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Evolution

Great Apes A Short History

Herzfeld Chris, Goodall Jane, Frey Kevin

ISBN: HB: 9780300221374, Yale University Press, February 2018
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.

This insightful work is a compact but wide-ranging survey of humankind's relationship to the great apes (chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans), from antiquity to the present. Replete with fascinating historical details and anecdotes, it traces...

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History

House of Lost Worlds Dinosaurs, Dynasties, and the Story of Life on Earth

Conniff Richard

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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Evolution

Future Humans Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution

Solomon Scott

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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Evolution

Crop Genetic Diversity in the Field and on the Farm Principles and Applications in Research Practices

Jarvis Devra I., Hodgkin Toby, Brown Anthony H. D., Tuxill John, Noriega Isabel Lopez, Smale Melinda, Sthapit Bhuwon, Samper Cristian

ISBN: PB: 9780300161120, Yale University Press, May 2016
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 82 black&white illus.

Based on twenty years of global research, this is the first comprehensive reference on crop genetic diversity as it is maintained on farmland around the world. Showcasing the findings of seven experts representing the fields of ecology, crop breeding...

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Evolution

Shaping Humanity How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins

Gurche John

ISBN: PB: 9780300216844, ISBN: HB: 9780300182026, Yale University Press, December 2015
368 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 163 colour illus.

What did earlier humans really look like? What was life like for them, millions of years ago? How do we know? In this book, internationally-renowned paleo-artist John Gurche describes the extraordinary process by which he creates forensically accurat...

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Evolution

Dazzled and Deceived Mimicry and Camouflage

Forbes Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780300178968, Yale University Press, September 2011
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 illus.

Nature has perfected the art of deception. Thousands of creatures all over the world – including butterflies, moths, fish, birds, insects and snakes – have honed and practised camouflage over hundreds of millions of years. Imitating other animals or...

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Evolution

First in Line Tracing Our Ape Ancestry

Gundling Tom

ISBN: PB: 9780300180176, Yale University Press, July 2011
220 pp., 21x14.8 cm, black&white illus.

Despite Darwin's bold contention in 1871 that the likely ancestor for Homo sapiens was an African ape, the scientific community hesitated for decades before accepting small-brained but bipedal walking "apes" from southern Africa as direct human ances...

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Genetics

Wetware A Computer in Every Living Cell

Bray Dennis

ISBN: PB: 9780300167849, Yale University Press, February 2011
280 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.

How does a single-cell creature, such as an amoeba, lead such a sophisticated life? How does it hunt living prey, respond to lights, sounds, and smells, and display complex sequences of movements without the benefit of a nervous system? This book off...

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Nature

Forest Primeval The Geologic History of Wood and Petrified Forests

Hickey Leo J.

ISBN: PB: 9780912532646, Yale University Press, August 2010
62 pp., 21x14 cm, 22 black&white illus.

Wood: perhaps no natural material has been used longer by man, and none seems more suited to human tastes and needs. Its properties are the result of a long evolutionary history as an integral part of the earth's forests. This story describes what it...

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Evolution

Darwin's Pictures Views of Evolutionary Theory, 1837-1874

Voss Julia

ISBN: HB: 9780300141740, Yale University Press, June 2010
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 63 black&white illus., 16 colour illus.

In this first-ever examination of Charles Darwin's sketches, drawings, and illustrations, Julia Voss presents the history of evolutionary theory told in pictures. Darwin had a life-long interest in pictorial representations of nature, sketching out h...

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