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What Is Intelligence?

Lessons from AI About Evolution, Computing, and Minds

by Blaise Agüera y Arcas

ISBN: 9780262049955

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 23, 2025

What intelligence really is, and how AI’s emergence is a natural consequence of evolution.

The Urban Naturalist

How to Make the City Your Scientific Playground

by Menno Schilthuizen

Illustrated by Jono Nussbaum

ISBN: 9780262049092

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 1, 2025

A manifesto—and a field guide—for a new dawn of natural history, practiced by community scientists in their own urban jungle.

What Is Life?

Evolution as Computation

by Blaise Agüera y Arcas

ISBN: 9780262554091

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 11, 2025

What life is, and how its essence can be understood as computation that grows more complex over time in symbiotic relationships.

Rock, Bone, and Ruin

An Optimist's Guide to the Historical Sciences

by Adrian Currie

ISBN: 9780262552035

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: May 21, 2024

An argument that we should be optimistic about the capacity of “methodologically omnivorous” geologists, paleontologists, and archaeologists to uncover truths about the deep past.

Hedgehogs, Killing, and Kindness

The Contradictions of Care in Conservation Practice

by Laura McLauchlan

ISBN: 9780262548106

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: May 14, 2024

How our understanding of and relationship to hedgehogs reveals the complex interactions between culture, technology, bodies, conservation, and care for other animals.

Tenacious Beasts

Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals

by Christopher J. Preston

ISBN: 9780262548335

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 5, 2024

An inspiring look at wildlife species that are defying the odds and teaching important lessons about how to share a planet.

Imperfection

A Natural History

by Telmo Pievani

Translated by Michael Gerard Kenyon

Foreword by Ian Tattersall

ISBN: 9780262548359

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 6, 2024

In praise of imperfection: how life on our planet is a catalog of imperfections, errors, alternatives, and anomalies.

Methuselah's Zoo

What Nature Can Teach Us about Living Longer, Healthier Lives

by Steven N. Austad

ISBN: 9780262547178

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 15, 2023

Stories of long-lived animal species—from thousand-year-old tubeworms to 400-year-old sharks—and what they might teach us about human health and longevity.