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Summary: "They are the most iconic animals on Planet Earth - voracious crocodiles, acrobatic birds, majestic elephants, stupendous whales. To see them is to marvel - and to ask a surprisingly challenging question: Where did these amazing creatures come from? Traveling millions of years into the past, we unravel these iconic creatures' lineage - a story full of twists and turns, punctuated by dramatic...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WHE

Summary: Journey back 15,000 years to trace humankind's incredible journey through time. Beginning with humanity's exodus from the Ice Age and chronicling milestones such as hunter-gatherer, farmer, builder, and city organizer. Reveals how humankind managed to survive and conquer the world. Explores the motivation of early humankind and its epic transformation to reveal the inspiring story of he...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2008

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BIR

Peters, Lisa Westberg.

Summary: Relates the evolution of the family of mankind, from single cells in the sea to human beings with "big brains that wonder who we are."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2003

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PET

Wilson, David Sloan

Summary: David Sloan Wilson, one of the world’s leading evolutionists, addresses a question that has puzzled philosophers, psychologists, and evolutionary biologists for centuries: Does altruism exist naturally among the Earth’s creatures? The key to understanding the existence of altruism, Wilson argues, is by understanding the role it plays in the social organization of groups. Groups that function...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576 WIL

Ben-Barak, Idan

Summary: "What is life? How did it start? Long, long ago, no one knows exactly where or when, a tiny bubble formed that was a Little Bit Different. It was the first living cell. Everyone's ancestor. And so the story of life begins."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 576.8 BEN

Summary: Transcendent Man explores the theories of inventor, futurist, and best selling author Ray Kurzweil (The Singularity Is Near), who predicts that in the not-so-distant future, the science fiction behind The Terminator, Blade Runner, Total Recall, The Matrix, and I Robot will become science fact. The film follows Kurzweil as he journeys the world sharing his mind-bending vision of a future in...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama Films 2011

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRA

Emera, Deena

Summary: "Knowledge is the most powerful weapon. As the female body is constantly being politicized and policed, it is now more than ever that people must understand the inner workings of women's body. Written by an evolutionary geneticist, Deena Emera, Ph.D., in an accessible, nonjudgmental tone, A Brief History of the Female Body unravels misconceptions women have about their own bodies and supplies...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.6 EME

Riddle, A. G.

Summary: In Marbella, Spain, Dr. Kate Warner awakens to a horrifying reality: the human race stands on the brink of extinction. A pandemic unlike any before it has swept the globe. Nearly a billion people are dead--and those the Atlantis Plague doesn't kill, it transforms at the genetic level. A few rapidly evolve. The remainder devolve. As the world slips into chaos, radical solutions emerge....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kindle Direct Publishing] 2013

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RID

Hirsch, Rebecca E.

Summary: "Find out the latest discoveries in stars and galaxies with animated 3D models that bring space alive in augmented reality."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 523 HIR

Riddle, A. G.

Summary: Dr. Kate Warner left California for Jakarta, Indonesia to escape her past. She has yet to put her life back together, but she has made a remarkable discovery: a cure for autism. But when two children in her research study are abducted, Kate is plunged into a world of intrigue and conspiracies. She quickly learns that her work is not what it seems. Her research could rewrite everything we know...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: A.G. Riddle 2014

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RID

Summary: How do humans influence changes in other species? Has Homo sapiens itself stopped evolving? This program explores natural selection as an ongoing phenomenon, showing how evolutionary processes continue to shape the future of all life on Earth. Exploring the competition for resources, territory, and mates that occurs in any ecosystem, the video illustrates how species differentiation takes...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009

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Riddle, A. G.

Summary: Northern Morocco: Dr. Kate Warner cured a global pandemic, and she thought she could cure herself. She was wrong. And she was wrong about the scope of the Atlantis conspiracy. Humanity faces a new threat, an enemy beyond imagination. With her own time running out and the utter collapse of human civilization looming, a new hope arrives: a coded message from a potential ally. Arecibo Observatory:...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: A.G. Riddle 2014

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RID

Kurzweil, Ray

Summary: "This successor volume to The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will refashion the human race in the decades to come. In this entirely new book, Ray Kurzweil brings a fresh perspective to advances in the singularity-assessing the progress of many of his predictions and examining the novel advancements that, in the near future, will bring a revolution in knowledge and an expansion of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 612.8 KUR

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Science Kurzweil

Summary: Follows British psychiatrist Dr. Iain McGilchrist as he meets champions and critics of his theory that our brains are becoming imbalanced, with the left hemisphere gaining power as its ambitions are supported by the Western world, while making it harder to deal with important economic, environmental, and social issues.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DIV

Bohannon, Cat

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "In Eve, Cat Bohannon answers questions scientists should have been addressing for decades. With boundless curiosity and sharp wit, Bohannon covers the past 200 million years to explain the specific science behind the development of the female sex. Eve is not just a sweeping revision of human history, it's an urgent and necessary corrective for a world that has focused primarily on the male...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023

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Turner, Pamela S.

Summary: "A celebrated science writer draws upon the most recent discoveries in paleoarchaeology and evolutionary biology to present the seven most important steps leading to Homo sapiens"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2022

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.93 TUR

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.93 TUR

Knight, Robert N.

Summary: "An introduction to stars with information about their formation and life cycle. Includes diagrams, fun facts, glossary, resource list, and index"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: World Book 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 523.8 KNI

Panafieu, Jean-Baptiste de

Summary: "A paleontologist and a storyteller take two children through the birth of our planet to the present day, covering major geological periods and the evolution of life on Earth"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 576.8 PAN

Parker, Steve

Summary: A Brief Illustrated History of Life on Earth' charts the evolution of living species all the way from 2.5 billion years ago, through the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods and right through to today. With stunning full-color images and illustrations, this beautiful book is sure to fascinate and charm the young reader.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2017

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 576 PAR

Summary: When On the Origin of Species appeared in 1859, it quickly took hold in the popular imagination-but it also glossed over significant and rather disturbing questions. This program explores Darwin's ideas on human evolution, which he developed and made public toward the end of his life. Science interpreter Jim Doherty reveals how Darwin searched for parallels between humans and animals through a...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009

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Claybourne, Anna

Summary: "What makes a fish a fish? Why do giraffes have such long necks? How can all living things, from plants, tigers, and mushrooms to dragonflies, octopuses, and humans, be related? Evolution holds the answers to these, and many more, questions about life on Earth. This book explores what evolution is, how it works, and who discovered its secrets. It shows the journey of life, from the very first,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ivy Kids 2019

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 576.8 CLA

Eiseley, Loren C.

Summary: "A paleontologist with the spirit of a poet."--publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 EIS

Wilson, Edward O.

Summary: An acclaimed biologist discusses how morality, religion, and the creative arts are biological in nature and defends his theory that the origin of the human condition is due to group, not family, selection.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Pub. Corporation 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.93 WIL

Summary: An epic detective story that offers a gripping expose on why the world is so unequal. Professor Jared Diamond traveled the globe for over 30 years trying to answer this question. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book. Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? Diamond dismantles racially based theories of human...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2005

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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GUN

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