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  • Darwinizing Gaia

    Natural Selection and Multispecies Community Evolution

    Series series Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology
    A reinterpretation of James Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis through the lens of Darwinian natural selection and multispecies community evolution.First conceived in the 1970s, James Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis proposed that living organisms developed in tandem with their inorganic surroundings, forming a complex, self-regulating system. Today most evolutionary biologists consider the theory problematic. ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • The Lost World of the Dinosaurs

    Uncovering the Secrets of the Prehistoric Age

    by Armin Schmitt ...
    An enrapturing tale of the age of the dinosaurs, tracing their earliest origins, their astounding two-hundred-million-year reign and their infamous demiseDinosaurs. No other class of animals captures the hearts of both children and adults alike. Paleontologist Armin Schmitt brings us a firsthand account of the latest research on dinosaurs and their lives millions of years ago, including his ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 3

    The Masters of History

    This third volume of the illustrated adaptation of the internationally bestselling phenomenon, Sapiens: A Graphic History—The Masters of History, tackles the question of the driving force of humanity’s fate: is it empire, money, religion—or something else entirely—that unites us?Sometimes history seems like a laundry list of malevolent monarchs, pompous presidents and dastardly dictators. But are ... Read more

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  • The Darwinian Trap

    The Hidden Evolutionary Forces That Explain Our World (and Threaten Our Future)

    A provocative exploration of how humans are wired to seek short-term success at the expense of long-term survival—an evolutionary "glitch” that explains everything from toxic workplaces to climate changeIn this eye-opening work, entrepreneur and philosopher Kristian Rönn argues that today’s biggest challenges—climate change, fake news, artificial intelligence, even terrible bosses—are less the ... Read more

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  • A History of Bodies, Brains, and Minds

    The Evolution of Life and Consciousness

    A panoramic view of the evolution of life on our planet, from its origins to humanity’s future.In A History of Bodies, Brains, and Minds, Francisco Aboitiz provides a brief history of life, the brain, and cognition, from the earliest living beings to our own species. The author proceeds from the basic premise that, since evolution by natural selection is the process underlying the origin of life ... Read more

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  • Taking Flight

    The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing

    by Lev Parikian ...
    This is the miracle of flight as you' ve never seen it before: the evolutionary story of life on the wing.A bird flits overhead. It' s an everyday occurrence, repeated hundreds, thousands, millions of times daily by creatures across the world. It' s something so normal, so entirely taken for granted, that sometimes we forget how extraordinary it is. But take that in for a moment. This animal flies ... Read more

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  • Is Earth Exceptional?

    The Quest for Cosmic Life

    A New York Times–bestselling astrophysicist and a Nobel laureate describe the quest to discover how and where the universe breathed life into matterFor a long time, scientists have wondered how life has emerged from inanimate chemistry, and whether Earth is the only place where it exists. Charles Darwin speculated about life on Earth beginning in a warm little pond. Some of his contemporaries ... Read more

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  • Living on Earth

    Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World

    The bestselling author of Other Minds shows how we and our ancestors have reinvented our planet.If the history of the Earth were compressed down to a year, our species would arise in the last thirty minutes or so of the final hour. But life itself is not such a late arrival: It has existed on Earth for something like 3.7 billion years—most of our planet’s history and over a quarter of the age of ... Read more

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  • Niche Construction

    How Life Contributes to Its Own Evolution

    How niche construction theory extends evolutionary theory beyond natural selection to a more general theory about the coevolution of organisms with their environments.In Niche Construction, John Odling-Smee, the leading authority on niche construction theory, extends evolutionary theory from an explanation of how populations of organisms respond to natural selection pressures in their environments ... Read more

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  • Infinite Life

    The Revolutionary Story of Eggs, Evolution, and Life on Earth

    by Jules Howard ...
    An expansive investigation into the most unifying and enduring structure in the history of life—and a story of biological richness at a moment when so much of our precious biodiversity hangs in the balance.Eggs are the origins of ninety percent of the Earth’s organisms. They can be found as far apart as deep-sea volcanoes and in space. Yet despite their fundamental importance, eggs often find ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Bite

    An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans

    by Bill Schutt ...
    From three-inch fang blennies to thirty-foot prehistoric crocodiles, from gaboon vipers to Neanderthals, Bite is a fascinating journey through the natural, scientific, and cultural history of something right in front of—or in—our faces: teeth.In Bite, zoologist Bill Schutt makes a surprising case: it is teeth that are responsible for the long-term success of vertebrates. The appearance of teeth, ... Read more

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  • Life as No One Knows It

    The Physics of Life's Emergence

    An intriguing new scientific theory that explains what life is and how it emerges.What is life? This is among the most difficult open problems in science, right up there with the nature of consciousness and the existence of matter. All the definitions we have fall short. None help us understand how life originates or the full range of possibilities for what life on other planets might look like.In ... Read more

