Evolution category: 1570 books
by Michael Boulter
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
How long do humans have left on Earth? Using cutting-edge science that revolutionises our understanding of evolution, Michael Boulter explains how we may be closer to our own extinction than we imagined. Sixty-five million years ago the dinosaurs were destroyed in a mass extinction event that could...
The Improbable Primate
How Water Shaped Human Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Taking an ecological approach to our evolution, Clive Finlayson considers the origins of modern humans within the context of a drying climate and changing landscapes. Finlayson argues that environmental change, particularly availability of water, played a critical role in shaping the direction of...
The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis
The Most Credible Theory of Human Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Why do humans differ from other primates? What do those differences tell us about human evolution? Elaine Morgan gives a revolutionary hypothesis that explains our anatomic anomalies--why we walk on two legs, why we are covered in fat, why we can control our rate of breathing? The answers point to...
by Robert Coram
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
One might think that after thousands of years of wondering and several hundred years of scientific investigation, human beings would have reached broad agreement about how they, and other living organisms, arrived on planet Earth, and roughly when. But this is not the case. Many millions of people...
Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids
65 Million Years of Mammalian Evolution in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2005
Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids takes us on a journey through 65 million years, from the aftermath of the extinction of the dinosaurs to the glacial climax of the Pleistocene epoch; from the rain forests of the Paleocene and the Eocene, with their lemur-like primates, to the harsh landscape of...
Arrival of the Fittest
Solving Evolution's Greatest Puzzle
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
“Natural selection can preserve innovations, but it cannot create them. Nature’s many innovations—some uncannily perfect—call for natural principles that accelerate life’s ability to innovate.”
Darwin’s theory of natural selection explains how useful adaptations are preserved...
The Triumph of Evolution
and the Failure of Creationism
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
Eldredge presents the most up-to-date examination of the creation-evolution confrontation available.
by Asa Gray
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
This vintage book contains Asa Gray’s 1889 collection of essays on the subject of Darwinism. The articles champion the theory of evolution from a botanical standpoint, but also seek to reconcile Darwin’s theory with religion, which Gray did by making a case for theistic evolution – a marriage...
by Robert J. Richards, Michael Ruse
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2016
Charles Darwin is easily the most famous scientist of the modern age, and his theory of evolution is constantly referenced in many contexts by scientists and nonscientists alike. And yet, despite how frequently his ideas are evoked, there remains a surprising amount we don’t know about the father...
by David Snoke
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
The present creation-evolution debate is often cast as a choice between two positions: naturalistic evolution over millions of years or miraculous creation six thousand years ago. When simplified, this choice is often presented as one between science and the Bible, a choice that leaves much ground...
by Jack Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2012
Bullfighting is more than a bloody spectacle. It must be seen in a context going back to pre-history, and extending into our distant future. Biology, ecology, economics, evolution,and more. Our own nature is tied to the picture.
Evolving Ourselves
Redesigning the Future of Humanity--One Gene at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
“We are the primary drivers of change. We will directly and indirectly determine what lives, what dies, where, and when. We are in a different phase of evolution; the future of life is now in our hands.”
Why are rates of conditions like autism, asthma, obesity, and allergies exploding at...
Darwinian Sociocultural Evolution
Solutions to Dilemmas in Cultural and Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2010
Social scientists can learn a lot from evolutionary biology - from systematics and principles of evolutionary ecology to theories of social interaction including competition, conflict and cooperation, as well as niche construction, complexity, eco-evo-devo, and the role of the individual in evolutionary...
100 Million Years of Food
What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
A fascinating tour through the evolution of the human diet, and how we can improve our health by understanding our complicated history with food.
There are few areas of modern life that are burdened by as much information and advice, often contradictory, as our diet and health: eat a lot of...