Evolution

The story of life's splendid drama has captivated generations of the general public, just as it has intrigued biologists, especially those who bega...

Peter J. Bowler seeks to recover some of this lost history in this work, giving an account of evolutionary morphology and its relationships with pa...

This encyclopedia provides readers with a comprehensive look at the Galápagos Islands, from the wildlife and scientists that made them famous to th...

'A new approach to mental disorder. Randolph Nesse's insightful book suggests that conditions such as anxiety and depression have a clear evoluti...

'Beautiful to read and packed with cutting-edge science' Observer'Poetic, mind-stretching and, through it all, deeply human' Daniel LevitinMental...

Sex, after hunger, may be the most powerful motivating force in our lives. It drives us to seek intimate contact with others and to form relationsh...

A fascinating and wide-ranging look at the controversies surrounding the search for the origins of the human species. Written for those new to the ...

High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago. Called the Burgess Shale, it holds the remains of an ancie...

The last decades of the 20th century witnessed strongly growing interest in evolutionary approaches to the human past. Even now, however, there is ...

The last decades of the 20th century witnessed strongly growing interest in evolutionary approaches to the human past. Even now, however, there is ...

Ever since Darwin, the world has been struggling with the mystery of human diversity. As the historian Peter Bowler has written, an evolutionary in...