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  • The Symbiotic Planet

    A New Look At Evolution

    by Prof Lynn Margulis ...
    series SCIENCE MASTERS
    A distinguished microbiologist explains the importance of symbiosis - where different organisms contribute to each other's support - and how this is changing our view of life on EarthLynn Margulis is an ardent supporter of the Gaia hypothesis: the idea that due to the finely balanced interdependence of all life forms, the planet functions as a single, giant cell. She argues that no organism is an ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • Behave

    The bestselling exploration of why humans behave as they do

    by Robert M Sapolsky ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**Why do human beings behave as they do?'Awe-inspiring... You will learn more about human nature than in any other book I can think of' Henry Marsh, bestselling author of And Finally.We are capable of savage acts of violence but also spectacular feats of kindness: is one side of our nature destined to win out over the other?Every act of human behaviour has multipl... ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness

    by Peter Godfrey-Smith ...
    The follow-up to the BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Other Minds A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year A Waterstones Best Book of 2020The scuba-diving philosopher explores the origins of animal consciousness.Dip below the ocean’s surface and you are soon confronted by forms of life that could not seem more foreign to our own: sea sponges, soft corals and flower-like worms, whose rooted bodies and ... Read more

    $9.99 AUD

  • Sentience

    The Invention of Consciousness

    by Nicholas Humphrey ...
    We feel therefore we are. Conscious sensations ground our sense of self. They are essential to our idea of ourselves as psychic beings: present, existent, and mattering. But is it only humans who feel this way? Do other animals? Will future machines? To answer these questions we need a scientific understanding of consciousness: what it is and why it has evolved. Nicholas Humphrey has been ... Read more

    $25.99 AUD

  • The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being

    Evolution and the Making of Us

    by Alice Roberts ...
    'From your brain to your fingertips, you emerge from her book entertained and with a deeper understanding of yourself' Richard Dawkins**'A masterful account of why our bodies are the way they are . . . this book really shines . . . Roberts's lightness of touch is joyous, and celebratory' Observer'Witty, personal and above all informed by passion and deep knowledge, this is the story of you, not ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • The Ape that Understood the Universe

    How the Mind and Culture Evolve

    by Steve Stewart-Williams ...
    The Ape that Understood the Universe is the story of the strangest animal in the world: the human animal. It opens with a question: How would an alien scientist view our species? What would it make of our sex differences, our sexual behavior, our altruistic tendencies, and our culture? The book tackles these issues by drawing on two major schools of thought: evolutionary psychology and cultural ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD

  • The Dawn of Everything

    A New History of Humanity

    by David Graeber, David Wengrow ...
    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022'Pacey and potentially revolutionary' Sunday Times'Iconoclastic and irreverent ... an exhilarating read' The GuardianFor generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - eithe... ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • Ancient Bones

    unearthing the astonishing, new story of how we became human

    by Madelaine Böhme, Rüdiger Braun, Florian Breier ...
    Translated by Jane Billinghurst ...
    A leading palaeontologist discovers the missing link in human evolution.Somewhere west of Munich, Madelaine Böhme and her colleagues dig for clues to the origins of humankind. What they discover is beyond anything they imagined: the fossilised bones of Danuvius guggenmosi ignite a global media frenzy. This ancient ancestor defies our knowledge of human history. His nearly twelve-million-year-old ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD

  • The Human Swarm

    How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall

    by Mark W. Moffett ...
    A specialist on social insects writes about the origins and implications of our own vast social organisation, and the ways in which our ethnic and national distinctions mirror those of other animals.In this paradigm-shattering book, biologist Mark W. Moffett draws on findings in psychology, sociology and anthropology to explain the social adaptations that bind societies. He explores how the ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • Lifespan: Why We Age – and Why We Don’t Have To

    by Dr David A. Sinclair ...
    In this paradigm-shifting book from acclaimed Harvard Medical School doctor and one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people on earth, Dr. David Sinclair reveals that everything we think we know about ageing is wrong, and shares the surprising, scientifically-proven methods that can help readers live younger, longer.For decades, the medical community has looked to a variety of reasons for ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything

    by Robert Hazen ...
    An enchanting biography of the most resonant – and most necessary – chemical element on Earth.Carbon. It is the building block of every cell that makes up every living thing. It is the essential component of the food we eat, the fuel we burn, the wood we use and the air we breathe. It is worth billions as a luxury and half a trillion as a necessity, but there are still mysteries to be solved about ... Read more

