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Darwin's Doubt
HarperCollins 2013; US$ 21.99When Charles Darwin finished The Origin of Species , he thought that he had explained every clue, but one. Though his theory could explain many facts, Darwin knew that there was a significant event in the history of life that his theory did not explain. During this event, the ?Cambrian explosion,? many animals suddenly appeared in the fossil record... more...
Darwin's Doubt
HarperCollins 2013; Not AvailableWhen Charles Darwin finished The Origin of Species , he thought that he had explained every clue, but one. Though his theory could explain many facts, Darwin knew that there was a significant event in the history of life that his theory did not explain. During this event, the ?Cambrian explosion,? many animals suddenly appeared in the fossil record... more...
The Engine of Complexity
Columbia University Press 2013; US$ 33.99The concepts of evolution and complexity theory have become part of the intellectual ether permeating the life sciences, the social and behavioral sciences, and more recently, management science and economics. In this new title, John Mayfield elegantly synthesizes core concepts from across disciplines to offer a new approach to understanding how evolution... more...
Denial
Grand Central Publishing 2013; US$ 12.99The history of science abounds with momentous theories that disrupted conventional wisdom and yet were eventually proven true. Ajit Varki and Danny Brower's "Mind over Reality" theory is poised to be one such idea-a concept that runs counter to commonly-held notions about human evolution but that may hold the key to understanding why humans evolved... more...
Probably Approximately Correct
Basic Books 2013; US$ 26.99We have effective theories for very few things. Gravity is one, electromagnetism another. But for most things?whether as mundane as finding a mate or as major as managing an economy?our theories are lousy or nonexistent. Fortunately, we don?t need them, any more than a fish needs a theory of water to swim; we?re able to muddle through. But how do... more...
Human Social Evolution
Oxford University Press, USA 2013; US$ 25.99Richard D. Alexander is an accomplished entomologist who turned his attention to solving some of the most perplexing problems associated with the evolution of human social systems. Using impeccable Darwinian logic and elaborating, extending and adding to the classic theoretical contributions of pioneers of behavioral and evolutionary ecology like George... more...
Trying Biology
University of Chicago Press 2013; US$ 30.00In Trying Biology , Adam R. Shapiro convincingly dispels many conventional assumptions about the 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial. Most view it as an event driven primarily by a conflict between science and religion. Countering this, Shapiro shows the importance of timing: the Scopes trial occurred at a crucial moment in the history of biology... more...
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 26.95In its 4.5 billion?year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes. And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way. Can we survive it? How? As a species, Homo sapiens... more...
Fossil Mammals of Asia
Columbia University Press 2013; US$ 79.99The first textbook devoted to the late Cenozoic (Neogene) mammalian biostratigraphy and geochronology of Asia, this volume deploys cutting edge biostratigraphical and geochemical dating methods to map the emergence of mammals across the continent. Written by specialists working in a variety of Asian regions, it uses data from many basins with spectacular... more...









