Evolution category: 1570 books
Neither Darwin nor Genesis
A New Paradigm for Creation and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2006
For over 150 years, a war of words has been fought between science and religion over which theory best describes life as we know it-Darwin's theory or the story as presented in the Christian Bible. In a bold new approach, Neither Darwin Nor Genesis clearly outlines the major flaws in both arguments...
For Whose Benefit?
The Biological and Cultural Evolution of Human Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
This book takes the reader on a journey, navigating the enigmatic aspects of cooperation; a journey that starts inside the body and continues via our thoughts to the human super-organism.
Cooperation is one of life’s fundamental principles. We are all made of parts – genes, cells, organs,...
The Science of Self-Empowerment
Awakening the New Human Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
New in paperback (originally published as HUMAN BY DESIGN): At the cutting edge of science and spirituality, New York Times best-selling author Gregg Braden explains that evolution is not the whole story of humanity--and offers a new understanding of our origins that can help us tap the extraordinary...
by John Kuti
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
This book will propose an alternate theory for evolutionary adaptation and the origin of species. The theory of bilateral subjective adaptation answers most of the exceptions to darwinian theory and offers a more comprehensive explanation for the way evolution works. It will propose that genetic adaptation...
by Charles Watts
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Taking a retrospective view of the dark and unenlightened past, when the mighty forces of nature were almost entirely hidden from the human gaze; contemplating the sad spectacle of our forefathers being sunken in gross superstition, ere the light of to-day had arisen above the horizon of mental ignorance,...
by Charles Darwin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Introduction begins: "The subject of the present volume, namely the differently formed flowers normally produced by certain kinds of plants, either on the same stock or on distinct stocks, ought to have been treated by a professed botanist, to which distinction I can lay no claim. As far as the sexual...
by Alfred Russel Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1890 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Human Selection' is an essay on the future of human evolution in relation to Darwin's suggestion that natural selection was having a reduced or non-existent...
On the Wing
Insects, Pterosaurs, Birds, Bats and the Evolution of Animal Flight
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Ask anybody what superpower they wished to possess and odds are the answer just might be "the ability to fly." What is it about soaring through the air held up by the power of one's own body that has captivated humans for so long? David Alexander examines the evolution of flight in the only four animals...
The Darwin Awards
Evolution in Action
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2002
The hilarious New York Times bestselling phenomenon and the perfect funny gift!
The Darwin Awards shares the stories of those human beings who improve the gene pool by removing themselves from it in a sublimely idiotic fashion.
Marvel at the thief who tries to steal live electrical wires....
by Marwa Elshakry
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
In Reading Darwin in Arabic, Marwa Elshakry questions current ideas about Islam, science, and secularism by exploring the ways in which Darwin was read in Arabic from the late 1860s to the mid-twentieth century. Borrowing from translation and reading studies and weaving together the history of science...
by Krishna Dronamraju
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
Haldane, Mayr, and Beanbag Genetics presents a summary of the classic exchange between two great biologists - J.B.S. Haldane and Ernst Mayr - regarding the value of the contributions of the mathematical school represented by J.B.S. Haldane, R.A. Fisher and S. Wright to the theory of evolution. Their...
Genesis - In The Beginning
Precursors of Life, Chemical Models and Early Biological Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Genesis – In The Beginning deals with the origin and diversity of Life and early biological evolution and discusses the question of where (hot or cold sources) and when the beginning of Life took place. Among the sections are chapters dealing with prebiotic chemical processes and considering self-replication...
At the Water's Edge
Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Everybody Out of the Pond
At the Water's Edge will change the way you think about your place in the world. The awesome journey of life's transformation from the first microbes 4 billion years ago to Homo sapiens today is an epic that we are only now beginning to grasp. Magnificent and bizarre, it...
The Next Species
The Future of Evolution in the Aftermath of Man
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
“Simultaneously sobering and exhilarating, Michael Tennesen’s wide-ranging survey of disasters highlights both life’s fragility and its metamorphosing persistence” (Booklist) and describes what life on earth could look like after the next mass extinction.
A growing number of scientists...