Evolution

Phenotypic variation is influenced by both genetic and environmental variation. One important source of environmental variation is the maternal eff...

Natural Hybridation and Evolution includes data from numerous sources that support the paradigm of natural hybridization as an important evolutiona...

Evolutionism and Its Critics is a critical history of evolutionary theories in the social sciences and a defense of them against their many critic...

Evolutionism and Its Critics is a critical history of evolutionary theories in the social sciences and a defense of them against their many critic...

Perhaps nudged over the evolutionary cliff by a giant boloid striking the earth, the incredible and fascinating group of animals called dinosaurs b...

'Arvid Ågren has undertaken the most meticulously thorough reading of the relevant literature that I have ever encountered, deploying an intelligen...

With recent technological advances, vast quantities of genetic and genomic data are being generated at an ever-increasing pace. The explosion in ac...

Originally published in 1991, Origins and Species seeks to understand the historical origins of Darwinism. The book analyses the explanatory proble...

This book provides an introduction to the significant role of physics in evolution, based on the ideas of matter and energy resource flow, organism...

"Bridgeman′s Psychology and Evolution is a superb textbook in evolutionary psychology…I see it as a landmark in the emergence of evolutionary psyc...

In recent decades, Susan Oyama and her colleagues in the burgeoning field of developmental systems theory have rejected the determinism inherent in...

In recent decades the humanities have been in thrall to postmodern skepticism, while Darwinists, brimming with confidence in the genuine progress t...

What do we think about when we think about human evolution? With his characteristic wit and wisdom, anthropologist Jonathan Marks explores our scie...

How did human beings acquire imaginations that can conjure up untrue possibilities? How did the Universe become self-aware? In The Runes of Evoluti...

Most people who have taken a biology course in the past 50 years are familiar with the work of David Lack, but few remember his name. Almost all ge...

Wittgenstein famously remarked in 1923, "Darwin's theory has no more relevance for philosophy than any other hypothesis in natural science." Yet to...

Prior to World War I, more people learned of evolutionary theory from the voluminous writings of Charles Darwin's foremost champion in Germany, Ern...

Pollination and Floral Ecology is the most comprehensive single-volume reference to all aspects of pollination biology--and the first fully up-to-d...

According to polling data, most Americans doubt that evolution is a real phenomenon. And it's no wonder that so many are skeptical: many of today's...

Originally published in 1988, Jon Roberts’s book provided the first comprehensive analytical overview of public dialogue among nineteenth-century A...

A world-famous scientist answers the fundamental questions concerning the changes in the course of the history of life and considers human aims, va...

Ever since the groundbreaking work of George Williams, W. D. Hamilton, and Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologists have recognized that natural se...

Why Evolution Works (and Creationism Fails) is an impassioned argument in favor of science—primarily the theory of evolution—and against creationis...

Why are living things alive? As a theoretical biologist, Robert Rosen saw this as the most fundamental of all questions-and yet it had never been a...

Although the field of quantitative genetics - the study of the genetic basis of variation in quantitative characteristics such as body size, or rep...

J.B.S. Haldane (1892-1964), one of the founders of the science of population genetics, was also one of the greatest practitioners of the art of exp...

Although his name has become a household word after he published Th e Origin of Species, a one-volume edition of his writings that covers the full ...