A major reimagining of how evolutionary forces work, revealing how mating preferences—what Darwin termed “the taste for the beautiful”—create the extraordinary range of ornament in the animal world. In the great halls of science, dogma holds that Darwin’s theory of natural selection explains every branch on the tree of life: which species thrive, which wither away to extinction...(展开全部)

查尔斯•科克尔（Charles S. Cockell），英国爱丁堡大学天体生物学教授，英国天体生物学中心主任。多年来，他致力于对恶劣条件下的生命特征、外星生物的宜居性，以及太空探索和移居等课题的研究。他曾在美国国家航空航天局和英国南极观测站工作，对北极和南极以及其他恶劣天气环境下的生命特征都有研究，发表过300多篇论文和多部著作。

Professor John Maynard Smith has written an account of a new way of thinking about evolution which has been developed in the last ten years. The theory of games, first developed to analyse economic behaviour, is modified so that it can be applied to evolving populations. John Maynard Smith's concept of an evolutionarily stable strategy is relevant whenever the best thing for an...(展开全部)

A fascinating exploration of the extreme world of animal athletics, how these stunning abilities have evolved, and their insights into human performance and evolution How is it that fish can climb waterfalls, snakes glide, and cheetahs run so fast? Natural and sexual selection has driven the evolution of diverse and amazing athletic abilities throughout the animal kingdom. Inte...(展开全部)

阿德里安·李斯特（Adrian Lister） 英国伦敦自然历史博物馆地球科学部研究负责人，古生物研究专家，出版多部著作，在对达尔文的化石研究方面做出了许多重要贡献。

阿德里安·李斯特（Adrian Lister） 英国伦敦自然历史博物馆地球科学部研究负责人，古生物研究专家，出版多部著作，在对达尔文的化石研究方面做出了许多重要贡献。

进化生物学家，从事动物武器相关研究20余年。 蒙大拿大学教授，曾在普林斯顿大学获得博士学位。 曾获“美国青年科学家与工程师总统奖”和“爱德华•威尔逊博物学家奖”。

The story behind the stunning, extreme weapons we see in the animal world--teeth and horns and claws--and what they can tell us about the way humans develop and use arms and other weapons In Animal Weapons, Doug Emlen takes us outside the lab and deep into the forests and jungles where he’s been studying animal weapons in nature for years, to explain the processes behind the mo...(展开全部)

One of the best descriptions of the nature and implications of Darwinian evolution ever written, it is firmly based in biological information and appropriately extrapolated to possible applications to engineering and cultural evolution. Dennett's analyses of the objections to evolutionary theory are unsurpassed. Extremely lucid, wonderfully written, and scientifically and philo...(展开全部)

This work assesses Darwin's theory of evolution and looks at why it arises such heated debate among scientists, philosophers and sociologists. The book aims to show that Darwinism does not devalue the miracles of life.