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How to Clone a Mammoth

The Science of De-Extinction

par Beth Shapiro ...

Collections series Princeton Science Library
An insider's view on bringing extinct species back to lifeCould extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? In How to Clone a Mammoth, Beth Shapiro, an evolutionary biologist and pioneer in ancient DNA research, addresses this intriguing question by walking readers through the astonishing and controversial process of de-extinction. From deciding which species ... En savoir plus

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An insider's view on bringing extinct species back to lifeCould extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? In How to Clone a Mammoth, Beth Shapiro, an evolutionary biologist and pioneer in ancient DNA research, addresses this intriguing question by walking readers through the astonishing and controversial process of de-extinction. From deciding which species
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The Malay Archipelago

Volume I of II

par Alfred Russel Wallace ...

Collections series The Malay Archipelago
The Malay Archipelago is a book by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace that chronicles his scientific exploration, during the eight year period 1854 to 1862, of the southern portion of the Malay Archipelago including Malaysia, Singapore, the islands of Indonesia, then known as the Dutch East Indies, and the island of New Guinea. Its full title was The Malay Archipelago: The land of the ... En savoir plus

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The Malay Archipelago is a book by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace that chronicles his scientific exploration, during the eight year period 1854 to 1862, of the southern portion of the Malay Archipelago including Malaysia, Singapore, the islands of Indonesia, then known as the Dutch East Indies, and the island of New Guinea. Its full title was The Malay Archipelago: The land of the
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A Darwinian Survival Guide

Hope for the Twenty-First Century

par Daniel R. Brooks, Salvatore J. Agosta ...

How humanity brought about the climate crisis by departing from its evolutionary trajectory 15,000 years ago—and how we can use evolutionary principles to save ourselves from the worst outcomes.Despite efforts to sustain civilization, humanity faces existential threats from overpopulation, globalized trade and travel, urbanization, and global climate change. In A Darwinian Survival Guide, Daniel ... En savoir plus

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How humanity brought about the climate crisis by departing from its evolutionary trajectory 15,000 years ago—and how we can use evolutionary principles to save ourselves from the worst outcomes.Despite efforts to sustain civilization, humanity faces existential threats from overpopulation, globalized trade and travel, urbanization, and global climate change. In A Darwinian Survival Guide, Daniel
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A Brief History of the Female Body

An Evolutionary Look at How and Why the Female Form Came to Be

par Dr. Deena Emera ...

What if the most frustrating parts of the female body—period pain, pregnancy risks, menopause—weren't flaws, but features shaped by evolution?In A Brief History of the Female Body, evolutionary biologist and mother of four Dr. Deena Emera blends groundbreaking science with personal insight to explain how evolution shaped the female body—and why it matters today.Inside, readers will discover:Why ... En savoir plus

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What if the most frustrating parts of the female body—period pain, pregnancy risks, menopause—weren't flaws, but features shaped by evolution?In A Brief History of the Female Body, evolutionary biologist and mother of four Dr. Deena Emera blends groundbreaking science with personal insight to explain how evolution shaped the female body—and why it matters today.Inside, readers will discover:Why
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Darwin, God and the Meaning of Life

How Evolutionary Theory Undermines Everything You Thought You Knew

par Steve Stewart-Williams ...

If you accept evolutionary theory, can you also believe in God? Are human beings superior to other animals, or is this just a human prejudice? Does Darwin have implications for heated issues like euthanasia and animal rights? Does evolution tell us the purpose of life, or does it imply that life has no ultimate purpose? Does evolution tell us what is morally right and wrong, or does it imply that ... En savoir plus

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If you accept evolutionary theory, can you also believe in God? Are human beings superior to other animals, or is this just a human prejudice? Does Darwin have implications for heated issues like euthanasia and animal rights? Does evolution tell us the purpose of life, or does it imply that life has no ultimate purpose? Does evolution tell us what is morally right and wrong, or does it imply that
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Genetics

A Beginner's Guide

par Burton Guttman, David Suzuki, Tara Cullis, Anthony Griffiths ...

Collections series Beginner's Guides
With genetics and genetic engineering receiving almost daily coverage in the media, this book is an introduction for general readers who wish to know more about a science that is changing our world. Starting with the history of genetics, from primitive breeding programmes to Mendel's Law, and moving on to a full explanation of genetics and its role in our future, this is a comprehensive survey of ... En savoir plus

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With genetics and genetic engineering receiving almost daily coverage in the media, this book is an introduction for general readers who wish to know more about a science that is changing our world. Starting with the history of genetics, from primitive breeding programmes to Mendel's Law, and moving on to a full explanation of genetics and its role in our future, this is a comprehensive survey of
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Domesticated

Evolution in a Man-Made World

par Richard C. Francis ...

