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Books : Science & Nature : Biological Sciences : Genetics : Animal
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The 30th anniversary edition of the million copy international bestseller, with a new introduction from the author. As relevant and influential today as when it was first published, this classic exposition of evolutionary thought, widely hailed for its stylistic brilliance and deep scientific insights, stimulated whole new areas of research.
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Articulates a gene's eye view of evolution - a view in which organisms can be seen as vehicles for their replication.
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Sean Carroll explores how evolution has shaped nature's wondrous complexity and diversity, from insects to octopuses, from mice to men.
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Based on 20 years of research at the Jakson Laboratory, this is a comprehensive reference work on the behaviour of dogs.
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Described by Oliver Sacks as ‘one of the best scientist-writers of our time’, Robert M. Sapolsky here presents the human animal in all its quirkiness and diversity.In these remarkable essays, Sapolsky once again deploys his compassion and insights into the human condition to tell us who, why and how we are.Monkeyluv touches on themes such as sexuality, aggression, love, parenting, religion, ageing, and mental illness. He ponders such topics as our need to seek out beauty; why our preferences in food become fixed; why we are sexually attracted to one another; why Alzheimer's disease tends to be a post-menopausal phenomenon; and why grandmothers buying groceries for their grandchildren are part of nature's Darwinian logic.
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This book examines the ground-breaking new science that has emerged from the work of evolutionary biologists and social sciences. Taking the life and work of Darwin as his context, the author draws startling conclusions on our most basic preoccupations.
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Aiming to present the human animal in all its diversity, this work tells us who, why and how we are. It touches on themes such as sexuality, aggression, love, parenting, religion, ageing, and mental illness. It also ponders such topics as our need to seek out beauty; why our preferences in food become fixed; and more.
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Phylogeography is a discipline concerned with various relationships between gene genealogies (phylogenetics) and geography. This book aims to capture the field's conceptual and empirical richness, plus the sense of innovation that phylogeographic perspectives have brought to evolutionary studies.
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This fascinating collection of essays exposes us as the animals that we are while explaining behaviours that are deeply and recognizably human. The first section, 'Our Genes and Who We Are', focuses on our genetic endowment and the forces it creates in our lives, such as our need to seek out beauty. Another essay explains the invisible genetic warfare that takes place between men and women as they conceive a baby, which continues as the foetus develops.
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Offers readers an inside look at how mainstream science reacts with ridicule, threats, and intimidation to any challenge to its deeply held beliefs.
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Shattering deeply held beliefs about sexual relationships in humans and other animals, The Myth of Monogamy is a much-needed treatment of a sensitive issue. Written by the husband and wife team of behavioural scientist David P Barash and psychiatrist Judith Eve Lipton, it glows with wit and warmth even as it explores decades of research undermining traditional precepts of mating rituals. Evidence from genetic testing has been devastating to those seeking monogamy in the animal kingdom; even many birds, long prized as examples of fidelity, turn out to have a high incidence of extra-pair couplings. Furthermore, now that researchers have turned their attention to female sexual behaviour, they are finding more and more examples of aggressive adultery-seeking in "the fairer sex". Writing about humans in the context of parental involvement, the authors find complexity and humour:Baby people are more like baby birds than baby mammals. To be sure, newborn cats and dogs are helpless but this helplessness doesn't last for long. By contrast, infant Homo sapiens remain helpless for months... and then they become helpless toddlers! Who in turn graduate to being virtually helpless youngsters. (And then? Clueless adolescents.) So there may be some payoff to women in being mated to a monogamous man after all.
Careful to separate scientific description from moral