Evolution

Charles Darwin's masterpiece, On the Origin of Species, shook society to its core on publication in 1859. Darwin was only too aware of the storm hi...

Phylogenies in Ecology is the first book to critically review the application of phylogenetic methods in ecology, and it serves as a primer to work...

How complex systems theory sheds new light on the adaptive dynamics of viral populationsViruses are everywhere, infecting all sorts of living organ...

Mycorrhizae are mutualisms between plants and fungi that evolved over 400 million years ago. This symbiotic relationship commenced with land invasi...

All of nature is beautiful. This stunning book shows how a variety of amazing creatures have evolved to look and behave the way they do.As humans, ...

Floral morphology is key for understanding floral evolution and plant identification. Floral diagrams are two-dimensional representations of flower...

Ultrasocial argues that rather than environmental destruction and extreme inequality being due to human nature, they are the result of the adoption...

In Becoming Undone, Elizabeth Grosz addresses three related conceptslife, politics, and artby exploring the implications of Charles Darwins account...

How can the stunning diversity of social systems and behaviours seen in nature be explained? Drawing on social evolution theory, experimental evide...

Every animal on the planet owes its existence to one crucial piece of evolutionary engineering: the egg.   Its time to tell a new story of life on ...

When the twelve-year-old daughter of a British carpenter pulled some strange-looking bones from the countrys southern shoreline in 1811, few people...

By early morning 30 June 1860, a large crowd began to congregate in front of Oxford Universitys brand-new Museum of Natural History. The occasion w...

The newly revised and thoroughly updated standard source for mastering the human fossil record. This new edition of The Human Lineage is the best a...

How our growing knowledge of the evolution of complex ecosystems, using the latest genetic tools, can help us heal them - and survive This is not ...

In Sentient, Jackie Higgins assembles a menagerie of zoological creatures from land, air, sea and all four corners of the globe to understand wha...

Fishes that walk, fishes that breathe air, fishes that look like-and are-monsters from the deep. These and many more strange creatures swim through...

From the very beginning, life on Earth has been defined by war. Today those first wars continue to be fought around and inside us, influencing our ...

Charles Darwin presented the first scientific explanation of design through evolution by natural selection, where the environment furnishes individ...

'Timely, important and compelling' Philip Ball'A new and stunning argument' Azra RazaWhat defines who we are?Until now, the biological answer has b...

This is a tale of human obsession, one intrepid tuna, the dedicated fisherman who caught and set her free, the promises and limits of ...

The pigment patterns on tropical shells are of great beauty and diversity. Their mixture of regularity and irregularity is fascinating. A particula...

How have our emotions shaped the course of human history? And how have our experience and understan...

From the primordial soup to meteorite impact zones, the Manhattan Project to the latest research, this book is the first full history of the scient...

Nature and the Nurturing of Collaboration tells the wondrous story of how the natural forces of biological evolution gave way to the co-evolution o...

The evolutionary objective of both sexes is to optimize the number of genes they contribute to following generations. Invariably the most efficient...

The evolutionary objective of both sexes is to optimize the number of genes they contribute to following generations. Invariably the most efficient...

From Aristotle to Darwin, from ancient teleology to contemporary genealogies, this book offers an overview of the birth and then persistence of Ari...

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 is ...

Darwinism and the Divine examines the implications of evolutionary thought for natural theology, from the time of publication of Darwin's On the Or...

This book is aimed at students taking courses on evolution in universities and colleges. Its approach and its structure are very different from pre...

This book takes a new look at one of the most contentious periods in American history. The battles over schools that surrounded the famous Scopes m...