Toomey, David
Summary: "For readers of Inside of a Dog and The Soul of an Octopus, a fascinating, charming, and revelatory look at the science behind why animals play that shows how life--at its most fundamental level--is playful. In Kingdom of Play, critically acclaimed science writer David Toomey takes us on a fast-paced and entertaining tour of playful animals and the scientists who study them. From octopuses on...
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Summary: "Brian Hare, dog researcher, evolutionary anthropologist, and founder of the Duke Canine Cognition Center, and Vanessa Woods offer revolutionary new insights into dog intelligence and the interior lives of our smartest pets. In the past decade, we have learned more about how dogs think than in the last century. Breakthroughs in cognitive science, pioneered by Brian Hare have proven dogs have a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 HARBen-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."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 576.8 BENWest, Geoffrey B.
Summary: "From one of the most influential scientists of our time, a dazzling exploration of the hidden laws that govern the life cycle of everything from plants and animals to the cities we live in. The former head of the Sante Fe Institute, visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent systems and networks. The term "complexity" can be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIT Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.8 PENSummary: When a species stakes a claim in new surroundings, it often spells bad news for the native flora and fauna. This program presents invasive species case studies and highlights methods for ousting such unwanted guests. Viewers visit Florida's Gasparilla Island, where a burgeoning black iguana population of Guatemalan ancestry has wrecked ecological havoc. Diving into the Great Lakes, the program...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Eiseley, Loren C.
Summary: "A paleontologist with the spirit of a poet."--publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2016
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Summary: "A modern Thoreau explores the mysteries of the universe."--publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 EISGladstone, James
Summary: Describes the formation of planet Earth, from its beginnings as molten rock and poison gas, to the formation of oceans, to the evolution of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books Inc. 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 525 GLAChopra, Deepak.
Summary: "... two great thinkers battle over the cosmos, evolution and life, the human brain, and God, probing the fundamental questions that define the human experience"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 576 PARSummary: Long ago, the oceans were home to all living things. Then some creatures moved ashore. But how? This program outlines the stages of natural selection that enabled water-dwelling animals and plants to survive, and then thrive, on land. Key evolutionary innovations such as exoskeletons and endoskeletons, legs and feet, cold blood and warm blood, lungs, hard-shelled eggs, fur, and live young are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Theberge, John B.
Summary: The authors examine what the mechanisms of evolution are and how they work. With examples from the very latest discoveries in genetics and ones they have made in their own field work, "The Ptarmigan's Dilemma" "is a ground-breaking explanation of evolution for non-scientists--and a look at the rich diversity of life on Earth that's under threat today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McClelland & Stewart 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.8 THETurner, J. Scott
Summary: "SUNY professor, biologist, and physiologist J. Scott Turner argues that modern Darwinism's materialist and mechanistic biases have led to a scientific dead end, unable to define what life is--and only an openness to the qualities of "purpose and desire" will move the field forward. Turner surveys the history of evolutionary thought, identifying "purpose and desire" as the keys to a coherent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 570 TURMeyer, Stephen C.
Summary: Charles Darwin knew that there was a significant event in the history of life that his theory did not explain. In what is known today as the "Cambrian explosion," 530 million years ago many animals suddenly appeared in the fossil record without apparent ancestors in earlier layers of rock. In Darwin's Doubt Stephen C. Meyer tells the story of the mystery surrounding this explosion of animal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.8 MEYChristi, Nicolya.
Summary: "A practical guide to conscious evolution for personal, spiritual, and global transformation Provides spiritual practices to manifest a meaningful connection between Self and God/Source/Creator and psychological exercises to heal the shadow self Offers an in-depth overview of religion and spirituality, both the old paradigm and the evolving new one Includes the first fully written account of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 204 CHRFortey, Richard A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.8 FORShubin, Neil
Summary: "The author of the best-selling Your Inner Fish now gives us a lively and accessible account of the great transformations in the history of life, that enable us to further understand whether our presence on this planet is an accident or inevitable. The great transformations in the history of life brought about whole scale shifts in how animals live and how their bodies are organized: the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.8 SHUAttenborough, David
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1979
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 575 ATTENDartnell, Lewis
Summary: "Being Human is history made flesh. It will change the way you see the world. We are a wonder of evolution. Powerful yet dextrous, instinctive yet thoughtful, we are expert communicators and innovators. Our exceptional abilities have created the civilisation we know today. But we're also deeply flawed. Our bodies break, choke and fail, whether we're kings or peasants. Diseases thwart our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Bodley Head 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 DARSummary: 160 million years ago, a massive lava flow in China's Junggar Basin resulted in an eerily preserved "community" akin to the ruins of Pompeii-in this case, not a scene of human domesticity but a spectacular dinosaur graveyard. This program explores the site and evokes one of the most exciting questions in paleontology: how and why did dinosaurs become gigantic? Viewers are shown specimens from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: The oceans are life's laboratory, the global test tube where trial and error meet cause and effect. By focusing on pivotal animals-ammonites, flatworms, sea squirts, frog fish, and bottlenose dolphins, to name only five-and anatomical adaptations such as the eye, the brain, the backbone, and fins, this program illustrates how life populated the seas. Evidence of humankind's evolutionary past is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Renowned paleontologist Jack Horner has spent his career trying to reconstruct a dinosaur. He's found fossils with extraordinarily well-preserved blood vessels and soft tissue, but never intact DNA. Trying a new approach, Horner has now been taking living descendants of the dinosaur - chickens - and genetically engineering them to reactivate ancestral traits. In this TEDTalk, Horner discusses...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011