Evolution category: 1570 books
Mechanisms of Life History Evolution
The Genetics and Physiology of Life History Traits and Trade-Offs
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
Life history theory seeks to explain the evolution of the major features of life cycles by analyzing the ecological factors that shape age-specific schedules of growth, reproduction, and survival and by investigating the trade-offs that constrain the evolution of these traits. Although life history...
Evolution
Study Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2014
Evolution logically begins with a consideration of the structure and evolutionary role of DNA. The unit recognizes that evolutionary change occurs as a result of both natural and artificial mechanisms. Human activity promoting changes is examined as well as the impacts of agents such as genetic drift...
SuperCooperators
Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
EVOLUTION IS OFTEN PRESENTED AS A STRICTLY COMPETITIVE ENDEAVOR. This point of view has had serious implications for the way we see the mechanics of both science and culture. But scientists have long wondered how societies could have evolved without some measure of cooperation. And if there was cooperation...
Designer Genes
A New Era in the Evolution of Man
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
This compelling new book covers the most important revolution since Darwin—how cutting-edge genetic science will soon allow us to speed up and transform our own evolution, and the moral choices we must make as we improve, alter, and even duplicate ourselves.
The fact is that, until now, human...
Evolution and Belief
Confessions of a Religious Paleontologist
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Can a scientist believe in God? Does the ongoing debate between some evolutionists and evangelicals show that the two sides are irreconcilable? As a paleontologist and a religious believer, Robert Asher constantly confronts the perceived conflict between his occupation and his faith. In the course...
Evolution's Wedge
Competition and the Origins of Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Evolutionary biology has long sought to explain how new traits and new species arise. Darwin maintained that competition is key to understanding this biodiversity and held that selection acting to minimize competition causes competitors to become increasingly different, thereby promoting new traits...
The Evolution of Moral Progress
A Biocultural Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
In The Evolution of Moral Progress, Allen Buchanan and Russell Powell resurrect the project of explaining moral progress. They avoid the errors of earlier attempts by drawing on a wide range of disciplines including moral and political philosophy, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, anthropology,...
by Gillian Ross
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2016
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." Albert Einstein. The current crises besetting humanity call for a revolution in consciousness and a mystical renaissance that will bring about a whole new story of what it means...
by Paul Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
The theory of evolution is just smoke and mirrors . This short examines the details/circumstances of evolution that support that conclusion. When you look at the details and circumstances, evolution is not possible.
Living with Darwin
Evolution, Design, and the Future of Faith
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2007
Charles Darwin has been at the center of white-hot public debate for more than a century. In Living With Darwin, Philip Kitcher stokes the flames swirling around Darwin's theory, sifting through the scientific evidence for evolution, Creation Science, and Intelligent Design, and revealing why evolution...
by Masatoshi Nei, Sudhir Kumar
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2000
During the last ten years, remarkable progress has occurred in the study of molecular evolution. Among the most important factors that are responsible for this progress are the development of new statistical methods and advances in computational technology. In particular, phylogenetic analysis of...
The Dynamic Genome
A Darwinian Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
Our ever-increasing knowledge of whole genome sequences is unveiling a variety of structures and mechanisms that impinge on current evolutionary theory. The origin of species, the evolution of form, and the evolutionary impact of transposable elements are just a few of the many processes that have...
by Nobody!
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
"Nobody Knows Evolution!: Bulldogs, Rottweilers and the Intelligent Designers" unifies science, religion and mysticism in a way that is sure to irritate everybody!
“Nobody! drags Darwin’s theory kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century. It's a hole-in-one!” Nobody...
Evolution in a Toxic World
How Life Responds to Chemical Threats
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
With BPA in baby bottles, mercury in fish, and lead in computer monitors, the world has become a toxic place. But as Emily Monosson demonstrates in her groundbreaking new book, it has always been toxic. When oxygen first developed in Earth's atmosphere, it threatened the very existence of life: now...