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  • The Missing Lemur Link

    An Ancestral Step in the Evolution of Human Behaviour

    by Michael Huffman, Ivan Norscia, Elisabetta Palagi ...
    Series Book 74 - Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology
    Lemurs share a common distant ancestor with humans. Following their own evolutionary pathway, lemurs provide the ideal model to shed light on the behavioural traits of primates including conflict management, communication strategies and society building and how these aspects of social living relate to those found in the anthropoid primates. Adopting a comparative approach throughout, lemur ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

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  • Vital Question

    Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life

    by Nick Lane ...
    “One of the deepest, most illuminating books about the history of life to have been published in recent years.” —The EconomistThe Earth teems with life: in its oceans, forests, skies and cities. Yet there’s a black hole at the heart of biology. We do not know why complex life is the way it is, or, for that matter, how life first began. In The Vital Question, award-winning author and biochemist ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • 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

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Serengeti Rules

    The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters - With a new Q&A with the author

    by Sean B. Carroll ...
    Now the subject of an Emmy Award–winning film the New York Times calls "spellbinding"How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or fish in the ocean? How do our bodies produce the right numbers of cells in our organs and bloodstream? In The Serengeti Rules, award-winning biologist and author Sean Carroll tells the stories of the ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Dawn of the Deed

    The Prehistoric Origins of Sex

    by John A. Long ...
    "[A] deliciously written account of the evolution of sex, in all of its bizarre manifestations" by a noted paleontologist—"Read, blush, and enjoy!" (Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel).We all know about the birds and the bees, but what about the ancient placoderm fishes and the dinosaurs? In 2008, paleontologist John A. Long and a team of researchers announced their discovery of a 380 ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Human Bone Manual

    by Tim D. White, Pieter A. Folkens ...
    Building on the success of their previous book, White and Folkens' The Human Bone Manual is intended for use outisde the laboratory and classroom, by professional forensic scientists, anthropologists and researchers. The compact volume includes all the key information needed for identification purposes, including hundreds of photographs designed to show a maximum amount of anatomical information.* ... Read more

    $46.39 CAD

  • Scars of Evolution

    What Our Bodies Tell Us About Human Origins

    by Elaine Morgan ...
    In this lively and controversial book Elaine Morgan presents a challenging interpretation to the question of human evolution. With brilliant logic she argues that our hominid ancestors began to evolve in response to an aquatic environment.Millions of years ago something happened that caused our ancestors to walk on two legs, to lose their fur, to develop larger brains and learn how to speak. ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Real Planet of the Apes

    A New Story of Human Origins

    by David R. Begun ...
    The astonishing new story of human originsWas Darwin wrong when he traced our origins to Africa? The Real Planet of the Apes makes the explosive claim that it was in Europe, not Africa, where apes evolved the most important hallmarks of our human lineage—such as dexterous hands and larger brains. In this compelling and accessible book, David Begun, one of the world's leading paleoanthropologists, ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Evolving Human Nutrition

    Implications for Public Health

    by Neil Mann, Sarah Elton, Stanley J. Ulijaszek ...
    Series Book 64 - Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology
    While most of us live our lives according to the working week, we did not evolve to be bound by industrial schedules, nor did the food we eat. Despite this, we eat the products of industrialization and often suffer as a consequence. This book considers aspects of changing human nutrition from evolutionary and social perspectives. It considers what a 'natural' human diet might be, how it has been ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • Teeth

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Peter S. Ungar ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Teeth are amazing - the product of half a billion years of evolution. They provide fuel for the body by breaking apart other living things; and they must do it again and again over a lifetime without themselves being broken in the process. This means that plants and animals have developed tough or hard tissues for protection, and teeth have evolved ways to sharpen or strengthen themselves to ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • 6th Grade Ancient History: Dawn of Early Man

    Prehistoric Man Encyclopedia Sixth Grade Books

    by Baby Professor ...
    Series series Children's Prehistoric History Books
    How did early men live? What did they eat and how different were they from us today? You will find the answers to these questions within the pages of this educational book. The use of pictures is a welcome change as it provides relief from the boring texts. Picture are considered universal languages because they are understood regardless of reading and comprehension levels. Buy a copy now! ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Exploring Personal Genomics

    by Joel T. Dudley, Konrad J. Karczewski ...
    Rapid advances in high-throughput genome sequencing technologies foreshadow a near-future in which millions of individuals will gain affordable access to their complete genome sequence. This promises to offer unprecedented insights into the fundamental biological nature of ourselves and our species: where we came from, how we begin our lives, how we develop and grow, how we interact with our ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD