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The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
by Robert Wright
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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... ( read more)
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The Demon in the Freezer
by Richard Preston
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The first major bioterror event in the United States — the anthrax attacks in October 2001 — was a clarion call for scientists who work with "hot" agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons. In The Demon... ( read more)
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The Hot Zone
by Richard Preston
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"Popular science writing at its best and the years most infectious page-turner" (People), this two-million-copy bestseller is "a top-drawer horror story...the best literary roller coaster of the fall" (Newsweek).... ( read more)
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Genesis: The Scientific Quest for Life's Origin
by Robert M. Hazen
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Life on Earth arose nearly 4 billion years ago, bursting forth from air, water, and rock. Though the process obeyed all the rules of chemistry and physics, the details of that original event pose as deep a mystery as any facing science. How did non... ( read more)
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Welcome To the Genome : User's Guide To the Genetic Past, Present, and Future (05 Edition)
by Rob Desalle
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A thrilling user's guide to the genomics era Welcome to the genome, the miraculous blueprint of your DNA, coiled tight as a spring in the nucleus of each cell of your body. If unwound, the DNA from just one cell, while only a molecule in width, would... ( read more)
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The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul
by Francis Crick
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Traditionally, the human soul is regarded as a nonphysical concept that can only be examined by psychiatrists and theologists. In his new book, The Astonishing Hypothesis, Nobel Laureate Francis Crick boldly straddles the line between science and... ( read more)
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Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life
by Stephen Jay Gould
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"People of good will wish to see science and religion at peace.... I do not see how science and religion could be unified, or even synthesized, under any common scheme of explanation or analysis; but I also do not understand why the two enterprises... ( read more)
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Adam's Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form
by Michael Sims
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Includes bibliographical references ([315]-327) and index.... ( read more)
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The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language
by John Maynard Smith
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"Moving speedily from epoch to epoch, fueled by a few important concepts (such as the division of labor) and explaining all the genetics they use, Smith and Szathmary show 'just how difficult it has been to evolve complex organisms whose genes cooperate... ( read more)
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The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth
by E. O. Wilson
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In this daring work, Edward O. Wilson proposes an alliance between science and religion to save Earth's vanishing biodiversity. Dear Pastor: We have not met, yet I feel I know you well enough to call you friend. First of all, we grew up in the same faith.... ( read more)
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The Darwinian Revolution: Science Red in Tooth and Claw
by Michael Ruse
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Originally published in 1979, The Darwinian Revolution was the first comprehensive and readable synthesis of the history of evolutionary thought. Though the years since have seen an enormous flowering of research on Darwin and other nineteenth-century... ( read more)
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Life's Solution : Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe (03 Edition)
by Simon Conway Morris
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The assassin's bullet misses, the Archduke's carriage moves forward, and a catastrophic war is avoided. So too with the history of life. Re-run the tape of life, as Stephen J. Gould claimed, and the outcome must be entirely different: an alien world... ( read more)
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The Evolution Explosion: How Humans Cause Rapid Evolutionary Change
by Stephen R Palumbi
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Evolution is not merely the process that ruled the rise and fall of the dinosaurs over hundreds of millions of years. It also happens rapidly, so quickly and so frequently that it changes how all of us live our lives. Drugs fail because diseases like HIV... ( read more)
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Cartoon Guide To Genetics Updated Edition
by Larry Gonick
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Illustrates, simplifies, and humor-coats the important principles of classical and modern genetics and their experimental bases, with amusing anecdotes about how the ancients tried to explain inheritance and sex determination.... ( read more)
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Animal in Its World Volume 1 Field Studies
by Niko Tinbergen
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Together with Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen is generally acknowledged as the founder of the young science of ethology. Professor Tinbergen has spent a lifetime of research exploring the behavior of many types of animals in their natural environments, and... ( read more)
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Discover Biology
by Michael L. Cain
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The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, His Friends, and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History
by David Freedberg
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Years ago, David Freedberg stumbled across a group of drawings by the little-known Academy of Linceans, a seventeenth-century Italian group that took as its task nothing less than the pictorial documentation of all of nature. Moving across Europe, he... ( read more)
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The Well-Dressed Ape: A Natural History of Myself
by Hannah Holmes
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The well-dressed ape, aka Homo sapiens, is a strange mammal. It mates remarkably often, and with unprecedented affection. With similar enthusiasm, it will eat to the point of undermining its own health-behavior unthinkable in wild animals. The human... ( read more)
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At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
by Stuart A Kauffman
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A major scientific revolution has begun, a new paradigm that rivals Darwin's theory in importance. At its heart is the discovery of the order that lies deep within the most complex of systems, from the origin of life, to the workings of giant... ( read more)
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The Trouble with Testosterone: And Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament
by Robert M Sapolsky
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From the author of the widely acclaimed Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, an enlightening perspective on the peculiar drives and intrinsic needs underlying human behavior, and how they link us to -- and separate us from -- the rest of the animal kingdom. In... ( read more)
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