W. W. Norton & Company, 1996. — 340 p. The metaphor of Mount Improbable represents the combination of perfection and improbability, which is epitomized in the seemingly "designed" perfection of living things. In this book, Dawkins skillfully guides the reader on a breathtaking journey through the mountain's passes and up its many peaks to demonstrate that following the...
W. W. Norton & Company, 1996. — 214 p. Climbing Mount Improbable is a popular science book by Richard Dawkins. The book is about probability and how it applies to the theory of evolution. It is designed to debunk claims by creationists about the probability of naturalistic mechanisms like natural selection. The main metaphorical treatment is of a geographical landscape upon...
W. W. Norton & Company, 1996. — 214 p. Climbing Mount Improbable is a popular science book by Richard Dawkins. The book is about probability and how it applies to the theory of evolution. It is designed to debunk claims by creationists about the probability of naturalistic mechanisms like natural selection. The main metaphorical treatment is of a geographical landscape upon...
New York: Basic Books, 1995. — 165 p. Nearly a century and a half after Charles Darwin formulated it, the theory of evolution is still the subject of considerable debate. Oxford scientist Richard Dawkins is among Darwin 's chief defenders, and an able one indeed- witty, literate, capable of turning a beautiful phrase. In River Out of Eden he introduces general readers to some...
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004. — 673 p. Trace their lineage back to a single ancestor — a bacterium — that lived more than three billion years ago. Taking his cue from Chaucer, noted Oxford biologist Dawkins (The Selfish Gene, etc. ) works his way narratively backward through time. As the path reaches points where humanity's ancestors converge with those of other...
Norton & Company, 1996. — 358 p. — ISBN: 0393315703 Many years after its original publication, The Blind Watchmaker is as prescient and timely a book as ever. The watchmaker belongs to the eighteenth-century theologian William Paley, who argued that just as a watch is too complicated and functional to have sprung into existence by accident, so too must all living things, with...
Free Press, 2009. — 418 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4165-9478-9 Richard Dawkins transformed our view of God in his blockbuster, The God Delusion, which sold more than 2 million copies in English alone. He revolutionized the way we see natural selection in the seminal bestseller The Selfish Gene. Now, he launches a fierce counterattack against proponents of "Intelligent Design" in his...
Milano: Saggio, R'C'S' Libri & Grandi opere S'p'A' , 1995. — 204 p. Come un fiume vasto e silenzioso che percorre il tempo, l'evoluzione degli esseri viventi scava il suo percorso, diramandosi e dando origine alla diverse specie che popolano la Terra. Ma quali sono i delicati meccanismi che determinano il mutamento, grande motore e principale attore della vicenda evolutiva?...
Milano: Saggio, R'C'S' Libri & Grandi opere S'p'A' , 1995. — 204 p. Come un fiume vasto e silenzioso che percorre il tempo, l'evoluzione degli esseri viventi scava il suo percorso, diramandosi e dando origine alla diverse specie che popolano la Terra. Ma quali sono i delicati meccanismi che determinano il mutamento, grande motore e principale attore della vicenda evolutiva?...
Leopard Förlag, 2011. — 345 s. Tänk om någon sa: ”Det romerska imperiet har aldrig funnits. Julius Ceasar är en påhittad figur. Franska, spanska och italienska härstammar inte från latinet utan uppstod fixa och färdiga, helt utan samband med varandra.” Åt en sådan person skulle vi alla skratta. Men mer än 40% av alla amerikaner tror att jorden skapades av Gud för 6.000 år sedan...
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2017. — 423 p. How did we come to have minds? For centuries, poets, philosophers, psychologists, and physicists have wondered how the human mind developed its unrivaled abilities. Disciples of Darwin have explained how natural selection produced plants, but what about the human mind?
Durham, CT, USA: Strategic Book Group, 2011. — 32 p. — ISBN 9781612047423; ASIN B0058DIFA6. This highly amusing book analyses and comprehensively demolishes the many theories of evolution stage by stage. The author invites readers to draw their own conclusions after considering the evidence for and against. He believes that most people have never really given much serious...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 240 p. An entertaining book on the evolution of human thinking Witty, informative, and accessible Perfect for students of psychology and the biological sciences as well as popular science reader Thinking from an evolutionary perspective Sensation, perception and imagination The world within Reading other people's minds Self-consciousness The...
Arbor Vitae Press, 2007. — 315 p. Looking at a living cell is like looking into the future of our own designs. Within the cell, the chemical processes that make life possible are under the control of coded information and sophisticated molecular machines. Could life be a true example of carbonbased nanotechnology that originated from a Mind? Could an intelligent agent possibly...
