Evolution

Over the past decade, ecologists have increasingly embraced phylogenetics, the study of evolutionary relationships among species. As a result, they...

The phenomenon of friendship is universal and elemental. Friends, after all, are the family we choose. But what makes these bonds not just pleasant...

The evolution of dogs and the forces that drove its amazing transformation from a fierce wild carnivore, the wolf, to the astonishing range of comp...

Community ecology has undergone a transformation in recent years, from a discipline largely focused on processes occurring within a local area to a...

You don't need a spaceship to travel to the extremes of science. You just need this book. What's the nature of reality? Does the universe ever en...

All humans share certain components of tooth structure, but show variation in size and morphology around this shared pattern. This book presents a ...

The follow-up to the BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Other Minds A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year A Waterstones Best Bo...

The surge of evolutionary and neurological analyses of art and its effects raises questions of how art, culture, and the biological sciences influe...

'Daring, learned and humane ... A revelatory restoration of wonder' Stephen Greenblatt. We no longer think, like the ancient Chinese did, that the ...

This monumental work by Dankmar Bosse presents, for the first time, a comprehensive picture of the evolution of the earth and its natural kingdoms,...

The Evolution of Life stands alone amongst the major textbooks by focusing on key principles to offer a truly accessible, unintimidating treatment ...

In 1980, the science world was stunned when a maverick team of researchers proposed that a massive meteor strike had wiped the dinosaurs and other ...

Mitochondria are tiny structures located inside our cells that carry out the essential task of producing energy for the cell. They are found in all...

Both natural and cultural selection played an important role in shaping human evolution. Since cultural change can itself be regarded as evolutiona...

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