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House of Lost Worlds Dinosaurs, Dynasties, and the Story of Life on Earth
ISBN: PB: 9780300226928, Yale University Press, June 2017
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 97 colour illus.
This fascinating book tells the story of how one museum changed ideas about dinosaurs, dynasties, and even the story of life on earth. The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, now celebrating its 150th anniversary, has remade the way we see the wo...
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£16,99
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Biological Individuality Integrating Scientific, Philosophical, and Historical Perspectives
ISBN: PB: 9780226446455, University of Chicago Press, June 2017
400 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 2 tables
Individuals are things that everybody knows – or thinks they do. Yet even scholars who practice or analyze the biological sciences often cannot agree on what an individual is and why. One reason for this disagreement is that the many important biolog...
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£19,00
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Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection
ISBN: HB: 9780226436906, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
672 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 48 halftones
Darwin's concept of natural selection has been exhaustively studied, but his secondary evolutionary principle of sexual selection remains largely unexplored and misunderstood. Yet sexual selection was of great strategic importance to Darwin because i...
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£35,50
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Synthetic How Life Got Made
ISBN: PB: 9780226440460, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 halftones
In the final years of the twentieth century, emigres from engineering and computer science devoted themselves to biology and resolved that if the aim of biology is to understand life, then making life would yield better theories than experimentation....
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£26,50
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Messages from Islands A Global Biodiversity Tour
ISBN: PB: 9780226406442, ISBN: HB: 9780226406305, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 54 halftones, 2 tables
From a small island in the Baltic Sea to the large tropical islands of Borneo and Madagascar, "Messages from Islands" is a global tour of these natural, water-bound laboratories. In this career-spanning work, Ilkka Hanski draws upon the many islands...
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£26,00
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£80,00
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Zebra Stripes
ISBN: HB: 9780226411019, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 33 colour plates, 28 halftones, 55 tables
From eminent biologists like Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin to famous authors such as Rudyard Kipling in his "Just So Stories", many people have asked, "Why do zebras have stripes?" There are many explanations, but until now hardly any have...
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£36,00
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Monkeytalk Inside the Worlds and Minds of Primates
ISBN: HB: 9780226124247, University of Chicago Press, December 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones, 2 line drawings
Monkey see, monkey do – or does she? Can the behavior of non-human primates – their sociality, their intelligence, their communication – really be chalked up to simple mimicry? Emphatically, absolutely: no. And as famed primatologist Julia Fischer re...
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£19,00
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Future Humans Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300208719, Yale University Press, October 2016
240 pp., 21x14 cm
Are humans still subject to the forces of evolution? An evolutionary biologist provides surprising insights into the future of Homo sapiens In this intriguing book, evolutionary biologist Scott Solomon draws on the explosion of discoveries in recent...
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£20,00
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Chance in Evolution
ISBN: PB: 9780226401881, ISBN: HB: 9780226401744, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 5 line drawings
Humans, however much we would care to think otherwise, do not represent the fated pinnacle of ape evolution. The diversity of life, from single-celled organisms to multicellular animals and plants, is the result of a long, complex, and highly chancy...
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£36,00
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£94,00
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Evolutionary Theory A Hierarchical Perspective
ISBN: PB: 9780226426228, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 15 line drawings, 4 tables
The natural world is infinitely complex and hierarchically structured, with smaller units forming the components of progressively larger systems: molecules make up cells, cells comprise tissues and organs that are, in turn, parts of individual organi...
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£26,50
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