Evolution

Seventy-five thousand years ago, something tore the sky open over Sumatra.

'Masterful and ambitious.

The third volume follows the final biological arc leading toward humanity.

Complex Multicellularity & Vertebrate Emergence explores one of evolution's greatest transitions: the emergence of a developmental mode capable of building increasingly complex organisms.

For as long as humans have been on Earth, we have looked up to the stars for clues to our own existence.

For as long as humans have been on Earth, we have looked up to the stars for clues to our own existence.

The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from the brain of Charles Darwin.

The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from the brain of Charles Darwin.

'An entertaining, expert guide to the precarious, miraculous and wondrous journey to where we are now' - Dara O Briain'What a fun book!

Early Mammals & Placental ElaborationThe third couplet in Couplets in Evolutionary Time explores one of the great turning points in life's history: the emergence of the mammalian grade and its later refinement through placental development.

Origins & Symbiotic "e;Doubling"e; is the opening volume of Couplets in Evolutionary Time, a five-part exploration of life's major evolutionary transitions through a logarithmic framework.

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In 1957, as Americans obsessed over the launch of the Soviet Sputnik satellite, another less noticed space-based scientific revolution was taking off.

In 1957, as Americans obsessed over the launch of the Soviet Sputnik satellite, another less noticed space-based scientific revolution was taking off.

The deepest waters of Earth hide more than darkness.

Ninety-nine percent of everything that has ever walked, built, or thought on this planet has been erased by geological time.

New York Times Bestseller From survival of the fittest to survival of the most conscious, discover a revolutionary scientific message of hope for humanity's future.

Fear is a universal emotion and is typically depicted as a despicable one.

Fear is a universal emotion and is typically depicted as a despicable one.

The Vertebrate Elaboration of Life explores one of evolution's greatest chapters through a new temporal framework based on logarithmic arcs of evolutionary time.

This book is a Weekend Pocketbook on Everything You Should Know About the Biodiversity Crisis, the quiet unraveling of the living world we depend on more than we realize.

«Estoy plenamente convencido de que las especies no son inmutables, sino que las que pertenecen a lo que se conoce como un mismo género son descendientes directas de alguna otra especie por lo común extinta, de igual modo que las variedades reconocidas de una especie cualquiera son descendientes de esa especie.

Este libro cuenta la gran aventura de los avatares y de las múltiples y sucesivas migraciones de los "homininos" (es decir, del hombre y todas las especies humanas extinguidas) desde que los primeros de ellos descendieron de los árboles y, muy poco a poco, empezaron a transitar en posición erecta sobre la tierra, hasta el Neolítico y el tiempo presente.

First published in 1859 and revised through six editions in response to two decades of scientific debate, On the Origin of Species laid out the theory of evolution by natural selection with a wealth of evidence drawn from geology, breeding, and comparative anatomy.

¿Qué podemos aprender de los genomas de nuestros parientes evolutivos más cercanos?

¿Alguna vez has mirado una abeja y te has preguntado qué le pasa por la cabeza?

Como declara ya en el prólogo su autor, Giorgio Manzi, "Últimas noticias sobre la evolución humana" es un libro esencialmente divulgativo acerca de nuestra prehistoria, desde Lucy a los neanderthales, del misterioso "Homo naledi" a Ötzi o a los hallazgos de Atapuerca.

'If there is one dominant myth about the world, one huge mistake we all make .

Jezreel, You Were Not Made From ApesMost books about evolution begin with the assumption that the story is already settled.

Die Schönheit des UnvollkommenenDie Unvollkommenheit ist nicht unser Mangel, sondern unser größtes Geschenk.

A richly illustrated and comprehensive introduction to the world's sharksSharks are the top predators in many marine ecosystems.

'Your world will be larger for reading this book' CHLOE DALTON author of Raising Hare'The most persistent feeling, and one that Martins conveys beautifully, is one of awe at the sheer diversity and inventiveness of the living world' GUARDIANWelcome to the hidden, squirming world of parasites - some of the most misunderstood, and most important, creatures with whom we share the Earth.

Launching a new series, Monographs in Behavior and Ecology, this work is an intensive study of five species of New World monkeys--all omnivores with a diet of fruit and small prey.

What does the branching of blood vessels in your body have to do with the growth of cities?

Long before Charles Darwin undertook his first voyage, animal taxonomists had begun the scientific classification of animals, plants, and minerals.

Since its discovery in I960, the hybridization of somatic cells has evolved from a biological curiosity into an analytical method that today underlies nearly all investigations of the genetic aspects of various biological phenomena.

The New World primates have radiated widely in tropical America, evolving a variety of adaptations to cope with different ways of life.

One of the world's most distinguished astrophysicists presents a comprehensive theoretical treatment of the dynamical evolution of globular clusters.

Robin Dunbar uses economic models to explore the social behavior of the gelada baboon (Theropithecus gelada), a unique species, whose social system is one of the most complex among the primates.

A groundbreaking work that transformed the way we understand life on Earth.

As the study of cooperative breeding systems expands, a number of key species form the examples that underpin our general understanding.

The origin of species has fascinated both biologists and the general public since the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859.

The purpose of this book is to explain why red-winged blackbirds are polygynous and to describe the effects of this mating system on other aspects of the biology of the species.

In November 2018, a video appeared online that should not have been possible.

A woman lies in a Nashville hospital bed while doctors infuse her own blood back into her veins.

God's Providential Work in Creation Before Life BeganGod has been present and active in creation from the moment he created it ex nihilo.

¿Qué es lo que nos hace humanos?

An international group of distinguished scientists presents an up-to-date survey of quantitative problems at the forefront of modern evolutionary theory.

After his famous visit to the Galapagos Islands, Darwin speculated that "e;one might fancy that, from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends.

Various approaches have been developed to evaluate the consequences of spatial structure on evolution in subdivided populations.