Evolution category: 1570 books
Homo Deus
A Brief History of Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning...
The Sixth Extinction
An Unnatural History
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes
Over the last half a billion years, there have...
by Charles Darwin
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, published on Thursday 24 November 1859, is a seminal work of scientific literature considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. Its full title was On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races...
Life
A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
By one of Britain's most gifted scientists: a magnificently daring and compulsively readable account of life on Earth (from the "big bang" to the advent of man), based entirely on the most original of all sources--the evidence of fossils.
With excitement and driving intelligence, Richard...
The Journey of Man
A Genetic Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Around 60,000 years ago, a man—genetically identical to us—lived in Africa. Every person alive today is descended from him. How did this real-life Adam wind up as the father of us all? What happened to the descendants of other men who lived at the same time? And why, if modern humans share a single...
The Universe Within
The Deep History of the Human Body
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
From one of our finest and most popular science writers, the best-selling author of Your Inner Fish, comes the answer to a scientific mystery story as big as the world itself: How have astronomical events that took place millions of years ago created the unique qualities of the human species?
In...
The Age of Empathy
Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
In this thought-provoking book, the acclaimed author of Our Inner Ape examines how empathy comes naturally to a great variety of animals, including humans.
Are we our brothers' keepers? Do we have an instinct for compassion? Or are we, as is often assumed, only on earth to serve our own survival...
by Richard Dawkins
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 1997
A brilliant book celebrating improbability as the engine that drives life, by the acclaimed author of The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker.
The human eye is so complex and works so precisely that surely, one might believe, its current shape and function must be the product of design. How...
The Red Queen
Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Referring to Lewis Carroll's Red Queen from Through the Looking-Glass, a character who has to keep running to stay in the same place, Matt Ridley demonstrates why sex is humanity's best strategy for outwitting its constantly mutating internal predators. The Red Queen answers dozens of other riddles...
by Dacher Keltner
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2009
“A landmark book in the science of emotions and its implications for ethics and human universals.”—Library Journal, starred review
In this startling study of human emotion, Dacher Keltner investigates an unanswered question of human evolution: If humans are hardwired to lead lives that...
Lone Survivors
How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
A leading researcher on human evolution proposes a new and controversial theory of how our species came to be
In this groundbreaking and engaging work of science, world-renowned paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer sets out a new theory of humanity's origin, challenging both the multiregionalists...
by Frans de Waal
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
In this lively and illuminating discussion of his landmark research, esteemed primatologist Frans de Waal argues that human morality is not imposed from above but instead comes from within. Moral behavior does not begin and end with religion but is in fact a product of evolution.
For many years,...
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
A New History of a Lost World
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
"THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY," hails Scientific American: A thrilling new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists.
"A masterpiece of science writing." —Washington Post
A New York Times Bestseller • Goodreads Choice Awards Winner...
Our Inner Ape
A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
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It’s no secret that humans and apes share a host of traits, from the tribal communities we form to our irrepressible curiosity. We have a common ancestor, scientists tell us, so it’s natural that we act alike. But not all of these parallels...