Evolution list 42

Darwin and Evolution: Bullet Guides

by James Napier
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011

What's in this book? Open this book and you will... - Improve communication - Foster development - Establish goals - Encourage success Learn how to be a mentor: - Understanding mentoring - The mentoring process - Successful mentoring relationships - Skills for successful mentors and mentees - Common...

Against All Odds: For Thinkers Only

by Bill Smiley
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012

Do you like being deceived? Certainly not! Sometimes the treachery is so subtle we don't even know we've been duped. Nor are we aware of the full consequences of the betrayal. For decades, the battle between evolution and creation has raged: evolutionists decry creation; creationists...

High Altitude Primates

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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013

The basic goal of the volume is to compile the most up to date research on how high altitude affects the behavior, ecology, evolution and conservation status of primates, especially in comparison to lowland populations. Historically, the majority of primate studies have focused on lowland populations....

The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants

by Charles Darwin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Chapter One begins: "I was led to this subject by an interesting, but short paper by Professor Asa Gray on the movements of the tendrils of some Cucurbitaceous plants. My observations were more than half completed before I learnt that the surprising phenomenon of the spontaneous revolutions of the stems...

Ammonoid Paleobiology: From macroevolution to paleogeography

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Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015

This two-volume work is a testament to the abiding interest and human fascination with ammonites. We offer a new model to explain the morphogenesis of septa and the shell, we explore their habitats by the content of stable isotopes in their shells, we discuss the origin and later evolution of this...

Phylogenomic Data Acquisition

Principles and Practice

by W. Bryan Jennings
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016

Phylogenomics is a rapidly growing field of study concerned with using genome-wide data—usually in the form of DNA sequence loci—to infer the evolution of genes, genomes, and the Tree of Life. Accordingly, this discipline connects many areas in biology including molecular and genomic evolution,...

The Science of Human Evolution

Getting it Right

by John H. Langdon
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016

This textbook provides a collection of case studies in paleoanthropology demonstrating the method and limitations of science. These cases introduce the reader to various problems and illustrate how they have been addressed historically. The various topics selected represent important corrections...

Divergence with Genetic Exchange

by Michael L. Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015

The study of genetic exchange resulting from natural hybridization, horizontal gene transfer, and viral recombination has long been marked by controversy between researchers holding different conceptual frameworks. Those subscribing to a doctrine of 'species purity' have traditionally been reluctant...

Cells in Evolutionary Biology

Translating Genotypes into Phenotypes - Past, Present, Future

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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018

This book is the first in a projected series on Evolutionary Cell Biology, the intent of which is to demonstrate the essential role of cellular mechanisms in transforming the genotype into the phenotype by transforming gene activity into evolutionary change in morphology. This book —Cells in Evolutionary...

The Foundations of the Origin of Species

by Charles Darwin
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2015

We know from the contents of Charles Darwin’s Note Book of 1837 that he was at that time a convinced Evolutionist. Nor can there be any doubt that, when he started on board the Beagle, such opinions as he had were on the side of immutability. When therefore did the current of his thoughts begin...

Sex, Time, and Power

How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution

by Leonard Shlain
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2004

As in the bestselling The Alphabet Versus the Goddess, Leonard Shlain’s provocative new book promises to change the way readers view themselves and where they came from. Sex, Time, and Power offers a tantalizing answer to an age-old question: Why did big-brained Homo sapiens suddenly emerge...

The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex - Vol. I.

by Charles Robert Darwin
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013

This is a book on evolutionary theory by the famous English naturalist, Charles Darwin. It succeeds his 1859 thesis 'On the Origin of Species', wherein he explores the idea of natural selection. In this text, he attempts to apply his evolutionary theory to human evolution, and presents his theory...

Intelligent Design and Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

Volume V

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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017

Over the past decade a strident public debate has arisen about the nature and origin of religions. Controversies include how exactly religion evolved, whether by individual or group selection, if it is adaptive, and if not, whether and how it is a side effect of evolution. This volume focuses on the...

Gesammelte Werke

Die Entstehung der Arten durch Naturauslese + Die Abstammung des Menschen + Der Ausdruck der Gemütsbewegungen bei dem Menschen und den Tieren + Geologische Beobachtungen über die Vulkanischen Inseln

by Charles Darwin
Language: German
Release Date: October 22, 2014