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A Series of Fortunate Events: Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You by Sean B. Carroll
$34.99 NZD
Category: Science, Technology & Nature | Series: Princeton ANZ Paperbacks Ser.
Why is the world the way it is? How did we get here? Does everything happen for a reason or are some things left to chance? Philosophers and theologians have pondered these questions for millennia, but startling scientific discoveries over the past half century are revealing that we live in a world driv ...Show more
Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize by University Sean B Carroll (University of Wisconsin University of Wisconsin; Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of Wisconsin University of Wisconsin University of Wisconsin; Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of Wisconsin; Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The never-before-told account of the intersection of some of the most insightful minds of the 20th century, and a fascinating look at how war, resistance, and friendship can catalyze genius. In the spring of 1940, the aspiring but unknown writer Albert Camus and budding scientist Jacques Monod were quie ...Show more
Endless Forms Most Beautiful by Sean B. Carroll
$29.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Evo Devo is evolutionary development biology, the third revolution in evolutionary biology. The first was marked by the publication of The Origin of Species. The second occurred in the early 20th century, when Darwin's theories were merged with the study of genetics. Now the insights of Evo Devo a ...Show more
Endless Forms Most Beautiful by Sean B. Carroll
$59.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
What Brian Greene did for string theory in The Elegant Universe, leading biologist Sean Carroll does for Evo Devo. Evo Devo is evolutionary development biology, the third revolution in evolutionary biology. The first was marked by the publication of The Origin of Species. The second occurred in t ...Show more
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom by Sean B. Carroll
$29.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
We not only share nearly 99% of our genes with chimps, we also have some 35% in common with daffodils. Throughout much of the animal and even plant kingdoms, almost the same ancient genes code for almost the same proteins. And further, to everyone's astonishment, the genes involved in making the complex ...Show more
Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species by Sean B. Carroll
$28.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
In 1809, when Darwin was born, much of the world was an unexplored wilderness. Our knowledge of the past was nonexistent, and our picture of our species' history little more than a set of fantastic myths and fairytales. But a new era was dawning. Five decades later, On the Origin of the Species was able ...Show more
Remarkable Creatures: Epic adventures in the search for the origin of species by Sean B. Carroll
$37.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
In 1809, when Darwin was born, much of the world was an unexplored wilderness. Our knowledge of the past was nonexistent, and our picture of our species' history little more than a set of fantastic myths and fairytales. But a new era was dawning. Five decades later, On the Origin of the Species was able ...Show more
The Making of the Fittest : DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution by Sean B. Carroll
$39.99 NZD
Category: Science, Technology & Nature
Throw out your fossils
The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why it Matters by Sean B. Carroll
$64.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or fish in the ocean? How do our bodies produce the right numbers of cells in our organs and bloodstream? In The Serengeti Rules, award-winning biologist and author Sean Carroll tells the stories of ...Show more
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