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Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19 by Alina Chan 9780008487539
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.63Understanding how Covid-19 started is more important than we know for the future of humankind. Determining whether the virus came from nature or from a lab will... -
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas by Jeniffer Raff 9781538749692
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538749692Author Jeniffer RaffFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint -
30-Second Evolution: The 50 most significant ideas and events, each explained in half a minute by Mark Fellowes 9781848318403
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.99Adapt or die: it's nature's most famous imperative. But how does evolution actually happen? It's too slow to see, but it's going on all around you, all the time. Even if you're on top of the key... -
The Darwin Awards by Wendy Northcutt
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £11.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452283442Author Wendy NorthcuttFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint -
The Science of Self-Empowerment: Awakening the New Human Story by Gregg Braden
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.89The Science of Self-Empowerment invites you on a journey beyond Darwin's theory of evolution, beginning with the fact that we exist as we do, even more empowered and connected with ourselves and the... -
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Sex is as fascinating to scientists as it is to the rest of us. A vast pool of knowledge, therefore, has been gleaned from research into the nature of sex, from the contentious problem of why the... -
1493: How Europe's Discovery of the Americas Revolutionized Trade, Ecology and Life on Earth by Charles C. Mann
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Two hundred million years ago the earth consisted of a single vast continent, Pangea, surrounded by a great planetary sea. Continental drift tore apart Pangaea, and for millennia the hemispheres were... -
The Beak Of The Finch by Jonathan Weiner
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47This is one of the easiest-to-read, most exciting books on evolution of the past twenty years. It describes evolution happening before our eyes among the isolated bird populations of the Galapagos -... -
Evolution: The Whole Story by Steve Parker
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £16.03Evolution: The Whole Story contains everything you need to know about the development and survival of life on Earth. Each chapter of this accessible and lavishly illustrated book takes a major living... -
Virusphere: Ebola, AIDS, Influenza and the Hidden World of the Virus by Frank Ryan
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.63A virologist's insight into how viruses evolve and why global epidemics are inevitable In 1993 a previously healthy young man was drowning in the middle of a desert, in fluids produced by... -
The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace 9780565095390
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50The Malay Archipelago is a vivid, momentous and far-reaching account of Alfred Russel Wallace's eight-year exploration of South East Asia in the 1850s and 60s. Wallace's travels led him to conceive... -
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds by Daniel C. Dennett
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'Required reading for anyone remotely curious about how they came to be remotely curious' Observer'Enthralling' Spectator What is human consciousness and how is it possible? These questions ... -
The Origin of Our Species by Chris Stringer
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Chris Stringer's bestselling The Origin of our Species tackles the big questions in the ongoing debate about the beginnings of human life on earth. Do all humans originate from Africa? How did we... -
The Laszlo Chronicle: A Global Thinker's Journey from Systems to Consciousness and the Akashic Field by Gyorgyi Szabo
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.00This study analyses the fifty year evolution of Ervin Laszlo's contribution to science and philosophy. It records the major turning points in his thinking and discusses who and what influenced this... -
Human Origins: 7 million years and counting New Scientist 9781529382013
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £3.10Where did we come from? Where are we going?Homo sapiens is the most successful, the most widespread and the most influential species ever to walk the Earth. In the blink of an evolutionary eye we... -
The Primate Family Tree: The Amazing Diversity of Our Closest Relatives by Ian Redmond 9781554079643
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £18.22"The book is beautifully designed, and the contents are well organized and will be interesting to all.... An excellent text for a relevant course or a welcome addition to any home library. I... -
The Return of the God Hypothesis by Stephen C Meyer
RRP: £32.50Booksplease Price: £20.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062071507Author Stephen C MeyerFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint -
Here on Earth: A Twin Biography of the Planet and the Human Race by Tim Flannery 9780241950739
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47What is our place on Earth? Are humans destined to become a footnote in history, or will we become stronger and wiser, and conquer our environmental problems? In this extraordinary story of our... -
Alas Poor Darwin: Arguments Against Evolutionary Psychology by Hilary Rose 9780099283195
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £10.12Today, genes are called upon to explain almost every aspect of our lives, from social inequalities to health, sexual preference and criminality. Based on Darwin's theory of evolution and natural... -
Darwin's Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case For Intelligent Design by Stephen C. Meyer 9780062071484
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £13.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062071484Author Stephen C. MeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint
The Age of Cats: How Cats Evolved from the Savannah to your Sofa by Jonathan B. Losos 9780008339500
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.06The past, present and future of the world's most popular and beloved pet, from a leading evolutionary biologist and great cat lover. ‘Engaging and wide-ranging … The Age of Cats is a readable and...
