Life Sciences: General Issues

This book looks at genotoxicity which is a deleterious action on cell genetic material affecting its integrity. Genotoxic substances are known to b...

The sequencing of the human genome reveals our complete complement of genetic material. The sequenced human genome is one of the most international...

13.8 billion years of human and cosmic history summarised in one big book. At DK, we believe in the power of discovery. So with this brand-new hist...

An award-winning physician and scientist makes the game-changing case that genetic females are stronger than males at every stage of life'A powerfu...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERAS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'The ultimate anti-racism guide' Caroline Criado Perez'Seriously important' Bill...

With exclusive contributions from Richard Dawkins, Noam Chomsky, Martin Rees, Aubrey Manning, Richard Holloway, Daniel C. Dennett, Randal Keynes, B...

What evolutionary process could have resulted in the unique and amazing human brain? New research by neuroscientists, paleontologists, and others r...

This extensive, three-volume handbook, intensively updated and enlarged, is a superb new resource for students, researchers, and practitioners in p...

Published by Sinauer Associates, an imprint of Oxford University Press. Extensively rewritten and reorganized, this new edition of Evolution--fe...

This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century...

In this profound and lyrical book, one of our most celebrated biologists offers a sweeping examination of the relationship between the humanities a...

Douglas Futuyma presents an overview of current thinking on theories of evolution, aimed at an undergraduate audience.

As countless love songs, movies, and self-help books attest, men and women have long sought different things. The result? Seemingly inevitable conf...

A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 Bracing and enlightening Science Culture is something exclusive to human beings, isnt it? Not so, says int...

Life began about four billion years ago on our planet. Like an old patchwork quilt, evolution stitched the human being together from parts of an...

How better than to mark the 150th anniversary of Darwin''s book on human evolution than by challenging his theory with an updated version which ins...

Scholars consider the origins and consequences of the evolution of multicellularity, addressing a range of organisms, experimental protocols, theor...

The concepts of evolution and complexity theory have become part of the intellectual ether permeating the life sciences, the social and behavioral ...