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Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
by Edward O. Wilson  Publisher Comments "A dazzling journey across the sciences and humanities in search of deep laws to unite them." The Wall Street Journal One of our greatest living scientists — and the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for On Human Nature and The Ants — gives us a...
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On Human Nature
by Edward O. Wilson Publisher Comments In his new preface E. O. Wilson reflects on how he came to write this book: how The Insect Societies led him to write Sociobiology, and how the political and religious uproar that engulfed that book persuaded him to write another book that would better...
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The Future of Life
by Edward O Wilson Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references and index....
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The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
by Robert Wright Publisher Comments Are men literally born to cheat? Does monogamy actually serve women's interests? These are among the questions that have made The Moral Animal one of the most provocative science books in recent years. Wright unveils the genetic strategies behind...
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Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
by Robert Wright Publisher Comments In his bestselling The Moral Animal, Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright attempts something even more ambitious: explaining the direction of evolution and human history–and...
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Global Brain: The Evolution of the Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century
by Howard Bloom Publisher Comments As someone who has spent forty years in psychology with a long-standing interest in evolution, I'll just assimilate Howard Bloom's accomplishment and my amazement.-DAVID SMILLIE, Visiting Professor of Zoology, Duke University In this extraordinary follow-...
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The Dark Side of Man: Tracing the Origins of Male Violence
by Michael Ghiglieri Publisher Comments In The Dark Side of Man, Michael Ghiglieri, a biologist and protégé of Jane Goodall, takes on one of the most highly charged debates in modern science: the biological roots of bad behavior. Beginning with rape, and moving on to murder, war, and...
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The Human Difference
by Alan Wolfe Synopsis 'An eloquent and exquisitely reasoned plea for a social science based on what is distinctively human about human beings their capacity to create meaning by the forms of interpretation that make human culture possible. This book is a lively attack on the...
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The Triumph of Evolution: Heredity Environment Controversy, 1900-1941
by Hamilton Cravens Publisher Comments Hamilton Cravens challenges widespread belief to argue that the influence of evolutionary ideas on American culture and science has been greater since the collapse of Soical Darwinism than before....
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The Tangled Wing Bottle
by Melvin Konner Publisher Comments First published twenty years ago to great acclaim, The Tangled Wing soon became a must-read for anyone interested in the biological roots of human behavior and emotions. Since then however, revolutions have taken place in the biological sciences--not...
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The Biology of Moral Systems
by Richard D Alexander Synopsis Despite wide acceptance that the attributes of living creatures have appeared through a cumulative evolutionary process guided chiefly by natural selection, many human activities seem analytically inaccessible from such an approach. Morality, for example,...
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Diversity of Life (Trade) (92 Edition)
by Edward O. Wilson Synopsis The classic story of how life on Earth evolved and how the diversity of the species is threatened unless whole ecosystems are rescued. Color plates....
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In Search of Nature
by Edward O Wilson Publisher Comments Perhaps more than any other scientist of our century, Edward O. Wilson has scrutinized animals in their natural settings, tweezing out the dynamics of their social organization, their relationship with their environments, and their behavior, not only for...
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Headless Males Make Great Lovers: And Other Unusual Natural Histories
by Marty Crump Publisher Comments The natural world is filled with diverse (not to mention quirky and odd) animal behaviors. Consider the male praying mantis that continues to mate after being beheaded; the spiders, insects, and birds that offer gifts of food in return for sex; the male...
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Why We Do It: Rethinking Sex and the Selfish Gene
by Niles Eldredge Publisher Comments OVER THE LAST THIRTY YEARS, many scientists have come to insist that our behavior is governed by our genes--above all when it comes to sex, which, we are told, is how genes perpetuate themselves. Not so, argues evolutionary biologist Niles Eldredge in...
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Headless Males Make Great Lovers and Other Unusual Natural Histories
by Marty Crump Publisher Comments The natural world is filled with diverse—not to mention quirky and odd—animal behaviors. Consider the male praying mantis that continues to mate after being beheaded; the spiders, insects, and birds that offer gifts of food in return for sex;...
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Evolution and Human Kinship
by Austin L Hughes Publisher Comments While there have been controversial attempts to link conclusions from sociobiological studies of animal populations to humans, few behavioral scientists or anthropologists have made serious progress. In this work, Austin Hughes presents a unique and well-...
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Origins of Virtue
by Matt Ridley Synopsis Why are people nice to each other? What are the reasons for altruism? This text explains how the human mind has evolved a special instinct for social exchange, offering an argument about the paradox of human benevolence....
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Reconstructing Biology: Genetics and Ecology in the New World Order
by John Vandermeer Book News Annotation A deconstruction of traditional scientific values predicated on the idea that "the trinity" of genetic determinism, neo-Malthusianism, and nature worship is a social construction built by biologists and popular culture. Although a weighty thesis...
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Coming Home to the Pleistocene
by Paul Shepa Shepard Publisher Comments "When we grasp fully that the best expressions of our humanity were not invented by civilization but by cultures that preceded it, that the natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams...
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