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How is it that an egg turns into an elaborate adult How is it that a bacterium, given many millions of years, could have evolved into an elephant The author argues that we can understand this progression in terms of natural selection, but that in order to do so we must consider the role of development in evolutionary change.

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More than fifty illustrations highlight a provocative study tracing the origins of culture as man now knows it back to the early biological evolution of animals.

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Takes you on a ride through the past 3.8 billion years of life on Earth exploring the complex and controversial issue of evolution. This title features the field trips that unearth some of the world's significant fossils, from microbes to mighty mammals, including the feathered dinosaurs that make the link between reptiles and birds.

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Weaving natural history, memoir, and in-depth profiles of amateur researchers, rogue scientists, and stargazing dreamers, a prizewinning poet and nature writer takes readers from Antarctica to outer space to tell the epic story of how the study of meteorites became a modern science.

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Seventeenth-century England was racked by civil war, plague, and fire. A series of meetings of natural philosophers' in Oxford and London saw the beginning of a method of thinking based on proof and experiment. This is account of this unparalleled time of discovery explores the impact of the Royal Society.

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"In the childhood of every human being and at the dawn of human history there is an amazing and, until now, unexplained leap from simple genetically programmed behavior to language, symbolic thinking,"

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"A beautifully written, thoroughly researched and relentlessly terrifying work, and a must-read for anybody with an interest in the environment or the future of our planet."--Salon.com

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This assessment of the revolutionary potential of artificial intelligence and robotics traces how technology arrived at this point and how artificial life, machine consciousness, extreme prosperity, and technological warfare will be hotly debated issues of the near future.

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The book asks: How are scientific developments impacting on human life and on the structure of societies How is science regulated, and how should it be regulated Are there ethical boundaries to scientific developments in some sensitive areas (robotic intelligence, biosecurity) -- .

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Ecosystems provide food, fuel, and drinkable water, regulate local and regional climate, and recycle needed nutrients, among other things. This volume synthesizes empirical studies on the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning and extends that knowledge using a novel and coordinated set of models and theoretical approaches.

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A projection of the future of the species documents reports of extraordinary perception, cognition, volition, and spiritual development.

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The closest galactic nucleus in the universe, Sagittarius A* can provide us with a realistic expectation of learning about the physics of strong gravitational fields. This book provides an overview of the ideas and discoveries pertaining to the supermassive black hole at the galactic center known as Sagittarius A*.

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What is life Is it just the biologically familiar - birds, trees, snails, people - or is it an infinitely complex set of patterns that a computer could simulate This book outlines many of the challenges and controversies involved in the dynamic and curious science of artificial life.

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A cutting-edge science book in the style of Fermats Last Theorem and Chaos from an exciting and accessible new voice in popular science writing.

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Traces the development of scientific concepts since ancient times. This series helps students understand not only what scientists know, but how they came to know it. It supports the recommendations of national science education standards on the history and nature of science; provides print and electronic resources for research; and more.

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The author speculates on the most important breakthroughs that led to the evolution of humankind from the apes; events such as the first time a prehistoric ape stood upright, used a tool, harnessed fire or practised agriculture.

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Does modern science prove the order of creation as described in the Bible to be true Andrew Parker argues that the Genesis account precisely reflects the order of events as we now understand them. By comparing the data of science with the words and phrases of Genesis 1-11, the remarkable parallels become clear.