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On the Origin of Evolution: Tracing 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea' from Aristotle to DNA
Author: John Gribbin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from...
The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
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Author: Nichola Raihani Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Enriching --Publisher's Weekly Excellent and illuminating--Wall Street Journal In the tradition of Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene, Nichola Raihani's The Social...
Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration and Life on Earth
Author: Kate Greene Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 In 2013 Kate Greene moved to Mars. On NASA's first HI-SEAS simulated Mars mission in Hawai'i, she lived for...
The Deep History Of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains
Author: Joseph LeDoux Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A leading neuroscientist offers a history of the evolution of the brain from unicellular organisms to the complexity of animals and...
Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
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Author: Gaia Vince Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In the tradition of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Sapiens, a winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books shows...
Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science
Author: Anna Reser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked,...
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Author: Robert M Sapolsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 A groundbreaking synthesis of the entire science of human behaviour by 'one of the best scientist-writers of our...
The Genetic Age: Our Perilous Quest To Edit Life
Author: Professor Matthew Cobb Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'Brilliant .. I cannot recommend this book strongly enough' - Henry Marsh, New Statesman (about The Idea of the Brain)...
Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain--And How They Guide You
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Author: Rebecca Schwarzlose Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "Enlightening and ambitious... a book that travels into rich terrain, charted by a smart and eager tour guide."--New York Times Book...
Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
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Author: Martin J Blaser, MD Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 "In Missing Microbes, Martin Blaser sounds [an] alarm. He patiently and thoroughly builds a compelling case that the threat...
That's Life!: Looking for the Living Things All Around You
Author: Mike Barfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 Life is everywhere on planet Earth. Jungles, deserts, seas, plains, fields and forests - all of them teem with life but,...
Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
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Author: Rose George Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 An eye-opening exploration of blood, the lifegiving substance with the power of taboo, the value of diamonds and the promise of...
The Origin of Species: (Patterns of Life)
Author: Charles Darwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 A series of special editions of the best popular science books to explore the patterns of our planet. Designed...
The Goodness Paradox: How Evolution Made Us Both More and Less Violent
Author: Richard Wrangham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 It may not always seem so, but day-to-day interactions between individual humans are extraordinarily peaceful. That is not to say that...
The Equations of Life: How Physics Shapes Evolution
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Author: Charles S Cockell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A groundbreaking argument for why alien life will evolve to be much like life here on Earth We are all...
Dunkleosteus
Author: Professor Ben Garrod Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 A comprehensive look at the strongest force in nature. What causes extinction? Why do some species go extinct and not...
Goldilocks and the Water Bears: The Search for Life in the Universe
Author: Louisa Preston Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'An expert romp through the science of extraterrestrial life.' Adam Rutherford Today we know of only a single planet that hosts...
Biohack Your Brain: How to Boost Cognitive Health, Performance & Power
Author: Kristen Willeumier Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A top neuroscientist's science-driven plan on how to take better care of your brain, and, in doing so, how...
Exercised: The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health
Author: Daniel Lieberman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The myth-busting science behind our modern attitudes to exercise In industrialized nations, our sedentary lifestyles have contributed to skyrocketing...
Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness
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Author: Charles Foster Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ATLANTIC, KIRKUS REVIEWS, AND NEW STATESMAN A radically immersive exploration of three...
Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
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Author: Nicholas A. Christakis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 A dazzlingly erudite synthesis of history, philosophy, anthropology, genetics, sociology, economics, epidemiology, statistics, and more (Frank Bruni, The...
A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir
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Author: Kurt Eichenwald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The compelling story of an acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author's ongoing struggle with epilepsy--how, through personal resilience and...
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
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Author: Laurie Garrett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 768 A New York Times bestseller The definitive account of the infectious diseases threatening humanity by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Laurie Garrett...
First Steps: How Walking Upright Made Us Human
Author: Jeremy DeSilva Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is an illogical...
