Evolution category: 1570 books
The Piltdown Forgery
Fiftieth Anniversary edition, with a new Introduction and Afterword by Chris Stringer
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
On 21 November 1953, one of the most fascinating puzzles in science was finally solved. Three scientists—Joseph Weiner, Kenneth Oakley, and Wilfrid Le Gros Clark—described their investigations into the important fossilized human remains found at Piltdown in Sussex in the early 1900s. Their conclusion...
El chico de la Gran Dolina
En los orígenes de lo humano
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 15, 2010
«El ocho de julio de 1994, hacia mediodía, aparecieron los primeros restos fósiles humanos en el yacimiento de la Gran Dolina. La explosión de júbilo que produjo en el equipo aquel hallazgo estaba plenamente justificada. Hacía ya casi veinte años que habían comenzado las excavaciones en los...
Fundamentos II
Pseudo-conflictos entre Ciencia y Fe
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 15, 2017
En “Fundamentos (para personas que quieren creer)”, Sergio E. Bruno nos aproximó a las preguntas y cuestionamientos que habitualmente suelen constituir un obstáculo para el acto de fe.
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The Atom and the Universe
Theories and Facts Unfold
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
The sequence of the formation of the universe, including Big-Bang stage, quantum cosmology, quarks and leptons stage, Inflation stage, hadrons stage and atomic nuclei stage are described in the book. Before we examine universe, its important to understand topics such as matter and antimatter, grand...
Snowball Earth
The Story of a Maverick Scientist and His Theory of the Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life As We Know It
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Did the Earth once undergo a super ice age, one that froze the entire planet from the poles to the equator? In Snowball Earth, gifted writer Gabrielle Walker has crafted an intriguing global adventure story, following maverick scientist Paul Hoffman’s quest to prove a theory so audacious and profound...
Population Wars
A New Perspective on Competition and Coexistence
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
From the very beginning, life on Earth has been defined by war. Today, those first wars continue to be fought around and literally inside us, influencing our individual behavior and that of civilization as a whole. War between populations - whether between different species or between rival groups...
by Barbara Rogoff
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2003
Three-year-old Kwara'ae children in Oceania act as caregivers of their younger siblings, but in the UK, it is an offense to leave a child under age 14 ears without adult supervision. In the Efe community in Zaire, infants routinely use machetes with safety and some skill, although U.S. middle-class...
New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs
The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Easily distinguished by the horns and frills on their skulls, ceratopsians were one of the most successful of all dinosaurs. This volume presents a broad range of cutting-edge research on the functional biology, behavior, systematics, paleoecology, and paleogeography of the horned dinosaurs, and includes descriptions of newly identified species.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Primate Societies is a synthesis of the most current
information on primate socioecology and its theoretical and
empirical significance, spanning the disciplines of behavioral
biology, ecology, anthropology, and psychology. It is a very rich
source of ideas about other taxa.
"A superb...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
The Handbook of Australasian Biogeography is the most comprehensive overview of the biogeography of Australasian plants, fungi and animal taxa in a single volume. This volume is unique in its coverage of marine, freshwater, terrestrial, and subterranean taxa. It is an essential publication for anyone...
by Peter Gluckman, Alan Beedle, Tatjana Buklijas
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Evolutionary science is critical to an understanding of integrated human biology and is increasingly recognised as a core discipline by medical and public health professionals. Advances in the field of genomics, epigenetics, developmental biology, and epidemiology have led to the growing realisation...
Voyage d’un naturaliste autour du monde fait à bord du navire le Beagle de 1831 à 1836
Version intégrale et annotée
Language: French
Release Date: June 10, 2018
Présentation de l'éditeur
« J’ai dit dans la préface de la première édition de cet ouvrage, et dans la partie zoologique du Voyage du Beagle, à la suite de quelles circonstances je fus amené à me joindre à cette expédition autour du monde. Le capitaine Fitz-Roy, commandant de l’expédition,...
by Rumi Michael Leigh
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
This book will give you a good general knowledge about the essentials of Ecology.
by O-O Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2011
We are told today by the scientific community that all humans living today are related directly from a common ancestor who emerged from Africa around 70,000 years ago.
Perhaps this is true, but I doubt it.
I believe the evidence suggests there are three human races.
Read on to find out why...