Evolution category: 1570 books
by Jean Guex
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
This book is the first of its kind, providing in-depth analysis of the retrograde evolution occurring during major extinction periods. The text offers a non-strictly adaptative explanation of repetition of phyla after the major extinctions, utilizing a study of seven phylogenetically distinct groups....
by Albert Churchwood
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
Where and when did man make his first appearance on this earth?
The object of this book is to bring before the public such further facts and values regarding the evolution of man. After studies Churchwood made during many years, he is now fully convinced that the hitherto preconceived ideas...
Spiderwebs and Silk
Tracing Evolution From Molecules to Genes to Phenotypes
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2003
This book links the molecular evolution of silk proteins to the evolution and behavioral ecology of web-spinning spiders and other arthropods. Craig's book draws together studies from biochemistry through molecular genetics, cellular physiology, ecology, and behavior to present an integrated understanding of an interesting biological system at the molecular and organizational levels.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
This anthology is a compilation of the best contributions from Symbolic Species Conferences I, II (which took place in 2006, 2007).
In 1997 the American anthropologist Terrence Deacon published The Symbolic Species: The Coevolution of Language and the Brain. The book is widely considered a...
The Evolution of Social Communication in Primates
A Multidisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
How did social communication evolve in primates? In this volume, primatologists, linguists, anthropologists, cognitive scientists and philosophers of science systematically analyze how their specific disciplines demarcate the research questions and methodologies involved in the study of the evolutionary...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Stephen J. Gould’s greatest contribution to science is a revised version of the theory of evolution which offers today a useful framework for understanding progress in many evolutionary fields. His intuitions about the conjunction of evolution and development, the role of ecological factors in speciation,...
Pioneers of Evolution
From Thales to Huxley
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2018
This book needs only brief introduction. It attempts to tell the story of the origin of the Evolution idea in Ionia, and, after long arrest, of the revival of that idea in modern times, when its profound and permanent influence on thought in all directions, and, therefore, on human relations and conduct,...
The Evolution of Culture
Volume IV
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Recent years have seen a transformation in thinking about the nature of culture. Rather than viewing culture in opposition to biology, a growing number of researchers now regard culture as subject to evolutionary processes. Recent developments in this field have shifted some of the traditional academic...
Genomes, Evolution, and Culture
Past, Present, and Future of Humankind
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This book combines recent information and discoveries in the field of human molecular biology and human molecular evolution. It provides an interdisciplinary approach drawing together data from various diverse disciplines to address both the more classical anthropological content and the current more...
Evolution and Ethics (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)
And Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
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 we must build it into our theories about human behavior. Even today, the attempt to...
Evolution of the Rodents: Volume 5
Advances in Phylogeny, Functional Morphology and Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
The widespread use of mouse models in developmental, behavioural and genetic studies has sparked wider interest in rodent biology as a whole. This book brings together the latest research on rodents to better understand the evolution of both living and extinct members of this fascinating group. Topics...
Efficient Cognition
The Evolution of Representational Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
An argument that representational decision making is more cognitively efficient, allowing an organism to adjust more easily to changes in the environment.
Many organisms (including humans) make decisions by relying on mental representations. Not simply a reaction triggered by perception, representational...
Adaptation in Metapopulations
How Interaction Changes Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
All organisms live in clusters, but such fractured local populations, or demes, nonetheless maintain connectivity with one another by some amount of gene flow between them. Most such metapopulations occur naturally, like clusters of amphibians in vernal ponds or baboon troops spread across the African...
Coevolution of Animals and Plants
Symposium V, First International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology, 1973
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
It has long been recognized that plants and animals profoundly affect one another’s characteristics during the course of evolution. However, the importance of coevolution as a dynamic process involving such diverse factors as chemical communication, population structure and dynamics, energetics,...