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  • Engineering the Human

    Human Enhancement Between Fiction and Fascination

    Edited by Bert Jaap Koops, Christoph H. Lüthy, Annemiek Nelis, Carla Sieburgh, J.P.M. Jansen, Monika S. Schmid ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The volume is collection of articles treating the topic of human improvement/enhancement from a variety of perspectives – philosophical, literary, medical, genetic, sociological, legal etc. The chapters in this volume treat not only those aspects that most immediately come to mind when one thinks of ‘human enhancement’, such as genetic engineering, cloning, artificial implants and artificial ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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  • Beyond Good and Evil (Best Navigation, Active TOC) (Prometheus Classics)

    by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche ...
    Translated by Helen Zimmern ...
    This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! Beyond Good and Evil (German: Jenseits von Gut und Böse), subtitled "Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future" (Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft), is a book by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, first published in 1886. It takes up and expands on the ideas of his previous work, Thus Spoke ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Survival of the Sickest

    The Surprising Connections Between Disease and Longevity

    by Jonathan Prince, Sharon Moalem ...
    Joining the ranks of modern myth busters, Dr. Sharon Moalem turns our current understanding of illness on its head and challenges us to fundamentally change the way we think about our bodies, our health, and our relationship to just about every other living thing on earth, from plants and animals to insects and bacteria.So why does disease exist? Moalem proposes that most common ailments—diabetes, ... Read more

    $7.49 USD

  • The Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex

    Anatomy, Evolution, and the Origin of Insight

    by Richard E. Passingham, Steven P. Wise ...
    Series series Oxford Psychology Series
    The prefrontal cortex makes up almost a quarter of the human brain, and it expanded dramatically during primate evolution. The Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex presents a new theory about its fundamental function. In this important new book, the authors argue that primate-specific parts of the prefrontal cortex evolved to reduce errors in foraging choices, so that particular ancestors of ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • The Handbook of Clinical Neuropsychology

    by John Marshall ...
    The past 30 years have seen the field of clinical neuropsychology grow to become an influential discipline within mainstream clinical psychology and an established component of most professional courses. It remains one of the fastest growing specialities within mainstream clinical psychology, neurology, and the psychiatric disciplines. Substantially updated to take account of these rapid ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Evolution of Social Communication in Primates

    A Multidisciplinary Approach

    Edited by Marco Pina, Nathalie Gontier ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    How did social communication evolve in primates? In this volume, primatologists, linguists, anthropologists, cognitive scientists and philosophers of science systematically analyze how their specific disciplines demarcate the research questions and methodologies involved in the study of the evolutionary origins of social communication in primates in general and in humans in particular. In the ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Philosophy of Behavioral Biology

    Edited by Kathryn S. Plaisance, Thomas A.C. Reydon ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume provides a broad overview of issues in the philosophy of behavioral biology, covering four main themes: genetic, developmental, evolutionary, and neurobiological explanations of behavior. It is both interdisciplinary and empirically informed in its approach, addressing philosophical issues that arise from recent scientific findings in biological research on human and non-human animal ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Cultural Phylogenetics

    Concepts and Applications in Archaeology

    Edited by Larissa Mendoza Straffon ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the potential and challenges of implementing evolutionary phylogenetic methods in archaeological research, by discussing key concepts and presenting concrete applications of these approaches.The volume is divided into two parts: The first covers the theoretical and conceptual implications of using evolution-based models in the sociocultural domain, illustrates the sorts of ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Evolution 2.0

    Implications of Darwinism in Philosophy and the Social and Natural Sciences

    Edited by Martin Brinkworth, Friedel Weinert ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    These essays by leading philosophers and scientists focus on recent ideas at the forefront of modern Darwinism, showcasing and exploring the challenges they raise as well as open problems. This interdisciplinary volume is unique in that it addresses the key notions of evolutionary theory in approaches to the mind, in the philosophy of biology, in the social sciences and humanities; furthermore it ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Parasite-Stress Theory of Values and Sociality

    Infectious Disease, History and Human Values Worldwide

    by Randy Thornhill, Corey L. Fincher ...
    This book develops and tests an ecological and evolutionary theory of the causes of human values—the core beliefs that guide people’s cognition and behavior—and their variation across time and space around the world. We call this theory the parasite-stress theory of values or the parasite-stress theory of sociality. The evidence we present in our book indicates that both a wide span of human ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • The Hunt for FOXP5

    A Genomic Mystery Novel

    by Wallace Kaufman, David Deamer ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Genetics professor Michelle Murphy loses her husband under mysterious circumstances and without warning, while their brilliant eight year old daughter Avalon, adopted in Kazakhstan, stubbornly believes she is a mutant.As if this were not enough she soon finds herself thrown into the middle of a quickly thickening plot, where the legacy of Genghis Khan meets the hunt for FOXP5, a genetic ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Life History Evolution and Sociology

    The Biological Backstory of Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010

    by Steven C. Hertler ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book supplies the evolutionary and genetic framework that Charles Murray, towards the end of Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010, predicts will one day explain revolutionary change in American society. Murray’s Coming Apart documents 50 years of changed college admissions, government incentives, mating and migration patterns that have wrought national divisions across indexes ... Read more

    $53.99 USD