進化・遺伝学

知能格差社会の真実から遺伝的な適性の見つけ方まで　知性、能力、性格、そして運まで――。

ヒトは休むようにできているのか、それとも走るようにできているのか「健康のために運動する」これは現代社会がもたらした考え方であり、人類は運動するために進化してきたわけではない。

■他の動物とは違う“ヒトの本性”がわかる！ヒトは美しくもあり、また残酷な生き物だ。赤子のときは利他的な行動を取るのに、なぜ大人になるにつれて利己的になってしまうのか。

人間だけがもっているスーパーパワーってなに？　私たちはそれをどう使えばいいんだろう？　世界的ベストセラー『サピエンス全史』の著者が、未来をになう子どもたちに贈る、驚きの歴史！

Join Stephen Fry for the greatest story on Earth: the story of life itself. A twelve-part exploration of the incredible diversity of living beings on our planet. Our journey starts four billion years ago with the earliest signs of life deep in the ocean.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history. Having done field work in New Guinea for more than 30 years, Jared Diamond presents the geographical and ecological factors that have shaped...

え、そうだったの⁉「進化論の今」を知る最適の一冊！これが「ほんとうの進化論」です！

人類の歴史は、地球規模の支配を築いた壮大な成功の物語のようにも見える。しかし、その成功の裏で、ホモ・サピエンスはずっと「借りものの時間」を生きてきた。何千年も続いた栄光は、今や終わりが近づいている。なぜそうなったのか？

The scientific evidence behind why maintaining a lifestyle more like that of our ancestors will restore our health and well-being. In Go Wild, Harvard Medical School Professor John Ratey, MD, and journalist Richard Manning reveal that although civilization has rapidly evolved, our bodies have...

チャールズ・ダーウィンの『種の起源』は、生物の進化がなぜ起こるのかを自然淘汰で説明し「神が天地創造の際にすべての生き物を完璧な姿でつくった」というキリスト教の世界観を覆した。コペルニクスの地動説と並び、人類に知的革命を起こした大名著である。

"An all-encompassing treatise on modern civilization, offering bold revisions to canonical understandings in sociology, anthropology, archaeology and political philosophy that led to where we are today."—The New York Times A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our...

World renowned scientist Carl Sagan and acclaimed author Ann Druyan have written a lucid and riveting account of how humans got to be the way we are....

Everyone has heard of DNA. But by itself, DNA is just an inert blueprint for life. It is the ribosome - an enormous molecular machine made up of a million atoms - that makes DNA come to life, turning our genetic code into proteins and therefore into us. Gene Machine is an insider account of...

An elegant, text-only edition of the New York Times bestseller that’s been hailed as the definitive authority on…everything by Richard Dawkins. Richard Dawkins, bestselling author and the world’s most celebrated evolutionary biologist, has spent his career elucidating the many wonders of...

In Unfit for Purpose, biologist and broadcaster Adam Hart explores the mismatch between our fundamental biology and the modern world we have created....

The fascinating group of animals called dinosaurs became extinct some 65 million years ago (except for their feathered descendants). In their place evolved an enormous variety of land creatures, especially mammals, which in their way were every bit as remarkable as their Mesozoic cousins. The...

Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it....

What does the birth of babies whose embryos had gone through genome editing mean - for science and for all of us? In November 2018, the world was shocked to learn that two babies had been born in China with DNA edited while they were embryos - as dramatic a development in genetics as the cloning...

Epigenetics is the science of living DNA, charting the chemical pathways that spur DNA into action by turning genes on and off. While the Human Genome Project of the early 2000s was hailed as the key to understanding human heredity and disease, that historic effort was just the beginning....

The Origin of Species sold out on the first day of its publication in 1859. Upon its publication, the book began to transform attitudes about society and religion....