Evolution category: 1570 books

Partez à la découverte du darwinisme avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! Le darwinisme est le nom d'un paradigme clé en biologie, formulé par le naturaliste anglais Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882), autour duquel gravite encore aujourd'hui l'ensemble des théories sur l'évolution du vivant,...

This is the eleventh and last book to come through Diane before she transitioned. Being the second and last book from her early “training guides,” it is a highly human-oriented reference to complement the previous spiritual nine books produced from The Buddha Consciousness. It contains...

Examining and interpreting recent spectacular fossil discoveries in China, paleontologists have arrived at a prevailing view: there is now incontrovertible evidence that birds represent the last living dinosaur. But is this conclusion beyond dispute? In this book, evolutionary biologist Alan Feduccia...

It was the most radical human-breeding experiment in American history, and no one knew how it turned out. The Repository for Germinal Choice–nicknamed the Nobel Prize sperm bank–opened to notorious fanfare in 1980, and for two decades, women flocked to it from all over the country to choose a...

Today, any kid can rattle off the names of dozens of dinosaurs. But it took centuries of scientific effort—and a lot of luck—to discover and establish the diversity of dinosaur species we now know. How did we learn that Triceratops had three horns? Why don’t many paleontologists consider Brontosaurus...

Land bridges are the causeways of biodiversity. When they form, organisms are introduced into a new patchwork of species and habitats, forever altering the ecosystems into which they flow; and when land bridges disappear or fracture, organisms are separated into reproductively isolated populations...

The startling, long ignored, but now widely acclaimed new story of the life and full theory of the Darwin who wrote only twice about “survival of the fittest” but 95 times about the evolutionary drive of LOVE in the lives of all species—including us—in The Descent of Man. This is the first of...

In Origins of Existence astrophysicist Fred Adams takes a radically different approach from the long tradition of biologists and spiritual leaders who have tried to explain how the universe supports the development of life. He argues that life followed naturally from the laws of physics -- which were...

The scientific consensus is that our ability to understand human speech has evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. After all, there are whole portions of the brain devoted to human speech. We learn to understand speech too quickly and with almost no training and can seamlessly absorb enormous...

◆《23對染色體》、《天性與教養》、《世界，沒你想的那麼糟！》暢銷科普作家　馬特．瑞德利　最新著作 演化的觀念不只發生在生物學中，它能解釋人類世界與自然世界種種變化， 影響力無遠弗屆，超乎你的想像！ 人們在解釋自然和人類世界的種種現象時，總是忍不住陷入一個迷思，他們會假設世界的森羅萬象都是人甚或神的施設造作：宇宙和生命是神創造出來的；語言、道德、宗教、法律是聖人創業垂統的結果；人天生是一張白紙，後天環境決定人格的形成；而科技甚至網路的出現，則都要歸功於某些科學家。他們甚至相信，政府的干預可以改善教育、經濟和貨幣問題。 但是暢銷科普作家馬特．瑞德利引用科學、經濟、歷史、政治和哲學的證據，以其趣味盎然的生花妙筆告訴我們：不管是自然現象或人類文明，其實都是自然的、突現的現象。它們是演化的結果，是漸進的、按部就班的，有自己的動能，並非一夕之間創造出來的。而大部分的人類世界則都是人類行為互動的結果，不是有目的的設計和干預。 這就是瑞德利所謂的「廣義演化論」。他認為，達爾文的天擇理論可以說是狹義的演化論，但廣義演化論則適用於社會、貨幣、科技、語言、法律、文化、教育和道德等等領域，讓我們得以破除迷思，建構起真正科學的世界觀。 【專文推薦】 楊倍昌／國立成功大學醫學院微生物暨免疫學研究所教授、台灣科技與社會學會理事長　　 【各界好評】 「一種極有智慧且打破偶像崇拜的世界觀，督促我們用新的觀點來看待生命。」 ——《紐約時報書評》（New...

Recombinant DNA and Genetic Experimentation contains papers from the Proceedings of a Conference on Recombinant DNA held in London on April 1-4, 1979. This books reviews recombinant DNA research and discusses advances in the application of recombinant DNA research and the regulations affecting such...

Golden-winged Warblers (Vermivora chrysoptera) are migratory songbirds that breed in temperate North America, primarily in the Great Lakes region with remnant populations throughout the Appalachian Mountains, and winter in Central and northern South America. Their breeding range has contracted dramatically...

This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. Notes and appendixes put these fascinating and wide-ranging letters in context, making the letters accessible to both scholars and general readers. Darwin...

This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. Notes and appendixes put these fascinating and wide-ranging letters in context, making the letters accessible to both scholars and general readers. Darwin...