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Science - Life Sciences - Evolution
Our bones have many stories to tell, if you know how to
listen.
Bone is a marvel, an adaptable and resilient building material developed over 500 million years of evolutionary history. It gives our bodies their shapes and the ability to move.
Bone is a marvel, an adaptable and resilient building material developed over 500 million years of evolutionary history. It gives our bodies their shapes and the ability to move.
From noted evolutionary biologist and the author of Evolution
for Everyone comes a paradigm-changing new look at how we can
apply evolutionary theory to our social and cultural
institutions.
Charles Darwin's vision of evolution was so broad that he wrote "There is grandeur in this view of life" in the concluding paragraph of On the Origin of Species.
Charles Darwin's vision of evolution was so broad that he wrote "There is grandeur in this view of life" in the concluding paragraph of On the Origin of Species.
Heredity is redefined in this sweeping, resonating overview of a
force that shaped human society—a force set to shape our
future even more radically.
One of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Books of 2018
“Extraordinary”—New York Times Book Review
"Magisterial"—The Atlantic
"Engrossing"—Wired
"Leading contender as the most outstanding nonfiction work of the year"—Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Award-winning, celebrated New York Times columnist and science writer Carl Zimmer presents a profoundly original perspective on what we pass along from generation to generation.
One of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Books of 2018
“Extraordinary”—New York Times Book Review
"Magisterial"—The Atlantic
"Engrossing"—Wired
"Leading contender as the most outstanding nonfiction work of the year"—Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Award-winning, celebrated New York Times columnist and science writer Carl Zimmer presents a profoundly original perspective on what we pass along from generation to generation.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The legendary biologist
and bestselling author mounts a timely and passionate defense of
science and clear thinking with this career-spanning collection of
essays, including twenty pieces published in the United States for
the first time.
A major new book overturning our assumptions about how
evolution works
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.
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.
A FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, SMITHSONIAN, AND WALL STREET JOURNAL
A major reimagining of how evolutionary forces work, revealing how mating preferences—what Darwin termed "the taste for the beautiful"—create the extraordinary range of ornament in the animal world.
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, SMITHSONIAN, AND WALL STREET JOURNAL
A major reimagining of how evolutionary forces work, revealing how mating preferences—what Darwin termed "the taste for the beautiful"—create the extraordinary range of ornament in the animal world.
A compelling portrait of a unique moment in American history
when the ideas of Charles Darwin reshaped American notions about
nature, religion, science and race
“A lively and informative history.” – The New York Times Book Review
Throughout its history America has been torn in two by debates over ideals and beliefs.
“A lively and informative history.” – The New York Times Book Review
Throughout its history America has been torn in two by debates over ideals and beliefs.
A sweeping, paradigm-shifting account of how evolution is no
longer driven just by nature but also by human choices
Why are conditions like autism, asthma, obesity, and allergies exploding at unprecedented rates. Why are we living longer, getting smarter, having far fewer kids.
Why are conditions like autism, asthma, obesity, and allergies exploding at unprecedented rates. Why are we living longer, getting smarter, having far fewer kids.
Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the
genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race
and its role in the human story
Fewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of different races are biologically different from one another.
In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E.
Lieberman—chair of the department of human evolutionary
biology at Harvard University and a leader in the field—gives
us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over
millions of years, even as it shows how the increasing disparity
between the jumble of adaptations in our Stone Age bodies and
advancements in the modern world is occasioning this paradox.
In its 4.5 billion–year history, life on Earth has been
almost erased at least half a dozen times. shattered by asteroid
impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by
unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes. And we know that another
global disaster is eventually headed our way.
The unbelievably riveting adventure of an unlikely young
explorer who emerged from the jungles of Africa with evidence of a
mysterious, still mythical beast—the gorilla—only to
stumble straight into the center of the biggest debate of the
day.
