Evolution

A comprehensive account of both basic and advanced material in phylogeny estimation, focusing on computational and statistical issues. No backgroun...

A collection of essays by leading scientists, and includes essays by science writer Carl Zimmer, historian Janet Browne, and a foreword by journali...

From one of the worlds leading authorities on animal behavior, the astonishing story of how the brain drives the evolution of beauty in animals and...

Paris at the time of the French Revolution was the world capital of science. Its scholars laid the foundations of today's physics, chemistry and bi...

How our ability to learn from each other has been the essential ingredient to our remarkable success as a species Human beings are a very differen...

Paris at the time of the French Revolution was the world capital of science. Its scholars laid the foundations of today's physics, chemistry and bi...

Humans possess an extraordinary capacity for culture, from the arts and language to science and technology. But how did the human mindand the uniqu...

The reality of evolution is indisputable and, based on current scientific evidence, all people in the world should accept it as fact. Yet, only 41%...

Ever since the recognition of the Neanderthals as an archaic human in the mid-nineteenth century, the fossilized bones of extinct humans have been ...

Many animals, including humans, acquire valuable skills and knowledge by copying others. Scientists refer to this as social learning. It is one of ...

Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites--such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of...

**A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND GUARDIAN ''BOOK OF 2021''** ''Important, necessary, urgent and phenomenally interesting'' HELEN MACDONALD, New York Tim...

This book argues that the two most influential theories on modern human behavior, cultural determinism and evolutionary psychology, are quite inade...