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  • Spider Silk

    Evolution and 400 Million Years of Spinning, Waiting, Snagging, and Mating

    Spiders, objects of eternal human fascination, are found in many places: on the ground, in the air, and even under water. Leslie Brunetta and Catherine Craig have teamed up to produce a substantive yet entertaining book for anyone who has ever wondered, as a spider rappelled out of reach on a line of silk, "How do they do that?"The orb web, that iconic wheel-shaped web most of us associate with ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth

    4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters

    by Henry Gee ...
    **The Royal Society's Science Book of the Year"[A]n exuberant romp through evolution, like a modern-day Willy Wonka of genetic space. Gee’s grand tour enthusiastically details the narrative underlying life’s erratic and often whimsical exploration of biological form and function.” —Adrian Woolfson,**The Washington PostIn the tradition of Richard Dawkins, Bill Bryson, and Simon Winchester—An ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Why Evolution is True

    Series series Oxford Landmark Science
    For all the discussion in the media about creationism and 'Intelligent Design', virtually nothing has been said about the evidence in question - the evidence for evolution by natural selection.Yet, as this succinct and important book shows, that evidence is vast, varied, and magnificent, and drawn from many disparate fields of science. The very latest research is uncovering a stream of evidence ... Read more

    $2.36 USD

  • Evolution

    The Triumph of an Idea

    by Carl Zimmer ...
    "This brilliant book is a virtual Voyage of the Beagle! Carl Zimmer shows, with the benefit of a hundred and fifty years of hindsight, how right Darwin was." —Steve Jones, author of Darwin's GhostDarwin's The Origin of Species was breathtaking—beautifully written, staunchly defended, defiantly radical. Yet it emerged long before modern genetics, molecular biology, and contemporary findings in ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Our Green Heart

    The Soul and Science of Forests

    **AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERIn this inspiring culmination of Diana Beresford-Kroeger’s life’s work as a botanist, biochemist, biologist and poet of the global forest, she delivers a challenge to us all to dig deeper into the science of forests and the ways they will save us from climate breakdown—and then do our part to plant and protect them.**As the last child in Ireland to receive a full ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Some Assembly Required

    Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA

    by Neil Shubin ...
    An exciting and accessible new view of the evolution of human and animal life on Earth. From the author of national bestseller, Your Inner Fish, this extraordinary journey of discovery spans centuries, as explorers and scientists seek to understand the origins of life's immense diversity.“Fossils, DNA, scientists with a penchant for suits of armor—what’s not to love?”—BBC Wildlife MagazineOver ... Read more

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  • How the Earth Turned Green

    A Brief 3.8-Billion-Year History of Plants

    This "amazing and wonderful book" explores the evolutionary history of photosynthesis in a grand story of how the world became the verdant place we know ( Choice).On this blue planet, long before dinosaurs reigned, tiny green organisms populated the ancient oceans. Fossil and phylogenetic evidence suggests that chlorophyll, the green pigment responsible for coloring these organisms, has been in ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Togetherness

    Symbiosis and the Hidden Story of Life's Greatest Collaborations

    by Rowan Hooper ...
    **A wondrous, eye-opening exploration of the surprising ways life is interconnected—and why it matters"Absolutely enthralling. I was hooked from the first sentence." —Bill Bryson, author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body**From evolution to capitalism, our belief in the “survival of the fittest” has shaped our view of the world. But we got it wrong—and our mistake has brought us ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo

    The New Science of Evo Devo

    “A beautiful and very important book.”—Lewis Wolpert, American ScientistFor over a century, opening the black box of embryonic development was the holy grail of biology. Evo Devo—Evolutionary Developmental Biology—is the new science that has finally cracked open the box. Within the pages of his rich and riveting book, Sean B. Carroll explains how we are discovering that complex life is ironically ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Fires of Life

    Endothermy in Birds and Mammals

    "Vividly narrated and illustrated" this analysis of how endothermy evolved in birds and mammals is "provocative and fascinating" ( Southeastern Naturalist).This pioneering work investigates why endothermy, or "warm-bloodedness," evolved in birds and mammals, despite its enormous energetic costs. Arguing that single-cause hypotheses to explain the origins of endothermy have stalled research since ... Read more

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  • Evolution

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Less than 450 years ago, all European scholars believed that the Earth was at the centre of a Universe that was at most a few million miles in extent, and that the planets, sun, and stars all rotated around this centre. Less than 250 years ago, they believed that the Universe was created essentially in its present state about 6000 years ago. Even less than 150 years ago, the view that living ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The World Before Us

    The New Science Behind Our Human Origins

    by Tom Higham ...
    "The who, what, where, when and how of human evolution, from one of the world's experts on the dating of prehistoric fossils." —Steve Brusatte, New York Times –bestselling authorA fascinating investigation of the origin of humans based on incredible new discoveries and advanced scientific technology.Fifty thousand years ago, Homo sapiens was not the only species of humans in the world. There were ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus