Evolution category: 1570 books
Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?
And Other Reflections on Being Human
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Why do testicles hang the way they do? Is there an adaptive function to the female orgasm? What does it feel like to want to kill yourself? Does "free will" really exist? And why is the penis shaped like that anyway?
In Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?, the research psychologist...
by Rob Wesson
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
An acclaimed geologist leads the reader on an adventure through the landscape that absorbed and inspired Charles Darwin.
Everybody knows—or thinks they know—Charles Darwin, the father of evolution and the man who altered the way we view our place in the world. But what most people do not...
by Stephen Jay Gould
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2002
The world’s most revered and eloquent interpreter of evolutionary ideas offers here a work of explanatory force unprecedented in our time—a landmark publication, both for its historical sweep and for its scientific vision. With characteristic attention to detail, Stephen Jay Gould first describes...
The Three Failures of Creationism
Logic, Rhetoric, and Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Walter M. Fitch, a pioneer in the study of molecular evolution, has written this cogent overview of why creationism fails with respect to all the fundamentals of scientific inquiry. He explains the basics of logic and rhetoric at the heart of scientific thinking, shows what a logical syllogism is,...
by Rudolf Steiner, J. Leonard Benson
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1987
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1987
How to Keep Your Soul Alive after Twenty-Seven. This could have been the title of this book. The author shows that the natural development of the soul stops at around the age of twenty-seven. After that, nothing happens for our inner being unless we learn to make it happen. Part of the tragic nature...
Victorian Sensation
The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2003
Fiction or philosophy, profound knowledge or shocking heresy? When Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation was published anonymously in 1844, it sparked one of the greatest sensations of the Victorian era. More than a hundred thousand readers were spellbound by its startling vision—an account...
Darwin's Dogs
How Darwin's Pets Helped Form a World-Changing Theory of Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
If you have ever looked at a dog waiting to go for a walk and thought there was something age-old and almost human about his sad expression, you’ re not alone; Charles Darwin did exactly the same.
But Darwin didn’ t just stop at feeling that there was some connection between humans and...
Only a Theory
Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2008
A highly regarded scientist’s examination of the battle between evolution and intelligent design, and its implications for how science is practiced in America.
Body by Darwin
How Evolution Shapes Our Health and Transforms Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
We think of medical science and doctors as focused on treating conditions—whether it’s a cough or an aching back. But the sicknesses and complaints that cause us to seek medical attention actually have deeper origins than the superficial germs and behaviors we regularly fault. In fact, as Jeremy...
Dictyostelids
Evolution, Genomics and Cell Biology
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Since their discovery in 1869, the dictyostelids have attracted the attention of scientists in a wide variety of fields. This interest has stemmed from their peculiar lifestyle and developmental properties, which were shaped by the evolutionary forces that generated multicellularity during eukaryotic...
The Good Book of Human Nature
An Evolutionary Reading of the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
How reading the Bible as a work of cultural and scientific evolution can reveal new truths about how our species conquered the Earth
The Bible is the bestselling book of all time. It has been venerated--;or excoriated--as God's word, but so far no one has read the Bible for what it is: humanity's...
The Inner Bird
Anatomy and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Birds are among the most successful vertebrates on Earth. An important part of our natural environment and deeply embedded in our culture, birds are studied by more professional ornithologists and enjoyed by more amateur enthusiasts than ever before. However, both amateurs and professionals typically...
Darwin's Lost World
The hidden history of animal life
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
Darwin made a powerful argument for evolution in the Origin of Species, based on all the evidence available to him. But a few things puzzled him. One was how inheritance works - he did not know about genes. This book concerns another of Darwin's Dilemmas, and the efforts of modern palaeontologists...
The Ancestor's Tale
A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
With unparalleled wit, clarity, and intelligence, Richard Dawkins, one of the world's most renowned evolutionary biologists, has introduced countless readers to the wonders of science in works such as The Selfish Gene. Now, in The Ancestor's Tale, Dawkins offers a masterwork: an exhilarating reverse...