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Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind (Vol. 1) by Yuval Noah Harari
RRP: $36.11$19.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063051331Author Yuval Noah HarariFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 885g -
The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Finally Solving the Mystery of Life by Paul Davies
RRP: $14.18$10.02'A gripping new drama in science ... if you want to understand how the concept of life is changing, read this' Professor Andrew Briggs, University of OxfordWhen Darwin set out to explain the origin of species, he made no attempt to answer the deeper... -
Comparative Social Evolution by Dustin R. Rubenstein
RRP: $70.94$60.73Darwin famously described special difficulties in explaining social evolution in insects. More than a century later, the evolution of sociality - defined broadly as cooperative group living - remains one of the most intriguing problems in biology... -
The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution by Henry Gee
RRP: $19.35$16.83The idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually has religious roots in the deist concept of the Great Chain of Being. Yet the metaphor has lodged itself in the contemporary... -
5 Appetites: Eat Like the Animals for a Naturally Healthy Diet by David Raubenheimer
RRP: $12.89$8.57A New Scientist Best Book of 2020 How is it that a baboon and a blob of slime mould instinctively know what to eat for optimal health, balancing their protein, fat and carb intake in perfect proportions? In new, groundbreaking... -
Understanding Living Systems by Raymond Noble 9781009277365
RRP: $19.34$16.65Life is definitively purposive and creative. Organisms use genes in controlling their destiny. This book presents a paradigm shift in understanding living systems. The genome is not a code, blueprint or set of instructions. It is a tool orchestrated by... -
Connected: The Amazing Power of Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives by Nicholas A. Christakis
RRP: $14.18$10.02Is happiness catching? Are your friends making you fat? Can your sibling make you smart? Is wealth contagious? Where is true love found? Does free will exist? Based on exciting discoveries in mathematics, genetics, psychology and sociology,... -
The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction by Pat Shipman
RRP: $25.74$20.34A Times Higher Education Book of the WeekApproximately 200,000 years ago, as modern humans began to radiate out from their evolutionary birthplace in Africa, Neanderthals were already thriving in Europe-descendants of a much earlier migration of the... -
Understanding Natural Selection by Michael Ruse
RRP: $19.34$15.42Natural selection, as introduced by Charles Darwin in the Origin of Species (1859), has always been a topic of great conceptual and empirical interest. This book puts Darwin's theory of evolution in historical context showing that, in important respects,... -
Wildhood: the epic journey from adolescence to adulthood in humans and other animals by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz 9781912854660
RRP: $21.92$15.45A revelatory investigation of human and animal adolescence from the New York Times bestselling authors of Zoobiquity. Teenagers: behind the banter, the tediously repetitive games and clicks, the moping and screaming, the fast living, and the jockeying... -
The Descent of Man: Selection in Relation to Sex by Adrian J. Desmond
RRP: $16.76$12.24Applying his controversial theory of evolution to the origins of the human species, Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man was the culmination of his life's work. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by James Moore and Adrian Desmond... -
The Language of the Genes by Steve Jones
RRP: $15.47$10.87Steve Jones's highly acclaimed, double prize-winning, bestselling first book is now fully revised to cover all the new genetic breakthroughs from GM food to Dolly the sheep.'An essential sightseer's guide to our own genetic terrain.' Peter Tallack,... -
Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People by Joan Roughgarden 9780520280458
RRP: $38.70$29.95In this innovative celebration of diversity and affirmation of individuality in animals and humans, Joan Roughgarden challenges accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation. A distinguished evolutionary biologist, Roughgarden takes on the... -
Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time by Gaia Vince
RRP: $14.18$10.02* A TIMES BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR *From the prize-winning author of Adventures in the Anthropocene, the astonishing story of how culture enabled us to become the most successful species on Earth'A wondrous, visionary work' Tim Flannery, author of... -
Introducing Epigenetics: A Graphic Guide by Cath Ennis
RRP: $10.31$7.80Epigenetics is the most exciting field in biology today, developing our understanding of how and why we inherit certain traits, develop diseases and age, and evolve as a species. This non-fiction comic book introduces us to genetics, cell biology and the... -
Sensational: A New Story of our Senses by Ashley Ward
RRP: $25.80$16.90'A future classic of popular science' Mail on Sunday Why do women have a better sense of smell than men? Has the iPhone changed how we touch? Does the Danube really look blue when you're in love? Our senses are at the heart of how we navigate... -
Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test: How Behavior Evolves and Why It Matters by Marlene Zuk
RRP: $29.66$23.83It's time to leave behind the tired nature-versus-nurture debate. In Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test , Marlene Zuk asks a more fascinating question: How does behaviour evolve, and how is that process similar-and different-in people and animals?... -
Creation: The Origin of Life / The Future of Life by Adam Rutherford
RRP: $14.18$10.02Creation by Adam Rutherford tells the entire spellbinding story of life in two gripping narratives.'Prepare to be astounded. There are moments when this book is so gripping it reads like a thriller' Mail on SundayThe Origin of Life is a... -
Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution by Richard Dawkins 9781838937850
