Evolution category: 1570 books
A Probabilistic Model of the Genotype/Phenotype Relationship
Does Life Play the Dice?
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
A Probabilistic Model of the Genotype/Phenotype Relationship provides a new hypothesis on the relationship between genotype and phenotype. The main idea of the book is that this relationship is probabilistic, in other words, the genotype does not fully explain the phenotype. This idea is developed...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
We live in an age of ubiquitous genomics. Next generation sequencing (NGS) technology, both widely adopted and advancing at pace, has transformed the data landscape, opening up an enormous source of heritable characters to the comparative biologist. Its impact on systematics, like many other fields...
Fossil Men
The Quest for the Oldest Fossil Skeleton and the Battle to Define Human Origins
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2020
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The Design of Mammals
A Scaling Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Despite an astonishing 100 million-fold range in adult body mass from bumblebee bat to blue whale, all mammals are formed of the same kinds of molecules, cells, tissues and organs and to the same overall body plan. A scaling approach investigates the principles of mammal design by examining the ways...
How to Clone a Mammoth
The Science of De-Extinction
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2015
Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? The science says yes. In How to Clone a Mammoth, Beth Shapiro, evolutionary biologist and pioneer in "ancient DNA" research, walks readers through the astonishing and controversial process of de-extinction. From deciding...
Don't Look, Don't Touch, Don't Eat
The Science Behind Revulsion
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Every flu season, sneezing, coughing, and graphic throat-clearing become the day-to-day background noise in every workplace. And coworkers tend to move as far—and as quickly—away from the source of these bodily eruptions as possible. Instinctively, humans recoil from objects that they view as...
Sociobiology
The New Synthesis, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2000
When this classic work was first published in 1975, it created a new discipline and started a tumultuous round in the age-old nature versus nurture debate. The controversy surrounding the book's publication--and surrounding its central claim that human social behavior has a biological foundation--reverberates...
The Return of the God Hypothesis
Compelling Scientific Evidence for the Existence of God
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2020
The New York Times bestselling author of Darwin’s Doubt and Intelligent Design scholar presents groundbreaking scientific evidence of the existence of God, based on breakthroughs in physics, cosmology, and biology.
In 2004, Stephen C. Meyer, one of the preeminent scientists studying the origins...
by John Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
This is not just the story of one continent and how it formed, it is the tale of how our world came to be the way it is, and how it might become something else in the future. An understanding of the earth sciences is essential to understanding our place on this ball of rock, and Ghost Mountains and...
by William Nothdurft, Josh Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2002
The date is January 11, 1911. A young German paleontologist, accompanied only by a guide, a cook, four camels, and a couple of camel drivers, reaches the lip of the vast Bahariya Depression after a long trek across the bleak plateau of the western desert of Egypt. The scientist, Ernst Freiherr Stromer...
The Invaders
How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Humans domesticated dogs soon after Neanderthals began to disappear. This alliance between two predator species, Pat Shipman hypothesizes, made possible unprecedented success in hunting large Ice Age mammals—a distinct and ultimately decisive advantage for human invaders at a time when climate change made both humans and Neanderthals vulnerable.
Three Big Bangs
Matter-Energy, Life, Mind
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
By dividing the creation of matter, energy, life, and mind into three big bangs, Holmes Rolston III brings into focus a history of the universe that respects both scientific discovery and the potential presence of an underlying intelligence. Matter-energy appears, initially in simpler forms but with...
Sexual Selections
What We Can and Can’t Learn about Sex from Animals
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2002
Scientific discoveries about the animal kingdom fuel ideological battles on many fronts, especially battles about sex and gender. We now know that male marmosets help take care of their offspring. Is this heartening news for today's stay-at-home dads? Recent studies show that many female birds once...
by Michael G. Cordingley
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
While viruses—the world’s most abundant biological entities—are not technically alive, they invade, replicate, and evolve within living cells. Michael Cordingley goes beyond our familiarity with infections to show how viruses spur evolutionary change in their hosts and shape global ecosystems, from ocean photosynthesis to drug-resistant bacteria.