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Becoming Martian
How Living in Space will Change our Bodies and Minds
ISBN: 9780262051514
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 17, 2026
How living in space will affect future generations—and what the potential unintended consequences of space settlements are.
Rethinking Cancer
A New Paradigm for the Postgenomics Era
ISBN: 9780262054348
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 9, 2025
Leading scientists argue for a new paradigm for cancer research, proposing a complex systems view of cancer supported by empirical evidence.
Bird Brains and Behavior
A Synthesis
ISBN: 9780262552738
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 5, 2025
From two avian neurobiologists, a captivating deep dive into the mechanisms that control avian behavior.
Principles of Biological Autonomy, a new annotated edition
Principles of Biological Autonomy
ISBN: 9780262551403
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 13, 2025
A new, updated edition of the 1979 classic from one of the foremost authors in cognitive science and theoretical biology, with the original text as well as more than 200 citations to current scientific developments.
Feminism in the Wild
How Human Biases Shape Our Understanding of Animal Behavior
ISBN: 9780262049634
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 11, 2025
How dominant culture—from sexism and homophobia to racism, capitalism, ableism, and more—has limited the science of animal behavior, and how we can free ourselves from these limited perspectives.
Laws of Human Behavior
Steps Toward Hard Science
ISBN: 9780262550895
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 4, 2025
How scientific studies of human behavior can be replicated with the consistency and rigor characteristic of the physical sciences, yielding scientific “laws.”
Gain of Function
ISBN: 9780262551359
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 25, 2025
How a small number of risky experiments creates many unwieldy problems for life science research.
Mathematics in Biology
ISBN: 9780262049405
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 18, 2025
A concise but rigorous textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students across the biological sciences that provides a foundation for understanding the methods used in quantitative biology.
Darwinizing Gaia
Natural Selection and Multispecies Community Evolution
ISBN: 9780262549523
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 3, 2024
A reinterpretation of James Lovelock's Gaia Hypothesis through the lens of Darwinian natural selection and multispecies community evolution.
Father Nature
The Science of Paternal Potential
ISBN: 9780262048934
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 1, 2024
How and why human males evolved the capacity to be highly involved caregivers—and why some are more involved than others.
Becoming Martian
How Living in Space will Change our Bodies and Minds
ISBN: 9780262051514
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 17, 2026
How living in space will affect future generations—and what the potential unintended consequences of space settlements are.
Rethinking Cancer
A New Paradigm for the Postgenomics Era
ISBN: 9780262054348
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 9, 2025
Leading scientists argue for a new paradigm for cancer research, proposing a complex systems view of cancer supported by empirical evidence.
Bird Brains and Behavior
A Synthesis
ISBN: 9780262552738
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 5, 2025
From two avian neurobiologists, a captivating deep dive into the mechanisms that control avian behavior.
Principles of Biological Autonomy, a new annotated edition
Principles of Biological Autonomy
ISBN: 9780262551403
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 13, 2025
A new, updated edition of the 1979 classic from one of the foremost authors in cognitive science and theoretical biology, with the original text as well as more than 200 citations to current scientific developments.
Feminism in the Wild
How Human Biases Shape Our Understanding of Animal Behavior
ISBN: 9780262049634
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 11, 2025
How dominant culture—from sexism and homophobia to racism, capitalism, ableism, and more—has limited the science of animal behavior, and how we can free ourselves from these limited perspectives.
Laws of Human Behavior
Steps Toward Hard Science
ISBN: 9780262550895
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 4, 2025
How scientific studies of human behavior can be replicated with the consistency and rigor characteristic of the physical sciences, yielding scientific “laws.”
Gain of Function
ISBN: 9780262551359
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 25, 2025
How a small number of risky experiments creates many unwieldy problems for life science research.
Mathematics in Biology
ISBN: 9780262049405
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 18, 2025
A concise but rigorous textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students across the biological sciences that provides a foundation for understanding the methods used in quantitative biology.
Darwinizing Gaia
Natural Selection and Multispecies Community Evolution
ISBN: 9780262549523
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 3, 2024
A reinterpretation of James Lovelock's Gaia Hypothesis through the lens of Darwinian natural selection and multispecies community evolution.
Father Nature
The Science of Paternal Potential
ISBN: 9780262048934
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 1, 2024
How and why human males evolved the capacity to be highly involved caregivers—and why some are more involved than others.