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How, asks James E. Strick, could spontaneous generation—the idea that living things can suddenly arise from nonliving materials—come to take root for a time (even a brief one) in so thoroughly unsuitable a field as British natural theology?
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Adam Kuper reframes debates about human origin and reconsiders the fundamental questions of anthropology. Balancing biological and cultural... Læs mere
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Women’s physiology evolved to aid reproduction, not to reduce disease. Any trait—however detrimental to post-reproductive health—is... Læs mere
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In interviews with today's major figures in evolutionary biology--including Stephen Jay Gould, E. O. Wilson, Ernst Mayr, and John Maynard... Læs mere
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Bowler doesn’t minimize the hostility of many of the faithful toward evolution, but he reveals the less... Læs mere
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We think of noise as background sound that interferes with our ability to hear more interesting sounds. But noise is anything that interferes with the... Læs mere
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Beginning with Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles) and ending with the work of the English game theorist Geoffrey Parker and the American... Læs mere
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Marking A. R. Wallace's death in 1913, James Costa presents in facsimile,... Læs mere
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Jolly demonstrates that the females who came after Lucy played as crucial a role in the human evolutionary process as “man” ever did. She shows us... Læs mere
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Though we have other distinguishing characteristics (bipedalism, relative hairlessness, etc.), the brain and the behavior it produces are what... Læs mere
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Spanning evolutionary science from its inception to its latest findings, from discoveries and data to philosophy and history, this book is the most complete, authoritative, and inviting one-volume introduction to evolutionary biology available.
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Focusing on crucial aspects of the history of Darwinism in America, Numbers gets to the heart of American resistance to Darwin’s ideas. He provides a much-needed historical... Læs mere