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From an evolutionary perspective, if normal is defined as what most people have done for millions of years, then it''s normal to walk and run 9 -15 kilometres a day to hunt and gather fresh food which is high in fibre, low in sugar, and barely processed. It''s also normal to spend much of your time nursing, napping, making stone tools, and gossiping with a small band of people. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur 21st-century lifestyles, argues Daniel Lieberman, are out of synch with our stone-age bodies. Never have we been so healthy and long-lived - but never, too, have we been so prone to a slew of problems that were, until recently, rare or unknown, from asthma, to diabetes, to - scariest of all - overpopulation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Story of the Human Body\u003c\/i\u003e asks how our bodies got to be the way they are, and considers how that evolutionary history - both ancient and recent - can help us evaluate how we use our bodies. 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He's found a tale inside our skin that's riveting, enlightening, and more than a little frightening -- Christopher McDougall, author of Born to Run","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732489843031,"sku":"9780141399959","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780141399959.jpg?v=1719997108"},{"product_id":"the-expression-of-the-emotions-in-man-and-animals-9780141439440","title":"The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf Darwin had one goal with Expression, it was to demonstrate the power of his theories for explaining the origin of our most cherished human qualities: morality and intellect. This book engages some of the hardest questions in the evolution debate, and shows the ever-cautious Darwin at his boldest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\" He who admits, on general grounds, that the structure and habits of all animals have been gradually evolved will look at the whole subject of Expression in a new and interesting light.\"\u003cbr\u003e -Charles Darwin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Expression of the Emotions in Man and AnimalsAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eChronology\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eFurther Reading\u003cbr\u003eNote on the Text\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix 1: Translation of French quotations\u003cbr\u003eAppendix 2: Darwin's 'Queries About Expression'\u003cbr\u003eAppendix 3: List of supplementary images\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732490105175,"sku":"9780141439440","price":13.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"the-case-against-reality-9780141983417","title":"The Case Against Reality","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is pure, sunshine-yellow, stop-me-guys-if-I'm-being-crazy California deep-think ...\u003cb\u003e thoughtful, stretching and occasionally brilliant\u003c\/b\u003e. * The Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eDon Hoffman is widely regarded as \u003cb\u003eone of the deepest and most original thinkers of his generation\u003c\/b\u003e of cognitive scientists. 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Your perception of the world around you is about to be dismantled! -- Chris Anderson, author of 'TED Talks'\u003cbr\u003eThink you know what's really out there? Read this\u003cb\u003e breathtaking\u003c\/b\u003e, whistle-stop tour of a book that illuminates all the profound weirdness masked by our experience and assumptions. -- David Eagleman, best-selling author of 'The Brain' and 'Incognito'\u003cbr\u003eEmpirical research on the human brain has made breathtaking progress during the last three decades. What's missing, though, is an attempt to see the 'big picture' of the kind Don Hoffman has introduced in this book.  And he does so with the \u003cb\u003ewit, clarity and originality\u003c\/b\u003e that characterizes all his work. -- VS Ramachandran MBBS. PhD, FRCP, DSc, UCSD and Salk Institute.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fresh view into who we truly are\u003c\/b\u003e?one that transcends the perceptions that we accept as reality. Hoffman unapologetically takes us down a rabbit hole where we learn that all reality is virtual and that truth lies solely in you, the creator. -- Rudolph Tanzi, coauthor of 'Super Brain'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaptivating and courageous\u003c\/b\u003e ... \u003cb\u003eanyone who reads this book will likely never look at the world the same way again\u003c\/b\u003e. 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Read it. -- Tim Radford * Nature *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBeautifully written\u003c\/b\u003e . . . At her best Vince takes dizzying leaps, making connections between archaeology, anthropology, genetics and psychology. She is especially good on the delicate interplay between genes, environment and culture. Vince steps with lightness. \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e -- Tom Whipple * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eThe storming success of Yuval Noah Harari's books has inspired many others that aim to span the epic sweep of human history with grand theories and cor-blimey factoids. \u003cb\u003eThis book does both. \u003c\/b\u003e -- The Times * Best Science and Medicine Books of the Year *\u003cbr\u003eHere is the miraculous creature we are: \u003cb\u003eunlikely, poignant, astonishing \u003c\/b\u003e... Much to think about. This book gives rise to many such thoughts and is written with merciful clarity. -- Sebastian Barry\u003cbr\u003eWonderful ... \u003cb\u003eenlightening\u003c\/b\u003e. -- Robin Ince\u003cbr\u003eRichly informed by the latest research, \u003cb\u003eGaia Vince's colourful survey fizzes like a zip-wire\u003c\/b\u003e as it tours our species' story from the Big Bang to the coming age of hypercooperation. -- Richard Wrangham, Professor of biological anthropology at Harvard University and author of The Goodness Paradox\u003cbr\u003eAn \u003cb\u003eimaginative and inspiring\u003c\/b\u003e adventure into the origins and evolution of what we hold most dear: our human culture. -- Uta Frith, Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Development UCL\u003cbr\u003eThis book goes from the Big Bang to the Hundred Thousand Genome Project to make a convincing case that \u003ci\u003eHomo sapiens \u003c\/i\u003ehas become a super-organism. 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This intriguing book turns some age-old  questions about the human condition upside down'' Tim Adams, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eOne of the world''s most respected psychiatrists provides a much-needed new evolutionary framework for making sense of mental illness\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith his classic book \u003ci\u003eWhy We Get Sick\u003c\/i\u003e, Randolph Nesse established the field of evolutionary medicine. Now he returns with a book that transforms our understanding of mental disorders by exploring a fundamentally new question. Instead of asking why certain people suffer from mental illness, Nesse asks why natural selection has left us with fragile minds at all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on revealing stories from his own clinical practice and insights from evolutionary biology, Nesse shows how negative emotions are useful in certain situations, yet can beco\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNesse's book offers fresh thinking in a field that has come to feel stagnant * The Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eA compelling case for locating mental illness within an evolutionary frame-work . . . an excellent and timely account of the history, development andimplications of evolutionary psychiatry. -- Frank Tallis * The Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a wise, accessible, highly readable exploration of an issue that goes to the heart of human existence. -- Robert M. Sapolsky, author of Behave\u003cbr\u003eThis intriguing book turns some age-old questions about the human condition upside down . . . In an engaging, storytelling voice that rests on 30 years of clinical practice, he offers a series of insights. * The Observer *\u003cbr\u003eInsights that radically reframe psychiatric conditions ... As \u003ci\u003eGood Reasons for Bad Feelings\u003c\/i\u003e boldly posits, many of the core dysfunctional components of mental illness ultimately help to make us human. -- Adrian Woolfson * Nature *\u003cbr\u003eUsing [...] fascinating insights, Nesse suggests novel and revolutionary ways to treat mental illness. * The Daily Mail *\u003cbr\u003e[Nesse's] basic conception of the mind feels like good, common sense. * The Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eAll psychiatrists and patients who find themselves having occasional \"bad feelings\" about our current understanding of mental illness will have many \"good reasons\" to consult this book. I do fully expect that someday nearly all psychiatry will be identified as evolutionary psychiatry. If so, Randolph Nesse's book should be seen as the field's founding document. -- David P. Barash * The Wall Street Journal *\u003cbr\u003eHighly accessible, scholarly and deeply illuminating . . .  this will become a treasured classic; not just for clinicians but for all those interested in how to facilitate well-being and create more moral communities and societies. -- Professor Paul Gilbert OBE, author of Compassionate Mind, and Living like Crazy\u003cbr\u003eTwo sets of ideas inform this fine book: one, the cold-hearted logic of natural selection; the other, the practical wisdom of a compassionate psychiatrist. The tension is palpable. The result is riveting. -- Nicholas Humphrey, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, London School of Economics, author of Soul Dust\u003cbr\u003eA personalized and lively but well documented treatise on how we humans function and on needed changes in the way psychiatry thinks about troublesome mental experiences and behavior. . . . Many readers will find it hard to put the book down. -- Eric Klinger, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of Minnesota\u003cbr\u003eThose powerful feelings that fill our day, that give us the oomph to act one way or another are the guardrails to living and this wonderful books explains all of them.  