The Selfish Gene

The best general account of evolution I have read in recent years. --E. O. Wilson. With a new introduction. Twenty years after its original publication, The Blind Watchmaker, framed with a new introduction by the author, is as prescient and timely a book as ever. The watchmaker belongs to the eighteenth-century theologian William Paley, who argued that just as a watch is too complicated and ...

One of the most brilliant scientists of our age gives us his definitive work: a synthesis of his comprehensive vision of life.

Assesses Darwin's theory of evolution and looks at why it arises such heated debate among scientists, philosophers and sociologists. This book shows that Darwinism does not devalue the miracles of life.

Humans have the ability to imitate and copy behaviours, or memes, from one another. This is an investigation of whether genes and memes can lead to discoveries about the nature of the inner self and whether the inner self is only an illusion created by the memes for the sake of replication.

Sex is as fascinating to scientists as it is to the rest of us. A vast pool of knowledge has been gleaned from research into the nature of sex, from the contentious problem of why the wasteful reproductive process exists at all, to how individuals choose their mates and what traits they find attractive. This book explores those findings.

Chronicling a revolution in our understanding of genes, Matt Ridley recounts the hundred years' war between the partisans of nature and nurture to explain how this paradoxical creature, the human being, can be simultaneously free-willed and motivated by instinct and culture.

This is an explanation of how evolution works, from author Richard Dawkins.

This, the most interesting and helpful edition of Darwin's major work, is now available in an inexpensive paperback edition. It is written with a clarity, forcefulness, and conciseness not found in any subsequent revision. For modem reading and for reference, it is the standard edition of Darwin's greatest work

Presents contemporary beliefs about Divine Providence and the beginnings of life on earth. Written for the general public of the 1850s, this title provides an account of the scientific theory that lies at the root of our attitude to the universe.

How could such an intricate object as the human eye - so complex and so precise - have come about by chance? This title builds a carefully reasoned argument for evolutionary adaptation as the force behind the various life forms on earth.