Belonging on an Island
Birds, Extinction, and Evolution in Hawai'i
ISBN: HB: 9780300229646,
Yale University Press,
June 2018
320 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 23 black&white illus.
320 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 23 black&white illus.
This natural history takes readers on a thousand-year journey as it explores the Hawaiian Islands' beautiful birds and a variety of topics including extinction, evolution, survival, conservationists and their work, and, most significantly, the concep...
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42.50 GBP
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Feats of Strength
How Evolution Shapes Animal Athletic Abilities
ISBN: HB: 9780300222593,
Yale University Press,
May 2018
296 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
296 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
How is it that fish can climb waterfalls, snakes glide, and cheetahs run so fast? Natural and sexual selection has driven the evolution of diverse and amazing athletic abilities throughout the animal kingdom. Integrative biologist Simon Lailvaux draw...
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22.50 GBP
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First Domestication
How Wolves and Humans Coevolved
ISBN: HB: 9780300226164,
Yale University Press,
February 2018
344 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 25 black&white illus.
344 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 25 black&white illus.
In this fascinating book, Raymond Pierotti and Brandy Fogg change the narrative about how wolves became dogs and in turn, humanity's best friend. Rather than describe how people mastered and tamed an aggressive, dangerous species, the authors describ...
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37.50 GBP
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Great Apes
A Short History
ISBN: HB: 9780300221374,
Yale University Press,
February 2018
336 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 25 black&white illus.
336 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 25 black&white illus.
This insightful work is a compact but wide-ranging survey of humankind's relationship to the great apes (chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans), from antiquity to the present. Replete with fascinating historical details and anecdotes, it traces...
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22.50 GBP
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Future Humans
Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300208719,
Yale University Press,
October 2016
240 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm
240 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm
Are humans still subject to the forces of evolution? An evolutionary biologist provides surprising insights into the future of Homo sapiens In this intriguing book, evolutionary biologist Scott Solomon draws on the explosion of discoveries in recent...
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22.50 GBP
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Crop Genetic Diversity in the Field and on the Farm
Principles and Applications in Research Practices
ISBN: PB: 9780300161120,
Yale University Press,
May 2016
416 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 82 black&white illus.
416 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 82 black&white illus.
Based on twenty years of global research, this is the first comprehensive reference on crop genetic diversity as it is maintained on farmland around the world. Showcasing the findings of seven experts representing the fields of ecology, crop breeding...
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34.00 GBP
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Shaping Humanity
How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins
ISBN: PB: 9780300216844,
Yale University Press,
December 2015
368 pp., 25,4x21,6 cm, 163 colour illus.
368 pp., 25,4x21,6 cm, 163 colour illus.
What did earlier humans really look like? What was life like for them, millions of years ago? How do we know? In this book, internationally-renowned paleo-artist John Gurche describes the extraordinary process by which he creates forensically accurat...
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27.50 GBP
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First in Line
Tracing Our Ape Ancestry
ISBN: PB: 9780300180176,
Yale University Press,
July 2011
220 pp., 21,0x14,8 cm, black&white illus.
220 pp., 21,0x14,8 cm, black&white illus.
Despite Darwin's bold contention in 1871 that the likely ancestor for Homo sapiens was an African ape, the scientific community hesitated for decades before accepting small-brained but bipedal walking "apes" from southern Africa as direct human ances...
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17.00 GBP
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Wetware
A Computer in Every Living Cell
ISBN: PB: 9780300167849,
Yale University Press,
February 2011
280 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 23 black&white illus.
280 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 23 black&white illus.
How does a single-cell creature, such as an amoeba, lead such a sophisticated life? How does it hunt living prey, respond to lights, sounds, and smells, and display complex sequences of movements without the benefit of a nervous system? This book off...
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16.00 GBP
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Silent Gene
Theory of Evolution
ISBN: HB: 9780955464287,
Legend Times Group,
University of Buckingham Press,
February 2009
160 pp., 22,2x14,6 cm
160 pp., 22,2x14,6 cm
Charles Darwin wrote in "The Origin of Species" that "unless profitable variations do occur, natural selection can do nothing".
As Darwin recognised, natural selection reduces variation in favour of an optimum type. So, what is the true source of va...
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15.99 GBP
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