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Punctuated Equilibrium
In 1972 Stephen Jay Gould took the scientific world by storm with his paper on punctuated equilibrium, written with Niles Eldredge. Challenging a core assumption of Darwin's theory of evolution, it ... > read more -
Paleo Sharks: Survival of the Strangest
If you think today's sharks are fearsome, wait until you see what swam in the oceans hundreds of millions of years ago! Creatures with snouts like saws, and spiral jaws. Sharks so large they could ... > read more -
Patterns in Prehistory: Humankind's First Three Million Years (Casebooks in Criticism)
Who are we? How did the world become what it is today? What paths did humanity traverse along the way? Patterns in Prehistory, Fifth Edition, is a comprehensive and engaging survey of humanity's ... > read more -
Return to the Moon: Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space
The Moon is not just a "local" destination, argues former NASA Astronaut Harrison Schmitt. As a destination, the Moon presents us with a goal that tests our resourcefulness and determination. How ... > read more -
Vertebrate Palaeontology
Vertebrate Palaeontology is a complete, up-to-date history of the evolution of vertebrates. The third edition of this popular text has been extensively revised to incorporate the latest research, ... > read more -
Modern Cosmology
Modern Cosmology begins with an introduction to the smooth, homogeneous universe described by a Friedman-Robertson-Walker metric, including careful treatments of dark energy, big bang ... > read more -
The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu
A “brilliant” and “fascinating” investigation of the looming avian flu pandemic—and how we arrived at the brink of a global health catastrophe—The New York ... > read more -
Butterflies of North America (Kaufman Focus Guides)
Kaufman Focus Guides cut through the clutter to focus on the essentials. * More than 2,300 images of butterflies in natural, lifelike poses * Pictorial table of contents * Convenient one-page index ... > read more -
A Primate's Memoir
Robert Sapolsky, the author of Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers and other popular books on animal and human behavior, decided early in life to become a primatologist, volunteering at the American Museum ... > read more -
Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe
In a crisp, passionate argument sure to draw the wrath of many biologists, Simon Conway Morris defends his belief that evolutionary science is misguided without a somewhat religious notion of the ... > read more
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