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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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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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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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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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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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Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth by Richard Fortey Publisher Comments A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Extraordinary. . . . Anyone with the slightest interest in biology should read this book."--The New York Times Book Review "A marvelous museum of the past four billion years on earth--capacious,... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $4.95 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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Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think about Our Lives by David Sloan Wilson Publisher Comments What is the biological reason for gossip? For laughter? For the creation of art? Why do dogs have curly tails? What can microbes tell us about morality? These and many other questions are tackled by renowned evolutionist David Sloan Wilson in this witty... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins Staff Pick Just when you were almost out of topics to argue about, here comes Richard Dawkins with another defense of evolution. But hang on — The Greatest Show on Earth isn't some enraged polemic, but a well-reasoned, intriguing counter-attack on Intelligent... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Evolution: The First Four Billion Years by Michael Ruse Publisher Comments Spanning evolutionary science from its inception to its latest findings, from discoveries and data to philosophy and history, this book is the most complete, authoritative, and inviting one-volume introduction to evolutionary biology available. Clear... (read more) List Price $50.25 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Evolution of Everything: How Selection Shapes Culture, Commerce, and Nature by Mark Sumner Publisher Comments Over a century ago, the Social Darwinists appropriated Darwin's name but left most of his theory behind. The Evolution of Everything describes the struggles behind Darwin's theory of evolution and the schemes of those who misapplied it. It also... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Meme Machine by Susan J. Blackmore Publisher Comments What is a meme? First coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene, a meme is any idea, behavior, or skill that can be transferred from one person to another by imitation: stories, fashions, inventions, recipes, songs, ways of plowing a field or... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Evidence for Evolution by Alan R Rogers Publisher Comments According to polling data, most Americans doubt that evolution is a real phenomenon. And its no wonder that so many are skeptical: many of todays biology courses and textbooks dwell on the mechanisms of evolution—natural selection, genetic... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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Darwinian Tourist: Viewing the World Through Evolutionary Eyes (10 Edition) by Christopher Wills Publisher Comments In The Darwinian Tourist, biologist Christopher Wills takes us on a series of adventures--exciting in their own right--that demonstrate how ecology and evolution have interacted to create the world we live in. Some of these adventures, like his SCUBA... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $18.00 Used - Hardcover
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Darwin's Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution by Iain Mccalman Publisher Comments Award-winning cultural historian Iain McCalman tells the stories of Charles Darwin and his staunchest supporters: Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley, and Alfred Wallace. Beginning with the somber morning of April 26, 1882—the day of Darwin's funeral... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Why Evolution Is True by Jerry Coyne Publisher Comments Why evolution is more than just a theory: it is a fact In all the current highly publicized debates about creationism and its descendant "intelligent design," there is an element of the controversy that is rarely mentioned-the evidence, the empirical... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief by Lewis Wolpert Publisher Comments Why do 70 percent of Americans believe in angels, while others are convinced that they were abducted by aliens? What makes people believe in improbable things when all the evidence points to the contrary? And don't almost all of us, at some time or... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Living with Evolution or Dying Without It: A Guide to Understanding Humanity's Past, Present, and Future by K. D. Koratsky Publisher Comments Evolution by way of natural selection is more than a theory that can explain certain earthly phenomena. It is a logical inevitability that applies to all earthly (and universal) phenomena. Hence, humans are in no way, and cannot possibly be in any way... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Upright Ape: A New Origin of the Species by Aaron G Filler Publisher Comments The author exploresand some would say resolvesa 200-year-long controversy surrounding the origin of species. Drawing on such diverse antecedents as history, myth, and religion (including Egyptian myth, Christian iconography, and the Hindu Veda), as well... (read more) List Price $23.25 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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