Evolution

Two discoveries of early human relatives, one in 1924 and one in 2003, radically changed scientific thinking about our origins. Dean Falk, a pionee...

In a stirring exploration of human nature recalling his foundational work Consilience, Edward O. Wilson offers a luminous (Kirkus Reviews) reflecti...

Leading ecologists discuss some of the most compelling open questions in the field todayUnsolved Problems in Ecology brings together many of the wo...

When the young naturalist Darwin set sail on a round-the-world expedition at the end of 1831, it was only with a vague notion that the relationship...

What did earlier humans really look like? What was life like for them, millions of years ago? How do we know? In this book, internationally renowne...

While the health of aging men has been a focus of biomedical research for years, evolutionary biology has not been part of the conversation--until ...

A fundamental and groundbreaking reassessment of how we view and manage cancer When we think of the forces driving cancer, we dont necessarily thin...

Asserting that religious creeds and philosophical questions can be reduced to purely genetic and evolutionary components, and that the human body a...

A unique trait of the human species is that our personalities, lifestyles, and worldviews are shaped by an accident of birthnamely, the culture int...

James T. Costa takes readers on a journey from Charles Darwins youth and travels on the HMS Beagle to Down House, his bustling home of forty years....

Alcoholism, as opposed to the safe consumption of alcohol, remains a major public health issue. In this accessible book, Robert Dudley presents an ...

Charles Darwin's Origin of Species is one of the most widely cited books in modern science. Yet tackling this classic can be daunting for students ...

A groundbreaking book that examines all aspects of male aging through an evolutionary lensWhile the health of aging men has been a focus of biomedi...

'Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin' On topics ranging from intelligent design and climate change to the ...

Our Human Story is a guide to our fossil relatives, from what may be the earliest hominins such as Sahelanthropus, dating back six to seven million...

When Darwin announced his theory of evolution by natural selection, he did more than transform biology. Before his great work, humans were comforta...

13.8 billion years of human and cosmic history summarised in one big book. At DK, we believe in the power of discovery. So with this brand-new hist...

With exclusive contributions from Richard Dawkins, Noam Chomsky, Martin Rees, Aubrey Manning, Richard Holloway, Daniel C. Dennett, Randal Keynes, B...

What evolutionary process could have resulted in the unique and amazing human brain? New research by neuroscientists, paleontologists, and others r...

Scholars consider the origins and consequences of the evolution of multicellularity, addressing a range of organisms, experimental protocols, theor...

The concepts of evolution and complexity theory have become part of the intellectual ether permeating the life sciences, the social and behavioral ...

The Compact Guide: Charles Darwin reveals the famous scientist's life in compelling detail. From his expedition aboard the Beagle and his legenda...

In 1905, eight men from the California Academy of Sciences set sail from San Francisco for a scientific collection expedition in the Galapagos Isla...

The human imagination manifests in countless different forms. We imagine the possible and the impossible. How do we do this so effortlessly? Why di...

A beautifully written exploration of how cooperation shaped life on earth, from its single-celled beginnings to complex human societies   In this r...

Historical biogeography-the study of the history of species through both time and place-first convinced Charles Darwin of evolution. This field was...

There are two driving questions informing this book. The first is where does our moral life come from? It presupposes that considering morality bro...

This extensive, three-volume handbook, intensively updated and enlarged, is a superb new resource for students, researchers, and practitioners in p...

Published by Sinauer Associates, an imprint of Oxford University Press. Extensively rewritten and reorganized, this new edition of Evolution--fe...

This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century...

In this profound and lyrical book, one of our most celebrated biologists offers a sweeping examination of the relationship between the humanities a...

Douglas Futuyma presents an overview of current thinking on theories of evolution, aimed at an undergraduate audience.

As countless love songs, movies, and self-help books attest, men and women have long sought different things. The result? Seemingly inevitable conf...

A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 Bracing and enlightening Science Culture is something exclusive to human beings, isnt it? Not so, says int...