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The illustrated naked ape
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Desmond Morris |
Dans la même optique et avec le même vocabulaire que celui utilisé pour les animaux, une observation du comportement humain sous l'angle de la sexualité, de l'éducation, de la combativité et de la re… |
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Here on earth
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Tim F. Flannery |
An explorer and environmentalist offers a natural history of the Earth as well as a biography of the human species. |
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Darwin's ghosts
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Rebecca Stott |
Christmas, 1859. Just one month after the publication of On the Origin of Species, Darwin received a letter that deeply unsettled him. He had expected criticism. Letters were arriving every day like … |
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Written in stone
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Riley Black |
This book is about the epic quest for missing links and other myths about evolution. The author proposes that the strides made in paleontology have helped with understanding evolution, and discusses … |
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Essential readings in evolutionary biology
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John C. Avise,Francisco José Ayala |
Traces scholarly thought from the nineteenth-century birth of evolutionary biology to the mapping of the human genome through forty-eight essays, arranged in chronological order, each preceded by a o… |
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The Book That Changed America
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Randall Fuller |
Traces the impact of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" on a diverse group of writers, abolitionists, and social reformers, including Henry David Thoreau and Bronson Alcott, against a backdr… |
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Here on Earth
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Tim F. Flannery |
Dual biography of planet Earth and the human species. |
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The variation of animals and plants under domestication
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Charles Darwin |
During the seven years which have elapsed since the publication in 1868 of the first edition of this Work, I have continued to attend to the same subjects, as far as lay in my power; and I have thus … |
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Defending the Cavewoman
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Harold Klawans |
"Dr. Harold Klawans examines people ranging from the woman suffering from "painful foot and moving toe syndrome," whose case reminds him that we were once reptiles with brains at the bases of our spi… |
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Remarkable Creatures
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Sean B. Carroll |
Just 150 years ago, most of our world was an unexplored wilderness. Our sense of its age was vastly off the mark. And what we believed to be the history of our own species consisted of fantastic myth… |
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