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Our Ancient Lakes
A Natural History
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
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
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
The Foundations of Population Genetics
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
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
Explaining Life through Evolution
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?
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
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
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
A Natural History
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.

Our Ancient Lakes
A Natural History
ISBN: 9780262047852
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 17, 2023
A Theory of Everyone
The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going
ISBN: 9780262048378
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 3, 2023
Properties of Life
Toward a Theory of Organismic Biology
ISBN: 9780262546201
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 19, 2023
The Foundations of Population Genetics
The Foundations of Population Genetics
ISBN: 9780262047579
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 29, 2023
Evolution "On Purpose"
Teleonomy in Living Systems
ISBN: 9780262546409
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 22, 2023
Explaining Life through Evolution
Explaining Life through Evolution
ISBN: 9780262546256
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 8, 2023
Evolvability
A Unifying Concept in Evolutionary Biology?
ISBN: 9780262545624
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 27, 2023
Efficient Cognition
The Evolution of Representational Decision Making
ISBN: 9780262546737
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 1, 2022
Rethinking Human Evolution
ISBN: 9780262546744
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 1, 2022
Imperfection
A Natural History
ISBN: 9780262047418
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 11, 2022