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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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Song of the Dodo (96 Edition)
by David Quammen
Publisher Comments David Quammen's book, The Song of the Dodo, is a brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope, far-reaching in its message -- a crucial book in precarious times, which radically alters the way in which we understand the natural world and our place...
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Selfish Gene New Edition
by Richard Dawkins Publisher Comments This nontechnical description of modern genetics is based on the insight that replicating structures have a built-in drive for self-preservation. A fascinating and provocative popular account....
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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 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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In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement
by Michael Lienesch Publisher Comments The current controversy over teaching evolution in the public schools has grabbed front-page headlines and topped news broadcasts all across the United States. In the Beginning investigates the movement that has ignited debate in state...
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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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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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The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition With a New Introduction by the Author
by Richard Dawkins Publisher Comments 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...
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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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Origins of Life 2ND Edition
by Freeman Dyson Publisher Comments This general book starts by surveying theories and experiments concerned with the origin of life; it then gives a sketch of new ideas and experiments by which the gaps in our understanding may be filled. The principal new idea is that a search for...
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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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Symbiotic Planet Uk Edition
by Lynn Margulis Synopsis This text traces the evolution of planet Earth, from the origin of life to the emergence of "hypersea" and humanity's cloudy future. The book also explains the importance of symbiosis, the process where different organisms contribute to each other's...
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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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Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom
by Sean 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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Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated
by Steve Jones Publisher Comments Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species is probably the best-known, least-read book. One of the most important achievements of the past millennium, it did for biology what Galileo did for astronomy: made it into a single science rather than a collection...
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The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution
by Stuart A Kauffman Publisher Comments Stuart Kauffman here presents a brilliant new paradigm for evolutionary biology, one that extends the basic concepts of Darwinian evolution to accommodate recent findings and perspectives from the fields of biology, physics, chemistry and mathematics...
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Darwin on Trial 2ND Edition
by Phillip E Johnson Synopsis In clear, concise chapters, Johnson offers a casual, reasoned and scientifically sound evaluation of the support for Darwinism--from fossil records to molecular biology. In a new afterword, he responds to his critics and their arguments. "Unquestionably...
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River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life (Science Masters Series)
by Richard Dawkins Publisher Comments 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 ”...
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