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Darwin's Camera
Oxford University Press, USA 2009; US$ 29.99Darwin's Camera tells the extraordinary story of how Charles Darwin changed the way pictures are seen and made. In his illustrated masterpiece, Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1871), Darwin introduced the idea of using photographs to illustrate a scientific theory--his was the first photographically illustrated science book ever... more...
Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology
Wiley 2009; US$ 103.95This collection of specially commissioned essays puts top scholars head to head to debate the central issues in the lively and fast growing field of philosophy of biology Brings together original essays on ten of the most hotly debated questions in philosophy of biology Lively head-to-head debate format sharply defines the issues and paves the way... more...
The Paleobiological Revolution
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 52.00Paleontology has long had a troubled relationship with evolutionary biology. Suffering from a reputation as a second-tier science and conjuring images of fossil collectors and amateurs who dig up bones, paleontology was marginalized even by Darwin himself, who worried that incompleteness in the fossil record would be used against his theory of evolution.... more...
Darwin's Garden
Counterpoint 2009; US$ 26.00Five years after returning from his trip around the world, young Charles Darwin became the owner of Down House in Kent, England, where he moved his growing family, far away from the turmoil and distractions of London. He would live there for the rest of his life, and it would become the place where he began work on his masterpiece, On the Origin... more...
The Origin of Individuals
World Scientific Publishing Company 2009; US$ 100.00In the 17th century, Descartes put forth the metaphor of the machine to explain the functioning of living beings. In the 18th century, La Mettrie extended the metaphor to man. The clock was then used as the paradigm of the machine. In the 20th century, this metaphor still held but the clock was replaced by a computer. Nowadays, the organism is viewed... more...
The Thin Bone Vault
World Scientific Publishing Company 2009; US$ 75.00This book delves into one of the greatest riddles perplexing modern science: Why are humans so smart? In a format understandable even by the non-expert, the author investigates the origins of human intelligence, starting with classical Darwinian concepts. Thus, the strengths and beauty of natural selection are presented with many examples... more...
How Life Began
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 18.00The origin of life is a hotly debated topic. The Christian Bible states that God created the heavens and the Earth, all in about seven days roughly six thousand years ago. This episode in Genesis departs markedly from scientific theories developed over the last two centuries which hold that life appeared on Earth about 3.5 billion years ago in the... more...
The Nature of Life
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 114.00Introduces a broad range of scientific and philosophical issues about life through the original historical and contemporary sources. more...
Evolution in the Antipodes
University of NSW Press 2009; US$ 31.95Charles Darwin liked and loathed Australia. The father of evolution paid the continent a flying visit during in 1836, and was glad to put the place behind him. Yet Australia's astonishing wildlife influenced him deeply, and his revolutionary theories still resonate profoundly in Australian society. Two hundred years after Darwin's birth, at... more...
The Climate Connection
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 41.00Analysis of climate change and human evolution, migration and behavioural change and implications for our future. more...









