Keywords and Concepts in Evolutionary Developmental
Biology
Edited by Brian K Hall and Wendy M Olson
The new field of evolutionary developmental biology is one of the most exciting areas of
contemporary biology. The fundamental principle of evolutionary developmental biology ....
476 pages | 29 illus, 7 tabs | Harvard UP
Hbk | 2003 | 0674009045 | #137894A |
£40.95
Pbk | 2006 | 0674022408 | #160713A |
£19.95
Life's Solution
Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe
Simon Conway Morris
Challenges the view that the course life on earth has taken is due to a series of accidents.
Conway Morris explores the evidence demonstrating life's almost eerie ability ....
464 pages | B/w photos, figs | CUP
Hbk | 2003 | 0521827043 | #137237A |
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Pbk | 2005 | 0521603250 | #149064A |
£14.99
Macroevolution: Diversity, Disparity, Contingency
Essays in Honor of Stephen Jay Gould
Edited by Elisabeth S Vrba and Niles Eldredge
A fine tribute to the late Stephen Jay Gould, with contributions from many leading
paleontologists and evolutionary biologists. ....
210 pages | 42 figues, some in colour |
Paleontological Society
Pbk | 2005 | 1891276492 | #154545A |
£16.00
Making Sense of Evolution
The Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Biology
Massimo Pigliucci and Jonathan Kaplan
Making Sense of Evolution explores contemporary evolutionary biology, focusing on the
elements of theories-selection, adaptation, and species-that are complex and open to ....
236 pages | 9 halftones, 10 tables |
Chicago UP
Hbk | NYP 12/2006 | 0226668363 |
#161045A |
£44.50
Pbk | NYP 12/2006 | 0226668371 |
#161046A |
£18.00
Molecular Evolution
A Phylogenetic Approach
Roderic DM Page and Edward C Holmes
Taking the phylogenetic tree as a central metaphor of evolution, the authors develop a rigorous
approach to molecular evolution that will equip both undergraduate and graduate ....
346 pages | 171 illus | Blackwell Science
Pbk | 1998 | 0865428891 | #081509A |
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Molecular Markers, Natural History and Evolution
John C Avise
This treatment of molecular natural history and evolution addresses the many biological
applications for molecular genetic markers from the perspectives of population biology, ....
684 pages | Figs, tabs | Sinauer
Pbk | 2004 | 0878930418 | #147100A |
£40.99
Nature: An Economic History
Geerat J Vermeij
From humans to hermit crabs to deep water plankton, all living things compete for locally
limiting resources. This universal truth unites three bodies of ....
445 pages | - | Princeton UP
Hbk | 2004 | 0691115273 | #147935A |
£22.95
Pbk | 2006 | 069112793X | #160400A |
£12.95
Negotiating Darwin
The Vatican Confronts Evolution, 1877-1902
Mariano Artigas, Thomas F Glick and Rafael A Martinez
Drawing on primary sources made available to scholars only after the archives of the Holy
Office were unsealed in 1998, Negotiating Darwin chronicles how the Vatican ....
352 pages | 7 halftones | Johns Hopkins
UP
Hbk | 2006 | 080188389X | #160140A |
£33.50
The Origin and Evolution of Mammals
TS Kemp
An account of the remarkable fossil record that documents the origin of mammals since the
extinction of the dinosaurs, which traces their evolution over the last 35 million ....
331 pages | B/w illus, figs | OUP
Pbk | 2004 | 0198507615 | #147511A |
£39.95
The Origin of Species
A Variorum Text
Charles Darwin and Morse Peckham
The phenomenal importance of Darwin's brilliant studies is universally recognized. This volume
covers all of the extensive variants in the six texts published between 1859 and ....
816 pages | - | Pennsylvania UP
Pbk | 2006 | 0812219546 | #157539A |
£19.50
The Origins of Genome Complexity
Michael Lynch
Presented in a nontechnical fashion, at both the population-genetic and the molecular-genetic
levels, this book offers a unifying explanatory framework for how the ....
- | Sinauer
Pbk | NYP 03/2007 | 0878934847 |
#159025A |
£31.99
Population Genetics and Evolutionary Theory
AR Templeton
Modern approach to population genetics, incorporating modern molecular biology, species-level
evolutionary biology, and quantitative genetics. Organized into 3 main ....
