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The Social Conquest of Earth by Edward O. Wilson Publisher Comments Where did we come from? What are we? Where are we going? In a generational work of clarity and passion, one of our greatest living scientists directly addresses these three fundamental questions of religion, philosophy, and science while "overturning the... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Games Primates Play: An Undercover Investigation of the Evolution and Economics of Human Relationships by Dario Maestripieri Publisher Comments Most humans don't realize that when they exchange emails with someone, anyone, they are actually exhibiting certain unspoken rules about dominance and hierarchy. The same rules regulate the exchange of grooming behavior in rhesus macaques or chimpanzees.... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner Publisher Comments Winner of the Pulitzer Prize On a desert island in the heart of the Galapagos archipelago, where Darwin received his first inklings of the theory of evolution, two scientists, Peter and Rosemary Grant, have spent twenty years proving that Darwin did not... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Vintage) by Neil Shubin Publisher Comments Details on a Major New Discovery included in a New AfterwordWhy do we look the way we do? Neil Shubin, the paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik, the “fish with hands,” tells the story of our bodies as you've... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition With a New Introduction by the Author by Richard Dawkins Publisher Comments Richard Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the rare distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it. His theories have helped change the whole nature of the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins (Macsci) by Ian Tattersall Publisher Comments 50,000 years ago - merely a blip in evolutionary time - our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their own precursors had been doing for millions of years. Yet something about our species... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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Genesis and the Big Bang Theory: The Discovery of Harmony Between Modern Science and the Bible by Gerald L Schroeder Publisher Comments In this groundbreaking book, physicist Gerald Schroeder takes on skeptics from both sides of the cosmological debate, arguing that science and the Bible are not at odds concerning the origin of the universe.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Proving Darwin: Making Biology Mathematical by Gregory Chaitin Publisher Comments Groundbreaking mathematician Gregory Chaitin gives us the first book to posit that we can prove how Darwin’s theory of evolution works on a mathematical level. For years it has been received wisdom among most scientists that, just as Darwin... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human by Jonathan Gottschall Publisher Comments Humans live in landscapes of make-believe. We spin fantasies. We devour novels, films, and plays. Even sporting events and criminal trials unfold as narratives. Yet the world of story has long remained an undiscovered and unmapped country. Its easy to... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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What Darwin Got Wrong by Jerry Fodor Publisher Comments With a New Afterword What Darwin Got Wrong is a remarkable book, one that dares to challenge the theory of natural selection as an explanation for how evolution works--a devastating critique not in the name of religion but in the name of good science... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Why Evolution Is True by Jerry A Coyne Publisher Comments "Coyne's knowledge of evolutionary biology is prodigious, his deployment of it as masterful as his touch is light." -Richard Dawkins In the current debate about creationism and intelligent design, there is an element of the controversy that is rarely... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Moral Origins 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 virtue and... (read more) List Price $28.99 Your price: $25.73 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Making of the Fittest : Dna and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution (06 Edition) by Sean B. Carroll Publisher Comments DNA is the genetic material that defines us as individuals. Over the last two decades, it has emerged as a powerful tool for solving crimes and determining guilt and innocence. But, very recently, an important new aspect of DNA has been revealed--it... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Immense Journey (Vintage) by Loren Eiseley Publisher Comments Anthropologist and naturalist Loren Eiseley blends scientific knowledge and imaginative vision in this story of man.... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould by Stephen Jay Gould and Stephen Rose Staff Pick If you are a fan, this collection of forty-four of Stephen Jay Gould's best known essays, as well as a few never before published speeches, will make a wonderful keepsake; a beautiful volume that will be pulled from your bookshelf and savored, time and... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Origin of Species: And the Voyage of the Beagle (Vintage Classics) by Charles Darwin Publisher Comments When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on board the HMS Beagle in 1836, he brought with him the notes and evidence which would form the basis of his landmark theory of evolution of species by a process of natural selection.... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Cro-magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth To the First Modern Humans (10 Edition) by Brian M. Fagan Publisher Comments They survived by their wits in a snowbound world, hunting, and sometimes being hunted by, animals many times their size. By flickering firelight, they drew bison, deer, and mammoths on cavern walls- vibrant images that seize our imaginations after... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design by Richard Dawkins Publisher Comments Twenty years after its original publication, The Blind Watchmaker, framed with a new introduction by the author, is as prescient and timely a book as ever. The watchmaker belongs to the eighteenth-century theologian William Paley, who argued that just as... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments The world's most revered and eloquent interpreter of evolutionary ideas offers here a work of explanatory force unprecedented in our time--a landmark publication, both for its historical sweep and for its scientific vision. With characteristic attention... (read more) List Price $62.50 Your price: $29.00 Used - Hardcover
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