Evolution

Principles of Evolution covers all aspects of the subject. Following an introductory section that provides necessary background, it has chapters on...

This book is the first major study of what was probably the most important centre or pre-Darwinian evolutionary thought in the British Isles. It sh...

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death worldwide today, but are not just a modern phenomenon. To explore the deep roots of C...

A neurosurgeon explores how our tendency to prioritize short-term consumer pleasures spurs climate change, but also how the brains amazing capacity...

We feel therefore we are. Conscious sensations ground our sense of self. They are essential to our idea of ourselves as psychic beings: present, ex...

Information is central to the evolution of biological complexity, a physical system relying on a continuous supply of energy. Biology provides supe...

Provides a broad snapshot of recent findings showing how the environment and genes influence behavior The great debate of nature versus nurture rag...

Argues that the struggle over income, wealth, status and privilege-inequality-has been the principal, defining issue in human history and provides ...

'Mind-blowing ... It is a hugely important book ... His story is crucial' Matt Ridley, The TimesOne of the world's top behavioural geneticists argu...

This volume brings together more than a decade of information collected in the field and lab on the naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber), a north...

'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...

The 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...

John Tyler Bonner, one of our most distinguished and creative biologists, here offers a completely new perspective on the role of size in biology. ...

Biological Essentialism addresses three main issues. The first concerns the essences (natures, identities) of biological taxa, particularly species...

What 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...

There 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...