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The Dawn of War, a new William Collins book, full description to follow when available...

"A gifted and thoughtful writer, Metzl brings us to the frontiers of biology and technology, and reveals a world full of promise and peril." —Siddhartha Mukherjee MD, New York Times bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene A groundbreaking exploration of genetic...

Learn to rejuvenate your immune system, boost your metabolism, and prevent and heal a host of chronic diseases—no matter what your genetic markers predict—with this cutting-edge guide that introduces and defines the new field of immuno-rejuvenation. Every day, millions of people live with...

How the unique sleep habits of early humans fostered survival, innovation, and social evolution—and how this evolutionary legacy holds insights into how we sleep today. Despite sleep’s critical role in maintaining health and cognitive function, humans sleep less than any other primate. The...

Scientist Rosemary Grant's journey in life has involved detours and sidesteps—not the shortest or the straightest of paths, but one that has led her to the top of evolutionary biology.

The award-winning author of First Steps returns with a revelatory tour of the latest scientific discoveries in archaeology and paleontology to challenge the idea of human exceptionalism, presenting a more complex—and fascinating—portrait of Us: who came before us, and what of us comes from...

Brought to you by Penguin. The half a million species of plant alive today are a mere 3% of the vast number of plant species ever to have existed. All share a single common origin: the first plant-like algae to wash up on land 484 million years ago. Through the stories of sixteen plant families...

This volume traces the origins and evolution of the idea of human extinction, from the ancient Presocratics through contemporary work on "existential risks." Many leading intellectuals agree that the risk of human extinction this century may be higher than at any point in our 300,000-year...

James Dewey Watson (April 6, 1928-November 6, 2025) was an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. Francis Harry Compton Crick (June 8, 1916-July 28, 2004) was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist. In 1953, Watson and Crick co-authored an academic paper in Nature proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule, building on research by Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling. The following TV interview is from 1993.

Our understanding of bacterial genetics has progressed as the genomics field has advanced. Genetics and genomics complement and influence each other; they are inseparable. Under the novel insights from genetics and genomics, once-believed borders in biology start to fade: biological knowledge of...

In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, originally published in 1990, Patricia Hill Collins set out to explore the words and ideas of Black feminist...

Impara a costruire il tuo albero genealogico, conosci la storia della tua famiglia e sfoglia tra i ricordi dei tuoi cari. Chi erano i tuoi avi? Hai forse qualche passato nobiliare e non lo sai? E come riuscire da soli a raccogliere informazioni? Forse è meglio che ti fai aiutare da un esperto? Questo e molto altro in un ebook semplice, di facile lettura e senza pretese.

We are all familiar with the "march of progress," the representation of evolution that depicts a series of apelike creatures becoming progressively taller and more erect before finally reaching the upright human form. Its emphasis on linear progress has had a decisive impact on public understanding of evolution, yet the image contradicts modern scientific conceptions of evolution as complex and branching.

"An insightful and informative meander through the evolution of dinosaurs and other extinct species, with a touch of personal flair.”—Steve Brusatte, professor and paleontologist at the University of Edinburgh and New York Times bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs An...

In der Geschichte der Menschheit hat es schon immer den Wunsch nach Unsterblichkeit und dem ewigen Leben gegeben. Im Laufe der Jahrhunderte haben die Menschen viele Versuche unternommen, um dieses Ziel zu erreichen. In der modernen Zeit haben Fortschritte in der Wissenschaft und Technologie das Potenzial geschaffen, dass das ewige Leben tatsächlich möglich werden könnte. Dieses Hörbuch untersucht die verschiedenen Möglichkeiten, wie das ewige Leben erreicht werden könnte, einschließlich der genetischen Manipulation, der Epigenetik, der Kryonik und der menschlichen KIs.

Ever since the Scopes Monkey Trial in the early twentieth century, American evangelicals have considered scientists public enemy #1. But this antipathy to modern science turned deadly during the COVID-19 crisis, when white evangelicals snubbed precautions and vaccines. Herself an evangelical Christian and a science educator, Janet Kellogg Ray explains how we got here and how to fix it.

This audiobook narrated by Katherine Fenton gives a sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when they care for babies.

From three-inch fang blennies to thirty-foot prehistoric crocodiles, from gaboon vipers to Neanderthals, Bite is a fascinating journey through the natural, scientific, and cultural history of something right in front of—or in—our faces: teeth. In Bite, zoologist Bill Schutt makes a...

Le fondement de la biologie moderne – une des théories qui a le plus transformé notre vision du monde. Charles Darwin. La biologie moderne est née il y a 150 ans avec la théorie de l'évolution de Charles Darwin. Celle-ci apporte une vision nouvelle de la vie et de son histoire et explique de manière logique et unifiée la diversité du vivant.La théorie de la biologie moderne - Pierre-Henri Gouyon présente ici la théorie de l'évolution dans sa cohérence d'ensemble et ses développements les plus récents. Il répond ce faisant à nombre de questions.

A New York Times–bestselling astrophysicist and a Nobel laureate describe the quest to discover how and where the universe breathed life into matter For a long time, scientists have wondered how life has emerged from inanimate chemistry, and whether Earth is the only place where it exists...