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A remarkable investigation into the hominoids of Flores Island, their place on the evolutionary spectrumandwhether or not they still survive.

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A smorgasbord of the senses from a professor of animal behaviour: how they work, why they're there, and what they mean for both human and animal lives.

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A smorgasbord of the senses from a professor of animal behaviour: how they work, why they're there, and what they mean for both human and animal lives.

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Human olfaction the sense of smell enables us to appreciate food and drink, it warns us of dangers and it makes our environments more enjoyable. However, olfaction is one of our least explored sensory systems. Until now.

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Professor Richard Wrangham advances a provocative new theory of what makes human civilisation special: the nature of our violence.

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Titled after the last two words of Darwin's Descent of Man and written by a leading scholar of human evolution, Lowly Origin is the first book to explain the sources and consequences of bipedalism to a broad audience. Along the way, it accounts for recent fossil discoveries that show us a still incomplete but much bushier family tree than most of us learned about in school.

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Human olfaction the sense of smell enables us to appreciate food and drink, it warns us of dangers and it makes our environments more enjoyable. However, olfaction is one of our least explored sensory systems. Until now.

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Bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the story of how the brain came to be.

'I found this book amazing' Daniel Kahneman, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and bestselling author of Thinking Fast & Slow

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A world renowned expert reveals how our understanding of the evolution of our species has been transformed by momentous discoveries and technological advancements.

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Our understanding of the British Palaeolithic and Mesolithic has changed dramatically over the last three decades, and yet not since H. J. Fleures A Natural History of Man in Britain (1951) has the New Naturalist Library included a volume focused on the study of early humans and their environment.

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Our understanding of the British Palaeolithic and Mesolithic has changed dramatically over the last three decades, and yet not since H. J. Fleures A Natural History of Man in Britain (1951) has the New Naturalist Library included a volume focused on the study of early humans and their environment.

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Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is an illogical development, as it slows us down. But here we are, suggesting there must have been something tremendous to gain from bipedalism.

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Gooch reveals the need for reconnecting with our Neanderthal heritage, examining the genetic evidence of Neanderthal/Cro-Magnon crossbreeding and the dual-nature it has produced in modern man. He explains the influence of the enlarged Neanderthal cerebellum on our brain function and psychic abilities.

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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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