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    Selfish Genes to Social Beings

    Jonathan Silvertown

    Selfish Genes to Social Beings is a new history of life told from a different perspective: cooperation. Beginning with the heroic story of rescuers in the post-earthquake rubble of Mexico…

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    99% Ape: How Evolution Adds Up

    In his lifetime, Charles Darwin was roundly mocked for suggesting that humans were descended from apes, and even in our own day, the teaching of evolution remains controversial. But in…

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    Fragine Web: What Next for Nature

    Presents an exploration of the past, present and future of nature’s remarkable diversity and how humans can impact upon its uncertain future. This title explains how species are formed, including…

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    The Comedy of Error: Why Evolution Made Us Laugh

    Jonathan Silvertown

    What is humor? Why do we laugh? And why is the root of a good joke almost always error?

    Good jokes, bad jokes, clever jokes, dad jokes–the desire to laugh…

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    The Comedy of Error: Why evolution made us laugh

    Jonathan Silvertown

    What is humour? Why do we laugh? And how can we be funnier?

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    Demons in Eden: The Paradox of Plant Diversity

    Jonathan Silvertown

    Explores the diversity of plant life in regions such as Japan, the Royal Botanical Gardens, Florida, southeast Mexico, and, the Canary Islands. This book looks closely at the evolution of…

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    An Orchard Invisible: A Natural History of Seeds

    Jonathan Silvertown

    Presents the seed with the natural history it deserves. This book delves into the science of seeds: How and why do some lie dormant for years on end? How did…

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    An Orchard Invisible: A Natural History of Seeds

    Jonathan Silvertown

    The story of seeds, in a nutshell, is a tale of evolution. This book presents the oft-ignored seed with the natural history it deserves, one nearly as varied and surprising…

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    The Long and the Short of It

    Jonathan Silvertown

    Everything that lives will die. That’s the fundamental fact of life. But not everyone dies at the same age. A giant fungus found in Michigan has been alive since the…

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    Dinner with Darwin: Food, Drink, and Evolution

    Jonathan Silvertown

    What do eggs, flour, and milk have in common? They form the basis of waffles, of course, but these staples of breakfast bounty also share an evolutionary function: eggs, seeds…

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    Demons in Eden: The Paradox of Plant Diversity

    Jonathan W. Silvertown

    Explores the diversity of plant life in regions such as Japan, the Royal Botanical Gardens, Florida, southeast Mexico, and, the Canary Islands. This book looks closely at the evolution of…

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    Dinner with Darwin: Food, Drink, and Evolution

    Jonathan Silvertown (The Open University)

    What do eggs, flour, and milk have in common? They form the basis of crepes of course, but they also each have an evolutionary purpose. Eggs, seeds (from which flour…

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    Introduction to Plant Population Biology

    Jonathan Silvertown (Senior Biology Lecturer),Deborah Charlesworth

    Integrating the fields of plant population ecology, population genetics and evolutionary biology, this text developed from many years of teaching experience. Updated and revised, this illustrated edition includes new material…

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    Integrating Ecology and Evolution in a Spatial Context: 14th Special Symposium of the British Ecological Society

    The profound consequences of the deceptively obvious statement that plants stand still but their genes don’t are only just becoming clear. In this volume, international experts in the field of…

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    Sex in City Plants, Animals, Fungi, and More: A Guide to Reproductive Diversity

    Kenneth D. Frank

    This book explores the natural history of sex in urban bacteria, fungi, plants, and nonhuman animals. Kenneth D. Frank illuminates the reproductive behavior of scores of species.

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    Sex in City Plants, Animals, Fungi, and More: A Guide to Reproductive Diversity

    Kenneth D. Frank

    This book explores the natural history of sex in urban bacteria, fungi, plants, and nonhuman animals. Kenneth D. Frank illuminates the reproductive behavior of scores of species.

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    Plant Life Histories: Ecology, Phylogeny and Evolution

    Plants life forms are diverse. This book is aimed at understanding how that diversity evolved, and how it affects the modern-day ecology of plants. It is aimed at students and…

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