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African Exodus: The Origins of Modern Humanityby Christopher Stringer, Robin McKieISBN 0805058141 (0-8050-5814-1)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'African Exodus : The Origins of Modern Humanity'Book summary:Ever since Darwin first suggested that humans are descended from apes, the theory of evolution has engendered a firestorm of controversy. But the schism between creationism and evolution is by no means the only source of disagreement; even within the evolutionist camp there are fierce divisions. Are all humans part of a single species comprised of many different varieties? Or is each race a separate species? Even Darwin had no easy answer for that one. Some scientists, including Carleton Coon, believe that Homo erectus began in Africa, then migrated to different locations in the world, where it evolved into Homo sapiens at different rates--Europeans and Asians evolved quickly, while other races remained more "primitive." Others, such as author Christopher Stringer, agree that Homo erectus spread across Asia and Europe, but became extinct everywhere but in Africa, where they continued to evolve. Eventually, a new and improved Homo sapiens swept once more out of Africa--this time to stay.
There's plenty of paleontological and genetic evidence to support Stringer's point of view, and he argues it convincingly. Short of the invention of a time machine, African Exodus is the next best way to revisit the origins of modern man. [via]
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African Genesis; A Personal Investigation into the Animal Origins and Nature of Manby Robert ArdreyISBN 0689100132 (0-689-10013-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'African Genesis; A Personal Investigation into the Animal Origins and Nature of Man'Book summary:This volume opens with the statement: "The home of our fathers was the African highland reaching north from the Cape to the Lakes of the Nile. Eleven chapters follow, describing the "African Genesis". [via]
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolutionby Richard Dawkins, Yan WongISBN 061861916X (0-618-61916-X)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution'Book summary:Just as we trace our personal family trees from parents to grandparents and so on back in time, so in The Ancestor's Tale Richard Dawkins traces the ancestry of life. As he is at pains to point out, this is very much our human tale, our ancestry. Surprisingly, it is one that many otherwise literate people are largely unaware of. Hopefully Dawkins's name and well deserved reputation as a best selling writer will introduce them to this wonderful saga.
The Ancestor's Tale takes us from our immediate human ancestors back through what he calls concestors, those shared with the apes, monkeys and other mammals and other vertebrates and beyond to the dim and distant microbial beginnings of life some 4 billion years ago. It is a remarkable story which is still very much in the process of being uncovered. And, of course from a scientist of Dawkins stature and reputation we get an insider's knowledge of the most up-to-date science and many of those involved in the research. And, as we have come to expect of Dawkins, it is told with a passionate commitment to scientific veracity and a nose for a good story. Dawkins's knowledge of the vast and wonderful sweep of life's diversity is admirable. Not only does it encompass the most interesting living representatives of so many groups of organisms but also the important and informative fossil ones, many of which have only been found in recent years.
Dawkins sees his journey with its reverse chronology as cast in the form of an epic pilgrimage from the present to the past [and] all roads lead to the origin of life. It is, to my mind, a sensible and perfectly acceptable approach although some might complain about going against the grain of evolution. The great benefit for the general reader is that it begins with the more familiar present and the animals nearest and dearest to usour immediate human ancestors. And then it delves back into the more remote and less familiar past with its droves of lesser known and extinct fossil forms. The whole pilgrimage is divided into 40 tales, each based around a group of organisms and discusses their role in the overall story. Genetic, morphological and fossil evidence is all taken into account and illustrated with a wealth of photos and drawings of living and fossils forms, evolutionary and distributional charts and maps through time, providing a visual compliment and complement to the text. The design also allows Dawkins to make numerous running comments and characteristic asides. There are also numerous references and a good index.-- Douglas Palmer [via]
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Ayla Und Der Clan Des Barenby Jean AuelISBN 3453215257 (3-453-21525-7)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ayla Und Der Clan Des Baren'Book summary:Der Welterfolg von Jean M. Auel! [via]
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Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniquenessby Ian TattersallISBN 0156006537 (0-15-600653-7)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness'Book summary:Monogamy. Bipedalism. Tools. Language. Intelligence. Why on Earth did we develop all those tricks? Though it's trendy to diminish the differences between humans and other species, most of us just can't help noticing our often-striking peculiarities and wondering how they arose. Paleontologist Ian Tattersall's story of human origins is as compelling as a well-designed museum exhibit--no surprise, as he is Curator of Anthropology for the American Museum of Natural History. His prose, while not flashy, is satisfyingly clear and unapologetically fascinated with its topic. Covering genetics, evolutionary theory, primate anatomy, and archaeology, Becoming Human explains how and why our ancestors adapted to their surroundings to produce such clever, talented, immodest progeny. If you find it preposterous that a dumb, skinny ape can go from foraging for fruit and fleeing from lions to splitting the atom and solving Rubik's cube in just five million years, this book might change your mind. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestorsby Nicholas WadeISBN 1594200793 (1-59420-079-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors'Book summary:Nicholas Wades articles are a major reason why the science section has become the most popular, nationwide, in the New York Times. In his groundbreaking Before the Dawn, Wade reveals humanitys origins as never beforea journey made possible only recently by genetic science, whose incredible findings have answered such questions as: What was the first human language like? How large were the first societies, and how warlike were they? When did our ancestors first leave Africa, and by what route did they leave? By eloquently solving these and numerous other mysteries, Wade offers nothing less than a uniquely complete retelling of a story that began 500 centuries ago.[via]More editions of Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors:
Blueprintsby Maitland A. EdeyISBN 0192861174 (0-19-286117-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blueprints'Book summary:The authors of the international bestseller, Lucy: The Beginnings Of Humankind trace the evolution of the theory of evolution itself in this fascinating, eminently readable book. Illustrated. [via]
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Catastrophobia: The Truth Behind Earth Changes in the Coming Age of Lightby Barbara Hand Clow, Christopher Cudahy ClowISBN 1879181622 (1-879181-62-2)
Softcover, Bear & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Catastrophobia: The Truth Behind Earth Changes in the Coming Age of Light'Book summary:" Bestselling author Barbara Hand Clow examines legendary cataclysms and shows how we are about to overcome the collective fear they have instilled in us.
