Evolution

We are marching towards a future in which three-quarters of humans live in cities, more than half of the landmass of the planet is urbanized, and t...

'can we doubt ... that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating th...

Virtually all aspects of human behavior show enormous variation both within and between cultural groups, including material culture, social organiz...

In little more than a hundred years the evolutionary theory of Charles Darwin has conquered the thinking world. No other body of ideas has enjoyed ...

In science, more than elsewhere, a word is expected to mean what it says, nothing more, nothing less. But scientific discourse is neither different...

Where and when did man make his first appearance on this earth? The object of this book is to bring before the public such further facts and values...

Prior to publication the study of animal coloration was plagued by fanciful speculations, post hoc explanations and untestable hypotheses. This tit...

In recent decades, Susan Oyama and her colleagues in the burgeoning field of developmental systems theory have rejected the determinism inherent in...

We live in a world teeming with parasites. Many animal behaviors, including social interactions, mating displays, and decisions about where to move...

Over time the complex idea of "species" has evolved, yet its meaning is far from resolved. This comprehensive work is a fresh look at an idea centr...

The cognitive science of religion is an inherently heterogeneous subject, incorporating theory and data from anthropology, psychology, sociology, e...

From humans to hermit crabs to deep water plankton, all living things compete for locally limiting resources. This universal truth unites three bod...

In What Makes us Human? some of the world’s most brilliant thinkers answer this perennial puzzle. Is it our imagination or our knack for cooking...

“The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the...

Noted biologist and philosopher Sahotra Sarkar exposes the frauds and fallacies of Intelligent Design Theory, and its claim to be 'good science'. ...