Evolution category: 1570 books

Cover of The Effects of Cross and Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom
by Charles Darwin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

The Introductory Remarks begin: "There is weighty and abundant evidence that the flowers of most kinds of plants are constructed so as to be occasionally or habituallycross-fertilised by pollen from another flower, produced either by the same plant, or generally, as we shall hereafter see reason to believe,...
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The Moral Brain

Essays on the Evolutionary and Neuroscientific Aspects of Morality

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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009

Scientists no longer accept the existence of a distinct moral organ as phrenologists once did. A generation of young neurologists is using advanced technological medical equipment to unravel specific brain processes enabling moral cognition. In addition, evolutionary psychologists have formulated...
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Evolutionary Biogeography

An Integrative Approach with Case Studies

by Juan Morrone
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2008

Rather than favoring only one approach, Juan J. Morrone proposes a comprehensive treatment of the developments and theories of evolutionary biogeography. Evolutionary biogeography uses distributional, phylogenetic, molecular, and fossil data to assess the historical changes that have produced current...
Cover of Darwin's On the Origin of Species
by Daniel Duzdevich
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014

An essential new edition of the 19th-century scientific masterpiece that translates Darwin’s Victorian prose into modern English: “Most useful” (Walter Brock, Columbia University). Charles Darwin’s most famous book On the Origin of Species is without question one of the most important...
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Segmented Negative Strand Viruses

Arenaviruses, Bunyaviruses, and Orthomyxoviruses

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Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013

Segmented Negative Strand Viruses: Arenaviruses, Bunyaviruses, and Orthomyxoviruses is a collection of proceedings presented at the 5th International Symposium on Negative Strand Viruses, held at Hilton Head, South Carolina, on September 11-17, 1983. The papers focus on three virus families with segmented...
Cover of Dinosaurs and Other Reptiles from the Mesozoic of Mexico
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014

This overview of dinosaur discoveries in Mexico synthesizes current information about the geography and environment of the region during the Mesozoic when it was the western margin of the ancient continent of Pangea. The book summarizes research on various groups, including turtles, lepidosauromorphs,...
Cover of Health and Welfare of Captive Reptiles
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013

This most important book fully examines the welfare of captive reptiles and discusses the positive and negative implications of general husbandry and research programmes. The editors, acknowledged experts in their own right, have drawn together an extremely impressive international group of contributors...
Cover of Sexual Segregation in Vertebrates
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Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2006

Males and females often differ in developmental patterns, adult morphology, ecology and behaviour, and in many mammals males are often larger. Size dimorphism results in divergent nutritional and energetic requirements or reproductive strategies by the sexes, which in turn sometimes causes them to...
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The Cell

A Visual Tour of the Building Block of Life

by Jack Challoner
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015

The cell is the basic building block of life. In its 3.5 billion years on the planet, it has proven to be a powerhouse, spreading life first throughout the seas, then across land, developing the rich and complex diversity of life that populates the planet today.               With The...
Cover of Why Gould Was Wrong
by Nils K. Oeijord
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2003

Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was a leading critic of human behavioral genetics, human sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, and the modern evolutionary synthesis. Why Gould Was Wrong explains why Gould's claims were horribly wrong.
Cover of Mutual Aid
by P. Kropotkin
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015

Two aspects of animal life impressed me most during the journeys which I made in my youth in Eastern Siberia and Northern Manchuria. One of them was the extreme severity of the struggle for existence which most species of animals have to carry on against an inclement Nature; the enormous destruction...
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The Parasite-Stress Theory of Values and Sociality

Infectious Disease, History and Human Values Worldwide

by Randy Thornhill, Corey L. Fincher
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014

This book develops and tests an ecological and evolutionary theory of the causes of human values—the core beliefs that guide people’s cognition and behavior—and their variation across time and space around the world. We call this theory the parasite-stress theory of values or the parasite-stress...
Cover of Flight of Mammals: From Terrestrial Limbs to Wings
by Aleksandra A. Panyutina, Leonid P. Korzun, Alexander N. Kuznetsov
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015

This book offers a new explanation for the development of flight in mammals and offers detailed morphological descriptions of mammals with flapping flight. The skeletomuscular apparatus of the shoulder girdle and forelimbs of tree shrews, flying lemurs and bats is described in detail. Special attention...
Cover of Mutual Aid
by P. Kropotkin
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015

Two aspects of animal life impressed me most during the journeys which I made in my youth in Eastern Siberia and Northern Manchuria. One of them was the extreme severity of the struggle for existence which most species of animals have to carry on against an inclement Nature; the enormous destruction...
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