Workman Publishing Company, Inc., New York, USA, 2014. — 273 p. — ISBN: 0761180346 We all have our off days. Why should Evolution be any different? Maybe Evolution got carried away with an idea that was just a little too crazy — like having the Regal Horned Lizard defend itself by shooting three-foot streams of blood from its eyes. Or maybe Evolution ran out of steam (Memo to...
Cambridge: University Printing House, 2014. — 306 p. How did the zebra really get its stripes, and the giraffe its long neck? What is the science behind camel humps, leopard spots, and other animal oddities? Such questions have fascinated us for centuries, but the expanding field of evo-devo (evolutionary developmental biology) is now providing, for the first time, a wealth of...
Bloomsbury USA, 2014. — 272 p. One thousand million years ago, a huge revolution occurred on Earth-sex happened for the first time. From that moment on, the world became ever more colorful and bizarre, ringing with elaborate songs and dances, epic battles, and rallying cries as the desires of males and females collided, generation after generation, in an unbroken chain of sex...
Profile Books, 2015. — 761 p. — ISBN: 9781847658807. The Earth teems with life: in its oceans, forests, skies and cities. Yet there’s a black hole at the heart of biology. We do not know why complex life is the way it is, or, for that matter, how life first began. In The Vital Question, award-winning author and biochemist Nick Lane radically reframes evolutionary history,...
BIoomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. — 569 p. With its massive head, enormous jaws, and formidable teeth, Tyrannosaurus rex has long been the young person's favorite creepy carnivore in the Mesozoic zoo. Nor has T. rex been ignored by the scientific community, as this new collection amply demonstrates. Scientists explore such questions as why T. rex had such small...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 440 p. — ISBN: 978-0199673469. The Earth that sustains us today was born out of a few remarkable, near-catastrophic revolutions, started by biological innovations and marked by global environmental consequences. The revolutions have certain features in common, such as an increase in the complexity, energy utilization, and information processing...
Nomad Press, 2017. — 187 p. — ISBN: 978-1-61930-601-1. Why do humans walk on two legs? Why do fish have gills? Life on Earth is incredibly diverse and part of the reason for this is evolution, or the theory that living things change with time. Evolution: How Life Adapts to a Changing Environment explores the theory of evolution, its history, how we think it works, examples of...
Nomad Press, 2017. — 187 p. — ISBN: 978-1-61930-601-1. Why do humans walk on two legs? Why do fish have gills? Life on Earth is incredibly diverse and part of the reason for this is evolution, or the theory that living things change with time. Evolution: How Life Adapts to a Changing Environment explores the theory of evolution, its history, how we think it works, examples of...
University of California Press, 2002. — 241 p. The clash between evolution and creationism is one of the most hotly contested topics in education today. This book, written by one of America's most distinguished science educators, provides essential background information on this difficult and important controversy. Giving a sweeping and balanced historical look at both schools...
Doubleday, 2017. — 336 p. — ISBN: 0385537212. A major reimagining of how evolutionary forces work, revealing how mating preferences-what Darwin termed -the taste for the beautiful--create the extraordinary range of ornament in the animal world. In the great halls of science, dogma holds that Darwin's theory of natural selection explains every branch on the tree of life: which...
New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. — 298 p. 50 Great Myths of Human Evolution uses common misconceptions to explore basic theory and research in human evolution and strengthen critical thinking skills for lay readers and students. Examines intriguing — yet widely misunderstood — topics, from general ideas about evolution and human origins to the evolution of modern humans and...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. — 302 p. Unnatural Selection is a stunningly illustrated book about selective breeding--the ongoing transformation of animals at the hand of man. More important, it's a book about selective breeding on a far, far grander scale a scale that encompasses all life on Earth. We'd call it evolution. A unique fusion of art, science, and...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. — 302 p. Unnatural Selection is a stunningly illustrated book about selective breeding--the ongoing transformation of animals at the hand of man. More important, it's a book about selective breeding on a far, far grander scale a scale that encompasses all life on Earth. We'd call it evolution. A unique fusion of art, science, and...
Wasnington: Regnery Publishing, 2000. — 338 p. Written by developmental biologist Jonathan Wells, Icons of Evolution has become a modern classic. Taking aim at 10 common “icons” used to bolster Darwin’s theory in widely used biology textbooks, Wells shows how they turn out to be scientific urban legends, long-refuted fakes, or misrepresentations of the scientific data. Wells’...
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