Evolution
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Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory
$20.00 Add to cart“I often said before starting, that I had no doubt I should frequently repent of the whole undertaking.” So wrote Charles Darwin aboard The Beagle, bound for the Galapagos Islands and what would argua… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Larson, Edward J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 08 2006
- ISBN10: 0812968492
- Language: English
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Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life’s Emergence
$29.00 Add to cartAn 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 consciousn- Author: Walker, Sara Imari
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0593191897
- Language: English
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Extinctions: From Dinosaurs to You
$26.00 Read moreA compelling answer to an important question: Can past mass extinctions teach us how to avoid future planetary disaster?
On its face, the story of mass extinction on Earth is one of unavoidable disas- Author: Frankel, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 29 2024
- ISBN10: 022674101X
- Language: English
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Is Earth Exceptional?: The Quest for Cosmic Life
$32.00 Add to cartA New York Times-bestselling astrophysicist and a Nobel laureate take us on “a mesmerizing exploration” (Jennifer Doudna) to discover how and where the universe breathed itself into life
For a long- Author: Livio, Mario
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 154160296X
- Language: English
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The Darwinian Trap: The Hidden Evolutionary Forces That Explain Our World (and Threaten Our Future)
$31.00 Add to cartA 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 ch… [more below]
- Author: Rönn, Kristian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0593594053
- Language: English
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Infinite Life: The Revolutionary Story of Eggs, Evolution, and Life on Earth
$29.95 Add to cartAn 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 b… [more below]
- Author: Howard, Jules
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1639367748
- Language: English
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The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie
$35.00 Add to cartFrom a renowned biologist and best-selling author, a whole new way of looking at living organisms: reading them as documents describing ancient worlds
An exquisitely camouflaged lizard has a desiccat- Author: Dawkins, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0300278098
- Language: English
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Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans
$31.00 Add to cartFrom 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 somethin… [more below]
- Author: Schutt, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1643751786
- Language: English
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Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
$18.00 Read moreA 1902 collection of essays by Russian naturalist and anarchist philosopher Peter Kropotkin. Originally published in “The Nineteenth Century” from 1890 to 1896, the essays examine mutually-beneficial … [more below]
- Author: Kropotkin, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0241355338
- Language: English
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First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human
$19.00 Read moreWinner of the W.W. Howells Book Prize from the American Anthropological Association and named one of the best science books of 2021 by Science News
“DeSilva takes us on a brilliant, fun, and scientific
- Author: Desilva, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0062938509
- Language: English
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Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition
$45.00 Read moreHailed as “one of the most significant books ever published,” this work of far-reaching vision is a comprehensive exploration of the evolution of human consciousness
In this tour de force of scholars- Author: Wilber, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: January 02 2001
- ISBN10: 1570627444
- Language: English
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Visual Timelines: Life on Earth: From the First Cells to the Modern World
$16.99 Add to cartWritten by award-winning author Anne Rooney, this highly visual full-color hardback by is a thrilling ride through the history of life itself, from the evolution of the very first cells to the conques
- Series: Visual Timelines #2
- Author: Rooney, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1398820695
- Language: English
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The Lizard Scientists: Studying Evolution in Action
$18.99 Read moreIn this groundbreaking, exceptionally researched installment of the award-winning Scientists in the Field series, discover how lizards rapidly adapt to life in the Caribbean islands, allowing scientis
- Series: Scientists in the Field (Paperback)
- Author: Patent, Dorothy Hinshaw
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0358381401
- Language: English
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Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story
$19.99 Add to cartAll of us are part of an old, old family. The roots of our family tree reach back millions of years to the beginning of life on earth. Open this family album and embark on an amazing journey. You’ll m… [more below]
- Author: Peters, Lisa Westberg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: April 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0152017720
- Language: English
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Unstoppable Us, Volume 1: How Humans Took Over the World
$14.99 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From world-renowned historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari, the bestselling author of Sapiens, comes an exciting, illustrated book for middle school readers that looks… [more below]
- Series: Unstoppable Us
- Author: Harari, Yuval Noah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0593711556
- Language: English
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Earth’s Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World
$16.95 Read moreAt once joyous and somber, this thoughtful gathering of new and selected essays spans Kathleen Dean Moore’s distinguished career as a tireless advocate for environmental activism in the face of climat… [more below]
- Author: Moore, Kathleen Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1640095306
- Language: English
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A Fortunate Universe: Life in a Finely Tuned Cosmos
$25.99 Add to cartOver the last forty years, scientists have uncovered evidence that if the Universe had been forged with even slightly different properties, life as we know it – and life as we can imagine it – would b… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Geraint F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 390
- Publish Date: March 26 2020
- ISBN10: 110874740X
- Language: English
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Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution
$21.99 Add to cartFrom evolutionary biologist Menno Schilthuizen, a book that will make you see yourself and the world around you in an entirely new way
*Carrion crows in the Japanese city of Sendai have learned to us- Author: Schilthuizen, Menno
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 125012784X
- Language: English
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Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought
$22.95 Add to cartBiological evolution is a fact-but the many conflicting theories of evolution remain controversial even today. When Adaptation and Natural Selection was first published in 1966, it struck a powerful b… [more below]
- Series: Princeton Science Library #61
- Author: Williams, George Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 30 2018
- ISBN10: 0691182868
- Language: English
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Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
$21.99 Add to cart“A dazzlingly erudite synthesis of history, philosophy, anthropology, genetics, sociology, economics, epidemiology, statistics, and more” (Frank Bruni, The New York Times), Blueprint shows why evoluti… [more below]
- Author: Christakis, Nicholas A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0316230049
- Language: English
