Evolution

Movement, dispersal, and migration on land, in the air, and in water, are pervading features of animal life. They are performed by a huge variety o...

Tim Lewens aims to understand what it means to take an evolutionary approach to cultural change, and why it is that this approach is often treated ...

It is easy to think of evolution as something that happened long ago, or that occurs only in "nature," or that is so slow that its ongoing impact i...

J.B.S. Haldane (1892-1964) is widely appreciated as one of the greatest and most influential British scientists of the 20th century, making signifi...

The scientific study of networks - computer, social, and biological - has received an enormous amount of interest in recent years. However, the net...

The purpose of this book is to explain why red-winged blackbirds are polygynous and to describe the effects of this mating system on other aspects ...

The enormous recent success of molecular developmental biology has yielded a vast amount of new information on the details of development. So much ...

The concept of the social brain has become a popular topic in the last decade and has generated interest within the research community and contribu...

This book offers an exciting new perspective on the origins of language. Language is conceptualized as a collective invention, on the model of writ...

Over the past decade, advances in both molecular developmental biology and evolutionary ecology have made possible a new understanding of organisms...

Is it possible to explain and predict the development of living things? What is development? Articulate answers to these seemingly innocuous questi...

Studies of evolution at the molecular level have experienced phenomenal growth in the last few decades, due to rapid accumulation of genetic sequen...

The scientific study of networks - computer, social, and biological - has received an enormous amount of interest in recent years. However, the net...

Animal life, now and over the past half billion years, is incredibly diverse. Describing and understanding the evolution of this diversity of body ...

This book, by leading scholars, represents some of the main work in progress in biolinguistics. It offers fresh perspectives on language evolution ...

Sexual reproduction is a fundamental aspect of life. It is defined by the occurrence of meiosis and the fusion of two gametes of different sexes or...

Culture - broadly defined as all we learn from others that endures for long enough to generate customs and traditions - shapes vast swathes of our ...

Is it possible to explain and predict the development of living things? What is development? Articulate answers to these seemingly innocuous questi...

Studies of evolution at the molecular level have experienced phenomenal growth in the last few decades, due to rapid accumulation of genetic sequen...

In Moral Animals Catherine Wilson develops a theory of morality based on two fundamental premises: first that moral progress implies the evolution ...

Why do we age? Why cooperate? Why do so many species engage in sex? Why do the tropics have so many species? When did humans start to affect world ...

This book adopts an experimental approach to understanding the mechanisms of evolution and the nature of evolutionary processes, with examples draw...

Evolutionary theory is driving forward our understanding of human behaviour like never before. Yet, many of us lack a firm grasp of the basics of t...

In 1859 Darwin described a deceptively simple mechanism that he called "natural selection," a combination of variation, inheritance, and reproducti...

In this fascinating, mind-opening book, Robbins Burling presents the most convincing account of the origins of language ever published. He sheds ne...

Reticulate Evolution and Humans is the first book to describe the effect of genetic exchange on the origin and evolution of our own species as well...

Why do we age? Why cooperate? Why do so many species engage in sex? Why do the tropics have so many species? When did humans start to affect world ...

The Flexible Phenotype attempts a true synthesis of physiology, behaviour, and ecology by developing an empirical argument that describes the intim...

Why are some species monogamous while others are polygamous? Why are males usually more ornamented than females? What makes one organism the hunter...

Comparative analyses of the anatomy, reproductive physiology, and behaviour of extant primates and other mammals can offer important insights into ...

Genomics and Evolution of Eukaryotic Microbes synthesizes the rapidly emerging fields of eukaryotic diversity and genome evolution. Eukaryotes (cel...

Missing the Revolution is an invitation to social scientists who, in Barkow's view, have been missing the great evolution-revolution of our time to...

Parsimony analysis (cladistics) has long been one of the most widely used methods of phylogenetic inference in the fields of systematic and evoluti...

Ancestral sequence reconstruction is a technique of growing importance in molecular evolutionary biology and comparative genomics. As a powerful to...

'Necessary Knowledge' takes on one of the big questions at the heart of the cognitive sciences - what knowledge do we possess at birth, and what do...

Our ability to walk on two legs is not only a characteristic human trait but one of the things that made us human in the first place. Once our ance...

More often than not, when people think of a neotropical forest, what comes to mind is a rain forest, rather than a dry forest. Just as typically, w...

The reproductive organs and mating biology of angiosperms exhibit greater variety than those of any other group of organisms. Flowers and infloresc...

In a world supposedly governed by ruthless survival of the fittest, why do we see acts of goodness in both animals and humans? This problem plagued...

In Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life Daniel C. Dennett argues that the theory of evolution can demystify the miracles of ...

In The Reason Why: The Miracle of Life on Earth John Gribbin shows what makes our planet so special, explaining why the 'Fermi Paradox' - the appar...

Five years after returning from his trip around the world on HMS Beagle, the young Charles Darwin became the owner of Down House in Kent, where he ...

Written by a neurobiologist and a psychologist, this volume presents a new theory of olfactory perception. Drawing on research in neuroscience, phy...

Drawing on primary sources made available to scholars only after the archives of the Holy Office were unsealed in 1998, Negotiating Darwin chronic...

Designed as an introduction to the intriguing world of insect biology, this book examines familiar entomological topics in nontraditional ways. Aut...