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Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
by Neil Shubin  
Powells.com Staff Pick Neil Shubin makes tracing our evolutionary origins positively fascinating. Through his work in expeditionary paleontology, Shubin explains the genetic correlations between humans and the animals that inhabited our planet billions of years ago. In a...
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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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Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
by Michael J Behe Publisher Comments The groundbreaking, "seminal work" (Time) on intelligent design that dares to ask, was Darwin wrong? In 1996, Darwin's Black Box helped to launch the intelligent design movement: the argument that nature exhibits evidence of design, beyond Darwinian...
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (P.S.)
by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments Though we share 98% of our genes with the chimpanzee, our species evolved into something quite extraordinary. Jared Diamond explores the fascinating question of what in less than 2% of our genes has enabled us to found civilizations and religions...
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Evolution for Dummies (For Dummies)
by Greg Krukonis Publisher Comments Today, most colleges and universities offer evolutionary study as part of their biology curriculums. Evolution For Dummies will track a class in which evolution is taught and give an objective scientific view of the subject. This balanced guide explores...
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
by Richard Dawkins Publisher Comments The best general account of evolution I have read in recent years.--E. O. Wilson. With a new introduction. Twenty years after its original publication, The Blind Watchmaker, framed with a new introduction by the author, is as prescient and timely a book...
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40 Days and 40 Nights: Darwin, Intelligent Design, God, Oxycontin, and Other Oddities on Trial in Pennsylvania
by Matthew Chapman Publisher Comments 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...
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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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Charles Darwin (Blackwell Great Minds)
by Michael Ruse Publisher Comments Charles Darwin is irrefutably the architect of modern evolutionary biology. Yet Darwin 's The Origin of Species is more than just a biological theory. It is a set of principles that portend tremendous philosophical impact beyond the limits of natural...
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Science, Politics, and Evolution (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology)
by Elisabeth A. Lloyd Publisher Comments This book brings together important essays by the one of the leading philosophers of science at work today. Elisabeth A. Lloyd examines several of the central topics in philosophy of biology, including the structure of evolutionary theory, units of...
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Mismatch: The Lifestyle Diseases Timebomb
by Peter Gluckman Publisher Comments We have built a world that no longer fits our bodies. Our genes - selected through our evolution - and the many processes by which our development is tuned within the womb, limit our capacity to adapt to the modern urban lifestyle. There is a mismatch...
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The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language
by Christine Kenneally
Powells.com Staff Pick The First Word is a fascinating search for the origins of language, which takes the reader through genetics, evolution, and the process of defining language itself. Christine Kenneally is a capable guide to answering this difficult and complex question...
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Climbing Mount Improbable (96 Edition)
by Richard Dawkins Publisher Comments A brilliant book celebrating improbability as the engine that drives life, by the acclaimed author of The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker. The human eye is so complex and works so precisely that surely, one might believe, its current shape and...
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Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
by Michael J Behe Publisher Comments Virtually all serious scientists accept the truth of Darwin's theory of evolution. While the fight for its acceptance has been a long and difficult one, after a century of struggle among the cognoscenti the battle is over. Biologists are now confident...
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Before the Dawn
by Nicholas Wade
Publisher Comments Based on a groundbreaking synthesis of recent scientific findings, an acclaimed New York Times science reporter tells a bold and provocative new story of the history of our ancient ancestors and the evolution of human nature. Just in the last three...
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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...
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Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities: The Causes of Mass Extinctions
by Anthony Hallam Publisher Comments In Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities, renowned geologist Tony Hallam takes us on a tour of the Earth's history, and of the cataclysmic events, as well as the more gradual extinctions, that have punctuated life on Earth throughout the past 500 million...
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Evolutionary Analysis (4TH 07 Edition)
by Scott Freeman Publisher Comments <P style=MARGIN: 0px><B> </B>By presenting evolutionary biology as an ongoing research effort, this best-seller aims to help readers think like scientists. The authors convey the excitement and logic of evolutionary science by...
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Texas A&m University Anthropology #13: Human Origins: What Bones and Genomes Tell Us about Ourselves
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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The Hidden History of the Human Race
by Michael A. Cremo Publisher Comments Over the past two centuries researchers have found bones and artifacts showing that people like ourselves existed on earth millions of years ago. But the scientific establishment has suppressed, ignored, or forgotten these remarkable facts. Why? Because...
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