Evolution

This book addresses central questions in the evolution of language: where it came from; how and why it evolved; how it came to be culturally transm...

Published to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, Evidence of Evolution uses exquisite images by disting...

Our species long lived on the edge of starvation. Now we produce enough food for all 7 billion of us to eat nearly 3,000 calories every day. This i...

In this compelling follow-up to the "New York Times" bestseller "Survival of the Sickest", Dr. Sharon Moalem takes readers on a trip from prehistor...

W. D. Hamilton (1936-2000) has been described by Richard Dawkins as 'a good candidate for the title of most distinguished Darwinian since Darwin'. ...

The extent of lateral gene transfer among diverse microbes has effectively broken down our concept of species when we seek to apply it to the micro...

Animal Architects masterfully investigates how the structure an animal builds reveals the inner workings of its mind. Beginning with instinct and ...

Evolution has, ever since its inception, been one of the most ideologically fraught fields in all of science. It has given birth to the myth about ...

The rapid evolutionary development of modern Homo sapiens over the past 200,000 years is a topic of fevered interest in numerous disciplines. How d...

This biography of Charles Darwin attempts to capture the private unknown life of the real man - the gambling and gluttony at Cambridge, his gruelli...

Tackling one of the most difficult and delicate of the evolutionary questions, this challenging book summarizes the more recent results in phylogen...

The extraordinary story of how the human brain evolved... and is still evolving. We've come a long way. The earliest human had a brain as small as ...

A gripping story of obsession, adventure and the search for our oldest surviving ancestor – 400 million years old – a four-limbed dinofish! ...

A wonderfully accessible, up-to-the-minute account of human evolution by 'one of the most respected evolutionary psychologists in Britain' (Guardia...

What we do and do not know about evolution, by one of the field's pioneering thinkers.Evolution is the most important idea in biology, with implica...

Much has been written about Charles Darwin but this is the first biography of his strong, intelligent wife. Emma Wedgwood, granddaughter of the fa...

In a book sure to stir argument for years to come, Robert Wright challen+ges the conventional view that biological evolution and human history are ...

A brilliant investigation of why nature is beautiful and how art has influenced science 'Rothenberg's passionate optimism - a belief in the beauty...

Annie was Charles and Emma Darwin's adored first daughter. Her death at the age of ten broke their hearts. At the time, Darwin was working secretly...

Miller is a believer, but he is also certain that we evolved - and this book is about why the two are not mutually exclusive; in fact, the idea of ...

An introduction to the study of fossils, from expert Paul Taylor, with original specimens drawn from the collections of the Natural History Museum.

Officials and religious scholars in the Gulf states have repeatedly banned the teaching of the theory of evolution because of its association with ...

The publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species touched off a violent controversy which, when the tumult had died down, left t...

This unique volume of thirty essays, by fifty-three internationally known scholars, honours C.S. (Rufus) Churcher, the distinguished Canadian palae...

The captivating and beautifully illustrated true story of snakes in America.125 million years ago on the floodplains of North America, a burrowing ...

In this dazzling collection of essays covering a broad range of fields, from Darwinism and the global population explosion to bird watching, distin...

This amusing, acerbic collection of essays examines every facet of the evolution/creationism controversy. Delos B. McKown exposes the ambiguous sta...

This book is about what science frequently dodges or even denies: subjective life as experienced by animals as well as humans. Mixing what is known...

In the nineteenth century, philology-especially comparative philology-made impressive gains as a discipline, thus laying the foundation for the mod...

Published to commemorate the centennial of the publication of Darwin's "Origin of Species", this volume brings together several important essays on...

The discovery in the 1920s of a huge cache of fossils in the Gobi Desert fuelled a mania for dinosaurs that continues to the present. But the orig...

Concise and clearly written, "The Non-Darwinian Revolution" sets forth a convincing argument for a reappraisal of Darwin's importance not only for ...

This detailed study of the different rates of growth of parts of the body relative to the body as a whole represents Sir Julian Huxley's great cont...

Huxley was one of the first adherents to Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection and advanced its acceptance by scientists and the public...

Newborn mammals can weigh as little as a dime or as much as a motorcycle. Some receive milk for only a few days, whereas others nurse for years. Hu...

Mammalian pheromones, audiomones, visuomones, and snarks-Richard Doty argues that they all belong in the same category: objects of imagination. Fo...

As scholars debate the most appropriate way to teach evolutionary theory, Constance Clark provides an intriguing reflection on similar debates in t...

Since the publication in 1859 of Darwin's Origin of Species, debate over the theory of evolution has been continuous and often impassioned. In rece...

Many children's stories and books have addressed the idea of biblical creation, but the number of works written to acquaint youngsters with the ext...

Is the evolutionary process intelligently designed? If so, why did the Creator choose such an evil-infested means to create the biosphere? What is ...

Recent empirical and philosophical research into the evolutionary history of Homo sapiens, the origins of the mind/brain, and the development of hu...

Recent empirical and philosophical research into the evolutionary history of Homo sapiens, the origins of the mind/brain, and the development of hu...

Galatea, or the Future of Darwinism W Russell BrainOriginally published in 1927"A brilliant exposition…of the evolutionary hypothesis." The Guardia...

Data Integration, Manipulation and Visualization of Phylogenetic Trees introduces and demonstrates data integration, manipulation and visualization...

In a narrative style, Emily Monosson explains how humans are driving rapid contemporary evolution through the use of toxic chemicals and what we ca...

Appropriate as a textbook for graduate courses, The Evolution and Function of Cognition provides a systematic and progressively inclusive integrati...

Our understanding of human origins has been revolutionized by new discoveries in the past two decades. In this book, three leading paleoanthropolog...