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Why Humans Cooperate: A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation by Joseph Henrich 9780195314236
RRP: €82.11€55.25Cooperation among humans is one of the keys to our great evolutionary success. Natalie and Joseph Henrich examine this phenomena with a unique fusion of theoretical work on the evolution of cooperation, ethnographic descriptions of social behavior, and a... -
Thermal Adaptation: A Theoretical and Empirical Synthesis by Michael J. Angilletta Jr. 9780198570882
€100.54Temperature profoundly impacts both the phenotypes and distributions of organisms. These thermal effects exert strong selective pressures on behaviour, physiology and life history when environmental temperatures vary over space and time. Despite... -
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life by Daniel Clement Dennett 9780684824710
RRP: €26.01€17.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Awards (Nonfiction) 1995.Book InformationISBN 9780684824710Author Daniel Clement DennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 586Imprint Simon &... -
Nature's Destiny: How the Laws of Biology Reveal Purpose in the Universe by Michael Denton 9780743237628
RRP: €27.36€26.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743237628Author Michael J. DentonFormat PaperbackPage Count 476Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 694gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Rise of Horses: 55 Million Years of Evolution by Jens Lorenz Franzen 9780801893735
€74.90One of the world's leading experts on horse evolution traces the origins, evolution, and diversification of the equines. Long domesticated, related to rhinoceroses, and descended from a creature the size of a hare, horses are a fascinating study in... -
The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection: A Complete Variorum Edition by R. A. Fisher 9780198504405
€129.83R A Fisher's classic The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection was first published by the Oxford University Press in 1930. It was the first attempt to assess and explain Darwin's evolutionary theories in terms of the genetic processes underlying them,... -
The Human Instinct: How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will by Kenneth R Miller 9781476790275
RRP: €20.23€11.46From one of America's best-known biologists, a revolutionary new way of thinking about evolution that shows "why, in light of our origins, humans are still special" (Edward J. Larson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evolution).Once we had a special... -
Threats: Intimidation and Its Discontents by David P. Barash
RRP: €31.52€26.64"It's a rare author who can combine literary erudition and an easy fluency of style together with expert knowledge of psychology and evolutionary biology. David Barash adds to all this a far-seeing wisdom and a humane decency that shines through on every... -
Evolution of Plant-Pollinator Relationships by Sebastien Patiny 9780521198929
RRP: €123.76€110.48What are the evolutionary mechanisms and ecological implications behind a pollinator choosing its favourite flower? Sixty-five million years of evolution has created the complex and integrated system which we see today and understanding the interactions... -
The Problem of Increasing Human Energy by Nikola Tesla 9780648859468
RRP: €11.89€10.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648859468Author Nikola TeslaFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Distant MirrorPublisher Distant MirrorWeight(grams) 154g -
The Evolutionary Synthesis: Perspectives on the Unification of Biology, With a New Preface by Ernst Mayr 9780674272262
RRP: €52.30€42.30Biology was forged into a single, coherent science only within living memory. In this volume the thinkers responsible for the "modern synthesis" of evolutionary biology and genetics come together to analyze that remarkable event.In a new Preface, Ernst... -
Odd Couples: Extraordinary Differences between the Sexes in the Animal Kingdom by Daphne J. Fairbairn 9780691141961
€34.84While 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... -
Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree: Ecology and Adaptive Radiation of Anoles by Jonathan B. Losos 9780520269842
RRP: €65.45€52.25Adaptive 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... -
Evidence of Evolution by Mary Ellen Hannibal
€24.59Published 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... -
A Dictionary of Genetics by Robert C. King 9780199766444
RRP: €90.44€83.56This eighth edition of A Dictionary of Genetics contains over 7,500 up-to-date and cross-referenced entries, including 540 that are newly written. The entries include the latest terminology, concepts, theories, and techniques, covering not only genetics... -
Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind by Richard Fortey
RRP: €26.18€18.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307275530Author Richard ForteyFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Evolution and Medicine by Robert Perlman 9780199661725
€65.63Evolution and Medicine provides an accessible introduction to the new field of evolutionary medicine. Evolutionary concepts help explain why we remain vulnerable to disease, how pathogens and cancer cells evolve, and how the diseases that affected our... -
Rediscovering Darwin: The Rest of Darwin's Theory and Why We Need It Today by David Loye 9780692984024
RRP: €13.09€9.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692984024Author David LoyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Romanes PressPublisher Romanes PressWeight(grams) 281g -
Sexual Coercion in Primates and Humans: An Evolutionary Perspective on Male Aggression against Females Martin N. Muller 9780674033245
