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Mate Choice by Patrick Bateson 9780521272070
RRP: $159.90Booksplease Price: $144.77Animals may be careful in their choice of mates for a variety of reasons. The ideal mate may have to hold valuable resources as well as being highly fertile or fecund. As likely as not, it should be... -
Plasticity, Robustness, Development and Evolution by Patrick Bateson
RRP: $85.80Booksplease Price: $78.96How do we understand and explain the apparent dichotomy between plasticity and robustness in the context of development? Can we identify these complex processes without resorting to 'either/or'... -
Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation by Patrick Bateson 9781107689343
RRP: $66.30Booksplease Price: $58.89What role does playful behaviour and playful thought take in animal and human development? How does play relate to creativity and, in turn, to innovation? Unravelling the different meanings of... -
Plasticity, Robustness, Development and Evolution by Patrick Bateson 9780521516297
RRP: $193.03Booksplease Price: $174.86How do we understand and explain the apparent dichotomy between plasticity and robustness in the context of development? Can we identify these complex processes without resorting to 'either/or'... -
Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation by Patrick Bateson 9781107015135
RRP: $171.60Booksplease Price: $162.81What role does playful behaviour and playful thought take in animal and human development? How does play relate to creativity and, in turn, to innovation? Unravelling the different meanings of... -
Behaviour, Development and Evolution by Professor Sir Patrick Bateson 9781783742486
RRP: $42.80Booksplease Price: $40.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783742486Author Professor Sir Patrick BatesonFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Open Book... -
Behaviour, Development and Evolution by Professor Sir Patrick Bateson 9781783742493
RRP: $68.15Booksplease Price: $62.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783742493Author Professor Sir Patrick BatesonFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Open Book... -
The Development and Integration of Behaviour: Essays in Honour of Robert Hinde by Patrick Bateson 9780521407090
RRP: $118.93Booksplease Price: $108.89What regularities lie behind the development and organization of behaviour in animals and humans? One theme emerging from this book is that ideas have to flow in both directions between the different... -
The Routledge Handbook of Evolution and Philosophy by Richard Joyce
RRP: $101.38Booksplease Price: $91.53In recent years, the relation between contemporary academic philosophy and evolutionary theory has become ever more active, multifaceted, and productive. The connection is a bustling two-way street... -
Darwin by Tim Lewens 9780415346382
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $45.90In this invaluable book, Tim Lewens shows in a clear and accessible manner how important Darwin is for philosophy and how his work has shaped and challenged the very nature of the subject.Beginning... -
Memory by Harriet Harvey Wood 9780099470137
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $28.76This fascinating anthology introduces us to a wide range of arguments on the subject of memory, the thread that holds our lives, and our history, together. Arranged in themed sections, the book... -
The Music of Life: Biology beyond genes by Denis Noble 9780199228362
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.58What is Life? Decades of research have resulted in the full mapping of the human genome - three billion pairs of code whose functions are only now being understood. The gene's eye view of life,... -
Measuring Behaviour: An Introductory Guide by Melissa Bateson
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $53.39Measuring Behaviour is the established go-to text for anyone interested in scientific methods for studying the behaviour of animals or humans. It is widely used by students, teachers and researchers... -
Measuring Behaviour: An Introductory Guide by Melissa Bateson 9781108478311
RRP: $152.10Booksplease Price: $141.59Measuring Behaviour is the established go-to text for anyone interested in scientific methods for studying the behaviour of animals or humans. It is widely used by students, teachers and researchers... -
The Domestic Cat: The Biology of its Behaviour by Dennis C. Turner
RRP: $72.15Booksplease Price: $63.59The most commonly kept domestic animal in the developed world, the cat has been a part of human life for thousands of years. Cats have been both worshipped and persecuted over this long period -... -
Living With The Genome: Ethical and Social Aspects of Human Genetics by Angus Clarke 9781403936202
Booksplease Price: $90.83This book brings us up to date with important contributions from the authoritative Encyclopedia of the Human Genome on the urgent social, legal and ethical aspects of the Human Genome enterprise,... -
We Are All From Somewhere Else: Migration and Survival in Poetry and Prose by Ruth Padel
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45*First published as The Mara Crossing, now with new and updated material*'A prodigy, a book of wonders. Wonder, pity and terror, the searing section of voices in transit coercing compassion - and... -
Freaks of Nature: What Anomalies Tell Us About Development and Evolution by Mark Blumberg 9780199736188
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $39.53In most respects, Abigail and Brittany Hensel are normal American twins. Born and raised in a small town, they enjoy a close relationship, though each has her own tastes and personality. But the... -
Darwin's Ghosts by Rebecca Stott 9781408831014
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.66Soon after publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin received a letter that deeply unsettled him. He had expected outrage and accusations of heresy, but this letter was different: it... -
Niche Construction: The Neglected Process in Evolution (MPB-37) by F. John Odling-Smee
RRP: $159.90Booksplease Price: $127.04The seemingly innocent observation that the activities of organisms bring about changes in environments is so obvious that it seems an unlikely focus for a new line of thinking about evolution. Yet... -
The Ethical Project by Philip Kitcher 9780674284289
RRP: $54.50Booksplease Price: $46.61Principles of right and wrong guide the lives of almost all human beings, but we often see them as external to ourselves, outside our own control. In a revolutionary approach to the problems of moral... -
Genes, Cells and Brains: The Promethean Promises of the New Biology by Hilary Rose
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $17.84Our fates lie in our genes and not in the stars, said James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA. But Watson could not have predicted the scale of the industry now dedicated to this new... -
Divided Brains: The Biology and Behaviour of Brain Asymmetries by Lesley J. Rogers
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $70.73Asymmetry of the brain and behaviour (lateralization) has traditionally been considered unique to humans. However, research has shown that this phenomenon is widespread throughout the vertebrate... -
Dance to the Tune of Life: Biological Relativity by Denis Noble 9781107176249
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $37.34In this thought-provoking book, Denis Noble formulates the theory of biological relativity, emphasising that living organisms operate at multiple levels of complexity and must therefore be analysed...