" The long-awaited follow-up that continues the revelations begun in The Pleiadian Agenda, which has sold more than 60,000 copies.
" Explains why, contrary to many prophets of doom, we are actually on the cusp of an era of incredible creative growth.
The recent discovery of the remains of ancient villages buried beneath the Black Sea is the latest instance of mounting evidence that many of the "mythic" catastrophes of history--the fall of Atlantis, the Biblical Flood--were actual events. In Catastrophobia Barbara Hand Clow shows that a series of cataclysmic disasters, caused by a massive disturbance in the Earth's crust 11,500 years ago, rocked the world and left humanity's collective psyche permanently scarred. We are a wounded species, and this unprocessed fear, passed from generation to generation, is responsible for our constant expectations of apocalypse, from Y2K to the famed end of the Mayan calendar in 2012.
Catastrophobia reveals the insidious global forces that have used these collective fears to control humanity for thousands of years. But we are in the midst of a tremendous shift in the Earth's 26,000-year precessional cycle, and there is every indication that the changes in consciousness over the last 30 years are the beginnings of a collective healing from these deep fears, heralding a new age where we will see that the era of cataclysms is ending and a time of extraordinary creative activity is at hand. [via]
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Children of the Ice Age: How a Global Catastrophe Allowed Humans to Evolveby Steven M. StanleyISBN 0716731983 (0-7167-3198-3)
Softcover, Freeman & Company, W. H.
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Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group - Children of the Ice Age: How a Global Catastrophe Allowed Humans to Evolve: ISBN 0614969956 (0-614-96995-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Children of the Ice Age: How a Global Catastrophe Allowed Humans to Evolve: ISBN 0716731983 (0-7167-3198-3)
Softcover, Freeman & Company, W. H.
- Children of the Ice Age : How a Global Catastrophe Allowed Humans to Evolve: ISBN 0517588676 (0-517-58867-6)
The Complete World Of Human Evolutionby Peter Andrews, Chris StringerISBN 0500051321 (0-500-05132-1)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Lifeby Daniel DennettISBN 068482471X (0-684-82471-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life'Book summary:One of the best descriptions of the nature and implications of Darwinian evolution ever written, it is firmly based in biological information and appropriately extrapolated to possible applications to engineering and cultural evolution. Dennett's analyses of the objections to evolutionary theory are unsurpassed. Extremely lucid, wonderfully written, and scientifically and philosophically impeccable. Highest Recommendation! [via]
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The Descent of Womanby Elaine MorganISBN 0285627007 (0-285-62700-7)
Softcover, Souvenir Pr Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Descent of Woman'Book summary:A revised edition, which presents a controversial theory in women's studies. Morgan argues the case for the equal role of women in evolution, promoting the Aquatic Ape Theory of evolution which she elaborated on in further works. [via]
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The Dragons of Edenby Carl SaganISBN 0394410459 (0-394-41045-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dragons of Eden'Book summary:Dr. Carl Sagan takes us on a great reading adventure, offering his vivid and startling insight into the brain of man and beast, the origin of human intelligence, the function of our most haunting legends--and their amazing links to recent discoveries.
"A history of the human brain from the big bang, fifteen billion years ago, to the day before yesterday...It's a delight."
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Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligenceby Carl SaganISBN 1579124313 (1-57912-431-3)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence'Book summary:Dr. Carl Sagan takes us on a great reading adventure, offering his vivid and startling insight into the brain of man and beast, the origin of human intelligence, the function of our most haunting legends--and their amazing links to recent discoveries.
"A history of the human brain from the big bang, fifteen billion years ago, to the day before yesterday...It's a delight."
