Evolution category: 1570 books

Cover of Herpetology

Herpetology

An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles

by Laurie J. Vitt, Janalee P. Caldwell
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008

This third edition, now fully revised and updated by two of Dr. Zug's colleagues, provides herpetology students and amateur reptile and amphibian keepers with the latest taxonomy and species developments from around the world. Herpetology is a rapidly evolving field, which has contributed to new discoveries...
Cover of The Dinosauria, Second Edition
by
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2004

When the The Dinosauria was first published more than a decade ago, it was hailed as "the best scholarly reference work available on dinosaurs" and "an historically unparalleled compendium of information." This second, fully revised edition continues in the same vein as the first...
Cover of The Adaptive Landscape in Evolutionary Biology
by
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012

The 'Adaptive Landscape' has been a central concept in population genetics and evolutionary biology since this powerful metaphor was first formulated by Sewall Wright in 1932. Eighty years later, it has become a central framework in evolutionary quantitative genetics, selection studies in natural...
Cover of The Vision Revolution

The Vision Revolution

How the Latest Research Overturns Everything We Thought We Knew About Human Vision

by Mark Changizi
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010

In The Vision Revolution, Mark Changizi, prominent neuroscientist and vision expert, addresses four areas of human vision and provides explanations for why we have those particular abilities, complete with a number of full-color illustrations to demonstrate his conclusions and to engage the reader....
Cover of Symbioses and Stress

Symbioses and Stress

Joint Ventures in Biology

by
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010

Symbioses and Stress examines how organisms in tight symbiotic associations cope with abiotic and biotic stress. Presenting new findings on symbioses by experts and leading scholars in the field, this volume complements courses and lectures in biology and genetics.
Cover of Beyond Cladistics

Beyond Cladistics

The Branching of a Paradigm

by
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010

Cladistics, or phylogenetic systematics—an approach to discovering, unraveling, and testing hypotheses of evolutionary history—took hold during a turbulent and acrimonious time in the history of systematics. During this period—the 1960s and 1970s—much of the foundation of modern systematic...
Cover of Assumptions Inhibiting Progress in Comparative Biology
by
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016

This book is a thought-provoking assessment of assumptions inhibiting progress in comparative biology. The volume is inspired by a list generated years earlier by Donn Rosen, one of the most influential, innovative and productive comparative biologists of the latter 20th century. His list has assumed...
Cover of Chaos in Real Data

Chaos in Real Data

The Analysis of Non-Linear Dynamics from Short Ecological Time Series

by
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Chaos in Real Data studies the range of data analytic techniques available to study nonlinear population dynamics for ecological time series. Several case studies are studied using typically short and noisy population data from field and laboratory. A range of modern approaches, such as response surface...
Cover of Skeleton Keys

Skeleton Keys

The Secret Life of Bone

by Brian Switek
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019

“A provocative and entertaining magical mineral tour through the life and afterlife of bone.” —Wall Street Journal Our bones have many stories to tell, if you know how to listen. Bone is a marvel, an adaptable and resilient building material developed over more than four hundred...
Cover of The Nature of Life and Its Potential to Survive
by David S. Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017

This book looks at the persistence of life and how difficult it would be to annihilate life, especially a species as successful as humanity. The idea that life in general is fragile is challenged by the hardiness of microbes, which shows that astrobiology on exoplanets and other satellites must be...
Cover of Species Survival in Fragmented Landscapes
by
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

The effects of isolation, area size, and habitat quality on the survival of animal and plant populations in the cultural landscape are central aspects of a research project started in Germany in 1993 (,Forschungsverbund, Isolation, FHichengroBe und BiotopquaIiHit', abbreviated to 'FIFB'). After a...
Cover of Evolutionary Bioinformatics
by Donald R. Forsdyke
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016

Now in its third edition and supplemented with more online material, this book aims to make the "new" information-based (rather than gene-based) bioinformatics intelligible both to the "bio" people and the "info" people. Books on bioinformatics have traditionally served...
Cover of Molecular Panbiogeography of the Tropics
by Michael Heads
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012

Molecular studies reveal highly ordered geographic patterns in plant and animal distributions. The tropics illustrate these patterns of community immobilism leading to allopatric differentiation, as well as other patterns of mobilism, range expansion, and overlap of taxa. Integrating Earth history...
Cover of Making Eden

Making Eden

How Plants Transformed a Barren Planet

by David Beerling
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019

Over 7 billion people depend on plants for healthy, productive, secure lives, but few of us stop to consider the origin of the plant kingdom that turned the world green and made our lives possible. And as the human population continues to escalate, our survival depends on how we treat the plant kingdom...
First 90 91 92 93 94 95 9697 98 99 100
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy