Born of Ice and Fire
How Glaciers and Volcanoes (with a Pinch of Salt) Drove Animal Evolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300242591,
Yale University Press,
January 2024
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 27 black&white illus.
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 27 black&white illus.
An exploration of how the Cryogenian Period, when our planet was covered in ice for millions of years, created today's remarkable biodiversity.
More than half a billion years ago, our world was completely covered by glaciers, a "Snowball Earth" tha...
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£20.00
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Curious Species
How Animals Made Natural History
ISBN: HB: 9780300266184,
Yale University Press,
January 2024
328 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 14 colour illus., 65 black&white illus.
328 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 14 colour illus., 65 black&white illus.
A compelling and innovative exploration of how animals shaped the field of natural history and its ecological afterlives.
Can corals build worlds? Do rattlesnakes enchant? What is a raccoon, and what might it know? Animals and the questions they ra...
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£30.00
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Unity of Science
Exploring Our Universe, from the Big Bang to the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: HB: 9780300253610,
Yale University Press,
January 2024
376 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 74 black&white illus.
376 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 74 black&white illus.
A journey guided by science that explores the universe, the earth, and the story of life.
For Irwin Shapiro, science starts with questions. This book provides a broad and entertaining survey of major scientific discoveries that have changed our vie...
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Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider
How Scientific Names Celebrate Adventurers, Heroes, and Even a Few Scoundrels
ISBN: HB: 9780300238280,
Yale University Press,
May 2020
256 pp., 20,9x13,9 cm, 25 black&white illus.
256 pp., 20,9x13,9 cm, 25 black&white illus.
Ever since Carl Linnaeus's binomial system of scientific names was adopted in the eighteenth century, scientists have been eponymously naming organisms in ways that both honor and vilify their namesakes. This charming, informative, and accessible his...
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£22.50
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True Creator of Everything
How the Human Brain Shaped the Universe as We Know It
ISBN: HB: 9780300244632,
Yale University Press,
February 2020
376 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 39 black&white illus.
376 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 39 black&white illus.
Renowned neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis introduces readers to a revolutionary new theory of how the human brain evolved to become an organic computer without rival in the known universe. Nicolelis undertakes the first attempt to explain the entirety...
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On the Backs of Tortoises
Darwin, the Galapagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden
ISBN: HB: 9780300232745,
Yale University Press,
January 2020
336 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
336 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
The Galapagos archipelago is often viewed as a last foothold of pristine nature. For sixty years, conservationists have worked to restore this evolutionary Eden after centuries of exploitation at the hands of pirates, whalers, and island settlers. Th...
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£22.50
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Why We Believe
Evolution and the Human Way of Being
ISBN: HB: 9780300243994,
Yale University Press,
January 2020
280 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 8 black&white illus.
280 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 8 black&white illus.
Why are so many humans religious? Why do we daydream, imagine, and hope? Philosophers, theologians, social scientists, and historians have offered explanations for centuries, but their accounts often ignore or even avoid human evolution. Evolutionary...
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Nature Strange and Beautiful
How Living Beings Evolved and Made the Earth a Home
ISBN: HB: 9780300244625,
Yale University Press,
October 2019
304 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 65 colour illus., 70 black&white illus.
304 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 65 colour illus., 70 black&white illus.
A beautifully written exploration of how cooperation shaped life on earth, from its single-celled beginnings to complex human societies.
In this rich, wide-ranging, beautifully illustrated volume, Egbert Leigh explores the results of billions of ye...
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£22.50
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Where Are We Heading?
The Evolution of Humans and Things
ISBN: HB: 9780300204094,
Yale University Press,
October 2018
200 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 20 black&white illus.
200 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 20 black&white illus.
In this engaging exploration, archaeologist Ian Hodder departs from the two prevailing modes of thought about human evolution: the older idea of constant advancement toward a civilized ideal and the newer one of a directionless process of natural sel...
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£22.50
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Man the Footballer - Homo Passiens
The Missing Link in Human Evolution
ISBN: PB: 9781782551560,
Bookport,
Meyer & Meyer Sport,
September 2018
352 pp., 21,0x14,7 cm, 35 colour and black&white illus.
352 pp., 21,0x14,7 cm, 35 colour and black&white illus.
In this book you will discover the truth—that Homo passiens is the missing link in human evolution. That Homo sapiens is a recently arrived imposter in the evolution of the genus Homo—a charlatan, a fraud, a villain, a quack! That all the academic st...
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£12.95
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