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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Earth’s natural history is full of fascinating instances of convergence: phenomena like eyes and wings and tree-climbing lizards that have evolved independently, multiple times. But evolutionary biologists also point out many examples of contingency, cases where the tiniest change — a random mutation or an ancient butterfly sneeze — caused evolution to take a completely different course. What role does each force really play in the constantly...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Many animals and plants eke out seemingly unremarkable lives. Passive, constrained, modest, threatened. Then, in a blink of evolutionary time, they flourish spectacularly. Once we start to look, these "sleeping beauties" crop up everywhere. But why? Looking at the book of life, from apex predators to keystone crops, and informed by his own cutting-edge experiments, renowned scientist Andreas Wagner demonstrates that innovations can come frequently...
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Publisher
Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
288 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Through his voyage of discovery, international bestselling author Brian Cox explains how the astonishing inventiveness of nature came about and uncovers the milestones in the epic journey from the origin of life to our own lives, with beautiful full-color illustrations throughout. From spectacular fountains of superheated water at the bottom of the Atlantic to the deepest rainforest, Cox seeks out the places where the biggest questions about life...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life’s history, with powerful implications for human health and even our own human nature. In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences to reexamine the history of all life. Perhaps the most startling discovery to come out of this new field — the study of life’s diversity and relatedness at the molecular level — is horizontal...
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Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xxi, 520 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An exploration of the biological roots of positive social behavior reveals how human genes have countered violence and self-interest with equally inherent, society-building tendencies toward friendship, cooperation, and learning.
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Language
English
Description
This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to you, as it is to each of the 100 billion modern humans who have ever drawn breath. But it is also our collective story, because in every one of our genomes we each carry the history of our species--births, deaths, disease, war, famine, migration, and a lot of sex.
Since scientists first read the human genome in 2001, it has been subject to all sorts...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
xiii, 367 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Brian Hare, dog researcher, evolutionary anthropologist, and founder of the Duke Canine Cognition Center, and Vanessa Woods offer revolutionary new insights into dog intelligence and the interior lives of our smartest pets. In the past decade, we have learned more about how dogs think than in the last century. Breakthroughs in cognitive science, pioneered by Brian Hare have proven dogs have a kind of genius for getting along with people that is unique...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Richard Dawkins transformed our view of God in his blockbuster, The God Delusion, which sold more than 2 million copies in English alone. He revolutionized the way we see natural selection in the seminal bestseller The Selfish Gene. Now, he launches a fierce counterattack against proponents of "Intelligent Design" in his latest New York Times bestseller, The Greatest Show on Earth. "Intelligent Design" is being taught in our schools; educators are...
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Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
1992
Physical Desc
343 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of essays by reknown scientist Jay Stephen Gould drawn from his columns in Natural History. The essays deal with topics such as: evolutionary opportunism (nature is a tinkerer, making the most of what's available in the course of adapting to the environment); new information on Darwin and his contemporaries; racism and cultural relativism; the evolutionary pattern of sudden rapid change; the origin of birds or the warm-bloodedness of...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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A trailblazing biologist grapples with her role in the biggest scientific discovery of our era: a cheap, easy way of rewriting genetic code, with nearly limitless promise and peril. Not since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors that they warned the world about its use. Not, that is, until the spring of 2015, when biologist Jennifer Doudna called for a worldwide moratorium on the use of the new gene-editing tool CRISPR — a revolutionary...
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Series
Sigma Force novels volume 16
Language
English
Description
"A United Nations relief team in a small village in the Congo makes an alarming discovery: an unknown force is leveling the evolutionary playing field. Men, women, and children have been reduced to a dull, catatonic state. The environment surrounding them--plants and animals--has grown more cunning and predatory, evolving at an exponential pace. The insidious phenomenon is spreading from a cursed site in the jungle known to locals as the Kingdom of...
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Publisher
Liveright Pub. Corporation
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
viii, 330 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Where did we come from? What are we? Where are we going? In a generational work of clarity and passion, one of our greatest living scientists directly addresses these three fundamental questions of religion, philosophy, and science while “overturning the famous theory that evolution naturally encourages creatures to put family first” (Discover magazine). Refashioning the story of human evolution in a work that is certain to generate headlines,...
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
vii, 322 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cells to Civilizations is the first unified account of how life transforms itself -- from the production of bacteria to the emergence of complex civilizations. What are the connections between evolving microbes, an egg that develops into an infant, and a child who learns to walk and talk? Award-winning scientist Enrico Coen synthesizes the growth of living systems and creative processes, and he reveals that the four great life transformations -- evolution,...
18) Great adaptations: star-nosed moles, electric eels, and other tales of evolution's mysteries solved
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
199 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Sparked by a controversial debate in February 2014, Bill Nye has set off on an energetic campaign to spread awareness of evolution and the powerful way it shapes our lives. In Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation, he explains why race does not really exist; evaluates the true promise and peril of genetically modified food; reveals how new species are born, in a dog kennel and in a London subway; takes a stroll through 4.5 billion years...
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English
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New York Times bestselling author and renowned atheist and evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins delivers an intimate look into his own childhood and intellectual development, illuminating his path to becoming one of the foremost thinkers in modern science today
“A memoir that is funny and modest, absorbing and playful. Dawkins has written a marvelous love letter to science . . . and for this, the book will touch scientists
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