Evolution category: 1570 books
Why Humans Cooperate
A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2007
Cooperation among humans is one of the keys to our great evolutionary success. Natalie and Joseph Henrich examine this phenomena with a unique fusion of theoretical work on the evolution of cooperation, ethnographic descriptions of social behavior, and a range of other experimental results. Their...
by D. George Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
PROCESSES AND PERSPECTIVES deals with the evolution/creation issue, but in a different manner from the usual mainstream works. As a retired professional biologist and Christian, I defend Darwins basic concepts of natural selection and disagree with the creationists perspective on Darwin in general...
The Bare Bones
An Unconventional Evolutionary History of the Skeleton
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
What can we learn about the evolution of jaws from a pair of scissors? How does the flight of a tennis ball help explain how fish overcome drag? What do a spacesuit and a chicken egg have in common? Highlighting the fascinating twists and turns of evolution across more than 540 million years, paleobiologist...
by Bernard Marcus
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2011
The function of scientific research is promoting the understanding of the world around us. In theory, anyway, the more we learn, the more potential we have of making our lives better. Thus, we have seen research in electronics provide us with computers, research in chemistry provide us with all manner...
by Bud Stark
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2015
This book is an attempt to reestablish a hope that the universe is somehow directed, among students of evolution who have turned to atheism. To do that, one must confront Richard Dawkins of Oxford University. He holds the atheistic command in the battle between random biological evolution and biological...
Habitability of the Universe before Earth
Astrobiology: Exploring Life on Earth and Beyond (series)
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Habitability of the Universe before Earth: Astrobiology: Exploring Life on Earth and Beyond (series) examines the times and places—before life existed on Earth—that might have provided suitable environments for life to occur, addressing the question: Is life on Earth de novo, or derived from previous...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
The study of animal communication has led to significant progress in our general understanding of motor and sensory systems, evolution, and speciation. However, one often neglected aspect is that signal exchange in every modality is constrained by noise, be it in the transmission channel or in the...
by Adnan Oktar (Harun Yahya)
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
Ever since it was first put forward, certain materialist circles have attempted to portray the theory of evolution as scientific fact. in fact, however, the theory, which claims that life emerged as the result of chance processes, has been utterly disproved by all branches of science. Over the 150...
First Life
Discovering the Connections between Stars, Cells, and How Life Began
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
This pathbreaking book explores how life can begin, taking us from cosmic clouds of stardust, to volcanoes on Earth, to the modern chemistry laboratory. Seeking to understand life’s connection to the stars, David Deamer introduces astrobiology, a new scientific discipline that studies the origin...
The Extended Phenotype
The Long Reach of the Gene
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
In The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins crystallized the gene's eye view of evolution developed by W.D. Hamilton and others. The book provoked widespread and heated debate. Written in part as a response, The Extended Phenotype gave a deeper clarification of the central concept of the gene as the unit...
Plant Genome Diversity Volume 1
Plant Genomes, their Residents, and their Evolutionary Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
In this timely new 2-volume treatise, experts from around the world have banded together to produce a first-of-its-kind synopsis of the exciting and fast moving field of plant evolutionary genomics. In Volume I of Plant Genome Diversity, an update is provided on what we have learned from plant genome...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Ever since the pioneering work of Darwin and Wallace, evolutionary biologists have attempted to understand the evolutionary dynamics of genetic systems. A range of theories on evolutionary ratesfrom static to gradual to punctuated to quantumhave been developed, primarily by comparing morphological...
Mammals from the Age of Dinosaurs
Origins, Evolution, and Structure
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2004
The fossil record on Mesozoic mammals has expanded by orders of magnitude over the past quarter century. New specimens, some of them breathtakingly complete, have been found in nearly all parts of the globe at a rapid pace. Coupled with the application of new scientific approaches and techniques,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
This comprehensive A to Z encyclopedia provides extensive coverage of important scientific terms related to improving our understanding of how we evolved. Specifically, the 5,000 entries in this two-volume set cover evidence and methods used to investigate the relationships among the living great...