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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Staff Pick This is an absolutely fascinating account of a line of cells that would proliferate to such a degree that they became immortal. Shaved from a tumor in a poor black woman in the 1950s, cultured without her knowledge, and grown to amazing proportions... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis by Kim Todd Publisher Comments Today, an entomologist in a laboratory can gaze at a butterfly pupa with a microscope so powerful that the swirling cells on the pupas skin look like a galaxy. She can activate a single gene or knock it out. What she cant do is discover how the insect... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (P.S.) by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments The Development of an Extraordinary Species We human beings share 98 percent of our genes with chimpanzees. Yet humans are the dominant species on the planet -- having founded civilizations and religions, developed intricate and diverse forms of... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance by Ernst E Mayr Synopsis An incisive study of the development of the biological sciences chronicles the origins, maturation, and modern views of the classification of life forms, the evolution of species, and the inheritance and variation of characteristics.... (read more) List Price $41.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson Staff Pick One of the most revealing, readable books about the mind to come along in years. A simply fascinating glimpse into animal behavior — on the farm, at home, and even in the mirror.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner Publisher Comments Winner of the Pulitzer Prize On a desert island in the heart of the Galapagos archipelago, where Darwin received his first inklings of the theory of evolution, two scientists, Peter and Rosemary Grant, have spent twenty years proving that Darwin did not... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Voyage of the Beagle: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches (Penguin Classics) by Charles Darwin Publisher Comments This richly readable book is the product of Charles Darwin's amazing journey aboard the Beagle where he made observations that led to his revolutionary theory of natural selection. Complete and unabridged.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine M Benyus Publisher Comments This profound and accessible book details how science is studying natures best ideas to solve our toughest 21st-century problems. If chaos theory transformed our view of the universe, biomimicry is transforming our life on Earth. Biomimicry is innovation... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain by Antonio Damasio Publisher Comments From one of the most significant neuroscientists at work today, a pathbreaking investigation of a question that has confounded philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists for centuries: how is consciousness created? Antonio Damasio has spent... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Origin of Species (Mentor) by Charles Darwin Publisher Comments The book that shook the world First time from Signet Classic This is the book that revolutionized the natural sciences and every literary, philosophical and religious thinker who followed. Darwin's theory of evolution and the descent of man remains as... (read more) Your price: $2.50 Used - Mass Market
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Wisdom: From Philosophy to Neuroscience by Stephen S. Hall Publisher Comments A compelling investigation into one of our most coveted and cherished ideals, and the efforts of modern science to penetrate the mysterious nature of this timeless virtue. We all recognize wisdom, but defining it is more elusive. In this fascinating... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Evolutionary Theory and Victorian Culture (Control of Nature) by Martin Fichman Publisher Comments Although Charles Darwin was a central figure in the 19th-century development of evolutionary theory, today we tend to focus almost exclusively on him and so overlook the important role played by other leading thinkers of the time. For example, Alfred... (read more) List Price $22.25 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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 discerning... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Staff Pick The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks tells the tale of a woman whose cells were used — without her knowledge — in breakthrough medical research after her 1951 death. Skloot's moving story of faith, family, and science uses the past to teach us about... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life by Daniel C Dennett Publisher Comments In a book that is both groundbreaking and accessible, Daniel C. Dennett, whom Chet Raymo of The Boston Globe calls "one of the most provocative thinkers on the planet," focuses his unerringly logical mind on the theory of natural selection, showing how... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Human Evolution: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Bernard Wood Publisher Comments This "Very Short Introduction traces the history of paleoanthropology from its I beginnings in the eighteenth century to today's latest fossil finds. Concentrating on the fossil evidence for human evolution, it makes reference to the relevant... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Cartoon Guide to Genetics by Larry Gonick Publisher Comments Have you ever asked yourself: Are spliced genes the same as mended Levis? Watson and Crick? Aren't they a team of British detectives? Plant sex? Can they do that? Is Genetic Mutation the name of one of those heavy metal bands? Asparagine? Which of the... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Darwin's Dreampond: Drama on Lake Victoria by Tijs Goldschmidt Publisher Comments Dazzling in their variety of sizes, shapes, and colors, the cichlids (small perch-like fishes) of Lake Victoria, like the finches of the Galapagos Islands and Hawaii's Honeycreepers, have been geographically isolated long enough to undergo unusually... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea by Carl Zimmer Review "[Evolution] is a richly illustrated and lucidly written companion book by Carl Zimmer." Science... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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