Evolution category: 1570 books
The Animal in the Secret World of Darwin
Human Nature and the Third-Cause Axiom
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
Scientist Charles Darwin discretely opened the possibility of a purely animalistic origin for the human species. He repeatedly insisted that the differences between humans and others were a question of degree only. Sciences were, however, taken in the opposite direction, where these differences cannot...
The Altruism Equation
Seven Scientists Search for the Origins of Goodness
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2011
In a world supposedly governed by ruthless survival of the fittest, why do we see acts of goodness in both animals and humans? This problem plagued Charles Darwin in the 1850s as he developed his theory of evolution through natural selection. Indeed, Darwin worried that the goodness he observed in...
After Eden
The Evolution of Human Domination
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2006
When did the human species turn against the planet that we depend on for survival? Human industry and consumption of resources have altered the climate, polluted the water and soil, destroyed ecosystems, and rendered many species extinct, vastly increasing the likelihood of an ecological catastrophe....
How We Do It
The Evolution and Future of Human Reproduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Despite our seemingly endless fascination with sex and parenting, the origins of our reproductive lives remain a mystery. Why are a quarter of a billion sperm cells needed to fertilize one egg? Are women really fertile for only a few days each month? How long should women breast-feed? In How We Do...
by Ron Cole-Turner
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Today’s science is changing the way we see ourselves. We know now that Neandertals were not primitive brutes but that they interbred with our ancestors. We also know that interbreeding between ancient human populations played a key role in shaping humanity today.The End of Adam and Eve grows out...
The Jehol Fossils
The Emergence of Feathered Dinosaurs, Beaked Birds and Flowering Plants
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2011
No other single volume reference to the Jehol site and its fossils exists and nowhere is there such a collection of fine photos of the fossils concerned. This book has pieced together the most up-to-date information on the Jehol Biota, a place that has shown the world some of the most astonishing...
Why Sex Matters
A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior - Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2015
Why are men, like other primate males, usually the aggressors and risk takers? Why do women typically have fewer sexual partners? In Why Sex Matters, Bobbi Low ranges from ancient Rome to modern America, from the Amazon to the Arctic, and from single-celled organisms to international politics, to...
by Alexander H. Harcourt
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
An innovative and illuminating look at how the evolution of the human species has been shaped by the world around us, from anatomy and physiology, to cultural diversity and population density.
Where did the human species originate? Why are tropical peoples much more diverse than those at polar...
The Drunken Monkey
Why We Drink and Abuse Alcohol
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Alcoholism, as opposed to the safe consumption of alcohol, remains a major public health issue. In this accessible book, Robert Dudley presents an intriguing evolutionary interpretation to explain the persistence of alcohol-related problems. Providing a deep-time, interdisciplinary perspective on...
Human Sperm Competition
Copulation, masturbation and infidelity
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Since the 1970s, behavioural ecologists and evolutionary biologists have been fascinated by the biological implications of sperm from different males competing for fertilization of the egg in the female reproductive tract. But until Human Sperm Competition there had never been a discussion of the phenomenon...
by Walter Parks
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
From the earliest days as thinking humans we have had many questions about life. We have had fewer acceptable answers. This is beginning to change as we are learning more and more about life and how it developed.
I grew up in the Bible Belt of Mississippi. We were taught that God created all...
The Mammalian Jaw
A Mechanical Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Mammalian skull structure is notably diverse; however at a basic level the jaw mechanism is remarkably similar, if not essentially the same, in the majority of mammals. Using simple models that are compared with real animals at every step, this book examines the basic structural features of the mammalian...
The Darwinian Tradition in Context
Research Programs in Evolutionary Biology
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
The main goal of this book is to put the Darwinian tradition in context by raising questions such as: How should it be defined? Did it interact with other research programs? Were there any research programs that developed largely independently of the Darwinian tradition? Accordingly, the contributing...
Creation
How Science Is Reinventing Life Itself
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
What is life?
Humans have been asking this question for thousands of years. But as technology has advanced and our understanding of biology has deepened, the answer has evolved. For decades, scientists have been exploring the limits of nature by modifying and manipulating DNA, cells and whole...