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Softcover, Ballantine Books - Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence: ISBN 1579124313 (1-57912-431-3)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
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The Emergence of Humankindby John E. PfeifferISBN 0060452013 (0-06-045201-3)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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The Emergence of Manby John E. PfeifferISBN 0060133295 (0-06-013329-5)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Emergence of Man'Book summary:This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. [via]
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The Field Guide to Early Manby David Lambert, Diagram GroupISBN 0816018014 (0-8160-1801-4)
Softcover, Facts on File
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Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Raceby Michael A. CremoISBN 0963530984 (0-9635309-8-4)
Hardcover, Govardhan Hill Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race'Book summary:Over the centuries, researchers have found bones and artifacts proving that humans like us have existed for millions of years. Mainstream science, however, has suppressed these facts. Prejudices based on current scientific theory act as a "knowledge filter," giving us a picture of prehistory that is largely incorrect. [via]
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Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Raceby Richard L. Thompson, Michael A. CremoISBN 0892132949 (0-89213-294-9)
Hardcover, Torchlight Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race'Book summary:Over the centuries, researchers have found bones and artifacts proving that humans like us have existed for millions of years. Mainstream science, however, has supppressed these facts. Prejudices based on current scientific theory act as a "knowledge filter," giving us a picture of prehistory that is largely incorrect.[via]More editions of Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race:
From Lucy to Languageby Donald Johanson, Blake Edgar, David L. BrillISBN 0743280644 (0-7432-8064-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Genesis Revisitedby Zecharia SitchinISBN 1879181908 (1-879181-90-8)
Hardcover, Inner Traditions
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Genesis Revisited'Book summary:" Was Adam the first test-tube baby?
" Did nuclear fission destroy Sodom and Gomorrah?
" How were the ancients able to accurately describe details about our solar system that are only now being revealed by deep space probes?
The awesome answers are all here, in this important companion volume to The Earth Chronicles series. Having presented evidence of an additional planet as well as voluminous information about the other planets in our solar system, Zecharia Sitchin now shows how the discoveries of modern astrophysics, astronomy, and genetics exactly parallel what has already been revealed in ancient texts regarding the "mysteries" of alchemy and the creation of life. Genesis Revisited is a mind-boggling revelation sure to overturn current theories about the origins of humankind and the solar system. [via]
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The Gods of Eden: A New Look at Human Historyby William BramleyISBN 0940291002 (0-940291-00-2)
Hardcover, Dahlin Family Press
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Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Languageby Robin DunbarISBN 0674363361 (0-674-36336-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language'Book summary:What a big brain we have for all the small talk we make. It's an evolutionary riddle that at long last makes sense in this intriguing book about what gossip has done for our talkative species. Psychologist Robin Dunbar looks at gossip as an instrument of social order and cohesion--much like the endless grooming with which our primate cousins tend to their social relationships.
Apes and monkeys, humanity's closest kin, differ from other animals in the intensity of these relationships. All their grooming is not so much about hygiene as it is about cementing bonds, making friends, and influencing fellow primates. But for early humans, grooming as a way to social success posed a problem: given their large social groups of 150 or so, our earliest ancestors would have had to spend almost half their time grooming one another--an impossible burden. What Dunbar suggests--and his research, whether in the realm of primatology or in that of gossip, confirms--is that humans developed language to serve the same purpose, but far more efficiently. It seems there is nothing idle about chatter, which holds together a diverse, dynamic group--whether of hunter-gatherers, soldiers, or workmates.
Anthropologists have long assumed that language developed in relationships among males during activities such as hunting. Dunbar's original and extremely interesting studies suggest otherwise: that language in fact evolved in response to our need to keep up to date with friends and family. We needed conversation to stay in touch, and we still need it in ways that will not be satisfied by teleconferencing, email, or any other communication technology. As Dunbar shows, the impersonal world of cyberspace will not fulfill our primordial need for face-to-face contact.
From the nit-picking of chimpanzees to our chats at coffee break, from neuroscience to paleoanthropology, Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language offers a provocative view of what makes us human, what holds us together, and what sets us apart.
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Guided Meditation: Creative Visualization for Generating Energy and Managing Stressby Gary Michael Smith, Robert Edward FussellISBN 0965838048 (0-9658380-4-8)
Hardcover, Chatgris Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guided Meditation: Creative Visualization for Generating Energy and Managing Stress'Book summary:1997 W.W Norton & Company jumbo trade paperback, 7th printing. ISBN:9780965838047. Explains why we feel the way we do-control of emotions, thoughts and limbs in the control center also called the brain. [via]
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Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societiesby Jared DiamondISBN 0393317552 (0-393-31755-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societies'Book summary:With a new chapter. The phenomenal bestseller; over 1.5 million copies sold; is now a major PBS special.Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new chapter on Japan and all-new illustrations drawn from the television series. Until around 11,000 BC, all peoples were still Stone Age hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the rates that human societies evolved. In Eurasia, parts of the Americas, and Africa, farming became the prevailing mode of existence when indigenous wild plants and animals were domesticated by prehistoric planters and herders. As Jared Diamond vividly reveals, the very people who gained a head start in producing food would collide with preliterate cultures, shaping the modern world through conquest, displacement, and genocide.The paths that lead from scattered centers of food to broad bands of settlement had a great deal to do with climate and geography. But how did differences in societies arise? Why weren't native Australians, Americans, or Africans the ones to colonize Europe? Diamond dismantles pernicious racial theories tracing societal differences to biological differences. He assembles convincing evidence linking germs to domestication of animals, germs that Eurasians then spread in epidemic proportions in their voyages of discovery. In its sweep, Guns, Germs and Steel encompasses the rise of agriculture, technology, writing, government, and religion, providing a unifying theory of human history as intriguing as the histories of dinosaurs and glaciers. 32 illustrations [via]
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Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societies: ISBN 061318114X (0-613-18114-X)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Guns, Germs, and Steel : The Fates of Human Societies: ISBN 0393038912 (0-393-03891-2)
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Guns, Germs, and Steel Reader's Companionby Jared DiamondISBN 1586638637 (1-58663-863-7)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guns, Germs, and Steel Reader's Companion'Book summary:Scholar and professor Jared Diamond made a huge splash with this fascinating but controversial book, which argues that geography and environment have almost singlehandedly determined the course of human history. Dig deeper into his contentions with the information inside this invaluable reader's handbook:- Why did Europe colonize Africa and Asia rather than the other way around?
