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The Social Conquest of Earth.
Why Evolution Is True. The Evolution of Beauty. Our Planet's Fight for Life.
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The Future of Life. Through the Lens of Anthropology. An Appeal to Save Life on Earth. The Princeton Guide to Ecology. Principles of Ecological Landscape Design. A Brain For All Seasons. A New Environmental Ethics. Thinking Like a Mountain. In Search of Nature. Foundations of Ecological Resilience. Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet. The End of the Wild. Living in a Dangerous Climate.
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The Beak of the Finch. Protecting Life on Earth. Chapter-by-Chapter Summary and Commentary. The Origin Then and Now. A Life From Beginning to End. Design for Human Ecosystems. Dominance and Aggression in Humans and Other Animals. Social Anthropology and Human Origins.
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The Ecology of Place. Close Encounters with Humankind: When the Invasion of Land Failed. Politics as If Evolution Mattered. The Ethics of Species. Introduction to Population Ecology. What Comes After Homo Sapiens?
How to write a great review. Those and countless other examples of prey-predator behaviors, mating strategies and responses to unpredictable challenges in marine, fresh water, island and continental environs reinforce the analogy Vermeij makes between adaptation and scientific hypothesis-making—endeavors that are provisional and subject to revision in light of new circumstances.
The author draws on his immense background in geology and biology to develop surprising, and arguable, analogies between types of adaptation in nature and the development of language, legal systems and economies.
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