Randolph Nesse has done it again. -- Michael S. Gazzaniga, Director, Sage Center, UC Santa Barbara\u003cbr\u003eA book as wise and illuminating as it is relevant to our daily lives. -- Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Professor Emerita of Anthropology, University of California, Davis, author of The Woman that Never Evolved and Mother Nature\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this very accessible book, Nesse explains how an evolutionary framework can be to psychiatry\u003cbr\u003ewhat physiology is to the rest of medicine. Evolutionary science bridges the gap between\u003cbr\u003eneuroscience and the environment.\u003c\/p\u003e * Royal College of Psychiatrists newsletter *\u003cbr\u003eA bold book that would have made Darwin proud. Cutting-edge and compassionate at the same time. -- Lee Dugatkin, Professor of Biology, University of Louisville, co-author of How to Tame a Fox and Build a Dog\u003cbr\u003eIt is no exaggeration to say that Nesse opens the door to a new paradigm in thinking about human beings and their conflicted lives.  A pathbreaking book by a man who is truly humane and caring.  A privilege to share time with him. -- Michael Ruse, Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy, Florida State University, author of On Purpose\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRandolph Nesse, who trained psychiatrists for many years, has for a quarter century been a key leader of evolutionary medicine. \u003ci\u003eGood Reasons for Bad Feelings\u003c\/i\u003e integrates these two strands of his life and thought in a readable, insightful book, as much a philosophy of emotions as it is a new window on mental illness. All who want to know themselves should read it.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Melvin Konner, Dobbs Professor of Anthropology, Emory University, author of The Tangled Wing\u003cbr\u003eRandolph Nesse is one of the key architects of evolutionary medicine. He's been an inspiration to a generation of scientists, who explore evolution to understand why we get sick from diseases ranging from cancer to obesity to infectious diseases. Now Nesse has turned his attention from the body to the mind, in a provocative book full of intriguing explanations about human nature in all its strengths and weaknesses. -- Carl Zimmer, author of She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity\u003cbr\u003eA masterful, groundbreaking book that persuasively challenges standard clinical wisdom and provides a roadmap for the transformation of our conceptually confused psychiatric nosology . . . Anyone interested in mental health-laypeople, students, clinicians, and scholars-will be grateful for the novel insights to be gained from this important book. The distillation of decades of pathbreaking contributions to evolutionary psychiatry, this book will be an influential watershed in the mental health field, and a worthy successor to Nesse's earlier celebrated book on medical disease. If joy is indeed a biologically programmed emotional response motivating us to take advantage of unexpected bounty and opportunity, then every reader will experience joy in reading Randy Nesse's beautifully written, profound book. -- Jerome C. Wakefield, Professor of Psychiatry, New York University, co-author of The Loss of Sadness\u003cbr\u003eRandolph Nesse's book \u003ci\u003eWhy We Get Sick \u003c\/i\u003eput evolutionary medicine on the map. His follow-up, \u003ci\u003eGood Reasons for Bad Feelings\u003c\/i\u003e, promises to transform our understanding of mental illnesses in the same way. * New Scientist *\u003cbr\u003eRandolph Nesse's new book ...  is clear and engaging, and the narrative reflects a masterful blend of history, novel ideas, and clinical experience in an insightful and coherent manner. I hope it is widely read and discussed. -- Eric Charnov, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Evolutionary Ecology, University of Utah, MacArthur Fellow\u003cbr\u003eWhat is the nature of suffering, its origin and its adaptive significance? \u003ci\u003eGood Reasons for Bad Feelings\u003c\/i\u003e may well become a legend, as it is a book about psychology, psychiatry, biology and philosophy that is also a good read, and it opens the door to deep questions in a manner that is tender, quizzical, and industrious. -- Judith Eve Lipton, MD, co-author of Strength Through Peace\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGood Reasons for Bad Feelings\u003c\/i\u003e by Randy Nesse is a delightful book. It is insightful about the human condition, sanguine and not over-stated. And it is written in a straight-forward and delightful manner, personal and professional, and with humor. Neese is one of the originators of the field of evolutionary medicine. This is a welcome book in evolutionary psychiatry and on the biological basis of the emotions and our cultural evolution. -- Jay Schulkin, Research Professor of Neuroscience, Georgetown University\u003cbr\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e Good Reasons for Bad Feelings\u003c\/i\u003e, leading evolutionary theorist, psychiatrist Randolph Nesse, begs us to ask the right question: Why did natural selection make us so prone to mental disorders of so many kinds and intensities?  It is no exaggeration to say that he opens the door to a new paradigm in thinking about human beings and their conflicted lives.  A pathbreaking book by a man who is truly humane and caring.  A privilege to share time with him. -- Matthew Ruse, Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy, Florida State University, author of On Purpose\u003cbr\u003eWhy I am I feeling bad?' This is the first burning question of everyone who suffers. This accessible new book will be an essential tool to help patients, their loved ones, and treating professionals arrive at more satisfying answers. -- Jonathan Rottenberg, Professor of Psychology, University of South Florida, author of The Depths\u003cbr\u003eHow did we end up recognizing that every system in the body has a function shaped by evolutionary selection and yet thinking that systems in the mind do not? How did physical and mental health drift so far apart? Randolph Nesse explains, in this highly readable book, how 'symptoms' in psychiatry should be seen in their evolutionary context, and that anxiety and depression for example have functions, just as do inflammation, blood clotting, or a cough. Nesse is a pioneer of evolutionary psychiatry, which has the potential to revolutionize mental health care. -- Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, Cambridge University\u003cbr\u003eThis book sets out to show how evolution underpins (or should underpin) psychiatry. In doing so, it will surely change the face of medicine -- and deservedly so. -- Robin Dunbar, Emeritus Professor of Evolutionary Psychology, University of Oxford\u003cbr\u003eRandy Nesse has brought a new and important synthesis to the study of illnesses that psychiatrists deal in. This engagingly accessible, pioneering book provides a wide range of answers for how something as maladaptive as bipolar disorders could have evolved. It provides a wide range of answers for why natural selection has left us vulnerable to so many mental disorders, and the \"mystery of missing heredity\" is identified as a key problem. Nesse shows that by taking into account complex pleiotropic effects, natural selection may push some useful trait close to a fitness peak near a \"cliff edge\" despite the disabling consequences for a few individuals who go over the edge. Thus a gene may be useful to many, but with bad luck contribute to victimizing the few. This complex problem surely will yield to further research. -- Christopher Boehm, Professor of Biological Sciences, USC Dornsife\u003cbr\u003eThe book is aimed at a wide audience including the general public. However, it is testament to Professor Nesse's command of the field of evolution and medicine as well as his extra-ordinary ability to explain enormously complex ideas in plain English with minimal use of jargon that the book is just as relevant to psychiatrists, psychologists of all levels as well as to academics interested in evolutionary science. -- Riadh Abed, FRCPsych, Founding Chair of the Evolutionary Psychiatry Special Interest Group, Royal College of Psychiatrists","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732504555863,"sku":"9780141984919","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780141984919.jpg?v=1719997175"},{"product_id":"europe-the-first-100-million-years-9780141989020","title":"Europe The First 100 Million Years","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Vivid, thrilling, a delight ... 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It's \u003cb\u003ea wonderful and important story, one that held me enthralled from start to end.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Miranda Seymour\u003cbr\u003ePacked with insights into the brilliance of three generations of the Huxley family, Bashford's book tells \u003cb\u003ea magnificent story about the huge personalities and shortcomings that propelled evolutionary science and much else besides. \u003c\/b\u003eMale and female, from Victorian patriarch to zoo director, authors, lovers, and poets: the pages dance with accounts of contemporary literature, psychology, politics, anthropology, religion, and art. -- Janet Browne, author of Charles Darwin: A Biography and The Quotable Darwin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the most compelling and tragic multigenerational scientific legacies\u003c\/b\u003e ... Bashford tells the story of these intertwined lives with sympathy and candour but also with dexterity. 