- Why is geography the most important factor in human history?
- How has the rest of the scientific community received Diamond's theory?
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Human Ancestors: Readings from Scientific Americanby Richard E. Leakey, Glynn Llywelyn IsaacISBN 0716711001 (0-7167-1100-1)
Softcover, W. H. Freeman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Human Ancestors: Readings from Scientific American'Book summary:Introduction By Glynn Isaac and Richard E. F. Leakey. Some of the articles in the book are Tools and Human Evolution by Sherwood L. Washburn, The Early Relatives of Man and Ramapithecus by Elwyn L. Simons, The Evolution of the Hand and The Antiquity of Human Walking by John Napier, The Hominids of East Turkana by Alan Walker and Richard E. F. Leakey, The Casts of Fossil Hominid Brains by Ralph L. Holloway, Homo Erectus by William W. Howells, Stone Tools and Human Behavior by Sally R. And Louis R. Binford, The Functions of Paleolithic Flint Tools by Lawrence H. Keeley, and The Food-Sharing Behavior of Protohuman Hominids by Glynn Isaac. [via]
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Human Evolution: An Illustrated Introductionby Roger LewinISBN 1405103787 (1-4051-0378-7)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Human Evolution: An Illustrated Introduction'Book summary:The brief length and focused coverage of Human Evolution: An Illustrated Introduction have made this best-selling textbook the ideal complement to any biology or anthropology course in which human evolution is taught. The text places human evolution in the context of humans as animals, while also showing the physical context of human evolution, including climate change and the impact of extinctions. Chapter introductions, numerous drawings and photographs, and an essential glossary all add to the accessibility of this text.The fifth edition has been thoroughly updated to include coverage of the latest discoveries and perspectives, including:· New early hominid fossils from Africa and Georgia, and their implications· New archaeological evidence from Africa on the origin of modern humans· Updated coverage of prehistoric art, including new sites· New perspectives on molecular evidence and their implications for human population history. An Instructor manual CD-ROM for this title is available. Please contact our Higher Education team at HigherEducation@wiley.com for more information. [via]
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Human Natures: Genes, Cultures, and the Human Prospectby Paul R. EhrlichISBN 155963779X (1-55963-779-X)
Hardcover, Island Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Human Natures: Genes, Cultures, and the Human Prospect'Book summary:It's common to blame "human nature" for some of the unpleasant facts of life--road rage, say, or murder, or war. The problem with this, argues the distinguished scientist Paul Ehrlich, is that there really is no single human nature. Humans, it's true, share a common genetic code with remarkably few large-scale differences (if all but native Africans disappeared from the planet, he notes, "humanity would still retain somewhat more than 90 per cent of its genetic variability"); and evolution has endowed us with capabilities shared by no other species. But for all that, he adds, our separation into haves and have-nots, weak and strong, and other such categories is more often than not a product of cultural evolution, a process far more complex than the mere mutation and adaptation of a few genes. And, in any event, those genes "do not shout commands to us about our behavior," Ehrlich says. "At the very most, they whisper suggestions."
