Evolution

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Book Cover:  Evolution: The Human Story
By Dorling Kindersley

Come face to face with our ancestors

Travel back 8 million years with Evolution The Human Story and go on a fascinating journey to discover how our species has developed from tree-dwelling primates to modern humans.



Come face to face with our ancestors

Travel back 8 million years with Evolution The Human Story and go on a fascinating journey to discover how our species has developed from tree-dwelling primates to...

Published: 29/08/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781405361651
RRP: $49.95
Book Cover: The Origin of Our Species
By Chris Stringer

'When it comes to human evolution Chris Stringer is as close to the horse's mouth as it gets . . . The Origin of Our Species should be the one-stop source on the subject. Read it now'   BBC Focus  

Do all humans originate from Africa? How did we spread across the globe? Are we separate from Neanderthals, or do some of us actually have their genes? When did humans become 'modern' - are...

'When it comes to human evolution Chris Stringer is as close to the horse's mouth as it gets . . . The Origin of Our Species should be the one-stop source on the subject. Read it now'   BBC Focus...

Published: 25/07/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141037202
RRP: $22.99
Book Cover:  Your Inner Fish: The amazing discovery of our 375-million-year-old ances

Have you ever wondered why our bodies look and work and fail the way they do?

One of the world's leading experts in evolutionary history, Neil Shubin reveals that if we want to understand our limbs we should take a close look at Tiktaalik, the first fish capable of doing a push-up; that if we want to know why we hiccup, the answer is in the way fish breathe; and explains why it is that fish teeth are...

Have you ever wondered why our bodies look and work and fail the way they do?

One of the world's leading experts in evolutionary history, Neil Shubin reveals that if we want to understand our limbs we...

Published: 13/02/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141027586
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover: The Blind Watchmaker
By Richard Dawkins
Acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution written in the last hundred years, The Blind Watchmaker offers an inspiring and accessible introduction to one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time. A brilliant and controversial book, which demonstrates that evolution by natural selection – the unconscious, automatic, blind, yet essentially non-random process discovered...
Acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution written in the last hundred years, The Blind Watchmaker offers an inspiring and accessible introduction to one of the most important scientific discoveries...
Published: 10/05/2006
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141026169
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Climbing Mount Improbable
By Richard Dawkins
How could such an intricate object as the human eye – so complex and so precise – have come about by chance? In this masterful piece of popular science, Richard Dawkins builds a powerful and carefully reasoned argument for evolutionary adaptation as the force behind all life on earth. The metaphor of 'Mount Improbable' represents the combination of perfection and improbability that we find...
How could such an intricate object as the human eye – so complex and so precise – have come about by chance? In this masterful piece of popular science, Richard Dawkins builds a powerful and...
Published: 10/05/2006
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141026176
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Unweaving the Rainbow
By Richard Dawkins
This is a dazzling, passionate polemic against anti-science movements of all kinds. Keats accused Newton of destroying the poetry of the rainbow by explaining the origin of its colours. In this illuminating and provocative book, Richard Dawkins argues that Keats could not have been more mistaken, and shows how an understanding of science enhances our wonder of the world. He argues that mysteries do...
This is a dazzling, passionate polemic against anti-science movements of all kinds. Keats accused Newton of destroying the poetry of the rainbow by explaining the origin of its colours. In this illuminating...
Published: 10/05/2006
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141026183
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Autobiographies

The Autobiographies of Charles Darwin (1809-82) provide a fascinating glimpse into the mind of one of the world's intellectual giants. They begin with engaging memories of his childhood and youth and of his burgeoning scientific curiosity and love of the natural world, which led to him joining the expedition on the Beagle. Darwin follows this with survey of his career and ends with a reckoning of his...

The Autobiographies of Charles Darwin (1809-82) provide a fascinating glimpse into the mind of one of the world's intellectual giants. They begin with engaging memories of his childhood and youth and of...

Published: 02/09/2002
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140433906
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover: The Voyage of the Beagle

When HMS Beagle sailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1831, Charles Darwin was twenty-two and setting off on the voyage of a lifetime. His journal, here reprinted in a shortened form, shows a naturalist making patient observations concerning geology, natural history, people, places and events. Volcanoes in the Galapagos, the Gossamer spider of Patagonia and the Australasian coral reefs – all...

When HMS Beagle sailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1831, Charles Darwin was twenty-two and setting off on the voyage of a lifetime. His journal, here reprinted in a shortened form, shows a naturalist...

Published: 27/09/1989
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140432688
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover: The Diversity of Life
By Edward O Wilson
In telling the amazing story of how life on earth came to be so diverse, distinguished scientist Edward O. Wilson defined a new environmental ethic – our obligation to conserve our ecosystems, not simply individual species. In an extensive new foreword to this classic work, he assesses the continuing threat that human activity poses to the Earth's rich biodiversity and, most importantly, explains...
In telling the amazing story of how life on earth came to be so diverse, distinguished scientist Edward O. Wilson defined a new environmental ethic – our obligation to conserve our ecosystems, not...
Published: 23/08/2001
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140291612
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover:  Darwin's Dangerous Idea
Published: 01/12/1996
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140167344
RRP: $27.95

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21 May 2012
2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) - winners

The Australian Book Industry Awards were held in Sydney on Friday night. It was a great night for Penguin with our books taking the top honors in four book categories including the prestigious Book of the Year. Congratulations also to Peg McColl, Kate McCormack and the rights team who won the International (Rights) Award for the second year running for Paul French's book Midnight in Peking. United Book Distributors were again named Distributor of the Year.

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