In this updated edition of A New Science of Life, Rupert Sheldrake presents further evidence for his controversial theory of morphic resonance--the observation that past behavior influences present organisms, unconfined by time and space
Wills shares with us some of the extraordinary sights he has seen, exploring each time the evolutionary processes that underlie the beauty and diversity of the wildlife
Former Natural History Museum (London) paleontologist Fortey gives us the stories of those plants, animals, and other creatures that have survived from Earth's early days - the planet's "true marathon runners"
Reveals how recurring patterns in nature are accounted for by a single governing principle of physics, explaining how all designs in the world from biological life to inanimate systems evolve in a sequence of ever-improving designs that facilitate flow
An explorer and environmentalist offers a natural history of the Earth as well as a biography of the human species
A guide to a key scientific concept explores the origins and impact of Darwin's theory of evolution, from the first attempts to date fossils to the modern-day mapping and coding of DNA using supercomputers