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  • Beyond Sex Differences

    Genes, Brains and Matrilineal Evolution

    by Eric B. Keverne ...
    Recent developments in behavioural neuroscience and genomics are providing exciting new tools for understanding mammalian evolution. Drawing on a range of disciplines including genomic reprogramming, immunology, genomic imprinting, placentation and brain development, this book examines the leading role played by the mother's genome and epigenome in the successful evolutionary progression of humans ... Read more

    $85.29 USD

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  • The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry

    The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry

    by Bryan Sykes ...
    The national bestseller that reveals how we are descended from seven prehistoric women.One of the most dramatic stories of genetic discovery since James Watson's The Double Helix, The Seven Daughters of Eve reveals the remarkable story behind a groundbreaking scientific discovery. After being summoned in 1997 to an archaeological site to examine the remains of a five-thousand-year-old man, Bryan ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Science in the Soul

    Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist

    by Richard Dawkins ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The legendary biologist and bestselling author mounts a timely and passionate defense of science and clear thinking with this career-spanning collection of essays, including twenty pieces published in the United States for the first time.For decades, Richard Dawkins has been a brilliant scientific communicator, consistently illuminating the wonders of nature and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Most Dangerous Animal

    Human Nature and the Origins of War

    by David Livingstone Smith ...
    "Original and compelling insights into the human capacity for war . . . A must read for anyone interested in the psychological depths of human nature." —Barbara S. Held, author of Back to RealityAlmost 200 million human beings, mostly civilians, have died in wars over the last century, and there is no end of slaughter in sight.The Most Dangerous Animal asks what it is about human nature that ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species

    by Charles Darwin ...
    Charles Darwin was an English scientist best known for his contributions to the theory of evolution and his belief in natural selection. Darwin’s writings remain popular and influential in science today. This edition of The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species includes a table of contents. ... Read more

    $2.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Philosophy of Evolution

    by Rod Hemsell ...
    As presented here, The Philosophy of Evolution, is a compendium of lectures presented by Rod Hemsell at the University of Human Unity in Auroville in 2008, 2009, 2012 and 2013. The main thrust of Sri Aurobindo's yoga has always been toward an active participation in the human evolution and this is the defining concept which set Sri Aurobindo and the Mother apart from all others in the very ... Read more

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  • Sabertooth

    by Mauricio Antón ...
    Series series Life of the Past
    "A unique review of the many unusual and nearly worldwide occurrences of sabertooths and their relatives over more than 50 million years." — ChoiceWith their spectacularly enlarged canines, sabertooth cats are among the most popular of prehistoric animals, yet it is surprising how little information about them is available for the curious layperson. What's more, there were other sabertooths that ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Aspects of Human Evolution

    (CW 176)

    by Rudolf Steiner ...
    Translated by Rita Stebbing ...
    8 lectures, Berlin, May 29-July 24, 1917 (CW 176)How to Keep Your Soul Alive after Twenty-Seven This could have been the title of this book. The author shows that the natural development of the soul stops at around the age of twenty-seven. After that, nothing happens for our inner being unless we learn to make it happen. Part of the tragic nature of our time is that more and more people allow ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Your Body - The Fish That Evolved

    The Amazing Story of Man's Origins

    by Dr. Keith Harrison ...
    Keith Harrison has a PhD in zoology from the University of Nottingham. He is a former Senior Scientific Officer at the Natural History Museum in London and a former programme manager for the UK's Natural Environment Research Council. A Fellow of the Institute of Biology, the Geological Society of London and the Linnean Society of London, Keith's fieldwork has taken him to East Africa and South ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Not a Chimp

    The hunt to find the genes that make us human

    by Jeremy Taylor ...
    Humans are primates, and our closest relatives are the other African apes - chimpanzees closest of all. With the mapping of the human genome, and that of the chimp, a direct comparison of the differences between the two, letter by letter along the billions of As, Gs, Cs, and Ts of the DNA code, has led to the widely vaunted claim that we differ from chimps by a mere 1.6% of our genetic code. A ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • When the Invasion of Land Failed

    The Legacy of the Devonian Extinctions

    by George McGhee Jr. ...
    Series series The Critical Moments and Perspectives in Earth History and Paleobiology
    The invasion of land by ocean-dwelling plants and animals was one of the most revolutionary events in the evolution of life on Earth, yet the animal invasion almost failed—twice—because of the twin mass extinctions of the Late Devonian Epoch. Some 359 to 375 million years ago, these catastrophic events dealt our ancestors a blow that almost drove them back into the sea. If those extinctions had ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Prehension

    The Hand and the Emergence of Humanity

    by Colin McGinn ...
    In praise of the hand: A philosopher considers the crucial role of the hand in human evolution, particularly with respect to language.“McGinn is an ingenious philosopher who thinks like a laser and writes like a dream.”—Steven PinkerThis book is a hymn to the hand. In Prehension, Colin McGinn links questions from science to philosophical concerns to consider something that we take for granted: the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD