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Extended Heredity: A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution

Extended Heredity: A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution

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Author: Russell Bonduriansky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 There is much more to heredity than genes For much of the twentieth century it was assumed that genes alone mediate...
A New Voyage Round the World

A New Voyage Round the World

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Author: William Dampier Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 A magical, substantially true narrative of piracy, zoology, anthropology, danger and adventure in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, Pacific and East...
Once a Wolf: The Science Behind Our Dogs' Astonishing Genetic Evolution

Once a Wolf: The Science Behind Our Dogs' Astonishing Genetic Evolution

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Author: Bryan Sykes (Oxford Ancestors) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 How did wolves evolve into dogs? When did this happen, and what role did humans play? Oxford geneticist Bryan...
The Brain in Context: A Pragmatic Guide to Neuroscience

The Brain in Context: A Pragmatic Guide to Neuroscience

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Author: Jonathan D. Moreno Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 The human brain is the most complex object in the known universe. The field of neuroscience has made remarkable strides...
The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans

The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans

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Author: Eben Kirksey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 An anthropologist visits the frontiers of genetics, medicine, and technology to ask: Whose values are guiding gene editing experiments? And what...
The Secret Life of Genes

The Secret Life of Genes

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Author: Derek Harvey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Genes have a huge impact on who we are, from defining us as humans, to governing how we behave. Whether controlling...
First Steps: How Walking Upright Made Us Human

First Steps: How Walking Upright Made Us Human

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Author: Jeremy DeSilva Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is...
Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are

Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are

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Author: Robert Plomin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 From one of the world's top geneticists, the controversial and cutting-edge book that's making us rethink who we are...
Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life (Collins Modern Classics)

Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life (Collins Modern Classics)

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Author: Peter Godfrey-Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 What if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice? The octopus is the closest we will come...
Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society

Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society

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Author: Nicholas A. Christakis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 A dazzlingly erudite synthesis of history, philosophy, anthropology, genetics, sociology, economics, epidemiology, statistics, and more (Frank Bruni, The...
This Book is Full of Brains: All Kinds of Brains and How They Work

This Book is Full of Brains: All Kinds of Brains and How They Work

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Author: Little House of Science Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 Every day, you use the ultimate supercomputer ... your brain! Join Little House of Science on an access-all-areas tour...
Origin Story: A Big History of Everything

Origin Story: A Big History of Everything

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Author: David Christian Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 This is the epic story of the universe and our place in it, from 13.8 billion years ago to...
Life Finds a Way: What Evolution Teaches Us about Creativity

Life Finds a Way: What Evolution Teaches Us about Creativity

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Author: Andreas Wagner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 How the principles of biological innovation can help us overcome creative challenges in art, business, and science In Life Finds a...
Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped the World--And Us

Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped the World--And Us

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Author: Patrick Roberts Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 "A bold, ambitious and truly wonderful history of the world"--Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees From the age...
A Voice in the Wilderness: A Pioneering Biologist Explains How Evolution Can Help Us Solve Our Biggest Problems

A Voice in the Wilderness: A Pioneering Biologist Explains How Evolution Can Help Us Solve Our Biggest Problems

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Author: Joseph L Graves Jr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Evolution has, ever since its inception, been one of the most ideologically fraught fields in all of science. It...
The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA

The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA

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Author: Jorge L. Contreras Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 When attorney Chris Hansen learned that the U.S. government was issuing patents for human genes to biotech companies, his first...
Beak, Tooth and Claw: Why We Must Live With Predators

Beak, Tooth and Claw: Why We Must Live With Predators

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Author: Mary Colwell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A must read for all wildlife lovers' Dominic Dyer Foxes, buzzards, crows, badgers, weasels, seals, kites - Britain and Ireland's predators...
Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind

Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind

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Author: Kermit Pattison Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 "Riveting. ... Pattison's uncanny ability [is] to write evocatively about science. ... In this, he is every bit as...
How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness and Community in Times of Global Crises - The short essay that helped change the Covid-19 debate

How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness and Community in Times of Global Crises - The short essay that helped change the Covid-19 debate

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Author: Paolo Giordano Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 80 'The literature of the time after begins here' EVENING STANDARD 'A jolt of brevity and simplicity' THE TIMES 'In...
Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology

Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology

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Author: Lisa Margonelli Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The award-winning journalist Lisa Margonelli, national bestselling author of Oil on the Brain: Petroleum's Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank, investigates...
Body Bits: Hair-raising Human Body Facts

Body Bits: Hair-raising Human Body Facts

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Author: Paul Mason Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Bizarre, incredible and downright gross facts about human and animal bodies In Hair-raising Human Body Facts, you'll learn about some of...
Photographic Guide to the Birds of Japan and North-east Asia

Photographic Guide to the Birds of Japan and North-east Asia

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Author: Tadao Shimba Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 A spectacular and lavish photographic guide to the birds of Japan, Korea, north-east China and the Russian Far East Eastern Asia...
Restoring the Wild: Rewilding Our Skies, Woods and Waterways