In this wide-ranging survey of what it is that has made and that continues to make us human, Ehrlich touches on a number of themes--among them, his recurrent observation that science has taught us little about how genes influence human behaviour. (Instead, he notes wryly, "science tells us that we are creatures of accident clinging to a ball of mud hurtling aimlessly through space. This is not a notion to warm hearts or rouse multitudes.") He urges that scientists take a larger, interdisciplinary view that looks beyond mere genetics to the larger forces that shape our lives, a view for which Human Natures makes a handy, and highly accessible, primer. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Human Phenomenonby Pierre Teilhard De ChardinISBN 1902210301 (1-902210-30-1)
Softcover, Sussex Academic Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Human Phenomenon'Book summary:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) was a priest , paleontologist and geologist whose highly original publication, LE PHENOMENE HUMAIN, attracted world-wide attention when it was first published. He wrote of the beginnings of our planet, the emergence of life, the birth of thought and the development of socialization in order to give humankind the inner vision necessary to thrive in an expanding universe. The original translation into English contained many fundamental mistakes clouding our understanding of Teilhard de Chardin's vision. Sarah Appleton-Weber has based her new translation, which is endorsed by the Teilhard de Chardin Foundation (Paris), on her careful comparison of the four versions of the French text. Poet and scholar Appleton-Weber, who has closely studied Teilhard's essays, letters, and other writing, gives a consistent and coherent voice to this translation of Teilhard's book. [via]
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The Human Zoo: A Zoologist's Classic Study of the Urban Animalby Desmond MorrisISBN 1568361041 (1-56836-104-1)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Human Zoo: A Zoologist's Classic Study of the Urban Animal'Book summary:How does city life change the way we act? What accounts for the increasing prevalence of violence and anxiety in our world? In this new edition of his controversial 1969 bestseller, The Human Zoo, renowned zoologist Desmond Morris argues that many of the social instabilities we face are largely a product of the artificial, impersonal confines of our urban surroundings. Indeed, our behavior often startlingly resembles that of captive animals, and our developed and urbane environment seems not so much a concrete jungle as it does a human zoo. Animals do not normally exhibit stress, random violence, and erratic behavioruntil they are confined. Similarly, the human propensity toward antisocial and sociopathic behavior is intensified in todays cities. Morris argues that we are biologically still tribal and ill-equipped to thrive in the impersonal urban sprawl. As important and meaningful today as it was a quarter-century ago, The Human Zoo sounds an urgent warning and provides startling insight into our increasingly complex lives. [via]
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The Illustrated Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animalby Desmond MorrisISBN 0224022601 (0-224-02260-1)
Hardcover, J. Cape, 1986
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal'Book summary:a new edition of the world's most provocative best seller now with 56 fabulous full color photographs [via]
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The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odysseyby Spencer WellsISBN 0812971469 (0-8129-7146-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey'Book summary:Spencer Wells traces human evolution back to our very first ancestor in The Journey of Man. Along the way, he sums up the explosive effect of new techniques in genetics on the field of evolutionary biology and all available evidence from the fossil record. Wells's seemingly sexist title is purposeful: he argues that the Y chromosome gives us a unique opportunity to follow our migratory heritage back to a sort of Adam, just as earlier work in mitochondrial DNA allowed the identification of Eve, mother of all Homo sapiens. While his descriptions of the advances made by such luminary scientists as Richard Lewontin and Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza can be dry, Wells comes through with sparkling metaphors when it counts, as when he compares genetic drift to a bouillabaisse recipe handed down through a village's generations. Though finding our primal male is an exciting prospect, the real revolution Wells describes is racial. Or rather, nonracial, as he reiterates the scientific truth that our notions of what makes us different from each other are purely cultural, not based in biology. The case for an "out of Africa" scenario of human migration is solid in this book, though Wells makes it clear when he is hypothesizing anything controversial. Readers interested in a fairly technical, but not overwhelming, summary of the remarkable conclusions of 21st-century human evolutionary biology will find The Journey of Man a perfect primer. --Therese Littleton [via]
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The Living World of Audubonby Roland C. ClementISBN 0448118319 (0-448-11831-9)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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Lucy's Child: The Discovery of a Human Ancestorby James Shreeve, Donald JohansonISBN 0380712342 (0-380-71234-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lucy's Child: The Discovery of a Human Ancestor'Book summary:Don Johanson discovered Lucy, the most famous and one of the most complete of hominid remains, in 1974. His controversial interpretation of the remains as representing an ancestor to all subsequent hominid species, including our own, and his bestselling book "Lucy - the Beginnings of Humankind" established him as the most famous living palaeontologist, his one rival being Richard Leakey, whose views of human evolution remain entirely opposed to Johanson's. In this book, Johanson weaves together the story of his return to Africa in 1986, and the discovery of another extraordinary hominid specimen, with a history of the search for human origins and of his bitter disagreements with Leakey. [via]
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Lucy, the Beginnings of Humankindby Donald JohansonISBN 0671724991 (0-671-72499-1)
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Mapping Human History: Discovering the Past Through Our Genesby Steve OlsonISBN 0618352104 (0-618-35210-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mapping Human History: Discovering the Past Through Our Genes'Book summary:In this sweeping narrative of the past 150,000 years of human history, Steve Olson draws on new understandings in genetics to reveal how the people of the world came to be.[via]
Traveling across four continents, Olson describes the African origins of modern humans and the migration of our ancestors throughout the world. He offers a genealogy of all of humanity, explaining, for instance, why everyone can claim Julius Caesar and Confucius as their forebears and how the history of the Jewish people jibes with, and diverges from, biblical accounts. He shows how groups of people differ and yet are the same, exploding the myth that human races are a biological reality while demonstrating how the accidents of history have resulted in the rich diversity of people today.
Celebrating both our commonality and our variety, MAPPING HUMAN HISTORY is a masterful synthesis of the human past and present that will forever change how we think about ourselves and our relations with others.More editions of Mapping Human History: Discovering the Past Through Our Genes:
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The Naked Apeby Desmond MorrisISBN 0440362660 (0-440-36266-0)
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The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animalby Desmond MorrisISBN 0385334303 (0-385-33430-3)
Softcover, Dell Pub Co
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The Naked Eye: Travels in Search of the Human Speciesby Desmond MorrisISBN 0091878675 (0-09-187867-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Naked Eye: Travels in Search of the Human Species'Book summary:The first time Morris has written about himself since his autobiography Animal Days (1979).
