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Alland Jr., Alexander Human Nature: Darwin's View Columbia University Press 1985 Hard Cover. Light shelfwear to the dustjacket.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or461185. ISBN #0231058985 / 9780231058988. (keywords: Evolution) (filed under: Evolution ) *
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Appleman, Philip Darwin W W Norton & Co Inc 1979 hardcover. . Some underlining / highlighing but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1134977. ISBN #0393950093 / 9780393950090. (keywords: DARWIN CHARLES 1809 1882 BIOGRAPHY) (filed under: Evolution ) *
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Armstrong, Joseph T. The Evolutionary Hypothesis paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1041318. (filed under: Evolution ) *
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Berrill, N.J. Man's Emerging Mind Dodd Mead and Company 1955 Trade Paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or362470. (filed under: Evolution ) *
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Bokun, Branko Man: The Fallen Ape Doubleday & Company, \Inc. 1977 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Slight tears to jacket. Book #or703643. ISBN #0385116292 / 9780385116299. (keywords: Women, History, Ancient Civilization, psycholoogy, Human Evolution, Science) (filed under: Evolution ) *
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Bowlby, John Charles Darwin: A New Life 1990 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Ex-Library Copy. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1082341. ISBN #0393029409 / 9780393029406. (filed under: Evolution ) *
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Bowlby, John Charles Darwin: A New Life 1990 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Ex-Library Copy. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1082341. ISBN #0393029409 / 9780393029406. (filed under: Evolution ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Charles Darwin: A New Life 511 pp. 9 1 4 x 6 1 4. Map illustrated endpapers as well as photos, maps, and document facsimiles."This new biography will strongly appeal both to those who know the life and work of Darwin 1809-1882 and to those less familiar with the famous naturalist and his theories of evolution and natural selection. The late Bowlby Personality and Mental Illness , a British psychologist, meticulously details the family background, education, scientific discoveries and publications of a young man who nearly became a country parson but boarded the HMS Beagle instead. It's an impressive story, and Bowlby does an excellent job of explaining the scientific context of Darwin's The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man , drawing extensively from the correspondence and journals of their author and members of his professional and personal circles. Additionally, the book proposes a new theory: that Darwin's debilitating bad health and depression stemmed from the death of his mother in 1817. Bowlby suggests that this sudden and silence-shrouded bereavement, along with Darwin's difficult relationship with his father, were the psychological causes of his emotional breakdowns and episodes of boils, vomiting, elephantiasis, rashes and heart palpitations."Keywords: CHARLES DARWIN BIOGRAPHY SCIENCE NATURE
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Brace, C. L. ; Montagu, M. F. Ashley Man's Evolution : An Introduction to Physical Anthroplogy Macmillan Company 1965 Hard Cover. rubbing to DJ.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or422651. (keywords: Organic Continuity Taxonomy Bilogical Background Fossil Records) (filed under: Evolution ) *
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Brace, C.L.; Montagu, Ashley M.F. Man's Evolution: An Introduction to Physical Anthropology The Macmillan Company 1969 Hard Cover. ink signiture on front end paper and minor highlighting throughout. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or439327. (filed under: Evolution ) *
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Burnie, David Evolution Time Life Books 1999 Soft Cover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or317675. ISBN #0737000368 / 9780737000368. (keywords: EVOLUTION SCIENCE) (filed under: Evolution ) *
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Calvin, William H. Brief History Of The Mind: From Apes To Intellect And Beyond 2004 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1073430. ISBN #0195159071 / 9780195159073. (filed under: Evolution ) *
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Calvin, William H. Brief History Of The Mind: From Apes To Intellect And Beyond 2004 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1073430. ISBN #0195159071 / 9780195159073. (filed under: Evolution ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary This book looks back at the simpler versions of mental life in apes, Neanderthals, and our ancestors, back before our burst of creativity started 50,000 years ago. When you can't think about the future in much detail, you are trapped in a here-and-now existence with no "What if" and "Why me?" William H. Calvin takes stock of what we have now and then explains why we are nearing a crossroads, where mind shifts gears again. The mind's big bang came long after our brain size stopped enlarging. Calvin suggests that the development of long sentences--what modern children do in their third year--was the most likely trigger. To keep a half-dozen concepts from blending together like a summer drink, you need some mental structuring. In saying "I think I saw him leave to go home," you are nesting three sentences inside a fourth. We also structure plans, play games with rules, create structured music and chains of logic, and have a fascination with discovering how things hang together. Our long train of connected thoughts is why our consciousness is so different from what came before. Where does mind go from here, its powers extended by science-enhanced education but with its slowly evolving gut instincts still firmly anchored in the ice ages? We will likely shift gears again, juggling more concepts and making decisions even faster, imagining courses of action in greater depth. Ethics are possible only because of a human level of ability to speculate, judge quality, and modify our possible actions accordingly. Though science increasingly serves as our headlights, we are out driving them, going faster than we can react effectively.