512 pages | Wiley
Hbk | 2006 | 0471409510 | #138716A |
£47.50
Primate Origins
Adaptations and Evolution
Edited by Matthew J Ravosa and Marian Dagosto
The goals of this volume are twofold. First, it aims to provide a novel focus on adaptive
explanations for cranial and postcranial features and functional complexes, ....
550 pages | 149 illus | Springer
Hbk | 2006 | 0387303359 | #158950A |
£104.00
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The Revenge of Gaia
Why the Earth is fighting back - and how we can still save humanity
James Lovelock
New installment of Lovelock's writings on Gaia, in which he argues that the only way for
humankind to come to terms with Gaia now, and have a chance of surviving, is to embrace ....
177 pages | 4 colour plates, 16 b/w illus
| Penguin
Hbk | 2006 | 0713999144 | #156593A |
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Pbk | NYP 02/2007 | 0141025972 |
#162741A |
£8.99
Richard Dawkins
How a scientist changed the way we think
Edited by Alan Grafen
Published to coincide with the 30th anniversary of The Selfish Gene, this sparkling collection
explores the impact of Richard Dawkins as scientist, rationalist, and one of ....
208 pages | - | OUP
Hbk | 2006 | 0199291160 | #156203A |
£12.99
Pbk | NYP 03/2007 | 0199214662 |
#162366A |
£7.99
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
A commemorative anniversary edition of the landmark work first published 30 years ago. There
is a new introduction by Richard Dawkins, plus the original prefaces and Robert ....
400 pages | - | OUP
Hbk | 2006 | 0199291144 | #156201A |
£14.99
Pbk | 2006 | 0199291152 | #156202A |
£8.99
Seven Deadly Colours
Genius of Nature's Palette and How It Eluded Darwin
Andrew Parker
'To suppose that the eye ...should have formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess,
absurd in the highest degree' - thus wrote Charles Darwin in 'On the Origin Of ....
286 pages | Col and b/w photos, figs |
Free Press
Hbk | 2005 | 0743259394 | #152791A |
£16.99
Pbk | 2006 | 0743259416 | #158763A |
£7.99
Sexual Conflict
G Arnqvist and L Rowe
The past decade has seen a profound change in the scientific understanding of reproduction.
The traditional view of reproduction as a joint venture undertaken by two ....
330 pages | 32 line illus, 5 tabs |
Princeton UP
Hbk | 2005 | 0691122172 | #152216A |
£65.00
Pbk | 2005 | 0691122180 | #152215A |
£26.95
Speciation
Jerry A Coyne and H Allen Orr
Over the last two decades, the study of speciation has expanded from a modest backwater of
evolutionary biology into a large and vigorous discipline. Thus, the literature on ....
545 pages | 50 figs | Sinauer
Hbk | 2004 | 0878930914 | #147519A |
£59.99
Pbk | 2004 | 0878930892 | #146875A |
£36.99
Systematics and the Origin of Species: On Ernst Mayr's 100th
Anniversary
Edited by Jody Hey, Walter M Fitch and Francisco Ayala
In December 2004, the National Academy of Sciences sponsored a colloquium on Systematics
and the Origin of Species to celebrate Ernst Mayr s 100th anniversary and to explore ....
367 pages | - | National Academies Press
Hbk | 2005 | 0309095360 | #154390A |
£23.99
The Tinkerer's Accomplice
How Design Emerges from Life Itself
J Scott Turner
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 this is all wrong. What most ....
288 pages | 39 halftones | Harvard UP
Hbk | NYP 01/2007 | 0674023536 |
#160701A |
£18.95
What Evolution Is
Ernst Mayr
Comprehensive account on the progress and achievements of evolutionary science, written by
the founding father of modern genetic and evolutionary theory.`There is no ....
349 pages | Illus, figs, tabs, maps |
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pbk | 2002 | 0753813688 | #127679A |
£8.99
Human Evolution & Anthropology
The Altruism Equation
Seven Scientists Search for the Origins of Goodness
Lee Alan Dugatkin
In a world supposedly governed by ruthless survival of the fittest, why do we see acts of
goodness in both animals and humans? This problem plagued Charles Darwin in the 1850s ....
188 pages | 3 line illus, 1 table |
Princeton UP
Hbk | 2006 | 0691125902 | #160385A |
£15.95
Atlas of Human Origins
Douglas Palmer
Written by well-known author, lecturer and editor Douglas Palmer, this atlas draws ....
208 pages | 80 colour photographs, 50
illustrations | New Holland
Hbk | NYP 03/2007 | 1845371658 |
#156970A |
£24.99
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