
Green for Life
In search of the perfect
human diet, Victoria
Boutenko compares the
standard American diet with
the diet of wild
chimpanzees. Chimpanzees
share an estimated 99.4% of
genes with humans, but their
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The Complete World of Human Evolution
A compelling, authoritative,
and superbly illustrated
account of the rise and
eventual domination of our
species. Human domination
of the earth is now so
complete that it is easy to
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (P.S.)
Jared Diamond states the
theme of his book up-front:
"How the human species
changed, within a short
time, from just another
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Monkey Portraits
Book Description:We share
about 98 percent of our DNA
with chimpanzees, our
closest biological cousins.
And never have the
similarities between simians
and humans been so amusingly
and brilliantly captured as
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The Piltdown Forgery
On 21 November 1953, one of the most fascinating puzzles in science was finally solved. Three scientists--Joseph Weiner, Kenneth Oakley, and Wilfrid Le Gros Clark--described their investigations into ... > read more -
David and Solomon: In Search of the Bible's Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition
There has been an explosion of recent discoveries in biblical archaeology. These finds have shed powerful light on figures and stories from the Bible -- and completely changed what we know about some ... > read more -
The Great Human Diasporas: The History of Diversity and Evolution (Helix Books)
The title The Great Human Diasporas implies that this book is a history of human migration, but it is much more. It is a readable, accessible summary of the lifework of Luca Cavalli-Sforza, who has ... > read more -
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
This set couples a book containing the six easiest chapters from Richard Feynman's landmark work, Lectures on Physics--specifically designed for the general, non-scientist reader--with the actual ... > read more -
T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
One of the great mysteries is what happened to the dinosaurs, and it has taken great detective work to give us an answer. In T. Rex and the Crater of Doom, some brilliant, not to mention determined, ... > read more -
No Turning Back: The Life and Death of Animal Species
In No Turning Back, Richard Ellis makes a survey of animals that have disappeared through anthropogenic or other means. "Everybody knows what extinction is," he writes, but theories of why it ... > read more -
A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya
The recent interpretation of Maya hieroglyphs has given us the first written history of the New World as it existed before the European invasion. In this book, two of the first central figures in ... > read more -
Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins
From the savannas of Africa to modern-day labs for biomechanical analysis and molecular genetics, Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins reveals how anthropologists are furiously redrawing the ... > read more -
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
Carl Sagan's prophetic vision of the tragic resurgence of fundamentalism and the hope-filled potential of the next great development in human spirituality The late great astronomer and ... > read more -
Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe
A richly told story of the collision between nature's smallest organism and history's mightiest empire The Emperor Justinian reunified Rome's fractured empire by defeating the Goths and Vandals who ... > read more
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