Evolution category: 1570 books
Evolutionary Biology
Concept, Modeling, and Application
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Since 1997, scientists of different disciplines sharing a deep interest in concepts and knowledge related to evolutionary biology have held the annual Evolutionary Biology Meetings in Marseille in order to discuss their research and promote collaboration. Lately scientists especially focusing on applications...
Interactions and Adaptation Strategies of Marine Organisms
Proceedings of the 31st European Marine Biology Symposium, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, 9–13 September 1996
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
This volume provides a refereed selection of the proceedings of the 31st European Marine Biology Symposium, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in September 1996. State-of-the-art reviews and studies on adaptational processes in marine organisms such as adaptations to fluctuations in salinity, temperature,...
Fortress Plant
How to survive when everything wants to eat you
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
The survival of plants on our planet is nothing short of miraculous. They are virtually stationary packages of food, providing sustenance for a vast array of organisms, ranging from bacteria and fungi, through to insects, and even other plants. But plants are master survivors, having coped with changing...
by Raymond Pierotti
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Indigenous ways of understanding and interacting with the natural world are characterized as Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), which derives from emphasizing relationships and connections among species. This book examines TEK and its strengths in relation to Western ecological knowledge and...
The Earth
From Myths to Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
How mankind discovered the size, trajectory and age of the Earth
Our planet’s elliptical orbit around the Sun and its billions-of-years existence are facts we take for granted, matters every literate high school student is expected to grasp. But humanity’s struggle towards these scientific...
Planet of Microbes
The Perils and Potential of Earth's Essential Life Forms
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
We live in a time of unprecedented scientific knowledge about the origins of life on Earth. But if we want to grasp the big picture, we have to start small—very small. That’s because the real heroes of the story of life on Earth are microbes, the tiny living organisms we cannot see with the naked...
Biology of the Sauropod Dinosaurs
Understanding the Life of Giants
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
Sauropods, those huge plant-eating dinosaurs, possessed bodies that seem to defy every natural law. What were these creatures like as living animals and how could they reach such uniquely gigantic sizes? A dedicated group of researchers in Germany in disciplines ranging from engineering and materials...
De Toumaï à Sapiens, la ruée vers l'homme (Paris - 2009)
Les Fiches Exposition d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: October 5, 2016
À l'occasion du bicentenaire de la naissance du naturaliste anglais Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) et des 150 ans de sa publication de l'Origine des espèces (1859) mais aussi des 200 ans de laPhilosophie zoologique (1809) du Français Jean-Baptiste de Monet de Lamarck...
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by John Burroughs
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
“Time and Change” is a 1912 work on geology by American naturalist John Boroughs. Within it, Buroughs explores the beauty and science behind the history of the Earth in the masterful way for which he is famous. John Burroughs (1837 – 1921) was an American naturalist, essayist, and active member...
The Brain
A User's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Join New Scientist on a mind-expanding rollercoaster ride through intelligence, creativity, your unconscious and beyond.
Congratulations! You're the proud owner of the most complex information processing device in the known universe. The human brain comes equipped with all sorts of useful design...
The Story of Biology
From myths and molecules to ecosystems and biospheres
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Following the successful pattern of previous Story of ... titles, The Story of Biology traces the development of biology from its origins in myths invented to explain the wonders and perils of the natural world, through the first attempts at empirical investigation, to the highly structured and technical...
by Unknown
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
This is the first 60,000 'letters' of chromosome one of the draft public domain human genome, formatted in arbitrary 60 column lines. This represents a portion of the structure of the double helix DNA molecule. Each letter in the text (A, C, G and T) represents one 'base pair' of nucleotides. They...
Summary & Analysis of Who We Are and How We Got Here
Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past | A Guide to the Book by David Reich
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
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In his groundbreaking book, geneticist David Reich presents findings from the "Ancient DNA Revolution,"...
Van bacterie naar Bach en terug
de evolutie van de geest
Language: Dutch
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Vijfentwintig jaar na het meesterwerk van Daniel Dennett over het bewustzijn, 'Het bewustzijn verklaard', verschijnt de opvolger: 'Van bacterie naar Bach en terug'. In dit nieuwe boek onderzoekt Dennett hoe je abstracte begrippen als ziel, intelligentie en creativiteit kunt beschrijven. De auteur...