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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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Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson Publisher Comments "A dazzling journey across the sciences and humanities in search of deep laws to unite them." The Wall Street Journal One of our greatest living scientists and the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for On Human Nature and The Ants gives us a... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Global Brain: The Evolution of the Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century by Howard Bloom Publisher Comments "As someone who has spent forty years in psychology with a long-standing interest in evolution, I'll just assimilate Howard Bloom's accomplishment and my amazement."-DAVID SMILLIE, Visiting Professor of Zoology, Duke University In this extraordinary... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Paradoxical Life: Meaning, Matter, and the Power of Human Choice 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: $13.95 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 $38.50 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit 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 $28.00 Your price: $9.95 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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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: $4.95 Used - Book Club Paperback
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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: $12.95 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: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Why We Lie by David Livingstone Smith Publisher Comments Deceit, lying, and falsehoods lie at the very heart of our cultural heritage. Even the founding myth of the Judeo-Christian tradition, the story of Adam and Eve, revolves around a lie. We have been talking, writing and singing about deception ever since... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty by Nancy Etcoff Publisher Comments Beauty is not a myth. According to scientist and psychologist Nancy Etcoff, the pursuit of beauty is neither a cultural construction, an invention of Madison Avenue, nor a backlash against feminism. Survival of the Prettiest, the first in-depth... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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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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Why Men Won't Ask for Directions: The Seductions of Sociobiology by Richard C Francis Publisher Comments Much of the evolutionary biology that has grabbed headlines in recent years has sprung from the efforts of sociobiologists and evolutionary psychologists to explain sexual features and behavior--even differences between how men and women think--as... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Diversity of Life (Questions of Science) by Edward O Wilson Publisher Comments This resource provides students with review materials for each chapter.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Why Men Won't Ask for Directions: The Seductions of Sociobiology by Richard C Francis Publisher Comments "Interesting, engagingly written, and important. Francis is rightfully attacking the theological/ideological basis of adaptationist thinking."--James L. Gould, Princeton University "A synthesis of the latest advances in the behavior, physiology and... (read more) List Price $33.75 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Headless Males Make Great Lovers and Other Unusual Natural Histories by Marty Crump Publisher Comments The natural world is filled with diverse—not to mention quirky and odd—animal behaviors. Consider the male praying mantis that continues to mate after being beheaded; the spiders, insects, and birds that offer gifts of food in return... (read more) List Price $25.75 Your price: $5.98 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: $7.50 Used - 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) Your price: $28.99 New - Hardcover
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