Evolution

Originally published in 1913, The Theory of Evolution in the Light of Facts examines the theory of Descent; the book is a time capsule of informati...

Originally published in 1995, Creation-Evolution Debates is the second volume in the series, Creationism in Twentieth Century America, reissued in ...

Originally published in 1995, The Antievolution Works of Arthur I. Brown is the third volume in the series, Creationism in Twentieth Century Americ...

In this landmark work, the author team led by Dr. Sean Carroll presents the general principles of the genetic basis of morphological change through...

A savory account of how the pursuit of delicious foods shaped human evolutionNature, it has been said, invites us to eat by appetite and rewards by...

Did you know that Tasmanian hens have two husbands? That cellular slime molds commit suicide? That vampire bats will share food with hungry fellow ...

The cerebral cortex is the crowning achievement of evolution and the biological substrate of human mental capacities. Using a comparative evolution...

WINNER OF THE 2004 LAKATOS AWARD! Thought in a Hostile World is an exploration of the evolution of cognition, especially human cognition, by one of...

Designed for a one term introduction to the modern theory of evolution by natural selection and how that theory explains animal social behavior in ...

Throughout the twentieth century, biologists investigated the mechanisms that stabilize biological populations, populations which--if unchecked by ...

Darwin’s Footprint examines the impact of Darwinism in Greece, investigating how it has shaped Greece in terms of its cultural and intellectual his...

Evolutionary algorithms are relatively new, but very powerful techniques used to find solutions to many real-world search and optimization problems...

Animal Evolution provides a comprehensive analysis of the evolutionary interrelationships and myriad diversity of the Animal Kingdom. It reviews th...

In The Descent of Man, Charles Darwin proposed that an ant’s brain, no larger than a pin’s head, must be sophisticated to accomplish all that it do...

This collection of specially commissioned essays puts top scholars head to head to debate the central issues in the lively and fast growing field o...

Der Siegeszug der molekularen Biotechnologie geht weiter. Dem trägt dieses Lehrbuch, herausgegeben von einem der akademischen Pioniere auf diesem G...

This collection of specially commissioned essays puts top scholars head to head to debate the central issues in the lively and fast growing field o...

Throughout their lives animals must complete many tasks, including finding food, avoiding predators, attracting mates, and navigating through a com...

Evolution is a complex process, acting at multiple scales, from DNA sequences and proteins to populations of species. Understanding and reconstruct...

The Emergence of Humans is an accessible, informative introduction to the scientific study of human evolution. It takes the reader through time fol...

Covering everything from fossilised dinosaurs to intelligent apes, this is an accessible guide to one of the most important scientific theories of ...

The Wiley Paperback Series makes valuable content more accessible to a new generation of statisticians, mathematicians and scientists. Evolutionar...

The twenty-first century presents an increasing number of environmental problems, including toxic pollution, global warming, destruction of tropica...

This fascinating book draws it subject matter from a range of relevant disciplines that extend from molecular nutrition, nutritional sciences, and ...

This book considers evolution at different scales: sequences, genes, gene families, organelles, genomes and species. The focus is on the mathematic...

Animal phylogeny is undergoing a major revolution due to the availability of an exponentially increasing amount of molecular data and the applicati...

In paleoanthropology the group of hominids known as the "robust" australopithecines has emerged as one of the most interesting. Through them we hav...

The twenty-first century presents an increasing number of environmental problems, including toxic pollution, global warming, destruction of tropica...

This book consists of 17 papers on the contributions of John Holland by a distinguished group of scholars from a wide range of fields, including th...

Despite wide acceptance that the attributes of living creatures have appeared through a cumulative evolutionary process guided chiefly by natural s...

Whatever your opinion of 'Intelligent Design,' you'll find Stove's criticism of what he calls 'Darwinism' difficult to stop reading. Stove's bliste...

Jesus and Darwin do battle on car bumpers across America. Medallions of fish symbolizing Jesus are answered by ones of amphibians stamped "Darwin,"...

Over millions of years, terrestrial plants have competed for limited resources, defended themselves against herbivores, and resisted a myriad of en...

Since Darwin's time, comparative psychologists have searched for a good way to compare cognition in humans and nonhuman primates. In Origins of In...

In this book, Rudolf A. Raff reaches out to the scientifically queasy, using his life story and his growth as a scientist to illustrate why science...

Erwin Schrödinger's 1944 classic What Is Life? is a small book that occupies a large place among the great written works of the twentieth century. ...

Haldane, Mayr, and Beanbag Genetics presents a summary of the classic exchange between two great biologists - J.B.S. Haldane and Ernst Mayr - regar...

Research conducted over the last fifteen years has placed in question many of the traditional conclusions about the evolution of human female sexua...

In the last fifteen years a controversial new theory of the origins of biological complexity and the nature of the universe has been fomenting bitt...

This is the story of a profound revolution in the way biologists explore life's history, understand its evolutionary processes, and reveal its dive...

In a world where natural selection has shaped adaptations of astonishing ingenuity, what is the scope and unique power of rational thinking? In...

Richard D. Alexander is an accomplished entomologist who turned his attention to solving some of the most perplexing problems associated with the e...

This book looks back at the simpler versions of mental life in apes, Neanderthals, and our ancestors, back before our burst of creativity started 5...

The diverse field of evolutionary genetics is unified by two goals: to understand the impact that evolutionary processes have on genetic variation,...