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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (P.S.)
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (P.S.)
by Jared Diamond
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The Development of an Extraordinary Species We human beings share 98 percent of our genes with chimpanzees. Yet humans are the dominant species on the planet -- having founded civilizations and religions, developed intricate and diverse forms of... (read more)

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Learning from the Octopus: How Secrets from Nature Can Help Us Fight Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters, and Disease
Learning from the Octopus: How Secrets from Nature Can Help Us Fight Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters, and Disease
by Rafe Sagarin
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Despite the billions of dollars we've poured into foreign wars, homeland security, and disaster response, we are fundamentally no better prepared for the next terrorist attack or unprecedented flood than we were in 2001. Our response to catastrophe... (read more)

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Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves
Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves
by George M Church
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Imagine a future in which human beings have become immune to all viruses, in which bacteria can custom-produce everyday items, like a drinking cup, or generate enough electricity to end oil dependency. Building a house would entail no more work than... (read more)

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Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame
Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame
by Christopher Boehm
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From the age of Darwin to the present day, biologists have been grappling with the origins of our moral sense. Why, if the human instinct to survive and reproduce is “selfish,” do people engage in self-sacrifice, and even develop ideas like... (read more)

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Why We Run: A Natural History
Why We Run: A Natural History
by Bernd Heinrich
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-282) and index.... (read more)

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Physics in Mind: A Quantum View of the Brain
Physics in Mind: A Quantum View of the Brain
by Werner Loewenstein
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No one can escape a sense of awe when reflecting on the workings of the mind: we see, we hear, we are aware of the world around us. But what is the mind? In Physics in Mind, eminent biophysicist Werner R. Loewenstein seeks and answer in the mechanisms of... (read more)

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My Beautiful Genome: Exposing Our Genetic Future, One Quirk at a Time
My Beautiful Genome: Exposing Our Genetic Future, One Quirk at a Time
by Lone Frank
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What if you could predict your future – which political party you will vote for, what kind of person you will marry, which disease will end your life, whether your blue mood will fester into something more troubling, even debilitating. Would you... (read more)

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Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom
by Sean B. Carroll
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'Evo Devo is evolutionary developmental biology, the third revolution in evolutionary biology. The first was marked by the publication of The Origin of Species. The second occurred in the early twentieth century, when Darwin\'s theories were merged with... (read more)

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Evolution's Captain: The Story of the Kidnapping That Led to Charles Darwin's Voyage aboard the Beagle
Evolution's Captain: The Story of the Kidnapping That Led to Charles Darwin's Voyage aboard the Beagle
by Peter Nichols
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This is the story of the man without whom the name Charles Darwin might be unknown to us today. That man was Captain Robert FitzRoy, who invited the 22-year-old Darwin to be his companion on board the Beagle. This is the remarkable story of how a... (read more)

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Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School with DVD
Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School with DVD
by John Medina
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Most of us have no idea what's really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should know — such as the brain's need for physical activity to work at its best. How do we... (read more)

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The Ravenous Brain: How the New Science of Consciousness Explains Our Insatiable Search for Meaning
The Ravenous Brain: How the New Science of Consciousness Explains Our Insatiable Search for Meaning
by Daniel Bor
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Consciousness is our gateway to experience: it enables us to recognize Van Gogh's starry skies, be enraptured by Beethoven's Fifth, and stand in awe of a snowcapped mountain. Yet consciousness is subjective, personal, and famously difficult to examine... (read more)

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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
by Richard Dawkins
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Richard Dawkins transformed our view of God in his blockbuster, The God Delusion, which sold more than 2 million copies in English alone. He revolutionized the way we see natural selection in the seminal bestseller The Selfish Gene. Now, he launches a... (read more)

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The Animal Connection: A New Perspective on What Makes Us Human
The Animal Connection: A New Perspective on What Makes Us Human
by Pat Shipman
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Why do humans all over the world take in and nurture other animals? This behavior might seem maladaptive--after all, every mouthful given to another species is one that you cannot eat--but in this heartening new study, acclaimed anthropologist Pat... (read more)

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The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu
The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu
by Mike Davis
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A “brilliant” and “fascinating” investigation of the looming avian flu pandemicand how we arrived at the brink of a global health catastropheThe New York Times The virus known as H5N1 is now endemic among poultry and wild bird... (read more)

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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
by Stephen Jay Gould
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High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It hold the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived--a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in awesome detail. In... (read more)

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Waiting for Aphrodite: Journeys Into the Time Before Bones
Waiting for Aphrodite: Journeys Into the Time Before Bones
by Sue Hubbell
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"We humans are a minority of giants, stumbling around in the world of little things," Sue Hubbell writes in this marvelous book. Each of these little things "has a complicated and special way of getting on in the world, different from ours and different... (read more)

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Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
by Steven Johnson
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In this nationally bestselling, compulsively readable account of what makes brain science a vital component of people's quest to know themselves, acclaimed science writer Steven Johnson subjects his own brain to a battery of tests to find out what's... (read more)

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Dawkins Vs Gould: Survival of the Fittest
Dawkins Vs Gould: Survival of the Fittest
by Kim Sterelny
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A revised and updated edition of a title exploring the battle between evolutionary theory's biggest names. Known as one of the firecest battles in science Dawkins and Gould and their supporters have argued over evolution, for over twenty years, and... (read more)

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Shaping Life (Darwinism Today)
Shaping Life (Darwinism Today)
by John Maynard Smith
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During the past ten years, there has been a revolution in our understanding of developmental biology, as scientists apply the ideas and techniques of genetics and embryology to the processes of development. In this book, John Maynard Smith gives an... (read more)

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Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History
Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History
by Stephen Jay Gould
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From his bestseller Wonderful Life to his splendid essays on endlessly interesting variations of evolution, Gould has raised the art of scientific writing to new heights. "Whether his topic is typewriter design, the technical triumph of Voyager or Joe... (read more)

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