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The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution by Henry Gee
Booksplease Price: $35.18The 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... -
Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe by Robert Lanza 9781935251743
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $23.16Robert Lanza is one of the most respected scientists in the world--a US News & World Report cover story called him a "genius" and a "renegade thinker," even likening him to Einstein. Lanza has teamed... -
A Brief History of the Last 13.8 Billion Years: a journey through life, the universe, and everything by David Baker
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.07How did time begin? What conditions led to humans evolving on Earth? Will we survive the Anthropocene? And is it really true that we're all made from stars? Combining knowledge from chemistry,... -
Understanding DNA Ancestry by Sheldon Krimsky
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $21.57DNA ancestry companies generate revenues in the region of $1bn a year, and the company 23andMe is said to have sold 10 million DNA ancestry kits to date. Although evidently popular, the science... -
The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World by Nichola Raihani
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73'A phenomenally important book' Lewis Dartnell, author of OriginsWhy do we live in families?Why do we help complete strangers?Why do we compare ourselves to others?Why do we cooperate?The science of... -
Supernormal Stimuli: How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpose by Deirdre Barrett 9780393068481
RRP: $71.40Booksplease Price: $63.29Have you ever wondered why some men choose pornography over actual women? Why so many people watch Friends instead of going out with their own buddies? Why a person would "feed" a plastic Pocket Pet... -
Darwin's Island: The Galapagos in the Garden of England by Professor Steve Jones
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45The Origin of Species may be the most famous book in science but its stature tends to obscure much of Charles Darwin's other works. His visit to the Galapagos lasted just five weeks and on his return... -
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.54________________ WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION ________________ 'An invaluable contribution to our understanding of present circumstances, just as the paradigm... -
Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry by Christie Wilcox
Booksplease Price: $28.56Wilcox takes us from the coast of Indonesia to the rain forests of Peru in search of the secrets of these mysterious animals. We encounter jellyfish that release microscopic venom-packed darts known... -
Ten Tantalising Truths: Why the Sky is Blue, and other Big Answers to Simple Questions by John Gribbin 9781837731008
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Obvious questions do not always have obvious answers. John Gribbin is known for giving us simple explanations of big concepts in science. But there is another way to probe the mysteries of the... -
Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed by Douglas Axe 9780062349590
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062349590Author Douglas AxeFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint -
The Contact Paradox: Challenging Our Assumptions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence by Keith Cooper
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $19.11What will happen if (perhaps when) humanity makes contact with another civilisation on a different planet? In 1974 a message was beamed towards the stars by the giant Arecibo telescope in Puerto... -
Deceit and Self-Deception: Fooling Yourself the Better to Fool Others by Robert L. Trivers
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.38In Deceit and Self Deception Robert Trivers, whose work has been acclaimed by figures such as Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker, looks at how and why we so often deceive ourselves. We lie to... -
Evolution's Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins by Peter Ungar
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $39.00Whether 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... -
A Human History of Emotion: How the Way We Feel Built the World We Know by Richard Firth-Godbehere
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $30.98How have our emotions shaped the course of human history? And how have our experience and understanding of emotions evolved with us? ... -
![The Hidden History of the Human Race: The Condensed Edition of "Forbidden Archeology" by Michael A. Cremo 9780892133253](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9468943/10502790/9780892133253__74167.1768200656.jpg?c=1 "The Hidden History of the Human Race: The Condensed Edition of "Forbidden Archeology" by Michael A. Cremo 9780892133253")
The Hidden History of the Human Race: The Condensed Edition of "Forbidden Archeology" by Michael A. Cremo 9780892133253
RRP: $32.55Booksplease Price: $28.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892133253Author Michael A. CremoFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint
Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding by Daniel Lieberman
RRP: $37.80Booksplease Price: $19.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525434788Author Daniel LiebermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint
The Earth: A Biography of Life: The Story of Life On Our Planet through 47 Incredible Organisms Dr Elsa Panciroli 9781529413984
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $38.64'An insightful book with sparkling wit and humour that will appeal to new and seasoned readers of palaeontology.'Dr Anjana Khatwa, TV presenter and Earth ScientistIt is difficult to conceive of the...
