A Devil's Chaplain
Richard Dawkins
Collection of selected writings from Dawkins' large output of articles, lectures, individual
chapters and reviews, which demonstrate the breadth of his interests, the ....
310 pages | - | Phoenix
Hbk | 2003 | 0297829734 | #135880A |
£16.99
Pbk | 2004 | 0753817500 | #142919A |
£7.99
The Diversity of Life
Edward O Wilson
An inspiring work by this eminent scientist and conservationist. Wilson traces the processes that
create new species in bursts of adaptive radiation, and identifies the ....
406 pages | B/w illus, figs | Penguin
Pbk | 2001 | 014029161X | #119830A |
£9.99
The Emergence of Life
From Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology
Pier Luigi Luisi
The origin of life from inanimate matter has been the focus of much research for decades, both
experimentally and philosophically. Luisi takes the reader through the ....
292 pages | 131 line diagrams, 12 half-
tones, 11 tables | CUP
Hbk | 2006 | 0521821177 | #158726A |
£40.00
Endless Forms Most Beautiful
The New Science of EvoDevo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom
Sean Carroll
What Brian Greene did for string theory, Sean Carroll does for Evo Devo. ....
288 pages | 100 b/w & 16 col photos |
Phoenix
Hbk | 2006 | 0297850946 | #155295A |
£18.99
Pbk | NYP 01/2007 | 0753821826 |
#162310A |
£8.99
Evolution
An Introduction
Stephen Stearns and Rolf Hoekstra
New edition of this excellent introduction to evolution. ....
381 pages | 150 illus | OUP
Pbk | 2005 | 0199255636 | #151027A |
£26.99
Evolution
Douglas J Futuyma
In its scope and emphases, Evolution is a readily recognized descendant of the author's
previous textbook, Evolutionary Biology. The content of all chapters has been updated, ....
603 pages | B/w photos, col and b/w
illus, figs | Sinauer
Hbk | 2005 | 0878931872 | #152165A |
£34.99
Evolution
A Scientific American Reader
Edited by Scientific American
From the Scopes "Monkey Trial" of 1925 to the court ruling against the Dover Area School
Board's proposed intelligent design curriculum in 2005, few scientific topics have ....
355 pages | 72 halftones, 11 line
drawings |
Chicago UP
Hbk | 2006 | 0226742687 | #161043A |
£41.00
Pbk | 2006 | 0226742695 | #161044A |
£14.00
Evolution and the Levels of Selection
Samir Okasha
Does natural selection act primarily on individual organisms, on groups, on genes, or on whole
species? Samir Okasha provides a comprehensive analysis of the debate in ....
240 pages | OUP
Hbk | NYP 11/2006 | 0199267979 |
#160864A |
£30.00
Evolution in Four Dimensions
Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioural, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life of Life
Eva
Jablonka and Marion J Lamb
Ideas about heredity and evolution are undergoing a revolutionary change. New findings in
molecular biology challenge the gene-centered version of Darwinian theory according ....
462 pages | 63 illus | MIT Press
Hbk | 2005 | 0262101076 | #151931A |
£22.95__191___Evolutionary_Genetics_Concepts_and_Case_Studies'>£22.95__Pbk_|_2006_|_0262600692_|_160717A_|_£11.95___The_Evolution_of_Ageing_and_Longevity'>£22.95
Pbk | 2006 | 0262600692 | #160717A |
£11.95
The Evolution of Ageing and Longevity
Thomas Kirkwood and Daryl Shanley
One of the central aspects in the ecology and evolution of organisms' life histories is how long
they live. The recent and ongoing explosioin of interest and advances in this ....
240 pages | OUP
Hbk | NYP 02/2007 | 0198546580 |
#156231A |
£55.00__Pbk_|_NYP_02/2007_|_0198546572_|_156230A_|_£24.95___Evolution_through_Genetic_Exchange'>£55.00
Pbk | NYP 02/2007 | 0198546572 |
#156230A |
£24.95
Evolution through Genetic Exchange
Michael L Arnold
Even before the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species, the perception of evolutionary change
has been a tree-like pattern of diversification - with divergent ....
280 pages | 114 illus | OUP
Hbk | 2006 | 0198570066 | #157497A |
£55.00
Evolution's Rainbow
Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People
Joan Roughgarden
Fascinating discussion of diversity in gender and sexuality among fish,
reptiles, amphibians,
birds, and mammals, including primates explaining how this diversity ....
474 pages | - | California UP
Hbk | 2004 | 0520240731 | #144914A |
£26.95
Pbk | 2005 | 0520246799 | #154522A |
£11.95
Evolutionary Dynamics
Exploring the Equations of Life
Martin A Nowak
At a time of unprecedented expansion in the life sciences, evolution is the one theory that
transcends all of biology. Any observation of a living system must ultimately be ....
