Evolution category: 1570 books
40 Years of Evolution
Darwin's Finches on Daphne Major Island
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2014
Renowned evolutionary biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant have produced landmark studies of the Galápagos finches first made famous by Charles Darwin. In How and Why Species Multiply, they offered a complete evolutionary history of Darwin's finches since their origin almost three million years ago....
Human Evolution
Genes, Genealogies and Phylogenies
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Controversy over human evolution remains widespread. However, the human genome project and genetic sequencing of many other species have provided myriad precise and unambiguous genetic markers that establish our evolutionary relationships with other mammals. Human Evolution: Genes, Genealogies and...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
The annual Evolutionary Biology Meetings in Marseille aim to bring together leading scientists, promoting an exchange of state-of-the-art knowledge and the formation of inter-group collaborations. This book presents the most representative contributions to the 13th meeting, which was held in September...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
The annual Evolutionary Biology Meetings in Marseilles serve to gather leading scientists, promote the exchange of ideas and encourage the formation of international collaborations.
This book contains the most essential contributions presented at the 14th Evolutionary Biology Meeting, which...
Restless Creatures
The Story of Life in Ten Movements
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
From flying pterodactyls to walking primates, the story of life as told through the evolution of locomotion.
Most of us never think about how we get from one place to another. For most people, putting one foot in front of the other requires no thought at all. Yet the fact that we and other...
The Evolution Controversy
A Survey of Competing Theories
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
In the emotional debate surrounding evolution, it is often difficult to cut through the competing agendas to gain an unbiased understanding of the scientific issues involved. The Evolution Controversy provides a resource for doing so. The authors leave aside the profound philosophical and religious...
Epic of Evolution
Seven Ages of the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2005
How did everything around us-the air, the land, the sea, and the stars-originate? What is the source of order, form, and structure characterizing all material things? These are just some of the grand scientific questions Eric J. Chaisson, author of the classic work Cosmic Dawn, explores in his enthralling...
Dispelling the Darkness:Voyage in the Malay Archipelago and the Discovery of Evolution by Wallace and Darwin
Voyage in the Malay Archipelago and the Discovery of Evolution by Wallace and Darwin
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
“The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness.”T H Huxley (1887)
Darwin is one...
Ancestors in Our Genome
The New Science of Human Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
In 2001, scientists were finally able to determine the full human genome sequence, and with the discovery began a genomic voyage back in time. Since then, we have sequenced the full genomes of a number of mankind's primate relatives at a remarkable rate. The genomes of the common chimpanzee (2005)...
Evolution's Rainbow
Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
In this innovative celebration of diversity and affirmation of individuality in animals and humans, Joan Roughgarden challenges accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation. A distinguished evolutionary biologist, Roughgarden takes on the medical establishment, the Bible, social science—and...
by Marcus Baynes-Rock, Dylan Belton, Ben Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
This volume addresses key questions about the puzzle of human origins by focusing on a topic that is largely unexplored thus far, namely, the evolution of human wisdom. How can we best understand the human capacity for wisdom, where did it come from, and how did it emerge? It explores lines of convergence...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Recent advances in the study of bats have changed the way we understand this illusive group of mammals. This volume consist of 25 chapters and 57 authors from around the globe all writing on the most recent finding on the evolution, ecology and conservation of bats. The chapters in this book are not...
by Maria B. O'Hare
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2014
Briefly, the Darwinian model would interpret the industrial melanism of moth as follows:a change in color from light to dark and back again in generations of moths due to industrial smog in England in the 19th century, is classically explained as the darker colored moths had an advantage that protected...
by Roger Gallop
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2018
This is an easy-to-read, comprehensive and compelling review of scientific evidence for Divine Creation loaded with color photos and illustrations. This book is described as a tour de force which strongly refutes the notion that science supports the evolution/long age view. It clearly shows that evolutionary...