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Other species adapt to their environments; we alone create ours. Over generations, we have remade the world to suit ourselves - using improved knowledge and technology ...
A Waterstones Best Book of 2020
The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from the brain of Charles ...
Humans are a planet-altering force. Our closest living relatives, the now-endangered chimpanzees, continue to live as they have for millions of years. Yet we evolved ...
In Great Adaptations, Kenneth Catania presents an entertaining and engaging look at some of nature's most remarkable creatures. Telling the story of his biological ...
The scuba-diving philosopher and bestselling author of Other Minds explores the origins of animal consciousness.
Dip below the ocean's surface and you are soon ...
Some Assembly Required is a lively and accessible guide to the most momentous transformations in the history of life o the evolution of fish into ...
A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year
The scuba-diving philosopher and bestselling author of Other Minds explores ...
Kindred is the definitive guide to the Neanderthals. Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have metamorphosed from the losers of the human ...
A leading palaeontologist discovers the missing link in human evolution.
Somewhere west of Munich, Madelaine ...
'This book is a gripping and sobering reminder of how much we are all governed by our genetic inheritance. So much for free will.' The ...
The theory of evolution unites the past, present, and future of living things. It puts humanity's place in the universe into necessary perspective. Despite ...
The forgotten garden which inspired Charles Darwin becomes the modern-day setting for an exploration of memory, family, and the legacy of genius.
The forgotten garden ...
'Intimate and thoughtful... Exciting... [A] sweeping evolutionary history.' Science
The author of the bestselling Your Inner Fish gives us a brilliant, up-to-date account of the ...
Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is an illogical development, as it slows ...