Restoring the Wild: Rewilding Our Skies, Woods and Waterways

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Author: Roy Dennis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 The RSPB's Book of the Season The distinctive white-tailed sea eagle was driven to extinction in Britain more than 200 years...
Eat Weeds: A field guide to foraging: how to identify, harvest, eat and use wild plants

Eat Weeds: A field guide to foraging: how to identify, harvest, eat and use wild plants

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Author: Diego Bonetto Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 There is food within 3 metres of your front door. Three generations ago it was common practice all over the world...
The Snot That Animals Have Got

The Snot That Animals Have Got

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Author: Paul Mason Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 32 What is snot? How is it useful? What do animals do with it? Why is there so much? Find out the...
Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps

Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps

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Author: Seirian Sumner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'A funny and beautifully written welcome to the enigmatic, weird and wonderful world of wasps' DAVE GOULSON, author of...
Restoring the Wild: Rewilding Our Skies, Woods and Waterways

Restoring the Wild: Rewilding Our Skies, Woods and Waterways

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Author: Roy Dennis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The RSPB's Book of the Season The distinctive white-tailed sea eagle was driven to extinction in Britain more than...
Human Origins: 7 million years and counting

Human Origins: 7 million years and counting

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Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Where did we come from? Where are we going? Homo sapiens is the most successful, the most widespread and the most...
Wild Rituals: 10 Lessons Animals Can Teach Us About Connection, Community, and Ourselves

Wild Rituals: 10 Lessons Animals Can Teach Us About Connection, Community, and Ourselves

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Author: Caitlin O'Connell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 Wild Rituals explores how embracing the rituals of the animal kingdom can make us more connected to ourselves, nature, and others....
The Theory of Evolution

The Theory of Evolution

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The Future of the Brain: The Promise and Perils of Tomorrow's Neuroscience

The Future of the Brain: The Promise and Perils of Tomorrow's Neuroscience

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Author: Rose Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Brain repair, smart pills, mind-reading machines--modern neuroscience promises to soon deliver a remarkable array of wonders as well as profound insight into...
Future Humans: Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution

Future Humans: Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution

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Author: Scott Solomon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Are humans still subject to the forces of evolution? An evolutionary biologist provides surprising insights into the future of Homo sapiens...
Wild Man from Borneo: A Cultural History of the Orangutan

Wild Man from Borneo: A Cultural History of the Orangutan

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Author: Robert J. Cribb Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Wild Man from Borneo offers the first comprehensive history of the human-orangutan encounter. Arguably the most humanlike of all the...
On the Prowl: In Search of Big Cat Origins

On the Prowl: In Search of Big Cat Origins

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Author: Mark Hallett (Dryaduir Hill Wildlife Reserve) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Big cats such as lions, tigers, leopards, and jaguars fascinate us like few other creatures. They are...
Game for Anything: Writings on Cricket

Game for Anything: Writings on Cricket

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Where the Seals Sing

Where the Seals Sing

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Author: Susan Richardson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 There are fewer grey seals in the world than endangered African elephants, but the British Isles host almost half of this...
The Human Swarm

The Human Swarm

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Author: Mark W. Moffett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The epic story, ultimate big history, and "remarkable intellectual achievement" (Quarterly Review of Biology) describing how human society evolved from...
How to Speak Whale: A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication

How to Speak Whale: A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication

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Author: Tom Mustill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Fascinating' Greta Thunberg 'Extraordinary' Merlin Sheldrake 'A must-read' New Scientist 'Enthralling' George Monbiot 'Brilliant' Philip Hoare As a biologist...
Supernavigators: Exploring the Wonders of How Animals Find Their Way

Supernavigators: Exploring the Wonders of How Animals Find Their Way

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Author: David Barrie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "Just astonishing . . . Our natural navigational capacities are no match for those of the supernavigators in this eye-opening book."--Frans...
What Are You Thinking?: Why We Feel and Act the Way We Do

What Are You Thinking?: Why We Feel and Act the Way We Do

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Author: Nicky Hayes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The science of how we think is fundamental to understanding why we are who we are, and why we do what...
Manthropology: The Secret Science of Modern Male Inadequacy

Manthropology: The Secret Science of Modern Male Inadequacy

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Eve Spoke: Human Language and Human Evolution

Eve Spoke: Human Language and Human Evolution

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Almost Chimpanzee: Redrawing the Lines That Separate Us from Them

Almost Chimpanzee: Redrawing the Lines That Separate Us from Them

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Author: Jon Cohen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 In the autumn of 2005, researchers cracked the code of the chimpanzee genome and provided a startling new window into the...
The Body Electric: An Anatomy of the New Bionic Senses

The Body Electric: An Anatomy of the New Bionic Senses

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Body Bits: Astounding Animal Body Facts

Body Bits: Astounding Animal Body Facts

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Author: Paul Mason Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Bizarre, incredible and downright gross facts about human and animal bodies. In Astounding Animal Body Facts, you'll learn about some of...
Darwin: Discovering the Tree of Life

Darwin: Discovering the Tree of Life

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Blood of the Isles

Blood of the Isles

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Bully for Brontosaurus

Bully for Brontosaurus

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Stephen Jay Gould Format:...