Animal Behavior: An Evolutionary Approach
This 7th edition of Animal Behavior has been completely rewritten, resulting in a more compact text. Notable is the inclusion, for the first time, of … Read more
Revolutionary
L’orologiaio cieco. Creazione o evoluzione?
L’evoluzione sostiene Dawkins in questo saggio cieca: non vede dinanzi a s, non pianifica nulla, non si pone alcun fine. Eppure, come un maestro orologiaio, … Read more
La vita inaspettata. Il fascino di un’evoluzione che non ci aveva previsto
Interrogato da un teologo su quale fosse la caratteristica pi spiccata di Dio creatore, il biologo inglese J.B.S.Haldane rispose: “Una smodata predilezione per i coleotteri”. … Read more
Climbing mount improbable
Arguing fiercely that the perfection of the human body is the result of improbable mutation, a prominent Darwinian uses the metaphor of a climb up … Read more
Charles Darwin’s Letters: A Selection, 1825-1859
Charles Darwin stands as a towering figure in science, who changed the direction of modern thought in establishing the basis of evolutionary biology. These letters … Read more
The organic codes: an introduction to semantic biology
The genetic code appeared on Earth with the first cells. The codes of cultural evolution arrived almost four billion years later. These are the only … Read more
The French Revolution: Faith, Desire, And Politics
Now in its second edition, The French Revolution: Faith, Desire, and Politics has been updated to include a discussion about how the actions by soldiers … Read more
East Africa after Liberation: Conflict, Security and the State since the 1980s
Between 1986 and 1994, East Africa’s postcolonial, political settlement was profoundly challenged as four revolutionary ‘liberation’ movements seized power in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Uganda. … Read more
Voices of 1968 documents from the global north
The year 1968 witnessed one of the great upheavals of the twentieth century, as social movements shook every continent. Across the Global North, people rebelled … Read more
God’s instruments: political conduct in the England of Oliver Cromwell /
None The Puritan Revolution escaped the control of its creators. The parliamentarians who went to war with Charles I in 1642 did not want or … Read more