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The Origin of Our Species by Chris Stringer
RRP: $21.43$15.15Chris 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: $21.43$15.15'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... -
Natural Selection and Social Theory: Selected Papers of Robert Trivers by Robert L. Trivers 9780195130621
RRP: $90.66$82.27Robert Trivers is one of the leading figures pioneering the field of sociobiology. For Natural Selection and Social Theory, he has selected eleven of his most influential papers, including several classic papers from the early 1970s on the evolution of... -
How to Grow a Human: Adventures in Who We Are and How We Are Made by Philip Ball
RRP: $19.48$12.71A 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 own cells used to grow clumps of new neurons -... -
The Lucky Escape: An Imaginative Journey Through the Digestive System by Jessica Swift
RRP: $19.07$15.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781463561864Author Katie WoodsFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
First Steps: How Walking Upright Made Us Human by Jeremy DeSilva
RRP: $39.00$26.79Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is an illogical development, as it slows us down. But here we are, suggesting there must have been something tremendous to gain from... -
What Evolution Is: From Theory to Fact by Ernst Mayr
RRP: $21.43$14.43What we do and do not know about evolution, by one of the field's pioneering thinkers.Evolution is the most important idea in biology, with implications that go far beyond science. But despite more than a century's progress in understanding, there is... -
The Genesis Quest: The Story of the Geniuses and Madmen Who Tried to Uncover the Origins of Life on Earth by Michael Marshall
RRP: $39.00$22.72How did life begin? Why are we here? These are some of the most profound questions we can ask. If we can find the answers, we can learn much about both ourselves and our relationship to the wider universe. For almost a century, a small band of eccentric... -
Five Billion Years Of Solitude: The Search for Life Among the Stars by Lee Billings
RRP: $33.13$22.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617230165Author Lee BillingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint CurrentPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 263g -
The Earth: A Biography of Life: The Story of Life On Our Planet through 47 Incredible Organisms by Kew Royal Botanic Gardens
RRP: $48.75$33.89'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 vast scale of the history of life on Earth, from the... -
Introducing Genetics: A Graphic Guide by Steve Jones
RRP: $15.58$6.67Genetics 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 in three thousand million letters of DNA, of what makes... -
Origin Of The Species by Charles Darwin
RRP: $39.00$28.65When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on board the H.M.S Beagle in 1836, he brought with him the notes and evidence which would form the basis of his landmark theory of evolution of species by a process of natural... -
Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind by Kermit Pattison
RRP: $25.33$16.54"Riveting. ... Pattison's uncanny ability [is] to write evocatively about science. ... In this, he is every bit as good as the best scientist writers." -New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) "Brilliant. ... A work of staggering depth."... -
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
RRP: $25.33$16.22________________ WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION ________________ 'An invaluable contribution to our understanding of present circumstances, just as the paradigm shift she calls for is sorely needed' - Al Gore, New York... -
Chaos, Creativity and Cosmic Consciousness by Rupert Sheldrake
RRP: $29.23$22.00In this book of ""trialogues,"" the late psychedelic visionary and shamanologist Terence McKenna, acclaimed biologist and originator of the morphogenetic fields theory Rupert Sheldrake, and mathematician and chaos theory scientist Ralph Abraham explore... -
The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution by Sean B. Carroll
RRP: $25.33$16.77For more than a century, we were restricted to studying evolution from the outside, observing its progress only through the fossil record. No longer. We can now also read the DNA record. As well as containing the operating instructions for everyday... -
Explaining Life through Evolution by Prosanta Chakrabarty 9780262546256
RRP: $40.95$27.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546256Author Prosanta ChakrabartyFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Invertebrate Zoology: A Tree of Life Approach by Bernd Schierwater
RRP: $87.73$79.72Invertebrate Zoology: A Tree of Life Approach is a comprehensive and authoritative textbook adopting an explicitly phylogenetic organization. Most of the classical anatomical and morphological work has not been changed - it established the foundation of... -
The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee: how our animal heritage affects the way we live by Jared Diamond
RRP: $25.33$8.01From 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 life-cycle, culture, sexuality and destructive urges both... -
Darwin Comes to Town by Menno Schilthuizen
RRP: $25.33$16.77We are marching towards a future in which three-quarters of humans live in cities, more than half of the landmass of the planet is urbanized, and the rest is covered by farms,pasture, and plantations. Increasingly, as we become ever more city-centric,... -
The Evolution of the Human Head by Daniel E. Lieberman 9780674046368
RRP: $93.50$75.15In one sense, human heads function much like those of other mammals. We use them to chew, smell, swallow, think, hear, and so on. But, in other respects, the human head is quite unusual. Unlike other animals, even our great ape cousins, our heads are... -
Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society by Nicholas A. Christakis
RRP: $17.53$12.09Drawing on advances in social science, evolutionary biology, genetics, neuroscience and network science, Blueprint shows how and why evolution has placed us on a humane path -- and how we are united by our common humanity. For too long, scientists have... -
Science as a Process: An Evolutionary Account of the Social and Conceptual Development of Science by David L. Hull
RRP: $72.15$71.70"Legend is overdue for replacement, and an adequate replacement must attend to the process of science as carefully as Hull has done. I share his vision of a serious account of the social and intellectual dynamics of science that will avoid both the rosy... -
Free: the End of the Human Condition by Jeremy Griffith 9780731604951
RRP: $29.23$23.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780731604951Author Mr Jeremy GriffithFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint WTM Publishing & Communications Pty LtdPublisher WTM Publishing & Communications... -
An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family by Alison Bashford
RRP: $29.23$21.35SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE'A masterpiece of biography ... a vivid account of a family at the heart of some of the great cultural shifts of the modern era' John Gray, New Statesman'The whole of British intellectual life seems accessible... -
The Origin and Nature of Life on Earth: The Emergence of the Fourth Geosphere by Eric Smith
$81.30Uniting the conceptual foundations of the physical sciences and biology, this groundbreaking multidisciplinary book explores the origin of life as a planetary process. Combining geology, geochemistry, biochemistry, microbiology, evolution and statistical... -
Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health by Riadh Abed
$97.99Evolutionary psychiatry attempts to explain and examine the development and prevalence of psychiatric disorders through the lens of evolutionary and adaptationist theories. In this edited volume, leading international evolutionary scholars present a... -
Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe by Robert Lanza 9781935251743
RRP: $27.28$22.31Robert 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 with Bob Berman, the most widely read astronomer in... -
The Human Story by Robin Dunbar
RRP: $25.33$17.73A wonderfully accessible, up-to-the-minute account of human evolution by 'one of the most respected evolutionary psychologists in Britain' (Guardian). Of the dozen or so hominid species once in existence, why are we the only one to have survived? What is... -
The Evolution of Plants by Kathy Willis
RRP: $113.08$106.31Plants first colonized the land over 430 million years ago, having evolved from some of the most primitive forms of life. Since then, plants have played a major role in supplying the atmospheric oxygen we all need to survive. But how did plants evolve,... -
Baby Dinosaurs on the Ark?: The Bible and Modern Science and the Trouble of Making It All Fit by Janet Ray
RRP: $27.28$17.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802879448Author Janet Kellogg RayFormat PaperbackPage Count 227Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing... -
Extinction: A Very Short Introduction by Paul B. Wignall
RRP: $17.53$12.58Most 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. Today, species are disappearing at an ever increasing... -
The Master Builder: How the New Science of the Cell is Rewriting the Story of Life by Alfonso Martinez Arias 9781399809924
RRP: $48.75$32.72What defines who we are? Until now, the biological answer has been our genes. Leading biologist Alfonso Martinez Arias breaks with popular tradition to make a bold argument: what defines us is our cells. Drawing on groundbreaking research, he reveals... -
The Tree of Life: A Phylogenetic Classification by Guillaume Lecointre 9780674021839
RRP: $70.10$58.52Did you know that you are more closely related to a mushroom than to a daisy? That crocodiles are closer to birds than to lizards? That dinosaurs are still among us? That the terms "fish," "reptiles," and "invertebrates" do not indicate scientific... -
Can Humanity Survive Socialised Birth? by Michel Odent 9781780668000
RRP: $25.33$17.73Since the advent of agriculture and animal husbandry, the human population has multiplied by about one thousand in a 'demographic explosion'. However, in recent years, global fertility rates have begun to decrease significantly, and this is one reason to... -
Human Origins by New Scientist
RRP: $21.43$14.43Where 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 have spread around the globe, taken control of Earth's... -
Evolution by Stephen C. Stearns 9780199255634
RRP: $124.78$118.19Since Charles Darwin's masterpiece 'The origin of Species by natural selection' was published in 1859, evolution has become an established science that illuminates and informs our understanding of many central biological issues from animal development to... -
Youniverse: A Short Guide to Modern Science by Elsie Burch Donald
RRP: $19.48$13.16Your guide to science, from the Big Bang to AI Whether you wish to discover the basics of science or catch up on its latest developments, this short accessible guide is for you. YOUNIVERSE describes in simple terms the world you are inseparably a... -
Beyond the Human Condition by Jeremy Griffith 9780646039947
RRP: $29.23$23.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646039947Author Mr Jeremy GriffithFormat PaperbackPage Count 203Imprint FHA Publishing & Communications Pty Ltd,Publisher WTM Publishing & Communications... -
Evolution: A Very Short Introduction by Brian Charlesworth
RRP: $17.53$12.89Less 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 around this centre. Less than 250 years ago, they...