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The Giant Leap

Why Space Is the Next Frontier in the Evolution of Life

by Caleb Scharf ...

A leading astrobiologist argues that space travel is an evolutionary event at least as important as life’s first journey from sea to land"The Giant Leap is a detailed and provocative exploration of what it means for life as we know it to escape the bounds of the only planet where it has ever been." —Sean Carroll, author of The Biggest Ideas in the UniverseThe story of life has always been one of ... Read more

$18.99 USD

A leading astrobiologist argues that space travel is an evolutionary event at least as important as life’s first journey from sea to land"The Giant Leap is a detailed and provocative exploration of what it means for life as we know it to escape the bounds of the only planet where it has ever been." —Sean Carroll, author of The Biggest Ideas in the UniverseThe story of life has always been one of
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Threats

Intimidation and Its Discontents

by David P. Barash ...

"It's a rare author who can combine literary erudition and an easy fluency of style together with expert knowledge of psychology and evolutionary biology. David Barash adds to all this a far-seeing wisdom and a humane decency that shines through on every page. The concluding section on the senseless and dangerous futility of nuclear deterrence theory is an irrefutable tour de force which should be ... Read more

$20.89 USD

"It's a rare author who can combine literary erudition and an easy fluency of style together with expert knowledge of psychology and evolutionary biology. David Barash adds to all this a far-seeing wisdom and a humane decency that shines through on every page. The concluding section on the senseless and dangerous futility of nuclear deterrence theory is an irrefutable tour de force which should be
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Evolution Is Wrong

A Radical Approach to the Origin and Transformation of Life

by Erich von Däniken ...

Series series Erich von Daniken Library
A Fascinating Exploration on Why the Darwinists' Theory No Longer Explains EverythingThere was once a set of ideas called the theory of evolution, conceived by clever people and confirmed by countless scientists. Then people discovered the electron microscope. This made it possible to make the molecules within the cell visible, and suddenly questions about evolution arose that were not possible ... Read more

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A Fascinating Exploration on Why the Darwinists' Theory No Longer Explains EverythingThere was once a set of ideas called the theory of evolution, conceived by clever people and confirmed by countless scientists. Then people discovered the electron microscope. This made it possible to make the molecules within the cell visible, and suddenly questions about evolution arose that were not possible
... Read more
The Fool and the Heretic

How Two Scientists Moved beyond Labels to a Christian Dialogue about Creation and Evolution

by Todd Charles Wood, Darrel R. Falk ...

The Fool and the Heretic is a deeply personal story told by two respected scientists who hold opposing views on the topic of origins, share a common faith in Jesus Christ, and began a sometimes-painful journey to explore how they can remain in Christian fellowship when each thinks the other is harming the church. To some in the church, anyone who accepts the theory of evolution has rejected ... Read more

$5.99 USD

The Fool and the Heretic is a deeply personal story told by two respected scientists who hold opposing views on the topic of origins, share a common faith in Jesus Christ, and began a sometimes-painful journey to explore how they can remain in Christian fellowship when each thinks the other is harming the church. To some in the church, anyone who accepts the theory of evolution has rejected
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The Bones Beneath Us

Extinction, Evolution & The Fragile Age of Humans

by George Wakeman ...

Earth's past is preserved in stone, fossil, and living form. Those records explain how the planet reached its present condition and why that condition remains constrained by deep history. The Bones Beneath Us follows that record to show how the distant past continues to shape the world we inhabit.George Wakeman leads the reader backwards through time, beginning with the present and moving into ... Read more

$14.29 USD

Earth's past is preserved in stone, fossil, and living form. Those records explain how the planet reached its present condition and why that condition remains constrained by deep history. The Bones Beneath Us follows that record to show how the distant past continues to shape the world we inhabit.George Wakeman leads the reader backwards through time, beginning with the present and moving into
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Sex in Cetaceans

Morphology, Behavior, and the Evolution of Sexual Strategies

Edited by Bernd Würsig, Dara N. Orbach ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Sex in Cetaceans provides an up-to-date review of multi-faceted aspects related to mating and reproduction in toothed and baleen whales. This open access book begins with discussions of sexual selection and anatomical traits related to mating and diversity between the sexes. The functions of non-conceptive copulations are reviewed as are different research techniques applied to explore sex in ... Read more

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Sex in Cetaceans provides an up-to-date review of multi-faceted aspects related to mating and reproduction in toothed and baleen whales. This open access book begins with discussions of sexual selection and anatomical traits related to mating and diversity between the sexes. The functions of non-conceptive copulations are reviewed as are different research techniques applied to explore sex in
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How Life Began

Evolution's Three Geneses

by Alexandre Meinesz ...

Translated by Daniel Simberloff ...

