Evolution

In 1905, eight men from the California Academy of Sciences set sail from San Francisco for a scientific collection expedition in the Galapagos Isla...

The human imagination manifests in countless different forms. We imagine the possible and the impossible. How do we do this so effortlessly? Why di...

A beautifully written exploration of how cooperation shaped life on earth, from its single-celled beginnings to complex human societies   In this r...

Historical biogeography-the study of the history of species through both time and place-first convinced Charles Darwin of evolution. This field was...

There are two driving questions informing this book. The first is where does our moral life come from? It presupposes that considering morality bro...

This extensive, three-volume handbook, intensively updated and enlarged, is a superb new resource for students, researchers, and practitioners in p...

Published by Sinauer Associates, an imprint of Oxford University Press. Extensively rewritten and reorganized, this new edition of Evolution--fe...

This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century...

In this profound and lyrical book, one of our most celebrated biologists offers a sweeping examination of the relationship between the humanities a...

Douglas Futuyma presents an overview of current thinking on theories of evolution, aimed at an undergraduate audience.

As countless love songs, movies, and self-help books attest, men and women have long sought different things. The result? Seemingly inevitable conf...

A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 Bracing and enlightening Science Culture is something exclusive to human beings, isnt it? Not so, says int...

Life began about four billion years ago on our planet. Like an old patchwork quilt, evolution stitched the human being together from parts of an...

How better than to mark the 150th anniversary of Darwin''s book on human evolution than by challenging his theory with an updated version which ins...

A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 Bracing and enlightening Science Culture is something exclusive to human beings, isnt it? Not so, says int...

How did wolves evolve into dogs? When did this happen, and what role did humans play? Oxford geneticist Bryan Sykes used the full array of modern t...

The study of human evolution is advancing rapidly. Newly discovered fossil evidence is adding ever more pieces to the puzzle of our past, whilst re...

Most people are familiar with the dodo and the dinosaur, but extinction has occurred throughout the history of life, with the result that nearly al...