Evolution

This volume not only offers an intellectual biography of one of the most important biologists and social thinkers of the twentieth century but also...

What's so special about music? We experience it internally, yet at the same time it is highly social. Music engages our cognitive/affective and sen...

Charles Darwin's experiences in the Galapagos Islands in 1835 helped to guide his thoughts toward a revolutionary theory: that species were not fix...

The study of animal behaviour has become one of the fastest growing b- logical disciplines in recent decades. This development can be easily - ferr...

This collection of essays examines selected works in the American literary tradition from an evolutionary perspective. Using an interdisciplinary f...

This collection of essays examines selected works in the American literary tradition from an evolutionary perspective. Using an interdisciplinary f...

We know that animals cross miles of water, land, and sky with pinpoint precision on a daily basis. But it is only in recent years that scientists h...

Approximately eight percent of our DNA contains retroviral sequences that are millions of years old. Through engaging stories of scientific discove...

50 Great Myths of Human Evolution uses common misconceptions to explore basic theory and research in human evolution and strengthen critical thinki...

Picture a world of dog-sized scorpions and millipedes as long as a car; tropical rainforests with trees towering over 150 feet into the sky and a g...

Rhodolith beds form biogenic reefs, oases of high biodiversity in sedimentary seabed environments. The rhodoliths are foundation species, which pro...

A compelling takedown of prevailing myths about human behavior, updated and expanded to meet the current moment.      There are three major myths o...

This book proposes a new angle on the controversy over evolution as a biological theory, creation as a theological/worldview doctrine and evolution...

A groundbreaking examination of the implications of synthetic biology for biodiversity conservation  It is impressive how the book manages to be so...

For fans of WHAT IF? and NEW SCIENTIST comes this brilliantly funny and informative look at the stranger side of evolution.Featuring:The Zombie ant...

The arborescent gymnosperms are the most prevalent trees in one-third of the world's forests, and have dominated the Earth's forest ecosystems thro...

The arborescent gymnosperms are the most prevalent trees in one-third of the world's forests, and have dominated the Earth's forest ecosystems thro...

Developmental biology is seemingly well understood, with development widely accepted as being a series of programmed changes through which an egg t...

Why do the best-known examples of evolutionary change involve the alteration of one kind of animal into another very similar one, like the evolutio...

Charles Darwin's masterpiece, On the Origin of Species, shook society to its core on publication in 1859. Darwin was only too aware of the storm hi...