Evolution
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The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins
Tom HighamCurrent price €15.58Original price €17.50'The who, what, where, when and how of human evolution, from one of the world's experts on the dating of prehistoric fossils' Steve Brusatte, autho...
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Our Cosmic Ancestry in the Stars: The Panspermia Revolution and the Origins of Humanity
Chandra WickramasingheCurrent price €15.23Original price €17.50An exploration of how acceptance of panspermia will soon change history Mainstream consensus is that life arose on Earth spontaneously out of primo...
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How Life Works: A Users Guide to the New Biology
Philip BallCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99A cutting-edge new vision of biology that proposes to revise our concept of what life is from Science Book Prize winner and former Nature editor P...
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Game Theory in Biology: concepts and frontiers
John M. McNamaraCurrent price €89.09Original price €98.99The principles of game theory apply to a wide range of topics in biology. This book presents the central concepts in evolutionary game theory and p...
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Why Size Matters: From Bacteria to Blue Whales
John Tyler BonnerCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99John Tyler Bonner, one of our most distinguished and creative biologists, here offers a completely new perspective on the role of size in biology. ...
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Biological Essentialism
Michael DevittCurrent price €66.59Original price €73.99Biological Essentialism addresses three main issues. The first concerns the essences (natures, identities) of biological taxa, particularly species...
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The Unification of the Arts: A Framework for Understanding What the Arts Share and Why
Steven BrownCurrent price €57.41Original price €65.99What are the arts? What functions do the arts serve in human life? There has been a surge of cognitive, biological, and evolutionary interest in th...
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Little Species, Big Mystery (Signed by the author): The Story of Homo Floresiensis
Debbie ArgueCurrent price €39.15Original price €43.99There is only one kind of human on earth today: us. But we are only one of a number of human species primates of the Hominini tribe that have exi...
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Future of Post-Human Etiology: Towards a New Theory of Cause & Effect -- Volume 1
Peter BaofuCurrent price €247.49Original price €274.99Current price €247.49Original price €274.99Save 10% -
Naturally Selective: Evolution, Orgasm, and Female Choice
Robert KingCurrent price €116.09Original price €128.99Researchers of human behaviour have identified an orgasm gap: Men usually orgasm during intercourse, whereas women often do not. This book addresse...
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Naturally Selective: Evolution, Orgasm, and Female Choice
Robert KingCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Researchers of human behaviour have identified an orgasm gap: Men usually orgasm during intercourse, whereas women often do not. This book addresse...
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Darwin''s Corals: A New Model of Evolution and the Tradition of Natural History
Horst BredekampCurrent price €20.87Original price €23.99To this day Charles Darwins evolutionary theory of the survival of the fittest has been visualized with the universal model of a tree of life. But ...
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Strange New Worlds: The Search for Alien Planets and Life beyond Our Solar System
Ray JayawardhanaCurrent price €20.69Original price €22.99In Strange New Worlds, renowned astronomer Ray Jayawardhana brings news from the front lines of the epic quest to find planets--and alien life--bey...
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Evolution Stands Faith Up: Reflections on Evolutions Wars
Guillermo Paz y Mino C.Current price €74.69Original price €82.99Shot-gun marriages between evolution and faith have never worked, despite the tradition of pointing the barrel at evolution''s head. The truth is t...
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Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life
Eva JablonkaCurrent price €37.79Original price €41.99Current price €37.79Original price €41.99Save 10% -
Fruit and Nut Crops
Springer Verlag SingaporeCurrent price €234.06Original price €262.99Fruit and Nut Crops: A Treasure Trove of Diversity and ResilienceDive into the fascinating world of fruit and nut crops in this comprehensive volum...
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The Evolution of Biological Information: How Evolution Creates Complexity, from Viruses to Brains
Christoph AdamiCurrent price €68.39Original price €75.99Why information is the unifying principle that allows us to understand the evolution of complexity in natureMore than 150 years after Darwins revol...
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Science and Religion United: The Salvation Machine
Ulrich A. K. BetzCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book offers a fresh perspective on how science and religion are connected, and how prayer aligns with the laws of nature. It explores a holist...
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Biosystematics of Triticeae: Volume II. Genera: Secale, Tritiosecale, Pseudosecale, Eremopyrum, Henrardia, Taeniantherum, Heteranthelium, Crithopsis, and Hordeum
Chi YenCurrent price €136.16Original price €152.99This book discusses the natural classification and biosystematics of Triticeae and presents the most significant findings of comprehensive studies ...
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Written in Stone (Icon Science)
Brian SwitekCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99Darwin's theory of evolution was for more than a century dogged by a major problem: the evidence proving the connections between the main groups of...
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Elemental: How Five Elements Changed Earths Past and Will Shape Our Future
Stephen PorderCurrent price €25.37Original price €28.50An ecologist explores how life itself shapes Earth using the elemental constituents we all shareIt is rare for life to change Earth, yet three orga...
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Animal Tool Behavior: The Use and Manufacture of Tools by Animals
Benjamin B. BeckCurrent price €63.89Original price €70.99When published in 1980, Benjamin B. Beck's Animal Tool Behavior was the first volume to catalog and analyze the complete literature on tool use an...