RRP: $32.25$28.88Richard Dawkins on how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to the skies. 'A masterly investigation of all aspects of flight, human and animal... A beautifully produced book that will appeal across age groups'... -
First Word, the: The Search for the Origins of Language by Christine Kenneally 9780143113744
RRP: $30.96$22.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143113744Author Christine KenneallyFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 213mm *... -
The Balance of Nature: Ecology's Enduring Myth by John Kricher 9780691138985
RRP: $32.25$24.74The 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 and thought-provoking book, John Kricher demonstrates... -
1493: How Europe's Discovery of the Americas Revolutionized Trade, Ecology and Life on Earth by Charles C. Mann
RRP: $16.76$11.04Two 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 separate, evolving almost entirely different suites of... -
Nonzero: History, Evolution & Human Cooperation by Robert Wright
RRP: $16.76$11.09In a book sure to stir argument for years to come, Robert Wright challen+ges the conventional view that biological evolution and human history are aimless. Ingeniously employing game theory - the logic of 'zero-sum' and 'non-zero-sum' games - Wright... -
The Science Of Discworld II: The Globe by Terry Pratchett
RRP: $19.34$14.64Acclaimed 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 which was interleaved with a Cohen & Stewart non-fiction... -
Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - and Us by Richard O. Prum
RRP: $18.05$11.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year 2017. Short-listed for Pulitzer Prize (Non-Fiction) 2018.Book InformationISBN 9780345804570Author Richard O. PrumFormat... -
Randomness in Evolution by John Tyler Bonner 9780691157016
RRP: $38.70$29.44John Tyler Bonner, one of our most distinguished and insightful biologists, here challenges a central tenet of evolutionary biology. In this concise, elegantly written book, he makes the bold and provocative claim that some biological diversity may be... -
The Emerald Planet: How plants changed Earth's history by David Beerling
RRP: $15.47$10.87Plants have profoundly moulded the Earth's climate and the evolutionary trajectory of life. Far from being 'silent witnesses to the passage of time', plants are dynamic components of our world, shaping the environment throughout history as much as that... -
How the Mind Changed: A Human History of our Evolving Brain by Dr Joseph Jebelli
RRP: $25.80$17.74The extraordinary story of how the human brain evolved... and is still evolving. We've come a long way. The earliest human had a brain as small as a child's fist; ours are four times bigger, with spectacular abilities and potential we are only just... -
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner
RRP: $23.22$14.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize 1995. Nominated for ALA Best Books for Young Adults.Book InformationISBN 9780679733379Author Jonathan WeinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint... -
Understanding Reproduction by Giuseppe Fusco 9781009225939
RRP: $19.34$16.19Our 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... -
Why Size Matters: From Bacteria to Blue Whales by John Tyler Bonner 9780691254401
RRP: $18.05$14.38John Tyler Bonner, one of our most distinguished and creative biologists, here offers a completely new perspective on the role of size in biology. In his hallmark friendly style, he explores the universal impact of being the right size. By examining... -
Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries Revealing the Mind Behind the Universe by Stephen C. Meyer
RRP: $32.24$20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062071514Author Stephen C. MeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Future Superhuman: Our transhuman lives in a make-or-break century by Elise Bohan 9781742236759
RRP: $24.45$20.15It's humanity's make-or-break-century. In breathtakingly original prose, Elise Bohan argues that we're hurtling towards a superhuman future - or, if we blunder, extinction. The only way out of our existential crises, from global warming to the risks... -
The Social Leap: The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come from, and What Makes Us Happy by William von Hippel
RRP: $16.76$10.94"A rollicking tour through humanity's evolutionary past, and von Hippel is the consummate tour guide. With equal parts wisdom, humor, authority, and charm, he shows how our past explains the present and why our well-being rests on an understanding of how... -
Human Molecular Genetics by Tom Strachan 9780815345893
RRP: $96.74$86.37Human Molecular Genetics has been carefully crafted over successive editions to provide an authoritative introduction to the molecular aspects of human genetics, genomics and cell biology.Maintaining the features that have made previous editions so... -
Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA by Neil Shubin 9781786079428
RRP: $15.47$9.79'Intimate and thoughtful... Exciting... [A] sweeping evolutionary history.' Science The author of the bestselling Your Inner Fish gives us a brilliant, up-to-date account of the great transformations in the history of life on Earth. This is a story... -
Optima for Animals: Revised Edition by R.McNeill Alexander
RRP: $103.20$92.38Optimization 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 processes of evolution or of learning by trial and error... -
Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence by Carl Sagan
RRP: $11.60$7.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize 1978.Book InformationISBN 9780345346292Author Carl SaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA... -
Evolution's Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins by Peter Ungar
RRP: $24.50$19.08Whether we realize it or not, we carry in our mouths the legacy of our evolution. Our teeth are like living fossils that can be studied and compared to those of our ancestors to teach us how we became human. In Evolution's Bite, noted paleoanthropologist... -
Evolution: The Whole Story by Steve Parker
RRP: $25.74$19.26Evolution: 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 group and presents thematic essays discussing the...