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Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe
by Simon Conway Morris  Publisher Comments Life's Solution builds a persuasive case for the predictability of evolutionary outcomes. The case rests on a remarkable compilation of examples of convergent evolution, in which two or more lineages have independently evolved similar structures and...
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Men : Evolutionary and Life History (06 Edition)
by Richard G. Bribiescras Publisher Comments Males account for roughly 50 percent of the global population, but in America and other places, they account for over 85 percent of violent crime. A graph of relative risk of death in human males shows that mortality is high immediately following birth...
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On the Origin of Species: A Facsimile of the First Edition (Harvard Paperbacks)
by Charles Darwin Publisher Comments It is now fully recognized that the publication of Darwin's Origin of Speciesin 1859 brought about a revolution in man's attitude toward life and his own place in the universe. This work is rightly regarded as one of the most important books ever...
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Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior
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...
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Evolution and Escalation: An Ecological History of Life
by Geerat J. Vermeij Publisher Comments Here is one biologist's interpretation of the chronology of life during the last six hundred million years of earth history: an extended essay that draws on the author's own data and a wide-ranging literature survey to discuss the nature and dynamics of...
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If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... Where Is Everybody?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life
by Stephen Webb Publisher Comments During a Los Alamos lunchtime conversation that took place more than 50 years ago, four world-class scientists agreed, given the size and age of the Universe, that advanced extraterrestrial civilizations simply had to exist. The sheer numbers demanded it....
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Acquiring Genomes (03 Edition)
by Lynn Margulis Publisher Comments A Theory of the Origins of Species. This book is sure to be seen as groundbreaking and controversial, it provides the most powerful explanation of speciation yet given....
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Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biol Volume 8
by Douglas J Futuyma Publisher Comments This new volume in the OSEB series presents reviews of key theoretical ideas and frameworks, and outlines progress in evolutionary studies....
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The Spark of Life: Darwin and the Primeval Soup
by Christopher Wills Publisher Comments Where did we come from? Did life arise on earth or on some other planet? What did the earliest primitive organisms look like? Untangling a century of contentious debate, the authors explore current theories of the source of life -- from Martian meteors...
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Thumbs, Toes, and Tears: And Other Traits That Make Us Human
by Chip Walter Publisher Comments “A fluid introduction to the development of the human species.”—Booklist Among the countless traits and behaviors that separate us from the rest of the animal kingdom, six stand out—our big toe, opposable thumb, oddly shaped...
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Science and Selection: Essays on Biological Evolution and the Philosophy of Science (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology)
by David L Hull Publisher Comments Brings together many of Hull??'s most important essays on selection in one accessible volume....
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The Fossil Trail: How We Know What We Think We Know about Human Evolution
by Ian Tattersall Publisher Comments One of the most remarkable fossil finds in history occurred in Laetoli, Tanzania, in 1974, when anthropologist Andrew Hill (diving to the ground to avoid a lump of elephant dung thrown by a colleague) came face to face with a set of ancient footprints...
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Introduction To Human Evolutionary Anatomy (90 Edition)
by Leslie Aiello Publisher Comments An anthropologist and an anatomist have combined their skills in this book to provide students and research workers with the essentials of anatomy and the means to apply these to investigations into hominid form and function. Using basic principles and...
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Seven Clues to the Origin of Life: A Scientific Detective Story
by Alexan Cairns Smith Publisher Comments 'This amusing, lively book explains in language comprehensible to the layman, the author\'s somewhat controversial views about the possible origin of life.'...
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Unto Others : the Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior (98 Edition)
by Elliot Sober Publisher Comments No matter what we do, however kind or generous our deeds may seem, a hidden motive of selfishness lurks--or so science has claimed for years. This book, whose publication promises to be a major scientific event, tells us differently. In Unto...
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The World from Beginnings to 4000 BCE
by Ian Tattersall Publisher Comments To be human is to be curious. And one of the things we are most curious about is how we came to be who we are--how we evolved over millions of years to become creatures capable of inquiring into our own evolution. In this lively and readable introduction,...
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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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Living with Darwin: Evolution, Design, and the Future of Faith
by Philip Kitcher Publisher Comments Charles Darwin has been at the center of white-hot public debate for more than a century. In Living With Darwin, Philip Kitcher peers into the flames swirling around Darwin's theory, sifting through the scientific evidence for evolution, Creation Science,...
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Darwin: Texts Commentary (Norton Critical Edition)
by Philip Appleman Book News Annotation New edition of a volume that concerns the importance, and enduring relevance, of Darwin and evolution. New material indicates the voluminous scientific research that is currently being done in every field of evolutionary study. Topics include Darwin...
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Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds (Lawyer Puts Darwinism on Trial)
by Phillip E Johnson Publisher Comments Defeating Darwinism provides a new and powerful treatment on evolutionary naturalism for students, parents, teachers, pastors, and youth advisors. Phillip Johnson aims not just to defeat a bad theory, but to defeat it by opening minds to the truth....
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