Evolution category: 1570 books
by Lynn B. Martin, Cameron K. Ghalambor, H. Arthur Woods
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Integrative Organismal Biology synthesizes current understandings of the causes and consequences of individual variation at the physiological, behavioral and organismal levels. Emphasizing key topics such as phenotypic plasticity and flexibility, and summarizing emerging areas such as ecological immunology,...
Neogene Paleontology of the Manonga Valley, Tanzania
A Window into the Evolutionary History of East Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Contributions to this volume detail paleontologic research in Manonga Valley, and shed important light on the evolutionary development of eastern Africa. Chapters provide novel insights into the taxonomy, paleobiology, ecology, and zoogeographic relationships of African faunas, as well as lay the...
by Eric Buffetaut, Delphine Angst
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
The fossil record of giant flightless birds extends back to the Late Cretaceous, more than 70 million years ago, but our understanding of these extinct birds is still incomplete. This is partly because the number of specimens available is sometimes limited, but also because widely different approaches...
Interdisciplinary Anthropology
Continuing Evolution of Man
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
This volume is the result of a research project entitled “Evolutionary Continuity – Human Specifics – The Possibility of Objective Knowledge” that was carried out by representatives of six academic disciplines (evolutionary biology, evolutionary anthropology, brain research, cognitive neuroscience,...
Sexual Selection in Homo sapiens
Parental Control over Mating and the Opportunity Cost of Free Mate Choice
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
The present book aims to examine how sexual selection works in the human species. Almost all scholarly effort focuses on sexual selection in non-human species and extrapolates the findings to the human one. However, human mating has a unique pattern not found in any other species, namely parental...
Social Behaviour in Animals
With Special Reference to Vertebrates
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
HIS book is not intended as an exhaustive review T of facts. Its aim is rather the presentation of a bio logical approach to the phenomena of social behaviour. This type of approach was revived by Lorenz's pioneer studies. It is characterized by emphasis on the need for renewed and careful observation...
Old-Earth or Evolutionary Creation?
Discussing Origins with Reasons to Believe and BioLogos
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Jesus Creed Book of the Year 2017, Science and Faith Christians confess that God created the heavens and the earth. But they are divided over how God created and whether the Bible gives us a scientifically accurate account of the process of creation. Representatives of two prominent positions—old-earth...
by Robert G. Bednarik
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
This book summarizes the work of several decades, culminating in a revolutionary model of recent human evolution. It challenges current consensus views fundamentally, presenting in its support a mass of evidence, much of which has never been assembled before. This evidence derives primarily from archaeology,...
Cataclysms
A New Geology for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
In 1980, the science world was stunned when a maverick team of researchers proposed that a massive meteor strike had wiped the dinosaurs and other fauna from the Earth 66 million years ago. Scientists found evidence for this theory in a “crater of doom” on the Yucatán Peninsula, showing that...
Animal Vigilance
Monitoring Predators and Competitors
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Animal Vigilance builds on the author’s previous publication with Academic Press (Social Predation: How Group Living Benefits Predators and Prey) by developing several other themes including the development and mechanisms underlying vigilance, as well as developing more fully the evolution and function...
From Biped to Strider
The Emergence of Modern Human Walking, Running, and Resource Transport
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
The inspiration for this volume of contributed papers stemmed from conversations between the editors in front of Chuck Hilton's poster on the determinants of hominid walking speed, presented at thel998 meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA). Earlier at those meetings,...
by Andreas Greven, Donald A. Dawson
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
This book constructs a rigorous framework for analysing selected phenomena in evolutionary theory of populations arising due to the combined effects of migration, selection and mutation in a spatial stochastic population model, namely the evolution towards fitter and fitter types through punctuated...
by Razie Mah
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2018
In 2016, Robert Berwick and Noam Chomsky published a book on the evolution of language. They focus on computational systems and universal grammar, the respective fields of expertise for each author. They endorse a familiar proposal. Human language appeared right before the appearance of symbolic cultural...
Bone Histology of Fossil Tetrapods
Advancing Methods, Analysis, and Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
The microscopic examination of fossilized bone tissue is a sophisticated and increasingly important analytical tool for understanding the life history of ancient organisms. This book provides an essential primer and manual for using fossil bone histology to investigate the biology of extinct tetrapods....