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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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Dazzled and Deceived Mimicry and Camouflage
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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£10,99
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Knowledge and Representation
ISBN: PB: 9781575866307, ISBN: HB: 9781575866314, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, September 2011
242 pp., 23x15 cm
This compilation of cutting-edge philosophical and scientific research comprises a survey of recent neuroscientific research on representational systems in animals and humans. Representational systems provide their owners with useful information abou...
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£24,00
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£56,00
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Comparative Approach in Evolutionary Anthropology and Biology
ISBN: PB: 9780226608990, ISBN: HB: 9780226608983, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
424 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 tables, 20 halftones, 111 line illus.
Comparison is fundamental to evolutionary anthropology. When scientists study chimpanzee cognition, for example, they compare chimp performance on cognitive tasks to the performance of human children on the same tasks. And when new fossils are found,...
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£37,00
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£120,00
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First in Line Tracing Our Ape Ancestry
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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£16,00
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Ecology and Evolution of Poeciliid Fishes
ISBN: HB: 9780226222745, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
472 pp., 28x22 cm, 54 maps, 25 tables, 34 line illus.
The history of biology is populated by numerous model species or organisms. But few vertebrate groups have aided evolutionary and ecological research more than the live-bearing fishes of the family Poeciliidae. Found throughout tropical and subtropic...
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£74,00
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Evidence for Evolution
ISBN: PB: 9780226723822, ISBN: HB: 9780226723808, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
128 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 3 tables, 27 line illus.
According to polling data, most Americans doubt that evolution is a real phenomenon. And it's no wonder that so many are skeptical: many of today's biology courses and textbooks dwell on the mechanisms of evolution – natural selection, genetic drift,...
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£18,00
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£42,00
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Darwin's Finches Readings in the Evolution of a Scientific Paradigm
ISBN: PB: 9780226157719, ISBN: HB: 9780226157702, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
512 pp., 25x15 cm, 31 tables, 34 halftones, 70 line illus.
Two species come to mind when one thinks of the Galapagos Islands – the giant tortoises and Darwin's fabled finches. While not as immediately captivating as the tortoises, these little brown songbirds and their beaks have become one of the most famil...
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£47,00
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£120,00
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Essential Naturalist Timeless Readings in Natural History
ISBN: PB: 9780226305707, ISBN: HB: 9780226305691, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
552 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 39 tables, 4 halftones, 18 line illus.
Like nearly every area of scholarly inquiry today, the biological sciences are broken into increasingly narrow fields and subfields, its practitioners divided into ecologists, evolutionary biologists, taxonomists, paleontologists, and much more. But...
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£34,50
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£116,50
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Banquet at Delmonico's The Gilded Age and the Triumph of Evolution in America
ISBN: PB: 9780226893846, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
400 pp., 22.8x15.8 cm
In "Banquet at Delmonico's", Barry Werth draws readers inside the circle of intellectuals, scientists, politicians, businessmen, and clergymen who brought Charles Darwin's controversial ideas to post-Civil-War America. Each chapter is dedicated to a...
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