Life Sciences: General Issues

Leading ecologists discuss some of the most compelling open questions in the field todayUnsolved Problems in Ecology brings together many of the wo...

Genetic evolution appears to be somewhat predictable. This predictability emerges from the structure of developmental regulatory networks and from ...

Biological evolution is a factbut the many conflicting theories of evolution remain controversial even today. When Adaptation and Natural Selection...

From one of the world's leading authorities on animal behavior, the astonishing story of how the female brain drives the evolution of beauty in ani...

The theme of this book is our primate biology, or who we are as a continuum of our animal ancestors. Professor Sharpes first uses comparative anima...

Can virtuous behavior be explained by nature, and not by human rational choice? It's the animal in us, we often hear when we've been bad. But why n...

Phylogeography is the study of the historical processes that may be responsible for the contemporary geographic distributions of individuals. This ...

It is fitting that this book on Teaching Human Variation appear in 2009, for this year marks the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the...

Phylogeography is the study of the historical processes that may be responsible for the contemporary geographic distributions of individuals. This ...

This book presents a historical-philosophical analysis of the concept of evolution, considering the degree of development of the theories of evolut...

Creation by Adam Rutherford tells the entire spellbinding story of life in two gripping narratives.'Prepare to be astounded. There are moments when...

An enthralling account of a modern voyage of discovery as we meet the clever, social birds of prey called caracaras, which puzzled Darwin, fascinat...

A Times/Sunday Times Book of the Year DISCOVER HOW LIFE REALLY WORKS - ON EARTH AND IN SPACE 'A wonderfully insightful sidelong look at Earthly b...

The follow-up to the BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Other Minds A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year A Waterstones Best Bo...

Glycomics is an international project that analyses systematically and comparatively the overall and/or specific structural and biological properti...

Where did we come from? Where are we going?Homo sapiens is the most successful, the most widespread and the most influential species ever to walk t...

A new, beautifully illustrated edition of David Attenboroughs groundbreaking Life on Earth. David Attenboroughs unforgettable meeting wit...

When and how did the brains of our hominin ancestors become human minds? When and why did our capacity for language or art, music and dance evolve?...

Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Evolution is a clear, simple and entertaining introduction to Charles Darwin's pioneering and revolutionary...

Robert Lanza is one of the most respected scientists in the world--a US News & World Report cover story called him a genius and a renegade thin...