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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “gregory radick”
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  • Disputed Inheritance

    The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology

    by Gregory Radick ...
    A root-and-branch rethinking of how history has shaped the science of genetics.In 1900, almost no one had heard of Gregor Mendel. Ten years later, he was famous as the father of a new science of heredity—genetics. Even today, Mendelian ideas serve as a standard point of entry for learning about genes. The message students receive is plain: the twenty-first century owes an enlightened understanding ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Darwin in Ilkley

    by Mike Dixon, Gregory Radick ...
    When the Origins of Species was published on 24 November 1859, its author, Charles Darwin, was near the end of a nine-week stay in the remote Yorkshire village of Ilkley. He had come for the 'water cure' - a regime of cold baths and wet sheets - and for relaxation. But he used his time in Ilkley to shore up support, through extensive correspondence, for the extraordinary theory that the Origin ... Read more

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  • The Riddle of Organismal Agency

    New Historical and Philosophical Reflections

    Edited by Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda, Jan Baedke, Guido I. Prieto, Gregory Radick ...
    Series series History and Philosophy of Biology
    The Riddle of Organismal Agency brings together historians, philosophers, and scientists for an interdisciplinary re-assessment of one of the long-standing problems in the scientific understanding of life.Marshalling insights from diverse sciences including physiology, comparative psychology, developmental biology, and evolutionary biology, the book provides an up-to-date survey of approaches to ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Darwin's Argument by Analogy

    From Artificial to Natural Selection

    by Roger M. White, Gregory Radick, M. J. S. Hodge ...
    In On the Origin of Species (1859), Charles Darwin put forward his theory of natural selection. Conventionally, Darwin's argument for this theory has been understood as based on an analogy with artificial selection. But there has been no consensus on how, exactly, this analogical argument is supposed to work – and some suspicion too that analogical arguments on the whole are embarrassingly weak. ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Simian Tongue

    The Long Debate about Animal Language

    by Gregory Radick ...
    In the early 1890s the theory of evolution gained an unexpected ally: the Edison phonograph. An amateur scientist used the new machine—one of the technological wonders of the age—to record monkey calls, play them back to the monkeys, and watch their reactions. From these soon-famous experiments he judged that he had discovered “the simian tongue,” made up of words he was beginning to translate, ... Read more

    $44.69 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Darwin

    Edited by Jonathan Hodge, Gregory Radick ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    The naturalist and geologist Charles Darwin (1809–82) ranks as one of the most influential scientific thinkers of all time. In the nineteenth century his ideas about the history and diversity of life - including the evolutionary origin of humankind - contributed to major changes in the sciences, philosophy, social thought and religious belief. The Cambridge Companion to Darwin has established ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

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    How to Use Data to Answer Questions, Avoid Statistical Traps, and Make Better Decisions

    by Allen B. Downey ...
    "A delightful exposition of commonly-encountered statistical fallacies and paradoxes and why they matter." —Samuel H. Preston, coauthor of Demography: Measuring and Modeling Population ProcessesAn essential guide to the ways data can improve decision making.Statistics are everywhere: in news reports, at the doctor's office, and in every sort of forecast, from the stock market to the weather. Allen ... Read more

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  • Mental Immunity

    Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think

    by Andy Norman ...
    " Mental Immunity is the perfect vaccine for the mind-viruses infecting our culture: alternative facts, fake news, and conspiracy thinking, to name a few." —Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine and author of The Believing BrainAstonishingly irrational ideas are spreading. Covid denial persists in the face of overwhelming evidence. Anti-vaxxers compromise public health. Conspiracy ... Read more

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  • The Bare Bones

    An Unconventional Evolutionary History of the Skeleton

    by Matthew F. Bonnan ...
    Series series Life of the Past
    What can we learn about the evolution of jaws from a pair of scissors? How does the flight of a tennis ball help explain how fish overcome drag? What do a spacesuit and a chicken egg have in common? Highlighting the fascinating twists and turns of evolution across more than 540 million years, paleobiologist Matthew Bonnan uses everyday objects to explain the emergence and adaptation of the ... Read more

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  • When the Earth Had Two Moons

    Cannibal Planets, Icy Giants, Dirty Comets, Dreadful Orbits, and the Origins of the Night Sky

    by Erik Asphaug ...
    This expert guide to plant formation and the origins of life "makes the solar system an even weirder and more wonderful place than it seemed before" ( Wall Street Journal).In 1959, the Soviet probe Luna 3 revealed an astonishing truth: the far side of the moon is an enormous mountainous expanse, completely different from the vast lava-plains on the side facing Earth. But why would the two side of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Bird Brain

    An Exploration of Avian Intelligence

    by Nathan Emery ...
    Why birds are smarter than we thinkBirds have not been known for their high IQs, which is why a person of questionable intelligence is sometimes called a "birdbrain." Yet in the past two decades, the study of avian intelligence has witnessed dramatic advances. From a time when birds were seen as simple instinct machines responding only to stimuli in their external worlds, we now know that some ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Why the Wheel Is Round

    Muscles, Technology, and How We Make Things Move

    by Steven Vogel ...
    "A brilliant history of technology. . . . full of wonders of nature, human invention, history" and more ( Wall Street Journal).There is no part of our bodies that fully rotates—be it a wrist or ankle or arm in a shoulder socket, we are made to twist only so far. And yet there is no more fundamental human invention than the wheel—a rotational mechanism that accomplishes what our physical form ... Read more

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