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Written by two leading authorities in the fields of physical anthropology and molecular evolution, Processes in Human Evolution presents a reconsidered overview of hominid evolution, synthesising data and approaches from a range of inter-disciplinary fields. The authors pay particular attention to population migrations - since these are crucial in understanding the origin and dispersion of the different genera and species in each continent - and to the emergence of the lithic cultures and their impact on the evolution of cognitive capacities.Processes in Human Evolution is intended as a primary textbook for university courses on human evolution, and may also be used as supplementary reading in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses. 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Three hundred million years ago, in Carboniferous times, dragonflies grew as big as seagulls, with wingspans ofnearly a metre. Researchers claim they could have flown only if the air had contained more oxygen than today -probably as much as 35 per cent. Giant spiders, tree-ferns, marine rock formations and fossil charcoalsall tell the same story. High oxygen levels may also explain the global firestorm that contributed to thedemise of the dinosaurs after the asteroid impact. The strange and profound effects that oxygen has had on the evolution of life pose a riddle, which this booksets out to answer. Oxygen is a toxic gas. Divers breathing pure oxygen at depth suffer from convulsionsand lung injury. Fruit flies raised at twice normal atmospheric levels of oxygen live half as long as theirsiblings. Reactive forms of oxygen, known as free radicals, are thought to cause ageing in people. Yet ifatmospheric oxygen reached 35 per cent in the Carboniferous, why did it promote exuberant growth,instead of rapid ageing and death? Oxygen takes the reader on an enthralling journey, as gripping as a thriller, as it unravels the unexpectedways in which oxygen spurred the evolution of life and death. The book explains far more than the size ofancient insects: it shows how oxygen underpins the origin of biological complexity, the birth of photosynthesis, the sudden evolution of animals, the need for two sexes, the accelerated ageing of cloned animals like Dolly the sheep, and the surprisingly long lives of bats and birds.  Drawing on this grand evolutionary canvas, Oxygen offers fresh perspectives on our own lives and deaths,explaining modern killer diseases, why we age, and what we can do about it. Advancing revelatory new ideas,following chains of evidence, the book ranges through many disciplines, from environmental sciences tomolecular medicine. The result is a captivating vision of contemporary science and a humane synthesis of ourplace in nature. This remarkable book might just redefine the way we think about the world.Oxford Landmark Science books are ''must-read'' classics of modern science writing which have crystallized big ideas, and shaped the way we think.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'. . . popular science writing at its very best - clear yet challenging, speculative yet rigorous. 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Or You'll Live Forever: The Triangle of Food, Sex, and Longevity 13: Gender Bender: The Rate of Living and the Need for Sexes 14: Beyond Genes and Destiny: The Double Agent Theory of Ageing and Disease 15: Life, Death and Oxygen: Lessons From Evolution on the Future of Ageing Further Reading Glossary Index","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732783083863,"sku":"9780198784937","price":11.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780198784937.jpg?v=1719998379"},{"product_id":"dog-behaviour-evolution-and-cognition-9780198787778","title":"Dog Behaviour Evolution and Cognition","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the first book to collate and synthesize the recent burgeoning primary research literature on dog behaviour, evolution, and cognition. The author presents a new ecological approach to the understanding of dog behaviour, demonstrating how dogs can be the subject of rigorous and productive scientific study without the need to confine them to a laboratory environment.This second, fully updated edition of Dog Behaviour, Evolution and Cognition starts with an overview of the conceptual and methodological issues associated with the study of the dog, followed by a brief description of their role in human society. An evolutionary perspective is then introduced with a summary of current research into the process of domestication. The central part of the book is devoted to issues relating to the cognitive aspects of behaviour which have received particular attention in recent years from both psychologists and ethologists. The book''s final chapters introduce the reader to many novel approaches to dog behaviour, set in the context of behavioural development and genetics. This second edition recognises and discusses the fact that dogs are increasingly being used as model organisms for studying aspects of human biology, such as genetic diseases and ageing. Specific attention is also given in this edition to attachment behaviour which emerges between humans and dogs, the importance of inter-specific communication in the success of dogs in human communities and the broad aspects of social cognition and how this may contribute to human-dog cooperationDirections for future research are highlighted throughout the text which also incorporates links to human and primate research by drawing on homologies and analogies in both evolution and behaviour. 