Product Description: Intent on letting the reader experience the pleasure and intellectual stimulation in reading classic authors, the How to Read series will facilitate and enrich your understanding of texts vital to the canon. Charles Darwin’s permanent legacy is his broad, abstract theories of evolution and natural selection, theories that he tested against an astonishing array of natural history evidence in his writing...read more

A study of the history of life on Earth explains how microscopic life evolved into large, complex animals and speculates on the various ways in which biotechnology can change our thinking about evolution and complex living organisms. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The existence of complex life is one of the great mysteries of evolution, for complexity is neither inevitable nor necessary. This book shows how two major biological hurdles had to be overcome to allow living complexity to evolve - gene copying errors and natural selection.

Gathers selections from nine of Darwin's most important books, including writings about coral reefs, the Galapagos Islands, evolution, emotions, and flowers.

Product Description: This book is designed as a concise introductory guide to animal behaviour. The subject is introduced through thoroughly-described and well-illustrated examples, and will be intelligible even to readers who know only the rudiments of biology...read more

Product Description: A new annual publication, Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology presents reviews of new theoretical ideas and frameworks to stimulate discussion and outline progress in evolutionary studies. The book covers the entire field, touching upon all active schools of thought...read more

This book sets out to do for evolution what Bertrand Russell's The Problems of Philosophy did for that subject. Its authors is a leading evolutionary biologist, and unlike many popular books on evolution, it isn't written to prove a particular theory. Instead it reviews the key problems and the main answers to them, in a balanced account which is also authoritative. It will be an invaluable guide to all students of biology, but the clarity of the arguments and the level of writing make it an excellent introduction for general readers as well. Among the concepts and controversies discussed are the nature of heredity, evolution, natural selection, and the existences of species.