Desmond Morris wrote his autobiography Animal Days recounting his life up to 1967 when he published The Naked Ape, the world-famous bestseller which portrayed the human species in a way that caused enormous controversy at the time and broke many religious and sexual taboos. It was described by the Sunday Times as the sort of book that changes peoples lives. Since then, Desmond Morris has become one of the worlds authorities on human behaviour, writing numerous other bestsellers on the subject and is a familiar figure to millions of TV viewers for his series on human and animal behaviour.
In this new volume of autobiographical essays, he describes his travels and his observations of human beings and human behaviour in fascinating and often hilarious detail. It was these observations which provided the raw material for such remarkable books as Manwatching and The Human Sexes, and the films that have accompanied them. His travels have taken him from the cities of North America to Mediterranean islands and around the whole of Europe in search of material for Gestures, and to the Pacific and around Africa for The Human Race a total of some sixty countries throughout the world. The final chapter describes his recent journey around the world in ninety days. [via]More editions of The Naked Eye: Travels in Search of the Human Species:
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New World, New Mind: Moving Toward Conscious Evolutionby Robert Ornstein, Paul EhrlichISBN 1883536243 (1-883536-24-3)
Softcover, Ishk Book Service
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The Origin of Humankindby Richard LeakeyISBN 0465053130 (0-465-05313-0)
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The Origin of Modern Humansby Roger LewinISBN 0716760231 (0-7167-6023-1)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Origin of Modern Humans'Book summary:The tools used to unearth the facts of our prehistoric past have not always been tangible. Each fossil discovery and new methods of analysis is met with an avalanche of debate, alternate interpretations, and the refutation of competing theories. This text is a concise and provocative look at some answers to the question "Where did we come from?". [via]
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The Origin of Modern Humans : A Scientific American Library Volumeby Roger LewinISBN 0716750392 (0-7167-5039-2)
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Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Humanby Richard E. LeakeyISBN 0385412649 (0-385-41264-9)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human'Book summary:The world-famous paleoanthropologist describes his fossil hunting at Lake Turkana and reassesses human prehistory, incorporating ideas from philosophy, anthropology, molecular biology, and linguistics to explore how humans acquired the qualities of consciousness and humanity. Tour. [via]
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Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Humanby Roger Lewin, Richard LeakeyISBN 0385467923 (0-385-46792-3)
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Out of Eden: The Peopling of the Worldby Stephen OppenheimerISBN 1841196975 (1-84119-697-5)
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Pleiadian Perspectives on Human Evolutionby Amorah Quan-Yin, Amorah Quan YinISBN 1879181339 (1-879181-33-9)
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The Seven Daughters of Eveby Bryan SykesISBN 1417625929 (1-4176-2592-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Seven Daughters of Eve'Book summary:The national bestseller that reveals how we are descended from seven prehistoric women.
One of the most dramatic stories of genetic discovery since James Watson's The Double Helix, The Seven Daughters of Eve reveals the remarkable story behind a groundbreaking scientific discovery. After being summoned in 1997 to an archaeological site to examine the remains of a five-thousand-year-old man, Bryan Sykes ultimately was able to prove not only that the man was a European but also that he has living relatives in England today. In this lucid, absorbing account, Sykes reveals how the identification of a particular strand of DNA that passes unbroken through the maternal line allows scientists to trace our genetic makeup all the way back to prehistoric times, to seven primeval women, the Seven Daughters of Eve. illustrated and includes a map [via]More editions of The Seven Daughters of Eve:
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The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestryby Bryan SykesISBN 0393020185 (0-393-02018-5)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry'Book summary:The Seven Daughters of Eve is a thrilling work of science that reveals how biological research can enrich our tangled lives. It is a book that chronicles many of the most exciting developments in genetics over the past decade by a man who is not only a brilliant scientist but also a gifted and thoroughly engaging writer. It ultimately demonstrates how much more we still have to discover about the absorbing story of human evolution.
One of the most dramatic stories of genetic discovery since James Watson's The Double Helixa work whose scientific and cultural reverberations will be discussed for years to come. In 1994 Professor Bryan Sykes, a leading world authority on DNA and human evolution, was called in to examine the frozen remains of a man trapped in glacial ice in northern Italy. News of both the Ice Man's discovery and his age, which was put at over five thousand years, fascinated scientists and newspapers throughout the world. But what made Sykes's story particularly revelatory was his successful identification of a genetic descendant of the Ice Man, a woman living in Great Britain today. How was Sykes able to locate a living relative of a man who died thousands of years ago? In The Seven Daughters of Eve, he gives us a firsthand account of his research into a remarkable gene, which passes undiluted from generation to generation through the maternal line. After plotting thousands of DNA sequences from all over the world, Sykes found that they clustered around a handful of distinct groups. Among Europeans and North American Caucasians, there are, in fact, only seven. This conclusion was staggering: almost everyone of native European descent, wherever they may live throughout the world, can trace their ancestry back to one of seven women, the Seven Daughters of Eve. Naming them Ursula, Xenia, Helena, Velda, Tara, Katrine, and Jasmine, Sykes has created portraits of their disparate worlds by mapping the migratory patterns followed by millions of their ancestors. In reading the stories of these seven women, we learn exactly how our origins can be traced, how and where our ancient genetic ancestors lived, and how we are each living proof of the almost indestructible strands of DNA, which have survived over so many thousands of years. Indeed, The Seven Daughters of Eve is filled with dramatic stories: from Sykes's identification, using DNA samples from two living relatives, of the remains of Tsar Nicholas and Tsaress Alexandra, to the Caribbean woman whose family had been sold into slavery centuries before and whose ancestry Sykes was able to trace back to the Eastern coast of central Africa. Ultimately, Sykes's investigation reveals that, as a race, what humans have in common is more deeply embedded than what separates us.
