Evolution category: 1570 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
The annual Evolutionary Biology Meetings in Marseilles serve to gather leading evolutionary biologists and other scientists using evolutionary biology concepts, e.g. for medical research. The aims of these meetings are to promote the exchange of ideas and to encourage interdisciplinary collaborations.
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by Xuhua Xia
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This book provides an evolutionary conceptual framework for comparative genomics, with the ultimate objective of understanding the loss and gain of genes during evolution, the interactions among gene products, and the relationship between genotype, phenotype and the environment. The many examples...
Modern Phylogenetic Comparative Methods and Their Application in Evolutionary Biology
Concepts and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Phylogenetic comparative approaches are powerful analytical tools for making evolutionary inferences from interspecific data and phylogenies. The phylogenetic toolkit available to evolutionary biologists is currently growing at an incredible speed, but most methodological papers are published in the...
Evolutionary Systems and Society
A General Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
This work is a bold new effort to embrace all aspects of life—molecular, cellular, behavioral, and cultural—within the formulation of a general theory of evolution that extends classical Darwinian theory to include human society.
Darwin's Camera
Art and Photography in the Theory of Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
Darwin's Camera tells the extraordinary story of how Charles Darwin changed the way pictures are seen and made. In his illustrated masterpiece, Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1871), Darwin introduced the idea of using photographs to illustrate a scientific theory--his was the first...
by Edward O. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Forming a twenty-first-century statement on Darwinian evolution, one shorn of “religious and political dogma,” Edward O. Wilson offers a bold work of scientific thought and synthesis.
Asserting that religious creeds and philosophical questions can be reduced to purely genetic and evolutionary...
The Neighborhood Project
Using Evolution to Improve My City, One Block at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
After decades studying creatures great and small, evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson had an epiphany: Darwin's theory won't fully prove itself until it improves the quality of human life in a practical sense. And what better place to begin than his hometown of Binghamton, New York? Making a...
Essential Readings in Biosemiotics
Anthology and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Synthesizing the findings from a wide range of disciplines – from biology and anthropology to philosophy and linguistics – the emerging field of Biosemiotics explores the highly complex phenomenon of sign processing in living systems. Seeking to advance a naturalistic understanding of the evolution...
Some Assembly Required
Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2020
The author of the best-selling Your Inner Fish gives us a lively and accessible account of the great transformations in the history of life on Earth--a new view of the evolution of human and animal life that can help to determine whether our presence here is accidental or inevitable.
Over the...
Dinner with Darwin
Food, Drink, and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
What do eggs, flour, and milk have in common? They form the basis of waffles, of course, but these staples of breakfast bounty also share an evolutionary function: eggs, seeds (from which we derive flour by grinding), and milk have each evolved to nourish offspring. Indeed, ponder the genesis of your...
Spider Silk
Evolution and 400 Million Years of Spinning, Waiting, Snagging, and Mating
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
Spiders, objects of eternal human fascination, are found in many places: on the ground, in the air, and even under water. Leslie Brunetta and Catherine Craig have teamed up to produce a substantive yet entertaining book for anyone who has ever wondered, as a spider rappelled out of reach on a line of...
by John N. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
“It is not only the species that change evolutionarily through interactions . . . the interactions themselves also change.” Thus states John N. Thompson in the foreword to Interaction and Coevolution, the first title in his series of books exploring the relentless nature of evolution and the processes...
A World From Dust
How the Periodic Table Shaped Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
A World From Dust describes how a set of chemical rules combined with the principles of evolution in order to create an environment in which life as we know it could unfold. Beginning with simple mathematics, these predictable rules led to the advent of the planet itself, as well as cells, organs...
Maps of Time
An Introduction to Big History
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
An introduction to a new way of looking at history, from a perspective that stretches from the beginning of time to the present day, Maps of Time is world history on an unprecedented scale. Beginning with the Big Bang, David Christian views the interaction of the natural world with the more recent...