Evolution category: 1570 books

The renowned scientific method is surely but one piece of the story when it comes to being able to validate many of the realities of our world, much less a world unseen which can’t be directly observed or measured. Therefore, what sane person would not consider, for the purposes of demonstrating...

A multidisciplinary exploration of our human inclination to herd and why our instinct to copy others can be dangerous in today’s interlinked world Rioting teenagers, tumbling stock markets, and the spread of religious terrorism appear to have little in common, but all are driven by the same...

<"Expresado muy brevemente, Darwin sustanció con muy variadas evidencias la idea (que otros antes que él habían propuesto) de que las especies evolucionan, encontrando además un mecanismo que hacía plausible tal evolución; defendió que la vida es como un árbol, de cuyas raíces han...

Charles Darwin sentó las bases para una interpretación nueva del reino animal y vegetal y su historia pasada, presente y futura, demostrando que todas las especies provienen de formas anteriores. Su óptica científica, fuertemente cuestionada en su tiempo, condujo a la comprensión de que nuestra...

There’s no easier, faster, or more practical way to learn the really tough subjects Genetics Demystified offers an up-to-date, highly readable explanation of the basic principles of genetics, covering key topics such as human genetics, DNA, heredity, mutations, traits, chromosomes, and much...

A full executive summary of The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War and Genius as Written by Our Genetic Code by Sam Kean. This is not a chapter-by-chapter summary. Rather, the author takes an holistic approach, reorganizing and breaking down the content for easier understanding where...

Neil Shubin, the paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik, the “fish with hands,” tells the story of our bodies as you've never heard it before. The basis for the PBS series. By examining fossils and DNA, he shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins,...

A timeless and majestic portrait of Africa by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and the new novel In Paradise A finalist for the National Book Award when it was released in 1972, this vivid portrait of East Africa remains...

Moving away from his earlier belief in a short, catastrophic history of the Earth, this volume shows how Buckland envisages instead progressive change as the Earth gradually cooled as it was prepared for human occupation. Extinct creatures did not die out because they were poorly designed; God loved the dinosaurs and had adapted them to their various circumstances.

Every rock is a tangible trace of the earth’s past. The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks tells the fascinating stories behind the discoveries that shook the foundations of geology. In twenty-five chapters—each about a particular rock, outcrop, or geologic phenomenon—Donald R. Prothero recounts...

California has some of the most distinctive and unique geology in the United States. It is the only state with all three types of plate boundaries, an extraordinary history of earthquakes and volcanoes, and it has many rocks and minerals found nowhere else. The Golden State includes both the highest...

A book attacking the ideology of Richard Dawkins is invariably assumed to be a defence of religious faith. Nothing could be further from the truth in this case. This book equates faith with insanity. Instead, it argues that we live in the hyperrational reality of ontological mathematics. We attack...

What is life? Where do we come from and how did we evolve? What is the universe and how was it formed? What is the nature of the material world? How does it work? How and why do we think? What does it mean to be human? How do we know? There are many different versions of our creation story. This book...

The essay refutes or critiques the positions put forth in a YouTube video offering: Top 25 Creationists Fallacies by Extant Dodo Productions. A preface makes some slighting remarks against the late Christopher Hitchens, and against Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris, indicating motivation and fraud in...