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Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose Natural History in Early America
ISBN: PB: 9780226639109, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones
In the years after the Revolutionary War, the fledgling republic of America was viewed by many Europeans as a degenerate backwater, populated by subspecies weak and feeble. Chief among these naysayers was the French Count and world-renowned naturalis...
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£14,00
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Man the Footballer - Homo Passiens The Missing Link in Human Evolution
ISBN: PB: 9781782551560, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, September 2018
352 pp., 21x14.7 cm, 35 colour and black&white illus.
In this book you will discover the truth – that Homo passiens is the missing link in human evolution. That Homo sapiens is a recently arrived imposter in the evolution of the genus Homo – a charlatan, a fraud, a villain, a quack! That all the academi...
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£12,95
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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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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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Metaphysics, Materialism, and the Evolution of Mind The Early Writings of Charles Darwin
ISBN: PB: 9780226136592, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
252 pp., 22x14 cm, 9 halftones
First published in 1974 as a companion volume to "Darwin on Man" by Howard E. Gruber, Paul Barrett's transcriptions of Darwin's M and N notebooks served to shed new light on the evolutionist's methods and motivation. According to Stephen Jay Gould...
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£24,00
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Man Is by Nature a Political Animal Evolution, Biology, and Politics
ISBN: PB: 9780226319100, ISBN: HB: 9780226319094, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 27 tables, 20 line illus.
In "Man Is by Nature a Political Animal", Peter K. Hatemi and Rose McDermott bring together a diverse group of contributors to examine the ways in which evolutionary theory and biological research are increasingly informing analyses of political beha...
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£28,00
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£80,00
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