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Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique Best Price: $16.87 This is a comprehensive and readable account of what we know thus far--about ourselves. Human is... | Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Best Price: $15.78 I believe there are few individuals (I'm talking especially about laypeople like myself here)... | Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body Best Price: $13.85 If you want to find out how you are similar to a jellyfish, read this book! Its view of human... | The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology Best Price: $10.04 Futurists are seductive and so are their fantastical predictions, even when one has absolutely... | The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment Best Price: $19.50 For this I reference the many predictions made by Mr. Ehrlich over the years which have, well,... |
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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature Best Price: $7.96 The quality of this book I think is very good, the way in which the history is related and the... | Twelfth Planet: Book I of the Earth Chronicles (The Earth Chronicles) Best Price: $3.95 This is an excellent book. It is very indept. It is hard to put down, but can also overload... | The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution Best Price: $6.00 Oh lord! What can one add to 170+ reviews?
The Ancestor's Tale does something rarely done,... | Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind Best Price: $11.74 Ideally, I'd have given this a 4.5 star rating, as a number of the studies sited in Kluge I'd... | The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (P.S.) Best Price: $6.85 Hey, my review is going to be broken down in to four sections, the introduction, the information... |
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Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters Best Price: $20.35 This is an excellent book, with very good illustrations, that is an excellent introduction to... | Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain Best Price: $13.92 Maryanne Wolf, a cognitive neuroscientist at Tufts and director of a reading laboratory there,... | From So Simple a Beginning: Darwin's Four Great Books (Voyage of the Beagle, The Origin of Species, The Descent of Man, The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals) Best Price: $24.82 This is a collection of Darwin's four best known books, and it's a great read for any natural... | The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time Best Price: $8.32 We visited Galapagos recently and saw the island where most of the story takes place, but were... | Inherit the Wind Best Price: $5.24 It was written decades ago, inspired on a famous trial that had taken place years earlier, yet... |
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The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics Best Price: $14.53 Shermer attempts to synthesize a wide range of findings about how humans often behave in a... | The Origin Of Species Best Price: $3.37 The readers with some science background will not only be amazed, but also charmed by this work.... | Evolutionary Analysis Best Price: $75.00 The book was in perfect condition and it was shipped on time. Overall good purchase. | Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease Best Price: $6.45 The only complaint I have about this book is that the cover refers to Dr. Moalem as a... | The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey Best Price: $7.99 I came to know about Dr Wells' work through the PBS documentary and I made sure that I got it on... |
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Genetics: From Genes to Genomes Best Price: $94.98 This book is decent. It seems like it could be used in a lower-level undergraduate genetics... | Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (P.S.) Best Price: $7.00 This is a wonderful read as: science, non-fiction generally, and as a primer on our genes, what... | The Seven Daughters of Eve Best Price: $8.95 I read this book because I had read about National Geographic's Genome Project including the... | Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life Best Price: $6.37 Think about life as we know it.
Now think about a book that can convincingly explain it as an... | Genetics: A Conceptual Approach Best Price: $89.27 I don't have biology background but this book helps me learn a lot. The author presents concepts... |
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Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors Best Price: $8.44 Wonderful a book of distinction. Relates well with Spenser Wells.
The whole National... | Deep Ancestry: Inside The Genographic Project Best Price: $7.32 Most of the info in this book is a rehash of the history of genetic biology that Wells covered... | The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology Best Price: $6.84 I recommend this book wholeheartedly and would give it ten stars if I could. It was one of the... | Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution Of Human Sexuality (Science Masters) Best Price: $5.97 The evolutionist Richard Dawkins once said that he would have written a book on the evolution of... | Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History Best Price: $18.71 The medium sized book provides an excellent, well written, and entertaining summary of the... |
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Animal Behavior: An Evolutionary Approach, Eighth Edition Best Price: $60.00 First of all, this isnt a textbook in the traditional sense, so dont get fooled.
It is... | The Last Human: A Guide to Twenty-Two Species of Extinct Humans Best Price: $25.25 I can not beleive that there are people who beleive that they were monkeys. I mean is that some... | A Brief History of Everything Best Price: $4.84 I just couldn't get through this book. By trying to claim this was about everything, it covered... | The Cell's Design: How Chemistry Reveals the Creator's Artistry Best Price: $11.00 I'm writing as a person some might say is "in the choir being preached to." ... | The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science) Best Price: $8.99 TEP is primarily a technical treatise. It elaborates the implications of holding a Darwinian... |
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The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution Best Price: $10.37 Ever since Darwin, scientists have worked their way closer and closer to a real model of how in... | The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution (Great Discoveries) Best Price: $8.35 Darwin started writing his Beagle Journal in 1837 in "notebook A." He simultaneously... | Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives Best Price: $8.34 I have to give this book low marks. As a casual observer for many years now on this planet I... | Immortality Best Price: $6.39 I really enjoyed this book and would have given it 5 stars, but for an ending that, while... | The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence Best Price: $3.94 This is a great book to read. A lot of it is speculation. The decision is left up to the reader.... |
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Evolutionary Dynamics: Exploring the Equations of Life Best Price: $22.99 The author picks a variety of sunjects related to evolution (HIV, cancer, language....), and... | The Left Stuff: How the Left-Handed Have Survived and Thrived in a Right-Handed World Best Price: $17.54 For anyone interested in left handedness, Melissa Roth's book is a must-read, very up to date.... | Darwin on Trial Best Price: $4.00 I recently finished Phillip E. Johnson's Darwin on Trial. And I will state outright, that this... | The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God Best Price: $14.95 A fun dip into various parts of the brain. The topics range from the chemistry of dendrite/axon... | Relics of Eden: The Powerful Evidence of Evolution in Human DNA Best Price: $13.95 I just bought relics of Eden yesterday and was surprised at how quickly I was able to go through... |
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iGenetics: A Mendelian Approach (The Genetics Place Series) Best Price: $85.99 I am currently using this book for an upper-level university course, and I don't believe it... | Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings: Piecewise Approximations to Reality Best Price: $36.94 Analytic philosophers once pantomimed physics: they tried to understand the world by breaking it... | The Origin of Species Best Price: $4.72 I read this book, here in Brazil.The author, Darwin was an atheist and a racist.Writen at the... | Dinner with a Cannibal: The Complete History of Mankind's Oldest Taboo Best Price: $15.50 Travis-Henikoff (T-K), the daughter of a master chef and paleoanthropologist has written the... | The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future Best Price: $3.11 I originally read this book several years ago and it transformed my view of the world. It woke... |
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Darwin (Norton Critical Editions) (3rd Edition) Best Price: $13.99 I have not read the 2nd or 3rd editions of this book. But based on the table of contents that I... | Vertebrates: Comparative Anatomy, Function, Evolution Best Price: $108.42 Excellent book to be used in undergraduate and graduate classroons. Helpful in understanding... | On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection (Thrift Edition) Best Price: $2.39 I had never read this before. Darwin's rationale for devising the theory of natural selection... | Science, Evolution, and Creationism Best Price: $7.50 "Science, Evolution and Creationism", published jointly by the National Academy of... | A Short History of Nearly Everything Best Price: $17.47 Great Book. Read it for the 3rd time this week. The Audio Book is also very good. |