Unique: The New Science of Human Individuality
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Author: David J. Linden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 As a scientist, David Linden had devoted his career to understanding the brain processes and behaviors that are common to...
Slime: A Natural History
Author: Susanne Wedlich Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Slime is an ambiguous thing. It exists somewhere between a solid and liquid. It inspires revulsion even while it compels our...
Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
Author: Nick Lane Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 For decades, biology has been dominated by information - the power of genes. Yet in terms of information there is no...
The Genome Odyssey: Medical Mysteries and the Incredible Quest to Solve Them
Author: Euan Angus Ashley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Since the Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, the price of genome sequencing has dropped at a staggering rate....
Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
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Author: Neil Shubin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 An exciting and accessible new view of the evolution of human and animal life on Earth. From the author of national...
Sleepyhead: The Neuroscience of a Good Night's Rest
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Author: Henry Nicholls Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A narcoleptic's tireless journey through the neuroscience of disordered sleep Whether it's a bout of bad jet lag or a stress-induced...
The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever
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Author: David M Friedman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 His historic career as an aviator made Charles Lindbergh one of the most famous men of the twentieth...
Darwin Comes to Town
Author: Menno Schilthuizen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 We are marching towards a future in which three-quarters of humans live in cities, more than half of the landmass of...
The Brain in Context: A Pragmatic Guide to Neuroscience
Author: Jonathan D. Moreno Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 The human brain is the most complex object in the known universe. The field of neuroscience has made remarkable strides...
Lots of Things to Know About Your Body
Author: Sarah Hull Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 A collection of strange and quirky facts about your extraordinary body. You'll never guess what doctors call tummy rumbles or how...
A Curious Boy: The Making of a Scientist
Author: Richard A. Fortey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Truth and courage are what memoirs need and this one has them both in spades ... The unforgotten boy: that...
How the Mind Changed: A Human History of Our Evolving Brain
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Author: Joseph Jebelli Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The extraordinary story of how the human brain evolved... and is still evolving. We've come a long way. The earliest human...
The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans
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Author: Eben Kirksey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 An anthropologist visits the frontiers of genetics, medicine, and technology to ask: Whose values are guiding gene editing experiments? And what...
Once a Wolf: The Science Behind Our Dogs' Astonishing Genetic Evolution
Author: Bryan Sykes (Oxford Ancestors) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 How did wolves evolve into dogs? When did this happen, and what role did humans play? Oxford geneticist Bryan...
Control: Now the major BBC Radio 4 series BAD BLOOD
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 * FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO ARGUE WITH A RACIST * Throughout history, people have sought to...
Sniff, Lick & Scratch: The Science of Disgusting Animal Habits
Author: Julia Garstecki Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 Do flies really puke on our food when we're not looking? And why do dogs sniff each other's behinds? The companion...
Extended Heredity: A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution
Author: Russell Bonduriansky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 There is much more to heredity than genes For much of the twentieth century it was assumed that genes alone mediate...
The Secret Network of Nature: The Delicate Balance of All Living Things
Author: Peter Wohlleben Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 From the bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees comes an exploration of the invisible connections sustaining the...
Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are
Author: Robert Plomin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 From one of the world's top geneticists, the controversial and cutting-edge book that's making us rethink who we are...
Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped the World--And Us
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Author: Patrick Roberts Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 "A bold, ambitious and truly wonderful history of the world"--Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees From the age...
The Secret Life of Genes
Author: Derek Harvey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Genes have a huge impact on who we are, from defining us as humans, to governing how we behave. Whether controlling...
First Steps: How Walking Upright Made Us Human
Author: Jeremy DeSilva Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is...
The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
Author: Mark Solms Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'Nobody bewitched by these mysteries can afford to ignore the solution proposed by Mark Solms' - Oliver Burkeman, Guardian 'A remarkable...
This Book is Full of Brains: All Kinds of Brains and How They Work
Author: Little House of Science Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 Every day, you use the ultimate supercomputer ... your brain! Join Little House of Science on an access-all-areas tour...