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  • Eine (sehr) kurze Geschichte des Lebens

    by Henry Gee ...
    Translated by Alexander Weber ...
    Der langjährige Nature -Chefredakteur Henry Gee erzählt die Geschichte des Lebens: Sein Buch versammelt das Wichtigste über unsere Existenz in den letzten 4,6 Milliarden Jahre auf 224 mitreißenden und höchst überraschenden Seiten.Dieses Buch macht die komplexe Entstehung des Lebens auf unserem Planeten erstmals für alle verständlich. Dabei stand das Leben auf der Erde schon mehrfach kurz vor der ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Evolução

    o sentido da biologia

    Series series Paradidáticos
    Este livro mostra, numa linguagem clara, como a biologia evolutiva surge ao longo dos séculos XIX e XX e apresenta seus principais conceitos, o contexto cultural e social na qual está inserida e as fronteiras atuais da busca do conhecimento sobre a evolução e a diversidade da vida no nosso planeta. Apresenta como a compreensão da biologia evolutiva é importante para desvendar a origem da AIDS, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • El mundo hasta ayer

    ¿Qué podemos aprender de las sociedades tradicionales?

    by Jared Diamond ...
    Translated by Efrén del Valle Peñamil ...
    El ganador del premio Pulitzer, autor de los best sellers Colapso y Armas, gérmenes y acero vuelve al pasado en busca de un futuro mejor.Unlibro provocador, iluminador y ameno, como todos los de Diamond, que se convertirá en una lectura necesaria.La mayoría de nosotros damos por asumidas las características propias de la sociedad moderna, desde los via... ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Alpha God

    The Psychology of Religious Violence and Oppression

    This book uses evolutionary psychology as a lens to explain religious violence and oppression. The author, a clinical psychologist, examines religious scriptures, rituals, and canon law, highlighting the many ways in which our evolutionary legacy has shaped the development of religion and continues to profoundly influence its expression. The book focuses on the image of God as the dominant male in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Walking Whales

    From Land to Water in Eight Million Years

    Hans Thewissen, a leading researcher in the field of whale paleontology and anatomy, gives a sweeping first-person account of the discoveries that brought to light the early fossil record of whales. As evidenced in the record, whales evolved from herbivorous forest-dwelling ancestors that resembled tiny deer to carnivorous monsters stalking lakes and rivers and to serpentlike denizens of the coast ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History

    "Lively and fascinating. . . . [Gould] writes beautifully about science and the wonders of nature."—Tracy KidderOver a century after Darwin published the Origin of Species, Darwinian theory is in a "vibrantly healthy state," writes Stephen Jay Gould, its most engaging and illuminating exponent. Exploring the "peculiar and mysterious particulars of nature," Gould introduces the reader to some of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Autobiografía

    Series Book 3 - Biblioteca Darwin
    Esta autobiografía de Charles Darwin se publicó en su primera edición censurada por la familia (especialmente por sus opiniones sobre la religión), y sólo en la década de 1950 se recuperó la versión íntegra, sin recortes, que publicamos aquí. Los pasajes censurados aparecen en negrita."Un editor alemán me escribió pidiéndome un informe sobre la evolución de mi mente y mi carácter —escribe Darwin—, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Death on Earth

    Adventures in Evolution and Mortality

    There is nothing more life-affirming than understanding death in all its forms.Natural selection depends on death; little would evolve without it. Every animal on Earth is shaped by its presence and fashioned by its spectre. We are all survivors of starvation, drought, volcanic eruptions, meteorites, plagues, parasites, predators, freak weather events, tussles and scraps, and our bodies are shaped ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection

    In 1859 Darwin described a deceptively simple mechanism that he called "natural selection," a combination of variation, inheritance, and reproductive success. He argued that this mechanism was the key to explaining the most puzzling features of the natural world, and science and philosophy were changed forever as a result. The exact nature of the Darwinian process has been controversial ever since ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Long Evolution of Brains and Minds

    by Gerhard Roth ...
    The main topic of the book is a reconstruction of the evolution of nervous systems and brains as well as of mental-cognitive abilities, in short “intelligence” from simplest organisms to humans. It investigates to which extent the two are correlated. One central topic is the alleged uniqueness of the human brain and human intelligence and mind. It is discussed which neural features make certain ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Cells to Civilizations

    The Principles of Change That Shape Life

    by Enrico Coen ...
    The science of change from cells to cultureCells to Civilizations is the first unified account of how life transforms itself—from the production of bacteria to the emergence of complex civilizations. What are the connections between evolving microbes, an egg that develops into an infant, and a child who learns to walk and talk? Award-winning scientist Enrico Coen synthesizes the growth of living ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The World Before Us

    The New Science Behind Our Human Origins

    by Tom Higham ...
    A fascinating investigation of the origin of humans based on incredible new discoveries and advanced scientific technologyFifty thousand years ago, Homo sapiens was not the only species of humans in the world. There were also Neanderthals in what is now Europe, the Near East, and parts of Eurasia; Hobbits (H. floresiensis) on the island of Flores in Indonesia; Denisovans in Siberia and eastern ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Human Advantage