    $13.99 AUD

  • We Bought a Zoo

    by Benjamin Mee ...
    Chuck it all in and buy a zoo? Why not? thought Benjamin Mee, unaware of the grim living conditions, creditors and escaped big cat that lay in wait…A few years ago, Ben and his wife, Katherine, sold their small flat in Primrose Hill and moved to France to pursue their dream of restoring an old barn near Nimes.That dream then became much, much bigger for, last October, they moved with their two ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD

  • The Greatest Show on Earth

    The Evidence for Evolution

    by Richard Dawkins ...
    Charles Darwin's masterpiece, On the Origin of Species, shook society to its core on publication in 1859. Darwin was only too aware of the storm his theory of evolution would provoke but he would surely have raised an incredulous eyebrow at the controversy still raging a century and a half later. Evolution is accepted as scientific fact by all reputable scientists and indeed theologians, yet ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life

    by Peter Godfrey-Smith ...
    BBC R4 Book of the Week ‘Brilliant’ Guardian ‘Fascinating and often delightful’ The TimesWhat if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien. What can we learn from the encounter?In Other Minds, Peter Godfrey-Smith, a distinguished philosopher of science and a skilled scuba diver, tells a bold new story of how ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong – and the New Research That’s Rewriting The Story

    by Angela Saini ...
    ‘Inferior is more than just a book. It’s a battle cry – and right now, it’s having a galvanising effect on its core fanbase’ ObserverAre women more nurturing than men?Are men more promiscuous than women?Are males the naturally dominant sex?And can science give us an impartial answer to these questions?Taking us on an eye-opening journey through science, Inferior challenges o... ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD

  • The Selfish Gene

    40th Anniversary edition

    by Richard Dawkins ...
    series Oxford Landmark Science
    The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages. As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution - a view giving centre stage to these persistent units of information, and in which organisms can be seen as ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • The Origin of Species (Illustrated Edition)

    by Charles Darwin ...
    Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from a common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory with compelling evidence for evolution in his 1859 book On the Origin of ... Read more

    $1.45 AUD

  • The Science Of Discworld II

    The Globe

    by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen ...
    The acclaimed Science of Discworld centred around an original Pratchett story about the Wizards of Discworld. In it they accidentally witnessed the creation and evolution of our universe, a plot which was interleaved with a Cohen & Stewart non-fiction narrative about Big Science. In The Science of Discworld II our authors join forces again to see just what happens when the wizards meddle with ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch

    by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen ...
    Roundworld is in trouble again, and this time it looks fatal. Having created it in the first place, the wizards of Unseen Univeristy feel vaguely responsible for its safety. They know the creatures who lived there escaped the impending Big Freeze by inventing the space elevator - they even intervened to rid the planet of a plague of elves, who attempted to divert humanity onto a different time ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition

    by Jeremy Griffith ...
    FREEDOM has its own very informative website: visit www.humancondition.comThe fastest growing realization everywhere is that humanity can't go on the way it is going. Indeed, the great fear is we're entering endgame where we appear to have lost the race between self-destruction and self-discovery―the race to find the psychologically relieving understanding of our 'good and evil'-afflicted human ... Read more

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  • The Origin of Species by Natural Selection, 6th edition

    by Charles Darwin ...
    The sixth London edition, with all editions and corrections. Considered the definitive edition. the Introduction begins: "When on board H.M.S. Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts, as will be seen in the ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Blind Watchmaker

    by Richard Dawkins ...
    Acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution written in the last hundred years, The Blind Watchmaker offers an inspiring and accessible introduction to one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time. A brilliant and controversial book which demonstrates that evolution by natural selection - the unconscious, automatic, blind yet essentially non-random process discovered by ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • The Red Queen

    Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

    by Matt Ridley ...
    Sex is as fascinating to scientists as it is to the rest of us. A vast pool of knowledge, therefore, has been gleaned from research into the nature of sex, from the contentious problem of why the wasteful reproductive process exists at all, to how individuals choose their mates and what traits they find attractive. This fascinating book explores those findings, and their implications for the ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • How to Be Human

    The Manual

    by Ruby Wax ...
    *FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FRAZZLED*A three way encounter between a Monk, a neuroscientist and Ruby Wax sounds like the set up for a joke. Instead it's produced one of the most fascinating, intriguing and informative books about minds and bodies and brains and mindfulness I've ever encountered. A triangulation on what it means to be human. Utterly readable and surprisingly wise. ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD