Evolution

Fish, or lower vertebrates, occupy the basal nodes of the vertebrate phylogeny, and are therefore crucial in interpreting almost every feature of m...

The house mouse is the source of almost all genetic variation in laboratory mice; its genome was sequenced alongside that of humans, and it has bec...

In this book, the authors present current research in the study of the evolutionary perspectives, mating strategies and long-term effects on geneti...

What is the historical and evolutionary relationship between man and animal? In this classic text, based on the anthroposophical science founded by...

Would you ask a honeybee to point at a screen and recognise a facial expression? Or ask an elephant to climb a tree? While humans and non-human spe...

'Nothing about the evolution of biological complexity makes sense except in the light of synergy.' Peter Corning's new book is being hailed as a m...

When and how did the brains of our hominin ancestors become human minds? When and why did our capacity for language or art, music and dance evolve?...

Over 7 billion people depend on plants for healthy, productive, secure lives, but few of us stop to consider the origin of the plant kingdom that t...

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

A major new look at the evolution of mating decisions in organisms from protozoans to humans The popular consensus on mate choice has long been tha...

Why against his mentor's exhortations to publish did Charles Darwin take twenty years to reveal his theory of evolution by natural selection? In Da...

This is a tale of human obsession, one intrepid tuna, the dedicated fisherman who caught and set her free, the promises and limits of ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE'A masterpiece of biography ... a vivid account of a family at the heart of some of the great cultural shi...

Illuminating the processes and patterns that link genotype to phenotype, Epigenetics seeks to explain features, characters, and developmental mecha...

An accessible and thought-provoking introduction to timespans in the natural world, featuring more than 80 beautifully designed diagrams and charts...