An engaging, accessible argument explicating the origins of life from a marine biologist and the author of Killer Algae.The Christian Bible states that God created the heavens and the Earth roughly six thousand years ago. This episode in Genesis departs markedly from scientific theories developed over the last two centuries which hold that life appeared on Earth about 3.5 billion years ago in the ... Read more

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An engaging, accessible argument explicating the origins of life from a marine biologist and the author of Killer Algae.The Christian Bible states that God created the heavens and the Earth roughly six thousand years ago. This episode in Genesis departs markedly from scientific theories developed over the last two centuries which hold that life appeared on Earth about 3.5 billion years ago in the
... Read more
The Evolutionary Road to Human Memory

by Elisabeth A. Murray, Steven P. Wise, Mary K. L. Baldwin, Kim S. Graham ...

We tend to think about memory in terms of the human experience, neglecting the fact that we can trace a direct line of descent from the earliest vertebrates to modern humans. But the evolutionary history that we share with other vertebrates has left a mark on modern memory, complemented by unique forms of memory that emerged in humans. This book tells an intriguing story about how evolution shaped ... Read more

$28.79 USD

We tend to think about memory in terms of the human experience, neglecting the fact that we can trace a direct line of descent from the earliest vertebrates to modern humans. But the evolutionary history that we share with other vertebrates has left a mark on modern memory, complemented by unique forms of memory that emerged in humans. This book tells an intriguing story about how evolution shaped
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Too Much of a Good Thing

How Four Key Survival Traits Are Now Killing Us

by Lee Goldman ...

The dean of Columbia University's medical school explains why our bodies are out of sync with today's environment and how we can correct this to save our health.Over the past 200 years, human life-expectancy has approximately doubled. Yet we face soaring worldwide rates of obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, mental illness, heart disease, and stroke. In his fascinating new book, Dr. Lee ... Read more

$14.99 USD

The dean of Columbia University's medical school explains why our bodies are out of sync with today's environment and how we can correct this to save our health.Over the past 200 years, human life-expectancy has approximately doubled. Yet we face soaring worldwide rates of obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, mental illness, heart disease, and stroke. In his fascinating new book, Dr. Lee
... Read more
Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science

An Integrated Framework for Understanding, Predicting, and Influencing Human Behavior

Edited by David Sloan Wilson, PhD, Steven C. Hayes, PhD ...

What do evolutionary science and contextual behavioral science have in common? Edited by David Sloan Wilson and Steven C. Hayes, this groundbreaking book offers a glimpse into the histories of these two schools of thought, and provides a sound rationale for their reintegration.Evolutionary science (ES) provides a unifying theoretical framework for the biological sciences, and is increasingly being ... Read more

$40.29 USD

What do evolutionary science and contextual behavioral science have in common? Edited by David Sloan Wilson and Steven C. Hayes, this groundbreaking book offers a glimpse into the histories of these two schools of thought, and provides a sound rationale for their reintegration.Evolutionary science (ES) provides a unifying theoretical framework for the biological sciences, and is increasingly being
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Teaching Evolution in a Creation Nation

by Adam Laats, Harvey Siegel ...

Series series History and Philosophy of Education Series
No fight over what gets taught in American classrooms is more heated than the battle over humanity’s origins. For more than a century we have argued about evolutionary theory and creationism (and its successor theory, intelligent design), yet we seem no closer to a resolution than we were in Darwin’s day. In this thoughtful examination of how we teach origins, historian Adam Laats and philosopher ... Read more

$16.59 USD

No fight over what gets taught in American classrooms is more heated than the battle over humanity’s origins. For more than a century we have argued about evolutionary theory and creationism (and its successor theory, intelligent design), yet we seem no closer to a resolution than we were in Darwin’s day. In this thoughtful examination of how we teach origins, historian Adam Laats and philosopher
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Sexual Selection

A Very Short Introduction

by Marlene Zuk, Leigh W. Simmons ...

Series series Very Short Introductions
What is responsible for the differences between the sexes in so many animals, from the brilliant plumage of birds of paradise to the antlers on deer? And why are the traits that distinguish the sexes sometimes apparently detrimental to survival? Even when they look more or less alike, why do males and females sometimes behave differently? Questions like these have intrigued scientists and the ... Read more

$7.99 USD

What is responsible for the differences between the sexes in so many animals, from the brilliant plumage of birds of paradise to the antlers on deer? And why are the traits that distinguish the sexes sometimes apparently detrimental to survival? Even when they look more or less alike, why do males and females sometimes behave differently? Questions like these have intrigued scientists and the
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Certainly Uncertain

The Limitations of Knowledge and the Uncertainty of Belief

by Will Swain ...

