From one of the world's leading natural scientists and the acclaimed author of Trilobite!, Life: A Natural History of Four Billion Years of Life on Earth and Dry Storeroom No. 1 comes a fascinating chronicle of life's history told not...

The Royal Society's Science Book of the Year "[A]n exuberant romp through evolution, like a modern-day Willy Wonka of genetic space. Gee’s grand tour enthusiastically details the narrative underlying life’s erratic...

“A fascinating perspective on the age-old idea of Survival of the Fittest.” ―LitReactorPopulation Wars is a paradigm-shifting look at why humans behave the way they do and the ancient history that explains that behavior. In this...

Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future, and ...

Can we trust our senses to tell us the truth? Challenging leading scientific theories that claim that our senses report back objective reality, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that while we should take our perceptions seri...

Is evolution fact or fancy? Is natural selection an unsupported hypothesis or a confirmed mechanism of evolutionary change? These were the courageous questions that professor of law Phillip Johnson originally took up in 1991. His rele...

• A New York Times Notable Book •"The richest, freshest, most fun book on genetics in some time." —The New York Times Book Review We are doomed to repeat history if we fail to learn from it, but how are we affected b...

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2014This revelatory tour de force by an acclaimed and internationally bestselling science writer upends our understanding of "survival of the fittest"—and invites us all to think and act mo...

"Original and awe-inspiring . . . an exhilarating tour of some of the most profound and important ideas in biology."—New Scientist Where does DNA come from? What is consciousness? How did the eye evolve? Drawing on a treas...

"One of the deepest, most illuminating books about the history of life to have been published in recent years." ―The EconomistThe Earth teems with life: in its oceans, forests, skies and cities. Yet there's a black hole at...

To explain the mystery of how life evolved on Earth, Nick Lane explores the deep link between energy and genes.The Earth teems with life: in its oceans, forests, skies, and cities. Yet there's a black hole at the heart of biology. We ...

"Deftly weaving together science and personal observation, Lee proves an engaging, authoritative guide… of the human condition." ―Kate Wong, editor at Scientific AmericanWhat can fossilized teeth tell us about our ancien...

What happens when an up-and-coming European bioscientist flips from Darwin disciple to Darwin defector? Sparks fly. Just ask biotechnologist Matti Leisola. It all started when a student loaned the Finnish scientist a book criticizing ...

In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E. Lieberman gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years. He illuminates the major transformations that contributed to key adaptations to ...

A major new book overturning our assumptions about how evolution works  Earth's natural history is full of fascinating instances of convergence: phenomena like eyes and wings and tree-climbing lizards that have evolved independently...

Africa does not give up its secrets easily. Buried there lie answers about the origins of humankind. And yet, though vital clues still remain hidden, scientists have over the last century transformed our understanding about the beginn...

Finalist for the 2022 Oregon Book Awards At once joyous and somber, this thoughtful gathering of new and selected essays spans Kathleen Dean Moore's distinguished career as a tireless advocate for environmental activism in the fac...

“The first complete chronological narrative of the species from emergence to extinction. . . .[A] gem.” —Nature Winner of the Society for American Archaeology Book Award, The Neanderthals Rediscovered is a fascinati...

Evolution in Minutes is your compact and accessible guide to the central concepts of the science of evolution, revealing how biological populations change over successive generations. Covering the basics of speciation, genesis, and ex...

A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in Science & TechnologyIn its 4.5 billion-year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, an...

The New York Times best seller by the host of Bill Nye the Science Guy, with a brand new chapter for the paperback edition!"Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every...

An Amazon.com Best of the Month in Nonfiction for February 2014What can we learn from the genomes of our closest evolutionary relatives?Neanderthal Man tells the story of geneticist Svante Pääbo's mission to answer this question, an...

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, SMITHSONIAN, AND WALL STREET JOURNALA major reimagining of how evolutionary forces work, revealing how mating preferences—what Darwin termed "the taste for the...

In this New York Times bestseller and longlist nominee for the National Book Award, “our greatest living chronicler of the natural world” (The New York Times), David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology aff...

Religious fundamentalists and biblical literalists present any number of arguments that attempt to disprove evolution. Those with a sympathetic ear often fail to critically examine these creationist claims, leading to an ill-informed ...

This "fact-filled and amusing trek through nature's dark side" (Kirkus Reviews) reveals the fascinating, weird, and often perverted ways that Mother Nature fends only for herself.It may be a wonderful world, but as Dan Riski...

In this revised and expanded collection of essays on origins, mathematician Granville Sewell looks at the big bang, the fine-tuning of the laws of physics, and (especially) the evolution of life. Sewell explains why evolution is a fun...

A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the YearIn The Universe Within, Neil Shubin reveals the connection between the evolution of the cosmos and the evolution of the human body.  Just as the history of the earth is written in the ...

"Switek seamlessly intertwines two types of evolution: one of life on earth and the other of paleontology itself."-Discover Magazine""In delightful prose, [Switek] . . . superbly shows that '[i]f we can let go of o...

Fifty thousand years ago—merely a blip in evolutionary time—our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their precursors had done for millions of years. Yet something about our...