Evolution Books

Eugene Marais spent three years living in the South African wilderness in close daily contact with a troop of baboons. He later described this as the happiest, most content time of his troubled life. This period produced two works which are testament to...

This book collects essays published in journals including Commentary, The Weekly Standard, and elsewhere. It centers on three profound mysteries: the existence of the human mind; the existence and diversity of living creatures; and the existence of...

The Xaris have possessed the Multiverse. And they just hired the wrong guy...Enter the Layo Galaxy: an asteroid so massive that it converges into various ends of the multiverse.It is the 'heart' of all gravity, and governed by a ruthless class of...

This volume discusses the aspects of a phylogenetic analysis that go beyond basic calculation of most parsimonious trees. Practical application of all principles discussed is illustrated by reference to TNT, a freely available software package that can...

In paleoanthropology the group of hominids known as the "robust" australopithecines has emerged as one of the most interesting. Through them we have the opportunity to examine the origin, natural history, and ultimate extinction of not just a single...

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This is the sequel to the well received "Probability's Nature And Nature's Probability which was written in depth for Scientist and Professionals. This new book has the same wonderful foundation, but has been revised and put into layman's terms so anyone...

Should alternatives to evolution be taught in American public schools or rejected as an establishment of religion? Democracy, Intelligent Design, and Evolution argues that accurate science education helps shape a democratic temperament. Rather than...

A persistent argument among evolutionary biologists and philosophers revolves around the nature of natural selection. Evolution by Natural Selection: Confidence, Evidence and the Gap explores this argument by using a theory of persistence as an...

Beach-spawning fishes from exotic locations on most continents of the world provide spectacular examples of extreme adaptations during the most vulnerable life cycle stages. The beauty, intriguing biology, and importance of these charismatic fishes at...

Originally published in 1982, The Masterpiece of Nature examines sex as representative of the most important challenge to the modern theory of evolution. The book suggests that sex evolved, not as the result of normal Darwinian processes of natural...

La Paling�����n�����sie Philosophique V1: Ou Id�����es sur l'�����tat Pass����� et sur l'�����tat Futur des �����tres Vivants (1769) est un livre �����crit par Charles Bonnet. Il s'agit d'une r�����flexion philosophique sur la r�����incarnation et la...

The Sandwalk Adventures is a fanciful tale of follicle mites that just happen to be living in the left eyebrow of Charles Darwin himself. To the mites, their host Darwin is a god, known as Flycatcher, and stories of his mighty ocean-spewing,...

There is a revolution underway in biology. It is based on a new perception of bodies and genes, in which the former are the end product of the latter within the continuum of evolution. Twenty five years after Richard Dawkins helped revolutionize our...

The Philosophy of Instinct and Reason is a book written by John Stevenson Bushnan in 1837. It is a philosophical work that explores the relationship between instinct and reason in humans and animals. Bushnan argues that instinct and reason are two...

The Natural History of Hell is a book written by John Philipson in 1894. The book delves into the concept of hell and explores its natural history. It includes a chapter on miracles and a scientific examination of the theory of endless punishment. The...

What does it mean to both affirm the goodness of God's creation and anticipate the new creation? Bringing together contributions from church leaders, academic theologians, and scientists on the doctrine of creation, this volume engages with Scripture,...

Biogeography and Evolution in New Zealand provides the first in-depth treatment of the biogeography of New Zealand, a region that has been a place of long-enduring interest to ecologists, evolutionary scientists, geographers, geologists, and scientists...

Evolution Is Not the Bible's EnemySaving Darwin explores the history of the controversy that swirls around evolution science, from Darwin to current challenges, and shows why--and how--it is possible to believe in God and evolution at the same time.

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 the 22-year-old Darwin to be his companion on board the Beagle .This is the remarkable story of how a...

Crustaceans, due to the great diversity of their body organization, segmentation patterns, tagmatization, limb types, larval forms, cleavage, and gastrulation modes, are highly desirable for the study of questions at the interface of evolution and...

A look at isopod systematics and evolution, topics confronted include the influence of genetic and extrachromasomal factors on their population rate and a comparison of different species in different habitats.

