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The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
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9.8 |
Inheriting the mantle of revolutionary biologist from Darwin, Watson, and Crick, Richard Dawkins forced an enormous change in the way we see ourselves and the world with the publication of The Selfish Gene. Suppose, instead of thinki
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The Blind Watchmaker : Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
Richard Dawkins
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Current:
9.7 |
Richard Dawkins is not a shy man. Edward Larson's research shows that most scientists today are not formally religious, but Dawkins is an in-your-face atheist in the witty British style: more]
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Darwin on Trial
Phillip E. Johnson
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Current:
9.7 |
In clear, concise chapters, Johnson offers a casual, reasoned and scientifically sound evaluation of the support for Darwinism--from fossil records to molecular biology. In a new afterword, he responds to his critics and their arguments. "U
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The Fifth Miracle : The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life
P. C. W. Davies
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Current:
9.7 |
How did life begin? Did it start here, by blind chance or by necessity, or was Earth seeded by extraterrestrial visitors? (And, if so, how did they arise?) Physicist and science writer Paul Davies tackles these heavy questions and mo
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Forbidden Archeology : The Hidden History of the Human Race
Michael A. Cremo, Richard L. Thompson
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Current:
9.7 |
Over the centuries, researchers have found bones and artifacts proving that humans like us have existed for millions of years. Mainstream science, however, has supppressed these facts. Prejudices based on current scientific theory act as a
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The Origin of Species
Charles Darwin, Greg Suriano
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Current:
9.6 |
It's hard to talk about The Origin of Species without making statements that seem overwrought and fulsome. But it's true: this is indeed one of the most important and influential books ever written, and it is one of the very few grou
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Summer for the Gods : The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion
Edward J. Larson(Preface)
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Current:
9.5 |
If you haven't seen the film version of Inherit the Wind, you might have read it in high school. And even people who have never heard of either the movie or the play probably know something
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Life : A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
Richard Fortey
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Current:
9.5 |
"The excitement of discovery cannot be bought, or faked, or learned from books," London Natural History Museum senior paleontologist Richard Fortey writes in Life. The first chapter, an engrossing account of an Arctic fossi
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea : Evolution and the Meanings of Life
Daniel Clement Dennett
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Current:
9.4 |
In Consciousness Explained, Daniel Dennett insists on the importance of considering consciousness from the evolutionary point of view. Darwin's Dangerous Idea elaborates upon his theory of the evolution of consciousness, but a
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The Dragons of Eden : Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
Carl Sagan
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Current:
9.4 |
Dr. Carl Sagan takes us on a great reading adventure, offering his vivid and startling insight into the brain of man and beast, the origin of human intelligence, the function of our most haunting legends--and their amazing links to recent d
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Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms : Essays on Natural History
Stephen Jay Gould
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Current:
9.4 |
One of this century's most thoughtful and prolific naturalists, Harvard professor Stephen Jay Gould looks at the human twists on science in his eighth series of essays taken from Natural History magazine. As only he can, Gould finds
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors : A Search for Who We Are
Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
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Current:
9.3 |
"Dazzling...A feast. Absorbing and elegantly written, it tells of theorigins of life on earth, describes its variety and charaacter, and culminates in a discussion of human nature and teh complex traces ofhumankind's evolutionary past...It
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The Great Human Diasporas : The History of Diversity and Evolution
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
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Current:
9.3 |
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 done more than anyone else to revea
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Genesis and the Big Bang : The Discovery of Harmony Between Modern Science and the Bible
Gerald L. Schroeder
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Current:
9.3 |
In this groundbreaking book, physicist Gerald Schroeder takes on skeptics from both sides of the cosmological debate, arguing that science and the Bible are not at odds concerning the origin of the universe. Line drawings. more]
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The Origins of Virtue : Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
Matt Ridley
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Current:
9.3 |
Human life, scientific journalist Matt Ridley suggests, is a complex balancing act: we behave with self-interest foremost in mind, but also in ways that do not harm, and sometimes even benefit, others. This behavior, in a strange way, makes
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The Origins of Life : From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language
John Maynard Smith
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Current:
9.2 |
Life is a long, strange trip, and in The Origins of Life, John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry blast you through its three-and-a-half-billion-year history at breathtaking pace. Life, we learn, is information, transmi
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The Voyage of the Beagle : Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches
Charles Darwin
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Current:
9.2 |
This richly readable book is the product of Charles Darwin's amazing journey aboard the Beagle where he made observations that led to his revolutionary theory of natural selection. Complete and unabridged. more]
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Darwin's Black Box : The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
Michael J. Behe
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Current:
9.2 |
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The Third Chimpanzee
Jared Diamond
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Current:
9.0 |
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The Beak of the Finch : A Story of Evolution in Our Time
Jonathan Weiner
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Current:
8.9 |
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A Brief History of Everything
Ken Wilber, Tony Schwartz
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Current:
8.9 |
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Out of Control : The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World
Kevin Kelly
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Current:
8.8 |
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Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds
Phillip E. Johnson
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Current:
8.7 |
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Symbiotic Planet : A New Look at Evolution (Science Masters Series)
Lynn Margulis
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Current:
8.7 |
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Evolving Brains (Scientific American Library Series, No 68)
John Morgan Allman
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Current:
8.7 |
What's the big deal about big brains? They're a costly enhancement, says neurobiologist John Allman in Evolving Brains. "Animals with big brains are rare," he stresses. "If brains enable animals to adapt to changing environments, why
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