Life Sciences - Evolution
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The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent
$27.95 Read moreThe untold story of a stunning discovery: not only can birds smell, but their scents may be the secret to understanding their world.
Winner of the PROSE Award for Best Book in Popular Science and Mathe
- Author: Whittaker, Danielle J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1421443473
- Language: English
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The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
$31.99 Add to cartBy the author of the acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, a “brilliant” and “beautifully told” new history of mammals, illuminating the lost story of the extraordinary family tree
- Author: Brusatte, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0063242087
- Language: English
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On the Origin of Species
$14.99 Read moreDesigned to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high q
- Author: Darwin, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1509827692
- Language: English
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Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies
$15.95 Read moreAn “endlessly fascinating” (Michael Ruse) work of scientific thought and synthesis, Genesis is Edward O. Wilson’s twenty-first-century statement on Darwinian evolution. Asserting that religious creeds
- Author: Wilson, Edward O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1631496670
- Language: English
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Evolution: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartLess than 450 years ago, all European scholars believed that the Earth was at the center of a Universe that was at most a few million miles in extent, and that the planets, sun, and stars all rotated … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Charlesworth, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0198804369
- Language: English
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Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
$17.95 Read moreWhere does DNA come from? What is consciousness? How did the eye evolve? Drawing on a treasure trove of new scientific knowledge, Nick Lane expertly reconstructs evolution’s history by describing its … [more below]
- Author: Lane, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 14 2010
- ISBN10: 0393338665
- Language: English
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Homo Deus: Breve Historia del Mañana / Homo Deus. a History of Tomorrow: Breve Historia del Mañana = Homo Deus
$21.95 Read moreTras el ?xito de Sapiens. De animales a dioses, Yuval Noah Harari vuelve su mirada al futuro para ver hacia d?nde nos dirigimos.
La guerra es algo obsoleto. Es m?s probable quitarse la vida que morir- Author: Harari, Yuval Noah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 30 2018
- ISBN10: 194554094X
- Language: Spanish
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From Extraterrestrials to Animal Minds: Six Myths of Evolution
$32.95 Read moreIn this learned romp of science writing, Cambridge professor Simon Conway Morris cheerfully challenges six assumptions–what he calls ‘myths’–that too often pass as unquestioned truths amongst the e
- Author: Morris, Simon Conway
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1599475286
- Language: English
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The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
$21.99 Add to cart- Author: Dawkins, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0198788916
- Language: English
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On the Origin of Species
$12.95 Add to cartIn The Origin of Species (1859) Darwin challenged many of the most deeply-held beliefs of the Western world. Arguing for a material, not divine, origin of species, he showed that new species are achie… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Darwin, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199219222
- Language: English
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Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity
$20.00 Add to cartA powerful new theory of human nature suggests that our secret to success as a species is our unique friendliness
“Brilliant, eye-opening, and absolutely inspiring–and a riveting read. Hare and Woods- Author: Hare, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 13 2021
- ISBN10: 0399590684
- Language: English
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Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World
$29.00 Add to cartThe bestselling author of Other Minds shows how we and our ancestors have reinvented our planet.
If the history of the Earth were compressed down to a year, our species would arise in the last thirty- Author: Godfrey-Smith, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0374189935
- Language: English
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Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory
$20.00 Add to cart“I often said before starting, that I had no doubt I should frequently repent of the whole undertaking.” So wrote Charles Darwin aboard The Beagle, bound for the Galapagos Islands and what would argua… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Larson, Edward J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 08 2006
- ISBN10: 0812968492
- Language: English
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Infinite Life: The Revolutionary Story of Eggs, Evolution, and Life on Earth
$29.95 Add to cartAn expansive investigation into the most unifying and enduring structure in the history of life–and a story of biological richness at a moment when so much of our precious biodiversity hangs in the b… [more below]
- Author: Howard, Jules
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1639367748
- Language: English
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The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie
$35.00 Add to cartFrom a renowned biologist and best-selling author, a whole new way of looking at living organisms: reading them as documents describing ancient worlds
An exquisitely camouflaged lizard has a desiccat- Author: Dawkins, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0300278098
- Language: English
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Earth’s Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World
$16.95 Read moreAt once joyous and somber, this thoughtful gathering of new and selected essays spans Kathleen Dean Moore’s distinguished career as a tireless advocate for environmental activism in the face of climat… [more below]
- Author: Moore, Kathleen Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1640095306
- Language: English
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Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought
$22.95 Add to cartBiological 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 b… [more below]
- Series: Princeton Science Library #61
- Author: Williams, George Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 30 2018
- ISBN10: 0691182868
- Language: English
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Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
$21.99 Add to cart“A dazzlingly erudite synthesis of history, philosophy, anthropology, genetics, sociology, economics, epidemiology, statistics, and more” (Frank Bruni, The New York Times), Blueprint shows why evoluti… [more below]
- Author: Christakis, Nicholas A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0316230049
- Language: English
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Everyone Is African: How Science Explodes the Myth of Race
$18.00 Add to cartWhat does science say about race? In this book a distinguished research geneticist presents abundant evidence showing that traditional notions about distinct racial differences have little scientific … [more below]
- Author: Fairbanks, Daniel J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 191
- Publish Date: April 07 2015
- ISBN10: 1633880184
- Language: English
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Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation
$26.00 Add to cartThe New York Times best seller by the host of Bill Nye the Science Guy, with a brand new chapter for the paperback edition!
“Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in- Author: Nye, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 08 2015
- ISBN10: 1250074223
- Language: English
