Evolution category: 1570 books
The 10,000 Year Explosion
How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
Resistance to malaria. Blue eyes. Lactose tolerance. What do all of these traits have in common? Every one of them has emerged in the last 10,000 years.
Scientists have long believed that the “great leap forward” that occurred some 40,000 to 50,000 years ago in Europe marked end of significant...
by Elaine Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
The Descent of Woman is a pioneering work, the first to argue for the equal role of women in human evolution. On its first publication in 1972 it sparked an international debate and became a rallying-point for feminism, changing the terminology of anthropologists forever. Starting with her demolition...
by Randal Keynes
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2002
In a chest of drawers bequeathed by his grandmother, author Randal Keynes discovered the writing case of Charles and Emma Darwin’s beloved daughter Annie Darwin, who died at the age of ten. He also found the notes Darwin kept throughout Annie's illness, the eulogy he delivered at her funeral—and...
Dealing with Darwin
Place, Politics, and Rhetoric in Religious Engagements with Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Using place, politics, and rhetoric as analytical tools, historical geographer David N. Livingstone investigates how religious communities sharing a Scots Presbyterian heritage engaged with Darwin and Darwinism at the turn of the twentieth century. His findings, presented as the prestigious Gifford...
Darwin Among The Machines
The Evolution Of Global Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Darwin Among the Machines tells the story of humankind’s journey into the digital wilderness. Introducing a cast of familiar and not-so-familiar characters, historian of science George B. Dyson traces the course of the information revolution, illuminating the lives and work of visionaries—from...
by Richard Dawkins
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Richard Dawkins’s classic remains the definitive argument for our modern understanding of evolution.
The Blind Watchmaker is the seminal text for understanding evolution today. In the eighteenth century, theologian William Paley developed a famous metaphor for creationism: that of the skilled...
Buckets from an English Sea
1832 and the Making of Charles Darwin
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Darwin did not discover evolution. He didn't trip over it on the way to somewhere else the way Columbus discovered the New World. Like the atom, planetary orbits, and so many other scientific constructs, evolution was invented in order to explain striking phenomena. And it has been most successful....
Darwin Comes to Town
How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
*Carrion crows in the Japanese city of Sendai have learned to use passing traffic to crack nuts.
*Lizards in Puerto Rico are evolving feet that better grip surfaces like concrete.
*Europe’s urban blackbirds sing at a higher pitch than their rural cousins, to be heardover the din of...
by John Scotney
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Today the theory of evolution by natural selection and the science of genetics are the twin keys to our understanding of how life on earth came about. Yet when an English naturalist called Charles Darwin first published his ideas in 1859 in a book called On the Origin of Species the world was horrified...
by Michael Ruse
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
This book provides a unique discussion of human evolution from a philosophical viewpoint, looking at the facts and interpretations since Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man. Michael Ruse explores such topics as the nature of scientific theories, the relationships between culture and biology, the problem...
Sex, Ecology, Spirituality
The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2001
In this tour de force of scholarship and vision, Ken Wilber traces the course of evolution from matter to life to mind and describes the common patterns that evolution takes in all three of these domains. From the emergence of mind, he traces the evolution of human consciousness through its major...
Saving Darwin
How to Be a Christian and Believe in Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Evolution Is Not the Bible's Enemy
Saving Darwin explores the history of the controversy that swirls around evolution science, from Darwin to current challenges, and shows why—and how—it is possible to believe in God and evolution at the same time.
Evolution
The View from the Cottage
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
With all the attention to creationism in the news these days, Jean-Pierre Rogel decided it was time to show how Darwin's concept of natural selection can be seen in everyday situations — from a summer cottage near a lake — with examples taken from familiar species such as loons, salmon and bears....
Extended Heredity
A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
How genes are not the only basis of heredity—and what this means for evolution, human life, and disease
For much of the twentieth century it was assumed that genes alone mediate the transmission of biological information across generations and provide the raw material for natural selection....