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  • The Evolution of Emotional Communication

    From Sounds in Nonhuman Mammals to Speech and Music in Man

    Edited by Sabine Schmidt, Elke Zimmermann, Eckart Altenmüller ...
    Series series Series in Affective Science
    Why do we think that we can understand animal voices - such as the aggressive barking of a pet dog, and the longing meows of the family cat? Why do we think of deep voices as dominant and high voices as submissive. Are there universal principles governing our own communication system? Can we even see how close animals are related to us by constructing an evolutionary tree based on similarities and ... Read more

    $85.49 USD

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  • The Voyage Of The Beagle

    by Charles Darwin ...
    Voyage of the Beagle chronicles Charles Darwin's five years as a naturalist on board the H.M.S. Beagle. The notes and observations that he recorded in his diary included Chile, Argentina and Galapagos Islands and encompasses the ecology, geology and anthropology of the places he visits. A fascinating travel memoir the ideas that were later to evolve into Darwin's theory of natural selection find ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • A New Science of Life

    by Rupert Sheldrake ...
    **The fully revised edition of Rupert Sheldrake's controversial science classic, from the author of the bestselling Dogs That Know When Their Owners are Coming Home, celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2021!**After chemists crystallised a new chemical for the first time, it became easier and easier to crystallise in laboratories all over the world. After rats at Harvard first escaped from a new ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Animal Madness

    How Anxious Dogs, Compulsive Parrots, and Elephants in Recovery Help Us Understand Ourselves

    by Laurel Braitman ...
    ****“Science Friday” Summer Reading Pick****Discover magazine Top 5 Summer Reads****People magazine Best Summer Reads**“A lovely, big-hearted book…brimming with compassion and the tales of the many, many humans who devote their days to making animals well” (The New York Times).**Have you ever wondered if your dog might be a bit depressed? How about heartbroken or homesick? Animal Madness takes ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Mutualistic Networks

    by Jordi Bascompte, Pedro Jordano ...
    Series Book 53 - Monographs in Population Biology
    Mutualistic interactions among plants and animals have played a paramount role in shaping biodiversity. Yet the majority of studies on mutualistic interactions have involved only a few species, as opposed to broader mutual connections between communities of organisms. Mutualistic Networks is the first book to comprehensively explore this burgeoning field. Integrating different approaches, from the ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Giraffe

    Biology, Behaviour and Conservation

    by Anne Innis Dagg ...
    With its iconic appearance and historic popular appeal, the giraffe is the world's tallest living terrestrial animal and the largest ruminant. Recent years have seen much-needed new research undertaken to improve our understanding of this unique animal. Drawing together the latest research into one resource, this is a detailed exploration of current knowledge on the biology, behaviour and ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Primate Sexuality

    Comparative Studies of the Prosimians, Monkeys, Apes, and Humans

    by Alan F. Dixson ...
    Primate Sexuality provides an authoritative and comprehensive synthesis of current research on the evolution and physiological control of sexual behaviour in the primates - prosimians, monkeys, apes, and human beings. This new edition has been fully updated and greatly expanded throughout to incorporate a decade of new research findings. It maintains the depth and scientific rigour of the first ... Read more

    $82.79 USD

  • Mutual Aid

    by P. Kropotkin ...
    Two aspects of animal life impressed me most during the journeys which I made in my youth in Eastern Siberia and Northern Manchuria. One of them was the extreme severity of the struggle for existence which most species of animals have to carry on against an inclement Nature; the enormous destruction of life which periodically results from natural agencies; and the consequent paucity of life over ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Monarchs and Milkweed

    A Migrating Butterfly, a Poisonous Plant, and Their Remarkable Story of Coevolution

    by Anurag Agrawal ...
    The fascinating and complex evolutionary relationship of the monarch butterfly and the milkweed plantMonarch butterflies are one of nature's most recognizable creatures, known for their bright colors and epic annual migration from the United States and Canada to Mexico. Yet there is much more to the monarch than its distinctive presence and mythic journeying. In Monarchs and Milkweed, Anurag ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Mechanisms of Life History Evolution

    The Genetics and Physiology of Life History Traits and Trade-Offs

    Edited by Thomas Flatt, Andreas Heyland ...
    Life history theory seeks to explain the evolution of the major features of life cycles by analyzing the ecological factors that shape age-specific schedules of growth, reproduction, and survival and by investigating the trade-offs that constrain the evolution of these traits. Although life history theory has made enormous progress in explaining the diversity of life history strategies among ... Read more

    $79.19 USD

  • Photographic and Descriptive Musculoskeletal Atlas of Bonobos

    With Notes on the Weight, Attachments, Variations, and Innervation of the Muscles and Comparisons with Common Chimpanzees and Humans

    by Rui Diogo, Brian Shearer, Josep M. Potau, Juan F. Pastor, Felix J. de Paz, Julia Arias-Martorell, Cassandra Turcotte, Ashley Hammond, Evie Vereecke, Marie Vanhoof, Sandra Nauwelaerts, Bernard Wood ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Chimpanzees, including bonobos and common chimpanzees, are our closest living relatives. However, surprisingly, the information about the soft tissues of bonobos is very scarce, making it difficult to discuss and understand human evolution. This book, which is the first photographic and descriptive musculoskeletal atlas of bonobos (Pan paniscus), adopts the same format as the photographic atlases ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Parasite-Stress Theory of Values and Sociality

    Infectious Disease, History and Human Values Worldwide

    by Randy Thornhill, Corey L. Fincher ...
    This book develops and tests an ecological and evolutionary theory of the causes of human values—the core beliefs that guide people’s cognition and behavior—and their variation across time and space around the world. We call this theory the parasite-stress theory of values or the parasite-stress theory of sociality. The evidence we present in our book indicates that both a wide span of human ... Read more

    $188.09 USD