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Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans by Bill Schutt 9781643751788
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $26.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643751788Author Bill SchuttFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint -
Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind by Kermit Pattison
Booksplease Price: $17.25"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)... -
Creative Evolution by Henri Bergson 9780486400365
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $12.98Apologies 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: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55When 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: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62'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... -
How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity Douglas J. Futuyma 9780691264639
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.00A marvelous journey into the world of bird evolutionHow Birds Evolve explores how evolution has shaped the distinctive characteristics and behaviors we observe in birds today. Douglas Futuyma... -
Darwin's Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind by Kevin N. Laland
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $24.34Humans 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: $41.14We 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: $34.83Booksplease Price: $29.57This 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: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97Our 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... -
Freaks of Nature: What Anomalies Tell Us About Development and Evolution by Mark Blumberg 9780199736188
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Signature of Controversy: Responses to Critics of Signature in the Cell by David Klinghoffer 9780979014185
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $10.62Apologies 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: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.76Longlisted 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... -
Organisms, Agency, and Evolution by D. M. Walsh 9781107552425
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Evolution: A Little History of a Great Idea by Gerard Cheshire
RRP: $7.73Booksplease Price: $5.97Why 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: $15.47Booksplease Price: $10.62What 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: $17.23Ten 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: $18.40Apologies 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: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Britain'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... -
The Annotated <i>Origin</i>: A Facsimile of the First Edition of <i>On the Origin of Species</i> by Charles Darwin 9780674060173
RRP: $38.64Booksplease Price: $33.41Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species is the most important and yet least read scientific work in the history of science. Now James T. Costa-experienced field biologist, theorist on the evolution... -
Super Fly: The Unexpected Lives of the World's Most Successful Insects by Jonathan Balcombe
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143134275Author Jonathan BalcombeFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint -
Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution by Kenneth R. Miller
Booksplease Price: $15.83Miller is a believer, but he is also certain that we evolved - and this book is about why the two are not mutually exclusive; in fact, the idea of each enriches the other. There is an enormous market... -
How Men Age: What Evolution Reveals about Male Health and Mortality by Richard G. Bribiescas 9780691180915
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.07A 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: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.99Why 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: $61.83In 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: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.68A 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: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97What 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... -
The Evolutionary Strategies that Shape Ecosystems by J. Philip Grime 9780470674826
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Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity by Jamie Metzl 9781492670094
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $23.94"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: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101872819Author David Sloan WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprin -
Narrow Roads of Gene Land: Volume 2: Evolution of Sex by W. D. Hamilton 9780198503361
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The Ant and the Peacock: Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to Today by Helena Cronin 9780521457651
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Reptiles: A Very Short Introduction by T. S. Kemp
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97For 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: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.06In 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... -
On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson 9780486671352
Booksplease Price: $56.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486671352Author D'Arcy Wentworth ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 1116 -
Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty by Nancy Etcoff
RRP: $21.93Booksplease Price: $14.02Apologies 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: $30.96Booksplease Price: $26.51Apologies 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: $16.78Apologies 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: $28.32Booksplease Price: $24.32How 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... -
Understanding Race Rob DeSalle (American Museum of Natural History, New York) 9781009055581
Booksplease Price: $17.35The human species is very young, but in a short time it has acquired some striking, if biologically superficial, variations across the planet. As this book shows, however, none of those biological...