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  • The Quality of the Archaeological Record

    by Charles Perreault ...
    Paleobiology struggled for decades to influence our understanding of evolution and the history of life because it was stymied by a focus on microevolution and an incredibly patchy fossil record. But in the 1970s, the field took a radical turn, as paleobiologists began to investigate processes that could only be recognized in the fossil record across larger scales of time and space. That turn led ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mama Lou's Belly

    by Marie-Francine Hébert ...
    Illustrated by Guillaume Perreault ...
    Key Selling PointsMama Lou’s Belly captures the exciting time before a baby is born when everyone in this multigenerational family (and some other creatures) are wondering who—or what—it’s going to be.In a fun and funny twist, speech bubbles from Mama's belly show the baby speaking for itself ("Me, a mouse? Don't be silly!")...until the baby is tired of being ignored and arrives ("WAAA!").This ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

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  • The Evolution of Beauty

    How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - and Us

    by Richard O. Prum ...
    **A FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZENAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, SMITHSONIAN, AND WALL STREET JOURNALA major reimagining of how evolutionary forces work, revealing how mating preferences—what Darwin termed "the taste for the beautiful"—create the extraordinary range of ornament in the animal world.**In the great halls of science, dogma holds that Darwin's theory ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Metazoa

    Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind

    by Peter Godfrey-Smith ...
    "Enthralling . . . breathtaking . . . Metazoa brings an extraordinary and astute look at our own mind’s essential link to the animal world." —The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)"A great book . . . [Godfrey-Smith is] brilliant at describing just what he sees, the patterns of behaviour of the animals he observes." —Nigel Warburton, Five BooksThe scuba-diving philosopher who wrote Other ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Darwin: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jonathan Howard ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Darwin's theory that our ancestors were apes caused a furore in the scientific world and outside it when The Origin of Species was published in 1859. Arguments still rage about the implications of his evolutionary theory, and scepticism about the value of Darwin's contribution to knowledge is widespread. In this analysis of Darwin's major insights and arguments, Jonathan Howard reasserts the ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • A Most Interesting Problem

    What Darwin’s Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong about Human Evolution

    Edited by Jeremy DeSilva ...
    Leading scholars take stock of Darwin's ideas about human evolution in the light of modern scienceIn 1871, Charles Darwin published The Descent of Man, a companion to Origin of Species in which he attempted to explain human evolution, a topic he called "the highest and most interesting problem for the naturalist." A Most Interesting Problem brings together twelve world-class scholars and science ... Read more

    $24.19 CAD

  • Stratigraphic Paleobiology

    Understanding the Distribution of Fossil Taxa in Time and Space

    by Mark E. Patzkowsky, Steven M. Holland ...
    "The first book . . . melding the disciplines of stratigraphy and paleontology in a useful way… . . . well-written . . . well-indexed . . . Highly recommended." ― ChoiceWhether the fossil record should be read at face value or whether it presents a distorted view of the history of life is an argument seemingly as old as many fossils themselves. To this day, the tension between literal and ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Measuring Biological Diversity

    by Anne E. Magurran ...
    This accessible and timely book provides a comprehensive overview of how to measure biodiversity. The book highlights new developments, including innovative approaches to measuring taxonomic distinctness and estimating species richness, and evaluates these alongside traditional methods such as species abundance distributions, and diversity and evenness statistics.Helps the reader quantify and ... Read more

    $103.99 CAD

  • Paleontology

    A Philosophical Introduction

    by Derek Turner ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Biology
    In the wake of the paleobiological revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, paleontologists continue to investigate far-reaching questions about how evolution works. Many of those questions have a philosophical dimension. How is macroevolution related to evolutionary changes within populations? Is evolutionary history contingent? How much can we know about the causes of evolutionary trends? How do ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Landscape Archaeology

    Edited by Bruno David, Julian Thomas ...
    Over the past three decades, “landscape” has become an umbrella term to describe many different strands of archaeology. From the processualist study of settlement patterns to the phenomenologist’s experience of the natural world, from human impact on past environments to the environment’s impact on human thought, action, and interaction, the term has been used. In this volume, for the first time, ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • The Basics of Geomorphology

    Key Concepts

    by John Lewin, Kenneth J. Gregory ...
    "I can think of no better guides than Professors Ken Gregory and John Lewin to lead the reader through the conceptual basis of this exciting science."- Victor R. Baker, University of Arizona"A very readable and informative introduction to the discipline for senior undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers."- Angela Gurnell, Queen Mary University of London"Time will tell, but this book may well ... Read more

    $71.19 CAD

  • The Way the Wind Blows

    Climate Change, History, and Human Action

    Edited by Roderick J. McIntosh, Joseph A. Tainter, Susan Keech McIntosh ...
    Series series Historical Ecology Series
    -- Robert W. Harms, Yale University ... Read more

    $47.19 CAD