Evolution
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A History of Life in 100 Fossils
£16.99A History of Life in 100 Fossils
A fascinating history of life presented through the worldÃÃÃs key fossils, with specimens from LondonÃÃÃs Natural History Museum and the Smithsonian in Washington DC.
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A theory of everyone
£22.00A theory of everyone
Playing on the phrase ‘a theory of everything’ in physics, Michael Muthukrishna’s ambitious, original and deeply hopeful book, offers a unified theory of human behavior, culture, and society – a theory of everyone.
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Beautiful
£18.99Beautiful
All of nature is beautiful. This book shows how a variety of amazing creatures have evolved to look and behave the way they do. As humans, we like our animals to be cuddly and furry, or smooth and sleek. We shy away from those creatures that, to us, look odd. But we should drop those opinions – everything has evolved for a reason, and is perfect in its own way. Take a look at the vampire squid, or the duck-billed golden line barbel – both have evolved in interesting and amazing ways to find food, deter predators or attract a mate. Everything is perfect. Everything is beautiful.
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Death As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal
£14.99Death As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal
‘We would love to discover that each species has a biological clock in its cells, because, if that clock existed and if we were able to find it, perhaps we could stop it and thus become eternal,’ Arsuaga tells Millás in this book, in which science is intertwined with literature. The paleontologist reveals essential aspects of our existence to the writer, and debates the advisability of transmitting his random vision of life to a dieting Millás, who discovers that old age is a country in which he still feels like a foreigner.
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Eve
£12.99Eve
How did wet nurses drive civilization? Are women always the weaker sex? Is sexism useful for evolution? And are our bodies at war with our babies? Cat Bohannon answers questions scientists should have been addressing for decades. With boundless curiosity and sharp wit, she covers the past 200 million years to explain the specific science behind the development of the female sex.
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Evolution
£5.99Evolution
Wich an array of rarely published period prints from the Jennings Collection in Bath, and examples of the latest genetic research, this book asks some huge questions about life in the universe and is designed to interest general readers and students alike.
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From cells to ourselves
£16.99From cells to ourselves
How old exactly is the Earth? How do we know what was here before us? Are we still evolving? ‘From Cells to Ourselves’ is the story of the beginnings of life around 3.8 billion years ago, to the millions of species alive today, including humans. Learn about mythology giants who formed the Earth, analyse fossils, walk with the dinosaurs, join Charles Darwin on his exploration of the Galapagos islands and marvel at some of the random and bizarre acts that have shaped our world in this beautifully illustrated book.
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Game Theory
£8.99Game Theory
Games are played everywhere: from economics and online auctions to social interactions, and game theory is about how to play such games in a rational way, and how to maximize their outcomes. This VSI reveals, without mathematical equations, the insights the theory can bring to everything from how to play poker optimally to the sex ratio among bees.
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How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures
£10.99How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures
Every society in the history of humanity has lived with religion. In this book, evolutionary psychologist Professor Robin Dunbar tracks its origins back to what he terms the ‘mystical stance’ – the aspect of human psychology that predisposes us to believe in a transcendent world, and which makes an encounter with the spiritual possible. As he explores world religions and their many derivatives, as well as religions of experience practised by hunter-gatherer societies since time immemorial, Dunbar argues that this instinct is not a peculiar human quirk, an aberration on our otherwise efficient evolutionary journey. Rather, religion confers an advantage: it can benefit our individual health and wellbeing, but, more importantly, it fosters social bonding at large scale, helping hold fractious societies together.
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Infectious disease
£8.99Infectious disease
Where does disease come from? How is it transmitted from one person to another? Why are some individuals more susceptible than others? Marta Wayne and Benjamin Bolker address these questions through the lenses of ecology and evolution and illustrate why major diseases still threaten populations all over the world.
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Inheritance
£25.00Inheritance
The ancient inheritance that made us who we are. The ancient inheritance that is now driving us to ruin. Every human being is endowed with an inheritance: a set of ancient biases – forged by natural selection and transformed by cultural evolution – that shape every facet of our behaviour. For countless generations, this inheritance has been taking us to ever greater heights: driving the rise of more sophisticated technologies, more organised religions, more expansive empires. But now, for the first time, it is failing us. Suddenly, we find ourselves on a path to destruction. Here, a leading anthropologist offers a sweeping account of how our inheritance has shaped humanity’s past and future.
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Kings of their own ocean
£10.99Kings of their own ocean
This is a tale of human obsession, one intrepid tuna, the dedicated fisherman who caught and set her free, the promises and limits of ocean science and the big truth of how our insatiable appetite for bluefin transformed a cottage industry into a global dilemma.
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Living on Earth
£22.00Living on Earth
The eagerly anticipated conclusion to Peter Godfrey-Smith’s three-part exploration of the origins of intelligence on Earth, which began with the bestselling Other Minds in 2018 and continued with Metazoa in 2020.
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On the origin of species
£9.99On the origin of species
A new, popular edition with a clear introduction. Initially received with muted applause, Darwin’s The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection was soon recognized as the breakthrough scientific advance that explained the evidence of the world around us, the place and history of humans, the connections between environment and evolution.
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Sensational
£10.99Sensational
Our senses are at the heart of how we navigate the world. Whittling this high-powered and deliciously varied palette down to just five does a great disservice to the sensory experience, Sensational argues. In fact, we could have as many as fifty-three – and they could explain such mysteries as why we kiss, in what way music is a form of emotional currency, and how a dairy-rich diet strained initial Euro-Japanese relations. Ashley Ward embarks on a sensory expedition to answer all these questions and more. Why do women have a better sense of smell than men? Has the iPhone changed how we touch? Does the Danube really look blue when you’re in love? From the power of cuddling to what canine bowel movements can tell us about geomagnetic fields, Sensational is a surprising look at how our brains shape the way we interpret the world.
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The master builder
£12.99The master builder
What defines who we are? For decades, the biological answer has been our genes. Leading biologist Alfonso Martinez Arias breaks with decades of scientific and popular tradition to make a bold argument: what defines us is our cells. A sweeping revision of both the present and history of life, ‘The Master Builder’ puts forward a new paradigm for understanding biology, one rooted in cellular cooperation, not selfish genes. Engaging and ambitious, it will transform our understanding of where we come from, what shapes us, and where we are going, as individuals, a species, and the community of life itself.
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