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Human Origins: What Bones and Genomes Tell Us about Ourselves (Peter N. Nevraumont Books)
by Rob Desalle  Synopsis Ever since the recognition of the Neanderthals as an archaic form of human in the mid-nineteenth century, the fossilized bones of extinct humans have been used by paleoanthropologists to explore human origins. These bones tell the story of how the...
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Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief
by Lewis Wolpert Publisher Comments A unique, scientific look into why we are all believers. <BR>In Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass," the White Queen tells Alice that to believe in a wildly improbable fact she simply needs to "draw a long breath and shut [her] eyes." Alice...
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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. Line drawings....
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Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution
by Kenneth R Miller Publisher Comments Question: Who made us? Answer #1: God made us. Answer #2: Evolution made us. Which is it? What is the true answer to the age-old question of where we came from? Is it even possible to know for sure? In Finding Darwin's God, Kenneth R. Miller offers a...
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The Origin of Species and the Voyage of the 'beagle' (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
by Charles Darwin Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p.xxxii-xxxiii )....
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Beak of the Finch a Story of Evolution
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...
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Ancestor's Tale : a Pilgrimage To the Dawn of Evolution (04 Edition)
by Richard Dawkins
Powells.com Staff Pick "Despite my qualms with the 'Canterbury' chapter and Dawkins's general emphasis on heredity over organismal biology, The Ancestor's Tale is still an engaging history of life on our backwater planet....The pilgrimage metaphor describes the book well. Like...
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On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection (Giant Thrifts)
by Charles Darwin Publisher Comments Familiarity with Charles Darwin's treatise on evolution is essential to every well-educated individual. One of the most important books ever published--and a continuing source of controversy, a century and a half later--this classic of science is...
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The Score: How the Quest for Sex Has Shaped the Modern Man
by Faye Flam Publisher Comments A smart, witty, and fresh look at the male side of the male-female relationship from a science writer and sex columnist at The Philadelphia Inquirer. Beginning with a "boot camp" for wannabe pickup artistswhere men pay thousands of dollars for three days...
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Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom
by Sean B Carroll
Powells.com Staff Pick "I know a book on developmental biology isn't the sort of thing that usually leaps off the shelf into people's hands, but if you are at all interested in how our genetic toolboxes work, Endless Forms Most Beautiful is well worth a reading or two." Doug...
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Origin of Species (03 Edition)
by Charles Darwin Publisher Comments The book that shook the world First time from Signet Classic This is the book that revolutionized the natural sciences and every literary, philosophical and religious thinker who followed. Darwin's theory of evolution and the descent of man remains as...
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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...
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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....
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The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth
by E. O. Wilson Publisher Comments In his daring work, Wilson states that Nature is a universal value--one that serves without discrimination the interests of all humanity--and proposes an alliance between science and religion to save Earth's vanishing biodiversity....
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Punctuated Equilibrium
by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments In 1972 Stephen Jay Gould took the scientific worldby storm with his paper on punctuated equilibrium, written with Niles Eldredge. Challenging a core assumption of Darwin's theory of evolution, it launched the career ofone of the most influential...
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Investigations (00 Edition)
by Stuart Kauffman Publisher Comments A bold exploration of the very essence of life itself, "Investigations" supplies a novel answer to the question, "What is life?" 44 illustrations....
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The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
by Carl Sagan Publisher Comments 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...
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are
by Carl Sagan Publisher Comments "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...
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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...
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Discoveries: Darwin and the Science of Evolution (Discoveries)
by Patrick Tort Synopsis Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each Discoveries "RM" volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively designed...
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