Evolution category: 1570 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
One of the most profound paradigms that have transformed our understanding about life over the last decades was the acknowledgement that microorganisms play a central role in shaping the past and present environments on Earth and the nature of all life forms. Each organism is the product of its history...
How Evolution Explains Everything About Life
From Darwins brilliant idea to todays epic theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
How did we get here? It's the journey of a lifetime.
All cultures have a creation story, but a little over 150 years ago Charles Darwin introduced a revolutionary new one. We, and all living things, exist because of the action of evolution on the first simple life form and its descendants.
We...
Animal Evolution
Genomes, Fossils, and Trees
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2009
Animal life, now and over the past half billion years, is incredibly diverse. Describing and understanding the evolution of this diversity of body plans - from vertebrates such as humans and fish to the numerous invertebrate groups including sponges, insects, molluscs, and the many groups of worms...
by Dr. C. H. E. Sadaphal
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
The current scientific consensus champions evolution by natural selection as an indisputable fact. Resultantly, many tell us where the facts lead, but when actually examining the alleged evidence, what one unearths is quite shocking—that from the very beginning, the theory of evolution was built...
Evolution or Creation?
A Comparison of the Arguments - Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
Have you ever wondered how the universe originated or whether the universe always existed? Have you ever wondered how life began on earth? Have you ever heard others discuss origins but felt unable to contribute to the conversation? Would you like to defend your views but feel unequipped or inadequate...
Reticulate Evolution
Symbiogenesis, Lateral Gene Transfer, Hybridization and Infectious Heredity
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Written for non-experts, this volume introduces the mechanisms that underlie reticulate evolution. Chapters are either accompanied with glossaries that explain new terminology or timelines that position pioneering scholars and their major discoveries in their historical contexts. The contributing...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
The immune systems of human and non-human primates have diverged over time, such that some species differ considerably in their susceptibility, symptoms**,** and survival of particular infectious diseases. Variation in primate immunity is such that major human pathogens - such as immunodeficiency...
The New Foundations of Evolution
On the Tree of Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
This is the story of a profound revolution in the way biologists explore life's history, understand its evolutionary processes, and reveal its diversity. It is about life's smallest entities, deepest diversity, and greatest cellular biomass: the microbiosphere. Jan Sapp introduces us to a new field...
Evolution
A Developmental Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
This book is aimed at students taking courses on evolution in universities and colleges. Its approach and its structure are very different from previously-published evolution texts. The core theme in this book is how evolution works by changing the course of embryonic and post-embryonic development....
by Bruce Alpine
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Since 1859, Charles Darwin’s theory on evolution by natural selection has opened the worlds eyes to the method evolution works, clarifying evolutionary theory, of which, every finding and fossil discovery since has confirmed the simple method outlined by Darwin in his Best selling publication. Placing...
Evolution and Senses
Opsins, Bitter Taste, and Olfaction
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
This book focuses on sensing and the evolution of animals. Using the five senses (visual, auditory, and olfactory perception, and taste and touch), animals can receive environmental stimuli and respond to them. Changes in these sensitivities might cause changes in aspects of animals’ lives such...
Evolution and Transitions in Complexity
The Science of Hierarchical Organization in Nature
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
This book discusses several recent theoretic advancements in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary integration in the field of evolution. While exploring novel views, the text maintains a close link with one of the most broadly held views on evolution, namely that of “Darwinian evolution.”
This...
by S. K. Sinha
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
It is important to note that Darwin’s book “The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection” did two things. It summarized all of the evidence in favour of the idea that all organisms have descended with modification from a common ancestor, and thus built a strong case for evolution. In...
by Guillaume Guinot, Sebastien Enault, Gilles Cuny
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Chondrichthyans possess unique anatomical features compared to other vertebrates, in particular a fully cartilaginous skeleton and a permanently renewed dentition. These characteristics make the fossilization of whole bodies difficult and consequently their fossil record consists mainly of a large...