ledochowicz.com

Mammals

Evolution

Gruen Lori

ISBN: PB: 9780226355429, ISBN: HB: 9780226355399, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 figure, 1 table

Animal Studies is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field devoted to examining, understanding, and critically evaluating the complex relationships between humans and other animals. Scholarship in Animal Studies draws on a variety of methodologies t...

PB:

£25,00

QTY:

HB:

£74,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Evolution

Mammals

How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog) Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution

Dugatkin Lee Alan, Trut Lyudmila

ISBN: PB: 9780226599717, ISBN: HB: 9780226444185, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 17 colour plates

Tucked away in Siberia, there are furry, four-legged creatures with wagging tails and floppy ears that are as docile and friendly as any lapdog. But, despite appearances, these are not dogs – they are foxes. They are the result of the most astonishin...

PB:

£14,00

QTY:

HB:

£19,50

QTY:

add books to the list

Evolution

Why the Wheel Is Round Muscles, Technology, and How We Make Things Move

Vogel Steven

ISBN: PB: 9780226599687, ISBN: HB: 9780226381039, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 81 halftones, 64 line drawings

There is no part of our bodies that fully rotates – be it a wrist or ankle or arm in a shoulder socket, we are made to twist only so far. And yet there is no more fundamental human invention than the wheel – a rotational mechanism that accomplishes w...

PB:

£15,00

QTY:

HB:

£28,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Evolution

Archaeology & Paleontology

Across the Bridge Understanding the Origin of the Vertebrates

Gee Henry

ISBN: PB: 9780226403052, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 12 line drawings

Our understanding of vertebrate origins and the backbone of human history evolves with each new fossil find and DNA map. Many species have now had their genomes sequenced, and molecular techniques allow genetic inspection of even non-model organisms....

PB:

£19,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Evolution

Culture and the Course of Human Evolution

Tomlinson Gary

ISBN: PB: 9780226548524, ISBN: HB: 9780226548494, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings

The rapid evolutionary development of modern Homo sapiens over the past 200,000 years is a topic of fevered interest in numerous disciplines. How did humans, while undergoing few physical changes from their first arrival, so quickly develop the capac...

PB:

£19,00

QTY:

HB:

£56,50

QTY:

add books to the list

Evolution

Darwin's Evolving Identity Adventure, Ambition, and the Sin of Speculation

Sponsel Alistair

ISBN: HB: 9780226523118, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 colour plates, 27 halftones

Why – against his mentor's exhortations to publish – did Charles Darwin take twenty years to reveal his theory of evolution by natural selection? In "Darwin's Evolving Identity", Alistair Sponsel argues that Darwin adopted this cautious approach to a...

HB:

£37,50

QTY:

add books to the list

Ecology

Evolution

Hierarchy Perspectives for Ecological Complexity

Allen T. F. H., Starr Thomas B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226489681, ISBN: HB: 9780226489544, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 51 halftones, 28 line drawings, 2 tables

Although complexity surrounds us, its inherent uncertainty, ambiguity, and contradiction can at first make complex systems appear inscrutable. Ecosystems, for instance, are nonlinear, self-organizing, seemingly chaotic structures in which individuals...

PB:

£35,50

QTY:

HB:

£94,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Evolution

Planet of Microbes The Perils and Potential of Earth's Essential Life Forms

Anton Ted

ISBN: HB: 9780226353944, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

We live in a time of unprecedented scientific knowledge about the origins of life on Earth. But if we want to grasp the big picture, we have to start small – very small. That's because the real heroes of the story of life on Earth are microbes, the t...

HB:

£19,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Philosophy

Evolution

Biological Individuality Integrating Scientific, Philosophical, and Historical Perspectives

Lidgard Scott, Nyhart Lynn K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226446455, University of Chicago Press, June 2017
400 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 2 tables

Individuals are things that everybody knows – or thinks they do. Yet even scholars who practice or analyze the biological sciences often cannot agree on what an individual is and why. One reason for this disagreement is that the many important biolog...

PB:

£19,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Evolution

Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection

Richards Evelleen

ISBN: HB: 9780226436906, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
672 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 48 halftones

Darwin's concept of natural selection has been exhaustively studied, but his secondary evolutionary principle of sexual selection remains largely unexplored and misunderstood. Yet sexual selection was of great strategic importance to Darwin because i...

HB:

£35,50

QTY:

add books to the list