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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 280 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of E.H. Gombrich, Stephen Hawking, and Alan Weisman-an entertaining and uniquely informed narration of Life's life story. In the beginning, Earth was an inhospitably alien place-in constant chemical flux, covered with churning seas, crafting its landscape through incessant volcanic eruptions. Amid all this tumult and disaster, life began. The earliest living things were no more than membranes stretched across microscopic gaps in...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xiii, 367 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Brian Hare, dog researcher, evolutionary anthropologist, and founder of the Duke Canine Cognition Center, and Vanessa Woods offer revolutionary new insights into dog intelligence and the interior lives of our smartest pets. In the past decade, we have learned more about how dogs think than in the last century. Breakthroughs in cognitive science, pioneered by Brian Hare have proven dogs have a kind of genius for getting along with people that is unique...
Author
Publisher
FT Press
Pub. Date
2011, ©2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xii, 516 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
The Logic of Chance offers a reappraisal and a new synthesis of theories, concepts, and hypotheses on the key aspects of the evolution of life on earth in light of comparative genomics and systems biology. The author presents many specific examples from systems and comparative genomic analysis to begin to build a new, much more detailed, complex, and realistic picture of evolution. The book examines a broad range of topics in evolutionary biology...
Author
Publisher
Marble Arch Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First Marble Arch Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
480 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This fascinating scientific foray into the animal kingdom examines how the world's creatures-- weird, wonderful, and everything in between-- are inextricably linked." -- Amazon.com
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 520 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, charts ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
For too long, scientists have focused on the dark side of our biological heritage: our capacity for aggression, cruelty, prejudice, and self-interest. But natural selection has given us a suite of beneficial social features, including our capacity for love, friendship, cooperation, and learning. Beneath all our inventions -- our tools, farms, machines, cities, nations -- we carry with us innate proclivities to make a good society. Christakis introduces...
56) More than Darwin: an encyclopedia of the people and places of the evolution-creationism controversy
Author
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 415 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
Language
English
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