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Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose?
PaperbackOriginal price $33.00 - Original price $33.00Original price $33.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /The intricate forms of living things bespeak design, and thus a creator: nearly 150 years after Darwin's theory of natural selection called this ...
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The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The untold story of a stunning discovery: not only can birds smell, but their scents may be the secret to understanding their world. Winner of th...
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Biogeography: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /Biogeography is the study of geographic variation in all characteristics of life - ranging from genetic, morphological and behavioural variation ...
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On the Origin of the Species
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /In 1831, naturalist and geologist Charles Darwin joined the Beagle expedition to Tierra del Fuego. What he observed when he got to the new world ...
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Evolution's Captain: The Story of the Kidnapping That Led to Charles Darwin's Voyage Aboard the Beagle
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /This is the story of the man without whom the name Charles Darwin might be unknown to us today. That man was Captain Robert FitzRoy, who invited ...
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At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A major scientific revolution has begun, a new paradigm that rivals Darwin's theory in importance. At its heart is the discovery of the order tha...
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Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $31.95 - Original price $31.95Original price $31.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /"Microcosmos is nothing less than the saga of the life of the planet. Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan have put it all together, literally, in this...
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Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /A pioneering treatise on embracing cooperation and reciprocity to usher in a greener and more inclusive world, from the major anarchist thinkerA ...
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Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry
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 thrilling tale of encounters with nature's masters of biochemistry "A fitting tribute to one of nature's most sinister creations of all." --Ca...
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The Mass-Extinction Debates: How Science Works in a Crisis / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $38.00 - Original price $38.00Original price $38.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /This book is the first to examine the arguments and behavior of the scientists who have been locked in conflict for a decade over two competing h...
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Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /"Marvelously funny and provocative."—Publishers Weekly Why do 70 percent of Americans believe in angels, while others are convinced that they wer...
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Strange Behavior: Tales of Evolutionary Neurology
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /A master neurologist's clinical tales—both funny and profound—of the evolution of the brain. As a sympathetic—and brilliant—brain detective, Haro...
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The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /For more than a century, scientists have raced to unravel the human family tree and have grappled with its complications. Now, with an astonishin...
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The Machines of Evolution and the Scope of Meaning
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 groundbreaking account of the origin and place of meaning in the earthly biosphereWhat is meaning? How does it arise? Where is it found in the ...
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Darwin's Lost Theory
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Evolution/ Science/ Darwin/ Biography Powerfully contradicting the stereotype of "survival of the fittest" and "selfish gene" Darwinism, this is ...
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The Course of Nature: A Book of Drawings on Natural Selection and Its Consequences
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Humanity is a part of Nature, yet every thinking person at one time or another asks herself or himself, "How did we get here? What makes me diffe...
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The Tinkerer's Accomplice: How Design Emerges from Life Itself
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Most people, when they contemplate the living world, conclude that it is a designed place. So it is jarring when biologists come along and say th...
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Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution
PaperbackOriginal price $24.90Original price $24.90 - Original price $24.90Original price $24.90Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /In her enduring study of the impact of Darwinism on the intellectual climate of the nineteenth century, Gertrude Himmelfarb brings massive docume...
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Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Credited with discovering more species than Darwin, praised for his “ability to take complex ideas and—seemingly effortlessly— make them accessib...
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Live Long and Evolve: What Star Trek Can Teach Us about Evolution, Genetics, and Life on Other Worlds
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /An engaging journey into the biological principles underpinning a beloved science-fiction franchise In Star Trek, crew members travel to unusual ...
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The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /From bestselling author Michael Shermer, an investigation of the evolution of morality that is "a paragon of popularized science and philosophy" ...
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Evolution: Still a Theory in Crisis
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /More than thirty years after his landmark book Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (1985), biologist Michael Denton revisits his earlier thesis about t...
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Acquiring Genomes: A Theory Of The Origin Of Species
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /In this groundbreaking book, Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan present an answer to one of the enduring mysteries of evolution -- the source of inhe...
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Population Wars: A New Perspective on Competition and Coexistence
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“A fascinating perspective on the age-old idea of Survival of the Fittest.” —LitReactorPopulation Wars is a paradigm-shifting look at why humans ...
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