Evolution category: 1570 books
Evolution 2.0
Implications of Darwinism in Philosophy and the Social and Natural Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
These essays by leading philosophers and scientists focus on recent ideas at the forefront of modern Darwinism, showcasing and exploring the challenges they raise as well as open problems. This interdisciplinary volume is unique in that it addresses the key notions of evolutionary theory in approaches...
Insight on Environmental Genomics
The High-Throughput Sequencing Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Bringing together the latest methodological and scientific progress in the various research areas in the field of Environmental Genomics, this book discusses the characterization of the structure and dynamics of life, the study of the evolution and adaptation of genes and genomes, the analysis of...
The Evolution of the Primate Hand
Anatomical, Developmental, Functional, and Paleontological Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
This book demonstrates how the primate hand combines both primitive and novel morphology, both general function with specialization, and both a remarkable degree of diversity within some clades and yet general similarity across many others. Across the chapters, different authors have addressed a...
by Jack R. Kryder
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Our Earth is running out of resources to support humankind at a prodigious rate. In many areas, in approximately ten years, well be running out of food and freshwater to surviveworldwide. Its amounting to extinction of the human race.
In addition, computerized Mechanical Humans are evolving...
by Juliana G.M. Soares, Ricardo Gattass, Bruss Lima
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
This book discusses the hypothesis that the primate pulvinar contains an original scaffold which is derived from cytoarchitectural markers and specific protein distributions. Thereafter, along primate evolution, different selective pressures acted in order to shape and fine-tune the connectivity of...
by Randy Thornhill, Steven W. Gangestad
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2008
Research conducted in the last fifteen years has placed in question many of the traditional conclusions scholars have formed about human female sexuality. Though conventional wisdom asserts that women's estrus has been evolutionarily lost, Randy Thornhill and Steven W. Gangestad assert that it is...
by John S. Torday, Neil W. Blackstone, Virender K. Rehan
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
A groundbreaking, evidence-based text to the growing field of evolutionary medicine
Evidence-Based Evolutionary Medicine offers a comprehensive review of the burgeoning field of evolutionary medicine and explores vital topics such as evolution, ecology, and aging as they relate to mainstream...
by
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2000
Almost all evolutionary biologists, indeed all biologists, use particular features to study life. These characteristics or features used by evolutionary biologists are used in a particular way to unravel a tangled evolutionary history, document the rate of evolutionary change, or as evidence of biodiversity....
Mate Choice
The Evolution of Sexual Decision Making from Microbes to Humans
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
**A major new look at the evolution of mating decisions in organisms from protozoans to humans **
The popular consensus on mate choice has long been that females select mates likely to pass good genes to offspring. In Mate Choice, Gil Rosenthal overturns much of this conventional wisdom. Providing...
Revolutionary Biology
The New, Gene-centered View of Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
There is a revolution underway in biology. It is based on a new perception of bodies and genes, in which the former are the end product of the latter within the continuum of evolution. Twenty fi ve years after Richard Dawkins helped revolutionize our thinking about "selfi sh genes," it is...
by
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
This two-volume work is a testament to the abiding interest and human fascination with ammonites. We offer a new model to explain the morphogenesis of septa and the shell, we explore their habitats by the content of stable isotopes in their shells, we discuss the origin and later evolution of this...
by David Seargent
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2015
After addressing strange cosmological hypotheses in Weird Universe, David Seargent tackles the no-less bizarre theories closer to home. Alternate views on the Solar System's formation, comet composition, and the evolution of life on Earth are only some of the topics he addresses in this new work. Although...
THE ORIGIN OF EVIL
MANKIND, SLAVE OF YAHWEH
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
What is evil? Were did it come from. This is a fundamental negative aspect of the Human condition that has engaged theologians, mystics and philosophers for centuries. And more recently, psychologists. The whole evolutionary process of life entails the use of free will, in an existential sense, making...
Die Abstammung des Menschen und die geschlechtliche Zuchtwahl
Illustrierte Ausgabe
Language: German
Release Date: July 27, 2014
Dieses eBook: "Die Abstammung des Menschen und die geschlechtliche Zuchtwahl" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Charles Darwin verwendete in dieses Werk zum ersten Mal in einer seiner Schriften die Bezeichnung...