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  • Consider the Platypus: Evolution through Biology's Most Baffling Beasts by

    CONSIDER THE PLATYPUS explores the history and features of more than 50 animals to provide insight into our current understanding of evolution. Using Darwin's ...

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  • Genesis: On the Deep Origin of Societies by

    Asserting that religious creeds and philosophical questions can be reduced to purely genetic and evolutionary components, and that the human body and mind have a ...

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  • A Pocket History of Human Evolution by &

    A concise, illustrated update on our earliest ancestors, the first sapiens-and on how (and when) we distinguished ourselves.

    Prehistory is changing quickly: Thanks to progress ...

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  • Life Finds a Way: What Evolution Teaches Us About Creativity by

    `This is a wonderful, mind-expanding book. Prepare to be surprised, enlightened and awed as Wagner reveals the sources of human and natural creativity.'

    • Alice Roberts ...
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  • The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition by

    The million-copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages.As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has ...

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  • Superlative: The Biology of Extremes by

    Welcome to the biggest, fastest, deadliest science book you'll ever read.

    The world's largest land mammal could help us end cancer. The fastest ...

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  • Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time by

    Humans now live longer and better than ever before, and we are the most populous big animal on earth. Meanwhile, our closest living relatives, the ...

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  • A Different Kind of Animal: How Culture Transformed Our Species by

    How our ability to learn from each other has been the essential ingredient to our remarkable success as a species

    Human beings have evolved to ...

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  • The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life by

    Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction and A New York Times Notable Book of 2018.

    Our understanding of the 'tree of life', with ...

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  • Good Enough: The Tolerance for Mediocrity in Nature and Society by

    In this spirited and irreverent critique of Darwin's long hold over our imagination, a distinguished philosopher of science makes the case that, in culture ...

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  • The Equations of Life: How Physics Shapes Evolution by

    The puzzles of life astound and confuse us like no other mystery. But in this revolutionary new book, Charles Cockell reveals how nature is far ...

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  • A World Beyond Physics: The Emergence and Evolution of Life by

    How did life start? Is the evolution of life describable by any physics-like laws? Stuart Kauffman's latest book offers an explanation-beyond what the laws ...

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  • The Book of Humans: The Story of How We Became Us by

    WHAT MAKES US HUMAN?

    Waging war?

    Sex for pleasure?

    Creating art?

    Mastery of fire?

    In this thrilling tour of the animal kingdom, Adam Rutherford tells ...

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  • On the Origin of Species by
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  • The Walking Whales: From Land to Water in Eight Million Years by

    Hans Thewissen, a leading researcher in the field of whale paleontology and anatomy, gives a sweeping first-person account of the discoveries that brought to light ...

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