Evolution category: 1570 books
Undeniable
How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Named A Best Book of the Year by World Magazine
Throughout his distinguished and unconventional career, engineer-turned-molecular-biologist Douglas Axe has been asking the questions that much of the scientific community would rather silence. Now, he presents his conclusions in this brave and...
How the Snake Lost its Legs
Curious Tales from the Frontier of Evo-Devo
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
How did the zebra really get its stripes, and the giraffe its long neck? What is the science behind camel humps, leopard spots, and other animal oddities? Such questions have fascinated us for centuries, but the expanding field of evo-devo (evolutionary developmental biology) is now providing, for...
Evolutions
Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
A brilliant lyrical exploration of how modern science illuminates what it means to be human, from the award-winning author of The Price of Altruism
We no longer think, like the ancient Chinese did, that the world was hatched from an egg, or, like the Maori, that it came from the tearing-apart...
Homo Deus - Summarized for Busy People
A Brief History of Tomorrow: Based on the Book by Yuval Noah Harari
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
This book summary and analysis was created for individuals who want to extract the essential contents and are too busy to go through the full version. This book is not intended to replace the original book. Instead, we highly encourage you to buy the full version.
Yuval Noah Harari, author...
Darwin Strikes Back
Defending the Science of Intelligent Design
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
The debate between proponents of Darwinism and those of Intelligent Design has reached the status of a full-scale public battle. With stories of qualifying statements about evolution in public school textbooks and the recent 70th anniversary of the Scopes Monkey trial in the news, the question about...
Why Is Sex Fun?
The Evolution of Human Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 1998
From the New York Times bestselling author of Upheaval, a fun and wide-ranging exploration of why human sexuality is so different from other animals', and how it made us who we are
To us humans, the sex lives of animals seem weird. But it's our own sex lives that are truly bizarre. We are the...
Cells to Civilizations
The Principles of Change That Shape Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2012
Cells to Civilizations is the first unified account of how life transforms itself--from the production of bacteria to the emergence of complex civilizations. What are the connections between evolving microbes, an egg that develops into an infant, and a child who learns to walk and talk? Award-winning...
Neurogastronomy
How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Leading neuroscientist Gordon M. Shepherd embarks on a paradigm-shifting trip through the "human brain flavor system," laying the foundations for a new scientific field: neurogastronomy. Challenging the belief that the sense of smell diminished during human evolution, Shepherd argues that...
Probably Approximately Correct
Nature's Algorithms for Learning and Prospering in a Complex World
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
We have effective theories for very few things. Gravity is one, electromagnetism another. But for most things—whether as mundane as finding a mate or as major as managing an economy—our theories are lousy or nonexistent. Fortunately, we don't need them, any more than a fish needs a theory of water...
The Maternal Factor
Two Paths to Morality
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2010
In this provocative new book, renowned educator and philosopher Nel Noddings extends her influential work on the ethics of care toward a compelling objective—global peace and justice. She asks: If we celebrate the success of women becoming more like men in professional life, should we not simultaneously...
by Derek Bickerton
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
How did humans acquire cognitive capacities far more powerful than any hunting-and-gathering primate needed to survive? Alfred Russel Wallace, co-founder with Darwin of evolutionary theory, set humans outside normal evolution. Darwin thought use of language might have shaped our sophisticated brains,...
Why We Lie
The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
Deceit, lying, and falsehoods lie at the very heart of our cultural heritage. Even the founding myth of the Judeo-Christian tradition, the story of Adam and Eve, revolves around a lie. We have been talking, writing and singing about deception ever since Eve told God, "The serpent deceived me,...
Stephen Jay Gould
Reflections on His View of Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
Considered by many during his lifetime as the most well-known scientist in the world, Stephen Jay Gould left an enormous and influential body of work. A Harvard professor of paleontology, evolutionary biology, and the history of science, Gould provided major insights into our understanding of the...
Denial
Self-Deception, False Beliefs, and the Origins of the Human Mind
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
The history of science abounds with momentous theories that disrupted conventional wisdom and yet were eventually proven true. Ajit Varki and Danny Brower's "Mind over Reality" theory is poised to be one such idea-a concept that runs counter to commonly-held notions about human evolution...