Evolution category: 1570 books
Serpentine
The Evolution and Ecology of a Model System
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
Serpentine soils have long fascinated biologists for the specialized floras they support and the challenges they pose to plant survival and growth. This volume focuses on what scientists have learned about major questions in earth history, evolution, ecology, conservation, and restoration from the...
How Men Age
What Evolution Reveals about Male Health and Mortality
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
While the health of aging men has been a focus of biomedical research for years, evolutionary biology has not been part of the conversation—until now. How Men Age is the first book to explore how natural selection has shaped male aging, how evolutionary theory can inform our understanding of male...
Evolution and Ethics (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
And Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Although dubbed “Darwin’s bulldog,” Thomas Huxley did not think the doctrine of evolution could give us a sense of ethics. He felt an evolutionary account of our origins must take morality quite seriously, and...
Proving Darwin
Making Biology Mathematical
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Groundbreaking mathematician Gregory Chaitin gives us the first book to posit that we can prove how Darwin’s theory of evolution works on a mathematical level.
For years it has been received wisdom among most scientists that, just as Darwin claimed, all of the Earth’s life-forms evolved...
Cultural Phylogenetics
Concepts and Applications in Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
This book explores the potential and challenges of implementing evolutionary phylogenetic methods in archaeological research, by discussing key concepts and presenting concrete applications of these approaches.
The volume is divided into two parts: The first covers the theoretical and conceptual...
by Aron Ra
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Religious fundamentalists and biblical literalists present any number of arguments that attempt to disprove evolution. Those with a sympathetic ear often fail to critically examine these creationist claims, leading to an ill-informed public and, perhaps more troubling, ill-advised public policy. As...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
This book includes the most essential contributions presented at the 17th Evolutionary Biology Meeting in Marseille, which took place in September 2013. It consists of 18 chapters organized according to the following categories:
· Molecular and Genome Evolution
· ...
The Biology of the Avian Respiratory System
Evolution, Development, Structure and Function
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
The central focus of this book is the avian respiratory system. The authors explain why the respiratory system of modern birds is built the way it is and works the way that it does. Birds have been and continue to attract particular interest to biologists. The more birds are studied, the more it is appreciated...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
All animals and plants form associations with hundreds or thousands of different beneficial microorganisms. These symbiotic microbes play an important role in the development, adaptation, health and evolution of their hosts. This book brings together a group of diverse biologists to discuss microbial...
by John W. Judd
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2015
When the history of the Nineteenth Century--'the Wonderful Century,' as it has, not inaptly, been called--comes to be written, a foremost place must be assigned to that great movement by which evolution has become the dominant factor in scientific progress, while its influence has been felt in every...
The Origins of Order
Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 1993
Stuart Kauffman here presents a brilliant new paradigm for evolutionary biology, one that extends the basic concepts of Darwinian evolution to accommodate recent findings and perspectives from the fields of biology, physics, chemistry and mathematics. The book drives to the heart of the exciting debate...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2010
I first became involved in research into primate behavior and ecology in 1968, over 40 years ago, driven by a quest for a better understanding of the natural context of primate evolution. At that time, it was virtually unknown that primates can exploit exudates as a major food source. I was certainly...
Darwin's Apple
The Evolutionary Biology of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Darwin’s Apple proposes a new explanation for the origin and purpose of religion within the incontrovertible theory of evolution. It describes how religion is biologically adaptive and genetically evolved through the co-evolution of religion, ritual, and advanced human cognition.
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Sketches of Nature
A Geneticist's Look at the Biological World During a Golden Era of Molecular Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
This visually appealing book recounts the history of molecular ecology and evolution as seen through the personal lens of one of its most prolific practitioners, who has studied a panorama of creatures ranging from corals, sponges, and other invertebrates to a wide variety of vertebrate animals including...