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Evolution

From Eve to Evolution Darwin, Science, and Women's Rights in Gilded Age America

Hamlin Kimberly A.

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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Evolution

Great Transformations in Vertebrate Evolution

Dial Kenneth P., Shubin Neil, Brainerd Elizabeth L.

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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Evolution

Accidental Species Misunderstandings of Human Evolution

Gee Henry

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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Snakes, Sunrises, and Shakespeare How Evolution Shapes Our Loves and Fears

Orians Gordon H.

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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Archaeology & Paleontology

Rereading the Fossil Record The Growth of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline

Sepkoski David

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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Evolution

Haeckel's Embryos Images, Evolution, and Fraud

Hopwood Nick

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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Evolution

Darwin's Orchids Then and Now

Edens-Meier Retha, Bernhardt Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780226044910, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 33 halftones, 14 line drawings, 14 tables

For biologists, 2009 was an epochal year: the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of a book now known simply as "The Origin of Species". But for many botanists, Darwin's true legacy starts with the 1862...

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History

Cultural History of Heredity

Muller-Wille Staffan, Rheinberger Hans-Jorg

ISBN: PB: 9780226213484, ISBN: HB: 9780226545707, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 halftones, 9 line illus.

It was only around 1800 that heredity began to enter debates among physicians, breeders, and naturalists. Soon thereafter it evolved into one of the most fundamental concepts of biology. Here Staffan Muller-Wille and Hans-Jorg Rheinberger offer a suc...

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Evolution Myth or, The Genes Cry Out Their Urgent Song, Mister Darwin Got It Wrong

Mejsnar Jiri

ISBN: PB: 9788024625201, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2014
150 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 20 halftones, 8 charts

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The origins of life, species, and man continue to interest scientists and stir debate among the general public more than one hundred and fifty years after Charles Darwin published "On the...

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Evolution

Subjects of the World Darwin's Rhetoric and the Study of Agency in Nature

Davies Paul Sheldon

ISBN: PB: 9780226137636, ISBN: HB: 9780226137629, University of Chicago Press, June 2014
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing

Being human while trying to scientifically study human nature confronts us with our most vexing problem. Efforts to explicate the human mind are thwarted by our cultural biases and entrenched infirmities; our first-person experiences as practical age...

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