Evolution

In Trying Biology, Adam R. Shapiro convincingly dispels many conventional assumptions about the 1925 Scopes monkey trial. Most view it as an event ...

A historian of science examines key public debates about the fundamental nature of humans to ask why a polarized discourse about nature versus nurt...

Revealing the surprising roots of lasting happiness, The Sweet Spot by pre-eminent psychologist Paul Bloom explains why suffering is an essential s...

A Times Best Book of 2021 From the very first dog to glowing fish and designer pigs the human history of remaking nature. Virus-free mosquitoes,...

A Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from the brain...

Follow the story of evolution! The illustrated children's book is a beautiful introduction to the evolution of species over millions of years.What'...

Brilliant, eye-opening, and absolutely inspiring and a riveting read. Cass Sunstein, author of How Change Happens and co-author of Nudge What is ...

Are we now entering a mass extinction event? What can mass extinctions in Earth's history tell us about the Anthropocene? What do mass extinction e...

DNA ancestry companies generate revenues in the region of $1bn a year, and the company 23andMe is said to have sold 10 million DNA ancestry kits to...

''A fascinating and challenging story'' New York Review of Books ''This is an incredibly absorbing and insightful book about the most important sc...

Over two dozen Christian leaders describe how they changed their minds about evolution Perhaps no topic appears as potentially threatening to evang...

'A gripping and sobering reminder of how much we are all governed by our genetic inheritance. So much for free will.' The Mail on Sunday Stress, o...

This book explores the geography, ecology, and antiquity of 'open ecosystems', which include grasslands, savannas, and shrublands. They occur in cl...

Music is central to human cultural and intellectual experience. It is vitally important for the welfare of human society and - this book argues - s...

Phylogenetic Trees Made Easy, Fifth Edition leads the reader, step by step, through identifying and acquiring the sequences to be included in a tre...

The primary aim of this book is to provide a synthesis of our current understanding of hemoglobin function and evolution, and to illustrate how res...

The primary aim of this book is to provide a synthesis of our current understanding of hemoglobin function and evolution, and to illustrate how res...

'Required reading for anyone remotely curious about how they came to be remotely curious' Observer'Enthralling' Spectator What is human consciousn...

Scientists, and their research, are often shaped by the prevailing social and political context at the time. Kuljian explores this trend in South A...

Adapt or die: it's nature's most famous imperative. But how does evolution actually happen? It's too slow to see, but it's going on all around you,...

Adapt or die: it's nature's most famous imperative. But how does evolution actually happen? It's too slow to see, but it's going on all around you,...

Music is central to human cultural and intellectual experience. It is vitally important for the welfare of human society and - this book argues - s...

Using comic-book style illustration combined with accessible but authoritative text, the Introducing Graphic Guide series is a uniquely brilliant w...

Charles Darwin and his revolutionary ideas inspired pundits the world over to put pen to paper. In this unique dictionary of quotations, Darwin sch...

The first book on the hunt for evolution's 'missing links' over the last three decades - and what palaeontologists' findings mean for our place on ...

The Heliconius butterflies are one of the classic systems in evolutionary biology and have contributed hugely to our understanding of evolution ove...

How is consciousness possible? What biological purpose does it serve? Why do we value it so highly? In Soul Dust the psychologist Nicholas Humphrey...

Darwins theory of natural selection was a monumental step in our understanding of evolution, explaining how useful adaptations are preserved over g...

Humans now wield a greater influence on the planet than any other species in history, and human-developed technologies like genetic engineering and...

Paleobiology struggled for decades to influence our understanding of evolution and the history of life because it was stymied by a focus on microev...

Humans have gone underground for survival for thousands of years, from underground cities in Turkey to Cold War-era bunkers. But our burrowing ro...