Maestripieri, Dario.

Summary: A primatologist examines unspoken social customs, from jilting a lover to being competitive on the job, to explain how behavioral complexities are linked to humans' primate heritage.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2012

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Cambridge Singers

Contents: Evening prayers -- In pace (5:16) -- Libera no, salva nos (3:49) / John Sheppard -- Justorum animae / Orlande de Lassus (3:06) -- Pater noster / Jacob Handl (4:22) -- O Lord, the maker of all thing / William Mundy (2:51) -- Visita, quaesumus domine / William Byrd (5:04) -- Abendlied / Josef Rheinberger (3:23) -- Evening Hymns -- O Christ who art the light and day / William Byrd (4:25) -- O...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Collegium Records 2006

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Murray, Charles A

Summary: All people are equal but, as Human Diversity explores, all groups of people are not the same -- a fascinating investigation of the genetics and neuroscience of human differences. The thesis of Human Diversity is that advances in genetics and neuroscience are overthrowing an intellectual orthodoxy that has ruled the social sciences for decades. The core of the orthodoxy consists of three dogmas:...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2020

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Gee, Henry

Contents: Preface : no more missing links -- An unexpected party -- All about evolution -- Losing it -- The Beowulf effect -- Shadows of the past -- The human error -- The way we walk -- The dog and the atlatl -- A cleverness of crows -- The things we say -- The way we think -- Afterword : the tangled bank.

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 2013

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Summary: This volume provides a general overview of evolution, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, and an introduction to the relevant fossil record. It also explores relevant theories and refinements in human traits and culture, and the emergence of Homo sapiens as a modern species.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Britannica Educational Publishing in Association with Rosen Educational Services 2016

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Lieberman, Daniel

Summary: A Harvard evolutionary biologist presents an engaging discussion of how the human body has evolved over millions of years, examining how an increasing disparity between the needs of Stone Age bodies and the realities of the modern world are fueling a paradox of greater longevity and chronic disease.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2013

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King's College (University of Cambridge)

Contents: CD One. All my hope on God is founded (5:05) -- Morning has broken (1:50) -- Psalm 122: I was glad / Richard Woodward (2:13) -- Totus tuus / Henryk Górecki (8:55) -- The truth from above / Ralph Vaughan Williams (2:30) -- The lamb / John Tavener (3:32) -- Hail, gladdening light / Charles Wood (3:31) -- Psalm 84: O, how amiable / Hubert Parry (3:39) -- Come down, O Love divine (3:44) -- If ye...

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Publisher / Publication Date: EMI Classics 2005

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Summary: "This unrivaled illustrated guide to human evolution brings you face-to-face with your ancient ancestors. Traveling back in time almost eight million years, the book charts the development of our species, Homo sapiens, from tree-dwelling primates to modern humans. Evolution investigates each of our ancestors in detail and in context, from the anatomy of their bones to the environment they lived...

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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2018

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Hakim, Joy

Summary: "Can species change? Or go extinct? In the eighteenth century, most people answer no to both questions. But in the century that follows, that certainty gets challenged as some people in Europe question the common belief that all creatures are the same as they've been since life's creation. The Evolution of an Idea, the second volume of Discovering Life's Story, opens with the Swedish naturalist...

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Publisher / Publication Date: MITeen Press, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2024

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Dunn, Rob R.

Summary: "Biologist Rob Dun grew up listening to stories of the Mississippi River, how it flooded his grandfather's town of Greenville, swallowing up the townsfolk and leaving behind a muddy wasteland. Years later, Dunn discovered the cause of the great deluge. The Army Corps of Engineers had tried to straighten the river, cutting off its meandering oxbows in order to allow for the easy passage of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021

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Cambridge Singers

Contents: Music of the Latin rite: Ave Maria / Robert Parsons (4:25). Loquebantur variis linguis / Thomas Tallis (3:53). Miserere mei / William Byrd (3:46). Haec dies / William Byrd (2:23). Ave verum corpus / William Byrd (3:39) -- Music of the Reformation: If ye love me / Thomas Tallis (2:08). Hide not thou thy face / Richard Farrant (1:15). Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake / Richard Farrant (1:53). O...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Collegium 1988

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Denworth, Lydia

Summary: "An engaging and deeply reported investigation of friendship: its evolution, purpose, and centrality in human and nonhuman lives alike. The bonds of friendship are universal and elemental. In Friendship, journalist Lydia Denworth visits the front lines of the science of friendship in search of its biological, psychological, and evolutionary foundations. Finding it to be as old as life on the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2020

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Boyd, Brian

Contents: Introduction: animal, human, art, story -- Book 1: Evolution, art, and fiction -- Part 1: Evolution and nature -- Evolution and human nature? -- Evolution, adaptation, and adapted minds -- The evolution of intelligence -- The evolution of cooperation -- Part 2: Evolution and art -- Art as adaptation? -- Art as cognitive play -- Art and attention -- From tradition to innovation -- Part 3:...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2009

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Tattersall, Ian

Summary: Argues that a long tradition of "human exceptionalism" in paleoanthropology has distorted the picture of human evolution. Drawing partly on his own career-- from young scientist in awe of his elders to crotchety elder statesman-- Tattersall offers an idiosyncratic look at the competitive world of paleoanthropology, beginning with Charles Darwin 150 years ago, and continuing through the Leakey...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2015

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Losos, Jonathan B.

Summary: "Earth's natural history is full of fascinating instances of convergence: phenomena like eyes and wings and tree-climbing lizards that have evolved independently, multiple times. But evolutionary biologists also point out many examples of contingency, cases where the tiniest change--a random mutation or an ancient butterfly sneeze--caused evolution to take a completely different course. What...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017

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Keys, Barbara J.

Summary: The American commitment to international human rights emerged in the 1970s not as a logical outgrowth of American idealism but as a surprising response to national trauma, as Barbara Keys shows in this provocative history. Reclaiming American Virtue situates this novel enthusiasm as a reaction to the profound challenge of the Vietnam War and its tumultuous aftermath. Instead of looking inward...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2014

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