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Neil Shubin, a leading paleontologist and professor of anatomy who discovered Tiktaalik--the "missing link" that made headlines around the world in April 2006--tells the story of evolution by tracing the organs of the human body back millions of years, long before the first creatures walked the earth. By examining fossils and DNA, Shubin shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our head is organized like that of a long-extinct jawless...
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2023.
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English
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"In Eve, Cat Bohannon answers questions scientists should have been addressing for decades. With boundless curiosity and sharp wit, Bohannon covers the past 200 million years to explain the specific science behind the development of the female sex. Eve is not just a sweeping revision of human history, it's an urgent and necessary corrective for a world that has focused primarily on the male body for far too long. Bohannon's findings, including everything...
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"A model of scientific writing: erudite, witty, and clear." —New York Review of Books
In this Pulitzer Prize finalist and national bestseller, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists tackles the workings of the human mind. What makes us rational—and why are we so often irrational? How do we see in three dimensions? What makes us happy, afraid, angry, disgusted, or sexually aroused? Why do we fall in love?
...11) Noumenon
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Noumenon volume 1
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English
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2088. Humankind is at last ready to explore beyond Earth's solar system. Astrophysicist Reggie Straifer has discovered an anomalous star that appears to defy the laws of physics, and proposes the creation of a deep-space mission to find out whether the star is a weird natural phenomenon, or something manufactured. The journey will take eons. In order to maintain the genetic talent of the original crew, the voyage is undertaken by clones. But a clone...
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
xii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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Resistance to malaria. Blue eyes. Lactose tolerance. What do all of these traits have in common? Every one of them has emerged in the last 10,000 years. Scientists have long believed that the "great leap forward" that occurred some 40,000 to 50,000 years ago marked end of significant biological evolution in humans. In this original account of our evolutionary history, top scholars Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending reject this conventional wisdom...
17) Almost chimpanzee: searching for what makes us human, in rainforests, labs, sanctuaries, and zoos
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Publisher
Times Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
369 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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How are we different from chimps? Scientists have focused on the similarities between the two species, when in fact it is an understanding of their differences that can reveal "what, exactly, it means to be human." Cohen's survey spans investigations into the chimp genome, brain, and physiognomy,
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
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xiii, 233 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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English
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A lighthearted, illuminating tour of the physical imperfections that make us human seeks to explain the human body's counter-intuitive tendency to fall ill, break down and generate superfluous parts, exploring human evolutionary history as a virtual litany of errors and compromises that reveal how human intelligence has proven adept at maneuvering around the body's design flaws.
19) Humanimal: how Homo sapiens became nature's most paradoxical creature : a new evolutionary history
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Publisher
The Experiment, LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"Evolutionary theory has long established that humans are animals: Modern Homo sapiens are primates who share an ancestor with monkeys and other great apes. Our genome is 98 percent identical to a chimpanzee's. And yet we think of ourselves as exceptional. Are we? In this original and entertaining tour of life on Earth, Adam Rutherford explores the profound paradox of the "human animal." Looking for answers across the animal kingdom, he finds that...
20) Extinct humans
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Publisher
Westview Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
256 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 27 cm
Language
English
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