The History and Geography of Human Genes
10 best books like The History and Geography of Human Genes (Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza): After the Ice Age: The Return of Life to Glaciated North America, The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language, The Soul Of The White Ant, The Origin of Language: Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue, Ore giapponesi, The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution, Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project, Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History, Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins, The Neanderthal's Necklace: In Search of the First Thinkers
| Author | E.C. Pielou |
| ISBN | 0226668126 |
A world building book. Pielou's world is vast, complex, and filled with, sometimes surprising, concepts and images. One of those books to read in segments of time, between other reading materials. Quotes later ....
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| ISBN | 0198504934 |
When John Maynard Smith and Eors Szathmary published The Major Transitions in Evolution, it was seen as a major work in biology. Nature hailed it as a book of "grand and daunting sweep.... A splendid and rewarding tour de force." And New Scientist wrote that it captured "the essence of modern biology,"...
| Author | Eugène N. Marais |
| ISBN | 0140036229 |
THE SOUL OF THE WHITE ANT by Eugène Marais is a passionate, insightful account into the world of termites. It is a meticulously researched expose of their complex, highly structured community life. Originally translated into English in 1937, the quality of research remains as relevant today as it...
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| ISBN | 0471159638 |
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| Author | Fosco Maraini |
| ISBN | 8879722077 |
Ritorna in una nuova edizione un classico della letteratura di viaggio: "Ore Giapponesi" di Fosco Maraini
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The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution
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| ISBN | 0195079515 |
Stuart Kauffman here presents a brilliant new paradigm for evolutionary biology, one that extends the basic concepts of Darwinian evolution to accommodate recent findings and perspectives from the fields of biology, physics, chemistry and mathematics. The book drives to the heart of the exciting...
| Author | Spencer Wells |
| ISBN | 0792262158 |
Science tells us we're all related—one vast family sharing a common ancestor who lived in Africa 60,000 years ago. But countless questions remain about our great journey from the birthplace of Homo sapiens to the ends of the Earth. How did we end up where we are? When did we get there? Why do we display...
| Author | Stephen Jay Gould |
| ISBN | 0393311031 |
Interesting. Gould wrote these essays around the time that the Alvarez meteoric impact theory was being published. This is something that we now know to be beyond doubt. But at the time, when it was just being introduced, the theory, and especially its association with the Cretaceous extinction, was...
| Author | Steve Olson |
| ISBN | 0618352104 |
In a journey across four continents, acclaimed science writer Steve Olson traces the origins of modern humans and the migrations of our ancestors throughout the world over the past 150,000 years. Like Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel, Mapping Human History is a groundbreaking synthesis of science...
| Author | Juan Luis Arsuaga |
| ISBN | 1568581874 |
Neanderthals are at the center of this compelling narrative by Europe's leading anthropologist, not because they were our ancestors but because they were not. Members of a parallel humanity that evolved in Europe for hundreds of thousands of years, they were in direct competition with Cro-Magnons...
| Author | Walter Burkert |
| ISBN | 0520058755 |
What is it about animal sacrifice that makes otherwise staid European scholars and experts on go ape-shit crazy and start fantasizing about primal violence and making up strange myths of their own? I liked this book, actually, it's fun, but it's in a certain tradition, ranging from Robertson Smith...
I viewed Miles’ series on which this is based when it aired several years ago, and reading the book, I get the same impression, as one might expect. The story beats are the same – bevel-rimmed bowls, Assyrian love of war, Athenian democratic imposed empire, etc. If you’ve seen the series, this...
Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga
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| ISBN | 1560989955 |
Replete with color photographs, drawings, and maps of Viking sites, artifacts, and landscapes, this book celebrates and explores the Viking saga from the combined perspectives of history, archaeology, oral tradition, literature, and natural science. The book's contributors chart the spread...
| Author | Alan C. Walker |
| ISBN | 0679747834 |
"Fascinating. . . . As engaging an explanation of how scientists study fossil bones as any I have ever read." --John R. Alden, Philadelphia Inquirer
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The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing
| Author | Martin D. Davis |
| ISBN | 0393047857 |
Computers are everywhere today -- at work, in the bank, in artist's studios, sometimes even in our pockets -- yet they remain to many of us objects of irreducible mystery. How can today's computers perform such a bewildering variety of tasks if computing is just glorified arithmetic? The answer, as...
| Author | Mark Ridley |
| ISBN | 1405103450 |
Mark Ridley's Evolution has become the premier undergraduate text in the study of evolution. Readable and stimulating, yet well-balanced and in-depth, this text tells the story of evolution, from the history of the study to the most revent developments in evolutionary theory.
The third edition...
| Author | Ian Tattersall |
| ISBN | 0156006537 |
In Becoming Human, noted anthropologist and renaissance man Ian Tattersall explores what makes us uniquely human, the qualities that set us apart from our ancestors, and the significance of our knowledge. A worldwide tour of discovery, Tattersall takes the reader from 30,000-year-old cave paintings...
Una storia religiosa del sud, un'indagine etnologica che spiega perché il momento magico sia sopravvisuto nella vita culturale meridionale e come questa abbia partecipato consapevolmente alla grande alternativa tra "magia" e"razionalità" da cui è nata la civiltà moderna. De Martino esplora...
| Author | Richard C. Lewontin |
| ISBN | 0674006771 |
One of our most brilliant evolutionary biologists, Richard Lewontin has also been a leading critic of those--scientists and non-scientists alike--who would misuse the science to which he has contributed so much. In The Triple Helix, Lewontin the scientist and Lewontin the critic come together...
| Author | Richard G. Klein |
| ISBN | 0471252522 |
A bold new theory on what sparked the "big bang" of human counsciousness
The abrupt emergence of human culture over a stunningly short period continues to be one of the great enigmas of human evolution. This compelling book introduces a bold new theory on this unsolved mystery. Author Richard...
Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe
| Author | Simon Conway Morris |
| ISBN | 0521603250 |
Life's Solution builds a persuasive case for the predictability of evolutionary outcomes. The case rests on a remarkable compilation of examples of convergent evolution, in which two or more lineages have independently evolved similar structures and functions. The examples range from the aerodynamics...
| Author | J.P. Mallory |
| ISBN | 0500276161 |
This is the third time that I read this book since I bought it last year. Every time I read it I discover something new. Its an amazing book for anyone interested in the Indo-Europeans.
The book is written from the point of view of an archeologist who has knowledge of historical linguistic methods....