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Areby Carl Sagan, Ann DruyanISBN 0345384725 (0-345-38472-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are'Book summary:"Dazzling...A feast. Absorbing and elegantly written, it tells of theorigins of life on earth, describes its variety and charaacter, and culminates in a discussion of human nature and teh complex traces ofhumankind's evolutionary past...It is an amazing story masterfully told."
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World renowned scientist Carl Sagan and acclaimed author Ann Druyan have written a ROOTS for the human species, a lucid and riveting account of how humans got to be the way we are. It shows with humor and drama that many of our key traits--self-awareness, technology, family ties, submission to authority, hatred for those a little different from ourselves, reason, and ethics--are rooted in the deep past, and illuminated by our kinship with other animals. Astonishing in its scope, brilliant in its insights, and an absolutely compelling read, SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS is a triumph of popular science.
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Significant Others: The Ape-Human Continuum and the Quest for Human Natureby Craig StanfordISBN 046508172X (0-465-08172-X)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Significant Others: The Ape-Human Continuum and the Quest for Human Nature'Book summary:Engaging, enlightening and eloquent, Significant Others tells of our closest cousins and the scientists who study them. Author Craig B Stanford is co-director of the Jane Goodall Research Centre and knows as much as anyone about great ape field research. His prose combines a vivid, almost poetic descriptive sensibility with a refreshingly deadpan rationality too often missing from writings on endangered or threatened species. Covering a wide range of topics from tool use to evolutionary psychology to the controversy over language in non-humans ("an intellectual turf game, poorly played"), Stanford still sticks unerringly to his thesis that field research of wild apes yields deep insights into human nature. His enthusiasm for the work shines in passages like this:
In a mountain meadow dripping with dew, we're following a group of gorillas on their daily rounds. It's a raw day and the clouds are hanging above and beneath us. The gorillas climb a steep, fern-coated hill to a saddle, and we all tumble over the crest into a huge salad bowl of a valley that is greener than green.
As if to ensure that such words won't provoke a glut of fieldworker wannabes, he is careful to mention the long hours, boredom and physical suffering he and his colleagues must endure to earn such rewards. The inevitable collision of science with politics is especially pronounced in war-ravaged central Africa, where most great ape work is conducted, and Stanford speaks plainly about life during wartime and his subjects' too-real threat of extinction. Significant Others gives the reader a fresh respect for apes as apes--not stunted people, not lab-dwelling curiosities, but uniquely wonderful in their own right... just like us. --Rob Lightner [via]More editions of Significant Others: The Ape-Human Continuum and the Quest for Human Nature:
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animalby Jared M. DiamondISBN 0060845503 (0-06-084550-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution And Future of the Human Animal'Book summary:Jared Diamond states the theme of his book up-front: "How the human species changed, within a short time, from just another species of big mammal to a world conqueror; and how we acquired the capacity to reverse all that progress overnight." The Third Chimpanzee is, in many ways, a prequel to Diamond's prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel. While Guns examines "the fates of human societies," this work surveys the longer sweep of human evolution, from our origin as just another chimpanzee a few million years ago. Diamond writes:
It's obvious that humans are unlike all animals. It's also obvious that we're a species of big mammal down to the minutest details of our anatomy and our molecules. That contradiction is the most fascinating feature of the human species.
The chapters in The Third Chimpanzee on the oddities of human reproductive biology were later expanded in Why Is Sex Fun? Here, they're linked to Diamond's views of human psychology and history.