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This extended edition includes a new epilogue from the author and two key chapters from The Extended Phenotype.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the moment of its publication 40 years ago, it has been a sparkling best-seller and a scientific game-changer. * Matt Ridley, Nature *\u003cbr\u003eReview from previous edition The sort of popular science writing that makes the reader feel like a genius. * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eThis book should be read, can be read, by almost everyone. It describes with great skill a new face of the theory of evolution. W.D. Hamilton, Science\u003cbr\u003eLearned, witty and very well written...Exhilaratingly good. Peter Medawar in The Spectator\u003cbr\u003eThe exciting theories and their wide implications are explaned with clarity, wit and enthusiasm.  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Not only are the new chapters and endnotes worthy additions to the original, but the 1976 text comes up as fresh as a primrose and, in its way, nearly as perfect. * Animal Behaviour *\u003cbr\u003eWhat is so refreshing about Dawkins is that he has confidence in the scientific method, in the testing of beliefs to destruction, no matter how cherished they may be. * Benjamin Woolley, The Listener *\u003cbr\u003e'Scientists give every appearance of being addicts, and science is their vice. That is one reason why progress in science is so rapid. I for one have benefited a great deal from Dawkins's addiction.'  David L. Hull, Nature\u003cbr\u003e'It's a classic that's still relevant today.' * Daily Express *\u003cbr\u003eDawkins's first book, The Selfish Gene, was a smash hit... Best of all, Dawkins laid out this biology - some of it truly subtle - in stunningly lucid prose. (It is, in my view, the best work of popular science ever written.) * H. 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Hamilton and others. The book provoked widespread and heated debate. Written in part as a response, The Extended Phenotype gave a deeper clarification of the central concept of the gene as the unit of selection; but it did much more besides. In it, Dawkins extended the gene''s eye view to argue that the genes that sit within an organism have an influence that reaches out beyond the visible traits in that body - the phenotype - to the wider environment, which can include other individuals. So, for instance, the genes of the beaver drive it to gather twigs to produce the substantial physical structure of a dam; and the genes of the cuckoo chick produce effects that manipulate the behaviour of the host bird, making it nurture the intruder as one of its own. This notion of the extended phenotype has proved to be highly influential in the way we understand evolution and the natural world. It represents a key scientific contribution to evolutionary biology, and it continues to play an important role in research in the life sciences.The Extended Phenotype is a conceptually deep book that forms important reading for biologists and students. But Dawkins'' clear exposition is accessible to all who are prepared to put in a little effort.Oxford Landmark Science books are ''must-read'' classics of modern science writing which have crystallized big ideas, and shaped the way we think.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Extended Phenotype is a sequel to The Selfish Gene ... he writes so clearly it could be understood by anyone prepared to make the effort * John Maynard Smith, LRB *\u003cbr\u003eThis entertaining and thought-provoking book is an excellent illustration of why the study of evolution is in such an exciting ferment these days. * Science *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAFTERWORD BY DANIEL DENNETT; GLOSSARY; AUTHOR INDEX;  SUBJECT INDEX","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732784460119,"sku":"9780198788911","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780198788911.jpg?v=1719998385"},{"product_id":"dinosaurs-9780198795926","title":"Dinosaurs","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDinosaurs are fascinating creatures and their popularity seems never ending, fuelled by films such as Jurassic Park and documentaries such as Walking with Dinosaurs. Yet dinosaurs (or more precisely non-avian dinosaurs) last trod the Earth 65 million years ago. All we know of them today are their fossilised bones, the tracks and traces that they left behind and, in very rare instances, some of the soft tissues or even traces of their chemistry. In many respects dinosaurs present us with one of the ultimate forensic challenges: they comprise the fragmentary remains of creatures that died many tens of millions of years ago, rather than just recently, or a few tens of years ago, which is the problem usually faced by forensic pathologists. How much do we really know about them, and to what extent can their remains inform us about ancient worlds, and indeed about the history of our planet?In this Very Short Introduction David Norman discusses how dinosaurs were first discovered and interpre\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDinosaurs: A Very Short Introduction is anything but. 