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  • The Long Tomorrow

    How Advances in Evolutionary Biology Can Help Us Postpone Aging

    by Michael R. Rose ...
    The conquest of aging is now within our grasp. It hasn't arrived yet, writes Michael R. Rose, but a scientific juggernaut has started rolling and is picking up speed. A long tomorrow is coming. In The Long Tomorrow, Rose offers us a delightfully written account of the modern science of aging, spiced with intriguing stories of his own career and leavened with the author's engaging sense of humor ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • A Primer for Experimental Evolution

    by Michael R Rose, Richard E Lenski, Margarida Matos, Joseph L Graves Jr. ...
    The purpose of this Primer is to explain the principles of Experimental Evolution. It illustrates how evolution experiments should be properly designed to examine fundamental principles of evolution and answer big questions in biology. The need for this primer has increased with the recent advances in genomics, because the functional significance of genetic variation is not easily understood ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Save Your Sight!

    Natural Ways to Prevent and Reverse Macular Degeneration

    by Marc R. Rose, MD, Michael R. Rose, MD ...
    The eye disease known as macular degeneration affects millions of people. But it doesn't have to go unchecked. Doctors Marc and Michael Rose show how you can prevent, halt and even reverse the progress of macular degeneration and other eye problems. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Conceptual Breakthroughs in The Evolutionary Biology of Aging

    by Kenneth R. Arnold, Michael R. Rose, John C. Avise ...
    Series series Conceptual Breakthroughs
    Conceptual Breakthroughs in the Evolutionary Biology of Aging continues the innovative Conceptual Breakthroughs series by providing a comprehensive outline of the major breakthroughs that built the evolutionary biology of aging as a leading scientific field. Following the evolutionary study of aging from its humble origins to the present, the book's chapters treat the field's breakthroughs one at ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Darwin's Spectre

    Evolutionary Biology in the Modern World

    by Michael R. Rose ...
    Extending the human life-span past 120 years. The "green" revolution. Evolution and human psychology. These subjects make today's newspaper headlines. Yet much of the science underlying these topics stems from a book published nearly 140 years ago--Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. Far from an antique idea restricted to the nineteenth century, the theory of evolution is one of the most ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Does Aging Stop?

    by Laurence D. Mueller, Casandra L. Rauser, Michael R. Rose ...
    Does Aging Stop? reveals the most paradoxical finding of recent aging research: the cessation of demographic aging. The authors show that aging stops at the level of the individual organism, and explain why evolution allows this. The implications of this counter-intuitive conclusion are profound, and aging research now needs to accept three uncomfortable truths. First, aging is not a cumulative ... Read more

    $62.09 USD

  • Evolutionary Biology of Aging

    by Michael R. Rose ...
    This unique book looks at the biology of aging from a fundamentally new perspective, one based on evolutionary theory rather than traditional concepts which emphasize molecular and cellular processes. The basis for this approach lies in the fact that natural selection, as a powerful determining force, tends to decline in importance with age. Many of the characteristics we associate with aging, the ... Read more

    $162.89 USD

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  • The Social Conquest of Earth

    by Edward O. Wilson ...
    From the most celebrated heir to Darwin comes a groundbreaking book on evolution, the summa work of Edward O. Wilson's legendary career.Where did we come from? What are we? Where are we going? In a generational work of clarity and passion, one of our greatest living scientists directly addresses these three fundamental questions of religion, philosophy, and science while “overturning the famous ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

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  • The Red Queen

    Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

    by Matt Ridley ...
    “A terrific book, witty and lucid, and brimming with provocative conjectures.” (Wall Street Journal) from the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller GenomeBrilliantly written, The Red Queen compels us to rethink everything from the persistence of sexism to the endurance of romantic love.Referring to Lewis Carroll's Red Queen from Through the Looking-Glass, a character who has ... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Science Set Free

    10 Paths to New Discovery

    by Rupert Sheldrake ...
    The bestselling author of Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home offers an intriguing new assessment of modern day science that will radically change the way we view what is possible.In Science Set Free (originally published to acclaim in the UK as The Science Delusion), Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative scientists, shows the ways in which science is being ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • A Devil's Chaplain

    Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love

    by Richard Dawkins ...
    Essays on morality, mortality, and much more from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion.This early collection of essays from renowned evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins is an enthusiastic declaration, a testament to the power of rigorous scientific examination to reveal the wonders of the world.In these essays, Dawkins revisits the meme, the unit of ... Read more

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  • Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

    by Ann Druyan, Carl Sagan ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Exciting and provocative . . . A tour de force of a book that begs to be seen as well as to be read.”—The Washington Post Book WorldWorld renowned scientist Carl Sagan and acclaimed author Ann Druyan have written a Roots for the human species, a lucid and riveting account of how humans got to be the way we are. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is a thrilling saga that starts ... Read more

    $13.99 USD