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Calvin, William H. River That Flows Uphill: A Journey from the Big Bang to the Big Brain Macmillan 1986 Hard Cover. DJ: Small tears, pieces missing. Book: spine shaken.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or462986. ISBN #0025209205 / 9780025209206. (keywords: COSMOLOGY EVOLUTION SCIENCE NATURAL HISTORY GRAND CANYON RIVER RAFTING) (filed under: Evolution ) *
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Camp, L. Spraue De Great Monkey Trail 1968 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Ex-Library Copy. BOOK COND: Used; Acceptable. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1013268. (filed under: Evolution ) *
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Campbell, Bernard G. Human Evolution; an Introduction to Man's Adaptations Aldine Publishing Company 1966 Hard Cover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or606397. (keywords: EVOLUTION HUMAN-EVOLUTIONAL THEORY) (filed under: Evolution ) *
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Chapman, Matthew Trials Of The Monkey: An Accidental Memoir 2001 hardcover. Inscribed by Author. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1136410. ISBN #0312283571 / 9780312283575. (filed under: Evolution ) *
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Chapman, Matthew Trials Of The Monkey: An Accidental Memoir 2001 hardcover. Inscribed by Author. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1136410. ISBN #0312283571 / 9780312283575. (filed under: Evolution ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "When Darwin called his second book The Descent of Man instead of The Ascent of Man he was thinking of his progeny." So declares Darwin's great-great grandson Matthew Chapman as he leaves behind his stressful career as a Hollywood screenwriter and travels to Dayton, Tennessee where in 1925 creationist opposition to the teaching of evolution in schools was played out in a famous legal drama, the Scopes Trial. The purpose of this journey is to see if opinions have changed in the seventy- five intervening years. A defiant atheist, Chapman is confronted not only by the fundamentalist beliefs that continue to banish the theory of evolution but by his own spiritual malaise as the outward journey becomes an inward quest, a tragicomic "accidental memoir". "First there was Charles Darwin, two yards long and nobody's fool. Then there was his son, my great-grandfather, Sir Francis Darwin, an eminent botanist. Then came my grandmother Frances, a modest poet who spent a considerable amount of time in rest-homes for depression From her issued my beloved mother, Clare, who was extremely short, failed to complete medical school, and eventually became an alcoholic. Then we get down to me. I'm in the movie business." Trials of the Monkey combines travel writing and reportage, as Chapman records his encounters in the South, with history and the accidental memoir of a man full of mid-life doubts in a genre-breaking first book that is darkly funny, provocative and poignant.
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Clark, W.E. Le Gros Antecedents of Man; an Introduction to the Evolution of the Primates Quadrangle Books 1971 Trade Paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or439382. ISBN #0812962966 / 9780812962963. (keywords: EVOLUTION) (filed under: Evolution ) *
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Corballis, Michael C. The Lopsided Ape: Evolution of the Generative Mind Oxford Univ Pr 1991 Hard Cover. Book: Clean text.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or352526. ISBN #0195066758 / 9780195066753. (keywords: SCIENCE THEORY PHILOSOPHY ORIGINS HUMAN MANKIND) (filed under: Evolution ) *
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Corballis, Michael C. The Lopsided Ape: The Evolution of the Generative Mind Oxford University Press 1991 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or951163. ISBN #0195066758 / 9780195066753. (filed under: Evolution ) *
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Corballis, Michael C. The Lopsided Ape: The Evolution of the Generative Mind Oxford University Press 1991 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or951163. ISBN #0195066758 / 9780195066753. (filed under: Evolution ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary How great is the evolutionary distance between humans and apes, and what is it that creates that gulf? Philosophers and scientists have debated the question for centuries, but Michael Corballis finds the mystery revealed in our right hands. For humans are the only primates who are predominantly right handed, a sign of the specialization of the left hemisphere of the brain for language. And that specialization, he tells us, makes a massive distance indeed, as he describes what exactly it means to be the lopsided ape. In The Lopsided Ape , Corballis takes us on a fascinating tour of the origins and implications of the specialization of the two halves of the brain--known as laterality--in human evolution. He begins by surveying current views of evolution, ranging from the molecular level--the role of viruses, for instance, in transporting genes between species--to the tremendous implications of such physical changes as walking on two feet. Walking upright freed our ancestors' arms for such things as tool-making and gesturing a critical part of early language . Corballis argues that the evolution of the brain--and language--was intimately tied up with these changes: The proliferation of objects made by early hominids, in an increasingly artificial environment marked by social cooperation, demanded greater flexibility in communication and even in thinking itself. These evolutionary pressures spurred the development of laterality in the brain. He goes on to look at the structure of language, following the work of Noam Chomsky and others, showing how grammar allows us to create an infinite variety of messages. In examining communication between animals and attempts to teach apes and dolphins language, he demonstrates that only humans have this unlimited ability for expression--an ability that he traces back through hominid evolution. After this engrossing account of what we know about evolution, language, and the human brain, Corballis suggests that the left hemisphere has evolved a Generative Assembling Device, a biological mechanism that allows us to manipulate open-ended forms of representation and provides the basis for mathematics, reasoning, music, art, and play as well as language and manufacture. It is this device, he writes, that truly sets us off from the apes. Both a detailed account of human language and evolution and a convincing argument for a new view of the brain, The Lopsided Ape provides fascinating insight into our origins and the nature of human thought itself.
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