(Paperback)
By: Richard G. Bribiescas
ISBN: 9780691180915
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Peter R. Grant
ISBN: 9780691146959
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2010
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Evolutionary biology has witnessed breathtaking advances over the years. This book describes the advances and explains why a cross-disciplinary and integrated approach to research questions is so essential. It discusses the origins of biological diversity, and mechanisms of evolutionary change at the molecular and developmental levels.
(Hardback)
By: Mohamed A. F. Noor
ISBN: 9780691177410
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Gil Rosenthal
ISBN: 9780691150673
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: John M. Gosline
ISBN: 9780691176871
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2018
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2005
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
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(Hardback)
By: Daphne J. Fairbairn
ISBN: 9780691141961
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2013
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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While we joke that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, our gender differences can't compare to those of many other animals. For instance, the male garden spider spontaneously dies after mating with a female more than fifty times his size. And male blanket octopuses employ a copulatory arm longer than their own bodies to mate with females th
(Paperback)
By: Daphne J. Fairbairn
ISBN: 9780691169781
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: John Tyler Bonner
ISBN: 9780691157016
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2013
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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John Tyler Bonner, one of our most distinguished and insightful biologists, here challenges a central tenet of evolutionary biology. In this concise, elegantly written book, he makes the bold and provocative claim that some biological diversity may be explained by something other than natural selection. With his customary wit and accessible style,
(Paperback, Revised edition)
By: Walter Alvarez
ISBN: 9780691169668
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Sixty-five million years ago, a comet or asteroid larger than Mount Everest slammed into the Earth, inducing an explosion equivalent to the detonation of a hundred million hydrogen bombs. Vaporized detritus blasted through the atmosphere upon impact, falling back to Earth around the globe. Disastrous environmental consequences ensued: a giant tsuna
(Hardback)
By: Christoph Adami
ISBN: 9780691241166
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2024
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Gonzalo Giribet
ISBN: 9780691170251
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Eelco J. Rohling
ISBN: 9780691168913
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Jonathan B. Losos
ISBN: 9780691175874
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Marcelo Snchez-Villagra
ISBN: 9780691217666
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2022
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback, Revised Edition)
By: Bobbi S. Low
ISBN: 9780691163888
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Why are men, like other primate males, usually the aggressors and risk takers Why do women typically have fewer sexual partners In Why Sex Matters, Bobbi Low ranges from ancient Rome to modern America, from the Amazon to the Arctic, and from single-celled organisms to international politics, to show that these and many other questions about human
By: Patrick H. Armstrong
ISBN: 9780313334924
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Nearly 200 years after his birth in 1809, and nearly 150 years after the publication of his groundbreaking book The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin remains a controversial figure in science and society.
(Paperback)
By: National Museum of Australia
ISBN: 9781876944728
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2008
Publisher: National Museum of Australia
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Charles Darwin found much in Australia to challenge and inform his thinking. This book explores the impact that Darwin's short visit to Australia in 1836 had on the man himself and on the emerging nation. Now, more than 170 years later, Darwin continues to infl uence Australian attitudes to life and living.
(Hardback)
By: Philip Ball
ISBN: 9781529095982
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 18th January 2024
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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Drawing on recent discoveries and insights, How Life Works outlines a new vision of our understanding of life for the 21st century.
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By: Carl Zimmer
ISBN: 9781529069433
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 9th June 2022
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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Acclaimed New York Times science writer Carl Zimmer investigates what current science has to say on the most fundamental of questions: What is life What does it mean to be alive
(Hardback)
By: Dr Alice Roberts
ISBN: 9780241304310
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Robin Dunbar
ISBN: 9780141975313
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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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.
(Hardback)
By: David Smillie
ISBN: 9780275964368
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 1999
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Essays dealing with the life and ideas of Darwin as they relate to human sociobiology.
(Paperback, 4th ed.)
By: University Benjamin A Pierce
ISBN: 9781429254946
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2011
Publisher: Macmillan Learning
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