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Explaining Life through Evolution by Prosanta Chakrabarty 9780262546256
RRP: $28.14Booksplease Price: $21.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546256Author Prosanta ChakrabartyFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Im -
Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create by Pascal Boyer
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.65A watershed book that masterfully integrates insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and more to explore the development and workings of human societies "There is no good... -
The Little Book of Aliens by Adam Frank 9780063279735
RRP: $37.51Booksplease Price: $22.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063279735Author Adam FrankFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint -
The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct by Bert Holldobler 9780393338683
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.75The Leafcutter Ants is the most detailed and authoritative description of any ant species ever produced. With a text suitable for both a lay and a scientific audience, the book provides an... -
Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans by Bill Schutt 9781643751788
RRP: $41.54Booksplease Price: $27.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643751788Author Bill SchuttFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint -
Creative Evolution by Henri Bergson 9780486400365
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486400365Author Henri BergsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint -
Thinking Big: How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind by Clive Gamble 9780500293829
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92When and how did the brains of our hominin ancestors become human minds? When and why did our capacity for language or art, music and dance evolve? It is the contention of this pathbreaking and... -
The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe 9781784704896
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11'A great journalist with a whip-like satirical prose style... Wolfe's great gift is to make the heavy seem light and this book is such an entertaining polemic that I read it in a day and immediately... -
Darwin's Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind by Kevin N. Laland
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $25.29Humans possess an extraordinary capacity for culture, from the arts and language to science and technology. But how did the human mind-and the uniquely human ability to devise and transmit... -
How We Talk by N. J. Enfield
Booksplease Price: $42.73We all had teachers who scolded us over the use of um, uh-huh, oh, like, and mm-hmm. But as linguist N. J. Enfield reveals in How We Talk, these "bad words" are fundamental to language. Whether we... -
Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution by Lynn Margulis
RRP: $36.18Booksplease Price: $30.71This title is back in print with a revised preface. "Microcosmos" brings together the remarkable discoveries of microbiology of the past two decades and the pioneering research of Dr. Margulis to... -
Mismatch: How Our Stone Age Brain Deceives Us Every Day (And What We Can Do About It) Ronald Giphart 9781472139726
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36Our brains evolved to solve the survival problems of our Stone Age ancestors, so when faced with modern day situations that are less extreme, they often encounter a mismatch. Our primitive brains put... -
Signature of Controversy: Responses to Critics of Signature in the Cell by David Klinghoffer 9780979014185
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $11.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979014185Author David KlinghofferFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint -
The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans Eben Kirksey (Deakin University, Australia) 9781529217292
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.41Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2021 An anthropologist visits the frontiers of genetics, medicine, and technology to ask: whose values are guiding gene-editing experiments, and what are the... -
Evolution: A Little History of a Great Idea by Gerard Cheshire
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $6.20Why did Darwin find tortoises so interesting? Are humans really descended from ancient apes? How did the peacock get its tail? What might life look like elsewhere in the universe? In this... -
Do We Need Midwives? by Michel Odent
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.03What is the future of the human capacity to give birth? What is the future of underused physiological functions? Should we expect an evolution of Homo sapiens in relation to the way babies are born?... -
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life by Nick Lane 9780393088816
RRP: $32.15Booksplease Price: $27.95The Earth teems with life: in its oceans, forests, skies and cities. Yet there's a black hole at the heart of biology. We do not know why complex life is the way it is, or, for that matter, how life... -
Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution by Michael J. Behe
Booksplease Price: $17.57Ten years ago, Darwin's Black Box launched the Intelligent Design movement: the argument that nature exhibits evidence of design, beyond Darwinian randomness. Today the movement is stronger than... -
The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism by Michael J. Behe 9780743296229
Booksplease Price: $19.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743296229Author Michael J. BeheFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint -
The Equations of Life: The Hidden Rules Shaping Evolution by Charles Cockell
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Britain's foremost astrobiologist offers an accessible and game-changing account of why life is like it is.The puzzles of life astound and confuse us like no other mystery. But in this revolutionary... -
