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Understanding Human Evolution by Ian Tattersall
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.45Human life, and how we came to be, is one of the greatest scientific and philosophical questions of our time. This compact and accessible book presents a modern view of human evolution. Written by a... -
Lemur Biology by Ian Tattersall 9781468421231
Booksplease Price: £92.11The volume of studies on prosimian primates has, until recently, tended to lag well behind that of studies on the higher primates. This is so despite the fact that the considerable intrinsic interest... -
Understanding Human Evolution by Ian Tattersall 9781009098755
Booksplease Price: £45.31Human life, and how we came to be, is one of the greatest scientific and philosophical questions of our time. This compact and accessible book presents a modern view of human evolution. Written by a... -
Paleontology: A Brief History of Life by Ian Tattersall 9781599473420
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12"Endlessly absorbing and informative. It would be hard to imagine a better introduction to this most important and fascinating field."-Bill Bryson, author of A Short History of Nearly... -
The World from Beginnings to 4000 BCE by Ian Tattersall 9780195167122
Booksplease Price: £117.42To be human is to be curious. And one of the things we are most curious about is how we came to be who we are-how we evolved over millions of years to become creatures capable of inquiring into our... -
The World from Beginnings to 4000 BCE by Ian Tattersall 9780195333152
Booksplease Price: £30.48This book narrates the story of human biological and cultural evolution, from the earliest beginnings of our zoological family Hominidae, through the emergence of Homo sapiens, to the Agricultural... -
Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness by Ian Tattersall 9780192862143
Booksplease Price: £31.52One of the traits that distinguishes us from our nearest relatives is our curiosity about the origins of our species. In this new paperback, Ian Tattersall (author of The Fossil Trail) discusses... -
Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness by Ian Tattersall 9780156006538
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156006538Author Ian TattersallFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint -
Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins by Ian Tattersall 9781137278302
Booksplease Price: £15.95Fifty thousand years ago - merely a blip in evolutionary time - our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their precursors had done for... -
Hoax: A History of Deception: 5,000 Years of Fakes, Forgeries, and Fallacies by Ian Tattersall
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.90An enthralling exploration of the most audacious and underhanded deceptions in the history of mankind, from sacred relics to financial schemes to fake art, music, and identities.World history is... -
The Monkey in the Mirror: Essays on the Science of What Makes us Human by Ian Tattersall 9780198515692
Booksplease Price: £16.89Widely regarded as one of the rare eminent scientists who is also a graceful writer, Ian Tattersall here takes up some of the most controversial questions in evolutionary history in this superb... -
The Monkey in the Mirror: Essays on the Science of What Makes Us Human by Ian Tattersall 9780156027069
Booksplease Price: £14.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156027069Author Ian TattersallFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint -
The Great Human Journey Volume 3: Around the World in 22 Million Days by Ian Tattersall
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.98Wallace and Darwin, the Museum Mice from the Halls of the American Museum of Natural History, are off on another adventure! It's amazing what you can find in a museum and how far you can travel in a... -
The Fossil Trail: How We Know What We Think We Know About Human Evolution by Ian Tattersall 9780195367669
Booksplease Price: £95.37Ideal for courses in Human Evolution, History of Paleoanthropology, and as a supplement for Introduction to Biological Anthropology, The Fossil Trail is a history of paleoanthropological thought and... -
Between Ape and Human: An Anthropologist on the Trail of a Hidden Hominoid by Gregory Forth
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.50A remarkable investigation into the hominoids of Flores Island, their place on the evolutionary spectrum-and whether or not they still survive.While doing fieldwork on the remote Indonesian island of... -
A Natural History of Beer by Rob DeSalle
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.05A celebration of beer-its science, its history, and its impact on human culture "Curatorial eminences Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall serve up a potent scientific brew. . . . A marvellous paean to... -
Distilled: A Natural History of Spirits by Rob DeSalle
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.30An imaginative natural history survey of the wide world of spirits, from whiskey and gin to grappa and moonshine In this follow-up book to A Natural History of Wine and A Natural History of Beer,... -
Human Origins: What Bones and Genomes Tell Us about Ourselves by Rob DeSalle 9781603445184
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.66Ever since the recognition of the Neanderthals as an archaic human in the mid-nineteenth century, the fossilized bones of extinct humans have been used by paleoanthropologists to explore human... -
Darwin's hunch: Science, race, and the search for human origins by Christa Kuljian
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £14.09Scientists, and their research, are often shaped by the prevailing social and political context at the time. Kuljian explores this trend in South Africa and provides fresh insight on the search for... -
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution by Stephen Jones 9780521467865
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £67.33The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution is a wide-ranging introduction to the human species that places modern humans in evolutionary perspective. Over seventy scholars world-wide have worked... -