Diamond is officially a physiologist at UCLA medical school, but he's also one of the best birdwatchers in the world. The current scientific consensus that "primitive" humans created ecological catastrophes in the Pacific islands, Australia, and the New World owes a great deal to his fieldwork and insight. In Diamond's view, the current global ecological crisis isn't due to modern technology per se, but to basic weaknesses in human nature. But, he says, "I'm cautiously optimistic. If we will learn from our past that I have traced, our own future may yet prove brighter than that of the other two chimpanzees." --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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Up from Eden, the Atman Projectby Ken WilberISBN 1570625026 (1-57062-502-6)
Hardcover, Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
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Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexualityby Jared M. DiamondISBN 0465031269 (0-465-03126-9)
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Armas, germenes y acero/ Guns, Germs and Steelby Jared DiamondISBN 848306667X (84-8306-667-X)
Hardcover, Debate Editorial
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La Caida de Hyperionby Dan Simmons, Carlos Alberto GardiniISBN 8466617442 (84-666-1744-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Caida de Hyperion'Book summary:In this conclusion to the futuristic tale begun in Hyperion, Earth has long since been destroyed, and humans now occupy more than 150 worlds linked by the Web, an instantaneous travel system created and operated by artificial intelligences (AIs)self-aware, highly advanced computers. These worlds are about to go to war with the Ousters, a branch of humanity that has disdained dependency on the AIs. At risk are the planet Hyperion, its mysterious Tombs that travel backward in time, and the Shrike, its god/avatar of pain or retribution. Good struggles for supremacy over evil in these epic religious battles between men and machines.[via]La aventura épica de Hyperion alcanza su clímax cuando los peregrinos se reúnen ante las Tumbas de Tiempo y éstas se abren para liberar al Alcaudón. Los humanos de la Hegemonía y de los enjambres éxter, las Inteligencias Artificiales del TecnoNúcleo, los peregrinos del Alacaudón, y el cíbrido que reproduce la personalidad de John Keats, se verán envueltos en la compleja trama del tiempo, del poder, la guerra, la inteligencia, la religión, y el amor.More editions of La Caida de Hyperion:
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Los Dragones Del Eden/ the Dragons of Edenby Carl SaganISBN 9684194196 (968-419-419-6)
Softcover, Grijalbo Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Los Dragones Del Eden/ the Dragons of Eden'Book summary:Carl Sagan explica en esta obra desde la prehistoria hasta la época actual, la evolución del ser humano en función del legado genético y del factor puramente intelectivo, habla de nuestros antepasados y de sus antagonistas, describe la mecnánica de nuestro cerebro y del de otros animales; y aclara las razones que nos facultan para sostener la existencia de otros seres inteligentes, lo bastante parecidos a nosotros, como para posibilitar la comunicación interestelar. * El calendario Cósmico. * Genes y Cerebros. * El cerebro y el carro. * El edén como metáfora: La evolución del hombre. * Las abstracciones de los brutos. * Relatos del obscuro paraíso. * Amantes y locos. * La evolución futura del cerebro. * Nuestro destino es el conocimiento: inteligencia terrestre y extraterrestre.. [via]
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Escalando El Monte Improbableby Richard DawkinsISBN 8483105837 (84-8310-583-7)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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El Fin De LA Infancia/Childhood's Endby Arthur C. ClarkeISBN 9684460422 (968-446-042-2)
Softcover, Minotauro Mexico
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Nuestra Especieby Marvin HarrisISBN 8420639524 (84-206-3952-4)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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La Tabla Rasaby Steven PinkerISBN 8449314895 (84-493-1489-5)
Softcover, Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Tabla Rasa'Book summary:La concepción que podamos tener de la naturaleza humana afecta a todos los aspectos de nuestra vida, desde la forma en que educamos a nuestros hijos hasta las ideas políticas que defendemos. Sin embargo, en un momento en que la ciencia está avanzando espectacularmente en estos temas, muchas personas se muestran hostiles al respecto. Temen que los descubrimientos sobre los patrones innatos del pensar y el sentir se puedan emplear para justificar la desigualdad, subvertir el orden social, anular la responsabilidad personal y confundir el sentido y el propósito de la vida.En La tabla rasa, Steven Pinker explora la idea de la naturaleza humana y sus aspectos éticos, emocionales y políticos. Demuestra que muchos intelectuales han negado su existencia al defender tres dogmas entrelazados: la tabla rasa (la mente no tiene características innatas), el buen salvaje (la persona nace buena y la sociedad la corrompe) y el fantasma en la máquina (todos tenemos un alma que toma decisiones sin depender de la biología). Cada dogma sobrelleva una carga ética, y por eso sus defensores se obcecan en tácticas desesperadas para desacreditar a los científicos que los cuestionan.Pinker aporta calma y serenidad a estos debates al mostrar que la igualdad, el progreso, la responsabilidad y el propósito nada tienen que temer de los descubrimientos sobre la complejidad de la naturaleza humana. Con un razonamiento claro, sencillez en la exposición y ejemplos procedentes de la ciencia y la historia, el autor desmonta incluso las amenazas más inquietantes. Y demuestra que un reconocimiento de la naturaleza humana basado en la ciencia y el sentido común, lejos de ser peligroso, puede ser un complemento a las ideas sobre la condición humana que miles de miles de artistas y filósofos han generado. Todo ello aderezado con un estilo que, en sus obras anteriores, le sirvió para conseguir muchos premios y el aplauso internacional: ingenio, lucidez y agudeza en el análisis de todos los asuntos, sean grandes o pequeños. [via]
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LA Clan De L'Ours Des Cavernesby Jean AuelISBN 2266122126 (2-266-12212-6)
Softcover, Presse Pocket
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Ayla Und Der Clan Des Barenby Jean AuelISBN 3453023366 (3-453-02336-6)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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