Super Fly: The Unexpected Lives of the World's Most Successful Insects by Jonathan Balcombe
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143134275Author Jonathan BalcombeFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint -
How Men Age: What Evolution Reveals about Male Health and Mortality by Richard G. Bribiescas 9780691180915
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.73A groundbreaking book that examines all aspects of male aging through an evolutionary lensWhile the health of aging men has been a focus of biomedical research for years, evolutionary biology has not... -
Life Itself: A Comprehensive Inquiry Into the Nature, Origin, and Fabrication of Life by Robert Rosen 9780231075657
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $29.08Why are living things alive? As a theoretical biologist, Robert Rosen saw this as the most fundamental of all questions-and yet it had never been answered satisfactorily by science. The answers to... -
Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection by Peter Godfrey-Smith 9780199596270
Booksplease Price: $64.23In 1859 Darwin described a deceptively simple mechanism that he called "natural selection," a combination of variation, inheritance, and reproductive success. He argued that this mechanism was the... -
On the Origin of Evolution: Tracing 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea' from Aristotle to DNA by John Gribbin 9780008333409
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10A Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from the brain of Charles Darwin. Rather it has been examined and... -
Sexual Selection: A Very Short Introduction by Marlene Zuk 9780198778752
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36What is responsible for the differences between the sexes in so many animals, from the brilliant plumage of birds of paradise to the antlers on deer? And why are the traits that distinguish the sexes... -
Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity by Jamie Metzl 9781492670094
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $24.88"A gifted and thoughtful writer, Metzl brings us to the frontiers of biology and technology, and reveals a world full of promise and peril." - Siddhartha Mukherjee MD, New York Times bestselling... -
This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution David Sloan Wilson 9781101872819
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101872819Author David Sloan WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprin -
Reptiles: A Very Short Introduction by T. S. Kemp
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36For millions of years reptiles have walked, crawled, and slithered over the face of our Earth. From the mighty dinosaurs who dominated the land, the pterosaurs who took to the air, and the marine... -
In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration by Shane O'Mara
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.61In this "wonderful" (John Brandon, Forbes) book, neuroscientist Shane O'Mara invites us to marvel at the benefits walking confers on our bodies and brains, and to appreciate the advantages of this... -
Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty by Nancy Etcoff
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $16.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385479424Author Nancy EtcoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint < -
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors by Professor of Visual Psychology Nicholas Wade
RRP: $32.16Booksplease Price: $27.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143038320Author Nicholas WadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
A Pocket History of Human Evolution by Silvana Condemi 9781615196043
Booksplease Price: $17.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615196043Author Silvana CondemiFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint -
Our Oldest Companions: The Story of the First Dogs by Pat Shipman
RRP: $29.41Booksplease Price: $25.26How did the dog become man's best friend? A celebrated anthropologist unearths the mysterious origins of the unique partnership that rewrote the history of both species.Dogs and humans have been... -
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life by Nick Lane 9780393352979
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.94The Earth teems with life: in its oceans, forests, skies and cities. Yet there's a black hole at the heart of biology. We do not know why complex life is the way it is, or, for that matter, how life... -
Feathered Dinosaurs: The Origin of Birds by John L. Long
RRP: $68.34Booksplease Price: $53.61Scientists have recovered more than a billion fossils, but no discovery has been more breath-taking than the fossils recently found in northern China, findings which prove that several families of... -
The Cat: A Natural and Cultural History by Sarah Brown
Booksplease Price: $32.43A comprehensive, richly illustrated introduction to the behavior and qualities of the catOf all the domesticated species, cats have enjoyed the most complex relationship with people-one that still... -
Restless Creatures: The Story of Life in Ten Movements Matt Wilkinson 9781785780455
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.67A billion-year history of movement,from bacteria to Olympic athletes.'Packed with revelations, scholarly but clear, Restless Creatures carriesyou from the kinetics of the amoeba to that of the blue... -
Human Devolution: A Vedic Alternative to Darwin's Theory by Michael A. Cremo 9780892133345
RRP: $45.55Booksplease Price: $36.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892133345Author Michael A. CremoFormat HardbackPage Count 554Imprint -
Gaian Systems: Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and the End of the Anthropocene by Bruce Clarke
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $24.13A groundbreaking look at Gaia theory's intersections with neocybernetic systems theory Often seen as an outlier in science, Gaia has run a long and varied course since its formulation in the 1970s...