At Day's Close: A History of Nighttime Professor A. Roger Ekirch 9781474624916
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88A fascinating and colourful social history of the nighttime.'A wonderful revelation of a vanished age of darkness' SPECTATOR'Fascinating' SUNDAY TIMES'A splendid book ... great entertainment' Sir...
Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness by Nicholas Humphrey 9780198858546
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73We feel therefore we are. Conscious sensations ground our sense of self. They are essential to our idea of ourselves as psychic beings: present, existent, and mattering. But is it only humans who...
Selfish Genes to Social Beings: A Cooperative History of Life by Jonathan Silvertown 9780198876397
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.98For all the "selfishness" of genes, they team up to survive. Is the history of life in fact a story of cooperation? Amid the violence and brutality that dominates the news, it's hard to think of...
The Origins of Virtue by Matt Ridley
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Why are people nice to each other? What are the reasons for altrusim? Matt Ridley explains how the human mind has evolved a special instinct for social exchange, offering a lucid and persuasive...
Darwin's Notebook by Jonathan Clements
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.60Many people have written biographies of Charles Darwin, but the story of his family and roots in Shrewsbury is little known. This book, containing original research, fills that gap. The key player is...
Darwin by Adrian J. Desmond
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.03This biography of Charles Darwin attempts to capture the private unknown life of the real man - the gambling and gluttony at Cambridge, his gruelling trip round the globe, his intimate family life,...
Evolution: A Very Short Introduction by Brian Charlesworth
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.25Less than 450 years ago, all European scholars believed that the Earth was at the centre of a Universe that was at most a few million miles in extent, and that the planets, sun, and stars all rotated...
The Social Conquest of Earth by Edward O. Wilson
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.99Sparking vigorous debate in the sciences, The Social Conquest of Earth upends "the famous theory that evolution naturally encourages creatures to put family first" (Discover). Refashioning the story...
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life by David Quammen
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction and A New York Times Notable Book of 2018. Our understanding of the 'tree of life', with powerful implications for human genetics,...
What is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology by Addy Pross
RRP: £12.49Booksplease Price: £7.99Seventy years ago, Erwin Schroedinger posed a profound question: 'What is life, and how did it emerge from non-life?' This problem has puzzled biologists and physical scientists ever since. ...
Dog Behaviour, Evolution, and Cognition by Adam Miklosi
RRP: £59.00Booksplease Price: £57.00This is the first book to collate and synthesize the recent burgeoning primary research literature on dog behaviour, evolution, and cognition. The author presents a new ecological approach to the...
The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin 9781853264764
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.88With an Introduction by David Amigoni. Charles Darwin's travels around the world as an independent naturalist on HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836 impressed upon him a sense of the natural world's...
The Cosmic Hologram: In-formation at the Center of Creation by Jude Currivan 9781620556603
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99Exploring how information is more fundamental than energy, matter, space, or time, Jude Currivan, Ph.D., examines the latest research across many fields of study and many scales of existence to show...
Circadian Rhythms: A Very Short Introduction by Russell Foster 9780198717683
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.20The earth's daily rotation affects just about every living creature. From dawn through to dusk, there are changes in light, temperature, humidity, and rainfall. However, these changes are regular,...
The Science Of Discworld II: The Globe by Terry Pratchett
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.71Acclaimed The Science of Discworld centred around an original Pratchett story about the wizards of Discworld. In it they accidentally witnessed the creation and evolution of our universe, a plot...
The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee: how our animal heritage affects the way we live by Jared Diamond
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.47From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and SteelMore than 98 % of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee. The 'third' chimpanzee is man. Jared Diamond surveys our...
Introducing Darwin: A Graphic Guide by Jonathan Miller
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.85Progress 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...
Introducing Evolution: A Graphic Guide by Dylan Evans
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £3.77In 1859, Charles Darwin shocked the world with a radical theory - evolution by natural selection. One hundred and fifty years later, his theory still challenges some of our most precious beliefs...
Life: an Unauthorized Biography by Richard A. Fortey 9780006384205
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.86A magisterial exploration of the natural history of the first four thousand million years of life on and in the earth, by one of Britain's most dazzling science writers. What do any of us...