Without domestication, civilization as we know it would not exist.Since that fateful day when the first wolf decided to stay close to human hunters, humans and their various animal companions have thrived far beyond nearly all wild species on earth. Tameness is the key trait in the domestication of cats, dogs, horses, cows, and other mammals, from rats to reindeer. Surprisingly, with selection for ... En savoir plus

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Without domestication, civilization as we know it would not exist.Since that fateful day when the first wolf decided to stay close to human hunters, humans and their various animal companions have thrived far beyond nearly all wild species on earth. Tameness is the key trait in the domestication of cats, dogs, horses, cows, and other mammals, from rats to reindeer. Surprisingly, with selection for
... En savoir plus
Beyond Inheritance

Our Ever-Mutating Cells and a New Understanding of Health

par Roxanne Khamsi ...

**“Constantly fascinating and impeccably reported...You won’t look at yourself in the same way again.” —Ed Yong, bestselling author of An Immense World and I Contain MultitudesA captivating exploration of the remarkable ways our DNA mutates over the course of our lives, with radical implications for the future of medicine**Our DNA is the indispensable set of instructions that guides our growth and ... En savoir plus

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**“Constantly fascinating and impeccably reported...You won’t look at yourself in the same way again.” —Ed Yong, bestselling author of An Immense World and I Contain MultitudesA captivating exploration of the remarkable ways our DNA mutates over the course of our lives, with radical implications for the future of medicine**Our DNA is the indispensable set of instructions that guides our growth and
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Evolving Ourselves

Redesigning the Future of Humanity--One Gene at a Time

par Juan Enriquez, Steve Gullans ...

“We are the primary drivers of change. We will directly and indirectly determine what lives, what dies, where, and when. We are in a different phase of evolution; the future of life is now in our hands.”Why are rates of conditions like autism, asthma, obesity, and allergies exploding at an unprecedented pace? Why are humans living longer, getting smarter, and having far fewer kids? How might your ... En savoir plus

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“We are the primary drivers of change. We will directly and indirectly determine what lives, what dies, where, and when. We are in a different phase of evolution; the future of life is now in our hands.”Why are rates of conditions like autism, asthma, obesity, and allergies exploding at an unprecedented pace? Why are humans living longer, getting smarter, and having far fewer kids? How might your
... En savoir plus
Cognitive Gadgets

The Cultural Evolution of Thinking

par Cecilia Heyes ...

“This is an important book and likely the most thoughtful of the year in the social sciences… Highly recommended, it is likely to prove one of the most thought-provoking books of the year.”—Tyler Cowen, Marginal RevolutionHow did human minds become so different from those of other animals? What accounts for our capacity to understand the way the physical world works, to think ourselves into the ... En savoir plus

$38.49 CAD

“This is an important book and likely the most thoughtful of the year in the social sciences… Highly recommended, it is likely to prove one of the most thought-provoking books of the year.”—Tyler Cowen, Marginal RevolutionHow did human minds become so different from those of other animals? What accounts for our capacity to understand the way the physical world works, to think ourselves into the
... En savoir plus
The Human Condition

What exactly is it, what caused it, and how the human race has finally liberated itself from the horror of it

par Jeremy Griffith ...

This 2025 book, The Human Condition, by biologist Jeremy Griffith is one of his three most important presentations on the human condition, serving as a powerful short-in-length bridge between the other two — his very short introduction in THE Interview and his comprehensive presentation in FREEDOM. It also takes his human-race-saving insights to a new depth of clarity — so it is a MUST READ!It is ... En savoir plus

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This 2025 book, The Human Condition, by biologist Jeremy Griffith is one of his three most important presentations on the human condition, serving as a powerful short-in-length bridge between the other two — his very short introduction in THE Interview and his comprehensive presentation in FREEDOM. It also takes his human-race-saving insights to a new depth of clarity — so it is a MUST READ!It is
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The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt

par William Nothdurft, Josh Smith ...

The date is January 11, 1911. A young German paleontologist, accompanied only by a guide, a cook, four camels, and a couple of camel drivers, reaches the lip of the vast Bahariya Depression after a long trek across the bleak plateau of the western desert of Egypt. The scientist, Ernst Freiherr Stromer von Reichenbach, hopes to find fossil evidence of early mammals. In this, he will be disappointed ... En savoir plus

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The date is January 11, 1911. A young German paleontologist, accompanied only by a guide, a cook, four camels, and a couple of camel drivers, reaches the lip of the vast Bahariya Depression after a long trek across the bleak plateau of the western desert of Egypt. The scientist, Ernst Freiherr Stromer von Reichenbach, hopes to find fossil evidence of early mammals. In this, he will be disappointed
... En savoir plus
Beyond the Brain

How Body and Environment Shape Animal and Human Minds

par Louise Barrett ...

