranges from ancient Rome to modern America, from the Amazon to the Arctic, and from... -
Darwin in Scotland: Edinburgh, Evolution and Enlightenment by J. F. Derry 9781904445579
RRP: €22.60€18.62With exclusive contributions from Richard Dawkins, Noam Chomsky, Martin Rees, Aubrey Manning, Richard Holloway, Daniel C. Dennett, Randal Keynes, Brian Charlesworth, Ken Ham and others. This is the first book on Darwin and Darwinism that wholly... -
Plant Strategies and the Dynamics and Structure of Plant Communities. (MPB-26), Volume 26 by David Tilman 9780691084893
RRP: €83.30€64.62Although ecologists have long considered morphology and life history to be important determinants of the distribution, abundance, and dynamics of plants in nature, this book contains the first theory to predict explicitly both the evolution of plant... -
Contested Bones by Christopher Rupe 9780981631677
RRP: €35.70€28.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981631677Author Christopher RupeFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Feed My Sheep Foundation, Inc.Publisher Feed My Sheep Foundation, Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Natural Selection: Domains, Levels, and Challenges by George C. Williams 9780195069334
RRP: €124.95€94.08This important new volume in the Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution examines the mechanism and action of natural selection in evolution. Williams offers his own synthesis of modern evolutionary theory - including discussions of the gene as the unit... -
Noise Matters: The Evolution of Communication by R. Haven Wiley 9780674744127
RRP: €55.87€45.07Noise, as we usually think of it, is background sound that interferes with our ability to hear more interesting sounds. In general terms, though, it is anything that interferes with the reception of signals of any sort. It includes extraneous energy in... -
Evolutionary Genetics: Concepts, Analysis, and Practice by Glenn-Peter Saetre
RRP: €66.64€53.99With recent technological advances, vast quantities of genetic and genomic data are being generated at an ever-increasing pace. The explosion in access to data has transformed the field of evolutionary genetics. A thorough understanding of evolutionary... -
Viking DNA: The Wirral and West Lancashire Project Stephen E. Harding (University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington, England, UK) 9781466590854
RRP: €44.02€38.71This book details a genetic survey that has taken place focusing on men from old families from Wirral and West Lancashire. These 'Viking hot spots' in North West England exhibit many archaeological and historical features proving them to have had a clear... -
Diversity and Evolution of Land Plants by Martin Ingrouille 9780412442308
€107.42Diversity and Evolution of Land Plants provides a fresh and long overdue treatment of plant anatomy and morphology for the biology undergraduate of today. Setting aside the traditional plod through the plant taxa, the author adopts a problem-based... -
Evolutionary Biomechanics: Selection, Phylogeny, and Constraint by Graham Taylor 9780198566380
RRP: €49.97€48.94Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The War of the Sexes: How Conflict and Cooperation Have Shaped Men and Women from Prehistory to the Present by Paul Seabright
RRP: €23.80€18.91As countless love songs, movies, and self-help books attest, men and women have long sought different things. The result? Seemingly inevitable conflict. Yet we belong to the most cooperative species on the planet. Isn't there a way we can use this... -
Shaping Humanity: How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins by John Gurche 9780300216844
€33.24How 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... -
Beasts of Eden: Walking Whales, Dawn Horses, and Other Enigmas of Mammal Evolution by David Rains Wallace 9780520246843
RRP: €29.75€23.31Mammals first evolved at about the same time as dinosaurs, and their story is perhaps the more fascinating of the two - in part because it is also our own story. In this literate and entertaining book, eminent naturalist David Rains Wallace brings the... -
Turning Points: How Critical Events Have Driven Human Evolution, Life, and Development Kostas Kampourakis 9781633883291
RRP: €22.60€19.73An accessible introduction to core concepts in evolution for lay readers, which shows that random events have played a critical role in the development of life Critical historical events--or "turning points"--have shaped evolution and continue to have... -
