books about: evolutionary     books:     Evolutionary      Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters Donald R. Prothero Columbia University Press, 2007 Solid science counters creationist mumbo-jumbo The author, Donald R. Prothero is a professor of geology at Occidental College and lecturer in geobiology at the California Institute of Technology. He is the author, or co-author, of more than 20 books and about 200 research papers. Published in October, 2007, by ...             Evolutionary Dynamics: Exploring the Equations of Life Martin A. Nowak Belknap Press, 2006 Exquisite in Every Respect, Two-Fifths Equations & Charts I don't do math, so I must disclose right away that the math was lost on me, except in the context of this equisitely presented book, I am compelled to recognize that mathematics as well as computation science is going to be a major player is the EarthGame, in ...             Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation: The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex Olivia Judson Holt Paperbacks, 2003 Sex Advice What do you get when you cross a biology textbook, a Dr. Ruth show, a Dear Abby column, and a "Far Side" cartoon? Well, the offspring might be a brilliantly original book named Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation. This collection answers the desperate questions ...             Relics of Eden: The Powerful Evidence of Evolution in Human DNA Daniel J. Fairbanks Prometheus Books, 2007 Reclaiming the reluctant The focus of resistance to Charles Darwin's "dangerous idea" was, and remains, the place of the human species. Even in Darwin's time, most educated people could perceive how natural selection solved many of the issues of life Nature posed. Humans, however, were ...             Financial Darwinism: Create Value or Self-Destruct in a World of Risk Leo M. Tilman Wiley, 2008 "Survival is not mandatory" Is it really necessary to understand the ongoing tectonic financial shift and evolve, asks Financial Darwinism? Lehman, Fannie, Freddie, Bear Stearns, Countrywide, Wachovia, and AIG did not think so. "survival is not mandatory" is the core theme of this book. If ...             Life Visioning: A Four-Stage Evolutionary Journey to Live as Divine Love Michael Bernard Beckwith Sounds True, Incorporated, 2008 Simply amazing! Dr. Michael Beckwith does it again! Amazing analysis of the shift from the 'victim' consciousness into higher levels of existence. This is what sets him as one of the greatest teachers of our time. It's excellence all the way through the end. I highly recommend it.             The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology Robert Wright Vintage, 1995 A self-help book If you are a modern woman, educated with all the equalitarism lectures, professional, qualified, and have gone through a life very much like that of the girls of "Sex and the City", put your Cosmo aside and read this book. It may shock you, it may even infuriate you ...             The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature Steven Pinker Penguin (Non-Classics), 2003 Nature vs. Nurture A must read! Throughout this book, Pinker shows a thorough knowledge of a wide variety of fields, covering from neuroscience to politics to philosophy and much more. This book argues against the premise that the human brain begins as an empty tablet awaiting the ...             Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History Xiaoming Wang, Richard H. Tedford Columbia University Press, 2008 A long-awaited work; a great read for both research and leisure This book encompasses everything that inspired me to pursue paleontological research...the meticulous manner in which the authors document the evolutionary history of dogs, and the unparalleled illustrations that bring those concepts and species to life. The ...             The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics Michael Shermer Times Books, 2007 The Title a Bit Misleading The title of this book led me to believe that it would be an in-depth analysis of the psychology and behavior of the stock market. However, that is not really the subject of this book. Instead, the book advances a thesis regarding how to apply evolutionary principles ...             Climbing Mount Improbable Richard Dawkins W. W. Norton & Company, 1997 Evolution of eyes, spiderwebs, wings, and clamshells Many people find it difficult to understand how complex structures like eyes and wings evolved through random evolution. Dawkins does a thorough job here laying out just how evolution works. He makes it clear that evolution is not random--it is the accumulation of ...             From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany Richard Weikart Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 History as it is! As an undergrad history major I stumbled upon this book preparing for a paper. I have to admit that I found this book to be uncommonly interesting. Richard Weikart is most definitely a prolific historian. There are few things that need to be stated in correction. Some ...             Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters: From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming a ... Alan S. Miller, Satoshi Kanazawa Perigee Trade, 2007 An excellent introduction to neuroscience This is a democratically short book which both briefly and fairly cogently lays out the currently known essentials of neuroscience. Neuroscience is the field which advocates that our minds are not blank slates but rather carefully evolved organs with inbuilt genetic ...             Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo Sean B. Carroll W. W. Norton, 2006 The "Butterfly Effect" in the genes The best feature of this book is the fantastic sense of the complexity of the development of the organism from the genes. Sean shows with genius how the tiniest changes in a gene can lead to huge effects in the developing organism -- much like in Chaos theory (see the ...             How and Why Species Multiply: The Radiation of Darwin's Finches (Princeton Series in Evolutionary Biology) Peter R. Grant, B. Rosemary Grant Princeton University Press, 2007 Excellent This concise and well written book is the distillation of over 30 years of landmark work on natural selection and speciation in the famous Darwin's finch radiation of the Galapagos islands. This research project generated dozens of important papers and 2 prior, thick ...          products you might be interested in search for books billionaire, compassionate, competitive, evolutionary, psychologists, self-destruct      toavi.com    web we recommend Nature vs. Nurture randomly chosen book: Nonstandard Analysis in Practice (Universitext)