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  • Freshwater Fishes

    250 Million Years of Evolutionary History

    de Lionel Cavin ...
    With more than 15,000 species, nearly a quarter of the total number of vertebrate species on Earth, freshwater fishes are extremely varied. They include the largest fish species, the beluga at over 7 meters long, and the smallest, the Paedocypris at just 8 millimeters, as well as the carnivorous, such as the piranha, and the calm, such as the Chinese algae eater. Certain species evolve rapidly, ... Leer más

    $98.99 USD

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  • The Storytelling Animal

    How Stories Make Us Human

    de Jonathan Gottschall ...
    "Insightful...draws from disparate corners of history and science to celebrate our compulsion to storify everything around us."— The New York Times Book ReviewHumans live in landscapes of make-believe. We spin fantasies. We devour novels, films, and plays. Even sporting events and criminal trials unfold as narratives. Yet the world of story has remained an undiscovered and unmapped country. It's ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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  • The Universe Within

    The Deep History of the Human Body

    de Neil Shubin ...
    **Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)**From one of our finest and most popular science writers, and the best-selling author of Your Inner Fish, comes the answer to a scientific mystery as big as the world itself: How are the events that formed our solar system billions of years ago embedded inside each of us?In Your Inner Fish, Neil Shubin delved into the amazing connections between human bodies ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

    More Reflections in Natural History

    de Stephen Jay Gould ...
    "Gould is a natural writer; he has something to say and the inclination and skill with which to say it."—P. B. Medawar, New York Review of BooksWith sales of well over one million copies in North America alone, the commercial success of Gould's books now matches their critical acclaim. Reissued in a larger format, with a handsome new cover, The Panda's Thumb will introduce a new generation of ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Science of Good and Evil

    Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule

    de Michael Shermer ...
    From bestselling author Michael Shermer, an investigation of the evolution of morality that is "a paragon of popularized science and philosophy" The Sun (Baltimore)A century and a half after Darwin first proposed an "evolutionary ethics," science has begun to tackle the roots of morality. Just as evolutionary biologists study why we are hungry (to motivate us to eat) or why sex is enjoyable (to ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD

  • Pollination and Floral Ecology

    de Patricia Willmer ...
    Pollination and Floral Ecology is the most comprehensive single-volume reference to all aspects of pollination biology--and the first fully up-to-date resource of its kind to appear in decades. This beautifully illustrated book describes how flowers use colors, shapes, and scents to advertise themselves; how they offer pollen and nectar as rewards; and how they share complex interactions with ... Leer más

    $105.89 USD

  • Darwin's Unfinished Business

    The Self-Organizing Intelligence of Nature

    de Simon G. Powell ...
    A groundbreaking interpretation of evolution as the work of Nature’s intelligence• Refutes the orthodox view of evolution as a mindless process driven by chance• Explains why context is more important than mutation in evolutionary innovation• Shows how, by recognizing Nature’s innovative and creative powers, we can overcome our social and environmental challenges with a new green science of ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Too Smart for our Own Good

    The Ecological Predicament of Humankind

    de Craig Dilworth ...
    We are destroying our natural environment at a constantly increasing pace, and in so doing undermining the preconditions of our own existence. Why is this so? This book reveals that our ecologically disruptive behaviour is in fact rooted in our very nature as a species. Drawing on evolution theory, biology, anthropology, archaeology, economics, environmental science and history, this book explains ... Leer más

    $63.19 USD

  • Principles of Evolutionary Medicine

    de Peter Gluckman, Alan Beedle, Tatjana Buklijas, Felicia Low, Mark Hanson ...
    Evolutionary science is critical to an understanding of integrated human biology and is increasingly recognised as a core discipline by medical and public health professionals. Advances in the field of genomics, epigenetics, developmental biology, and epidemiology have led to the growing realisation that incorporating evolutionary thinking is essential for medicine to achieve its full potential. ... Leer más

    $43.19 USD

  • Theory-Based Ecology

    A Darwinian approach

    de Gabriella Magyar, Liz Pásztor, Zoltán Botta-Dukát, Tamás Czárán, Géza Meszéna ...
    Ecology is in a challenging state as a scientific discipline. While some theoretical ecologists are attempting to build a definition of ecology from first principles, many others are questioning even the feasibility of a general and universal theory. At the same time, it is increasingly important that ecology is accurately and functionally defined for a generation of researchers tackling ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Of Apes and Ancestors

    Evolution, Christianity, and the Oxford Debate

    de Ian Hesketh ...
    Tell me, sir, is it on your grandmother's or your grandfather's side that you are descended from an ape?In June of 1860, some of Britain's most influential scientific and religious authorities gathered in Oxford to hear a heated debate on the merits of Charles Darwin's recently published Origin of Species. The Bishop of Oxford, "Soapy" Samuel Wilberforce, clashed swords with Darwin's most ... Leer más

    $22.29 USD

  • The Human Niche

    A Course on The Human Niche, #6

    de Razie Mah ...
    Series Libro 6 - A Course on The Human Niche
    Why is the current story of human evolution so dissatisfying?The answer is simple. It is not adequate.To date, modern biological theories are built on the idea that adaptation responds to material advantage or causation, rather than the potential of an actuality independent of the species. Consequently, biological anthropologists focus on diverse proximate niches, rather than an ultimate niche, in ... Leer más

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