156円 It took Charles Darwin more than twenty years to publish this book, in part because he realized that it would ignite a firestorm of controversy. On the Origin of Species first appeared in 1859, and it remains a continuing source of conflict to this day. Even among those who reject its ideas, howe...

0円 本文主要針對非接觸式、非侵入式生殖系統改良之動物，提出「長生不老」的器官模型理論(長生器官模型理論)。本文為一系列「長生器官模型理論」電子書籍當中的第一集;在本文中，提出「第一型長生器官模型理論」。首先，以動物倫理、人倫的觀點，探討「長生不老」雌性動物於永恆性侵、永恆懷孕、永恆承載肉體痛苦而生產後代...

65,502円 Moving away from his earlier belief in a short, catastrophic history of the Earth, this volume shows how Buckland envisages instead progressive change as the Earth gradually cooled as it was prepared for human occupation. Extinct creatures did not die out because they were poorly designed; God lo...

3,940円 Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time? Fortunately for you, there's Schaum's. More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline presents a...

3,973円 In a world supposedly governed by ruthless survival of the fittest, why do we see acts of goodness in both animals and humans? This problem plagued Charles Darwin in the 1850s as he developed his theory of evolution through natural selection. Indeed, Darwin worried that the goodness he observed i...

1,267円 'Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin' On topics ranging from intelligent design and climate change to the politics of gender and race, the evolutionary writings of Charles Darwin occupy a pivotal position in contemporary public debate. This volume brings to...

1,126円 In this Very Short Introduction, Prof Lord John Krebs provides a brief history of human food, from our remote ancestors 3 million years ago to the present day. By looking at the four great transitions in human food - cooking, agriculture, processing, and preservation - he considers a variety of q...

933円 “Meaty, well-written.” ーKirkus Reviews “Timely and informative.” ーThe New York Times Book Review “By far the best book I have ever read on humanity’s deep history.” ーE. O. Wilson, biologist and author of The Ants and On Human Nature Nicholas Wade’s articles are a major reason why the science s...

12,825円 Why do we think that we can understand animal voices - such as the aggressive barking of a pet dog, and the longing meows of the family cat? Why do we think of deep voices as dominant and high voices as submissive. Are there universal principles governing our own communication system? Can we even...

2,388円 “Does an excellent job of using evolutionary biology to discuss the origins of religion, music, art, and . . . morality.”ーPublishers Weekly, starred review A unique trait of the human species is that our personalities, lifestyles, and worldviews are shaped by an accident of birthーnamely, the cu...

1,122円 “Creative Evolution” is a 1907 book by French philosopher Henri Bergson. Within it, Bergson offers a version of orthogenesis to replace Darwin's evolutionary mechanism, which surmises that evolution is stimulated by a "vital impetus". “Creative Evolution” was hugely popular in the early twentieth...

2,136円 An exposé of pseudoscientific myths about our evolutionary past and how we should live today. We evolved to eat berries rather than bagels, to live in mud huts rather than condos, to sprint barefoot rather than play footballーor did we? Are our bodies and brains truly at odds with modern life? Al...