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By: Matt Ridley
ISBN: 9780140244045
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1997
UK Publication Date: 30th October 1997
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Why are people nice to each other What are the reasons for altrusim Matt Ridley explains how the human mind has evolved a special instinct for social exchange, offering a lucid and persuasive argument about the paradox of human benevolence.
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By: Prof Steven Mithen
ISBN: 9780753802045
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 1998
UK Publication Date: 4th May 1998
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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Darwinian thinking and the emerging science of evolutionary psychology are providing some of the most interesting and contentious issues in modern science. This book explores how an understanding of our ancestors and their development can illuminate our brains and behaviour today.
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By: Daniel M Davis
ISBN: 9781529110975
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 7th July 2022
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Bryan Sykes
ISBN: 9780552152181
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2004
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2004
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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This title provides an evaluation of our genetic origins.
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By: Amir Raz
ISBN: 9780306833434
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2024
Publisher: Hachette Books
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Dr. Amir Raz collects decades of research and case studies to offer the definitive, interdisciplinary account of how suggestion changes the brain and shapes our behavior, and how we can harness suggestibility in our own lives.
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By: Tanya M. Smith
ISBN: 9780262553858
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: David Quammen
ISBN: 9780008310714
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
UK Publication Date: 8th August 2019
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction and A New York Times Notable Book of 2018.
Our understanding of the tree of life, with powerful implications for human genetics, human health and our own human nature, has recently completely changed.
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By: Menno Schilthuizen
ISBN: 9780262049092
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
UK Publication Date: 25th March 2025
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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A manifesto and a field guide for a new dawn of natural history, practiced by community scientists in their own urban jungle.
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By: Jim Dutcher
ISBN: 9781426218866
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
Publisher: National Geographic Society
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From the world-famous couple who lived alongside a wolf pack, this book of inspiration will fascinate animal and nature lovers.
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By: Sputnik Futures
ISBN: 9781982172640
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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By: Editors Time For Kids
ISBN: 9780060576400
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Nov 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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Large, dramatic photographs of a variety of ants and a brief fact- filled text will fascinate developing readers. Ages 6+.
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By: Editors Time For Kids
ISBN: 9780060576424
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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Beginning readers will discover how bees live and work together in a title with clear, interesting text and a lively photograph on every spread. Ages 6+.
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By: Humberto R. Maturana
ISBN: 9780877736424
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 1992
UK Publication Date: 1st April 1993
Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
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With the help of illustrations and examples from biology, linguistics and social and cultural phenomena, this book shows that the process of learning is not a means of knowing an absolute world of facts, but is rather an active process which itself creates the world of human experiences.
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By: Helen Thomson
ISBN: 9781473611771
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
UK Publication Date: 10th January 2019
Publisher: John Murray Press
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How the mind works -- everything from memory to emotion, navigation to creativity -- explained in nine extraordinary human stories
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By: Jennie Erin Smith
ISBN: 9780525536079
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
UK Publication Date: 1st April 2025
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Frank Ryan
ISBN: 9780007315123
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2009
UK Publication Date: 25th June 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The extraordinary role of viruses in evolution and how this is revolutionising biology and medicine.
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By: Tomaso A. Poggio
ISBN: 9780262034722
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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A mathematical framework that describes learning of invariant representations in the ventral stream, offering both theoretical development and applications.
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By: Paul Sterry
ISBN: 9780062446817
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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(Hardback)
By: Karsten Brensing
ISBN: 9781788544504
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A fascinating study of animal behaviour, from an eminent German marine biologist, revealing them to be as sentient and self-aware as we humans are.
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By: Ernst Mayr
ISBN: 9780753813683
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2003
UK Publication Date: 5th December 2002
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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What we do and do not know about evolution, by one of the field's pioneering thinkers.
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By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
ISBN: 9780593229361
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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(Hardback)
By: Peter Sterling
ISBN: 9780262043304
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2020
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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An argument that health is optimal responsiveness and is often best treated at the system level.
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By: Helen Scales
ISBN: 9781804710500
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2024
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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An impassioned examination of the existential threats to the world's ocean and cautious optimism for the abundant life within it.
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By: Carolyn Combs
ISBN: 9781584696612
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: May 2020
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc
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"Children use clues to discover how ten animals use their tails to communicate with each other and other animals"--
