Life Sciences: General Issues

The primary aim of this book is to provide a synthesis of our current understanding of hemoglobin function and evolution, and to illustrate how res...

'Required reading for anyone remotely curious about how they came to be remotely curious' Observer'Enthralling' Spectator What is human consciousn...

Scientists, and their research, are often shaped by the prevailing social and political context at the time. Kuljian explores this trend in South A...

Adapt or die: it's nature's most famous imperative. But how does evolution actually happen? It's too slow to see, but it's going on all around you,...

Adapt or die: it's nature's most famous imperative. But how does evolution actually happen? It's too slow to see, but it's going on all around you,...

Music is central to human cultural and intellectual experience. It is vitally important for the welfare of human society and - this book argues - s...

Using comic-book style illustration combined with accessible but authoritative text, the Introducing Graphic Guide series is a uniquely brilliant w...

Charles Darwin and his revolutionary ideas inspired pundits the world over to put pen to paper. In this unique dictionary of quotations, Darwin sch...

The first book on the hunt for evolution's 'missing links' over the last three decades - and what palaeontologists' findings mean for our place on ...

The Heliconius butterflies are one of the classic systems in evolutionary biology and have contributed hugely to our understanding of evolution ove...

How is consciousness possible? What biological purpose does it serve? Why do we value it so highly? In Soul Dust the psychologist Nicholas Humphrey...

Darwins theory of natural selection was a monumental step in our understanding of evolution, explaining how useful adaptations are preserved over g...

Humans now wield a greater influence on the planet than any other species in history, and human-developed technologies like genetic engineering and...

Paleobiology struggled for decades to influence our understanding of evolution and the history of life because it was stymied by a focus on microev...

Humans have gone underground for survival for thousands of years, from underground cities in Turkey to Cold War-era bunkers. But our burrowing ro...

All humans share certain components of tooth structure, but show variation in size and morphology around this shared pattern. This book presents a ...

Used widely in non-majors biology classes, this is the first textbook about evolution intended for the general reader. Zimmer, an award-winning sci...

On the heels of explaining the intricacies of human genetics in The Stuff of Life, the intrepid alien scientist Bloort-183 has been charged with co...

'From your brain to your fingertips, you emerge from her book entertained and with a deeper understanding of yourself' Richard Dawkins'A masterful ...

There exists an undeniable chasm between the capacities of humans and those of animals. Our minds have spawned civilizations and technologies that ...

Human domination of our earth is now so complete that it is easy to forget how recently our role in the history of our planet began: the earliest a...