A ground-breaking theological appreciation of neo-Darwinism, arguing that evolution is not the way that God creates, but is a consequence of creatures' imitating and participating in God.

Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Lizards and Tuatara is a remarkable compendium of chapters written by the world's leading experts from over four continents. The book begins with a chapter recounting historical discoveries in reproductive biology...

The ontogeny of each individual contributes to the physical, physiological, cognitive, neurobiological, and behavioral capacity to manage the complex social relationships and diverse foraging tasks that characterize the primate order. For these reasons...

The concept of this book arises from a symposium entitled "Human-Macaque Interactions: Traditional and Modern Perspectives on Cooperation and Conflict " organized at the 23rd Congress of the International Primatological Society, that was held in Kyoto in...

The book aims to introduce the reader to the emerging field of Evolutionary Systems Biology, which approaches classical systems biology questions within an evolutionary framework. An evolutionary approach might allow understanding the significance of...

Recently, there has been an increased interest in research on personality, temperament, and behavioral syndromes (henceforth to be referred to as personality) in nonhuman primates and other animals. This follows, in part, from a general interest in the...

The mystery of how migrating animals find their way over unfamiliar terrain has intrigued people for centuries, and has been the focus of productive research in the biological sci­ ences for several decades. Whether or not the...

When Nancy Beckage and I first met in Lynn Riddiford's laboratory at the University of Washington in the mid 1970s, the fields of parasitology, behavior, and endocrinology were thriving and far-flung--disciplines in no serious...

In Controversy, Trevor Palmer fully documents how traditional gradualistic views of biological and geographic evolution are giving way to a catastrophism that credits cataclysmic events, such as meteorite impacts, for the...

Over the course of the past decade, there has been an enormous augmentation in the amount of information available on the lemurs of Madagascar. These advances are closely coupled with an increase in the number of national and...

Nations around the world are experiencing a spectacular increase in longevity. Society as a whole is being challenged by issues arising from this revolution in longevity. Although the specter of the loneliness and ...

Current Status of Gorillas.- Current Status of Wild Gorilla Populations and Strategies for Their Conservation.- Approaches-On the Ground.- Conservation Medicine for Gorilla Conservation.- Sanctuaries and Reintroduction: A Role in Gorilla Conservation?.-...

Popular Lectures on Astronomy: Delivered at the Royal Observatory of Paris (1845) is a book written by Francois Arago, a French astronomer, physicist, and politician. The book is a collection of lectures that Arago delivered at the Royal Observatory of...

""The Problem of Immortality"" is a philosophical treatise written by E. Petavel and published in 1892. The book explores the question of whether or not human beings possess an immortal soul and what the implications of immortality might be for human...

Species Problems and Beyond offers a collection of up-to-date essays discussing from an interdisciplinary perspective the many ramifications of the 'Species Problem.' The authors represent experts in the philosophy of biology, in species-level...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

The phylum Platyhelminthes is comprised of some 50,000 species of flatworms living in a wide variety of habitats - from the deep sea to the damp soil of tropical forests- where they occupy pivotal roles in many ecosystems. The parasitic forms include...

Systematists, comparative biologists, taxonomists and evolutionary biologists all concern themselves with the evolutionary relationships between animals and plants. Homology is the principle underlying these disciplines. When looking at groups of...

Determining the precise timing for the evolutionary origin of groups of organisms has become increasingly important as scientists from diverse disciplines attempt to examine rates of anatomical or molecular evolution and correlate intrinsic biological...

This book presents glimpses of how the physics of atoms and molecules influences, and even controls, the way our cells function and how we interact with our environment.

Embark on a journey through the frontiers of science, nature, and the cosmos with Victor Stone's groundbreaking exploration, "When Many Become One." In this thought-provoking and visionary book, Stone delves into the intriguing world of hybridization,...

"Digital Binary + Human Refinery = A Super-Human!" Whatever we are, we create! Now, time demands we gradually change our polluted and divisive social scenery to become intellectually spiritualized luminaries, able to integrate religion and science,...

Ever notice on a world map how all the continents look to have once fit together in one large piece that has since broken up?Pangaea Flood Mystery Solved sets out a long overdue picture of Earth’s ancient history. Taken from global historic...