A new approach to understanding animal and human cognitionWhen a chimpanzee stockpiles rocks as weapons or when a frog sends out mating calls, we might easily assume these animals know their own motivations--that they use the same psychological mechanisms that we do. But as Beyond the Brain indicates, this is a dangerous assumption because animals have different evolutionary trajectories, ... En savoir plus

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A new approach to understanding animal and human cognitionWhen a chimpanzee stockpiles rocks as weapons or when a frog sends out mating calls, we might easily assume these animals know their own motivations--that they use the same psychological mechanisms that we do. But as Beyond the Brain indicates, this is a dangerous assumption because animals have different evolutionary trajectories,
... En savoir plus
Supernormal Stimuli

How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpose

par Deirdre Barrett ...

How our once-helpful instincts got hijacked by our garish modern world.Have you ever wondered why some men choose pornography over actual women? Why so many people watch Friends instead of going out with their own buddies? Why a person would “feed” a plastic Pocket Pet while shirking real duties? Why both sides of every war see the other as the aggressor against whom their “Department of Defense” ... En savoir plus

$23.59 CAD

How our once-helpful instincts got hijacked by our garish modern world.Have you ever wondered why some men choose pornography over actual women? Why so many people watch Friends instead of going out with their own buddies? Why a person would “feed” a plastic Pocket Pet while shirking real duties? Why both sides of every war see the other as the aggressor against whom their “Department of Defense”
... En savoir plus
Food of the Gods

The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution

par Terence McKenna ...

“Deserves to be the modern classic on mind-altering drugs and hallucinogens.”—The Washington PostEthnobotanist Terence Mckenna, hailed by Tom Robbins as “the most important—and most entertaining—visionary scholar in America,” explores humanity’s symbiotic relationship with spirits, tobacco, marijuana, opium, psilocybin, and more, from prehistoric times to today.Why, as a species, are humans so ... En savoir plus

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“Deserves to be the modern classic on mind-altering drugs and hallucinogens.”—The Washington PostEthnobotanist Terence Mckenna, hailed by Tom Robbins as “the most important—and most entertaining—visionary scholar in America,” explores humanity’s symbiotic relationship with spirits, tobacco, marijuana, opium, psilocybin, and more, from prehistoric times to today.Why, as a species, are humans so
... En savoir plus
Human Evolution

A Pelican Introduction

par Robin Dunbar ...

Collections series Pelican Books
What makes us human?How did we develop language, thought and culture?Why did we survive, and other human species fail?The past 12,000 years represent the only time in the sweep of human history when there has been only one human species. How did this extraordinary proliferation of species come about - and then go extinct? And why did we emerge such intellectual giants? The tale of our origin... ... En savoir plus

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What makes us human?How did we develop language, thought and culture?Why did we survive, and other human species fail?The past 12,000 years represent the only time in the sweep of human history when there has been only one human species. How did this extraordinary proliferation of species come about - and then go extinct? And why did we emerge such intellectual giants? The tale of our origin...
... En savoir plus
Flights of Fancy

Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution

par Richard Dawkins ...

Richard Dawkins on how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to the skies.'A masterly investigation of all aspects of flight, human and animal... A beautifully produced book that will appeal across age groups' Alexander McCall Smith'Dawkins has always been an extraordinarily muscular, persuasive thinker. What feels new here is that he writes with such charm and ... En savoir plus

$15.39 CAD

Richard Dawkins on how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to the skies.'A masterly investigation of all aspects of flight, human and animal... A beautifully produced book that will appeal across age groups' Alexander McCall Smith'Dawkins has always been an extraordinarily muscular, persuasive thinker. What feels new here is that he writes with such charm and
... En savoir plus
Liens de sang

aux origines biologiques de la société humaine

par Bernard Chapais ...

Traduit par Hervé Juste ...

Ce livre se veut un exercice d’intégration interdisciplinaire. Il s’agit d’une tentative de comparer, d’articuler et d’unifier la primatologie comportementale et l’anthropologie sociale sur la question des origines de la société humaine. Bernard Chapais y soutient qu’il existe un système social spécifiquement humain – pour les mêmes raisons qu’il existe un système social spécifiquement chimpanzé, ... En savoir plus

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Ce livre se veut un exercice d’intégration interdisciplinaire. Il s’agit d’une tentative de comparer, d’articuler et d’unifier la primatologie comportementale et l’anthropologie sociale sur la question des origines de la société humaine. Bernard Chapais y soutient qu’il existe un système social spécifiquement humain – pour les mêmes raisons qu’il existe un système social spécifiquement chimpanzé,
... En savoir plus
Chance in Evolution

Modifié par Grant Ramsey, Charles H. Pence ...

