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Biophilia (86 Edition) by Edward O. Wilson Publisher Comments View a collection of videos on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities"... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Future of Life by Edward O Wilson Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references and index.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright Synopsis A deeply provocative and engaging new look at the meaning and direction of history, from the author of "The Moral Animal."... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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A Darwinian Left by Peter Singer Publisher Comments In this ground-breaking book, a renowned bioethicist argues that the political left must radically revise its outdated view of human nature. He shows how the insights of modern evolutionary theory, particularly on the evolution of cooperation, can help... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology by Robert Wright Publisher Comments Are men literally born to cheat? Does monogamy actually serve women's interests? These are among the questions that have made The Moral Animal one of the most provocative science books in recent years. Wright unveils the genetic strategies behind... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright Publisher Comments In his bestselling The Moral Animal, Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright attempts something even more ambitious: explaining the direction of evolution and human history-and discerning... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Survival Game: How Game Theory Explains the Biology of Cooperation and Competition by David P Barash Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-287) and index.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History by Howard K Bloom Synopsis The Lucifer Priciple is a revolutionary work that explores the intricate relationships among genetics, human behavior, and culture to put forth the thesis that “evil” is a by-product of natures strategies for creation and that it is woven into... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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*paradoxical Life: Meaning, Matter, and the Power of Human Choice (09 Edition) by Andreas Wagner Publisher Comments What can a fingernail tell us about the mysteries of creation? In one sense, a nail is merely a hunk of mute matter, yet in another, its an information superhighway quite literally at our fingertips. Every moment, streams of molecular signals direct our... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Human Difference by Alan Wolfe Publisher Comments 'An eloquent and exquisitely reasoned plea for a social science based on what is distinctively human about human beings their capacity to create meaning by the forms of interpretation that make human culture possible. This book is a lively attack on the... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Tangled Wing : Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit (02 Edition) by Melvin Konner Publisher Comments A vital updating of a seminal work of science First published to great acclaim twenty years ago, The Tangled Wing has become required reading for anyone interested in the biological roots of human behavior. Since then, revolutions have taken place in... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Triumph of Evolution: Heredity Environment Controversy, 1900-1941 by Hamilton Cravens Publisher Comments Hamilton Cravens challenges widespread belief to argue that the influence of evolutionary ideas on American culture and science has been greater since the collapse of Soical Darwinism than before.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Emperor's New Clothes: Biological Theories of Race at the Millennium by Joseph L Graves Publisher Comments "Graves' answers could revise the ways in which humans interact with one another."--"Choice." "A fine start for thinking about race at the dawn of the millennium."--"American Scientist."... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule by Michael Shermer Publisher Comments From bestselling author Michael Shermer, an investigation of the evolution of morality that is a paragon of popularized science and philosophy The Sun (Baltimore) A century and a half after Darwin first proposed an evolutionary ethics, science has begun... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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If Wishes Were Horses by Edward O Wilson Synopsis Retired elementary school teacher Jean Jakob writes an action packed story about a a young girl named Bobby O'Connell living in Charleston, South Carolina in 1949. She makes her dream come true in being with the one horse she loves. Bobby loves horses so... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Book Club Paperback
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Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century by Howard K Bloom Publisher Comments "This lusty tome is a stunning commitment to scientific evidence." --Lynn Margulis Advance Praise for GLOBAL BRAIN "Howard Bloom believes that the Leviathan, or society as an organism, is not a fanciful metaphor but an actual product of evolution. The... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Sex and War (08 Edition) by Malcolm Potts Synopsis As news of war and terror dominates the headlines, scientist Malcolm Potts and veteran journalist Thomas Hayden take a step back to explain it all. In the spirit of Guns, Germs and Steel, Sex and War asks the basic questions: Why is war so fundamental to... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Tangled Wing Bottle by Melvin Konner Publisher Comments A vital updating of a seminal work of science First published to great acclaim twenty years ago, The Tangled Wing has become required reading for anyone interested in the biological roots of human behavior. Since then, revolutions have taken place in... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Book Club Hardcover
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Human Instinct: How Our Primeval Impulses Shape Our Modern Lives by Robert Winston Publisher Comments From the ambition to be successful in our careers to what we will have for lunch each day, instinct is the invisible motivating force that shapes our world. But how well do these instincts, our most basic modes of interacting with the world, equip us for... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Why Sex Matters by Bobbi S. Low Publisher Comments Why are men, like other primate males, usually the aggressors and risk takers? Why do women typically have fewer sexual partners? Why is killing infants routine in some cultures, but forbidden in others? Why is incest everywhere taboo? Bobbi Low ranges... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $35.46 Google eBooks - Electronic
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