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Dominion by Niles Eldredge 9780520208452
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54Overpopulation, depletion of natural resources, hunting of nonhuman species to extinction: paleontologist Niles Eldredge questions the long term survival of humans, given our propensity for living... -
Living Fossils by Niles Eldredge 9781461382737
Booksplease Price: £90.86The case history approach has an impressive record of success in a variety of disciplines. Collections of case histories, casebooks, are now widely used in all sorts of specialties other than in... -
Evolutionary Theory: A Hierarchical Perspective Niles Eldredge 9780226426228
Booksplease Price: £31.37The natural world is infinitely complex and hierarchically structured, with smaller units forming the components of progressively larger systems: molecules make up cells, cells comprise tissues and... -
Life in the Balance: Humanity and the Biodiversity Crisis by Niles Eldredge
Booksplease Price: £31.86In Life in the Balance, Niles Eldredge argues that the Earth is confronting a disaster in the making--an ecological crisis that, if left unresolved, could ultimately lead to mass extinction on the... -
Interactions: The Biological Context of Social Systems by Niles Eldredge 9780231079464
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £63.29AThink of the word "evolution": the name Darwin and the term "natural selection" come to mind. But any powerful general theory of evolution must account for social evolution, both human and nonhuman,... -
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... -
Why We Do It: Rethinking Sex and the Selfish Gene by Niles Eldredge 9780393326956
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £16.82Why do people have sex? Is it solely for the purpose of passing on genetic information, or are there other reasons? "A candid, no-punches-pulled interpreter of the core ideas of evolutionary biology"... -
Reinventing Darwin: The Great Debate at the High Table of Evolutionary Theory by Niles Eldredge 9780471303015
RRP: £36.95Booksplease Price: £24.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471303015Author ELDREDGEFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher John... -
Concrete Jungle: New York City and Our Last Best Hope for a Sustainable Future by Niles Eldredge 9780520270152
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.51If they are to survive, cities need healthy chunks of the world's ecosystems to persist; yet cities, like parasites, grow and prosper by local destruction of these very ecosystems. In this absorbing... -
The Fossil Factory: A Kid's Guide to Digging Up Dinosaurs, Exploring Evolution, and Finding Fossils by Niles Eldredge 9781570984174
Booksplease Price: £10.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570984174Author Niles EldredgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Roberts Rinehart... -
Eternal Ephemera: Adaptation and the Origin of Species from the Nineteenth Century Through Punctuated Equilibria and Beyond by Niles Eldredge 9780231153171
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02All organisms and species are transitory, yet life endures. The origin, extinction, and evolution of species-interconnected in the web of life as "eternal ephemera"-are the concern of evolutionary... -
The Mathematician's Mind: The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field Jacques Hadamard 9780691029313
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40Fifty years ago when Jacques Hadamard set out to explore how mathematicians invent new ideas, he considered the creative experiences of some of the greatest thinkers of his generation, such as George... -
Hands by John Napier
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69Intended for all readers--including magicians, detectives, musicians, orthopedic surgeons, and anthropologists--this book offers a thorough account of that most intriguing and most human of... -
The Garden in the Machine: The Emerging Science of Artificial Life by Claus Emmeche
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69What is life? Is it just the biologically familiar--birds, trees, snails, people--or is it an infinitely complex set of patterns that a computer could simulate? What role does intelligence play in... -
Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought by George Christopher Williams 9780691182865
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.62Biological evolution is a fact-but the many conflicting theories of evolution remain controversial even today. When Adaptation and Natural Selection was first published in 1966, it struck a powerful... -
Celestial Encounters: The Origins of Chaos and Stability by Florin Diacu
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Celestial Encounters is for anyone who has ever wondered about the foundations of chaos. In 1888, the 34-year-old Henri Poincare submitted a paper that was to change the course of science, but not... -
Systematics, Ecology, and the Biodiversity Crisis by 9780231075282
