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Evolutionary Perspectives on Environmental Problems

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af Edward B. Allen ...

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af Daniel Cloud ...

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Serier serie Psychology (German Language)
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af Douglas Palmer ...

Serier serie Collins Gem
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Evolutionary Perspectives on Environmental Problems

Who Discovered Natural Selection?

Sex, Time, and Power

Missing Links

The Woolly Monkey

On the Origin of Species

Réflexion sur réflexions

Time Waves

Narrative Persuasion. A Cognitive Perspective on Language Evolution

Evolutionary Perspectives on Religion and Violence

Viral Fitness and Evolution

Friendship

The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants

The Neuroscience of Emotion

Behaviour and Ecology of Spiders

Unser Kosmos. Andere Welten.

Le Virus et l'Homme

The World in Six Songs

Biogeography in a Changing World

The Origin of Life

Honest Questions

The Domestication of Language

Homo urbanus

Fossils