"Biophilia" is the term coined by Edward O. Wilson, author of The Diversity of Life and winner of two Pulitzer prizes, to describe what he believes is our innate affinity for the natural world. In his landmark book Biophilia, he examined how our tendency
How do new species evolve? Although Darwin identified inherited variation as the creative force in evolution, he never formally speculated where it comes from. His successors thought that new species arise from the gradual accumulation of random mutations
Half a century ago, before the discovery of DNA, the Austrian physicist and philosopher Erwin Schrödinger inspired a generation of scientists by rephrasing the fascinating philosophical question: What is life? Using their expansive understanding of recen
Although Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution laid the foundations of modern biology, it did not tell the whole story. Most remarkably, The Origin of Species said very little about, of all things, the origins of species. Darwin and his modern successors
Microcosmos brings together the remarkable discoveries of microbiology of the past two decades and the pioneering research of Dr. Margulis to create a vivid new picture of the world that is crucial to our understanding of the future of the planet. Address
La gran aventura humana: el viaje a la felicidad. Todas las claves sobre una búsqueda esencial en nuestras vidas.La búsqueda de la felicidad es una de las grandes aventuras humanas. Tal como explica Eduardo Punset en el prólogo, el viaje a la felicidad
Con la maestría que le caracteriza, Eduardo Punset nos enseña todo lo que la ciencia del cerebro puede aportar a nuestra vida cotidiana. En este libro descubriremos que, contrariamente a lo que se creía hasta hace poco, los procesos de aprendizaje modi
