Evolution

Soon after Charles Darwin formulated his theory of evolution, primate cognition became a major area of research.

The Living Elephants is the authoritative resource for information on both Asian and African elephants.

Although researchers have long been aware that the species-typical architecture of the human mind is the product of our evolutionary history, it has only been in the last three decades that advances in such fields as evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, and paleoanthropology have made the fact of our evolution illuminating.

This unique book looks at the biology of aging from a fundamentally new perspective, one based on evolutionary theory rather than traditional concepts which emphasize molecular and cellular processes.

Biogeography is a diverse subject, traditionally focusing on the distribution of plants and animals at different taxonomic levels, past and present.

A World From Dust describes how a set of chemical rules combined with the principles of evolution in order to create an environment in which life as we know it could unfold.

A World From Dust describes how a set of chemical rules combined with the principles of evolution in order to create an environment in which life as we know it could unfold.

The Crustacea is one of the dominant invertebrate groups, displaying staggering diversity in form and function, and spanning the full spectrum of Earth's environments.

Mental disorders arise from neural and psychological mechanisms that have been built and shaped by natural selection across our evolutionary history.

Much of Charles Darwin's groundbreaking work as an evolutionary biologist stemmed from his study of birds.

In its modern usage, the term "e;consilience"e; was first established by Edward O.

In this interdisciplinary work, author Ron Edwards offers an innovative rereading of H.

In this interdisciplinary work, author Ron Edwards offers an innovative rereading of H.

In order to describe the logic of morality, "e;contractualist"e; philosophers have studied how individuals behave when they choose to follow their moral intuitions.

It seems likely that scientists will someday discover how life can emerge on habitable planets like the early Earth and Mars.

It seems likely that scientists will someday discover how life can emerge on habitable planets like the early Earth and Mars.

The scientific understanding of arthropod phylogeny and evolution has changed significantly in recent decades.

This is the sixth volume of a ten-volume series on The Natural History of the Crustacea.

This is the seventh volume of a ten-volume series on The Natural History of the Crustacea.

This is the eighth volume of a ten-volume series on The Natural History of the Crustacea.

When did the first vertebrates emerge, and how did they differ from their invertebrate ancestors?

When did the first vertebrates emerge, and how did they differ from their invertebrate ancestors?

"e;It's a rare author who can combine literary erudition and an easy fluency of style together with expert knowledge of psychology and evolutionary biology.

"e;It's a rare author who can combine literary erudition and an easy fluency of style together with expert knowledge of psychology and evolutionary biology.

A place of exceptional diversity, rapid change, and high energy, Europe has literally been at the crossroads of the world ever since the interaction of Asia, North America and Africa formed the tropical island archipelago that would become the continent of today.

'Required reading for anyone remotely curious about how they came to be remotely curious' Observer'Enthralling' Spectator What is human consciousness and how is it possible?

What makes us human?

In this ground-breaking book Chris Stringer sets out to answer all the big questions in the debate about our origins.

Acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution written in the last hundred years, The Blind Watchmaker offers an inspiring and accessible introduction to one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time.

Charles Darwin transformed our understanding of the world with the idea of natural selection, challenging the notion that species are fixed and unchanging.

Does one planet really matter among the immensity of the Cosmos?

In Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life Daniel C.

This biography of Charles Darwin attempts to capture the private unknown life of the real man - the gambling and gluttony at Cambridge, his gruelling trip round the globe, his intimate family life, worries about persecution and thoughts about God.

The Autobiographies of Charles Darwin (1809-82) provide a fascinating glimpse into the mind of one of the world's intellectual giants.

The origins of life remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of science.

How could such an intricate object as the human eye - so complex and so precise - have come about by chance?

One of the key works in the nineteenth-century battle between science and Scripture, Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology (1830-33) sought to explain the geological state of the modern Earth by considering the long-term effects of observable natural phenomena.

"e;Not since Darwin has an author so lifted the science of ecology with insight and delightful imagery"e; - Richard Dawkins In this book a master scientist tells the great story of how life on earth evolved.

This exciting anniversary edition has a new introduction and scholarly references by William Bynum, and the cover design is by Damien Hirst.

Why are people nice to each other?

Published in 1872, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals was a book at the very heart of Darwin's research interests - a central pillar of his 'human' series.

In The Universe Within, Neil Shubin, one of the world's leading experts, reveals to us the extraordinary cosmic and evolutionary adventure of our own bodies.

Published amid a firestorm of controversy in 1859, this is a book that changed the world.

Your Inner Fish tells the extraordinary history of the human body and gives answers to some of the questions that only evolution can.

In this remarkable book Adrian Desmond and James Moore, world authorities on Darwin, give a completely new explanation of how Darwin came to his famous view of evolution, which traced all life to an ancient common ancestor.

With his revolutionary work The Origin of Species Charles Darwin overthrew contemporary beliefs about Divine Providence and the beginnings of life on earth.

The first comprehensive look at menopause from prehistory to todayAre the ways we look at menopause all wrong?

How Cold War America came to attribute human evolutionary success to our species' unique capacity for murderAfter World War II, the question of how to define a universal human nature took on new urgency.

'The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus'A selection of Darwin's extraordinary adventures during the voyage of the Beagle Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday.

On Human Nature: Biology, Psychology, Ethics, Politics, and Religion covers the present state of knowledge on human diversity and its adaptative significance through a broad and eclectic selection of representative chapters.