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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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The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism among the Primates by Frans de Waal Publisher Comments For many years, de Waal has observed chimpanzees soothe distressed neighbors and bonobos share their food. Now he delivers fascinating fresh evidence for the seeds of ethical behavior in primate societies that further cements the case for the biological... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.57 Sale - Hardcover
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Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live by Marlene Zuk Publisher Comments An exposé of pseudoscientific myths about our evolutionary past and how we should live today. We evolved to eat berries rather than bagels, to live in mud huts rather than condos, to sprint barefoot rather than play football — or did we?... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.50 Sale - Hardcover
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Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine M Benyus Publisher Comments This profound and accessible book details how science is studying natures best ideas to solve our toughest 21st-century problems. If chaos theory transformed our view of the universe, biomimicry is transforming our life on Earth. Biomimicry is innovation... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 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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Incognito: The Hidden Life of the Brain by David Eagleman Publisher Comments If the conscious mind--the part you consider you--accounts for only a tiny fraction of the brain's function, what is all the rest doing? This is the question that David Eagleman--renowned neuroscientist and acclaimed author of Sum--answers in a book as... (read more) Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman Publisher Comments If the conscious mind—the part you consider to be you—is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing? In this sparkling and provocative new book, the renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the... (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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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 $15.95 Your price: $6.98 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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Programming the Human Biocomputer by John C Lilly Synopsis Drawing from his extensive knowledge of and experimentation with brain biochemistry, the inventor of the sensory isolation tank outlines the parallels between computers and the human brain and offers methods for stepping out of the mind-body, leading... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Haldane, Mayr, and Beanbag Genetics by Krishna R Dronamraju Publisher Comments Haldane, Mayr, and Beanbag Genetics presents a summary of the classic exchange between two great biologists - J.B.S. Haldane and Ernst Mayr - regarding the value of the contributions of the mathematical school represented by J.B.S. Haldane, R.A. Fisher... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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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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Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life by Daniel C Dennett Publisher Comments In a book that is both groundbreaking and accessible, Daniel C. Dennett, whom Chet Raymo of The Boston Globe calls "one of the most provocative thinkers on the planet," focuses his unerringly logical mind on the theory of natural selection, showing how... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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What Evolution Is (Science Masters Series) by Ernst Mayr Publisher Comments At once a spirited defense of Darwinian explanations of biology and an elegant primer on evolution for the general reader, What Evolution Is poses the questions at the heart of evolutionary theory and considers how our improved understanding of evolution... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species by Sean B Carroll Publisher Comments An award-winning biologist takes us on the dramatic expeditions that unearthed the history of life on our planet. Just 150 years ago, most of our world was an unexplored wilderness. Our sense of its age was vague and vastly off the mark, and much... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age by Nathan Wolfe Publisher Comments Dynamic young Stanford biologist Nathan Wolfe reveals the surprising origins of the world's most deadly viruses, and how we can overcome catastrophic pandemics. In The Viral Storm, award-winning biologist Nathan Wolfe tells the story of how viruses and... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Stuff of Life: A Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA by Mark Schultz Publisher Comments Lets face it: From adenines to zygotes, from cytokinesis to parthenogenesis, even the basics of genetics can sound utterly alien. So who better than an alien to explain it all? Enter Bloort 183, a scientist from an asexual alien race threatened by... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Microterrors: The Complete Guide to Bacterial, Viral and Fungal Infections That Threaten Our Health by Tony Hart Publisher Comments Covering the role of viruses in human evolution, as well as bioengineering, "Mircroterrors" presents the terrifying rogues' gallery of invisible killers. Dramatic digital illustrations and computer-colored electron images provide mug-book profiles of... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code by Matt Ridley Publisher Comments Ridley traces Crick's life from middle-class mediocrity through his leap into biology at the age of 31 and his co-discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Hardcover
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