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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
by Richard Dawkins
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Just when you were almost out of topics to argue about, here comes Richard Dawkins with another defense of evolution. But hang on ... (read more)

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The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition With a New Introduction by the Author
The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition With a New Introduction by the Author
by Richard Dawkins
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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)

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Why Evolution Is True (09 Edition)
Why Evolution Is True (09 Edition)
by Jerry A. Coyne
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Why evolution is more than just a theory: it is a fact In all the current highly publicized debates about creationism and its descendant aintelligent design, a there is an element of the controversy that is rarely mentionedathe evidence, the empirical... (read more)

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Blind Watchmaker : Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design, With a New Introduction (96 Edition)
Blind Watchmaker : Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design, With a New Introduction (96 Edition)
by Richard Dawkins
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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)

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Evolution: The Story of Life
Evolution: The Story of Life
by Douglas Palmer
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Evolution recreates the 3.5-billion-year story of life on Earth in stunning detail through vivid full-color illustrations and graphics, the latest scientific information, and hundreds of photographs. At the heart of the book is an astonishing... (read more)

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Ancestor's Tale : a Pilgrimage To the Dawn of Evolution (04 Edition)
Ancestor's Tale : a Pilgrimage To the Dawn of Evolution (04 Edition)
by Richard Dawkins
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With unparalleled wit, clarity, and intelligence, Richard Dawkins, one of the world's most renowned evolutionary biologists, has introduced countless readers to the wonders of science in works such as The Selfish Gene. Now, in The Ancestor's Tale... (read more)

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The Meme Machine
The Meme Machine
by Susan J. Blackmore
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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)

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The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
by Carl Sagan
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Dr. Carl Sagan takes us on a great reading adventure, offering his vivid and startling insight into the brain of man and beast, the origin of human intelligence, the function of our most haunting legends--and their amazing links to recent discoveries... (read more)

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Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Vintage)
Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Vintage)
by Neil Shubin
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Details on a Major New Discovery included in a New Afterword Why 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)

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Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species
Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species
by Sean B. Carroll
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An award-wining 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 how old it was? Vague and vastly off the mark. And our sense... (read more)

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40 Days and 40 Nights: Darwin, Intelligent Design, God, Oxycontin, and Other Oddities on Trial in Pennsylvania
40 Days and 40 Nights: Darwin, Intelligent Design, God, Oxycontin, and Other Oddities on Trial in Pennsylvania
by Matthew Chapman
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In this fascinating story of evolution, religion, politics, and personalities, Matthew Chapman captures the story behind the headlines in the debate over God and science in America. Kitzmiller v. Dover Board of Education, decided in late 2005, pitted the... (read more)

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Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
by Richard Fortey
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A "New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice <BR>"Extraordinary. . . . Anyone with the slightest interest in biology should read this book."--"The New York Times Book Review <BR>"A marvelous museum of the past four billion years on earth... (read more)

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Making of the Fittest : Dna and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution (06 Edition)
Making of the Fittest : Dna and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution (06 Edition)
by Sean B. Carroll
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Throw out your fossils—the best evidence for evolution is now found in DNA. DNA is the genetic blueprint of all creatures. Scientists have only recently discovered that it is also a living chronicle of evolution. In this book, leading biologist and... (read more)

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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are
by Carl Sagan
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"Dazzling...A feast. Absorbing and elegantly written, it tells of theorigins of life on earth, describes its variety and charaacter, and culminates in a discussion of human nature and teh complex traces ofhumankind's evolutionary past...It is an amazing... (read more)

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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
by Matt Ridley
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Citing the Red Queen from "Through the Looking Glass, " who has to keep running to stay in the same place, Ridley demonstrates why sex is humanity's best strategy for outwitting its constantly mutating internal predators, and answers dozens of other... (read more)

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Intelligent Thought: Science Versus the Intelligent Design Movement
Intelligent Thought: Science Versus the Intelligent Design Movement
by John Brockman
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In reverence to the force of scientific truth, join fifteen preeminent thinkers whose clear, accessible, and passionate essays reveal the fact and power of evolution, and the beauty of the scientific endeavor.... (read more)

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The Theory of Evolution (Simple Guides)
The Theory of Evolution (Simple Guides)
by John Scotney
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Today the theory of evolution by natural selection and the science of genetics are the twin keys to our understanding of how life on earth came about. Yet when an English naturalist called Charles Darwin first published his ideas in 1859 in a book called... (read more)

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River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life (Science Masters Series)
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life (Science Masters Series)
by Richard Dawkins
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How did the replication bomb we call ”life” begin and where in the world, or rather, in the universe, is it heading? Writing with characteristic wit and an ability to clarify complex phenomena (the New York Times described his style as ”... (read more)

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The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism
The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism
by Michael J Behe
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When Michael J. Behe's first book, Darwin's Black Box, was published in 1996, it launched the intelligent design movement. Critics howled, yet hundreds of thousands of readers -- and a growing number of scientists -- were intrigued by Behe's claim that... (read more)

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Darwinism and Its Discontents
Darwinism and Its Discontents
by Michael Ruse
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Presenting an ardent defence of Charles Darwin??'s theory of evolution, this book offers a clear and comprehensive exposition of Darwin??'s thinking. Michael Ruse brings the story up-to-date, examining the origins of life, the fossil record, and the... (read more)

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