Evolution

What did earlier humans really look like? What was life like for them, millions of years ago? How do we know? In this book, internationally renowne...

While the health of aging men has been a focus of biomedical research for years, evolutionary biology has not been part of the conversation--until ...

A fundamental and groundbreaking reassessment of how we view and manage cancer When we think of the forces driving cancer, we dont necessarily thin...

Asserting that religious creeds and philosophical questions can be reduced to purely genetic and evolutionary components, and that the human body a...

A unique trait of the human species is that our personalities, lifestyles, and worldviews are shaped by an accident of birthnamely, the culture int...

James T. Costa takes readers on a journey from Charles Darwins youth and travels on the HMS Beagle to Down House, his bustling home of forty years....

Alcoholism, as opposed to the safe consumption of alcohol, remains a major public health issue. In this accessible book, Robert Dudley presents an ...

Charles Darwin's Origin of Species is one of the most widely cited books in modern science. Yet tackling this classic can be daunting for students ...

A groundbreaking book that examines all aspects of male aging through an evolutionary lensWhile the health of aging men has been a focus of biomedi...

'Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin' On topics ranging from intelligent design and climate change to the ...

Our Human Story is a guide to our fossil relatives, from what may be the earliest hominins such as Sahelanthropus, dating back six to seven million...

When Darwin announced his theory of evolution by natural selection, he did more than transform biology. Before his great work, humans were comforta...

13.8 billion years of human and cosmic history summarised in one big book. At DK, we believe in the power of discovery. So with this brand-new hist...

With exclusive contributions from Richard Dawkins, Noam Chomsky, Martin Rees, Aubrey Manning, Richard Holloway, Daniel C. Dennett, Randal Keynes, B...

What evolutionary process could have resulted in the unique and amazing human brain? New research by neuroscientists, paleontologists, and others r...

Scholars consider the origins and consequences of the evolution of multicellularity, addressing a range of organisms, experimental protocols, theor...

The concepts of evolution and complexity theory have become part of the intellectual ether permeating the life sciences, the social and behavioral ...