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This Is Biology: The Science of the Living World by Ernst Mayr 9780674884694
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £24.82Biology until recently has been the neglected stepchild of science, and many educated people have little grasp of how biology explains the natural world. Yet to address the major political and moral... -
What Evolution Is: From Theory to Fact Ernst Mayr 9780753813683
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26What 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... -
Evolution and the Diversity of Life: Selected Essays by Ernst Mayr 9780674271050
Booksplease Price: £46.55The diversity of living forms and the unity of evolutionary processes are themes that have permeated the research and writing of Ernst Mayr, a Grand Master of evolutionary biology. The essays... -
Systematics and the Origin of Species from the Viewpoint of a Zoologist by Ernst Mayr 9780674862500
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £27.15Ernst Mayr is perhaps the most distinguished biologist of the twentieth century, and Systematics and the Origin of Species may be one of his greatest and most influential books. This classic study,... -
Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist by Ernst Mayr 9780674896666
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £24.35A collection of twenty-eight essays, five previously unpublished, grouped into nine categories: Philosophy, Natural Selection, Adaptation, Darwin, Diversity, Species, Speciation, Macroevolution, and... -
The Birds of Northern Melanesia: Speciation, Dispersal, and Biogeography by Ernst Mayr 9780195141702
Booksplease Price: £102.74Ernst Mayr is one of the principal architects of the 'neo-Darwinian synthesis', which has been the dominant perspective in 20th century evolutionary biology. Jared Diamond is one of the most... -
The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance by Ernst Mayr 9780674364462
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £34.93No one in this century can speak with greater authority on the progress of ideas in biology than Ernst Mayr. And no book has ever established the life sciences so firmly in the mainstream of Western... -
The Evolutionary Synthesis: Perspectives on the Unification of Biology, With a New Preface by Ernst Mayr 9780674272262
RRP: £43.95Booksplease Price: £36.76Biology was forged into a single, coherent science only within living memory. In this volume the thinkers responsible for the "modern synthesis" of evolutionary biology and genetics come together to... -
What Makes Biology Unique?: Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline by Ernst Mayr 9780521700344
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.45This book, a collection of essays written by the most eminent evolutionary biologist of the twentieth century, explores biology as an autonomous science, offers insights on the history of... -
What Makes Biology Unique?: Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline by Ernst Mayr 9780521841146
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £68.43This book, a collection of essays written by the most eminent evolutionary biologist of the twentieth century, explores biology as an autonomous science, offers insights on the history of... -
Ornithology, Evolution, and Philosophy: The Life and Science of Ernst Mayr 1904-2005 by Jurgen H. Haffer 9783540717782
RRP: £119.99Booksplease Price: £112.42Ernst Mayr (1904-2005), eminent naturalist-systematist and ornithologist, "- chitect" of the Synthetic Theory of Evolution, leading evolutionary biologist and in?uential historian and philosopher of... -
Exploring the Borderlands: Documents of the Committee on Common Problems of Genetics, Paleontology and Systematics, 1943-1944 Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 94, Part 2) by Ernst Mayr 9780871699428
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871699428Author Ernst MayrFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint American Philosophical Society... -
Evolutionary Restraints: The Contentious History of Group Selection by Mark E. Borrello
Booksplease Price: £27.62Much of the evolutionary debate since Darwin has focused on the level at which natural selection occurs. Most biologists acknowledge multiple levels of selection - from the gene to the species. The... -
Evolutionary Restraints: The Contentious History of Group Selection by Mark E. Borrello 9780226067018
Booksplease Price: £93.84Much of the history of the evolutionary debate since Darwin has focused on the level at which natural selection occurs. Most biologists acknowledge multiple levels of selection - from the gene, the... -
The Paleobiological Revolution: Essays on the Growth of Modern Paleontology by David Sepkoski
Booksplease Price: £35.42The Paleobiological Revolution chronicles the incredible ascendance of the once-maligned science of paleontology to the vanguard of a field. With the establishment of the modern synthesis in the... -
Tears of the Cheetah: The Genetic Secrets of Our Animal Ancestors by Stephen J. O'Brien 9780312339005
Booksplease Price: £15.50TEARS OF THE CHEETAH is a collection of genetic detective stories that uncover the secret histories of exotic species such as the giant panda, the humpback whale, and the imperilled cheetah - the... -
Sexual Selection and the Descent of Man: The Darwinian Pivot Bernard Campbell 9780202308456
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.67Just over one hundred and thirty years ago Charles Darwin, in The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871), developed remarkably accurate conclusions about man's ancestry, based on a... -
Extended Heredity: A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution by Russell Bonduriansky 9780691157672
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.32How genes are not the only basis of heredity-and what this means for evolution, human life, and diseaseFor much of the twentieth century it was assumed that genes alone mediate the transmission of... -
Extended Heredity: A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution by Russell Bonduriansky 9780691204147
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.18There is much more to heredity than genesFor much of the twentieth century it was assumed that genes alone mediate the transmission of biological information across generations and provide the raw... -
The Origin of Life by C. H. Waddington
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.80Theoretical biology is still in its early stages as an academic discipline. There is even little agreement as to what topics it should deal with or in what manner it should precede; and it is only... -
