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Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants by Robert Sullivan Powells.com Staff Pick Do not attempt this at home! Last time we heard from Sullivan, he was braving the polluted Meadowlands in a canoe. Now, in Rats, he shares his year of nights in a lower Manhattan alley, watching rats in their natural habitat to learn what he can... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins by Steve Olson Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-275) and index.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Sex, Time, and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution by Leonard Shlain Publisher Comments Shlain offers carefully reasoned and certain-to-be-controversial discussions on subjects such as menses, orgasm, masturbation, menopause, circumcision, male aggression, the evolution of language, homosexuality, and the origin of marriage.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Bugs of Washington & Oregon by John Acorn Publisher Comments A fun-filled field guide into the creepy-crawly world of the bugs of Washington and Oregon. Learn about 125 of the coolest bugs you might encounter in the great outdoors of the Northwest. John Acorn, an avid "bugster" and host of the popular television... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis by Kim Todd Publisher Comments Before Darwin, before Audubon, there was Merian. An artist turned naturalist known for her botanical illustrations, she was born just sixteen years after Galileo proclaimed that the earth orbited the sun. But at the age of fifty she sailed from Europe... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 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... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Memory: The Key to Consciousness by Richard F. Thompson and Stephen A. Madigan Publisher Comments Memory is perhaps the most extraordinary phenomenon in the natural world. Every person's brain holds millions of bits of information in long-term storage. This vast memory store includes our extensive vocabulary and knowledge of language; the tremendous... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Altruism Equation: Seven Scientists Search for the Origins by Lee Alan Dugatkin Publisher Comments In a world supposedly governed by ruthless survival of the fittest, why do we see acts of goodness in both animals and humans? This problem plagued Charles Darwin in the 1850s as he developed his theory of evolution through natural selection. Indeed... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Ten Trusts: What We Must Do to Care for the Animals We Love by Jane Goodall From Powells.com We're all aware that our natural resources are threatened. But when was the last time you considered your relationship with the rest of your phylum? The Ten Trusts is an exploration of ecological and humanitarian perspectives for living in a... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 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... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Biology on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   Human Natures: Genes, Cultures, and the Human Prospect by Paul R Ehrlich Publisher Comments Why do we behave the way we do? Biologist Paul Ehrlich suggests that although people share a common genetic code, these genes "do not shout commands at us . . . at the very most, they whisper suggestions." He argues that human nature is not so much the... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals by Robert M Sapolsky Publisher Comments The human animal in all its fascinating quirks of nature is showcased in this thoughtful and entertaining essay collection from America's most beloved neurobiologist/primatologist.<P>In these essays -- updated for this volume -- Robert M. Sapolsky... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human by Elizabeth Hess Powells.com Staff Pick This compassionate biography explores a fascinating character and an important story, beautifully illustrating the life of the mischievous chimpanzee who was the subject of a language experiment in the '70s. Both hopeful and sad, this moving account... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science by James D Watson Publisher Comments Watson--who helped discover the secret of life and won the Nobel Prize by the time he was 34--shares everything he has learned about getting good work done, in this delightful and wittily instructive memoir. Photos throughout.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $18.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Insect Lives: Stories of Mystery and Romance from a Hidden World by Erich Hoyt Powells.com Staff Pick I'm not really big on bugs (too many of them in one place give me the creeps), but I believe in facing what you fear, so I read Insect Lives. What a great book, chock full of entertaining factoids, illustrations, fascinating and humorous tidbits... (read more) List Price $20.50 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The passionate observer :writings from the world of nature by Jean Henri Fabre Publisher Comments A classic of nature writing, long out of print, is paired here with jewel-like illustrations for a beautiful gift edition, The Passionate Observer. Renowned 19th-century entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre's witty and amusing collected writings about bugs... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life by J. Craig Venter Publisher Comments In this triumphant true story of one of the most fascinating and controversial figures in science today, Venter tells of the unparalleled drama in the quest to map the human genome--a tale that involves as much politics as science. 16-page b&w photo... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $14.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Outer Reaches of Life by John Postgate Publisher Comments An exploration of the world of microbes, and what it reveals about the origin and evolution of life.... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price $5.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Introducing Mind & Brain 3RD Edition by Angus Gellatly Publisher Comments Examines a profound and mysterious puzzle: how does the biological tissue that makes up the brain give rise to the activity that our culture refers to as the mind?... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Ape in the Tree: An Intellectual and Natural History of "Proconsul, by Alan Walker Publisher Comments "Proconsul" have profound implications for the very definition of humanness. This book speaks not only of an ape in a tree but also of the ape in our tree.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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