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Rereading the Fossil Record The Growth of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline
ISBN: PB: 9780226272948, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
440 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 42 halftones
Although fossils have provided some of the most important evidence for evolution, the discipline of paleontology has not always had a central place in evolutionary biology. Beginning in Darwin's day, and for much of the twentieth century, paleontolog...
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£26,50
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Haeckel's Embryos Images, Evolution, and Fraud
ISBN: HB: 9780226046945, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
392 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 202 colour plates, 2 tables
Pictures from the past powerfully shape current views of the world. In books, television programs, and websites, new images appear alongside others that have survived from decades ago. Among the most famous are drawings of embryos by the Darwinist Er...
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£34,00
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Darwin's Orchids Then and Now
ISBN: HB: 9780226044910, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 33 halftones, 14 line drawings, 14 tables
For biologists, 2009 was an epochal year: the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of a book now known simply as "The Origin of Species". But for many botanists, Darwin's true legacy starts with the 1862...
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£44,00
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Cultural History of Heredity
ISBN: PB: 9780226213484, ISBN: HB: 9780226545707, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 halftones, 9 line illus.
It was only around 1800 that heredity began to enter debates among physicians, breeders, and naturalists. Soon thereafter it evolved into one of the most fundamental concepts of biology. Here Staffan Muller-Wille and Hans-Jorg Rheinberger offer a suc...
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£47,00
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Evolution Myth or, The Genes Cry Out Their Urgent Song, Mister Darwin Got It Wrong
ISBN: PB: 9788024625201, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2014
150 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 20 halftones, 8 charts
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The origins of life, species, and man continue to interest scientists and stir debate among the general public more than one hundred and fifty years after Charles Darwin published "On the...
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£13,50
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Subjects of the World Darwin's Rhetoric and the Study of Agency in Nature
ISBN: PB: 9780226137636, ISBN: HB: 9780226137629, University of Chicago Press, June 2014
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing
Being human while trying to scientifically study human nature confronts us with our most vexing problem. Efforts to explicate the human mind are thwarted by our cultural biases and entrenched infirmities; our first-person experiences as practical age...
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£32,00
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£42,00
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Trilobite Book A Visual Journey
ISBN: HB: 9780226124414, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
288 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 235 colour plates
Distant relatives of modern lobsters, horseshoe crabs, and spiders, trilobites swam the planet's prehistoric seas for 300 million years, from the Lower Cambrian to the end of the Permian eras – and they did so very capably. Trilobite fossils have bee...
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£34,00
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Oldest Living Things in World
ISBN: HB: 9780226057507, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
170 pp., 25.4x27.9 cm, 120 colour plates, 5 halftones
"The Oldest Living Things in the World" is an epic journey through time and space. Over the past decade, artist Rachel Sussman has researched, worked with biologists, and traveled the world from Antarctica to the Mojave Desert in order to photograph...
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£45,00
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Plant Physics
ISBN: PB: 9780226150819, ISBN: HB: 9780226586328, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
448 pp., 23x15 cm, 9 tables, 44 halftones, 40 line illus.
From Galileo, who used the hollow stalks of grass to demonstrate the idea that peripherally located construction materials provide most of the resistance to bending forces, to Leonardo da Vinci, whose illustrations of the parachute are alleged to be...
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£32,50
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£52,00
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In Search of Mechanisms Discoveries across the Life Sciences
ISBN: PB: 9780226039794, ISBN: HB: 9780226039657, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 8 line drawings, 4 tables
Neuroscientists investigate the mechanisms of spatial memory. Molecular biologists study the mechanisms of protein synthesis and the myriad mechanisms of gene regulation. Ecologists study nutrient cycling mechanisms and their devastating imbalances i...
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£22,00
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£61,00
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