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The Cradle of Humanity: How the changing landscape of Africa made us so smart
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Humans are rather weak when compared with many other animals. We are not particularly fast and have no natural weapons. Yet Homo sapiens currentl...
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Darwin on Trial
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Is evolution fact or fancy? Is natural selection an unsupported hypothesis or a confirmed mechanism of evolutionary change? These were the courag...
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Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You: A Lively Tour Through the Dark Side of the Natural World
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /This “fact-filled and amusing trek through nature’s dark side” (Kirkus Reviews) reveals the fascinating, weird, and often perverted ways that Mot...
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Odd Couples: Extraordinary Differences between the Sexes in the Animal Kingdom
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /The remarkable and unique ways that male and female animals play out gender roles in natureWhile we joke that men are from Mars and women are fro...
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Life: The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /The newest addition to John Brockman’s Edge.org series explores life itself, bringing together the world’s leading biologists, geneticists, and e...
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Earth's Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /At once joyous and somber, this thoughtful gathering of new and selected essays spans Kathleen Dean Moore's distinguished career as a tireless ad...
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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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How to Read Darwin
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Intent on letting the reader experience the pleasure and intellectual stimulation in reading classic authors, the How to Read series will facilit...
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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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Understanding Evolution
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Why do the debates about evolution persist, despite the plentiful evidence for it? Breaking down the notion that public resistance to evolution i...
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The Next Species: The Future of Evolution in the Aftermath of Man
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /“Simultaneously sobering and exhilarating, Michael Tennesen’s wide-ranging survey of disasters highlights both life’s fragility and its metamorph...
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The Deniable Darwin & Other Essays
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /This book collects essays published in journals including Commentary, The Weekly Standard, and elsewhere. It centers on three profound mysteries:...
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Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"Shermer is savage about the shortcomings of intelligent design and eloquent about the spirituality of science . . . An invaluable primer."—Los A...
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Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /As someone who has spent forty years in psychology with a long-standing interest in evolution, I'll just assimilate Howard Bloom's accomplishment...
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Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in Science & Technology In its 4.5 billion-year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at leas...
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Natural Selections: Selfish Altruists, Honest Liars, and Other Realities of Evolution
HardcoverOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /“Barash . . . brilliantly integrat[es] science, literature, and pop culture into elegant and insightful commentaries on the most interesting and ...
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Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The discovery of stunning, feathered dinosaur fossils coming out of China since 2006 suggest that these creatures were much more bird-like than p...
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Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /"Riveting. ... Pattison's uncanny ability [is] to write evocatively about science. ... In this, he is every bit as good as the best scientist wri...
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Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe
PaperbackOriginal price $36.99Original price $36.99 - Original price $36.99Original price $36.99Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Life's Solution builds a persuasive case for the predictability of evolutionary outcomes. The case rests on a remarkable compilation of examples ...
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The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became Complex
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /When the whole is greater than the sum of the parts—indeed, so great that the sum far transcends the parts and represents something utterly new a...
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Evolving Eden: An Illustrated Guide to the Evolution of the African Large-Mammal Fauna
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95Original price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /The Garden of Eden as the ideal and untouched site of life's creation persists in popular thought, even as we have uncovered a lengthy fossil rec...
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Big Brain: The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In this groundbreaking look at the evolution of our brains, eminent neuroscientists Gary Lynch and Richard Granger uncover the mysteries of the o...
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