Evolution

Ultrasocial argues that rather than environmental destruction and extreme inequality being due to human nature, they are the result of the adoption...

In Becoming Undone, Elizabeth Grosz addresses three related conceptslife, politics, and artby exploring the implications of Charles Darwins account...

How can the stunning diversity of social systems and behaviours seen in nature be explained? Drawing on social evolution theory, experimental evide...

Every animal on the planet owes its existence to one crucial piece of evolutionary engineering: the egg.   Its time to tell a new story of life on ...

When the twelve-year-old daughter of a British carpenter pulled some strange-looking bones from the countrys southern shoreline in 1811, few people...

By early morning 30 June 1860, a large crowd began to congregate in front of Oxford Universitys brand-new Museum of Natural History. The occasion w...

The newly revised and thoroughly updated standard source for mastering the human fossil record. This new edition of The Human Lineage is the best a...

How our growing knowledge of the evolution of complex ecosystems, using the latest genetic tools, can help us heal them - and survive This is not ...

In Sentient, Jackie Higgins assembles a menagerie of zoological creatures from land, air, sea and all four corners of the globe to understand wha...

Fishes that walk, fishes that breathe air, fishes that look like-and are-monsters from the deep. These and many more strange creatures swim through...

From the very beginning, life on Earth has been defined by war. Today those first wars continue to be fought around and inside us, influencing our ...