This is the result of a collaboration between a research biologist and a pioneering medical doctor. It defines a set of scientific questions about health and describes the advances that can be expected from the new evolution-based medicine. The authors suggest that mos... Lees meer.

What if anything does biological evolution tell us about the nature of religion ethical values or even the meaning and purpose of life. The Moral Meaning of Nature sheds new light on these enduring questions by examining the significance of an earlier and unjustly... Lees meer.

Darwinian Feminism in Early Science Fiction reveals a lost history of women s science fiction and shows how it was shaped by the work of Britain s greatest scientist. Darwinian Feminism in Early Science Fiction provides the first detailed scholarly examination of wom... Lees meer.

This book considers evolutionary theory as central to the discussion of human behavior and discusses ways in which evolutionary concepts can inform psychiatry. The authors discuss the emotions mood symptoms and information processing and examine how some of the prom... Lees meer.

Richard Dawkins s ground-breaking exploration of the power of DNA and what it can reveal about the deepest patterns of evolution. From one of the world s great science writers a book that explores the deepest principles of evolutionary history.In this groundbreakin... Lees meer.

From one of the world s great science writers a book that explores the deepest principles of evolutionary history. In this groundbreaking new approach to the evolution of all life Richard Dawkins shows how the body behaviour and genes of every living creature can be... Lees meer.

The No.1 SUNDAY TIMES bestseller. A fascinating explanation of how evolution works from bestselling author of THE GOD DELUSION Dawkins is a brilliant communicator SUNDAY TELEGRAPH A model of simplicity and power Douglas Adams The river of Dawkins s title is a river... Lees meer.

The No.1 SUNDAY TIMES bestseller. A fascinating explanation of how evolution works from bestselling author of THE GOD DELUSION Richard Dawkins. The No.1 SUNDAY TIMES bestseller. A fascinating explanation of how evolution works from bestselling author of THE GOD D... Lees meer.

It is widely understood that Charles Darwin s theory of evolution completely revolutionized the study of biology. Yet according to David Sloan Wilson the Darwinian revolution won t be truly complete until it is applied more broadly to everything associated with the wo... Lees meer.

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The next time you get sick consider this before picking up the aspirin. your body may be doing exactly what it s supposed to. In this ground-breaking book two pioneers of the science of Darwinian medicine argue that illness as well as the factors that predispose us t... Lees meer.

Expanding on his theory that the gene is the basic unit of evolution the author of The Selfish Gene explains how genes meet compete unite and separate to form new species. National ad promo.... Lees meer.

In Mind and Cosmos Thomas Nagel argues that the widely accepted world view of materialist naturalism is untenable. The mind-body problem cannot be confined to the relation between animal minds and animal bodies. If materialism cannot accommodate consciousness and other... Lees meer.

Applying the principles of evolutionary biology to the problems of medicine an innovative approach to the medical field explores the reasons why people get sick answering provocative questions about aging obesity cancer infection and death. 20 000 first printing.... Lees meer.

In Origins of Genius Dean Simonton reveals how Darwin s theory of natural selection can be used to explain the psychology of creative geniuses. Simonton not only uses Darwin s ideas to explain the creative genius of many eminent scientists and artists but applies it e... Lees meer.