Evolution category: 1570 books
Darwin's Walk and The Last Wave
Disappearing Landscapes, Declining Species
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
This book describes the reasons humankind may be facing its last moments on Planet Earth. Darwin marked the path of species evolution, modification, and extinction. Following Darwin’s trajectory of evolution, the author reveals how human-made technologies have had a devastating impact on Earth’s...
The Fractal Self
Science, Philosophy, and the Evolution of Human Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Our universe, science reveals, began in utter simplicity, then evolved into burgeoning complexity. Starting with subatomic particles, dissimilar entities formed associations—binding, bonding, growing, branching, catalyzing, cooperating—as “self” joined “other” following universal laws...
Sexual Selection and the Descent of Man
The Darwinian Pivot
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Just over one hundred and thirty years ago Charles Darwin, in The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871), developed remarkably accurate conclusions about man's ancestry, based on a review of general comparative anatomy and psychology in which he regarded sexual selection as a necessary...
by Jerry Fodor, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
What Darwin Got Wrong is a remarkable book, one that dares to challenge the theory of natural selection as an explanation for how evolution works---a devastating critique not in the name of religion but in the name of good science. Combining the results of cutting-edge work in experimental biology...
by Greg Morter, Niamh Brennan
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
Written by Greg Morter and Niamh Brennan.
Everyone has a story that tells us who they are, where they come from and how they came to be. Cultures, too, have their stories. Many of these we know as myths, as ancient ways of explaining how our world and its creatures came into existence. Throughout...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Non-mammalian synapsids were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates from the Late Carboniferous to the Middle Triassic and play a key role in understanding the origin and evolution of mammals. Despite these facts and the outstanding fossil record of the group, early synapsids remain obscure. This book...
Virtual Organisms
The Startling World of Artificial Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Harmless artificial life forms are on the loose on the Internet. Computer viruses and even robots are now able to evolve like their biological counterparts. Telecommunications companies are sending small packets of software to go forth and multiply to cope with ever-increasing telephone traffic. Protein-based...
The Arc of Life
Evolution and Health Across the Life Course
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Given the rapidly developing area of evolutionary medicine and public health, The Arc of Life examines ways in which research conducted by biological anthropologists can enrich our understanding of variation in human health outcomes. The book aims not only to showcase the perspective that biological...
Evolutionary Transitions to Multicellular Life
Principles and mechanisms
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
The book integrates our understanding of the factors and processes underlying the evolution of multicellularity by providing several complementary perspectives (both theoretical and experimental) and using examples from various lineages in which multicellularity evolved. Recent years marked an increased...
Spirit Guides from the Future
Communication over 1000 Million Years of Evolution – and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
The book is a telepathic communication between myself and Dar, a evolved human from 23 million years in the future, as well as several other guides, spiritual and otherwise, from various future time periods. Although most of the contact is through Dar, several of his companions, from various timelines...
Perspectives in Ethology
Evolution, Culture, and Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The relations between behavior, evolution, and culture have been a subject of vigorous debate since the publication of Darwin's The Descent of Man (1871). The latest volume of Perspectives in Ethology brings anthropologists, ethologists, psychologists, and evolutionary theorists together to reexamine...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
This book provides an up-to-date review of the biology of myxozoans, which represent a divergent clade of endoparasitic cnidarians. Myxozoans are of fundamental interest in understanding how early diverging metazoans have adopted parasitic lifestyles, and are also of considerable economic and ecological...
by Walter Parks
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The enduring question has been: "Where did Cain get his wife?"
The churches have not given an acceptable answer to this question. Their inability to answer this question creates great doubt as to the accuracy of the Bible. More and more Christians are giving up on defending the Bible.
It...
by Maria B. O'Hare
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
This book assesses the unjust suppression & more recent scientific vindication of the 'Original Founder of Evolution' Jean Baptiste Lamarck.
Not many know that Darwin himself was a Lamarckian as he believed that blindness in cave-fish was due to the disuse of their eyes brought about by finding...