Evolution

Darwin's The Origin of Species is one of the most influential books ever written. It is essential reading for anyone interested in biology, evoluti...

This volume marks a new approach to a seminal work of the modern scientific imagination: Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species (1859). Darwin's ce...

The nervous system is particularly fascinating for many biologists because it controls animal characteristics such as movement, behavior, and coord...

W.D.Hamilton (1936-2000) was responsible for a revolution in thinking about evolutionary biology - a revolution that changed our understanding of l...

The gold standard in undergraduate-level evolutionary biology textbooks. This new fifth edition presents the field of evolution as a living, brea...

Mimicry is a classic example of adaptation through natural selection. The traditional focus of mimicry research has been on defence in animals, but...

This novel, interdisciplinary text achieves an integration of empirical data and theory with the aid of mathematical models and statistical methods...

'Insight' is not a very popular word in psychology or biology. Popular terms-like "intelligence", "planning", "complexity" or "cognitive"- have a h...

“Bethea’s book conveys the story of an amazingly ambitious attempt to preserve the humanities while also saving the future of disadvantaged high sc...

How do radically new kinds of organisms evolve? The Origin of Higher Taxa addresses this essential question, specifically whether the emergence o...