Troublesome Science: The Misuse of Genetics and Genomics in Understanding Race by Rob DeSalle
Booksplease Price: £39.65It is well established that all humans today, wherever they live, belong to one single species. Yet even many people who claim to abhor racism take for granted that human "races" have a biological... -
Hunting: The Pursuit That Shaped Humanity Brian Fagan 9780300273496
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23From an acclaimed archaeological writer, a worldwide history of huntingHunting is one of humanity's most ancient and universal activities. It has been embedded in every facet of our lives, shaping... -
So You Think You're Human?: A Brief History of Humankind by Dr. Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
RRP: £12.49Booksplease Price: £10.51You think you're human. But what does that mean? How can humanity be defined? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of humankind to reveal the challenges to... -
Understanding Race Rob DeSalle (American Museum of Natural History, New York) 9781316511374
Booksplease Price: £45.31The 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... -
Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, From Pointless Bones to Broken Genes by Nathan Lents
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26We like to think of ourselves as highly evolved. But if we are evolution's greatest creation, why are we so badly designed? We have retinas that face backward, we must find vitamins and nutrients in... -
Understanding Race Rob DeSalle (American Museum of Natural History, New York) 9781009055581
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.86The 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... -
Tree of Origin: What Primate Behavior Can Tell Us about Human Social Evolution by Frans De Waal 9780674010048
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £26.38How did we become the linguistic, cultured, and hugely successful apes that we are? Our closest relatives--the other mentally complex and socially skilled primates--offer tantalizing clues. In Tree... -
Cannabis: A Natural History Rob DeSalle 9780300270945
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.99The definitive story of cannabis, from its evolution and biological quirks to its role in human history In this entertaining natural history, Rob DeSalle provides a glimpse into the biological... -
The Secret World of Denisovans: The Epic Story of the Ancient Cousins to Sapiens and Neanderthals Silvana Condemi 9798893031409
Booksplease Price: £14.17In 2010, archaeologists working in Denisova Cave, Siberia, unearthed a tiny fragment of finger bone-and brought a lost human species to light. Thanks to the modern miracle of DNA analysis,... -
A History of Humanity: The Evolution of the Human System by Patrick Manning 9781108747097
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £22.92Humanity today functions as a gigantic, world-encompassing system. Renowned world historian, Patrick Manning traces how this human system evolved from Homo Sapiens' beginnings over 200,000 years ago... -
Race in Mind: Race, IQ, and Other Racisms by Alexander Alland 9780312238384
Booksplease Price: £46.74The notion that intelligence is somehow related to race is a notoriously tenacious issue in America. Anthropologist Alexander Alland provides the most comprehensive overview of the recent history of... -
A History of Humanity: The Evolution of the Human System by Patrick Manning 9781108478199
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £83.79Humanity today functions as a gigantic, world-encompassing system. Renowned world historian, Patrick Manning traces how this human system evolved from Homo Sapiens' beginnings over 200,000 years ago... -
First Steps: How Walking Upright Made Us Human by Jeremy DeSilva 9780008342876
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Humans 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... -
First Steps: How Walking Upright Made Us Human by Jeremy DeSilva
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05Humans 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 Curious Human Knee by Han Yu 9780231207027
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £66.34Winner, 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleBronze Winner, 2024 Nonfiction Book AwardsWhere would we be without the knee? This down-to-earth joint connecting the thigh and the lower leg doesn't... -
The Philosophy of Universal Grammar by Wolfram Hinzen 9780198736684
Booksplease Price: £45.33What is grammar? Why does it exist? What difference, if any, does it make to the organization of meaning? This book seeks to give principled answers to these questions. Its topic is 'universal'... -
The Curious Human Knee Han Yu 9780231219136
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57Winner, 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleBronze Winner, 2024 Nonfiction Book AwardsWhere would we be without the knee? This down-to-earth joint connecting the thigh and the lower leg doesn't... -
The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins by Tom Higham
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.59'The who, what, where, when and how of human evolution, from one of the world's experts on the dating of prehistoric fossils' Steve Brusatte, author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs 'Fascinating... -
The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions by Adam Kuper 9781800810938
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A TLS BEST BOOK OF 2023 'A formidable work' Nigel Barley, author of The Innocent Anthropologist 'Should be required reading' Richard Lambert, Financial Times 'A magnificent, moving survey'... -
Not So Different: Finding Human Nature in Animals by Nathan H. Lents
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.76Animals fall in love, establish rules for fair play, exchange valued goods and services, hold "funerals" for fallen comrades, deploy sex as a weapon, and communicate with one another using rich...