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ISBN: 9780871403636 - The Social Conquest of Earth The Social Conquest of Earth
Edward O Wilson

ISBN10: 0871403633  ISBN13: 9780871403636
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 31 May 2013
New York Times BestsellerFrom the most celebrated heir to Darwin comes a groundbreaking book on evolution, the summa work of Edward O. Wilson's legendary career. In asking where we came from, what we are and where we are going, Edward O. More

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ISBN: 9781466579798 - Biography and Biodiversity of Western Atlantic Mollusks Biography and Biodiversity of Western Atlantic Mollusks
Edward J Petuch

ISBN10: 146657979X  ISBN13: 9781466579798
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc CRC Press Inc
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 16 May 2013
Shallow water marine molluscan faunas are distributed in a pattern of distinct, geographically definable areas. This makes mollusks ideal for studying the distribution of organisms in the marine environment and the processes and patterns that... More

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ISBN: 9780393081374 - Paleofantasy Paleofantasy
Marlene Zuk

ISBN10: 0393081370  ISBN13: 9780393081374
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 10 May 2013
A whip-smart, brilliantly researched expos of pseudoscientific myths about the evolutionary past and how people should live today. Theories about how our ancestors lived - and why we should emulate them - are often based on pseudoscience and... More

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ISBN: 9780691158075 - Strange New Worlds Strange New Worlds
Ray Jayawardhana

ISBN10: 069115807X  ISBN13: 9780691158075
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 10 May 2013
In Strange New Worlds, renowned astronomer Ray Jayawardhana brings news from the front lines of the epic quest to find planets--and alien life--beyond our solar system. Only in the past two decades, after millennia of speculation, have astronomers... More

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ISBN: 9780691148588 - The Unpredictable Species The Unpredictable Species
Philip Lieberman

ISBN10: 0691148589  ISBN13: 9780691148588
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 10 May 2013
The Unpredictable Species argues that the human brain evolved in a way that enhances our cognitive flexibility and capacity for innovation and imitation. In doing so, the book challenges the central claim of evolutionary psychology that we are... More

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ISBN: 9780691141961 - Odd Couples Odd Couples
Daphne J Fairbairn

ISBN10: 0691141967  ISBN13: 9780691141961
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 10 May 2013
While we joke that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, our gender differences can't compare to those of other animals. For instance: the male garden spider spontaneously dies after mating with a female more than fifty times his size. More

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ISBN: 9781408831014 - Darwin's Ghosts Bestseller Darwin's Ghosts
Rebecca Stott

ISBN10: 1408831015  ISBN13: 9781408831014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 09 May 2013
An electrifying account of the extraordinary untold history behind Darwin's theory of evolution Soon after publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin received a letter that deeply unsettled him. He had expected outrage and accusations... More

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ISBN: 9780123786326 - Primate Adaptation and Evolution Primate Adaptation and Evolution
John G Fleagle

ISBN10: 0123786320  ISBN13: 9780123786326
Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc Academic Press Inc
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 08 May 2013
A text on primate evolution. By drawing out the key features of the extant families and referring to more detailed texts, it updates the developments in primate palaeontology - and the reconstruction through early hominid species - of our own... More

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ISBN: 9780226921976 - Animal Personalities Animal Personalities
Claudio Carere, Dario Maestripieri

ISBN10: 0226921972  ISBN13: 9780226921976
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 May 2013
A study of animal personality is one of the fastest-growing areas of research in behavioral and evolutionary biology. It provides an overview of the research on animal personality. Ask anyone who has owned a pet and they'll assure you that, yes... More

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ISBN: 9780226018751 - Relentless Evolution Relentless Evolution
John N Thompson

ISBN10: 022601875X  ISBN13: 9780226018751
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 May 2013
Explores why adaptive evolution never ceases and why natural selection acts on species in so many different ways. In this title, each chapter focuses on one of the major problems in adaptive evolution: How fast is evolution? How strong is natural... More