Introducing Epigenetics: A Graphic Guide by Cath Ennis 9781848318625
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.61Epigenetics 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...
The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals died out and we survived by Clive Finlayson
RRP: $28.33Booksplease Price: $21.97Just 28,000 years ago, the blink of an eye in geological time, the last of Neanderthals died out in their last outpost, in caves near Gibraltar. Thanks to cartoons and folk accounts we have a...
Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth - Updated Edition by Andrew H. Knoll 9780691165530
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $22.68Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites--such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form...
Extinction: A Very Short Introduction by Paul B. Wignall
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23Most people are familiar with the dodo and the dinosaur, but extinction has occurred throughout the history of life, with the result that nearly all the species that have ever existed are now extinct...
How the Mind Changed: A Human History of our Evolving Brain Joseph Jebelli 9781529300130
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $30.98The 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...
Life Changing: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING ON GLOBAL CONSERVATION by Helen Pilcher
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $16.25SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING ON GLOBAL CONSERVATION 'Pilcher is both very funny and very, very clever.' Gillian Burke 'Richly entertaining throughout.' Sunday Times For...
The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention by Simon Baron-Cohen 9781541647152
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $27.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541647152Author Simon Baron-CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint
Harnessed: How Language and Music Mimicked Nature and Transformed Ape to Man by Mark A. Changizi 9781935618539
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $24.68The scientific consensus is that our ability to understand human speech has evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. After all, there are whole portions of the brain devoted to human speech. We...
The Social Conquest of Earth by Edward O. Wilson
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $28.16Sparking 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 Case Against Darwin: Why the Evidence Should Be Examined by James Perloff 9780966816013
RRP: $16.70Booksplease Price: $15.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780966816013Author James PerloffFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint
Metamorphosis: Unmasking the Mystery of How Life Transforms by Frank Ryan
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.95In this enchanting work of scientific exploration, acclaimed science author Frank Ryan explains how metamorphosis - the intricate trick of nature by which caterpillars transform into butterflies -...
How to Grow a Human: Adventures in Who We Are and How We Are Made by Philip Ball
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.95A cutting-edge examination of what it means to be human and to have a 'self' in the face of new scientific developments in genetic editing, cloning and neural downloading. After seeing his...
Genes, Peoples, and Languages by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.54Historians relying on written records can tell us nothing about the 99.9% of human evolution which preceded the invention of writing. It is the study of genetic variation, backed up by language and...
The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis: The Most Credible Theory of Human Evolution by Elaine Morgan
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Why do humans differ from other primates? What do those differences tell us about human evolution? Elaine Morgan gives a revolutionary hypothesis that explains our anatomic anomalies: why we walk on...
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared M Diamond
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $27.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060845506Author Jared M DiamondFormat PaperbackPage Count 407Imprint
Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence by Carl Sagan
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize 1978.Book InformationISBN 9780345346292Author Carl SaganFormat Paperback
On the Origin of Species: A Facsimile of the First Edition by Charles Darwin
RRP: $54.50Booksplease Price: $47.25It is now generally recognized that the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859 not only decisively altered the basic concepts of biological theory but had a profound and lasting influence...
Darwin: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Howard
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23Darwin's theory that our ancestors were apes caused a furore in the scientific world and outside it when The Origin of Species was published in 1859. Arguments still rage about the implications of...
The Revival: Path to a New Earth/New Human by Penny Kelly 9781636251523
Booksplease Price: $45.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636251523Author Penny KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint
Across the Bridge: Understanding the Origin of the Vertebrates by Henry Gee
Booksplease Price: $58.00Our understanding of vertebrate origins and the backbone of human history evolves with each new fossil find and DNA map. Many species have now had their genomes sequenced, and molecular techniques...
Life Unfolding: How the human body creates itself by Jamie A. Davies
RRP: $28.33Booksplease Price: $21.97Where did I come from? Why do I have two arms but just one head? How is my left leg the same size as my right one? Why are the fingerprints of identical twins not identical? How did my brain learn to...
Introducing Genetics: A Graphic Guide by Steve Jones
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $7.31Genetics is the newest of all sciences - nothing useful was known about inheritance until just over a century ago. Now genetics is exploding, and before long we will have the complete code, written...