Ralph Adolphs is the Bren Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Biology at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Director of the Caltech Brain Imaging Center. He is the coeditor of Living without an Amygdala. David J. Anderson is the Seymour Benzer Professor of Biology and Director of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience at the California Institute of Technology and an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical...

Les perspectives évolutionnistes de la musique. Le temps est loin o l'homme pensait que les étoiles du ciel avaient été créées pour le guider sur la terre. Et, pourtant, la querelle entre les tenants du créationisme et la science biologique de Darwin, fondée sur l'évolution des espèces, resurgit parfois encore entre ceux qui ne parviennent pas à discerner entre mythe et démarche scientifique. Cent cinquante ans après la publication de...

This book discusses the trends that produced a modern brain. In the second part, I inserted the scientific arguments that indicate that the Homo Sapiens brain encountered, a fundamental transformation that led, to a new and mentally distinct species.

Athena Aktipis is associate professor in the Department of Psychology and at the Arizona Cancer Evolution Center at Arizona State University and cofounder of the International Society for Evolution, Ecology and Cancer. She is also the host of the science podcast Zombified and the producer of Channel Zed. Twitter @AthenaAktipis A fundamental and groundbreaking reassessment of how we view and manage cancer When we think of the forces driving cancer,...

"Winner of the PROSE Award in Single Volume Reference/Biological Science, Association of American Publishers" Bryan N. Danforth is professor of entomology at Cornell University. Robert L. Minckley is senior lecturer in biology at the University of Rochester. John L. Neff is director of the Central Texas Melittological Institute. The most up-to-date and authoritative resource on the biology and evolution of solitary bees While social bees such as...

'If the globe is warming, is mankind responsible, or is the sun?' Such a statement does not appear out of place in Bethell's entertaining account of how modern science is politically motivated and in desperate need of oversight. Bethell writes in a compulsively readable style, and although he provides legitimate insight into the potential benefits of nuclear power and hormesis, some readers will be turned off when he attempts to disprove global warming...

How did we make the leap from ancient hunter-gatherers to modern consumers and traders? Why do people get so emotional and irrational about bottom-line financial and business decisions? Is the capitalist marketplace a sort of Darwinian organism, evolved through natural selection as the fittest way to satisfy our needs? In this eye-opening exploration, author and psychologist Michael Shermer uncovers the evolutionary roots of our economic behavior. Drawing...

Could "UFOs" and "Aliens" simply be us from the future? This provocative new book cautiously examines the premise that extraterrestrials may instead be our distant human descendants, using the anthropological tool of time travel to visit and study us in their own hominin evolutionary past. Dr. Michael P. Masters, a professor of biological anthropology specializing in human evolutionary anatomy, archaeology, and biomedicine, explores how the persistence...

À l'occasion du bicentenaire de la naissance du naturaliste anglais Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) et des 150 ans de sa publication de l'Origine des espèces (1859) mais aussi des 200 ans de laPhilosophie zoologique (1809) du Français Jean-Baptiste de Monet de Lamarck... À PROPOS DE L'ENCYCLOPAEDIA UNIVERSALIS Reconnue mondialement pour la qualité et la fiabilité incomparable de ses publications, Encyclopaedia Universalis met la connaissance...