In The Big Questions: Evolution, one of the world's leading experts, Francisco Ayala, examines key facets of genetics, evolution and cloning. He uses the most up-to-date research to answer the 20 ke……続きを見る
Birds are among the most successful vertebrates on Earth. An important part of our natural environment and deeply embedded in our culture, birds are studied by more professional ornithologists and e……続きを見る
The most commonly kept domestic animal in the developed world, the cat has been a part of human life for thousands of years. Cats have been both worshipped and persecuted over this long period - eit……続きを見る
著者:John M. Gowdy
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2021年07月31日
Ultrasocial argues that rather than environmental destruction and extreme inequality being due to human nature, they are the result of the adoption of agriculture by our ancestors. Human economy has……続きを見る
著者:Dale E. Greenwalt
出版社: Princeton University Press
発売日: 2023年01月17日
The revolution in science that is transforming our understanding of extinct life
We used to think of fossils as being composed of nothing but rock and minerals, all molecular traces of life having v……続きを見る
Life is definitively purposive and creative. Organisms use genes in controlling their destiny. This book presents a paradigm shift in understanding living systems. The genome is not a code, blueprin……続きを見る
著者:Joseph E. Armstrong
出版社: The University of Chicago Press
発売日: 2014年10月02日
This "amazing and wonderful book" explores the evolutionary history of photosynthesis in a grand story of how the world became the verdant place we know ( Choice).
On this blue planet, long before d……続きを見る
著者:Jonathan Weiner
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2014年05月14日
**PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A dramatic story of groundbreaking scientific research of Darwin's discovery of evolution that "spark[s] not just the intellect, but the imagination" (Washington Post Book ……続きを見る
著者:Alan F. Dixson
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2021年05月31日
There are more than 6000 species belonging to twenty-seven orders in the Class Mammalia. Comparative studies of this diverse and magnificent array of extant species provide valuable opportunities to……続きを見る
Human behaviour is marvellous in its complexity, variability and unpredictability. Understanding it, however, is not solely the role of psychologists: everyone has a vested interest in it, from indi……続きを見る
This book offers an introduction to the multidisciplinary subject of evolutionary linguistics, which seeks to explain the biological origins of language and its subsequent development in humans. Rou……続きを見る
A paradigm-shifting book in the vein of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, education, money, power, and sustainabilityーand offers a n……続きを見る
While evolutionary psychology is a fascinating science, it is also often misunderstood. In this highly acclaimed undergraduate textbook, Workman and Reader assume no prior knowledge of evolution and……続きを見る
For all the discussion in the media about creationism and 'Intelligent Design', virtually nothing has been said about the evidence in question - the evidence for evolution by natural selection.Yet, ……続きを見る
著者:Noah Whiteman
出版社: Little, Brown and Company
発売日: 2023年10月24日
**An evolutionary biologist tells the story of nature’s toxins and why we are attractedーand addictedーto them.
“A magisterial, fascinating, and gripping tour de force.” ーNeil Shubin, biology profe……続きを見る
Decapod crustaceans, shrimps, crabs, prawns and their allies are highly visible and important members of marine environments. They are among the most charismatic of marine animals, inhabiting beache……続きを見る
A NEW APPROACH TO EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY: A leading developmental psychologist proposes an evolutionary pathway to understanding human psychological agency.
Nature cannot build organisms biological……続きを見る
*A New York Times Editor's Choice pick
*Shortlisted for the 2022 Pacific Northwest Book Awards
A beloved natural historian explores how climate change is driving evolution
In Hurricane Lizards and P……続きを見る
著者:W. Tecumseh Fitch
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
Language, more than anything else, is what makes us human. It appears that no communication system of equivalent power exists elsewhere in the animal kingdom. Any normal human child will learn a lan……続きを見る
"A gifted and thoughtful writer, Metzl brings us to the frontiers of biology and technology, and reveals a world full of promise and peril." ー Siddhartha Mukherjee MD, New York Times bestselling au……続きを見る
In "The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Basis and Its Scope," Henry Edward Crampton presents a comprehensive exploration of evolutionary theory, examining its philosophical underpinnings and far-reaching……続きを見る
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST
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A pioneering canine behaviorist draws on cutting-edge research to show that a single, simple traitーthe capacity to loveーis what makes dogs such perfect companions for humans, and explains how we c……続きを見る
著者:Carl Zimmer
出版社: Pan Macmillan
発売日: 2021年03月18日
'Profound, lyrical, and fascinating, Life’s Edge will give you a newfound appreciation for life itself. It is the work of a master science writer at the height of his skills.' – Ed Yong, author of A……続きを見る
For all the "selfishness" of genes, they team up to survive. Is the history of life in fact a story of cooperation? Amid the violence and brutality that dominates the news, it's hard to think of ou……続きを見る
Few other books have created such a lasting storm of controversy as 'The Origin of Species'. It took Charles Darwin more than twenty years to publish this book, in part because he realized that it w……続きを見る
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2021年05月16日
This book presents the result of an innovative challenge, to create a systematic literature overview driven by machine-generated content. Questions and related keywords were prepared for the machine……続きを見る
**"An ingenious argument" (Kirkus) for a "novel thesis" (Publishers Weekly) that cells, not DNA, hold the key to understanding life’s past and present **
What defines who we are? For decades, the a……続きを見る