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The Cradle of Humanity: How the changing landscape of Africa made us so smart
Mark A. MaslinCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50Humans are rather weak when compared with many other animals. We are not particular fast and have no natural weapons. Yet Homo sapiens currently nu...
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The Fourth Great Transformation: Creating a new human species with AI and genetic engineering
Don SimborgCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50A new human species will soon come to co-exist with us. This new species, 'Homo nouveau,' will be created using artificial intelligence and genetic...
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Organismic Animal Biology: An Evolutionary Approach
Ariel ChipmanCurrent price €85.49Original price €94.99Neither cellular/molecular nor ecosystem processes can be fully understood without a detailed understanding of the biology of the whole organism. D...
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The Equations of Life: How Physics Shapes Evolution
Charles CockellCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50Britain's foremost astrobiologist offers an accessible and game-changing account of why life is like it is.The puzzles of life astound and confuse ...
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The Smart Neanderthal: Bird catching, Cave Art, and the Cognitive Revolution
Clive FinlaysonCurrent price €23.93Original price €27.50Since the late 1980s the dominant theory of human origins has been that a 'cognitive revolution' (C.50,000 years ago) led to the advent of our spec...
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Evolution and Human Behaviour: Darwinian Perspectives on the Human Condition
John CartwrightCurrent price €56.69Original price €62.99Our experience of the world is driven by processes common to all animals: growth, survival, reproduction and death. Evolution and Human Behaviour e...
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Dragonflies and Damselflies: Model Organisms for Ecological and Evolutionary Research
Oxford University PressCurrent price €108.89Original price €120.99This research level text documents the latest advances in odonate biology and relates these to a broader ecological and evolutionary research agend...
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A Story of Us: A New Look at Human Evolution
Lesley NewsonCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50It's time for a story of human evolution that goes beyond describing ape-men and talks about what women and children were doing. In a few decades,...
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What is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology
Addy ProssCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50Seventy years ago, Erwin Schrödinger posed a profound question: 'What is life, and how did it emerge from non-life?' This problem has puzzled biolo...
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The Sweet Spot: Suffering, Pleasure and the Key to a Good Life
Paul BloomCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50What if experiencing a good life involves more than just pleasure?Revealing the surprising roots of lasting happiness, pre-eminent psychologist Pa...
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Ecology and Evolution of Darwin''s Finches (Princeton Science Library Edition): Princeton Science Library Edition
Peter R. GrantCurrent price €91.79Original price €101.99After his famous visit to the Galapagos Islands, Darwin speculated that one might fancy that, from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago...
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How Life Works: A Users Guide to the New Biology
Philip BallCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50'An essential primer on humanitys ongoing quest to understand the secrets of life . . . Excellent . . . Ball is a terrific writer.' Adam Rutherfor...
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Fitness Landscape, Red Queen, Evolutionary Enigmas, and Applications to Virology
Igor M. RouzineCurrent price €152.09Original price €168.99This two-volume work focuses on the mathematical aspects of Darwinian evolution starting from the basic model of stochastic evolution of a single i...
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Organismic Animal Biology: An Evolutionary Approach
Ariel ChipmanCurrent price €42.29Original price €46.99Neither cellular/molecular nor ecosystem processes can be fully understood without a detailed understanding of the biology of the whole organism. D...
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A Theory of Creation: A Review of ''Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation''
Francis BowenCurrent price €17.39Original price €19.99Current price €17.39Original price €19.99Save 13% -
Origin of Life: What Everyone Needs to Know®
David W. DeamerCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Our knowledge of our solar system has passed the point of no return. Increasingly, it seems possible that scientists will soon discover how life is...
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Genetics: Genes, genomes, and evolution
Iruka N. OkekeCurrent price €70.19Original price €77.99Recent advances that allow scientists to quickly and accurately sequence a genome have revolutionized our view of the structure and function of gen...
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Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War Between Science and Religion
Michael TaylorCurrent price €28.93Original price €32.50Impossible Monsters is the captivating story of the discovery of the dinosaurs and how it upended our understanding of the origins of the world.An ...
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Darwins Racism, Sexism, and Idolization: Their Tragic Societal and Scientific Repercussions
Rui DiogoCurrent price €39.59Original price €43.99In this book Diogo, a renowned biologist and anthropologist, addresses a question that is critical for the understanding of science, beliefs, idoli...
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The Biology of the Naked Mole-Rat
Princeton University PressCurrent price €95.39Original price €105.99This volume brings together more than a decade of information collected in the field and lab on the naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber), a north...
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Ecology and Evolution of Darwin''s Finches (Princeton Science Library Edition): Princeton Science Library Edition
Peter R. GrantCurrent price €211.49Original price €234.99After his famous visit to the Galapagos Islands, Darwin speculated that one might fancy that, from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago...
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How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures
Robin DunbarCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50A fascinating analysis of the evolution of religion from the internationally renowned evolutionary psychologistWhen did humans develop spiritual th...
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