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How could a relatively simple chemical code give rise to the complexity of a human being? How could our human genome have evolved? And how does it actually work? Over the past 50 years we have decip……続きを見る

What is responsible for the differences between the sexes in so many animals, from the brilliant plumage of birds of paradise to the antlers on deer? And why are the traits that distinguish the sexe……続きを見る

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolutionーfrom the development of agriculture and citi……続きを見る

Tim Lewens aims to understand what it means to take an evolutionary approach to cultural change, and why it is that this approach is often treated with suspicion. Convinced of the exceptional power ……続きを見る

How our collective intelligence has helped us to evolve and prosper Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basi……続きを見る

"[An] intriguing philosophical journey into a critical issue within evolutionary theory that for too long has remained unresolved." ーWall Street Journal Matt Ridley is one of our finest science wri……続きを見る

An "invaluable [and] highly readable" account of the quest to map our DNA, the blueprint for lifeーand what it means for our future ( The Philadelphia Inquirer). Genome tells the story of the most a……続きを見る

Welcome to a fascinating dive into the world of genetics and precision medicine! In this book, we will explore a wide range of topics related to these areas of science that are revolutionizing the w……続きを見る

THE TIMES BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF 2024 GUARDIAN BEST IDEAS BOOKS OF 2024 ECONOMIST BEST BOOKS OF 2024 FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOKS OF 2024 From one of the world's great science writers, a book that explo……続きを見る

Longlisted for PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award “A bulletproof case that sexual diversity exists in the natural world…The Sexual Evolution is a thoughtfully and delightfully written bo……続きを見る

By the author of the acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, a "brilliant" and "beautifully told" new natural history of mammals, illuminating the lost story of the extraordinary fa……続きを見る

How our stone-age brains made modern society, and why it matters for relationships between men and women As countless love songs, movies, and self-help books attest, men and women have long sought d……続きを見る

Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be indistinguishable from living things. 続きを見る

“Engineering” has firmly taken root in the entangled bank of biology even as proposals to remake the living world have sent tendrils in every direction, and at every scale. Nature Remade explores th……続きを見る

Living organisms are astonishingly complex. And the more we know about them - their biochemistry, their anatomy, their behaviour - the more astonishing are the detailed adaptations that we discover.……続きを見る

Games are everywhere: Drivers manoeuvring in heavy traffic are playing a driving game. Bargain hunters bidding on eBay are playing an auctioning game. A firm negotiating next year's wage is playing ……続きを見る

The Artful Species explores the idea that our aesthetic responses and art behaviors are connected to our evolved human nature. Our humanoid forerunners displayed aesthetic sensibilities hundreds of ……続きを見る

Spite angers and enrages us, but it also keeps us honest. In this provocative account, a psychologist examines how petty vengeance explains human thriving. Spite seems utterly useless. You don't gai……続きを見る

Humans possess an extraordinary capacity for culture, from the arts and language to science and technology. But how did the human mindーand the uniquely human ability to devise and transmit culture……続きを見る

The unexpected diversity, beauty, and strangeness of life in ancient lakesーsome millions of years oldーand the remarkable insights the lakes are yielding about the causes of biodiversity. Most lake……続きを見る

Over the last 25 years, evolutionary game theory has grown with theoretical contributions from the disciplines of mathematics, economics, computer science and biology. It is now ripe for application……続きを見る

The Australian Beetles series represents a comprehensive treatment of the beetles of Australia, a relatively under-studied fauna that includes many unusual and unique evolutionary lineages found now……続きを見る

An evolutionary case for the existence of free will Scientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. ……続きを見る

The eagerly anticipated conclusion to Peter Godfrey-Smith’s three-part exploration of the origins of intelligence on Earth, which began with the bestselling Other Minds in 2018 and continued with Me……続きを見る

From a leading computer scientist, a unifying theory that will revolutionize our understanding of how life evolves and learns. How does life prosper in a complex and erratic world? While we know tha……続きを見る

“An insightful and breathtaking exploration of humanity’s evolutionary baggage that explains some of our species’ greatest successes and failures.” ーYuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens The ancient……続きを見る

“Carter Phipps brilliantly expands our understanding of evolution by showing us that a new science is emergingーone that will holistically integrate our understanding of consciousness, cosmology, an……続きを見る

This book serves the larger community of plant researchers working on the taxonomy, species delimitation, phylogeny, and biogeography of pseudo-cereals, with a special emphasis on amaranths. It also……続きを見る

"A strikingly original . . . collection of essays, which places the work and broad intellectual interests of Lynne Margulis in a variety of contexts." ーStacy Alaimo, author of Exposed: Environmenta……続きを見る

The most important investigation of genetic science since The Selfish Gene, from the author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling The Red Queen and The Origins of Virtue. The genome is our 10……続きを見る