Evolution category: 1570 books
Purpose and Desire
What Makes Something "Alive" and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed to Explain It
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
A professor, biologist, and physiologist argues that modern Darwinism’s materialist and mechanistic biases have led to a scientific dead end, unable to define what life is—and only an openness to the qualities of "purpose and desire" will move the field forward.
Scott Turner contends....
by Jim Davies
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Why do some things pass under the radar of our attention, but other things capture our interest? Why do some religions catch on and others fade away? What makes a story, a movie, or a book riveting? Why do some people keep watching the news even though it makes them anxious?
The past 20 years have...
by
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The question "Why are there so many species?" has puzzled ecologist for a long time. Initially, an academic question, it has gained practical interest by the recent awareness of global biodiversity loss. Species diversity in local ecosystems has always been discussed in relation to the problem...
The Fifth Miracle
The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
ARE WE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE?
In his latest far-reaching book, The Fifth Miracle, internationally acclaimed physicist and writer Paul Davies confronts one of science's great outstanding mysteries -- the origin of life.
Three and a half billion years ago, Mars resembled Earth. It was...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2004
Two of the greatest evolutionary events in the history of life on Earth occurred during Early Paleozoic time. The first was the Cambrian explosion of skeletonized marine animals about 540 million years ago. The second was the "Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event," which is the focus...
The Depths
The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Nearly every depressed person is assured by doctors, well-meaning friends and family, the media, and ubiquitous advertisements that the underlying problem is a chemical imbalance. Such a simple defect should be fixable, yet despite all of the resources that have been devoted to finding a pharmacological...
The Extended Specimen
Emerging Frontiers in Collections-Based Ornithological Research
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
The Extended Specimen highlights the research potential for ornithological specimens, and is meant to encourage ornithologists poised to initiate a renaissance in collections-based ornithological research. Contributors illustrate how collections and specimens are used in novel ways by adopting emerging...
The Long Tomorrow
How Advances in Evolutionary Biology Can Help Us Postpone Aging
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2005
The conquest of aging is now within our grasp. It hasn't arrived yet, writes Michael R. Rose, but a scientific juggernaut has started rolling and is picking up speed. A long tomorrow is coming. In The Long Tomorrow, Rose offers us a delightfully written account of the modern science of aging, spiced...
Hormonal
The Hidden Intelligence of Hormones -- How They Drive Desire, Shape Relationships, Influence Our Choices, and Make Us Wiser
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
The hidden intelligence of hormones and their role in empowering women to succeed sexually, reproductively, and socially.
Did you know women walk more, eat less, socialize more, meet more men, dance more, and flirt more when they're ovulating? Or that PMS may have evolved to get rid of boyfriends...
Summary of Super Genes
by Deepak Chopra & Rudolph Tanzi | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Summary of Super Genes by Deepak Chopra & Rudolph Tanzi | Includes Analysis Preview: Super Genes by Deepak Chopra and Rudolph Tanzi is a scientific and spiritual overview of epigenetics, a field that studies the environmental factors that change the expression of genes. For...
Minds Make Societies
How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
A watershed book that masterfully integrates insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and more to explore the development and workings of human societies
“There is no good reason why human societies should not be described and explained with the same precision...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
Converging evidence from disciplines including sociobiology, evolutionary psychology and human biology forces us to adopt a new idea of what it means to be a human. As cherished concepts such as free will, naïve realism, humans as creation's crowning glory fall and our moral roots in ape group dynamics...
Fundamentals of Microbiome Science
How Microbes Shape Animal Biology
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
An essential introduction to microbiome science, a new cutting-edge discipline that is transforming the life sciences
This book provides an accessible and authoritative guide to the fundamental principles of microbiome science, an exciting and fast-emerging new discipline that is reshaping...
Out of Eden
The Surprising Consequences of Polygamy
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
In this changing world of what is socially and politically "correct," polygamy is perhaps the last great taboo. Over the last thousand years, monogamy - at least in name - has been the default setting for coupledom and procreation in the Western world. And yet, throughout history, there have been...