Evolution

Life began about four billion years ago on our planet. Like an old patchwork quilt, evolution stitched the human being together from parts of an...

How better than to mark the 150th anniversary of Darwin''s book on human evolution than by challenging his theory with an updated version which ins...

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...

How did wolves evolve into dogs? When did this happen, and what role did humans play? Oxford geneticist Bryan Sykes used the full array of modern t...

The study of human evolution is advancing rapidly. Newly discovered fossil evidence is adding ever more pieces to the puzzle of our past, whilst re...

Most people are familiar with the dodo and the dinosaur, but extinction has occurred throughout the history of life, with the result that nearly al...

Over the past decade, ecologists have increasingly embraced phylogenetics, the study of evolutionary relationships among species. As a result, they...

The phenomenon of friendship is universal and elemental. Friends, after all, are the family we choose. But what makes these bonds not just pleasant...

The evolution of dogs and the forces that drove its amazing transformation from a fierce wild carnivore, the wolf, to the astonishing range of comp...

Community ecology has undergone a transformation in recent years, from a discipline largely focused on processes occurring within a local area to a...

You don't need a spaceship to travel to the extremes of science. You just need this book. What's the nature of reality? Does the universe ever en...

All humans share certain components of tooth structure, but show variation in size and morphology around this shared pattern. This book presents a ...

The follow-up to the BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Other Minds A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year A Waterstones Best Bo...

The surge of evolutionary and neurological analyses of art and its effects raises questions of how art, culture, and the biological sciences influe...

'Daring, learned and humane ... A revelatory restoration of wonder' Stephen Greenblatt. We no longer think, like the ancient Chinese did, that the ...

This monumental work by Dankmar Bosse presents, for the first time, a comprehensive picture of the evolution of the earth and its natural kingdoms,...

The Evolution of Life stands alone amongst the major textbooks by focusing on key principles to offer a truly accessible, unintimidating treatment ...

In 1980, the science world was stunned when a maverick team of researchers proposed that a massive meteor strike had wiped the dinosaurs and other ...

Mitochondria are tiny structures located inside our cells that carry out the essential task of producing energy for the cell. They are found in all...

Both natural and cultural selection played an important role in shaping human evolution. Since cultural change can itself be regarded as evolutiona...

Evolutionary ethics - the application of evolutionary ideas to moral thinking and justification - began in the nineteenth century with the work of ...

Charles Darwin's voyage on the HMS Beagle was a journey that would revolutionise our understanding of the natural world and our place in it. The ma...

Mechanical Design of Structural Materials in Animals explores the principles underlying how molecules interact to produce the functional attributes...

Why have creatures evolved as they are? Which species have been the most successful? How do life forms adapt to a world dominated by nearly seven b...

Are humans still subject to the forces of evolution? An evolutionary biologist provides surprising insights into the future of Homo sapiens In this...

How have our emotions shaped the course of human history? And how have our experience and understan...

The forgotten garden that inspired Charles Darwin becomes the modern-day setting for an exploration of memory, family, and the legacy of genius. Da...