Random House Inc, August 1998. Trade Paperback. In the Origin of Species (1859) Darwin challenged many of the most deeply held beliefs of the Western world. Arguing for a material, not divine, origin of species, he showed that new species are achieved by 'natural selection'. Development, diversification, decay, extinction and..... More
Penguin Group USA Inc, October 1989. Trade Paperback. When the "Beagle" sailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1831, Charles Darwin was twenty-two and setting off on the voyage of a lifetime. It was to last five years and transform him from an amiable and somewhat aimless young man into..... More
W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1992. Trade Paperback. "Provocative and delightfully discursive essays on natural history. . . . Gould is the Stan Musial of essay writing. He can work himself into a corkscrew of ideas and improbable allusions paragraph after paragraph and then, uncoiling, hit it with..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, March 1979. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Viking Adult, June 2008. Hardcover. A highly regarded scientist's examination of the battle between evolution and intelligent design, and its implications for how science is practiced in America. Some scuff marks to the dust jacket. More
Harper Perennial, October 2000. Trade Paperback. The genome's been mapped. But what does it mean? Arguably the most significant scientific discoveru of the new century, the mapping of the twenty-three pairs of chromosomes that make up the human genome raises almost as many questions as it answers. Questions that will..... More
Vintage, January 2001. Trade Paperback. In his bestselling The Moral Animal, Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright attempts something even more ambitious: explaining the direction of evolution and human history-and discerning where history will lead us next. In Nonzero..... More
