Evolution category: 1570 books

Wallace noticed on expeditions to the Amazon and the Malay archipelego that mammals in Southeast Asia are more advanced than their Australian cousins. His suggestion was that the two continents had split before the better adapted mammals had evolved in Asia. The isolated Australian marsupials were...

Mutualistic interactions among plants and animals have played a paramount role in shaping biodiversity. Yet the majority of studies on mutualistic interactions have involved only a few species, as opposed to broader mutual connections between communities of organisms. Mutualistic Networks is the first...

Ants are familiar to every naturalist, ecologist, entomologist, and pest control operator. The identification of the 233 species of Florida ants is technically difficult, and information on Florida ants is dispersed among hundreds of technical journal articles. This book uses detailed and beautiful...

The present volume consists of essays which I have contributed to various periodicals, or read before scientific societies during the last fifteen years, with others now printed for the first time. The two first of the series are printed without alteration, because, having gained me the reputation...

The sixth London edition, with all editions and corrections. Considered the definitive edition. the Introduction begins: "When on board H.M.S. Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations...

When a chimpanzee stockpiles rocks as weapons or when a frog sends out mating calls, we might easily assume these animals know their own motivations--that they use the same psychological mechanisms that we do. But as Beyond the Brain indicates, this is a dangerous assumption because animals have different...

英國《經濟學人》《週日郵報》年度選書 媲美《槍炮、病菌與鋼鐵》《人類大歷史》 從一萬一千五百年前農業萌芽開始 到人類有文字記載 狗、小麥、牛、玉蜀黍、馬鈴薯、雞、稻米、馬、蘋果、人類 如何改變世界文明 數十萬年前，人類祖先靠狩獵、採集野生動植物而生，之後發生革命性變化，遠古人類與其他物種的互動形式改變了。人類開始馴化它們，人口因而急速成長，文明便出現了。 一般認為，我們今日的文明進展與科學革命、工業革命息息相關，但鮮少人注意，不管科學或工業的發展都與自然息息相關，尤其人類馴化自然動植物的結果，才是影響人類文明演變的關鍵。 我們已經習慣科技改變人類生活的概念，但直到科學革命發生之前，人類的創新大多奠基於大自然：馴化動植物，以及從它們身上取得資源，例如羊毛、棉花。 本書作者羅伯茲（Alice...

A gripping examination of invasive species' impact. Super species are the phenomenally successful invasive life-forms that are dominating ecosystems. These animals, plants and microbes have spread far from their native habitats, most often as a result of human activities. The key to...

WARNING: Everything you know about the peopling of the Americas is wrong.People in the Americas before the Last Ice Age Glaciation Concluded: An Emerging Paradigm on Western Hemisphere Population Origin covers the turn of the century emerging science on the origin of human population in the western hemisphere....

Who Discovered Natural Selection? explains how scientists worked out the way in which living things evolve.

Who Discovered Natural Selection? explains how scientists worked out the way in which living things evolve.

Written in British English, Who Discovered Natural Selection? explains how scientists worked out the way in which living things evolve.

Don't know much about biology? The Complete Idiot's Guide® to College Biology follows the curriculum of Biology 101 so closely that it serves as a perfect study guide, and it's also great for AP Biology and SAT Subject Biology exams that high school students are taking in droves. Students...