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  • Disputed Inheritance

    The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology

    de Gregory Radick ...
    A root-and-branch rethinking of how history has shaped the science of genetics.In 1900, almost no one had heard of Gregor Mendel. Ten years later, he was famous as the father of a new science of heredity—genetics. Even today, Mendelian ideas serve as a standard point of entry for learning about genes. The message students receive is plain: the twenty-first century owes an enlightened understanding ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Darwin in Ilkley

    de Mike Dixon, Gregory Radick ...
    When the Origins of Species was published on 24 November 1859, its author, Charles Darwin, was near the end of a nine-week stay in the remote Yorkshire village of Ilkley. He had come for the 'water cure' - a regime of cold baths and wet sheets - and for relaxation. But he used his time in Ilkley to shore up support, through extensive correspondence, for the extraordinary theory that the Origin ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Riddle of Organismal Agency

    New Historical and Philosophical Reflections

    Edición de Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda, Jan Baedke, Guido I. Prieto, Gregory Radick ...
    Series series History and Philosophy of Biology
    The Riddle of Organismal Agency brings together historians, philosophers, and scientists for an interdisciplinary re-assessment of one of the long-standing problems in the scientific understanding of life.Marshalling insights from diverse sciences including physiology, comparative psychology, developmental biology, and evolutionary biology, the book provides an up-to-date survey of approaches to ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Darwin's Argument by Analogy

    From Artificial to Natural Selection

    de Roger M. White, Gregory Radick, M. J. S. Hodge ...
    In On the Origin of Species (1859), Charles Darwin put forward his theory of natural selection. Conventionally, Darwin's argument for this theory has been understood as based on an analogy with artificial selection. But there has been no consensus on how, exactly, this analogical argument is supposed to work – and some suspicion too that analogical arguments on the whole are embarrassingly weak. ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Simian Tongue

    The Long Debate about Animal Language

    de Gregory Radick ...
    In the early 1890s the theory of evolution gained an unexpected ally: the Edison phonograph. An amateur scientist used the new machine—one of the technological wonders of the age—to record monkey calls, play them back to the monkeys, and watch their reactions. From these soon-famous experiments he judged that he had discovered “the simian tongue,” made up of words he was beginning to translate, ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Darwin

    Edición de Jonathan Hodge, Gregory Radick ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    The naturalist and geologist Charles Darwin (1809–82) ranks as one of the most influential scientific thinkers of all time. In the nineteenth century his ideas about the history and diversity of life - including the evolutionary origin of humankind - contributed to major changes in the sciences, philosophy, social thought and religious belief. The Cambridge Companion to Darwin has established ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

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  • Probably Overthinking It

    How to Use Data to Answer Questions, Avoid Statistical Traps, and Make Better Decisions

    de Allen B. Downey ...
    "A delightful exposition of commonly-encountered statistical fallacies and paradoxes and why they matter." —Samuel H. Preston, coauthor of Demography: Measuring and Modeling Population ProcessesAn essential guide to the ways data can improve decision making.Statistics are everywhere: in news reports, at the doctor's office, and in every sort of forecast, from the stock market to the weather. Allen ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Sing Like Fish

    How Sound Rules Life Under Water

    de Amorina Kingdon ...
    A captivating exploration of how underwater animals tap into sound to survive, and a clarion call for humans to address the ways we invade these critical soundscapes—from an award-winning science writer“Sing Like Fish is that rare book that makes you see the world differently.”—Mark Kurlansky, New York Times bestselling author of Salt and CodLONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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  • Mental Immunity

    Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think

    de Andy Norman ...
    " Mental Immunity is the perfect vaccine for the mind-viruses infecting our culture: alternative facts, fake news, and conspiracy thinking, to name a few." —Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine and author of The Believing BrainAstonishingly irrational ideas are spreading. Covid denial persists in the face of overwhelming evidence. Anti-vaxxers compromise public health. Conspiracy ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Bare Bones

    An Unconventional Evolutionary History of the Skeleton

    de Matthew F. Bonnan ...
    Series series Life of the Past
    What can we learn about the evolution of jaws from a pair of scissors? How does the flight of a tennis ball help explain how fish overcome drag? What do a spacesuit and a chicken egg have in common? Highlighting the fascinating twists and turns of evolution across more than 540 million years, paleobiologist Matthew Bonnan uses everyday objects to explain the emergence and adaptation of the ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • When the Earth Had Two Moons

    Cannibal Planets, Icy Giants, Dirty Comets, Dreadful Orbits, and the Origins of the Night Sky

    de Erik Asphaug ...
    This expert guide to plant formation and the origins of life "makes the solar system an even weirder and more wonderful place than it seemed before" ( Wall Street Journal).In 1959, the Soviet probe Luna 3 revealed an astonishing truth: the far side of the moon is an enormous mountainous expanse, completely different from the vast lava-plains on the side facing Earth. But why would the two side of ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

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  • Bird Brain

    An Exploration of Avian Intelligence

    de Nathan Emery ...
    Why birds are smarter than we thinkBirds have not been known for their high IQs, which is why a person of questionable intelligence is sometimes called a "birdbrain." Yet in the past two decades, the study of avian intelligence has witnessed dramatic advances. From a time when birds were seen as simple instinct machines responding only to stimuli in their external worlds, we now know that some ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD