Nicholas Wade

Life Script: How the Human Genome Discoveries Will Transform Medicine and Enhance Your Health

von Nicholas Wade

With the decoding of the human genome, researchers can now read the script in which evolution has written the program for the design and operation of the human body. A new generation of medical treatments is...

The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures

von Nicholas Wade

A New York Times science reporter makes a startling new case that religion has an evolutionary basis.

For the last 50,000 years, and probably much longer, people have practiced religion. Yet little attention...

Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors

von Nicholas Wade

Nicholas Wade’s articles are a major reason why the science section has become the most popular, nationwide, in the New York Times. In his groundbreaking Before the Dawn, Wade reveals humanity’s origins as...

Visual Perception: An Introduction, 3rd Edition

von Nicholas Wade & Mike Swanston

Does the world appear the same to everyone? Does what we know determine what we see? Why do we see the world as we do?

Vision is our most dominant sense. From the light that enters our eyes to the complex cognitive...