Evolution category: 1570 books
Skin
A Natural History
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
We expose it, cover it, paint it, tattoo it, scar it, and pierce it. Our intimate connection with the world, skin protects us while advertising our health, our identity, and our individuality. This dazzling synthetic overview is a complete guidebook to the pliable covering that makes us who we are....
by Judy Diamond
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Color can attract mates, intimidate enemies, and distract predators. But it can also conceal animals from detection. It is an adaptation to the visual features of the environment but also to the perceptual and cognitive capabilities of other organisms. Judy Diamond and Alan Bond reveal factors at work in the evolution of concealing coloration.
The Emergence of Life
From Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Addressing the emergence of life from a systems biology perspective, this new edition has undergone extensive revision, reflecting changes in scientific understanding and evolution of thought on the question 'what is life?'. With an emphasis on the philosophical aspects of science, including the epistemic...
Why Geese Don't Get Obese (And We Do)
How Evolution's Strategies for Survival Affect Our Everyday Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 1999
What drives us to eat and accounts for different appetites? Why is breathing at high altitudes easy for birds and difficult for humans? Why do animals have two sets of sensory organs--eyes, ears, nostrils, etc...?
In Why Geese Don't Get Obese, physiologist Eric Widmaier describes the astonishing...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
"De la vaporisation et de la centralisation du Moi. Tout est la. " Charles Baudelaire (journal entry) This anthology is my visit to Oz. On sabbatical in 1988, I chose to reeducate myself in general biology, first broadening my erudition as an immunologist, and then extending that horizon...
The Dual Nature of Life
Interplay of the Individual and the Genome
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2005
Life is a diverse and ubiquitous phenomenon on Earth, characterized by fundamental features distinguishing living bodies from nonliving material. Yet it is also so complex that it has long defied precise definition. This book from a seasoned biologist offers new insights into the nature of life by...
Crumbling Genome
The Impact of Deleterious Mutations on Humans
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
A thought-provoking exploration of deleterious mutations in the human genome and their effects on human health and wellbeing
Despite all of the elaborate mechanisms that a cell employs to handle its DNA with the utmost care, a newborn human carries about 100 new mutations, originated in their...
Homo sapiens divine
Life’s quest for perfection: From a strand of protein to the exalted human and beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
Explicit evidence exists for the progression of life—over a period of three-and-a-half billion years—from a strand of protein to an intelligent human, through trial, rejection and selection. The process continues and, if not hindered, a higher destiny awaits us in the distant future.Is life a property...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
The past decade has witnessed an explosion of our knowledge on the structure, coding capacity and evolution of the genomes of the two DNA-containing cell organelles in plants: chloroplasts (plastids) and mitochondria. Comparative genomics analyses have provided new insights into the origin of organelles...
Nature's Machines
An Introduction to Organismal Biomechanics
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Nature’s Machines: An Introduction to Organismal Biomechanics presents the fundamental principles of biomechanics in a concise, accessible way while maintaining necessary rigor. It covers the central principles of whole-organism biomechanics as they apply across the animal and plant kingdoms, featuring...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Although the field of quantitative genetics - the study of the genetic basis of variation in quantitative characteristics such as body size, or reproductive success - is almost 100 years old, its application to the study of evolutionary processes in wild populations has expanded greatly over the last...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book contains the proceedings of the first meeting on invertebrate immunity ever sponsored as a summer research conference by the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB). The conference was held in Copper Mountain, CO from July 11-16, 1999. It was a an extension of a...
Darwinian Detectives
Revealing the Natural History of Genes and Genomes
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2007
Biology is often viewed today as a bipartisan field, with molecular level genetics guiding us into the future and natural history (including ecology, evolution, and conservation biology,) chaining us to a descriptive scientific past. In Darwinian Detectives, Norman Johnson bridges this divide, revealing...
Cardio-Respiratory Control in Vertebrates
Comparative and Evolutionary Aspects
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
Hopefully, this book will be taken off of the shelf frequently to be studied carefully over many years. More than 40 researchers were involved in this project, which examines respiration, circulation, and metabolism from ?sh to the land vertebrates, including human beings. A breathable and stable...