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Our Ancient Lakes

Our Ancient Lakes

Our Ancient Lakes

A Natural History

by Jeffrey McKinnon

ISBN: 9780262047852

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 17, 2023

The unexpected diversity, beauty, and strangeness of life in ancient lakes—some millions of years old—and the remarkable insights the lakes are yielding about the causes of biodiversity.
Properties of Life

Properties of Life

Properties of Life

Toward a Theory of Organismic Biology

by Bernd Rosslenbroich

ISBN: 9780262546201

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 19, 2023

Forthcoming from the MIT Press
The Foundations of Population Genetics

The Foundations of Population Genetics

The Foundations of Population Genetics

by Daniel M. Weinreich

ISBN: 9780262047579

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 29, 2023

Forthcoming from the MIT Press
Evolution "On Purpose"

Evolution "On Purpose"

Evolution "On Purpose"

Teleonomy in Living Systems

Edited by Peter A. Corning, Stuart A Kauffman, Denis Noble, James A. Shapiro, Richard I. Vane-Wright and Addy Pross

ISBN: 9780262546409

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 22, 2023

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Explaining Life through Evolution

Explaining Life through Evolution

Explaining Life through Evolution

by Prosanta Chakrabarty

ISBN: 9780262546256

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 8, 2023

A broad overview of the science of evolution, and why understanding it matters in our everyday lives.
Evolvability

Evolvability

Evolvability

A Unifying Concept in Evolutionary Biology?

Edited by Thomas F. Hansen, David Houle, Mihaela Pavličev and Christophe Pélabon

ISBN: 9780262545624

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: June 27, 2023

Essays on evolvability from the perspectives of quantitative and population genetics, evolutionary developmental biology, systems biology, macroevolution, and the philosophy of science.
Efficient Cognition

Efficient Cognition

Efficient Cognition

The Evolution of Representational Decision Making

by Armin W. Schulz

ISBN: 9780262546737

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: November 1, 2022

An argument that representational decision making is more cognitively efficient, allowing an organism to adjust more easily to changes in the environment.
Rethinking Human Evolution

Rethinking Human Evolution

Rethinking Human Evolution

Edited by Jeffrey H. Schwartz

ISBN: 9780262546744

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: November 1, 2022

Contributors from a range of disciplines consider the disconnect between human evolutionary studies and the rest of evolutionary biology.
Imperfection

Imperfection

Imperfection

A Natural History

by Telmo Pievani

Translated by Michael Gerard Kenyon

Foreword by Ian Tattersall

ISBN: 9780262047418

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 11, 2022

In praise of imperfection: how life on our planet is a catalog of imperfections, errors, alternatives, and anomalies.
The Evolution of Agency

The Evolution of Agency

The Evolution of Agency

Behavioral Organization from Lizards to Humans

by Michael Tomasello

ISBN: 9780262047005

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 6, 2022

A leading developmental psychologist proposes an evolutionary pathway to human psychological agency.
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