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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (P.S.) by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Learning from the Octopus: How Secrets from Nature Can Help Us Fight Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters, and Disease by Rafe Sagarin Publisher Comments 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) List Price $26.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves by George M Church Publisher Comments 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) List Price $28.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame by Christopher Boehm Publisher Comments 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) List Price $28.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Why We Run: A Natural History by Bernd Heinrich Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-282) and index.... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Physics in Mind: A Quantum View of the Brain by Werner Loewenstein Publisher Comments 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) List Price $28.99 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
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My Beautiful Genome: Exposing Our Genetic Future, One Quirk at a Time by Lone Frank Synopsis 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) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom by Sean B. Carroll Publisher Comments '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) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Evolution's Captain: The Story of the Kidnapping That Led to Charles Darwin's Voyage aboard the Beagle by Peter Nichols Publisher Comments 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) List Price $14.99 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School with DVD by John Medina Publisher Comments 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) List Price $29.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Ravenous Brain: How the New Science of Consciousness Explains Our Insatiable Search for Meaning by Daniel Bor Publisher Comments 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) List Price $27.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins Publisher Comments 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) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Animal Connection: A New Perspective on What Makes Us Human by Pat Shipman Publisher Comments 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) List Price $26.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu by Mike Davis Publisher Comments 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) List Price $17.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments 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) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Waiting for Aphrodite: Journeys Into the Time Before Bones by Sue Hubbell Publisher Comments "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) List Price $15.25 Your price: $1.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life by Steven Johnson Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Dawkins Vs Gould: Survival of the Fittest by Kim Sterelny Publisher Comments 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) List Price $14.50 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Shaping Life (Darwinism Today) by John Maynard Smith Publisher Comments 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) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments 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) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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