Sleep has hardly changed since neolithic humans tossed and turned in their caves. In the past it was sabre-toothed tigers, now it is social media that keeps us awake....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009452939)
The fully updated and revised fifth edition of this highly acclaimed undergraduate textbook provides an accessible and balanced introduction to evolutionary psychology. It includes new material on female homosexuality, AI, Covid-19, and the effects...Lasīt vairāk
The fully updated and revised fifth edition of this highly acclaimed undergraduate textbook provides an accessible and balanced introduction to evolutionary psychology. It includes new material on female homosexuality, AI, Covid-19, and the effects...Lasīt vairāk
This book proposes a step-by-step process by which the early evolution of human language originated. Starting from an ape-like communication system, pre-human ancestors were pumped out of the rainforest by cyclic climate changes between 10 and 6 M...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Sep-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691231990)
An anthropologist uncovers new evidence for the evolutionary origins of human longevity-and explains why growing old is an opportunity, not a burden. Our ability to live for decades may seem like a modern luxury made possible by clean water and adva...Lasīt vairāk
Explore and understand the key ideas and movements in anthropology the study of human societies and cultures and how they work. What does it mean to be human? Why do we have rituals? How do family structures differ around the world, and...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 19-Aug-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691253404)
How the science of evolution explains how everything came to be, from bacteria and blue whales to cell phones, cities, and artificial intelligenceEverything Evolves reveals how evolutionary dynamics shape the world as we know...Lasīt vairāk
Surviving evolutionary lines of animals and plants all had their adaptive keys for flourishing in the long run. In the case of humans, a lack of primate specializations opened the door to unique evolutionary possibilities. Fr...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 10-Jul-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009598729)
The relationship between religion and morality has been a steadfast topic of inquiry since the dawn of the social sciences. This Element probes how the social sciences have addressed this relationship by detailing how theory and method have evolved...Lasīt vairāk
The relationship between religion and morality has been a steadfast topic of inquiry since the dawn of the social sciences. This Element probes how the social sciences have addressed this relationship by detailing how theory and method have evolved...Lasīt vairāk
Were we all created? Or did we evolve? If so, from what and how? The author does not pretend to know the answers, but instead has trawled over several centuries and some very prominent names. Amongst these of course is Charles Darwin, always associa...Lasīt vairāk
The eagerly anticipated conclusion to Peter Godfrey-Smiths three-part exploration of the origins of intelligence on Earth, which began with the bestselling Other Minds in 2018 and continued with Metazoa in 2020....Lasīt vairāk
This book will take you on a journey through our physical universe, based on current, established science. The journey starts with the simplest fundamental particles, such as quarks and electrons, and ends with the most complex of all material objec...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 06-May-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691249414)
Why human biology is far more expansive than the simple categories of female and male Being human entails an astonishingly complex interplay of biology and culture, and while there are important differences between women and men, there is...Lasīt vairāk
An evolutionary case for the existence of free willScientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As we probe ever deeper into the me...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 25-Mar-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Allen Lane, ISBN-13: 9780241561614)
Engrossing, richly informative . . . challenges us to rethink universal health benchmarks New Yorker A new way of thinking about diversity and what really unites us, from the internationally renowned author of Burn Real diver...Lasīt vairāk
