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Evolution

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84 books at Vernon O Content

Title Author Accession Location
Survival of the prettiest : the science of beauty / Nancy Etcoff Nancy Etcoff 10230 H:4
The 10,000 year explosion : how civilization accelerated human evolution Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending 3135 E:1
The accidental mind David J. Linden 6605 E:4
The accidental species : misunderstandings of human evolution Henry Gee 9497 D:4
The ape that spoke / John McCrone John McCrone 6601 F:2
The ape that understood the universe : how the mind and culture evolve / Steve Stewart-Williams Steve Stewart-Williams 22436 B:1
The art instinct : beauty, pleasure and human evolution / Denis Dutton Denis Dutton 2857 -
The botany of desire : a plant's eye view of the world / Michael Pollan Michael Pollan 11468 F:4
The creative spark : how imagination made humans exceptional / Agustín Fuentes Agustín Fuentes 12113 E:2
The dawn of human culture / Richard G. Klein with Blake Edgar Richard G. Klein, Blake Edgar 12659 G:2
The evolution of cultural entities Michael Wheeler, John Ziman, Margaret A. Boden 3422 F:2
The evolution of imagination / Stephen T. Asma Stephen T. Asma 12402 G:1
The fruit, the tree, and the serpent : why we see so well / Lynne A. Isbell Lynne A. Isbell 27654 -
The goodness paradox : how evolution made us both more and less violent / Richard Wrangham Richard Wrangham 14350 H:2
The human advantage : a new understanding of how our brain became remarkable / Susan Herculano-Houzel Suzana Herculano-Houzel 11677 D:3
The language puzzle : how we talked our way out of the Stone Age / Steven Mithen Steven J. Mithen 28791 -
The life of mammals / David Attenborough David Attenborough 10787 D:4
The magic of reality : how we know what's really true / Richard Dawkins, illustrated by Dave McKean Richard Dawkins, Dave McKean 9737 -
The memetics of music : a neo-Darwinian view of musical structure and culture / Steven Jan Steven Jan 7707 D:4
The mind in the cave : consciousness and the origins of art / David Lewis-Williams David Lewis-Williams 27660 F:3
The naked ape : a zoologist's study of the human animal / Desmond Morris Desmond Morris 27675 D:2
The prehistory of the mind : the cognitive origins of art, religion and science Steven J. Mithen 5452 E:3
The red queen : sex and the evolution of human nature / Matt Ridley Matt Ridley 5320 F:4
The singing Neanderthals : the origins of music, language, mind, and body / Steven Mithen Steven J. Mithen 27657 G:4
The social animal / W. G. Runciman W. G. Runciman 19868 H:4
The symbolic species : the co-evolution of language and the brain / Terrence Deacon Terrence Deacon 5455 -
The vision revolution : how the latest research overturns everything we thought we knew about human vision / Mark Changizi Mark Changizi 7337 H:1
The vital question : why is life the way it is? / Nick Lane Nick Lane 9469 B:2
The wisdom of the bones : in search of human origins / Alan Walker and Pat Shipman Alan Walker, Pat Shipman 21365 F:2
Thinking big : how the evolution of social life shaped the human mind Clive Gamble, John Gowlett, Robin Dunbar 7641 H:4
When the Earth was green : plants, animals, and evolution's greatest romance / Riley Black Riley Black 29851 E:2
Wonderful life : the Burgess Shale and the nature of history / Stephen Jay Gould Stephen Jay Gould 30603 -
Your inner fish : a journey into the 3.5 billion year history of the human body Neil Shubin 3955 E:1
Yuck!: the nature and moral significance of disgust Daniel Kelly 4511 E:1