Evolution category: 1570 books
Aging is a Group-Selected Adaptation
Theory, Evidence, and Medical Implications
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Although books exist on the evolution of aging, this is the first book written from the perspective of again as an adaptive program. It offers an insight into the implications of research on aging genetics, The author proposes the Demographic Theory of Senescence, whereby aging has been affirmatively...
Big Brain
The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
Our big brains, our language ability, and our intelligence make us uniquely human.
But barely 10,000 years ago (a mere blip in evolutionary time) human-like creatures called "Boskops" flourished in South Africa. They possessed extraordinary features: forebrains roughly 50% larger...
Evo-Devo of Child Growth
Treatise on Child Growth and Human Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Working with principles from the fields of evolutionary and developmental biology (evo-devo), this fascinating work offers a new approach to analyzing child growth and development, examining each stage and transition in detail, from fetal development to preadulthood. Based on the author's in-depth...
by Rituparna Bose, Alexander J. Bartholomew
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2013
The prerequisite to investigating the underlying causes behind mass extinction is a profound understanding of the evolutionary history of both living and dead species. It is especially important to appreciate the significance of such studies in extinct organisms; especially in organisms that were...
Robustness, Plasticity, and Evolvability in Mammals
A Thermal Niche Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
Among the unresolved topics in evolutionary biology and behavioral ecology are the origins, mechanisms, evolution, and consequences of developmental and phenotypic diversity. In an attempt to address these challenges, plasticity has been investigated empirically and theoretically at all levels of...
by Michael Pitman
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
This volume is the umbilical offshoot of its 'mother book', Science and the Soul. Both are truly original works. We begin by linking with the latter. Then, using facts from palaeoanthropology, biology (classical and molecular), information theory, design theory and philosophy, A Mutant Ape? assesses ...
Becoming Undone
Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics, and Art
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
In Becoming Undone, Elizabeth Grosz addresses three related concepts—life, politics, and art—by exploring the implications of Charles Darwin’s account of the evolution of species. Challenging characterizations of Darwin’s work as a form of genetic determinism, Grosz shows that his writing...
Phylogeography of California
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Phylogeography of California examines the evolution of a variety of taxa—ancient and recent, native and migratory—to elucidate evolutionary events both major and minor that shaped the distribution, radiation, and speciation of the biota of California. The book also interprets evolutionary history...
Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology
Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The impact of evolutionary theory on the philosophy of science has been no less profound than its impact on the science of biology itself. Advances in this theory provide a rich set of examples for thinking about the nature of scientific explanation and the structure of science. Many of the developments...
by Alfred Russel Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1908 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'My Life a Record of Events and Opinions' is an autobiography that details Wallace's experiences from schoolboy to scientist. It discusses his exploration...
Late Cainozoic Floras of Iceland
15 Million Years of Vegetation and Climate History in the Northern North Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Being the only place in the northern North Atlantic yielding late Cainozoic terrestrial sediments rich in plant fossils, Iceland provides a unique archive for vegetation and climate development in this region. This book includes the complete plant fossil record from Iceland spanning the past 15 million...
by J. Palmer Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
The secular education system, from elementary school through college, has created a false premise that life evolved, the universe was created by a big bang, and that the Bible is nothing more than a myth. Anyone not accepting this false premise is portrayed as foolish or non-thinking. Why We Believe...
Plant Evolutionary Developmental Biology
The Evolvability of the Phenotype
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Compared to animals, plants have been largely neglected in evolutionary developmental biology. Mainstream research has focused on developmental genetics, while a rich body of knowledge in comparative morphology is still to be exploited. No integrated account is available. In this volume, Minelli fills...
by
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
The vertebrate retina has a form that is closely and clearly linked to its func tion. Though its fundamental cellular architecture is conserved across verte brates, the retinas of individual species show variations that are also of clear and direct functional utility. Its accessibility, readily...