Evolution category: 1570 books
The Beak of the Finch
A Story of Evolution in Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
On a desert island in the heart of the Galapagos archipelago, where Darwin received his first inklings of the theory of evolution, two scientists, Peter and Rosemary Grant, have spent twenty years proving that Darwin did...
The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack
and Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
In his new book The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack, human paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall argues that a long tradition of "human exceptionalism" in paleoanthropology has distorted the picture of human evolution. Drawing partly on his own career—from young scientist in awe of his...
Eternal Ephemera
Adaptation and the Origin of Species from the Nineteenth Century Through Punctuated Equilibria and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
All organisms and species are transitory, yet life endures. The origin, extinction, and evolution of species—interconnected in the web of life as "eternal ephemera"—are the concern of evolutionary biology. In this riveting work, renowned paleontologist Niles Eldredge follows leading...
by Alfonso Borello
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
A Very Short Introduction on Evolution.And then came Homo Erectus―the upright monkey―and the Ducati Girl. The original theory on the evolution of man is still uncertain; evolutionists couldn't agree on the real face of all these homos, and after all this fuss, life seems to have started all...
Charles Darwin
Origins and Arguments
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
The publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859 was the culmination of more than 20 years of work by Charles Darwin, and the ideas he presented in it would lead to a fundamental change in the way we think about life on earth. Evolution was controversial at the time and now, as the bicentenary...
by Maria B. O'Hare
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
But Old Mr. Darwin wasn’t to Blame: The Little Book of Evolutionary "Quotes", as the title suggests and, the quotes should reveal, Charles Darwin wasn’t actually to blame for all that ensued in his name. In fact, he was actually quite Lamarckian in his view of evolution, as revealed...
Carnivoran Evolution
New Views on Phylogeny, Form and Function
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
Members of the mammalian clade Carnivora have invaded nearly every continent and ocean, evolving into bamboo-eating pandas, clam-eating walruses and of course, flesh-eating sabre-toothed cats. With this ecological, morphological and taxonomic diversity and a fossil record spanning over sixty million...
by Nicholas Nurston
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
This book sets out to provide answers to the following questions: Why are we here? Were we meant to die and what happens to us when we do? Is there a supreme, intelligent energy source in the universe, able to determine such things? People of all cultures have posed these questions for millennia!...
by Maria B. O'Hare
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
The Free version of scientific evolutionary "Quotes" and as the title and cover (a modern dolphin and an ancient seemingly extinct "marine lizard") suggests, and the quotes reveal, we may need to seriously re-examine our current understanding of descent with modification.
Bones, Stones and Molecules
"Out of Africa" and Human Origins
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2004
Bones, Stones and Molecules provides some of the best evidence for resolving the debate between the two hypotheses of human origins. The debate between the 'Out of Africa' model and the 'Multiregional' hypothesis is examined through the functional and developmental processes associated with the evolution...
Gaining Ground, Second Edition
The Origin and Evolution of Tetrapods
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Around 370 million years ago, a distant relative of a modern lungfish began a most extraordinary adventure—emerging from the water and laying claim to the land. Over the next 70 million years, this tentative beachhead had developed into a worldwide colonization by ever-increasing varieties of four-limbed...
by Anthony J. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
What is the best way to survive when the going gets tough? Hiding underground. From penguins to dinosaurs, trilobites, and humans, Anthony Martin reveals the subterranean secret of survival.
Humans have “gone underground” for survival for thousands of years, from underground cities in Turkey...
Snakes, Sunrises, and Shakespeare
How Evolution Shapes Our Loves and Fears
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Our breath catches and we jump in fear at the sight of a snake. We pause and marvel at the sublime beauty of a sunrise. These reactions are no accident; in fact, many of our human responses to nature are steeped in our deep evolutionary past—we fear snakes because of the danger of venom or constriction,...
The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being
Evolution and the Making of Us
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
'From your brain to your fingertips, you emerge from her book entertained and with a deeper understanding of yourself' Richard Dawkins
'A masterful account of why our bodies are the way they are . . . this book really shines . . . Roberts's lightness of touch is joyous, and celebratory' Observer
'Witty,...