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  • Why Animals Talk

    The New Science of Animal Communication

    **"Animal communication doesn’t need to resemble human language to be full of meaning and nuance. Arik Kershenbaum delivers an expert overview of the astonishing discoveries made in the last few decades" —Frans de WaalFrom leading zoologist Arik Kershenbaum, a delightful and groundbreaking exploration of animal communication and its true meaning**Animal communication has forever seemed ... Read more

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  • Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion

    “Vivid with a Mesozoic bestiary” (Tom Holland), this on-the-ground, page-turning narrative weaves together the chance discovery of dinosaurs and the rise of the secular age.When the twelve-year-old daughter of a British carpenter pulled some strange-looking bones from the country’s southern shoreline in 1811, few people dared to question that the Bible told the accurate history of the world. But ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • The Science of Why We Exist

    A History of the Universe from the Big Bang to Consciousness

    by Tim Coulson ...
    From the Big Bang and the evolution of the genetic code to the birth of consciousness, this is the extraordinary story of the chain of events that led to human life on earth.Have you ever wondered why you exist? What had to happen for you to be alive and conscious? Scientists have come a long way in answering this question, and this book describes what they have found out. It also examines whether ... Read more

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  • The Language Puzzle

    Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved

    by Steven Mithen ...
    **A top scholar reveals the most complete picture to date of how early human speech led to the languages we use today **The emergence of language began with the apelike calls of our earliest ancestors. Today, the world is home to thousands of complex languages. Yet exactly how, when, and why this evolution occurred has been one of the most enduring—and contentiously debated—questions in science. ... Read more

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  • Origin Story: The Trials of Charles Darwin

    by Howard Markel ...
    A lively account of how Darwin’s work on natural selection transformed science and society, and an investigation into the mysterious illness that plagued its author.By early morning of June 30, 1860, a large crowd began to congregate in front of Oxford University’s brand-new Museum of Natural History. The occasion was the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, ... Read more

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  • The Network of Life

    A New View of Evolution

    Why evolution is like a network, not a family tree—and why it matters for understanding the health of all living thingsIn The Network of Life, David Mindell explains why the conventional narrative of evolution needs to evolve. Ever since Darwin, evolution has largely been thought to work like a family tree in which species are related through a series of branching events. But, today, a growing ... Read more

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  • Father Time

    A Natural History of Men and Babies

    A sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when they care for babiesIt has long seemed self-evident that women care for babies and men do other things. Hasn’t it always been so? When evolutionary science came along, it rubber-stamped this venerable division of labor: mammalian males evolved to compete for status and mates, while females were ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • Bacterial Genetics and Genomics

    Understanding of bacterial genetics and genomics is fundamental to understanding bacteria and higher organisms, as well. Novel insights in the fields of genetics and genomics are challenging the once clear borders between the characteristics of bacteria and other life. Biological knowledge of the bacterial world is being viewed under a new light with input from genetic and genomics. Replication of ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • Ascensão e reinado dos mamíferos

    das sombras dos dinossauros até nós

    Translated by Alessandra Bonrruquer ...
    Ascensão e reinado dos mamíferos , do autor best-seller Steve Brusatte, é o relato da extraordinária jornada que os mamíferos – incluindo nós –enfrentaram para sobreviver, se adaptar e conquistar a terra, o ar e o mar.Os humanos são herdeiros de uma dinastia que reina no planeta há quase 66 milhões de anos, sobreviventes de cataclismos de fogo e eras glaciais: os mamíferos. Nossa linhagem inclui ... Read more

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  • Selfish Genes to Social Beings

    A Cooperative History of Life

    For all the "selfishness" of genes, they team up to survive. Is the history of life in fact a story of cooperation? Amid the violence and brutality that dominates the news, it's hard to think of ourselves as team players. But cooperation, Jonathan Silvertown argues, is a fundamental part of our make-up, and deeply woven into the whole four-billion-year history of life. Starting with human society, ... Read more

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  • Political Species

    The Evolution and Diversity of Private Organizations in Politics

    by Karsten Ronit ...
    In Political Species, Karsten Ronit expertly argues that evolutionary biology can provide important sources of inspiration for analyzing the proliferation of private actors/organizations in domestic and global politics. Focusing on the evolution of a diversity of such private actors/organizations in politics, Ronit emphasizes that individuals are affected by and contribute to societal, cultural, ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

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  • The Sacred Chain

    How Understanding Evolution Leads to Deeper Faith

    by Jim Stump ...
    A thought-provoking and eye-opening work by Jim Stump, Vice President at BioLogos and host of the Language of God podcast,offering a compelling argument about how evolution does not have to be at odds with faith, but can actually enrich and deepen it.In this moving and deeply thoughtful book, Jim Stump takes readers with him on his journey to understanding evolution and reconciling it with his ... Read more

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