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Human sciences
Anatomies
By Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Hardback
Published 07-Feb-2013
| RRP: | £18.99 |
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Takes you on a journey through the art, science, literature and history of the human body. This book includes topics ranging from ancient body art to plastic surgery, as well as our changing attitudes to the human body - how it works, what it should look like, how to live with it, and what it means.
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Unfeathered Bird
By Katrina van Grouw
Hardback
Published 13-Nov-2012
| RRP: | £34.95 |
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Suitable for those who appreciates birds or bird art, this book features: over 385 drawings, artistically arranged in a sumptuous large-format book; accessible, jargon-free text - the only book on bird anatomy aimed at the general reader; drawings and text all based on actual bird specimens; and includes an anatomically distinct bird groups.
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My Beautiful Genome
By Lone Frank
Paperback
Published 25-May-2012
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Exposing Our Genetic Future, One Quirk at a Time
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Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee
By Jared Diamond
Paperback
Published 01-May-1992
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More than 98 percent of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee. The 'third' chimpanzee is man. This work surveys life-cycle, culture, sexuality and destructive urges both towards ourselves and the planet to explore the ways in which we are uniquely human yet still influenced by our animal origins.
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Life Ascending
By Nick Lane
Paperback
Published 07-Jan-2010
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Describes the ten greatest inventions of life, including DNA, sex, sight and consciousness, based on their historical impact, role in living organisms and relevance to controversies. This book explains how these findings have come about, and the extent to which they can be relied upon.
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Survivors
By Richard Fortey
Paperback
Published 13-Sep-2012
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An awe-inspiring journey through the eons and across the globe in search of visible traces of evolution in the living creatures that have survived from earlier times.
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Incredible Human Journey
By Alice Roberts
Paperback
Published 05-Apr-2010
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Traces the epic routes by which our human ancestors set out from Africa and peopled the entire planet.
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Blind Watchmaker
By Richard Dawkins
Paperback
Published 06-Apr-2006
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Demonstrates that theory of evolution by natural selection discovered by Charles Darwin - is only answer to biggest question of all: why do we exist?
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Double Helix
By James Watson
Paperback
Published 11-Nov-2010
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The story of the most significant biological breakthrough of the century - the discovery of the structure of DNA.
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Epigenetics Revolution
By Nessa Carey
Paperback
Published 01-Mar-2012
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At the beginning of this century enormous progress had been made in genetics. The Human Genome Project finished sequencing human DNA. It seemed it was only a matter of time until we had all the answers to the secrets of life on this planet.
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