Evolution category: 1570 books
Sapiens and Homo Deus: The E-book Collection
A Brief History of Humankind and A Brief History of Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Discover humanity’s past and its future in this in this special e-book collection featuring Sapiens—a reading pick of President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg—and its acclaimed companion Homo Deus.
The War of the Sexes
How Conflict and Cooperation Have Shaped Men and Women from Prehistory to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
As countless love songs, movies, and self-help books attest, men and women have long sought different things. The result? Seemingly inevitable conflict. Yet we belong to the most cooperative species on the planet. Isn't there a way we can use this capacity to achieve greater harmony and equality between...
There Is Still Time!
To Look at The Big Picture... and Act
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Irrefutable evidence makes it clear that we are headed for massive human misery as our planet's health rapidly worsens, yet we fail to respond in a rational, meaningful way. There Is Still Time shows us how we can fix this. We must look at the big picture. This means facing and dealing with the basic...
From Earth to Oblivion
The Passing of Humankind
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
From Earth to Oblivion: The Passing of Humankind is an account that describes the ultimate human predicament” and exposes its inevitable outcome. Dr. Ross E. Goodrich, a geographer, examines evidence that demonstrates why humankind cannot survive much longer on this planet. Our population is growing,...
Industrializing Organisms
Introducing Evolutionary History
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2003
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Jeremy Griffith
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
FREEDOM has its own very informative website: visit www.humancondition.com
The fastest growing realization everywhere is that humanity can't go on the way it is going. Indeed, the great fear is we're entering endgame where we appear to have lost the race between self-destruction and self-discovery―the...
by Charles Lyell
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2005
One of the key works in the nineteenth-century battle between science and Scripture, Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology (1830-33) sought to explain the geological state of the modern Earth by considering the long-term effects of observable natural phenomena. Written with clarity and a dazzling...
The Survival Game
How Game Theory Explains the Biology of Cooperation and Competition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
From a zoologist and psychologist, an astonishing look at the biological and strategic roots of human decisions
Humans, like bacteria, woodchucks, chimpanzees, and other animals, compete or cooperate in order to get food, shelter, territory, and other resources to survive. But how do they decide...
Beyond Biofatalism
Human Nature for an Evolving World
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Beyond Biofatalism is a lively and penetrating response to the idea that evolutionary psychology reveals human beings to be incapable of building a more inclusive, cooperative, and egalitarian society. Considering the pressures of climate change, unsustainable population growth, increasing income...
by Robert J. Richards
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is universally recognised as one of the most important science books ever written. The Origin of Species is also a work of great cultural and religious significance, in that Darwin maintained that all organisms, including humans, are part of a natural process...
by Joosr
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
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by John Krebs
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
In this Very Short Introduction, Prof Lord John Krebs provides a brief history of human food, from our remote ancestors 3 million years ago to the present day. By looking at the four great transitions in human food - cooking, agriculture, processing, and preservation - he considers a variety of questions,...
by Deirdre Barrett
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
A Harvard psychologist explains how our once-helpful instincts get hijacked in our garish modern world.
Our instincts—for food, sex, or territorial protection— evolved for life on the savannahs 10,000 years ago, not in today’s world of densely populated cities, technological innovations,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
This volume identifies the primary problems faced in conserving wild populations of gorillas throughout Africa, pinpointing new approaches to solving these problems and outlining the increased role that zoos can play in gorilla conservation. It includes the in-depth expertise of field scientists in...