€80.87Conflict between males and females over reproduction is ubiquitous in nature due to fundamental differences between the sexes in reproductive rates and investment in offspring. In only a few species, however, do males strategically employ violence to... -
Agents Under Fire: Materialism and the Rationality of Science by Angus Menuge 9780742534049
RRP: €74.97€65.28In the first study of its kind, Agents Under Fire defends a robust notion of agency and intentionality against eliminative and naturalistic alternatives, showing the interconnections between the philosophy of mind, theology, and Intelligent Design... -
Evolving Tomorrow: Genetic Engineering and the Evolutionary Future of the Anthropocene by Prof Asher D. Cutter 9780198874522
RRP: €41.64€35.81The Anthropocene defines the here-and-now time period on Earth of indelible (and possibly irreversible) human disturbance to the natural world, from habitat destruction and mass extinction to global climate change. To ameliorate and repair the damage... -
What We Are: The Evolutionary Roots of Our Future by Lonnie Aarssen 9783031058783
RRP: €33.31€26.75Other 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... -
Did Darwin Get It Right?: Essays on Games, Sex and Evolution by John Maynard-Smith 9780412038211
€120.88Now in paperback, Did Darwin Get It Right discusses some of the hottest issues in biology today. Its author, the eminently quotable John Maynard Smith, discusses such fascinating conundrums as how life began, whether the brain works like a computer, why... -
The Evolving Animal Orchestra: In Search of What Makes Us Musical by Henkjan Honing
RRP: €30.94€18.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262039321Author Henkjan HoningFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm -
The Organic Codes: An Introduction to Semantic Biology by Marcello Barbieri 9780521531009
RRP: €64.25€53.51The genetic code appeared on Earth with the first cells. The codes of cultural evolution arrived almost four billion years later. These are the only codes that are recognized by modern biology. In this book, however, Marcello Barbieri explains that there... -
Animal Architects: Building and the Evolution of Intelligence by James L. Gould 9780465028382
€27.89Animal Architects masterfully investigates how the structure an animal builds reveals the inner workings of its mind. Beginning with instinct and the simple homes of solitary insects, and progressing to conditioning, the cognitive map," and the role... -
How and Why Species Multiply: The Radiation of Darwin's Finches by Peter R. Grant
RRP: €38.08€29.46Charles 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... -
Homo Mysterious: Evolutionary Puzzles of Human Nature by David P. Barash 9780199751945
RRP: €42.83€27.67Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Causes of Evolution by John Burdon Haldane
RRP: €38.08€34.66J.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... -
The Evolution of Culture in Animals by John Tyler Bonner 9780691023731
RRP: €35.70€32.59Animals do have culture, maintains this delightfully illustrated and provocative book, which cites a number of fascinating instances of animal communication and learning. John Bonner traces the origins of culture back to the early biological evolution of... -
Exuberant Life: An Evolutionary Approach to Conservation in Galapagos by William H Durham
RRP: €52.94€44.11The 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,... -
Dinosaurs and Other Reptiles from the Mesozoic of Mexico by Hector E. Rivera-Sylva
RRP: €46.41€41.08This overview of dinosaur discoveries in Mexico synthesizes current information about the geography and environment of the region during the Mesozoic when it was the western margin of the ancient continent of Pangea. The book summarizes research on... -
Quantitative Genetics in the Wild by Anne Charmantier 9780199674244
€95.57Although the field of quantitative genetics - the study of the genetic basis of variation in quantitative characteristics such as body size, or reproductive success - is almost 100 years old, its application to the study of evolutionary processes in wild... -
The Origin Then and Now: An Interpretive Guide to the Origin of Species by David N. Reznick 9780691152578
RRP: €33.32€26.42Charles Darwin's Origin of Species is one of the most widely cited books in modern science. Yet tackling this classic can be daunting for students and general readers alike because of Darwin's Victorian prose and the complexity and scope of his ideas... -
Evolution: The Origins and Mechanisms of Diversity by Jonathan Bard
RRP: €82.10€70.83Evolution is the single unifying principle of biology and core to everything in the life sciences. More than a century of work by scientists from across the biological spectrum has produced a detailed history of life across the phyla and explained the... -
The War of the Sexes: How Conflict and Cooperation Have Shaped Men and Women from Prehistory to the Present by Paul Seabright 9780691133010
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... -
Phylogeny and Evolution of the Mollusca by Winston Ponder 9780520250925
RRP: €84.49€76.84Brought together by Winston F. Ponder and David R. Lindberg, thirty-six experts on the evolution of the Mollusca provide an up-to-date review of its evolutionary history. The Mollusca are the second largest animal phylum and boast a fossil record of over... -
Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution by Jonathan B. Losos 9780525534136
RRP: €28.56€19.84Apologies 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: €22.61€16.31Apologies 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... -
Transformations of Lamarckism: From Subtle Fluids to Molecular Biology by Snait B. Gissis 9780262527507
€73.74A reappraisal of Lamarckism-its historical impact and contemporary significance.In 1809-the year of Charles Darwin's birth-Jean-Baptiste Lamarck published Philosophie zoologique, the first comprehensive and systematic theory of biological evolution. The...