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‘Combines the natural history of programmes such as David Attenborough’s Planet Earth with the planetary focus of Brian Cox’s Universe’ Guardian A beautiful, full colour book to accompany the 5 part BBC TV series telling the most important story of all, the deep history of our own planet...

How did the world as we know it—from the soil beneath our feet to the air we breathe and the life that surrounds us—come to be? Geologists have proposed one set of answers while biologists have proposed another. Earth and Life is the first book to reveal why we need to listen to both voices—the physical and the biological—to understand how we and our planet became possible.

An exciting and accessible new view of the evolution of human and animal life on Earth. From the author of national bestseller, Your Inner Fish, this extraordinary journey of discovery spans centuries, as explorers and scientists seek to understand the origins of life's immense diversity...

Evolution--or the broader topic of origins--has enormous relevance to how we understand the Christian faith and how we interpret Scripture. Four Views on Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design presents the current "state of the conversation" about origins among evangelicals representing...

A leading neuroscientist offers a history of the evolution of the brain from unicellular organisms to the complexity of animals and human beings today Renowned neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux digs into the natural history of life on earth to provide a new perspective on the similarities between us...

The dean of Columbia University's medical school explains why our bodies are out of sync with today's environment and how we can correct this to save our health. Over the past 200 years, human life-expectancy has approximately doubled. Yet we face soaring worldwide rates of obesity, diabetes...

Darwin y la evolución constituye un brillante repaso a la vida y obra de Darwin y ofrece una explicación clara y accesible del significado y la importancia de la teoría de la evolución y de lo que implica para el mundo en que vivimos...

Die Warmblütigkeit und die Entstehung von Bewusstsein ist der vierte Teil von Hoimar von Ditfurths „Im Anfang war der Wasserstoff“, er beinhaltet folgende Themen: Die stille Nacht der Dinosaurier / Programme aus der Steinzeit / Älter als alle Gehirne / Die Geschichte der Zukunft. Ein Klassiker der Wissenschaftsliteratur! Dem Autor, Professor für Psychiatrie und Neurologie, ist es mit dem Buch Im Anfang war der Wasserstoff gelungen, 13 Milliarden Jahre Weltgeschichte in einen Bestseller der Extraklasse zu verpacken, wie es wohl nur wenige weitere gibt. Eine der verblüffendsten Kernthesen dieses Buches: Es gibt Verstand auch ohne Gehirn.