Evolution category: 1570 books
by Jack London
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2016
One might expect daring of Jack London, an author who has been gold-miner, sailor, frontiersman, adventurer; whose writing can no more be trite or commonplace than can the narrative of his own life history. But no fictionist ever dreamed of daring to attempt what Jack London has done here--to plunge...
Born in Africa
The Quest for the Origins of Human Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Africa does not give up its secrets easily. Buried there lie answers about the origins of humankind. After a century of investigation, scientists have transformed our understanding about the beginnings of human life. But vital clues still remain hidden.
In Born in Africa, Martin Meredith follows...
Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities
The causes of mass extinctions
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2005
This is a book about the dramatic periods in the Earth's history called mass extinctions - short periods (by geological standards) when life nearly died out on Earth. The most famous is the mass extinction that happened about 65 million years ago, and that caused the death of the dinosaurs. But that...
The Big Ratchet
How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
How an ordinary mammal manipulated nature to become technologically sophisticated city-dwellers--and why our history points to an optimistic future in the face of environmental crisis
Our species long lived on the edge of starvation. Now we produce enough food for all 7 billion of us to eat...
by Stephen Jay Gould
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
"Lively and fascinating. . . . [Gould] writes beautifully about science and the wonders of nature."—Tracy Kidder
Over a century after Darwin published the Origin of Species, Darwinian theory is in a "vibrantly healthy state," writes Stephen Jay Gould, its most engaging...
by Jonathan Howard
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2001
Darwin's theory that our ancestors were apes caused a furore in the scientific world and outside it when The Origin of Species was published in 1859. Arguments still rage about the implications of his evolutionary theory, and scepticism about the value of Darwin's contribution to knowledge is widespread....
The Monkey's Voyage
How Improbable Journeys Shaped the History of Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
How did species wind up where they are today? Scientists have long conjectured that plants and animals dispersed throughout the world by drifting on large landmasses as they broke up, but in The Monkey's Voyage, biologist Alan de Queiroz offers a radical new theory that displaces this passive view....
The Well-Dressed Ape
A Natural History of Myself
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
**DID YOU KNOW THAT **
• we have more hair follicles than a chimpanzee
• a male boxer in top condition can punch with the force of a thirteen-pound mallet swung at twenty miles an hour
• the best human endurance runners can outlast a horse
• one odor above all is sexually stimulating to the...
Out Of Control
The New Biology Of Machines, Social Systems, And The Economic World
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be indistinguishable from living things.
by Ariel A. Roth
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Does God exist? This question simply will not go away-and science itself is providing the answer. Ariel A. Roth, scientist and Christian believer, examines key issues related to the "God question."
by Balfour Christian
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Cosmic Delusions examines the many fallacies surrounding modern science, particularly the claims of naturalistic evolutionary philosophy, and religion in general.Recent scientific data is causing many scientists to rethink their assumptions about the universe. A close and detailed examination of Earth’s...
Popularizing Science
The Life and Work of JBS Haldane
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
J.B.S. Haldane (1892-1964) is widely appreciated as one of the greatest and most influential British scientists of the 20th century, making significant contributions to genetics, physiology, biochemistry, biometry, cosmology, and other sciences. More remarkable, then, is the fact that Haldane had...
The Real Planet of the Apes
A New Story of Human Origins
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Was Darwin wrong when he traced our origins to Africa? The Real Planet of the Apes makes the explosive claim that it was in Europe, not Africa, where apes evolved the most important hallmarks of our human lineage—such as dexterous hands and larger brains. In this compelling and accessible book,...
Genes, Giants, Monsters, and Men
The Surviving Elites of the Cosmic War and Their Hidden Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Consider the possibility that the history of the human race is not as simple as what has been taught in classroom textbooks. Consider the possibility that the evolutionary scientific explanation for mankind has ignored critical facts that are buried deep within the fossils and mankind's DNA. Consider...