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £55.68Which species can be saved, when all cannot? "Systematics, Ecology, and the Biodiversity Crisis" provides critical tools for finding answers to the current of systematic biology. Systematists are in... -
Macroevolutionaries: Reflections on Natural History, Paleontology, and Stephen Jay Gould Dr. Bruce Lieberman 9780231208109
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57One of the twentieth century's great paleontologists and science writers, Stephen Jay Gould was, for Bruce S. Lieberman and Niles Eldredge, also a close colleague and friend. In Macroevolutionaries,... -
Macroevolutionaries: Reflections on Natural History, Paleontology, and Stephen Jay Gould Dr. Bruce Lieberman 9780231224161
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.51One of the twentieth century's great paleontologists and science writers, Stephen Jay Gould was, for Bruce S. Lieberman and Niles Eldredge, also a close colleague and friend. In Macroevolutionaries,... -
Punctuated Equilibrium by Stephen Jay Gould 9780674024441
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £22.50In 1972 Stephen Jay Gould took the scientific world by storm with his paper on punctuated equilibrium, written with Niles Eldredge. Challenging a core assumption of Darwin's theory of evolution, it... -
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... -
Paleobiogeography by Bruce S. Lieberman 9780306462771
Booksplease Price: £90.86Biogeography relates the evolution of the Earth's biota to major episodes in the Earth's history such as climatic changes and plate tectonic events. Furthermore, biogeographic patterns have played ... -
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... -
Mapping Our Ancestors: Phylogenetic Approaches in Anthropology and Prehistory Stephen Shennan 9780202307510
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.34Much of what we are comes from our ancestors. Through cultural and biological inheritance mechanisms, our genetic composition, instructions for constructing artifacts, the structure and content of... -
Cataclysms: A New Geology for the Twenty-First Century by Michael R. Rampino
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21In 1980, the science world was stunned when a maverick team of researchers proposed that a massive meteor strike had wiped the dinosaurs and other fauna from the Earth 66 million years ago... -
Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs: Evolution, Extinction, and the Future of Our Planet by Donald R. Prothero 9780231146609
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.51Donald R. Prothero's science books combine leading research with first-person narratives of discovery, injecting warmth and familiarity into a profession that has much to offer nonspecialists... -
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... -
The Evolution of the Genome by T. Ryan Gregory 9780123014634
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £65.40The Evolution of the Genome provides a much needed overview of genomic study through clear, detailed, expert-authored discussions of the key areas in genome biology. This includes the evolution of... -
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... -
Aristotle's Ladder, Darwin's Tree: The Evolution of Visual Metaphors for Biological Order J. David. Archibald 9780231164122
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £54.45Leading paleontologist J. David Archibald explores the rich history of visual metaphors for biological order from ancient times to the present and their influence on humans' perception of their place... -
The Silver Lining: The Benefits of Natural Disasters by Seth R. Reice 9780691113685
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.22Floods, fires, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, hurricanes--we are quick to call them "natural disasters." But are they? Did the great fires that swept Yellowstone in 1988 devastate the park, or did... -
The Story of Life in 25 Fossils: Tales of Intrepid Fossil Hunters and the Wonders of Evolution by Donald R. Prothero
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £85.67Every fossil tells a story. Best-selling paleontology author Donald R. Prothero describes twenty-five famous, beautifully preserved fossils in a gripping scientific history of life on Earth... -
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... -
The Story of Life in 25 Fossils: Tales of Intrepid Fossil Hunters and the Wonders of Evolution by Donald R. Prothero 9780231171915
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69Every fossil tells a story. Best-selling paleontology author Donald R. Prothero describes twenty-five famous, beautifully preserved fossils in a gripping scientific history of life on Earth... -
Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids by Daniel Loxton 9780231153201
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £79.31Throughout our history, humans have been captivated by mythic beasts and legendary creatures. Tales of Bigfoot, the Yeti, and the Loch Ness monster are part of our collective experience. Now comes a...