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Drawing on the latest exciting scientific findings, including Beerling''s own field work in the UK, North America, and New Zealand, and his experimental research programmes over the past decade, this is an exciting new take on how plants greened the continents.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeerling asks the reader to imagine a world without plants as a starting point to the 450 or so million-year journey that unfolds through the pages. This is his manifesto for botany and he is a good advocate for the field. * Jennifer McElwain, Current Biology Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eFew authors have attempted a summary of early plant evolution for a general audience... Beerling is a fount of information. * Jason Fridley, Syracuse University, The Quarterly Review of Biology *\u003cbr\u003eScholarly, highly readable and passionate account ... This book is a call-to-arms: cutting-edge plant science in an environmental context. * Phil Gates, BBC Wildlife *\u003cbr\u003e[A] wonderful study ... A vivid corrective to deep-rooted zoo-chauvinism in thinking about life on Earth. * Barbara Kiser, Nature *\u003cbr\u003eDavid Beerling demonstrates his proficiency in all things green by exploring facets of the colonisation of land by plants in times long past. * Daniel Bojar, The Biologist *\u003cbr\u003eSubtitled 'how plants transformed a barren planet' this fascinating book describes the rise and diversification of plant life originating in a certain type of algae and gradually colonising the land, leading eventually to large forests that impacted the climate through feedback mechanisms. * Paradigm Explorer *\u003cbr\u003eRelatively complex subjects within the field of planet genetics are presented in detail, yet in an accessible writing style that should appeal to non-specialists... Thoroughly researched, content-heavy, and scattered with anecdotes and examples from Beerling's own career ... an informative and highly relevant read. * David Vaughan, Geoscientist *\u003cbr\u003eMaking Eden is an amazing story that is very well told by David Beerling. It should be on the reading list of every course in plant biology. It should also be essential reading for all those in positions of influence regarding current and future agriculture and environmental policies. * Nigel Chaffey, Botany One *\u003cbr\u003eDavid Beerling takes the reader through the latest scientific advances with both deep knowledge and skilful writing. Plants have shaped the rest of the biological world. He explains why, far from being a nineteenth century science, Beerling explains why botany should lie at the centre of debates about how we deal with the future of the biosphere. * Richard Fortey *\u003cbr\u003eBeerling shows us that plants made our planet habitable, and that the fates of people and plants are inextricably intertwined. Against this billion-year backdrop we should think carefully about whether hubris or humility is the better guide for navigating an uncertain planetary future. * Sir Peter Crane, author of Ginkgo: The Tree that Time Forgot *\u003cbr\u003e'Making Eden' is a sweeping history of plant evolution that demonstrates both the development and fragility of plant life. Sound and alluring, it exposes readers to phenomena like the remarkable complexity of plants, the genetic commonality that enables an incredible variety of flowers, and the fascinating biological secret behind the resilience of redwood trees that flourish despite their immense size. * Barry Silverstein, Foreword Reviews *\u003cbr\u003eThis book does exactly what David Beerling promises in the sub-title - it explains with clarity and passion the extraordinary story of how plants escaped from their ancestral marine habitats and came to dominate terrestrial ecosystems. He also brings to life vividly the huge impact this has had, and continues to have, on all life on earth (including our own) and how we, Homo sapiens, are now threatening our own future existence by the damage we are inflicting on earth's increasingly degraded and fragile ecosystems. * Richard Deverell, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface Acknowledgements Illustrations and plates 1: All flesh is grass 2: Fifty shades of green 3: Genomes decoded 4: Ancient genes, new plants 5: Gas valves 6: Ancestral alliances 7: Sculpting climate 8: Eden under siege Further reading Index","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732787704151,"sku":"9780198798309","price":20.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780198798309.jpg?v=1719998399"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/collections\/evolution-evolutionary-biology.oembed?page=34","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}