Ape and Chimp Books

• Biodiversity
  Nature
  Land Management
  Endangered Plants
  Endangered Animals
  Extinction
   
  

  The Diversity of Life (Penguin Press Science)

  Humans, the Harvard University entomologist Edward O. Wilson has observed, have an innate--or at least extremely ancient--connection to the natural world, and our continued divorce from it has led to ...  > read more
• Early Humans
  Human Evolution
  Cultures
  Evolution
  Origin of Life
  Nature
   
  

  The Wisdom of the Bones: In Search of Human Origins

  Traveling to the desolate rock-strewn deserts of northen Kenya, where the temperature can hit a brutal and dry 130 degrees, would be enough of a trip, but scientist Alan Walker also takes us on a ...  > read more
• Photography
  Monkeys
  Venus
  Psychology
  Relationships
  Today's Healthcare
   
  

  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 ...  > read more
• Fossils
  Anthropology
  Human Evolution
  Early Humans
  Evolution
  Nature
   
  

  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
• Weapons Technology
  Space Policy
  Space Exploration
  Engineering
  Space Probes
  Astronomy
   
  

  Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship

  Like cheap, shiny space suits and bug-eyed rubber monsters, nuclear-powered spaceships today seem like little more than laughably naïve 1950s science fiction tropes. It might have been ...  > read more
• Dinosaurs
  Fish
  Marine Biology
  Fossils
  Frogs and Reptiles
  Nature
   
  

  Sea Dragons: Predators Of The Prehistoric Oceans

  In the days when dinosaurs dominated the earth, their marine counterparts-every bit as big and ferocious-reigned supreme in prehistoric seas. In this entrancing book, Richard Ellis, one of the ...  > read more
• Dinosaurs
  Paleontology
  Fossils
  Ancient Civilizations
  Archaeology
  Tyrannosaurus Rex
   
  

  The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt

  The date is January 11, 1911. A young German paleontologist, accompanied only by a guide, a cook, four camels, and a couple of camel drivers, reaches the lip of the vast Bahariya Depression after a ...  > read more
• Early Humans
  Human Evolution
  Anthropology
  Nature
  Women's Health
  Cultures
   
  

  Dragon Bone Hill: An Ice-Age Saga of Homo erectus

  "Peking Man," a cave man once thought a great hunter who had first tamed fire, actually was a composite of the gnawed remains of some fifty women, children, and men unfortunate enough to have been ...  > read more
• Space Station
  NASA
  Space Policy
  Space Missions
  Space Exploration
  Space Probes
   
  

  We Have Capture: Tom Stafford and the Space Race

  How Apollo commander Stafford defused the Cold War in space by leading the way to Soviet/US cooperation. What an amazing career—Tom Stafford attained the highest speed ever reached by a test ...  > read more

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