Evolution

Highlights the influence of saltatory evolution and rapid climate change on human evolution, migration and behavioural change. Growing concern over...

A powerful treatise that demonstrates the existence of altruism in nature, with surprising implications for human society Does altruism exist? Or i...

What is the nature of the material world? How does it work? What is the universe and how was it formed? What is life? Where do we come from and how...

Evolutionary science is critical to an understanding of integrated human biology and is increasingly recognised as a core discipline by medical and...

The Tree of Life presents the ultimate phylogenetic tree; featuring 44 chapters each authored by experts in their field, it provides for the first ...

In this masterwork, Russell H. Tuttle synthesizes a vast research literature in primate evolution and behavior to explain how apes and humans evolv...

Comparison is fundamental to evolutionary anthropology. When scientists study chimpanzee cognition, for example, they compare chimp performance on ...

This book collects the contributions to the symposium The current state of evolutionary archeology in Argentina that was held in Buenos Aires, for ...

The greatest mass extinction in Earths history happened some 251 million years ago. In this cataclysm at least 90% of life was killed, both on land...

We think of medical science and doctors as focused on treating conditions-whether it's a cough or an aching back. But the sicknesses and complaints...

Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is an illogical development...

An engaging journey into the biological principles underpinning a beloved science-fiction franchiseIn Star Trek, crew members travel to unusual pla...

A radically new cosmological view from a groundbreaking neuroscientist who places the human brain at the center of humanity''s universe Renowned ne...

How our ability to learn from each other has been the essential ingredient to our remarkable success as a speciesHuman beings have evolved to becom...

In the ongoing debate about evolution, science and faith face off. But the truth is both sides are right and wrong.In one corner: Atheists like Ric...

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

A groundbreaking, evidence-based text to the growing field of evolutionary medicine Evidence-Based Evolutionary Medicine offers a comprehensive rev...

An Economist Best History Book 2017  History as it should be written.Barry Cunliffe, Guardian  Scott hits the nail squarely on the head by exposing...

An engaging journey into the biological principles underpinning a beloved science-fiction franchiseIn Star Trek, crew members travel to unusual pla...

Covering 13.8 billion years in some 100 pages, a calculatedly concise, wryly intelligent history of everything, from the Big Bang to the advent of ...