"A thought-provoking deep dive into how we understand the world and what we come to believe about it. Presented with both humor and intellectual rigor. Highly recommend."-Julianna K. Wilson, Ph.D. Entomology"Will Swain writes with the kind of curiosity that feels both down to earth and subtly radical. Drawing from decades as a science educator and a lifetime of lived inquiry, this book doesn't ... Read more

$9.99 USD

"A thought-provoking deep dive into how we understand the world and what we come to believe about it. Presented with both humor and intellectual rigor. Highly recommend."-Julianna K. Wilson, Ph.D. Entomology"Will Swain writes with the kind of curiosity that feels both down to earth and subtly radical. Drawing from decades as a science educator and a lifetime of lived inquiry, this book doesn't
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Is Neo-Darwinism Enough?

by Denis Noble, David Sloan Wilson ...

Is Neo-Darwinism Enough? The Noble-Wilson Dialogue on EvolutionDavid Sloan Wilson and Denis Noble participate in a dialogue centering around the sufficiency of a neo-Darwinian framework of biology. Does neo-Darwinism provide a reasonably complete and adequate explanation of biological phenomena? Are there any new theoretical breakthroughs that are necessary to support the framework? The point of ... Read more

$9.99 USD

Is Neo-Darwinism Enough? The Noble-Wilson Dialogue on EvolutionDavid Sloan Wilson and Denis Noble participate in a dialogue centering around the sufficiency of a neo-Darwinian framework of biology. Does neo-Darwinism provide a reasonably complete and adequate explanation of biological phenomena? Are there any new theoretical breakthroughs that are necessary to support the framework? The point of
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Global Brain

The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century

by Howard Bloom ...

"As someone who has spent forty years in psychology with a long-standing interest in evolution, I'll just assimilate Howard Bloom's accomplishment and my amazement."-DAVID SMILLIE, Visiting Professor of Zoology, Duke University In this extraordinary follow-up to the critically acclaimed The Lucifer Principle, Howard Bloom-one of today's preeminent thinkers-offers us a bold rewrite of the ... Read more

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"As someone who has spent forty years in psychology with a long-standing interest in evolution, I'll just assimilate Howard Bloom's accomplishment and my amazement."-DAVID SMILLIE, Visiting Professor of Zoology, Duke University In this extraordinary follow-up to the critically acclaimed The Lucifer Principle, Howard Bloom-one of today's preeminent thinkers-offers us a bold rewrite of the
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Nature Strange and Beautiful

How Living Beings Evolved and Made the Earth a Home

by Egbert Giles Leigh, Christian Ziegler ...

A beautifully written exploration of how cooperation shaped life on earth, from its single-celled beginnings to complex human societiesIn this rich, wide-ranging, beautifully illustrated volume, Egbert Leigh explores the results of billions of years of evolution at work. Leigh, who has spent five decades on Panama's Barro Colorado Island reflecting on the organization of various amazingly diverse ... Read more

$12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

A beautifully written exploration of how cooperation shaped life on earth, from its single-celled beginnings to complex human societiesIn this rich, wide-ranging, beautifully illustrated volume, Egbert Leigh explores the results of billions of years of evolution at work. Leigh, who has spent five decades on Panama's Barro Colorado Island reflecting on the organization of various amazingly diverse
... Read more
A History of the Universe

Volume I: Complexity

by Henry Kong M. D. ...

Take a mind blowing journey beyond the furthest stars, from the Big Bang to the end of time. Witness the evolution of complexity, from organic chemistry to the Dinosaurs. Probe the deepest recesses of the human mind in search consciousness itself. It's all here in this dazzling first volume of Henry Kong's history of the Universe. ... Read more

$3.99 USD

Take a mind blowing journey beyond the furthest stars, from the Big Bang to the end of time. Witness the evolution of complexity, from organic chemistry to the Dinosaurs. Probe the deepest recesses of the human mind in search consciousness itself. It's all here in this dazzling first volume of Henry Kong's history of the Universe.
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This Is Life

A Journey from Inside Your Body to Beyond Earth

by Christophe Galfard ...

Christophe Galfard, acclaimed author of the international bestseller The Universe in Your Hand**, takes readers on an extraordinary journey across time and space—from the origins of Earth’s life to the search for extraterrestrials.**What is life? In this majestic book, Christophe Galfard, celebrated author and former graduate student of Stephen Hawking, takes us on a wonder-filled voyage to answer ... Read more

$10.79 USD

Christophe Galfard, acclaimed author of the international bestseller The Universe in Your Hand**, takes readers on an extraordinary journey across time and space—from the origins of Earth’s life to the search for extraterrestrials.**What is life? In this majestic book, Christophe Galfard, celebrated author and former graduate student of Stephen Hawking, takes us on a wonder-filled voyage to answer
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Darwin's Dogs

How Darwin's Pets Helped Form a World-Changing Theory of Evolution

by Emma Townshend ...

