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Shaping Humanity How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins
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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£25,00
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£38,00
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Coevolution of Life on Hosts Integrating Ecology and History
ISBN: PB: 9780226302270, ISBN: HB: 9780226302133, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 110 halftones, 3 line drawings, 4 tables
For most, the mere mention of lice forces an immediate hand to the head and recollection of childhood experiences with nits, medicated shampoos, and traumatic haircuts. But for a certain breed of biologist, lice make for fascinating scientific fodder...
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£34,00
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£90,00
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Body by Darwin How Evolution Shapes Our Health and Transforms Medicine
ISBN: HB: 9780226059884, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
We think of medical science and doctors as focused on treating conditions – whether it's a cough or an aching back. But the sicknesses and complaints that cause us to seek medical attention actually have deeper origins than the superficial germs and...
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£22,50
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From Eve to Evolution Darwin, Science, and Women's Rights in Gilded Age America
ISBN: PB: 9780226324777, ISBN: HB: 9780226134611, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones
"From Eve to Evolution" provides the first full-length study of American women's responses to evolutionary theory and illuminates the role science played in the nineteenth-century women's rights movement. Kimberly A. Hamlin reveals how a number of ni...
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£20,00
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£37,50
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Great Transformations in Vertebrate Evolution
ISBN: PB: 9780226268255, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
424 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 68 colour plates, 62 halftones, 14 line drawings, 12 tables
How did flying birds evolve from running dinosaurs, terrestrial trotting tetrapods evolve from swimming fish, and whales return to swim in the sea? These are some of the great transformations in the 500-million-year history of vertebrate life. And wi...
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£34,00
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Accidental Species Misunderstandings of Human Evolution
ISBN: PB: 9780226271200, ISBN: HB: 9780226284880, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 line drawings
The idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually has religious roots in the deist concept of the Great Chain of Being. Yet, the metaphor has lodged itself in the contemporary ima...
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£11,50
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£21,00
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Snakes, Sunrises, and Shakespeare How Evolution Shapes Our Loves and Fears
ISBN: PB: 9780226271828, ISBN: HB: 9780226003238, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 55 halftones, 1 line drawing
Our breath catches and we jump in fear at the sight of a snake. We pause and marvel at the sublime beauty of a sunrise. These reactions are no accident; in fact, many of our human responses to nature are steeped in our deep evolutionary past – we fea...
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£13,00
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£24,00
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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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