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 An imaginative natural history survey of the wide world of spirits, from whiskey and gin to grappa and moonshine In this follow-up book to A Natur...

The human species is very young, but in a short time it has acquired some striking, if biologically superficial, variations across the planet. As t...

A celebration of beerits science, its history, and its impact on human culture  Curatorial eminences Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall serve up a pote...

A lively and unconventional exploration of our senses, how they work, what is revealed when they dont, and how they connect us to the world Over th...

Ever since the recognition of the Neanderthals as an archaic human in the mid-nineteenth century, the fossilized bones of extinct humans have been ...

It 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...

Revolutionary research is revealing how the trillions of microbes living on and in our bodies can keep us healthy . . . or make us sick   Suddenly,...

Revolutionary research is revealing how the trillions of microbes living on and in our bodies can keep us healthy . . . or make us sick Sudde...

What evolutionary process could have resulted in the unique and amazing human brain? New research by neuroscientists, paleontologists, and others r...

A celebration of beerits science, its history, and its impact on human culture  Curatorial eminences Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall serve up a pote...