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Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Visit the author's Web site at www.ourinnerape.comIt’s no secret that humans and apes share a host of traits, from the tribal communities we form...
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The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The epic story, ultimate big history, and "remarkable intellectual achievement" (Quarterly Review of Biology) describing how human society evolve...
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Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In the tradition of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Sapiens, a winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books shows how four tools enabled has us...
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A Story of Us: A New Look at Human Evolution
HardcoverOriginal price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /It's time for a story of human evolution that goes beyond describing "ape-men" and talks about what women and children were doing.In a few decade...
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Understanding Race
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /The human species is very young, but in a short time it has acquired some striking, if biologically superficial, variations across the planet. As...
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The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain
PaperbackOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /"A work of enormous breadth, likely to pleasantly surprise both general readers and experts."—New York Times Book Review This revolutionary book ...
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The Lost Art of Finding Our Way
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Long before GPS, Google Earth, and global transit, humans traveled vast distances using only environmental clues and simple instruments. John Hut...
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The Social Conquest of Earth
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /New York Times Bestseller and Notable Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Book of the Year (Nonfiction) Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal fo...
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Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"Remarkable and utterly fascinating" (Jane Goodall), author Dale Peterson and Harvard University biological anthropology professor Richard Wrangh...
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Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /As recently as 11,000 years ago—"near time" to geologists—mammoths, mastodons, gomphotheres, ground sloths, giant armadillos, native camels and h...
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Close Encounters with Humankind: A Paleoanthropologist Investigates Our Evolving Species
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“Deftly weaving together science and personal observation, Lee proves an engaging, authoritative guide… of the human condition.” —Kate Wong, edit...
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Introduction to the Primates
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Introduction to the Primates is a comprehensive but compact guide to the long evolutionary history of the world's prosimians, monkeys, and apes, ...
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A History of the Human Brain: From the Sea Sponge to CRISPR, How Our Brain Evolved
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /“Crack open this book and take a read. You will be transported, illuminated, and delighted.” —Psychology Today Just 125,000 years ago, humanity w...
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The Agile Gene: How Nature Turns on Nurture
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“Bracingly intelligent, lucid, balanced—witty, too. . . . A scrupulous and charming look at our modern understanding of genes and experience.” — ...
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Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Two neuroscientists reveal why consciousness exists and how it works by examining eighteen increasingly intelligent minds, from microbes to human...
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Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /In a journey across four continents, acclaimed science writer Steve Olson traces the origins of modern humans and the migrations of our ancestors...
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Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Fifty thousand years ago—merely a blip in evolutionary time—our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human spec...
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The Meaning of Human Existence
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /New York Times Bestseller Finalist for the National Book Award (Nonfiction) How did humanity originate and why does a species like ours exist on ...
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The Naked Woman: A Study of the Female Body
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Internationally bestselling author and world-famous human behaviorist Desmond Morris turns his attention to the female form, taking the reader on...
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The renowned biologist and thinker Richard Dawkins presents his most expansive work in this revised edition that offers a comprehensive look at e...
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The Human Cosmos: Civilization and the Stars
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A Best Book of 2020 (NPR)A Best Book of 2020 (The Economist)A Top Ten Best Science Book of 2020 (Smithsonian) A Best Science and Technology Book ...
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Between Ape and Human: An Anthropologist on the Trail of a Hidden Hominoid
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A remarkable investigation into the hominoids of Flores Island, their place on the evolutionary spectrum—and whether or not they still survive.Wh...
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Muscle: The Gripping Story of Strength and Movement
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An entertaining illustrated deep dive into muscle, from the discovery of human anatomy to the latest science of strength training. Muscle tissue ...
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The Cemeteries of New Orleans: A Cultural History
HardcoverOriginal price $38.00 - Original price $38.00Original price $38.00$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /In The Cemeteries of New Orleans, Peter B. Dedek reveals the origins and evolution of the Crescent City’s world-famous necropolises, exploring bo...
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