Evolution category: 1570 books
by Herbert Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2018
The Data of Ethics is a fascinating exploration of the concepts of good and bad conduct, that looks at the problem from sociological, psychological, and biological viewpoints.
by James E. Garvey, Matt Whiles
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
This bookis a bridge between ecological paradigms – organismal/community approaches to food web dynamics and ecosystem-level approaches to production. The unification of organismal, community, and ecosystem approaches in ecology is emerging due to the growing availability of new techniques for assessing...
Hierarchy
Perspectives for Ecological Complexity
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Although complexity surrounds us, its inherent uncertainty, ambiguity, and contradiction can at first make complex systems appear inscrutable. Ecosystems, for instance, are nonlinear, self-organizing, seemingly chaotic structures in which individuals interact both with each other and with the myriad...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Movement, dispersal, and migration on land, in the air, and in water, are pervading features of animal life. They are performed by a huge variety of organisms, from the smallest protozoans to the largest whales, and can extend over widely different distance scales, from the microscopic to global....
Molt in Neotropical Birds
Life History and Aging Criteria
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Molt is an important avian life history event in which feathers are shed and replaced. The timing, duration, seasonality, extent and pattern of molt follows certain strategies and this book reviews and describes these strategies for nearly 190 species based on information gathered from a 30-year study...
by Janice Moore
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2002
When a parasite invades an ant, does the ant behave like other ants? Maybe not-and if it doesn't, who, if anyone, benefits from the altered behaviors? The parasite? The ant? Parasites and the Behavior of Animals shows that parasite-induced behavioral alterations are more common than we might realize,...
Engineering the Human
Human Enhancement Between Fiction and Fascination
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
The volume is collection of articles treating the topic of human improvement/enhancement from a variety of perspectives – philosophical, literary, medical, genetic, sociological, legal etc. The chapters in this volume treat not only those aspects that most immediately come to mind when one thinks...
El sello indeleble
Pasado, presente y futuro del ser humano
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Cómo la evolución nos ha diferenciado del resto de seres vivos: una apasionante investigación sobre qué nos hace humanos.
¿Por qué estamos los humanos en la Tierra y qué nos ha hecho diferentes de los chimpancés y de las demás especies que la pueblan? ¿Son muy antiguas las razas humanas?...
The Omnivorous Mind
Our Evolving Relationship with Food
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
In this gustatory tour of human history, Allen suggests that the everyday activity of eating offers deep insights into our cultural and biological heritage. Beginning with the diets of our earliest ancestors, he explores eating’s role in our evolving brain before considering our contemporary dinner plates and the preoccupations of foodies.
by J E Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
What is Life? Where did it come from? Where is it going? What are the characteristics of advanced lifeforms? What will life be like as it continues to evolve? What does this have to do with God?
Centuries ago, people conceptualized the existence of gods based on conjecture and observable phenomena....
History Within
The Science, Culture, and Politics of Bones, Organisms, and Molecules
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Personal genomics services such as 23andMe and Ancestry.com now offer what once was science fiction: the ability to sequence and analyze an individual’s entire genetic code—promising, in some cases, facts about that individual’s ancestry that may have remained otherwise lost. Such services draw...
Applied Evolutionary Anthropology
Darwinian Approaches to Contemporary World Issues
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
As a species, we are currently experiencing dramatic shifts in our lifestyle, family structure, health, and global contact. Evolutionary Anthropology provides a powerful theoretical framework to study such changes, revealing how current environments and legacies of past selection shape human diversity....
Life at Interfaces and Under Extreme Conditions
Proceedings of the 33rd European Marine Biology Symposium, held at Wilhelmshaven, Germany, 7–11 September 1998
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Interfaces between media, whether air-water or sediment-water interfaces or organisms themselves, pose considerable problems to marine organisms attempting to live at these boundaries.
In the present volume, a number of authors address various aspects of these two topics. Locations under scrutiny...
Biological Systematics
The state of the art
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
To some potential readers of this book the description of Biological System atics as an art may seem outdated and frankly wrong. For most people art is subjective and unconstrained by universal laws. While one picture, play or poem may be internally consistent comparison between different art products...