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NHBS Monthly Catalogue: October 2008Evolutionary BiologyAMINO ACIDS AND THE ASYMMETRY OF LIFE Caught in the Act of Formation Uwe Meierhenrich How did life originate and why were left-handed molecules selected for its architecture? This question of high public and interdisciplinary scientific ...... Advances in Astrobiology and Biogeophysics 300 pp, approx. 300p. hardcover | 2008 | £55.99 | approx. $94/€71 ANATOMICAL IMAGING Towards a New Morphology Edited by H Endo and R Frey This book presents selected works of contemporary evolutionary morphologists and includes such topics as broad scale reconstructions of the brain and ear of dinosaurs, inference of ...... 105 pp, 66 illustrations, 50 in colour. hardcover | 2008 | £118.50 | approx. $197/€150 THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO DARWIN Edited by Jonathan Hodge and Gregory Radick New Edition This volume provides the reader with clear introductions to the most recent scholarship on Darwin and his intellectual legacies. A distinguished team of contributors examines Darwin's main ...... 486 pp. hardcover | NYP 02/2009 | £50 | approx. $84/€64 softcover | NYP 02/2009 | £18.99 | approx. $32/€25 THE CRADLE OF LANGUAGE Edited by R Botha and C Knight This book is the first to focus on the African origins of human language. It explores the origins of language and culture 250,000-150,000 years ago when modern humans evolved in Africa. ...... Studies in the Evolution of Language Series 12 320 pp, tabs, figs, maps. hardcover | NYP 04/2009 | £65 | approx. $109/€83 softcover | NYP 04/2009 | £20.99 | approx. $35/€27 DARWIN'S ISLAND Steve Jones The Origin of Species is the most famous book in science but its stature tends to obscure the genius of Charles Darwin's other works. The Beagle voyage, too, occupied only five of the fifty ...... 320 pp, 16pp of b/w pix. hardcover | NYP 01/2009 | £19.99 | approx. $34/€26 DARWINIAN POPULATIONS AND NATURAL SELECTION Peter Godfrey-Smith In 1859 Darwin described a deceptively simple mechanism that he called "natural selection," a combination of variation, inheritance, and reproductive success. He argued that this ...... 224 pp. hardcover | NYP 01/2009 | £24.99 | approx. $42/€32 THE NEURAL CREST AND NEURAL CREST CELLS IN VERTEBRATE DEVELOPMENT AND EVOLUTION BK Hall New Edition The evolution of the neural crest sheds light on many of the oldest unanswered questions in developmental biology, including the role of germ layers in early embryogenesis, the development of the ...... 575 pp, 149 illustrations, 16 in colour. hardcover | NYP 01/2009 | £52.99 | approx. $89/€68 THE RISE OF HOMO SAPIENS The Evolution of Modern Thinking Frederick L Coolidge and Thomas Wynn The Rise of Homo Sapiens: The Evolution of Human Thinking presents a provocative theory about the evolution of the modern mind based on archaeological evidence and the working memory model of ...... 208 pp. softcover | NYP 03/2009 | £17.99 | approx. $30/€23 THE ROUGH GUIDE TO EVOLUTION Mark Pallen New Paperback Edition Have you ever wondered what Charles Darwin would have had on his iPod? Or exactly how Cartman from South Park fits into the Theory of Evolution? The Rough Guide to Evolution delves into all of this ...... 336 pp. softcover | NYP 01/2009 | £10.99 | approx. $19/€14 WHY EVOLUTION IS TRUE Jerry A Coyne For all the discussion in the media about creationism and 'Intelligent Design', virtually nothing has been said about the evidence in question - the evidence for evolution by natural ...... 256 pp, illus. hardcover | NYP 01/2009 | £14.99 | approx. $25/€19 YOUR BODY The Fish That Evolved Keith Dr Harrison We know more about our bodies than ever before, but why are there so unanswered questions? Why do our elbows and knees bend in opposite directions? Why do men and women walk differently? Why do ...... 288 pp, illustrations. hardcover | 2007 | £12.99 | approx. $22/€17 YOUR INNER FISH A Journey into the 3.5 Billion-Year History of the Human Body Neil Shubin New Paperback Edition Your Inner Fish tells the extraordinary history of the human body. Why do we look the way we do? When did we first evolve the features that we have? Why are we still able to do all the ...... 229 pp, illustrations. hardcover | 2008 | £19.99 | approx. $34/€26 softcover | NYP 01/2009 | £9.99 | approx. $17/€13 |
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