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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.

A Theory of Everyone

The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going

by Michael Muthukrishna

ISBN: 9780262048378

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 3, 2023

A blueprint for a better future that offers a unified theory of human behavior, culture, and society.

Properties of Life

Toward a Theory of Organismic Biology

by Bernd Rosslenbroich

ISBN: 9780262546201

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 19, 2023

A coherent and comprehensive theory of life that synthesizes the specific properties of living organisms.

The Foundations of Population Genetics

by Daniel M. Weinreich

ISBN: 9780262047579

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 29, 2023

An accessible but rigorous treatment of the theoretical foundations of population genetics.

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

A unique exploration of teleonomy—also known as “evolved purposiveness”—as a major influence in evolution by a broad range of specialists in biology and the philosophy of science.

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

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

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.