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  • Alfred Russel Wallace

    Letters from the Malay Archipelago

    Edited by John van Wyhe, Kees Rookmaaker ...
    This volume brings together the letters of the great Victorian naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) during his famous travels of 1854-62 in the Malay Archipelago (now Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia). it was these travels which led him to come independently to the same conclusion as Charles Darwin: that evolution occurs through natural selection. Beautifully written, the letters are ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

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  • Evolution

    The Triumph of an Idea

    by Carl Zimmer ...
    "This brilliant book is a virtual Voyage of the Beagle! Carl Zimmer shows, with the benefit of a hundred and fifty years of hindsight, how right Darwin was." —Steve Jones, author of Darwin's GhostDarwin's The Origin of Species was breathtaking—beautifully written, staunchly defended, defiantly radical. Yet it emerged long before modern genetics, molecular biology, and contemporary findings in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design

    by Jonathan Wells ...
    Darwin is an emperor who has no clothes— but it takes a brave man to say so. Jonathan Wells, a microbiologist with two Ph.D.s (from Berkeley and Yale), is that brave man. Most textbooks on evolution are written by Darwinists with an ideological ax to grind. Brave dissidents—qualified scientists—who try to teach or write about intelligent design are silenced and sent to the academic gulag. But fear ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar

    Evolution's Most Unbelievable Solutions to Life's Biggest Problems

    by Matt Simon ...
    **“A bizarre collection of evolution tales . . . the weirder, the better.” —Entertainment WeeklyA fascinating exploration of the awe-inspiring, unsettling ingenuity of evolution from Wired writer Matt Simon, author of Plight of the Living Dead (coming soon from Penguin Books)**On a barren seafloor, the pearlfish swims into the safety of a sea cucumber’s anus. To find a meal, the female bolas ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • How We Do It

    The Evolution and Future of Human Reproduction

    by Robert Martin ...
    Despite the widespread belief that natural is better when it comes to sex, pregnancy, and parenting, most of us have no idea what "natural" really means; the origins of our reproductive lives remain a mystery. Why are a quarter of a billion sperm cells needed to fertilize one egg? Are women really fertile for only a few days each month? How long should babies be breast-fed?In How We Do It, ... Read more

    $18.99 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 Domestic Dog

    Its Evolution, Behavior and Interactions with People

    Edited by James Serpell ...
    Why do dogs behave in the ways that they do? Why did our ancestors tame wolves? How have we ended up with so many breeds of dog, and how can we understand their role in contemporary human society? Explore the answers to these questions and many more in this study of the domestic dog. Building on the strengths of the first edition, this much-anticipated update incorporates two decades of new ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Unpredictable Species

    What Makes Humans Unique

    by Philip Lieberman ...
    The Unpredictable Species argues that the human brain evolved in a way that enhances our cognitive flexibility and capacity for innovation and imitation. In doing so, the book challenges the central claim of evolutionary psychology that we are locked into predictable patterns of behavior that were fixed by genes, and refutes the claim that language is innate. Philip Lieberman builds his case with ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Forerunners of Mammals

    Radiation' Histology, Biology

    Edited by Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan ...
    Series series Life of the Past
    An in-depth look at the origin and evolutionary radiation of the synapsids.About 320 million years ago a group of reptiles known as the synapsids emerged and forever changed Earth's ecological landscapes. This book discusses the origin and radiation of the synapsids from their sail-backed pelycosaur ancestor to their diverse descendants, the therapsids or mammal-like reptiles, that eventually gave ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Politically Incorrect Guide to Science

    by Tom Bethell ...
    "If the globe is warming, is mankind responsible, or is the sun?" Such a statement does not appear out of place in Bethell's entertaining account of how modern science is politically motivated and in desperate need of oversight. Bethell writes in a compulsively readable style, and although he provides legitimate insight into the potential benefits of nuclear power and hormesis, some readers will ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Becoming Undone

    Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics, and Art

    by Elizabeth Grosz ...
    In Becoming Undone, Elizabeth Grosz addresses three related concepts—life, politics, and art—by exploring the implications of Charles Darwin’s account of the evolution of species. Challenging characterizations of Darwin’s work as a form of genetic determinism, Grosz shows that his writing reveals an insistence on the difference between natural selection and sexual selection, the principles that ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Dealing with Darwin

    Place, Politics, and Rhetoric in Religious Engagements with Evolution

    by David N. Livingstone ...
    Series series Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context
    How was Darwin’s work discussed and debated among the same religious denomination in different locations?Using place, politics, and rhetoric as analytical tools, historical geographer David N. Livingstone investigates how religious communities sharing a Scots Presbyterian heritage engaged with Darwin and Darwinism at the turn of the twentieth century. His findings, presented as the prestigious ... Read more

    $35.99 USD