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Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness by Nicholas Humphrey
RRP: $16.76$11.09How is consciousness possible? What biological purpose does it serve? Why do we value it so highly? In Soul Dust the psychologist Nicholas Humphrey, a leading figure in consciousness research, returns to the front-line with a startling new theory... -
Science and Religion in Quest of Truth by John Polkinghorne
RRP: $14.18$12.37[This book] covers what I believe to be the critical issues in the contemporary vigorous debate between science and theology, concentrating on what I judge to be the essential insights that are relevant to the issues raised. References are given to my... -
Evolutionary Humanism by Julian Huxley 9780879757786
RRP: $18.05$13.65In this dazzling collection of essays covering a broad range of fields, from Darwinism and the global population explosion to bird watching, distinguished scientist and philosopher Sir Julian Huxley points out new frontiers for scientific research and... -
Sex, Ecology, Spirituality by Ken Wilber
RRP: $52.89$35.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570627446Author Ken WilberFormat PaperbackPage Count 880Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Plant Behaviour and Intelligence by Anthony Trewavas 9780198753681
RRP: $68.37$50.35This book provides a convincing argument for the view that whole cells and whole plants growing in competitive wild conditions show aspects of plant behaviour that can be accurately described as 'intelligent'. Trewavas argues that behaviour, like... -
Almost Like A Whale: The Origin Of Species Updated by Steve Jones
RRP: $19.34$14.13In his new book, Steve Jones takes on the challenge of going back to the book of the millennium, Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species. Before The Origin, biology was a set of unconnected facts. Darwin made it into a science, linked by the theory of... -
On the Origin of Species by Damien Hirst
RRP: $12.89$9.17Charles Darwin's seminal formulation of the theory of Evolution, On the Origin of Species continues to be as controversial today as when it was first published. This Penguin Classics edition contains an introduction and notes by William Bynum, and... -
Harnessed: How Language and Music Mimicked Nature and Transformed Ape to Man by Mark A. Changizi 9781935618539
RRP: $16.76$14.13The 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 learn to understand speech before we can even walk, and... -
Ten Tantalising Truths: Why the Sky is Blue, and other Big Answers to Simple Questions by John Gribbin 9781837731008
RRP: $16.76$11.04Obvious 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 Universe and our place in it. Faced with persistent enquiries... -
Processes in Human Evolution: The journey from early hominins to Neanderthals and modern humans by Francisco J. Ayala 9780198739913
RRP: $77.40$73.48The discoveries of the last decade have brought about a completely revised understanding of human evolution due to the recent advances in genetics, palaeontology, ecology, archaeology, geography, and climate science. Written by two leading authorities in... -
Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation: Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex by Olivia Judson
RRP: $14.18$10.02If you have ever wondered why women always bite your head off or why one guy gets all the girls, if you have ever pondered why some men bring you balloons while others leave you their genitals, then Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation is the book for... -
Our Inner Ape: The Best And Worst Of Human Nature by Franz de Waal 9781862078826
RRP: $12.89$8.64We have long attributed man's violent, aggressive, competitive nature to his animal ancestry. But what if we are just as given to cooperation, empathy and morality by virtue of our genes? From a scientist and writer whom E. O. Wilson has called 'the... -
Phylogenomic Data Acquisition: Principles and Practice by W. Bryan Jennings
RRP: $76.10$65.89Phylogenomics is a rapidly growing field of study concerned with using genome-wide data-usually in the form of DNA sequence loci-to infer the evolution of genes, genomes, and the Tree of Life. Accordingly, this discipline connects many areas in biology... -
The Tree Of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding by Humberto Maturana Rumesin
RRP: $41.28$26.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877736424Author Humberto R. MaturanaFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
The Descent of Woman by Elaine Morgan
RRP: $12.89$9.17'One of the key feminist texts' Guardian The Descent of Woman is a pioneering work, the first to argue for the equal role of women in human evolution. On its first publication in 1972 it sparked an international debate and became a rallying-point for... -
The Deadly Balance: Predators and People in a Crowded World by Adam Hart
RRP: $23.21$17.49The predators that can hunt, kill and eat us occupy a unique place in the human psyche - and for good reason. Whether it's lions in Africa, tigers in India or sharks in the world's oceans, we are fascinated by - and often terrified of - predators... -
Human Devolution: A Vedic Alternative to Darwin's Theory by Michael A. Cremo 9780892133345
$45.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892133345Author Michael A. CremoFormat HardbackPage Count 554Imprint Bhaktivedanta Book TrustPublisher Bhaktivedanta Book TrustWeight(grams)... -
Connections: The Story of Human Feeling by Karl Deisseroth
$24.06In this riveting journey through the hidden realms of the human mind, a world-renowned psychiatrist and neuroscientist explores the origins of human emotion, and examines what mental illnesses reveal about all of us - how the broken can illuminate the... -
The Origins of Creativity by Edward O. Wilson 9780141986340
RRP: $14.18$10.02'An intellectual hero ... A superb celebrator of science in all its manifestations' Ian McEwan'Darwin's great successor' Jeffrey SachsThe legendary biologist Edward O. Wilson offers his most philosophically probing work to date'Creativity is the unique... -
Principles of Geology by Charles Lyell
RRP: $19.34$14.13One of the key works in the nineteenth-century battle between science and Scripture, Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology (1830-33) sought to explain the geological state of the modern Earth by considering the long-term effects of observable natural... -
Genetic Entropy by John C Sanford
RRP: $32.25$27.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981631608Author John C SanfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Feed My Sheep Foundation, Inc.Publisher Feed My Sheep Foundation, Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist by Richard Dawkins 9781784162016
RRP: $14.18$10.02THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERRichard Dawkins - author of The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, and The God Delusion - is one of science's greatest communicators. This anthology of more than forty pieces is a kaleidoscopic argument for the power and... -
Thriving with Stone Age Minds: Evolutionary Psychology, Christian Faith, and the Quest for Human Flourishing by Justin L. Barrett
RRP: $21.92$15.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830852932Author Justin L. BarrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 153mm *... -
Darwin: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Howard
RRP: $11.60$8.32Darwin'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 his evolutionary theory, and scepticism about the value... -
Cracking the Aging Code: The New Science of Growing Old - And What It Means for Staying Young by Josh Mitteldorf 9781250061713
RRP: $25.79$17.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250061713Author Josh MitteldorfFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Flatiron BooksPublisher Flatiron BooksWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm... -
Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary perspectives on human behaviour by Kevin N. Laland 9780199586967
RRP: $53.52$45.77Evolutionary theory is one of the most wide-ranging and inspiring of scientific ideas. It offers a battery of methods that can be used to interpret human behaviour. But the legitimacy of this exercise is at the centre of a heated controversy that has... -
Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization by Edward Slingerland
RRP: $32.25$21.65While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and other intoxicants, none have offered a comprehensive, convincing answer to the basic question of why humans want to get high in the first place. Drunk elegantly cuts... -
Life Unfolding: How the human body creates itself by Jamie A. Davies
RRP: $15.47$10.87Where 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 learn? Why must I die? Questions like these remain... -
Astrobiology: A Very Short Introduction by David C. Catling
RRP: $11.60$8.32Astrobiology is the study of the origin and development of life on this and other planets. What fascinates people about astrobiology is that it seeks answers to long-standing unsolved questions: How quickly did life evolve on Earth and why did life... -
Genetics: Genes, genomes, and evolution by Philip Meneely
RRP: $90.29$88.09Recent advances that allow scientists to quickly and accurately sequence a genome have revolutionized our view of the structure and function of genes as well as our understanding of evolution. A new era of genetics is underway, one that allows us to... -
The Story of Earth & Life: A southern African perspective on a 4.6-billion-year journey by Terence McCarthy 9781770071483
$27.24Southern Africa is without equal in terms of geology, a treasure trove of valuable minerals with a geological history dating back some 3 600 million years. In addition, the evolution of plants and animals, especially mammals and dinosaurs, is well... -
Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry by Christie Wilcox
RRP: $16.76$11.61Wilcox 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 to kill humans in just two minutes, a two-inch... -
A Human History of Emotion: How the Way We Feel Built the World We Know by Richard Firth-Godbehere
RRP: $25.80$17.21How have our emotions shaped the course of human history? And how have our experience and understanding of emotions evolved with us? We humans like to think of ourselves as... -
Sleeping Beauties: The Mystery of Dormant Innovations in Nature and Culture by Andreas Wagner
RRP: $25.80$18.43Life innovates constantly, producing perfectly adapted species - but there's a catch. A TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BEST BOOK OF 2023 'Hopeful and fascinating.' THE TIMES Many animals and plants eke out seemingly unremarkable lives. Passive,... -
Unfit for Purpose: When Human Evolution Collides with the Modern World by Adam Hart
RRP: $21.92$15.84'A gripping and sobering reminder of how much we are all governed by our genetic inheritance. So much for free will.' The Mail on Sunday Stress, obesity, poor mental health, drug addiction, bowel diseases, violence and fake news; a stark checklist of... -
Introducing Evolutionary Psychology: A Graphic Guide by Dylan Evans
RRP: $11.60$8.55How did the mind evolve? How does the human mind differ from the minds of our ancestors, and from the minds of our nearest relatives, the apes? What are the universal features of the human mind, and why are they designed the way they are? If our minds... -
The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace 9780565095390
RRP: $19.34$12.64The 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 of evolution through natural selection independently of... -
The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World by Nichola Raihani
RRP: $12.89$9.17'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 cooperation tells us not only how we got here, but also... -
The Origin of Our Species by Chris Stringer
RRP: $14.18$10.02Chris 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 spread across the globe? Are we separate from... -
Sensational: A New Story of our Senses by Ashley Ward 9781788168878
RRP: $14.18$10.02'A future classic of popular science' Mail on Sunday 'A dazzling account' Financial Times 'Absorbing, surprising and at times profound. After reading this, reality will never be quite the same' Dave Goulson Our senses are how we navigate the...