Evolution category: 1570 books
The Accidental Species
Misunderstandings of Human Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
The idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually has religious roots in the deist concept of the Great Chain of Being. Yet, the metaphor has lodged itself in the contemporary imagination, and new fossil discoveries are often hailed...
The Artificial Ape
How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
A breakthrough theory that tools and technology are the real drivers of human evolution
Although humans are one of the great apes, along with chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans, we are remarkably different from them. Unlike our cousins who subsist on raw food, spend their days and nights...
by Henri Bergson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Henri Bergson (1859-1941) was a French philosopher and Nobel Prize winner in Literature, whose third major work, "Creative Evolution", provided an alternate explanation for Darwin's mechanism of evolution. The book focuses on four key steps: that there must be a vital impulse which explains the creation...
by Henry Crampton
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
The purpose of these this book is to describe in concise outline the Doctrine of Evolution, its basis in the facts of natural history, and its wide and universal scope. They fall naturally into two groups. Those of the first part deal with matters of definition, with the essential characteristics...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Based on sequence analyses of many different genes, the past decade has provided us with a profound knowledge of fungal systematics and phylogeny. In addition, a number of sequences of complete fungal genomes have been identified and several others will soon follow. In this volume, leading experts...
Why Darwin Matters
The Case Against Intelligent Design
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
A creationist-turned-scientist demonstrates the facts of evolution and exposes Intelligent Design's real agenda
Science is on the defensive. Half of Americans reject the theory of evolution and "Intelligent Design" campaigns are gaining ground. Classroom by classroom, creationism...
Evolution
What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2007
Over the past twenty years, paleontologists have made tremendous fossil discoveries, including fossils that mark the growth of whales, manatees, and seals from land mammals and the origins of elephants, horses, and rhinos. Today there exists an amazing diversity of fossil humans, suggesting we walked...
Evolution
The Triumph of an Idea
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
This remarkable book presents a rich and up–to–date view of evolution that explores the far–reaching implications of Darwin's theory and emphasizes the power, significance, and relevance of evolution to our lives today. After all, we ourselves are the product of evolution, and we can tackle...
Improbable Destinies
Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
A major new book overturning our assumptions about how evolution works
Earth’s natural history is full of fascinating instances of convergence: phenomena like eyes and wings and tree-climbing lizards that have evolved independently, multiple times. But evolutionary biologists also point out...
by John Tyler Bonner
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
John Tyler Bonner, one of our most distinguished and insightful biologists, here challenges a central tenet of evolutionary biology. In this concise, elegantly written book, he makes the bold and provocative claim that some biological diversity may be explained by something other than natural selection.
With...
Evolution Made to Order
Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
In the mid-twentieth century, American plant breeders, frustrated by their dependence on natural variation in creating new crops and flowers, eagerly sought technologies that could extend human control over nature. Their search led them to celebrate a series of strange tools: an x-ray beam directed...
by John L Leonard
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
For as long as man has contemplated the origin of the universe and the life within it, the search for answers has led some to religion in pursuit of a Creator, and others believe that science, especially Darwinian natural selection has all the answers. Divine Evolution represents the author’s attempt...
by Patrick Bateson
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
The role of parents in shaping the characters of their children, the causes of violence and crime, and the roots of personal unhappiness are central to humanity. Like so many fundamental questions about human existence, these issues all relate to behavioural development. In this lucid and accessible...
Molecular Evolution
A Statistical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Studies of evolution at the molecular level have experienced phenomenal growth in the last few decades, due to rapid accumulation of genetic sequence data, improved computer hardware and software, and the development of sophisticated analytical methods. The flood of genomic data has generated an acute...