What Makes Biology Unique?: Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline by Ernst Mayr 9780521841146
RRP: €80.91€68.63This book, a collection of essays written by the most eminent evolutionary biologist of the twentieth century, explores biology as an autonomous science, offers insights on the history of evolutionary thought, critiques the contributions of philosophy to... -
An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas by Stephen Jay Gould 9780393305371
RRP: €22.02€18.08Ranging as far as the fox and as deep as the hedgehog (the urchin of his title), Stephen Jay Gould expands on geology, biological determinism, "cardboard Darwinism," and evolutionary theory in this sparkling collection.About the AuthorStephen Jay Gould... -
Phylogenetic Trees Made Easy: A How-To Manual by Barry G. Hall
RRP: €127.33€108.64Phylogenetic 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 one of several methods, and drawing the tree for... -
Dragon Bone Hill: An Ice Age Saga of Homo erectus by Noel T. Boaz 9780195152913
RRP: €29.74€23.80"Peking Man," a cave man once thought a great hunter who had first tamed fire, was actually a composite of the gnawed remains of some fifty women, children, and men unfortunate enough to have been the prey of the giant cave hyena. Researching... -
Information Theory And Evolution (2nd Edition) by John Scales Avery 9789814401234
RRP: €47.60€41.91Information Theory and Evolution discusses the phenomenon of life, including its origin and evolution (and also human cultural evolution), against the background of thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and information theory. Among the central themes... -
Quirks of Human Anatomy: An Evo-Devo Look at the Human Body by Lewis I. Held, Jr. 9780521732338
RRP: €47.59€40.06With the emergence of the new field of evolutionary developmental biology we are witnessing a renaissance of Darwin's insights 150 years after his On the Origin of Species. Thus far, the exciting findings from 'evo-devo' have only been trickling into... -
Understanding Reproduction by Giuseppe Fusco 9781009225939
RRP: €17.84€14.80Our 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... -
The Geographic Mosaic of Coevolution by John N. Thompson
RRP: €42.84€41.92Coevolution - reciprocal evolutionary change in interacting species driven by natural selection - is one of the most important ecological and genetic processes organizing the earth's biodiversity: most plants and animals require coevolved interactions... -
Ancestors in Evolutionary Biology: Linear Thinking About Branching Trees by Ronald A. Jenner
RRP: €65.44€59.93Phylogenetics emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century as a speculative storytelling discipline dedicated to providing narrative explanations for the evolution of taxa and their traits. It coincided with lineage thinking, a process that... -
Introducing Darwin: A Graphic Guide by Jonathan Miller
RRP: €9.51€4.07Progress in genetics today would not be possible without Darwin's revolution, but the mysterious man who laid the rational basis for undermining belief in God's creation was remarkable timid. He spent most of his life in seclusion; a semi-invalid,... -
Making Sense of Evolution: The Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Biology by Massimo Pigliucci
RRP: €38.08€37.02Making Sense of Evolution explores contemporary evolutionary biology, focusing on the elements of theories-selection, adaptation, and species-that are complex and open to multiple possible interpretations, many of which are incompatible with one another... -
Holocene Extinctions by Samuel T. Turvey 9780199535095
€101.98The extent to which human activity has influenced species extinctions during the recent prehistoric past remains controversial due to other factors such as climatic fluctuations and a general lack of data. However, the Holocene (the geological interval... -
Chimpanzees and Human Evolution by Martin N. Muller
RRP: €67.77€54.97Knowledge of chimpanzees in the wild has expanded dramatically in recent years. This comprehensive volume, edited by Martin Muller, Richard Wrangham, and David Pilbeam, brings together scientists who are leading a revolution to discover and explain what... -
Death from a Distance and the Birth of a Humane Universe: Human Evolution, Behavior, History, and Your Future by Paul M Bingham 9781439254127
RRP: €30.93€28.82Apologies 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)...