Milestones in the Evolving Theory of Evolution by David Wool
RRP: £78.99Booksplease Price: £70.07The book illustrates how Darwin's theory has evolved, about the development of the biological world before Darwin, and great changes that took place with the incorporation of statistics, and after... -
New Guinea: Nature and Culture of Earth's Grandest Island by Bruce M. Beehler 9780691180304
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.80An enthralling exploration of the biologically richest island on Earth, featuring more than 200 spectacular color images by award-winning National Geographic photographer Tim LamanIn this beautiful... -
Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace by James T. Costa
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £25.19A major new biography of the brilliant naturalist, traveler, humanitarian, and codiscoverer of natural selectionAlfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was perhaps the most famed naturalist of the... -
Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace James T. Costa 9780691233802
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.28A major biography of the brilliant naturalist, traveler, humanitarian, and codiscoverer of natural selectionAlfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was perhaps the most famed naturalist of the Victorian... -
Unifying Biology: The Evolutionary Synthesis and Evolutionary Biology by Vassiliki B. Smocovitis
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £74.71Unifying Biology offers a historical reconstruction of one of the most important yet elusive episodes in the history of modern science: the evolutionary synthesis of the 1930s and 1940s. For more... -
Race to the Finish: Identity and Governance in an Age of Genomics by Jenny Reardon 9780691118574
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.82In the summer of 1991, population geneticists and evolutionary biologists proposed to archive human genetic diversity by collecting the genomes of "isolated indigenous populations." Their initiative,... -
On the Origin of Species: A Facsimile of the First Edition by Charles Darwin
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £22.50It is now generally recognized that the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859 not only decisively altered the basic concepts of biological theory but had a profound and lasting influence... -
All Creatures: Naturalists, Collectors, and Biodiversity, 1850-1950 by Robert E. Kohler 9780691125398
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £49.89We humans share Earth with 1.4 million known species and millions more species that are still unrecorded. Yet we know surprisingly little about the practical work that produced the vast inventory we... -
Your Inner Fish: The amazing discovery of our 375-million-year-old ancestor by Neil Shubin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Neil Shubin's Your Inner Fish is the unexpected story of how one creature's journey out of the water made the human body what it is today - and one man's voyage of discovery in search of our origins... -
Unfinished Synthesis: Biological Hierarchies and Modern Evolutionary Thought by Niles Eldredge 9780195036336
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £67.33This provocative study provides a stimulating critique of contemporary evolutionary thought, analysing the Modern Synthesis first developed by Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ernst Mayr, and George Gaylord... -
The Universe Within: A Scientific Adventure by Neil Shubin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The Universe Within is a thrilling journey from today all the way back to the Big Bang, which shows the deep connections between the human body and the universe, from Neil Shubin, author of Your... -
The Gestation of German Biology: Philosophy and Physiology from Stahl to Schelling by John H. Zammito
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £34.29The emergence of biology as a distinct science in the eighteenth century has long been a subject of scholarly controversy. Michel Foucault, on the one hand, argued that its appearance only after 1800... -
Sex and Behavior: Status and Prospectus by Thomas E. McGill 9780306310843
Booksplease Price: £92.16Discussion of the precise nature and position of boundaries between dis ciplines is nearly always counterproductive; the need is usually to cross them not to emphasize them. And any such discussion... -
Sex and Behavior: Status and Prospectus by Thomas E. McGill 9781489904232
Booksplease Price: £90.86Discussion of the precise nature and position of boundaries between dis ciplines is nearly always counterproductive; the need is usually to cross them not to emphasize them. And any such discussion... -
Mice in the Freezer, Owls on the Porch: The Lives of Naturalists Frederick and Frances Hamerstrom by 9780299180942
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.38Mice in the Freezer, Owls on the Porch is in many ways a love story - about a quiet scientist and his flamboyant wife, but also about their passions for hunting, for wild lands, and for the grouse... -
Charles Darwin: Voyaging: Volume 1 of a biography by Janet Browne
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £21.59Few lives of great men offer so much interest - and so many mysteries - as the life of Charles Darwin, the greatest figure of nineteenth-century science, whose ideas are still inspiring discoveries... -
Philosophy of Biology by Michael Ruse 9781591025276
Booksplease Price: £20.40Biologists study life in its various physical forms, while philosophers of biology seek answers to questions about the nature, purpose, and impact of this research. What permits us to distinguish... -
Tropical Nature: Life and Death in the Rain Forests of Central and South America by Adrian Forsyth 9780684187105
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £11.89A lively, lucid portrait of the tropics as seen by two uncommonly observant and thoughtful field biologists. Its seventeen marvelous essays introduce the habitats, ecology, plants, and animals of the... -
Haldane, Mayr, and Beanbag Genetics by Krishna Dronamraju 9780195387346
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £39.08Haldane, Mayr, and Beanbag Genetics presents a summary of the classic exchange between two great biologists - J.B.S. Haldane and Ernst Mayr - regarding the value of the contributions of the... -
A New Century of Biology by John W. Kress 9781560989455
Booksplease Price: £23.12In the twentieth century, scientists in the relatively new field of biology played an important role in exposing the threats of environmental degradation, loss of species diversity, habitat...