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The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain
$32.99 Add to cartThis revolutionary book provides fresh answers to long-standing questions of human origins and consciousness. Drawing on his breakthrough research in comparative neuroscience, Terrence Deacon offers a… [more below]
- Author: Deacon, Terrence W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0393317544
- Language: English
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Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins
$18.99 Add to cartIn a journey across four continents, acclaimed science writer Steve Olson traces the origins of modern humans and the migrations of our ancestors throughout the world over the past 150,000 years. Like
- Author: Olson, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0618352104
- Language: English
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Homo Idioticus: Why We Are Stupid and What to Do About It
$17.99 Add to cartHumans are remarkable beings. We have mastered flight, cracked the genetic code, developed quantum mechanics and democracy, been to the moon, and may soon become a multi-planetary species.
Yet, despite
- Author: Pietrasik, Cezary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 23 2025
- ISBN10: 9798992410815
- Language: English
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The Anthropology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
$29.99 Add to cartExplore and understand the key ideas and movements in anthropology–the study of human societies and cultures and how they work.
What does it mean to be human? Why do we have rituals? How do family s- Series: DK Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0593966813
- Language: English
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Muscle: The Gripping Story of Strength and Movement
$17.99 Read moreMuscle tissue powers every heartbeat, blink, jog, jump, and goosebump. It is the force behind the most critical bodily functions, including digestion and childbirth, as well as extreme feats of athlet
- Author: Meals, Roy A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076224
- Language: English
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The Natural History of Unicorns
$18.99 Add to cart“Lavers keeps his intellectual detective story passionate and suspenseful.”
— Washington Post Book WorldFrom Biblical stories about virgins to adventures with Harry Potter, unicorns have enchanted pe
- Author: Lavers, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 20 2010
- ISBN10: 0060874155
- Language: English
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The Lost World of the Kalahari
$22.99 Add to cartAn account of the author’s grueling, but ultimately successful, journey in 1957, through Africa’s remote, primitive Kalahari Desert, in search of the legendary Bushmen, the hunters who pray to the gre… [more below]
- Series: Harvest/HBJ Book
- Author: Van Der Post, Laurens
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0156537060
- Language: English
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Red: A History of the Redhead
$30.00 Read moreRed is a brilliantly told, captivating history of red hair throughout the ages. A book that breaks new ground, dispels myths, and reinforces the special nature of being a redhead, with a look at multi… [more below]
- Author: Harvey, Jacky Colliss
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 09 2015
- ISBN10: 157912996X
- Language: English
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Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo Naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story
$26.00 Read moreThis first-person narrative about an archaeological discovery is rewriting the story of human evolution. A story of defiance and determination by a controversial scientist, this is Lee Berger’s own ta… [more below]
- Author: Berger, Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 1426218117
- Language: English
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The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
$17.95 Read moreIn 1994 Bryan Sykes was called in as an expert to examine the frozen remains of a man trapped in glacial ice in northern Italy for over 5000 years–the Ice Man. Sykes succeeded in extracting DNA from
- Author: Sykes, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 17 2002
- ISBN10: 0393323145
- Language: English
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Human Geography for Dummies
$24.99 Read moreYour map to understanding human geography
Human Geography For Dummies introduces you to the ideas and perspectives encompassed by the field of human geography, and makes a great supplement to human ge
- Author: Tredinnick, Kyle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1394208278
- Language: English
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Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity
$20.00 Read moreA 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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Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans
$31.00 Add to cartFrom three-inch fang blennies to thirty-foot prehistoric crocodiles, from gaboon vipers to Neanderthals, Bite is a fascinating journey through the natural, scientific, and cultural history of somethin… [more below]
- Author: Schutt, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1643751786
- Language: English
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First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human
$19.00 Read moreWinner of the W.W. Howells Book Prize from the American Anthropological Association and named one of the best science books of 2021 by Science News
“DeSilva takes us on a brilliant, fun, and scientific
- Author: Desilva, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0062938509
- Language: English
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Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies
$26.95 Add to cartTwentieth Anniversary Edition with a new preface and afterword
From the removal of Confederate monuments in New Orleans in the spring of 2017 to the violent aftermath of the white nationalist march on- Series: Public Planet Books
- Author: Levinson, Sanford
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 26 2018
- ISBN10: 1478002808
- Language: English
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The Oak Papers
$16.99 Add to cart“A profound meditation on the human need for connection with nature, as one man seeks solace beneath the bows of an ancient oak tree.”–Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees
“James Canton
- Author: Canton, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0063037963
- 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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Science Reproducible Grade 1
$16.99 Add to cart- Series: Sci: Life, Physical, Earth &Space
- Author: Stckvagn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: December 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0739879332
- Language: English
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Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind
$19.99 Add to cart“A glorious success…The science manages to be as exciting and spellbinding as the juiciest gossip” (San Franscisco Chronicle) in the story of the discovery of “Lucy”–the oldest, best-preserved skel… [more below]
- Author: Edey, Maitland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 15 1990
- ISBN10: 0671724991
- Language: English
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The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
$24.99 Read moreThe renowned biologist and thinker Richard Dawkins presents his most expansive work in this revised edition that offers a comprehensive look at evolution.
Loosely based on the form of Chaucer’s Canterb… [more below]
- Author: Dawkins, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0544859936
- Language: English
