Evolution category: 1570 books
Islands in the Cosmos
The Evolution of Life on Land
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2009
How is it that we came to be here? The search for answers to that question has preoccupied humans for millennia. Scientists have sought clues in the genes of living things, in the physical environments of Earth from mountaintops to the depths of the ocean, in the chemistry of this world and those...
Cracking the Aging Code
The New Science of Growing Old - And What It Means for Staying Young
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
A revolutionary examination of why we age, what it means for our health, and how we just might be able to fight it.
In Cracking the Aging Code, theoretical biologist Josh Mitteldorf and award-winning writer and ecological philosopher Dorion Sagan reveal that evolution and aging are even more...
Zic family
Evolution, Development and Disease
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
This book provides a comprehensive overview of ZIC-family research. Part1 summarizes the ZIC family in animal evolution and development and presents an overall picture of the ZIC family gene structure in eumetazoan animals, providing an evolutionary hypothesis and reviewing the studies on the role...
E.O. Wilson and B.F. Skinner
A Dialogue Between Sociobiology and Radical Behaviorism
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2009
Reviewers have characterized Paul Naour's A Dialogue Between Sociobiology and Radical Behaviorism, which includes brief introductions by E.O. Wilson and B.F. Skinner's elder daughter, Julie Vargus, as an idea book. The work will undoubtedly have a significant academic market and provide students and...
by Don Ross, Jessica C Flack, Doug Erwin
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Essays from a range of disciplinary perspectives show the central role that cooperation plays in structuring our world.
This collection reports on the latest research on an increasingly pivotal issue for evolutionary biology: cooperation. The chapters are written from a variety of disciplinary...
by Donald Symons
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 1979
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 1979
Author Donald Symonds examines the differences between men and women in sexual behavior and attitudes, concluding that these differences are innate and that it is impossible to achieve identical sexualities in males and females. A central theme of this book is that, with respect to sexuality, there...
Evolutionary Ecology of Parasites
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
Parasites have evolved independently in numerous animal lineages, and they now make up a considerable proportion of the biodiversity of life. Not only do they impact humans and other animals in fundamental ways, but in recent years they have become a powerful model system for the study of ecology...
Time, Space, Stars and Man
The Story of the Big Bang
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2009
Most well-read, but non-scientific, people will have heard of the term “Big Bang” as a description of the origin of the Universe. They will recognize that DNA identifies individuals and will know that the origin of life is one of the great unsolved scientific mysteries. This book brings together...
The Nick of Time
Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2004
In this pathbreaking philosophical work, Elizabeth Grosz points the way toward a theory of becoming to replace the prevailing ontologies of being in social, political, and biological discourse. Arguing that theories of temporality have significant and underappreciated relevance to the social dimensions...
God Is Watching You
How the Fear of God Makes Us Human
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
"And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die." The biblical story of the flood crystalizes--in its terrifying, dramatic simplicity--the universally recognized...
Design in Nature
How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
In this groundbreaking book, Adrian Bejan takes the recurring patterns in nature—trees, tributaries, air passages, neural networks, and lightning bolts—and reveals how a single principle of physics, the Constructal Law, accounts for the evolution of these and all other designs in our world.
Everything—from...
The Story of Life in 25 Fossils
Tales of Intrepid Fossil Hunters and the Wonders of Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Every fossil tells a story. Best-selling paleontology author Donald R. Prothero describes twenty-five famous, beautifully preserved fossils in a gripping scientific history of life on Earth. Recounting the adventures behind the discovery of these objects and fully interpreting their significance within...
The Origins of Life
From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2000
In this fascinating book, John Maynard Smith and Eors Szathmary present an original picture of evolution. They propose that during evolution there have been a number of major transitions in the way in which information is passed between generations. These transitions include the appearance of the...
Life on a Young Planet
The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2015
Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites--such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form only the half-billion-year tip of a nearly four-billion-year iceberg. Andrew Knoll explores the deep...