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The Making of You: The Incredible Journey from Cell to Human
HardcoverOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A quirky and inspired guide to your very own origin story. This enlightening and irresistible book for adults explains how you were made—not with...
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The Dance of Life: The New Science of How a Single Cell Becomes a Human Being
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A renowned biologist's cutting-edge and unconventional examination of human reproduction and embryo research Scientists have long struggled to ma...
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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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On Growth and Form
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Sir D'Arcy W. Thompson CB FRS FRSE (1860-1948) was a Scottish biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar. A pioneering mathematical biologist...
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The Oldest Living Things in the World
HardcoverOriginal price $60.00Original price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00Current price $50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /The Oldest Living Things in the World is an epic journey through time and space. Over the past decade, artist Rachel Sussman has researched, work...
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Understanding Cancer
HardcoverOriginal price $49.99 - Original price $49.99Original price $49.99$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /One in two of us will develop cancer at some point in our lives and yet many of us don't understand how cancers arise. How many different kinds o...
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From One Cell: A Journey Into Life's Origins and the Future of Medicine
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Each of us began life as a single cell. From this humble origin, we embarked on a risky journey fraught with opportunities for disaster. Yet, amazi...
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So Simple a Beginning: How Four Physical Principles Shape Our Living World
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A biophysicist reveals the hidden unity behind nature's breathtaking complexity The form and function of a sprinting cheetah are quite unlike those...
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How Life Works: A User's Guide to the New Biology
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /“Bold and intriguing.”—Wall Street Journal • “Penetrating. . . . Provocative and profound.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) • “Offers plenty o...
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Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /This eye-opening book offers a "clear and captivating" (Dr. Kris Verburgh)scientific deep dive into how plants and animals have already unlocked...
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The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters - With a new Q&A with the author
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Now the subject of an Emmy Award–winning film the New York Times calls "spellbinding"How does life work? How does nature produce the right number...
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Evolution's Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Whether we realize it or not, we carry in our mouths the legacy of our evolution. Our teeth are like living fossils that can be studied and compa...
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The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A provocative and timely case for how the science of genetics can help create a more just and equal societyIn recent years, scientists like Kathr...
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The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A provocative and timely case for how the science of genetics can help create a more just and equal societyIn recent years, scientists like Kathr...
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The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“Damasio undertakes nothing less than a reconstruction of the natural history of the universe. . . . [A] brave and honest book.” —The New York Ti...
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Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“A beautiful and very important book.”—Lewis Wolpert, American Scientist For over a century, opening the black box of embryonic development was t...
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The Master Builder: How the New Science of the Cell Is Rewriting the Story of Life
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /"An ingenious argument" (Kirkus) for a "novel thesis" (Publishers Weekly) that cells, not DNA, hold the key to understanding life's past and presen...
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