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When Humans Nearly Vanished
The Catastrophic Explosion of the Toba Volcano
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
The fascinating true story of the explosion of the Mount Toba supervolcano--the Earth's largest eruption in the past 28 million years--and its lasting impact on Earth and human evolution
Some 73,000 years ago, the huge dome of Mount Toba, in today's Sumatra, Indonesia, began to rumble. A deep...
Evolution and the Emergent Self
The Rise of Complexity and Behavioral Versatility in Nature
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Evolution and the Emergent Self is an eloquent and evocative new synthesis that explores how the human species emerged from the cosmic dust. Lucidly presenting ideas about the rise of complexity in our genetic, neuronal, ecological, and ultimately cosmological settings, the author takes readers on...
by Theodore Goldsmith
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
For most of the past century, it was widely thought that delaying the human aging process was scientifically impossible. More recently, it has become increasingly clear that delaying aging is not only possible but a near-term reality. This book describes how theories of biological aging have evolved...
Brutes or Angels
Human Possibility in the Age of Biotechnology
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
A guide to the rapidly progressing Age of Biotechnology, Brutes or Angels provides basic information on a wide array of new technologies in the life sciences, along with the ethical issues raised by each.
With stem cell research, Dolly the cloned sheep, in vitro fertilization, age retardation,...
Lichen Secondary Metabolites
Bioactive Properties and Pharmaceutical Potential
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2019
This revised and extended edition provides in-depth insights into the benefits and untapped potential of lichen-derived bioactive compounds. The whole spectrum of these compounds’ biological and medical functions, from antibiotic to antiviral and anti-carcinogenic properties, is presented. In addition,...
Restoration Ecology
The New Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Enlarged, enhanced and internationalized edition of the first restoration ecology textbook to be published, with foreword by Dr. Steven Whisnant of Texas A&M University and Chair of the Society of Ecological Restoration.
Since 2006, when the first edition of this book appeared, major advances...
Fifty Years of Invasion Ecology
The Legacy of Charles Elton
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Invasion ecology is the study of the causes and consequences of the introduction of organisms to areas outside their native range. Interest in this field has exploded in the past few decades. Explaining why and how organisms are moved around the world, how and why some become established and invade,...
by Julie L. Lockwood, Martha F. Hoopes, Michael P. Marchetti
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
This new edition of Invasion Ecology provides a comprehensive and updated introduction to all aspects of biological invasion by non-native species. Highlighting important research findings associated with each stage of invasion, the book provides an overview of the invasion process from transportation...
Forest Landscape Restoration
Integrating Natural and Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Restoration ecology, as a scientific discipline, developed from practitioners’ efforts to restore degraded land, with interest also coming from applied ecologists attracted by the potential for restoration projects to apply and/or test developing theories on ecosystem development. Since then, forest...
by Guy Woodward, David Bohan
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
Advances in Ecological Research is one of the most successful series in the highly competitive field of ecology. Each volume publishes topical and important reviews, interpreting ecology as widely as in the past, to include all material that contributes to our understanding of the field. Topics in...
Agrarian Landscapes in Transition
Comparisons of Long-Term Ecological & Cultural Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2008
Agrarian Landscapes in Transition researches human interaction with the earth. With hundreds of acres of agricultural land going out of production every day, the introduction, spread, and abandonment of agriculture represents the most pervasive alteration of the Earth's environment for several thousand...
by Herbert Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher, biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist of the Victorian era. Spencer developed an all-embracing conception of evolution as the progressive development of the physical world, biological organisms, the human...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
This volume is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the recent explosion of experimental tools in neuroscience that now make it possible to manipulate, record, and understand neuronal activity within the intact brain, and which are helping us learn how the many neurons that comprise...
August Weismann
Development, Heredity, and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
August Weismann’s 1892 theory that inheritance is transmitted through eggs and sperm provided the biological mechanism for natural selection. In this full-length biography, Frederick Churchill situates Weismann in the swirling intellectual currents of his day and shows how his work paved the way for the modern synthesis of genetics and evolution.