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Forest ecology experts analyse the ecological and economic costs and benefits of salvage logging.

(Hardback)

Award-winning, celebrated New York Times columnist and science writer Carl Zimmer presents a history of our understanding of heredity in this sweeping, resonating overview of a force that shaped human society - a force set to shape our future even more radically.

(Hardback, Main)

How fifty years of genetic engineering have brought us to the brink of a profound and disturbing future, from Baille Gifford-shortlisted scientist Matthew Cobb.

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What plants and animals call rocky mountain peaks home Find out what lives in mountain habitats.

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"Based on his decades of experience working with newborn chicks and other species, Vallortigara gives us a clear and accessible account of behaviors that are considered to be innate or instinctive"--

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The only flora for this region in the Middle East. It enables anyone documenting, studying and/or managing Iraqs vast and rich flora to identify the vascular cryptograms and flowering plants.

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The Flora of Iraq is the only flora for this region in the Middle East. Volume 6 covers the Compositae in its entirety.

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Comprehensive descriptive account of the Indigofereae native and naturalised in Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and the Caprivi Strip.

(Hardback)

White moves from a simple proposition maintaining that all individuals seek suitable surroundings to propose a provocative approach to social and political action.

(Hardback)

This volume in the Greenwood Guides to Biomes of the World covers grasslands, those biomes the cover vast areas of the landmass of earth. It covers the two major types of grassland biomes: the temperate grasslands (such as the North American prairie), and the tropical grassland (e.g.

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This text sets out to prove that classic ideas of the mind, learning and memory must be re-examined through the lens of modern biology. It shows that research in the molecular and brain sciences has made it possible to develop research programmes that unravel problems like human nature and society.

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What makes us human How did we develop language, thought and culture Why did we survive, and other human species fail How did this extraordinary proliferation of species come about - and then go extinct This book shows it was our social and cognitive changes which truly made us distinct from other species.

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"A coral reef is colorful. Many different animals live nearby." --

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A comprehensive collection, this trilogy contains the official list of all approximately 56,120 living and 14,700 fossil species of New Zealand's animal, plant, fungi, and microorganism populations. Featuring photographs and illustrations, it demonstrates the value and benefits of taxonomic research in New Zealand and its applications to science, biotechnology, conservation, and biosecurity.

(Hardback)

This is the first book to describe the forests of the entire tropical Asian region, based on Peter Ashton's working field experience of over 55 years.

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Why are boys more likely to have intellectual deficits such as mental subnormality, learning disorders and behavior problems Conversely, why are men more likely than women to have exceptional cognitive ability

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Essays dealing with the life and ideas of Darwin as they relate to human sociobiology.

(Paperback, UK ed.)

The Descent of Man is Darwins second book, first published in 1871. In this edition, Darwin applies evolutionary theory to humans and details his theory of sexual selection.

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An argument that consciousness, more widespread than previously assumed, is the feeling of being alive, not a type of computation or a clever hack.

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How hormonal signals in one small structure of the brainthe hypothalamusgovern our physiology and behavior.

(Paperback, New edition)

Darwin's theory of natural selection is also a humane and inspirational vision of ecological inter-relatedness revealing the almost unthinkably complex and mutual inter-dependencies between animal and plant life, climate and physical environment and - by implication - the human world.

(Paperback, 4th ed.)