Evolution category: 1570 books
by Abhijit Naskar
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
HOMO: A Brief History of Consciousness is Abhijit Naskar’s yet another scientific work of adventure. In this book he turns the clock back millions of years for the readers to witness the evolution of the most mysterious living mechanism on planet earth - The Human Consciousness.
Here he takes...
Odd Couples
Extraordinary Differences between the Sexes in the Animal Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2013
While we joke that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, our gender differences can't compare to those of other animals. For instance: the male garden spider spontaneously dies after mating with a female more than fifty times his size. Female cichlids must guard their eggs and larvae--even from...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009
Robert H. MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson's The Theory of Island Biogeography, first published by Princeton in 1967, is one of the most influential books on ecology and evolution to appear in the past half century. By developing a general mathematical theory to explain a crucial ecological problem--the...
Parasite Diversity and Diversification
Evolutionary Ecology Meets Phylogenetics
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
The development of molecular tools has dramatically increased our knowledge of parasite diversity and the vectors that transmit them. From viruses and protists to arthropods and helminths, each branch of the Tree of Life offers an insight into significant, yet cryptic, biodiversity. Alongside this,...
What Comes After Homo Sapiens?
When and How Our Species Will Evolve Into Another Species
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Life began on earth 3.8 billion years ago. We have had two momentous evolutionary events since then: the emergence of Eukarya about 2 billion years ago (the basis of all plants and animals) and the enlargement in size and capability of the human brain, which began about 2 million years ago. Otherwise...
Across the Bridge
Understanding the Origin of the Vertebrates
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Our understanding of vertebrate origins and the backbone of human history evolves with each new fossil find and DNA map. Many species have now had their genomes sequenced, and molecular techniques allow genetic inspection of even non-model organisms. But as longtime Nature editor Henry Gee argues...
by Peter Godfrey-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2009
In 1859 Darwin described a deceptively simple mechanism that he called "natural selection," a combination of variation, inheritance, and reproductive success. He argued that this mechanism was the key to explaining the most puzzling features of the natural world, and science and philosophy...
Natural Selections
Selfish Altruists, Honest Liars, and Other Realities of Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
“Barash . . . brilliantly integrat[es] science, literature, and pop culture into elegant and insightful commentaries on the most interesting and important questions of our time. A delightful read.”—Michael Shermer, author of The Science of Good and Evil
“Entertaining and thought-provoking.”—Steven...
by Carin Bondar, Ph. D.
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
A brilliantly engaging guide to the reproductive habits of creatures great and small, based on the author’s popular webseries "Wild Sex," which has received over 14 million views
Birds do it, bees do it — every member of the animal kingdom does it, from fruit flies to blue whales....
by Randy Moore, William McComas
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
The 1925 case against high school coach and science teacher John Scopes, arrested for teaching evolution in defiance of a Tennessee state law, was America's original "Trial of the Century." The proceedings began as a publicity stunt but grew into a landmark event in the nation's history. The trial...
Unnatural Selection
How We Are Changing Life, Gene by Gene
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Gonorrhea. Bed bugs. Weeds. Salamanders. People. All are evolving, some surprisingly rapidly, in response to our chemical age. In Unnatural Selection, Emily Monosson shows how our drugs, pesticides, and pollution are exerting intense selection pressure on all manner of species. And we humans might...
The Darwinian Tourist
Viewing the world through evolutionary eyes
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
In this magnificently illustrated book, Christopher Wills takes us on a series of adventures. From the underwater life of Indonesia's Lambeh Strait to a little valley in northern Israel, to an earthquake in the coral reef off the island of Yap and the dry valleys of western Mongolia, Wills demonstrates...
A Different Kind of Animal
How Culture Transformed Our Species
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
How our ability to learn from each other has been the essential ingredient to our remarkable success as a species
Human beings are a very different kind of animal. We have evolved to become the most dominant species on Earth. We have a larger geographical range and process more energy than...
Dazzle Gradually
Reflections on the Nature of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2007
At the crossroads of philosophy and science, the sometimes-dry topics of evolution and ecology come alive in this new collection of essays--many never before anthologized. Learn how technology may be a sort of second nature, how the systemic human fungus Candida albicans can lead to cravings for carrot...