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"En hisnande spaningstur genom mänsklighetens historia ... Sapiens är full av aha-upplevelser och bygger på breda insikter i naturvetenskap, antropologi och samhällsvetenskap." Lars Linder, DN "Det är en väldigt underhållande, tanke...

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Comprehensive, up to date, and engaging, Science, Evolution, and Religion provides detailed coverage of the science-religion debate in contemporary culture and academia. The two authors, Michael Peterson and Michael Ruse, present theism and atheis...

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Resan med Beagle är Charles Darwins redogörelse för den världsomspännande upptäcktsfärd som satte honom på kurs mot evolutionsteorin. Den han senare skulle lägga fram i det epokgörande verket Om arternas uppkomst. När HMS Beagle lättade ankar från...

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Variation, selektion, ärftlighet. Evolutionsteorins tre grundbegrepp är också de bärande och ömsesidigt beroende principerna för alla livsformers utveckling. Deras samspel bestämmer arternas utveckling. Utan någon av dessa faktorer blir det ingen ...

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'A landmark in social thought. Henrich may go down as the most influential social scientist of the first half of the twenty-first century' MATTHEW SYED Do you identify yourself by your profession or achievements, rather than your family network? D...

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Brought to you by Penguin. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms o...

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As scientists study the minutiae of subatomic particles, neural connections, and molecular compounds, their attempts at a "theory of everything" harbor a glaring omission: they still cannot explain us, the thoughts and perceptions that t...

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De flesta människor funderar då och då över vad de tänker göra härnäst - och tar för givet att de inom vissa ramar har en viss vilje- och handlingsfrihet. Denna vardagsåsikt står emellertid inte högt i kurs bland dagens filosofer och vetenskapsmän...

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Exploring the potential for extraterrestrial life and the origins of our own planet, this comprehensive introduction to astrobiology is updated with the latest findings. Informed by the discoveries and analyses of extrasolar planets and the findin...

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Sapiens är en storslagen berättelse om människans ursprung, nutid och framtid. Historikern Yuval Noah Harari tar oss med från Homo sapiens första steg på jorden, då vi var ett däggdjur bland alla andra, till idag när vi står som världens obestridd...

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När vi talar om mänsklighetens historia handlar det alltid om stora ledare, folkvandringar och omvälvande krig. Men hur har själva jorden avgjort människans öde? Hur har planeten vi bor på skapat oss? Hur hänger Himalayas berg ihop med jordens ban...

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Discover humanity's past and its future in this in this special box set featuring Sapiens--a reading pick of President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg--and its acclaimed companion Homo Deus.

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'The who, what, where, when and how of human evolution, from one of the world's experts on the dating of prehistoric fossils' Steve Brusatte, author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs 'Fascinating and entertaining. If you read one book on human...

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An instant bestseller in 1859, few books have had such a revolutionary impact and left such a lasting impression as On the Origin of Species. Possibly the most important and challenging scientific book ever published, Darwin's language remains sur...

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När vi talar om mänsklighetens historia handlar det alltid om stora ledare, folkvandringar och omvälvande krig. Men hur har själva jorden avgjort människans öde? Hur har planeten vi bor på skapat oss? Hur hänger Himalayas berg ihop med jordens ban...

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The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a "compelling" (The Washington Post) account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, ...

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Vad är det som förenar näbbmusens hjärtfrekvens med utvecklingen av New Yorks tunnelbana? Varför går alla företag förr eller senare i konkurs? Och hur kan vi använda dessa insikter för att förutse framtiden? När Geoffrey West gav sig ut på jakt ef...

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A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER 'The best book on the history of life on Earth I have ever read' Tom Holland 'Epically cinematic... A book of almost unimaginable riches' Sunday Times This is the past as we've never seen it before. Otherlands is ...

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The 40th anniversary edition of the million copy international bestseller, with a new epilogue from the author. As relevant and influential today as when it was first published, this classic exposition of evolutionary thought, widely hailed for it...

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While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and other intoxicants, none have offered a comprehensive, convincing answer to the basic question of why humans want to get high in the first place. Drunk elegantly ...

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The first volume of the graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's global phenomenon and smash SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER. Featuring 256 pages of gorgeous full-colour illustrations and wrapped in a beautiful package. One hundred thousand years ago,...

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Discover the second volume of an epic, beautifully illustrated graphic history of humankind, based on Yuval Noah Harari's multi-million copy bestselling phenomenon. When nomadic Homo sapiens settled to live in one place, they started working harde...

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Huge advances in our ability to sequence ancient DNA have revolutionised what we know about the earliest human populations. David Reich explains the science, and tells the emerging story of our complex and often surprising ancestry - the extraordi...

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Evolutionsteorin och Darwins idéer om det naturliga urvalet sägs ofta vara den bästa idé någon någonsin fått. Men även om teorierna står starka på ett övergripande plan, så finns där många luckor och lösa trådar på några av livets riktigt stora fr...

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***30th Anniversary Edition*** 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 t...

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Charles Darwin's masterpiece, "On the Origin of Species", shook society to its core on publication in 1859. Darwin was only too aware of the storm his theory of evolution would provoke but he would surely have raised an incredulous eyebr...

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The New York Times bestselling author of Darwin's Doubt and Intelligent Design scholar presents groundbreaking scientific evidence of the existence of God, based on breakthroughs in physics, cosmology, and biology. In 2004, Stephen C. Meyer, one o...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE PHYSICS WORLD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 'One of the deepest and most original thinkers of his generation of cognitive scientists. His startling argument has implications for philosophy, science, and how we understand the world arou...

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Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have pro...

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If you want to know how we know what we know about dinosaurs, read this book! Steve Brusatte 'I defy anyone who is, like me, a non-scientist to read it and not feel a sense of wonder' Tom Holland, Guardian Startling new fossil finds are the lifebl...

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