Life Sciences - Evolution
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The Social Conquest of Earth
$18.99 Add to cartSparking vigorous debate in the sciences, The Social Conquest of Earth upends “the famous theory that evolution naturally encourages creatures to put family first” (Discover). Refashioning the story o… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Edward O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0871403633
- Language: English
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The Origin of Language: How We Learned to Speak and Why
$29.99 Add to cartIn a radical new story about the birth of our species, The Origin of Language argues that it was not hunting, fighting, or tool-making that forced early humans to speak, but the inescapable need to ca… [more below]
- Author: Beekman, Madeleine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 166806605X
- Language: English
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Hubris: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Humanity
$29.95 Add to cartHumans are the most intelligent beings this planet has ever produced. But how is it that we can travel into space, cure diseases and decode the fundamentals of life, and at the same time find ourselve
- Author: Krause, Johannes
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1509562613
- Language: English
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Sapiens [Tenth Anniversary Edition]: A Brief History of Humankind
$40.00 Add to cart- Author: Harari, Yuval Noah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0063422018
- Language: English
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Birds, Sex and Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications of Charles Darwin’s Strangest Idea
$30.00 Add to cart“Matt Ridley is one of our finest science writers. This book is a treat for bird lovers and evolutionary biologists alike.” –Richard Dawkins, author of The Genetic Book of The Dead and The God Delusi
- Author: Ridley, Matt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0063342987
- Language: English
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Sleeping Beauties: The Mystery of Dormant Innovations in Nature and Culture
$30.00 Read moreWhy do some of nature’s marvels have to wait millions of years for their time in the sun?
Life innovates constantly, producing perfectly adapted species – but there’s a catch. A TIMES AND TELEGRAPH B- Author: Wagner, Andreas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0861545273
- Language: English
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Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind
$20.00 Add to cart“Enthralling . . . breathtaking . . . Metazoa brings an extraordinary and astute look at our own mind’s essential link to the animal world.” —The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
“A great- Author: Godfrey-Smith, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1250800269
- Language: English
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On the Origin of Species
$21.95 Read moreAn instant bestseller in 1859, few books have had such a revolutionary impact and left such a lasting impression as On the Origin of Species. Possibly the most important and challenging scientific boo… [more below]
- Author: Darwin, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: November 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0565095021
- Language: English
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Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin’s Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives
$22.00 Add to cartWith stories that entertain as much as they inform, renowned evolutionist David Sloan Wilson outlines the basic principles of evolution and shows how, when properly understood, they can illuminate the… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, David Sloan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 26 2007
- ISBN10: 385340923
- Language: English
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Sapiens [Tenth Anniversary Ed]: A Brief History of Humankind
$27.99 Add to cart- Author: Harari, Yuval Noah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 006342200X
- Language: English
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Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature’s Toxins–From Spices to Vices
$19.99 Add to cartAn evolutionary biologist tells the story of nature’s toxins and why we are attracted–and addicted–to them, in this “magisterial, fascinating, and gripping tour de force” (Neil Shubin).
A deadly sec… [more below]
- Author: Whiteman, Noah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0316386677
- Language: English
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Genesis and the Big Bang Theory: The Discovery of Harmony Between Modern Science and the Bible
$17.00 Add to cartA ground-breaking book that takes on skeptics from both sides of the cosmological debate, arguing that science and the Bible are not at odds concerning the origin of the universe.
The culmination of a- Author: Schroeder, Gerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0553354132
- Language: English
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Why Size Matters: From Bacteria to Blue Whales
$16.95 Read moreJohn Tyler Bonner, one of our most distinguished and creative biologists, here offers a completely new perspective on the role of size in biology. In his hallmark friendly style, he explores the unive
- Series: Princeton Science Library #142
- Author: Bonner, John Tyler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0691254400
- Language: English
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Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
$19.00 Add to cartAn exciting and accessible new view of the evolution of human and animal life on Earth. From the author of national bestseller, Your Inner Fish, this extraordinary journey of discovery spans centuries… [more below]
- Author: Shubin, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 1101972688
- Language: English
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The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent
$27.95 Read moreThe untold story of a stunning discovery: not only can birds smell, but their scents may be the secret to understanding their world.
Winner of the PROSE Award for Best Book in Popular Science and Mathe
- Author: Whittaker, Danielle J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1421443473
- Language: English
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The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
$31.99 Add to cartBy the author of the acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, a “brilliant” and “beautifully told” new history of mammals, illuminating the lost story of the extraordinary family tree
- Author: Brusatte, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0063242087
- Language: English
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On the Origin of Species
$14.99 Read moreDesigned to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high q
- Author: Darwin, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1509827692
- Language: English
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Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies
$15.95 Add to cartAn “endlessly fascinating” (Michael Ruse) work of scientific thought and synthesis, Genesis is Edward O. Wilson’s twenty-first-century statement on Darwinian evolution. Asserting that religious creeds
- Author: Wilson, Edward O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1631496670
- Language: English
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Evolution: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartLess than 450 years ago, all European scholars believed that the Earth was at the center of a Universe that was at most a few million miles in extent, and that the planets, sun, and stars all rotated … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Charlesworth, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0198804369
- Language: English
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Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
$17.95 Add to cartWhere does DNA come from? What is consciousness? How did the eye evolve? Drawing on a treasure trove of new scientific knowledge, Nick Lane expertly reconstructs evolution’s history by describing its … [more below]
- Author: Lane, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 14 2010
- ISBN10: 0393338665
- Language: English
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