384 pages | 145 colour line illus |
Harvard UP
Hbk | 2006 | 0674023382 | #160702A |
£22.95
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Evolutionary Genetics
Concepts and Case Studies
Edited by Charles W Fox and Jason B Wolf
The diverse field of evolutionary genetics is unified by two goals: to understand the impact that
evolutionary processes have on genetic variation, and to understand the ....
592 pages | illus | OUP
Pbk | 2006 | 0195168186 | #157302A |
£35.99
Evolutionary Pathways in Nature
A Phylogenetic Approach
John C Avise
Reconstructing phylogenetic trees from DNA sequences has become a popular exercise in many
branches of biology, and here the well-known geneticist John Avise explains why. ....
286 pages | 100 line diagrams | CUP
Hbk | 2006 | 0521857538 | #158720A |
£70.00
Pbk | 2006 | 0521674174 | #158721A |
£35.00
Extinction
How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago
Douglas H Erwin
Some 250 million years ago, the earth suffered the greatest biological crisis in its history.
Around 95% of all living species died out--a global catastrophe far greater ....
296 pages | 32 halftones, 32 line illus |
Princeton UP
Hbk | 2006 | 0691005249 | #154433A |
£15.95
Fins into Limbs
Evolution, Development and Transformation
Edited by Brian K. Hall
Long ago, fish fins evolved into the limbs of land vertebrates and tetrapods. During this
transition, some elements of the fin were carried over while new features ....
344 pages | 40 col plates, 32 halftones,
138 line drawings | Chicago UP
Hbk | NYP 12/2006 | 0226313360 |
#161048A |
£69.50
Pbk | NYP 12/2006 | 0226313379 |
#161050A |
£28.50
From DNA to Diversity
Molecular Genetics and the Evolution of Animal Design
Sean B Carroll, Jennifer K Grenier and Scott D Weatherbee
Represents the synthesis of new material on developmental genetics and evolutionary biology.
The authors delve into new discoveries since the first edition, including new ....
258 pages | Col plates, col illus, figs,
tabs | Blackwell
Pbk | 2004 | 1405119500 | #144874A |
£32.50
Gene Sharing and Evolution
The Diversity of Protein Functions
Joram Piatigorsky
"Gene sharing" means that the different functions of a protein may share the same gene--that
is, a protein produced by a gene evolved to fulfill a specialized function ....
268 pages | 30 colour illustrations, 11
line illustrations | Harvard UP
Hbk | NYP 02/2007 | 0674023412 |
#160707A |
£38.95
Gene-Environment Interactions
Fundamentals of Ecogenetics
Lucio G Costa and David L Eaton
Ecogenetics can be defined as the study of genetic determinants that dictate susceptibility to
environmentally-influenced adverse health effects. The explosion in ....
557 pages | illus | Wiley
Pbk | 2006 | 0471467812 | #149242A |
£64.95
Genes In Conflict
The Biology of Selfish Genetic Elements
A Burt and R Trivers
In evolution, most genes survive and spread wihin populations because they increase the ability
of their hosts (or their close relatives) to survive and reproduce. But some ....
602 pages | 13 col illus, 1 map, 32 tabs,
line illus | Harvard UP
Hbk | 2006 | 0674017137 | #152180A |
£22.95
The Geographic Mosaic of Coevolution
John N Thompson
Coevolution - reciprocal evolutionary change in interacting species driven
by natural selection -
is one of the most important ecological and genetic processes organizing the ....
443 pages | 7 tabs, 11 halftones, 94
illus | Chicago UP
Hbk | 2005 | 0226797619 | #153576A |
£47.50
Pbk | 2005 | 0226797627 | #153575A |
£18.00
The Geometry of Evolution
Adaptive Landscapes and Theoretical Morphospaces
George McGhee
The metaphor of the adaptive landscape - that evolution via the process of natural selection can
be visualized as a journey across adaptive hills and valleys, mountains ....
200 pages | 95 line diags, 2 half-tones,
5 tabs | CUP
Hbk | NYP 01/2007 | 052184942X |
#162247A |
£40.00
The Hedgehog, the Fox and the Magister's Pox
Mending and Minding the Misconceived Gap Between Science and the Humanities
Stephen Jay Gould
Completed shortly before his death in May 2002, this is Gould's last scientific offering. He uses
the centuries-old conflict between science and the humanities to ....
274 pages | 38 line illus | Vintage
Hbk | 2003 | 022406309X | #136065A |
£17.99
Pbk | 2004 | 0099440822 | #146183A |
£7.99
Introducing Darwin
J
Miller and B Van Loon
Progress in genetics today would not have been possible without Darwin's revolution, but the
mysterious man who undermined belief in God's creation was remarkably timid. He ....
176 pages | B/w illus | Icon Books
Pbk | 2006 | 1840467150 | #159296A |
£9.99
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