Product Description: Early Human Kinship brings together original studies from leading figures in the biological sciences, social anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics to provide a major breakthrough in the debate over human evolution and the nature of society...read more

Product Description: Why do people resort to plastic surgery to look young? Why are stepchildren at greatest risk of fatal abuse? Why do we prefer gossip to algebra? Why must Dogon wives live alone in a dark hut for five days a month? Why are young children good at learning language but not sharing? Over the past decade, psychologists and behavioral ecologists have been finding answers to such seemingly unrelated questions by applying an evolutionary perspective to the study of human behavior and psychology...read more

Published to coincide with the Discovery Channel's broadcast of Cousins, an up-close look at primates takes readers into the world of humankind's closest living relatives, offering insight into their behavior, sociable nature, mentality, and much more. TV tie-in. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This book explores the ways in which contemporary evolutionary thinking might inform the study of the peculiarly human phenomenon of symbolic culture, including language, ritual, religion, religion and art. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Examining the widespread sense of the "difficulty" of science, this work considers why many people find it so hard to grasp how science works, why there is so much suspicion of its success, and why many still seek refuge in religion or New Age spirituality...read more

Shows unusual insects, fish, amphibians, birds, and mammals in Africa, Europe, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Antarctica

Describes the characteristics behavior, habitat, and range for a variety of unusual insects, spiders, frogs, snakes, lizards, crocodiles, turtles, fish, birds, whales, antelopes, deer, seals, leopards, bears, and apes