If you have ever looked at a dog waiting to go for a walk and thought there was something age-old and almost human about his sad expression, you’re not alone; Charles Darwin did exactly the same.But Darwin didn’t just stop at feeling that there was some connection between humans and dogs. English gentleman naturalist, great pioneer of the theory of evolution and incurable dog-lover, Darwin used ... Read more

$8.09 USD

If you have ever looked at a dog waiting to go for a walk and thought there was something age-old and almost human about his sad expression, you’re not alone; Charles Darwin did exactly the same.But Darwin didn’t just stop at feeling that there was some connection between humans and dogs. English gentleman naturalist, great pioneer of the theory of evolution and incurable dog-lover, Darwin used
... Read more
Odd Couples

Extraordinary Differences between the Sexes in the Animal Kingdom

by Daphne J. Fairbairn ...

While we joke that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, our gender differences can't compare to those of other animals. For instance: the male garden spider spontaneously dies after mating with a female more than fifty times his size. Female cichlids must guard their eggs and larvae--even from the hungry appetites of their own partners. And male blanket octopuses employ a copulatory arm ... Read more

$19.49 USD

While we joke that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, our gender differences can't compare to those of other animals. For instance: the male garden spider spontaneously dies after mating with a female more than fifty times his size. Female cichlids must guard their eggs and larvae--even from the hungry appetites of their own partners. And male blanket octopuses employ a copulatory arm
... Read more
Boundaries of Evolution

What Would Darwin Think Now About Dna, the Big Bang, and Finite Time?

by Theodore R. Johnstone M.D. ...

Boundaries of Evolution describes the unlikelihood of evolutionary theory to explain how it is supposed to scale three major biological cliffs. The first cliff is the need for a logical explanation of how random chemical reactions could produce the first living cell from the primordial soup. The second is the problem of explaining how the first single-celled eukaryote evolved from a prokaryote. ... Read more

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Boundaries of Evolution describes the unlikelihood of evolutionary theory to explain how it is supposed to scale three major biological cliffs. The first cliff is the need for a logical explanation of how random chemical reactions could produce the first living cell from the primordial soup. The second is the problem of explaining how the first single-celled eukaryote evolved from a prokaryote.
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On the Origin of Species

by Charles Darwin ...

The book that forever changed how we see life on Earth. First published in 1859, On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin introduced the theory of evolution by natural selection, transforming biology, science, and our understanding of the natural world. Drawing on years of meticulous research and observations from his voyage on the HMS Beagle, Darwin revealed how species adapt, survive, and ... Read more

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The book that forever changed how we see life on Earth. First published in 1859, On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin introduced the theory of evolution by natural selection, transforming biology, science, and our understanding of the natural world. Drawing on years of meticulous research and observations from his voyage on the HMS Beagle, Darwin revealed how species adapt, survive, and
... Read more
Your Amazing Body

by Steve Laufmann, Howard Glicksman ...

Every day your body must solve hundreds of hard engineering problems simultaneously, or else you'll die. Your body enables you to see and hear. It heals you from injuries and diseases. It maintains your temperature. It makes it possible for you to wield a sledgehammer during the day and play piano sonatas at night. Every minute your body choreographs a host of complex systems that are required for ... Read more

$4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Every day your body must solve hundreds of hard engineering problems simultaneously, or else you'll die. Your body enables you to see and hear. It heals you from injuries and diseases. It maintains your temperature. It makes it possible for you to wield a sledgehammer during the day and play piano sonatas at night. Every minute your body choreographs a host of complex systems that are required for
... Read more
Umani

La nostra storia

by Adam Rutherford ...

Translated by Sabrina Placidi ...

««Affascinante, avvincente e ricco di informazioni. Ho imparato di più sulla biologia da questo breve libro che da anni di lezioni di scienze. Una lettura originale e meravigliosa».»Peter Frankopan, storico, autore di Le vie della seta««Adam Rutherford è un narratore eccezionale. Umani è pieno di racconti geniali, colpi di scena e scoperte scientifiche dell’ultimo minuto, e offre una prospettiva ... Read more

$15.99 USD

««Affascinante, avvincente e ricco di informazioni. Ho imparato di più sulla biologia da questo breve libro che da anni di lezioni di scienze. Una lettura originale e meravigliosa».»Peter Frankopan, storico, autore di Le vie della seta««Adam Rutherford è un narratore eccezionale. Umani è pieno di racconti geniali, colpi di scena e scoperte scientifiche dell’ultimo minuto, e offre una prospettiva
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