Evolution category: 1570 books
Island Life
Or, the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras, Including a Revision and Attempted Solution of the Problem of Geological Climates
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2013
Alfred Russel Wallace is best known as the codiscoverer, with Charles Darwin, of natural selection, but he was also history’s foremost tropical naturalist and the father of biogeography, the modern study of the geographical basis of biological diversity. Island Life has long been considered one...
Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms
The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
From one of the world’s leading natural scientists and the acclaimed author of Trilobite!, Life: A Natural History of Four Billion Years of Life on Earth and Dry Storeroom No. 1 comes a fascinating chronicle of life’s history told not through the fossil record but through the stories of organisms...
Trilobite
Eyewitness to Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
With Trilobite, Richard Fortey, paleontologist and author of the acclaimed Life, offers a marvelously written, smart and compelling, accessible and witty scientific narrative of the most ubiquitous of fossil creatures.
Trilobites were shelled animals that lived in the oceans over five hundred...
by Michael J. Benton
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2008
There are few stories more remarkable than the evolution of life on earth. This Very Short Introduction presents a succinct guide to the key episodes in that story - from the very origins of life four million years ago to the extraordinary diversity of species around the globe today. Beginning with...
The Origin of Darwinism
Charles Darwin and The Origin of Species
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
On 24th November 1859, Charles Darwin published 'On the Origin of Species'. His master-work laid down the theory of evolution by natural selection. In the century and half since publication, this theory has become firmly entwined with our instinctive view of how the planet's species came to be. It has...
by Bill Mesler, H. James Cleaves II
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
The epic story of the scientists through the ages who have sought answers to life’s biggest mystery: How did it begin?
In this essential and illuminating history of Western science, Bill Mesler and H. James Cleaves II seek to answer the most crucial question in science: How did life begin?...
The Emerald Planet
How plants changed Earth's history
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Plants have profoundly moulded the Earth's climate and the evolutionary trajectory of life. Far from being 'silent witnesses to the passage of time', plants are dynamic components of our world, shaping the environment throughout history as much as that environment has shaped them. In The Emerald Planet,...
The Origin Then and Now
An Interpretive Guide to the Origin of Species
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Charles Darwin's Origin of Species is one of the most widely cited books in modern science. Yet tackling this classic can be daunting for students and general readers alike because of Darwin's Victorian prose and the complexity and scope of his ideas. The "Origin" Then and Now is a unique...
The Cradle of Humanity
How the changing landscape of Africa made us so smart
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
Humans are rather weak when compared with many other animals. We are not particular fast and have no natural weapons. Yet Homo sapiens currently number nearly 7.5 billion and are set to rise to nearly 10 billion by the middle of this century. We have influenced almost every part of the Earth system...
Secret Chambers
The inside story of cells and complex life
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
In the follow up to Darwin's Lost World, Martin Brasier introduces the quest for the missing history of life and the cell. Through a series of journeys it emerges that the modern plant cell is one of the most deeply puzzling and unlikely steps in the whole history of life. Decoding this puzzle is...
Bringing Fossils to Life
An Introduction to Paleobiology
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
One of the leading textbooks in its field, Bringing Fossils to Life applies paleobiological principles to the fossil record while detailing the evolutionary history of major plant and animal phyla. It incorporates current research from biology, ecology, and population genetics, bridging the gap between...
by John Gribbin
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
UNRAVELING THE MYSTERY OF LIFE ON EARTHThe search began with Darwin's historic voyage on the Beagle and it continues today in the laboratories of the genetic engineers. How did life on earth begin? What is the key to evolution that insures only the fittest survive? How do we differ from...
by Alfonso Borello
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
A collection of short essays on Cosmology, Science and Evolution also published as singles under the titles: M-Could You Be on Another Dimension, War of the Currents, The Ducati Girl, Darwin, and the Pig of Nebraska.
by Denis O'Neill
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
A non scientific look at the evolution of the human species in all its forms. Giants to Mermaids, did we all evolve together?