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Human Origins: 7 million years and counting by New Scientist
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $24.99Where 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... -
Free: the End of the Human Condition by Jeremy Griffith 9780731604951
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780731604951Author Mr Jeremy GriffithFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprin -
First Steps: How Walking Upright Made Us Human by Jeremy DeSilva 9780008342876
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.71Humans 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... -
The Horse: The Epic History of Our Noble Companion by Wendy Williams 9780374536602
RRP: $57.10Booksplease Price: $38.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374536602Author Wendy WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
Explaining Life through Evolution by Prosanta Chakrabarty 9780262546256
RRP: $49.98Booksplease Price: $37.68Apologies 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: $35.68Booksplease Price: $33.13A 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: $66.62Booksplease Price: $39.60Apologies 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: $38.06Booksplease Price: $35.08The 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: $73.78Booksplease Price: $49.19Apologies 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: $35.68Booksplease Price: $23.94Apologies 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: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.61When 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: $30.92Booksplease Price: $23.28'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: $52.36Booksplease Price: $44.91Humans 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: $75.90We 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: $64.26Booksplease Price: $54.55This 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: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.40Our 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: $23.80Booksplease Price: $19.59Apologies 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: $35.68Booksplease Price: $30.92Longlisted 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: $14.26Booksplease Price: $11.02Why 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: $28.54Booksplease Price: $19.59What 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?... -
Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution by Michael J. Behe
Booksplease Price: $31.80Ten 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: $33.94Apologies 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: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97Britain'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: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.04Apologies 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: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.49A 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: $59.50Booksplease Price: $51.65Why 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: $114.07In 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: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.71A 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: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.40What 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: $47.58Booksplease Price: $44.17"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: $35.68Booksplease Price: $30.49Apologies 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: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.40For 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: $30.92Booksplease Price: $25.94In 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: $40.46Booksplease Price: $30.11Apologies 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: $57.12Booksplease Price: $48.91Apologies 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: $30.96Apologies 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: $52.24Booksplease Price: $44.86How 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: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.63The 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: $121.38Booksplease Price: $95.22Scientists 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: $57.60A 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...