Los diez grandes inventos de la evolución

Making knowledge about evolution available to everyone, this simple and entertaining book offers answers to the most frequently asked questions. Throughout the text, the reader is reminded of the importance of understanding evolutionary processes in order to approach present day human behavior, including social conduct, as well as the difficulty of trying to decipher the nature of modern human beings without going back to their zoological origin. Divided into two sections, the first one builds the foundation for the latter, which explains the evolution of life, beginning at the physical...

Biographies and bibliographies of members are included in many of the volumes. Lists of members are usually given on covers of the numbers.

El hombre que confundió a su mujer con un sombrero se convirtió inmediatamente en un clásico y consagró a Oliver Sacks como «uno de los grandes escritores clínicos del siglo» (The New York Times). En este libro, Oliver Sacks narra veinte historiales médicos de pacientes perdidos en el mundo extraño y aparentemente irremediable de las enfermedades neurológicas. Se trata de casos de individuos, aquejados por inauditas aberraciones de la percepción que han perdido la memoria, y con ella, la mayor parte de su pasado; que son incapaces de reconocer a sus familiares o los objetos...

Biographies and bibliographies of members are included in many of the volumes. Lists of members are usually given on covers of the numbers.