Evolution category: 1570 books

INTRODUCTION This book describes a new interdisciplinary theory for explaining cultural change. In contrast to traditional evolutionist theories, the present theory stresses the fact that a culture can evolve in different directions depending on its life conditions. Cultural selection theory explains...

Elie Metchnikoff (1845-1916), winner of the Nobel Prize in 1907 for his contributions to immunology, was first a comparative zoologist, who, working in the wake of Darwin's On the Origin of Species, made seminal contributions to evolutionary biology. His work in comparative embryology is best known...

Essential Developmental Biology is a comprehensive, richly illustrated introduction to all aspects of developmental biology. Written in a clear and accessible style, the third edition of this popular textbook has been expanded and updated In addition, an accompanying website provides instructional...

Though today best remembered as a satirist and novelist, British author Samuel Butler was also deeply involved in the scientific debates of his day. In this volume of essays, Butler mounts a compelling alternative theory to the Darwinian model that was starting to gain traction at the time.

The Survival of Beauty and Art is a direct followup to Faas’ The Genealogy of Aesthetics (Cambridge, 2002), his Nietzschean critique of the Idealist western tradition. Genealogy met with both lavish praise and fierce rebuttal. Professor D. Townsend, head of the American Society of Aesthetics, conceded...

The extent to which human activity has influenced species extinctions during the recent prehistoric past remains controversial due to other factors such as climatic fluctuations and a general lack of data. However, the Holocene (the geological interval spanning the last 11,500 years from the end of...

hope of obtaining a comprehensive and coherent understand­ ing of the human condition, we must somehow weave together the biological, sociological, and psychological components of human nature and experience. And this cannot be done­ indeed, it is difficult to even make sense of an attempt to do...

Humanity's physical design flaws have long been apparent--we get hemorrhoids and impacted wisdom teeth, for instance--but do the imperfections extend down to the level of our genes? Inside the Human Genome is the first book to examine the philosophical question of why, from the perspectives of biochemistry...

The Science of Transgenderism has been a labour of love for me. I consider myself to be an amateur scientist, Science Enthousiast. My love of science and respect for spirituality have combined during my research and experimentation. This paper is a resource I wish I would have had, during my self-discovery.

"Il gemello decerebrato". Presentazione dell'autrice. L'uomo, oggi in special modo, "gioca a fare Dio". Non è detto che ogni uomo creda in una divinità superiore che lo abbia creato, come si potrebbe fare un giorno con un robot di carne. Guardando "nel fondo del cielo"...

The book explores how Darwin´s legendary and mythologized visit to the Galapagos affected the socioecosystems of the Islands, as well as the cultural and intellectual traditions of Ecuador and Latin America. It highlights in what way the connection between Darwin and the Galapagos has had real, enduring...

La théorie de l'évolution, née au XVIIIe siècle mais remodelée par Charles Darwin en 1859, est admise depuis la fin du XIXe siècle par l'immense majorité des scientifiques. Elle peut se résumer à l'idée que les espèces vivantes se modifient au cours du temps, au point de ...

The current book is not about trying to prove the truth of this or that scientific or religious account about the origins of either human beings, in particular, or life, in general. ‘The Origin of Life' is about the problems surrounding the process of interpreting empirical evidence and subjecting that data to various methods of rigorous critical reflection.

**　　只有細胞核基因組，能夠告訴我們人類演化的完整故事** 　　是什麼，讓我們成為真正的人類？ 　　尼安德塔人的基因是一扇獨特的窗口， 　　讓我們能藉此一窺我們人族親戚的生活， 　　同時也可能解開一個謎團： 　　為何尼安德塔人滅絕，而人類活了下來？ 　　2010年，瑞典遺傳生物學家帕波宣布完成尼安德塔人基因組定序，從此人類演化研究邁入新紀元。在《尼安德塔人》這本書中，帕波描述自己在25年漫長的研究中所進行的工作，並敘述為了找出人類和近親尼安德塔人之間遺傳差異，最終獲致的成功，以及期間所付出的極大努力。 　　帕波從1980年代研究埃及木乃伊開始，不斷試驗萃取絕種物種DNA的技術，排除古代DNA污染問題，建立可靠重建DNA準則，最終使用在重建人類演化史的聖杯上，定出共有三十億個核苷酸序列的尼安德塔人基因組。 　　由於演化人類學及古生物學家對於現代人類起源以及與尼安德塔人的關係，一向頗多爭議，帕波的研究透過基因組的分析，打破許多人對遺傳學真能對人類學有所貢獻的疑慮，解開人類演化之謎。更驚人的是，他發現尼安德塔人並沒有滅絕，所有現代人類體內都帶有尼安德塔人的基因，也就是說，我們都是尼安德塔人的後代。這個發現讓人不得不重新描繪人類演化的歷程。 　　這是一個關於深具遠見的科學家與科學研究本質的故事，對於「我們是誰」這個基本問題，提供了豐富的見解。這也是一本好看的實驗室文學，科學家在探索科學真相時理論上的思辨，不斷檢驗實驗成果並尋求出路時的波折連連，實驗室成員的互動以及與科學競爭團隊的競合，將科學工作的第一手資料極為生動地記錄下來。       名人推薦 　　王道還...