This illuminating volume explores the effects of chance on evolution, covering diverse perspectives from scientists, philosophers, and historians.The evolution of species, from single-celled organisms to multicellular animals and plants, is the result of a long and highly chancy history. But how profoundly has chance shaped life on earth? And what, precisely, do we mean by chance? Bringing ... En savoir plus

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This illuminating volume explores the effects of chance on evolution, covering diverse perspectives from scientists, philosophers, and historians.The evolution of species, from single-celled organisms to multicellular animals and plants, is the result of a long and highly chancy history. But how profoundly has chance shaped life on earth? And what, precisely, do we mean by chance? Bringing
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Francis Crick

Discoverer of the Genetic Code

par Matt Ridley ...

Collections Livre 60 - Eminent Lives
Francis Crick—the quiet genius who led a revolution in biology by discovering, quite literally, the secret of life—will be bracketed with Galileo, Darwin, and Einstein as one of the greatest scientists of all time. In his fascinating biography of the scientific pioneer who uncovered the genetic code—the digital cipher at the heart of heredity that distinguishes living from non-living things ... En savoir plus

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Francis Crick—the quiet genius who led a revolution in biology by discovering, quite literally, the secret of life—will be bracketed with Galileo, Darwin, and Einstein as one of the greatest scientists of all time. In his fascinating biography of the scientific pioneer who uncovered the genetic code—the digital cipher at the heart of heredity that distinguishes living from non-living things
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Atlas of Creation - Volume 4

par Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar) ...

The hypnosis was disseminated through this Darwinist propaganda in which many groups were involved together, to the extent that some people became the unwitting proponents of an exceedingly dangerous theory that has inflicted terrible disasters on the world and that constituted the foundation of all the repressive systems that drowned the 20th century in blood. But that age has now come to an end, ... En savoir plus

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The hypnosis was disseminated through this Darwinist propaganda in which many groups were involved together, to the extent that some people became the unwitting proponents of an exceedingly dangerous theory that has inflicted terrible disasters on the world and that constituted the foundation of all the repressive systems that drowned the 20th century in blood. But that age has now come to an end,
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The Psychology of Man’s Possible Evolution

par P. D. Ouspensky ...

Ouspensky’s five lectures which make up "The Psychology of Man’s Possible Evolution" were not originally intended to be published.Reading them as a book gives practically no measure of the scale of time and study needed to realise, even partially, the ideas which are expressed or why Ouspensky expressed them in this short form.The Russian philosopher considers the "forgotten science of psychology" ... En savoir plus

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Ouspensky’s five lectures which make up "The Psychology of Man’s Possible Evolution" were not originally intended to be published.Reading them as a book gives practically no measure of the scale of time and study needed to realise, even partially, the ideas which are expressed or why Ouspensky expressed them in this short form.The Russian philosopher considers the "forgotten science of psychology"
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Journal And Remarks (The Voyage Of The Beagle) (Mobi Classics)

par Charles Darwin ...

The Voyage of the Beagle is a title commonly given to the book written by Charles Darwin published in 1839 as his Journal and Remarks, which brought him considerable fame and respect. The title refers to the second survey expedition of the ship HMS Beagle, which set sail from Plymouth Sound on 27 December 1831 under the command of captain Robert FitzRoy.While the expedition was originally planned ... En savoir plus

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The Voyage of the Beagle is a title commonly given to the book written by Charles Darwin published in 1839 as his Journal and Remarks, which brought him considerable fame and respect. The title refers to the second survey expedition of the ship HMS Beagle, which set sail from Plymouth Sound on 27 December 1831 under the command of captain Robert FitzRoy.While the expedition was originally planned
... En savoir plus
Big Brain

The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence

par Gary Lynch, Richard Granger ...

Collections series MacSci
Our big brains, our language ability, and our intelligence make us uniquely human.But barely 10,000 years ago (a mere blip in evolutionary time) human-like creatures called "Boskops" flourished in South Africa. They possessed extraordinary features: forebrains roughly 50% larger than ours, and estimated IQs to match--far surpassing our own. Many of these huge fossil skulls have been discovered ... En savoir plus

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Our big brains, our language ability, and our intelligence make us uniquely human.But barely 10,000 years ago (a mere blip in evolutionary time) human-like creatures called "Boskops" flourished in South Africa. They possessed extraordinary features: forebrains roughly 50% larger than ours, and estimated IQs to match--far surpassing our own. Many of these huge fossil skulls have been discovered
... En savoir plus

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