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017020
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London, Penguin Books, 2006.
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xxi, 340pGrey Spine
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A brilliant and controversial book which vividly explores how the unconscious, automatic, blind, yet essentially non- random process discovered by Darwin is the only answer to the most important question of all: why do we exist?
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Introduction to the 2006 edition
Preface
1. Explaining the very improbable
2. Good design
3. Accumulatin small change
4. Making tracks through animal space
5. The power and the archives
6. Origins and miracles
7. Constructive evolution
8. Explosions and spirals
9. Puncturing punctuationism
10. The one true tree of life
11. Doomed rivals
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9780141026169 Pb.
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| I01009 | 576.82/DAW | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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026732
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London, Laurence King Publishing, 2022.
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63pGreen Spine
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Little guides to great lives
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A biographical account of Charles Darwin's life for young readers.
Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution caused both outrage and wonder, and quickly made him one of the most famous men in history. From his five-year voyage across the high seas to 20 years of research, follow Darwin on his adventure to prove a theory that would change the world.
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9781510230286 Pb.
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| 024509 | 921/DAR | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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011019
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England, Oneworld Publications, 2007.
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xii, 203pBlue spine
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This guide explains genetics and natural selection, as propounded by Charles Darwin, and all the key principles on which the theory of evolution is based. Includes the perils and pitfalls of creationism and the panoply of human nature.
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1851683712 Pb.
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| 011306 | 576.8/GUT | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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018543
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London, Icon Books, 2010.
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176pBrown spine
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Introducing
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In 1859, Charles Darwin shocked the world with a radical theory, evolution by natural selection. One hundred and fifty years later, his theory still challenges some of our most precious beliefs. Introducing Evolution provides a step-by-step guide to "Darwin's dangerous idea" and takes a fresh look at the often misunderstood concepts of natural selection and the selfish gene. Drawing on the latest findings from genetics, ecology and animal behaviour, as well as the work of best-selling science writers such as Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker, a string of brilliant examples, superbly illustrated by Howard Selina, reveals how the evidence in favour of evolutionary theory is stronger than ever.
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9781848311862 Pb.
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| I01329 | 576.8/EVA | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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006257
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Great Britain, Scholastic, 1999.
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128pBlack Spine
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Horrible Science
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Go back millions of years to see insects as big as birds, fish with teeth and why chimps could be related to you.
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In troduction
A high-speed history of life on earth
Dangerous discoveries
Murderous mosquitoes
Species spotting
Fascinating fossils
Dino doomsday
Fish with feet
New kids on the block
What else is out there?
Epilogue
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0590542826 Pb.
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| 006703 | 576.8/GAT | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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022293
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Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999.
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xv, 468pWhite spine
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Ford Landmark Science
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The Extended Phenotype gave a deeper clarification of the central concept of the gene as the unit of selection; but it did much more besides. In it, Dawkins extended the gene's eye view to argue that the genes that sit within an organism have an influence that reaches out beyond the visible traits in that body - the phenotype - to the wider environment, which can include other individuals. So, for instance, the genes of the beaver drive it to gather twigs to produce the substantial physical structure of a dam; and the genes of the cuckoo chick produce effects that manipulate the behaviour of the host bird, making it nurture the intruder as one of its own. This notion of the extended phenotype has proved to be highly influential in the way we understand evolution and the natural world. It represents a key scientific contribution to evolutionary biology, and it continues to play an important role in research in the life sciences.
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9780198788911 Pb.
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| I02020 | 576.82/DAW | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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017794
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New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 2009.
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xviii, 661pWhite Spine
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In this book, Steven Pinker explains what the mind is, how it evolved, and how it allows us to see, think, feel, laugh, interact, enjoy the arts, and ponder the mysteries of life. How the Mind Works explains many of the imponderables of everyday life. The arguments in the book are as bold as its title. Pinker rehabilitates unfashionable ideas, such as that the mind is a computer and that human nature was shaped by natural selection. And he challenges fashionable ones, such as that passionate emotions are irrational, that parents socialize their children, that creativity springs from the unconscious, that nature is good and modern society corrupting, and that art and religion are expressions of our higher spiritual yearnings.
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Standard equipment
Thinking machines
Revenge of the nerds
The mind's eye
Good ideas
Hotheads
Family values
The meaning of life
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9780393334777 Pb.
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| I01246 | 153/PIN | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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016742
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New York, Bantam Dell, 2008.
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495pCream Spine
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Bantam Classics
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Darwin’s reasoned, documented arguments carefully advance his theory of natural selection and his assertion that species were not created all at once by a divine hand but started with a few simple forms that mutated and adapted over time. Whether commenting on his own poor health, discussing his experiments to test instinct in bees, or relating a conversation about a South American burrowing rodent, Darwin’s monumental achievement is surprisingly personal and delightfully readable. Its profound ideas remain controversial even today, making it the most influential book in the natural sciences ever written—an important work not just to its time but to the history of humankind.
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9780553214635 Pb.
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016125
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2006 (30th anniversay edition)
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New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1976.
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xxiii, 360pBrown Spine
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In his internationally bestselling, now classic volume, The Selfish Gene, Dawkins explains how the selfish gene can also be a subtle gene. The world of the selfish gene revolves around savage competition, ruthless exploitation, and deceit, and yet, Dawkins argues, acts of apparent altruism do exist in nature. Bees, for example, will commit suicide when they sting to protect the hive, and birds will risk their lives to warn the flock of an approaching hawk.
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9780195690668 Pb.
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| I00796 | 576.8/DAW | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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