Evolution

Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is an illogical development...

As humans evolved, we developed technologies to modify our environment, yet these innovations are increasingly affecting our behavior, biology, and...

Furry and wide-eyed, lorises and pottos are small, nocturnal primates inhabiting African, Asian and Southeast Asian tropical and subtropical forest...

Evolution is one of the most important processes in life. It not only explains the detailed history of life on earth, but its scope also extends in...

A fully updated edition of one of the most original accounts of evolution ever written, featuring new fractal diagrams, six new 'tales' and the lat...

Darwin and Women focusses on Darwin's correspondence with women and on the lives of the women he knew and wrote to. It includes a large number of h...

Humans are rather weak when compared with many other animals. We are not particularly fast and have no natural weapons. Yet Homo sapiens currently ...

'One of the best books on evolutionary biology for a broad readership ever written' Edward O. WilsonA dazzling tour of evolution in action that she...

A billion-year history of movement,from bacteria to Olympic athletes.'Packed with revelations, scholarly but clear, Restless Creatures carriesyou f...

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...

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...

Where did we come from? Where are we going? Homo sapiens is the most successful, the most widespread and the most influential species ever to walk ...

In 1859, Charles Darwin shocked the world with a radical theory - evolution by natural selection. One hundred and fifty years later, his theory sti...

In his new book human paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall argues that a long tradition of human exceptionalism in paleoanthropology has distorted th...

Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology, Four Volume Set is the definitive go-to reference in the field of evolutionary biology. It provides a fully c...

Charles Darwin's years as a student at the University of Cambridge were some of the most important and formative of his life. Thereafter he always ...

The three greatest scientific mysteries, which remain poorly understood, are the origin of the universe, the origin of life and the development of ...

Historians of science have long noted the influence of the nineteenth-century political economist Thomas Robert Malthus on Charles Darwin. In a bol...