Evolution category: 1570 books
by Stephen Jay Gould
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
"Gould is a natural writer; he has something to say and the inclination and skill with which to say it."—P. B. Medawar, New York Review of Books
With sales of well over one million copies in North America alone, the commercial success of Gould's books now matches their critical...
Darwin's Doubt
The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
When Charles Darwin finished The Origin of Species, he thought that he had explained every clue, but one. Though his theory could explain many facts, Darwin knew that there was a significant event in the history of life that his theory did not explain. During this event, the “Cambrian explosion,”...
Rereading the Fossil Record
The Growth of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Rereading the Fossil Record presents the first-ever historical account of the origin, rise, and importance of paleobiology, from the mid-nineteenth century to the late 1980s. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, David Sepkoski shows how the movement was conceived and promoted by a small but...
by Jeremy Narby
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 1999
This adventure in science and imagination, which the Medical Tribune said might herald "a Copernican revolution for the life sciences," leads the reader through unexplored jungles and uncharted aspects of mind to the heart of knowledge.In a first-person narrative of scientific discovery...
¡Hay un dinosaurio en mi sopa!
Una guía rápida sobre evolución biológica
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 19, 2015
¡Hay un dinosaurio en mi sopa! nos guía por la evolución de los seres vivos con una acertada mezcla de información sobre procesos evolutivos, temas históricos y asuntos culturales. Sus 62 brevísimos capítulos presentan la biología evolutiva para un público amplio, con la precisión del científico...
Big History
From the Big Bang to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
“This exciting saga crosses space and time to illustrate how humans, born of stardust, were shaped—and how they in turn shaped the world we know today.” —Publishers Weekly
This book offers “world history on a grand scale”—pulling back for a wider view and putting the relatively...
by Walter Alvarez
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
"A thrilling synthesis from a brilliant scientist who discovered one of the most important chapters in our history." —Sean B. Carroll
Big History, the field that integrates traditional historical scholarship with scientific insights to study the full sweep of our universe, has so...
by Ann Gibbons
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2007
In this dynamic account, award-winning science writer Ann Gibbons chronicles an extraordinary quest to answer the most primal of questions: When and where was the dawn of humankind?Following four intensely competitive international teams of scientists in a heated race to find the “missing link”–the...
Beaks, Bones and Bird Songs
How the Struggle for Survival Has Shaped Birds and Their Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
“Reveals the strange and wondrous adaptations birds rely on to get by.” —National Audubon Society
When we see a bird flying from branch to branch happily chirping, it is easy to imagine they lead a simple life of freedom, flight, and feathers. What we don’t see is the arduous, life-threatening...
by Ann Druyan, Carl Sagan
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
"Dazzling...A feast. Absorbing and elegantly written, it tells of theorigins of life on earth, describes its variety and charaacter, and culminates in a discussion of human nature and teh complex traces ofhumankind's evolutionary past...It is an amazing story masterfully told."
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by Isuru Abeysinghe
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2012
Examines the application of genetic algorithms in order to solve technical problems. Provides a working case study of a robotic spider and how it can learn to walk without being instructed in physics or explicitly programmed to perform that function.
Cro-Magnon
How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
A Los Angeles Times Bestseller
New York Times best-selling author Brian Fagan explores the world of the Cro-Magnons--the mysterious, little-known race, famous for its cave paintings, that survived the Ice Age and became the ancestors of today's humans.
They survived by their wits in...
by William H. Calvin
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
A Journey from the Big Bang to the Big Brain. "Parallel journeys of mind-boggling proportions a 225-mile raft tour of river runners, and an expertly guided trip back through time to trace our origins. As the author explores such natural wonders as fossils, waterfalls, rapids and stars, he visits nearly...
Last Ape Standing
The Seven-Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Over the past 150 years scientists have discovered evidence that at least twenty-seven species of humans evolved on planet Earth. These weren't simply variations on apes, but upright-walking humans who lived side by side, competing, cooperating, sometimes even mating with our direct ancestors. Why...