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The "Origin" Then and Now
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 45.00Charles Darwin's Origin of Species is one of the most widely cited books in modern science. Yet tackling this classic can be daunting for students and general readers alike because of Darwin's Victorian prose and the complexity and scope of his ideas. The "Origin" Then and Now is a unique guide to Darwin's masterwork, making it accessible to a... more...
18 Questions: Life and the Universe
Nottingham University Press 2011; US$ 21.95Is time travel possible? What happens when we die? Do UFOs exist? This book poses 18 significant questions about life and attempts to provide reasonable, empirical answers. Assessing the available evidence instead of relying on supernatural approaches, this popular science book reaches possible conclusions while providing explanations... more...
Acquiring Genomes
Basic Books 2008; US$ 16.95From one of the great iconoclasts of modern biology, Lynn Margulis, a groundbreaking new theory of the origins of species more...
Adaptive Genetic Variation in the Wild
Oxford University Press 1999; US$ 169.99This collection of papers summarizes understanding about the extent of genetic variation within wild populations and the ways to monitor such variation. It proposes the idea that an objective of evolutionary ecology is necessary to predict organism, population, community, and ecosystem response. more...
The Adaptive Landscape in Evolutionary Biology
OUP Oxford 2012; US$ 69.99The 'Adaptive Landscape' has been a central concept in population genetics and evolutionary biology since this powerful metaphor was first formulated by Sewall Wright in 1932. Eighty years later, it has become a central framework in evolutionary quantitative genetics, selection studies in natural populations, and in studies of ecological speciation... more...
Alfred Russell Wallace Contributions to the theory of Natural Selection, 1870, and Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace , 'On the Tendency of Species to
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 360.00Wallace noticed on expeditions to the Amazon and the Malay archipelego that mammals in Southeast Asia are more advanced than their Australian cousins. His suggestion was that the two continents had split before the better adapted mammals had evolved in Asia. The isolated Australian marsupials were able to thrive, whilst those in Asia were driven to... more...
American Megafaunal Extinctions at the End of the Pleistocene
Springer 2008; US$ 99.99Contains summaries of facts, theories, and problems pertaining to the extinction of dozens of genera of mostly large terrestrial mammals, which occurred ca 13,000 calendar years ago in North America and about 1,000 years later in South America. This title includes chapters that provide a chronology of the extinctions in North and South America. more...
Ancient Marine Reptiles
Elsevier Science 1997; US$ 126.95Vertebrate evolution has led to the convergent appearance of many groups of originally terrestrial animals that now live in the sea. Among these groups are familiar mammals like whales, dolphins, and seals. There are also reptilian lineages (like plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, mosasaurs, thalattosaurs, and others) that have become sea creatures. Most of... more...
Animal Evolution : Interrelationships of the Living Phyla
OUP Oxford 2011; US$ 69.99Animal Evolution provides a comprehensive analysis of the evolutionary interrelationships and myriad diversity of the Animal Kingdom. It reviews the classical, morphological information from structure and embryology, as well as the new data gained from studies using immune stainings of nerves and muscles and blastomere markings which makes it possible... more...
Arguing for Evolution: An Encyclopedia for Understanding Science
ABC-CLIO 2011; US$ 85.00This comprehensive encyclopedia presents an arsenal of evidence for evolution that goes beyond the typical textbook examples. more...









