Evolution category: 1570 books
by Simon Valentin
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Biology - Evolution, grade: 1,3, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (ZAK | Zentrum für Angewandte Kulturwissenschaft), course: Visual Communication and Culture, language: English, abstract: Today, in our fast moving, computer-driven lives we are...
Future Humans
Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Are humans still subject to the forces of evolution? An evolutionary biologist provides surprising insights into the future of Homo sapiens In this intriguing book, evolutionary biologist Scott Solomon draws on the explosion of discoveries in recent years to examine the future evolution of our species....
Genetics, Evolution and Radiation
Crossing Borders, The Interdisciplinary Legacy of Nikolay W. Timofeeff-Ressovsky
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
This book is dedicated to the great scientist and outstanding individual Nikolay Wladimirovich Timofeeff-Ressovsky. The book brings together a number of brief stories/essays about Timofeeff-Ressovsky including “Stories told by himself”, and scientific chapters addressing his major research areas:...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
The existing theories on the evolution of senescence assume that senescence is inevitable in all organisms. However, recent studies have shown that this is not necessarily true. A better understanding of senescence and its underlying mechanisms could have far-reaching consequences for conservation...
Origins and Evolution of Life
An Astrobiological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Devoted to exploring questions about the origin and evolution of life in our Universe, this highly interdisciplinary book brings together a broad array of scientists. Thirty chapters assembled in eight major sections convey the knowledge accumulated and the richness of the debates generated by this...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Tracing the evolution of one of the most ancient major branches of flowering plants, this is a wide-ranging survey of state-of-the-art research on the early clades of the monocot phylogenetic tree. It explores a series of broad but linked themes, providing for the first time a detailed and coherent...
by Razie Mah
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2018
David McNeill spent years in the Departments of Psychology and Linguistics, exploring the nature of human speech and gesture. Gesture coincides with speech. The gestures are holistic and imagistic. Speech is detailed and propositional. Clearly, these two real elements are contiguous in contemporary...
Principles of Evolution
From the Planck Epoch to Complex Multicellular Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
With contributions from a team of leading experts, this volume provides a comprehensive survey of recent achievements in our scientific understanding of evolution. The questions it asks concern the beginnings of the universe, the origin of life and the chances of its arising at all, the role of contingency,...
In Search of Cell History
The Evolution of Life's Building Blocks
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
The origin of cells remains one of the most fundamental problems in biology, one that over the past two decades has spawned a large body of research and debate. With In Search of Cell History, Franklin M. Harold offers a comprehensive, impartial take on that research and the controversies that keep...
Avian Evolution
The Fossil Record of Birds and its Paleobiological Significance
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Knowledge of the evolutionary history of birds has much improved in recent decades. Fossils from critical time periods are being described at unprecedented rates and modern phylogenetic analyses have provided a framework for the interrelationships of the extant groups. This book gives an overview...
by William H. Pettit
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2017
This pamphlet is an appeal to reason and common sense.
It is not written specially for scientific experts and hence technical terms have been as far as possible avoided. The student or scientist who desires a more detailed and technical treatment of these problems is referred to larger treatises,...
by Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
The hypnosis was disseminated through this Darwinist propaganda in which many groups were involved together, to the extent that some people became the unwitting proponents of an exceedingly dangerous theory that has inflicted terrible disasters on the world and that constituted the foundation of all...
by Clara B. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
This brief discusses factors associated with group formation, group maintenance, group population structure, and other events and processes (e.g., physiology, behavior) related to mammalian social evolution. Within- and between-lineages, features of prehistoric and extant social mammals, patterns...
Darwin’S Secret Sex Problem
Exposing Evolution’S Fatal Flaw—The Origin of Sex
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Darwins Secret Sex Problem What Darwin Ignored . . . For all his revolutionary insight into the fascinating processes of evolution so useful to current scientific research, health care, and technology, Darwin never seriously confronted the crucial, insurmountable gap in his grand theory between asexual...