    A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable

    Why our human brains are awesome, and how we left our cousins, the great apes, behind: a tale of neurons and calories, and cooking.Humans are awesome. Our brains are gigantic, seven times larger than they should be for the size of our bodies. The human brain uses 25% of all the energy the body requires each day. And it became enormous in a very short amount of time in evolution, allowing us to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Great Guilt that causes the Deaf Effect

    As biologist Jeremy Griffith explains in THE Interview (which psychiatrist Professor Harry Prosen described as “the most important interview of all time”), while we humans lacked the explanation for our 2-million-year corrupted human condition we had no choice but to deny that our distant ape ancestors lived in a state of cooperative and loving innocence. But with the good reason for our corrupted ... Read more

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  • The Origin of Species

    Few other books have created such a lasting storm of controversy as 'The Origin of Species'. It took Charles Darwin more than twenty years to publish this book, in part because he realized that it would ignite a firestorm of controversy. On the Origin of Species first appeared in 1859, and it remains a continuing source of conflict to this day. Even among those who reject its ideas, however, the ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • We Are Agora

    How Humanity Functions as a Single Superorganism That Shapes Our World and Our Future

    by Byron Reese ...
    Discover a groundbreaking new way of thinking about life, society, and the future of our species that bridges science and human history.Could humans unknowingly be a part of a larger superorganism—one with its own motivations and goals, one that is alive, and conscious, and has the power to shape the future of our species?This is the fascinating theory from author and futurist Byron Reese, who ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Forces of Evolution

    A guide to the elemental forces that drive evolutionary processes

    Have you ever paused to ponder what accounts for the immense biological diversity that can be seen on Earth? Or have you ever wondered why certain organisms survive and pass on their genes to the next generation while others do not? These questions can be addressed by Evolution, a seemingly subtle yet powerful natural phenomenon that has affected nearly every species that has ever existed ... Read more

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  • De opkomst en heerschappij van de zoogdieren

    Het ongelooflijke verhaal van de soorten die ons voorgingen

    Translated by Roelof Posthuma ...
    De opkomst en heerschappij van de zoogdieren van Steve Brusatte is een natuurhistorische reis van de proto-zoogdieren tot aan de moderne mens. Voor de lezers van Yuval Noah HarariDe jonge Amerikaanse paleontoloog Steve Brusatte - de Freek Vonk onder de dinokenners - is een grootheid in de moderne paleontologie. Na De opkomst en ondergang van de dinosaurus vertelt Brusatte nu het verhaal van de ... Read more

    $16.63 USD

  • Designer Genes

    A New Era in the Evolution of Man

    by Steven Potter ...
    This compelling new book covers the most important revolution since Darwin—how cutting-edge genetic science will soon allow us to speed up and transform our own evolution, and the moral choices we must make as we improve, alter, and even duplicate ourselves.The fact is that, until now, human evolution has been exceedingly slow. But there’s about to be a profound change in this process, with a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • La tecnologia che siamo

    Dalle scienze cognitive a "Black Mirror", da Marshall McLuhan a "2001 odissea nello spazio", una tesi innovativa sul rapporto dell’uomo con la tecnologia.Oggi affermare che viviamo immersi nella tecnologia sembra quasi una banalità. Ma sappiamo davvero di cosa stiamo parlando, oppure pensiamo allo smartphone, alla Apple TV e al computer? Attraverso un dialogo fitto tra le scienze cognitive più ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Megafauna

    Giant Beasts of Pleistocene South America

    Series series Life of the Past
    “An enjoyable read that provides a substantial amount of detail on the biology, ecology, and distribution of these fantastic animals . . . Highly recommended.” —ChoiceMore than 10,000 years ago spectacularly large mammals roamed the pampas and jungles of South America. This book tells the story of these great beasts during and just after the Pleistocene, the geological epoch marked by the great ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ancestor's Tale

    A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

    The renowned biologist and thinker Richard Dawkins presents his most expansive work in this revised edition that offers a comprehensive look at evolution.Loosely based on the form of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Dawkins's tale takes us modern humans back through four billion years of life on our planet. As the pilgrimage progresses, we join with other organisms at the forty "rendezvous points" ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • A Origem das Espécies

    “A Origem das Espécies” é votado como livro mais influente da história."É certamente verdadeiro que se vêem raramente aparecer num indivíduo novos órgãos que parecem ter sido criados com um fim especial; é mesmo o que demonstra o velho axioma de história natural de que se tem exagerado um pouco a significação: Natura non facit saltum. A maior parte dos naturalistas experimentados admitem a verdade ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Annals of the Former World

    by John McPhee ...
    Series series Annals of the Former World
    The Pulitzer Prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4.6 billion yearsTwenty years ago, when John McPhee began his journeys back and forth across the United States, he planned to describe a cross section of North America at about the fortieth parallel and, in the process, come to an understanding not only of the science but of the style of the geologists ... Read more

    $14.99 USD