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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley
$26.95 AUD
Category: Science
The genome's been mapped. But what does it mean?Arguably the most significant scientific discoveru of the new century, the mapping of the twenty-three pairs of chromosomes that make up the human genome raises almost as many questions as it answers. Questions that will profoundly impact the way we think ...Show more
Nature Via Nurture - Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human by Matt Ridley
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
Acclaimed author Matt Ridley's thrilling follow-up to his bestseller Genome. Armed with the extraordinary new discoveries about our genes, Ridley turns his attention to the nature versus nurture debate to bring the first popular account of the roots of human behaviour. What makes us who we are? In Febru ...Show more
Nature Via Nurture: Genes, experience and what makes us human by Matt Ridley
$24.95 AUD
Category: Science
Acclaimed author Matt Ridley's thrilling follow-up to his bestseller Genome. Armed with the extraordinary new discoveries about our genes, Ridley turns his attention to the nature versus nurture debate to bring the first popular account of the roots of human behaviour. What makes us who we are?In Februa ...Show more
The Evolution of Everything - How small changes transform our world by Matt Ridley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Human society evolves. Change in technology, language, morality, and society is incremental, inexorable, gradual, and spontaneous. It follows a narrative, going from one stage to the next, and it largely happens by trial and error--a version of natural selection. Much of the human world is the result of ...Show more
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Business
Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction 2011. Life is on the up. We are wealthier, healthier, happier, kinder, cleaner, more peaceful, more equal and longer-lived than any previous generation. Thanks to the unique human habits of exchange and specialisation, our species has found in ...Show more
The Red Queen by Matt Ridley
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
Sex is as fascinating to scientists as it is to the rest of us. A vast pool of knowledge, therefore, has been gleaned from research into the nature of sex, from the contentious problem of why the wasteful reproductive process exists at all, to how individuals choose their mates and what traits they find ...Show more
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