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Evolution
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Mark Ridley (Editor)
Evolution is a lively introduction to the full range of current evolutionary biology. Stimulating and well-written, this text provides fascinating examples that illustrate and test the theory of evolution. Competing theories are objectively explained throughout. Includes margin notes, chapter summaries, and an extensive glossary, plus an appendix ...
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A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
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Richard Dawkins
Bestselling author Dawkins offers another dazzling gift to his readers--his first collection of essays on what matters most to him, from science, religion and mysticism to today's educational methods.
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The Earth Through Time
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Harold L Levin
This book is for college students taking either their initial course in geology, or their second course in a physical geology-historical geology sequence.
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Life on Earth: A Natural History
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David Attenborough
David Attenborough's comprehensive and well-illustrated book contains 13 chapters that correspond to the 13 segments of the celebrated BBC series on which it was based. The book presents fascinating speculations about why life has evolved in just the way it has, from "chemical soup" to human beings.
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Christianity and Evolution
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Nineteen essays about the relationship of science to religion.
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Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution
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Richard Fortey
A senior paleontologist at the Natural History Museum of London writes warmly about his pet subject--a 500 million year old arthropod called the Trilobite. This former sea-dwelling crustacean-like creature survived 300 million years of climate change and continental drift, but now its closest living relative is the horseshoe crab. Fortey writes ...
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The Journey from Eden: The Peopling of Our World
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Brian M. Fagan
When and where did modern humans come from? And how, against all odds of the Ice Age world, did they succeed in colonizing the globe? The Journey from Eden is the first book for a general audience to address these questions, and to tell the exciting story of the human conquest of the earth. 100 illustrations.
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Evolutionary Biology
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Douglas J. Futuyma
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Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme
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Richard Brodie
"Virus of the Mind" is the first popular book devoted to the science of memetics, a controversial new field that transcends psychology, biology, anthropology, and cognitive science. Memetics is the science of memes, the invisible but very real DNA of human society.
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Race, Evolution, and Behavior: A Life History Perspective
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J. Phillipe Rushton
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Evolution of the Brain: Creation of the Self
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John C. Eccles
Sir John Eccles, a distinguished scientist and Nobel Prize winner who has devoted his scientific life to the study of the mammalian brain, tells the story of how we came to be, not only as animals at the end of the hominid evolutionary line, but also as human beings possessed of reflective consciousness. Eccles traces the line of human ...
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Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck
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David M. Raup
The science of extinction is a lively and moveable feast of scientific speculation and research. Scientist/author David Raup takes the subject of nature's disappearing act to task, covering everything from the Ice Age Blitzkreig to the fate of the marshes on Martha's Vineyard, the extinction of flying reptiles to mankind's impact on tropical reefs ...
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Of Moths and Men: An Evolutionary Tale
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Judith Hooper
Mutant moths and feuding scientists--this is the real story behind the most famous experiment in 20th-century evolutionary biology. A story of hubris and heartbreak, "Of Moths and Men" reveals as much about the internecine battles of science as it does about the mysteries of evolution. of photos.
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The Illustrated Origin of Species
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Charles Darwin
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Physics and Politics
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Walter Bagehot
One of the great short masterpieces of nineteenth-century thought, Physics and Politics is in essence a brilliant essay in social psychology. It defines with grim humor the conditions of stabiltiy and social progress.
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If a Lion Could Talk: Animal Intelligence and the Evolution of Consciousness
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Stephen Budiansky
Master science writer Stephen Budiansky takes us inside the startling world of animal behavior and finds that we are not the smartest animals on Earth.
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The day before yesterday
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Colin Tudge
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Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life
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David Grinspoon
Provocative and anecdotal, this book about the possibility of extraterrestrial life is by a leading young astronomer and advisor to NASA.
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Global Brain: The Evolution of the Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century
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Howard Bloom
"As someone who has spent forty years in psychology with a long-standing interest in evolution, I'll just assimilate Howard Bloom's accomplishment and my amazement."-DAVID SMILLIE, Visiting Professor of Zoology, Duke University In this extraordinary follow-up to the critically acclaimed The Lucifer Principle, Howard Bloom-one of today's preeminent ...
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The Ant and the Peacock: Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to Today
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Helena Cronin, John Maynard Smith (Foreword by)
An enthralling account of the arguments about altruism and sexual selection raging since Darwin's day.
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Ancestors: In Search of Human Origins
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Donald Johanson, Lenora Johanson, Blake Edgar
A world-renowned paleoanthropologist and author of Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind, Donald Johanson attempts to solve the mystery of human evolution using new evidence uncovered on his recent forays into the fossil-rich regions of Eastern Africa. Companion volume to the upcoming Nova series. 175 illus. Maps.
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The Aquatic Ape: A Theory of Human Evolution
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Elaine Morgan
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Genetics: From Genes to Genomes
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Ricki Lewis
"Genetics: From Genes to Genomes" is a cutting-edge, introductory genetics text authored by an unparalleled author team, including Nobel Prize winner, Leland Hartwell. The Second Edition continues to build upon the integration of Mendelian and molecular principles, providing students with the links between early genetics understanding and the new ...
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Pygmy kitabu
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Jean-Pierre Hallet, Alex Pelle
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At the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore But Then Went Back to Sea
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Carl Zimmer, Carl Dennis Buell (Illustrator)
At the Water's Edge delves into evolution's most dramatic transitions -- the journey of animal life from water to land, and the return of some land creatures to the sea. In a story that encompasses four billion years, Carl Zimmer describes the changes -- in bodies, minds, and living habits -- that occurred as descendants of fish evolved to become ...
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