Evolution category: 1570 books
The Gap
The Science of What Separates Us from Other Animals
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
There exists an undeniable chasm between the capacities of humans and those of animals, but what exactly is the difference between our minds and theirs? In The Gap, psychologist Thomas Suddendorf provides a definitive account of what makes human minds unique and how this disparity arose. He proposes...
The God Gene
How Faith Is Hardwired into Our Genes
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2005
The overwhelming majority of Americans believe in God; this conviction has existed since the beginning of recorded time and is shared by billions around the world. In The God Gene, Dr. Dean Hamer reveals that this inclination towards religious faith is in good measure due to our genes and may even...
Does Altruism Exist?
Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
David Sloan Wilson, one of the world’s leading evolutionists, addresses a question that has puzzled philosophers, psychologists, and evolutionary biologists for centuries: Does altruism exist naturally among the Earth’s creatures? The key to understanding the existence of altruism, Wilson argues,...
Reflections on the Musical Mind
An Evolutionary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2013
What's so special about music? We experience it internally, yet at the same time it is highly social. Music engages our cognitive/affective and sensory systems. We use music to communicate with one another--and even with other species--the things that we cannot express through language. Music is both...
Sport
A Biological, Philosophical, and Cultural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Sports are as varied as the people who play them. We run, jump, and swim. We kick, hit, and shoot balls. We ride sleds in the snow and surf in the sea. From the Olympians of ancient Greece to today's professional athletes, from adult pickup soccer games to children's gymnastics classes, people at...
Meaningful Information
The Bridge Between Biology, Brain, and Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
The book introduces a radically new way of thinking about information and the important role it plays in living systems. It opens up new avenues for exploring how cells and organisms change and adapt, since the ability to detect and respond to meaningful information is the key that enables them to...
by Richard G. Buchanan, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2015
A mysterious secretive Foundation, perhaps middle European, has funded a project in a luxurious resort on a Caribbean Island where highly intelligent couples have been lured to come to begin the breeding of more intelligent offspring in a Eugenics program hoping to have a generation that has a statistically...
You
A Natural History
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
What are you? Obviously, you are a person with human ancestors that can be plotted on a family tree, but you have other identities as well. According to evolutionary biologists, you are a member of the species Homo sapiens and as such have ancestral species that can be plotted on the tree of life....
Life
The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
The newest addition to John Brockman’s Edge.org series explores life itself, bringing together the world’s leading biologists, geneticists, and evolutionary theorists—including Richard Dawkins, Edward O. Wilson, J. Craig Venter, and Freeman Dyson.
Scientists’ understanding of life is...
Who's Afraid of Charles Darwin?
Debating Feminism and Evolutionary Theory
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2005
Why should feminism and the biological sciences be at odds? And what might be gained from a reconciliation? In Who's Afraid of Charles Darwin? Vandermassen shows that, rather than continuing this enmity, feminism and the biological sciences—and in particular evolutionary psychology—have the need...
by Richard Hofstadter
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Social Darwinism in American Thought portrays the overall influence of Darwin on American social theory and the notable battle waged among thinkers over the implications of evolutionary theory for social thought and political action. Theorists such as Herbert Spencer and William Graham Sumner adopted...
by Sean B. Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2006
“A beautiful and very important book.”—Lewis Wolpert, American Scientist
For over a century, opening the black box of embryonic development was the holy grail of biology. Evo Devo—Evolutionary Developmental Biology—is the new science that has finally cracked open the box. Within the...
Origins
How Earth's History Shaped Human History
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
A New York Times-bestselling author explains how the physical world shaped the history of our species
When we talk about human history, we often focus on great leaders, population forces, and decisive wars. But how has the earth itself determined our destiny? Our planet wobbles, driving changes...
by JJ Semple
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2009
The backward-flowing method is a process with a beginning, a middle, and an end. And like any process, it has to proceed step-by-step in proper order, like a scientific experiment. The first step is to reverse the breath. Reversing the breath triggers step two: drawing the distilled seminal fluid...