The Origin of Our Species

Reducere. Chris Stringer's bestselling The Origin of our Species tackles the big questions in the ongoing debate about the beginnings of human life on earth....

The first introductory guide to explore both biological and cultural approaches to the study of humanity, from the origin of our species, to traits...

Charles Darwin's classic that exploded into public controversy, revolutionized the course of science, and continues to transform our views of the w...

Charles Darwin revolutionized our ideas about the natural world and our place in it by introducing the concepts of natural selection and survival o...

Reducere. Michael Spitzer has pulled off the impossible: a Guns, Germs and Steel for music. --Daniel Levitin A colossal history spanning cultures, time, and ...

A ground-breaking book which sets out to answer all the big questions in the debate about our origins. Stringer is Britain's foremost expert on the...

165 million years ago saw the birth of rhythm.66 million years ago was the first melody.40 thousand years ago Homo sapiens created the first musica...

Reducere. Inspired by a fresh reading of humanity's oldest tales, in this book we've journeyed to a place from which we've glimpsed a route of escape from th...

Reducere. When Darwin finally published The Origin of Species in 1859, there was no guarantee that the grand theory of natural selection would become one of ...

Reducere. Leading scholars take stock of Darwin's ideas about human evolution in the light of modern science In 1871, Charles Darwin published The Descent of...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jack FritscherEditor: Mark HemryThis Leather Origin Story of investigative journalism is an eyewitness oral history about a...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this epochal book, Immanuel Velikovsky, one of the great scientists of modern times, puts the complete histories of our Earth and of ...

Reducere. The dog may not be what most think it is. The common origin of the dog story says the dog was a gray wolf that "somehow" turned into the dog after ...

Reducere. David Quammen's book, The Song of the Dodo, is a brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope, far-reaching in its message -- a crucial book...

Applying his controversial theory of evolution to the origins of the human species, Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man was the culmination of his ...

DescriptionWhat is a meme? First coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene, a meme is any idea, behavior, or skill that can be transferred from...

Reducere. DescriptionEnglish scientist, naturalist, and geologist CHARLES DARWIN (1809-1882) transformed our understanding of the planet and our place on it ...

Reducere. In 1972 Stephen Jay Gould took the scientific world by storm with his paper on punctuated equilibrium, written with Niles Eldredge. Challenging a c...

Reducere. What is the biological reason for gossip?For laughter? For the creation of art?Why do dogs have curly tails?What can microbes tell us about moralit...

Reducere. DescriptionDark, irreverent, and truly innovative, the speculative stories in Homesick meditate on the theme of home and our estrangement from it, ...

Reducere. Evolution recreates the 3.5-billion-year story of life on Earth in stunning detail through vivid full-color illustrations and graphics, the latest ...

Reducere. DescriptionYou hold in your hands the material result of many years' hard craft. This Book contains some of the secrets of Life itself; or rather, ...

Contributor(s): Author: Jaak PankseppAuthor: Lucy BivenWhat makes us happy? What makes us sad? How do we come to feel a sense of enthusiasm? What f...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen we think of edible trees we tend to focus on a few common varieties that give us fruit. However, many excellent less well-known tre...

Reducere. These selected terrors range from the speculative to supernatural horror, encompass the infernal and the occult, and include stories inspired by H....