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  • Personality and Temperament in Nonhuman Primates

    Edited by Alexander Weiss, James E. King, Lindsay Murray ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Recently, there has been an increased interest in research on personality, temperament, and behavioral syndromes (henceforth to be referred to as personality) in nonhuman primates and other animals. This follows, in part, from a general interest in the subject matter and the realization that individual differences, once consigned to ‘error’ terms in statistical analyses, are potentially important ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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  • The Voyage Of The Beagle

    by Charles Darwin ...
    Voyage of the Beagle chronicles Charles Darwin's five years as a naturalist on board the H.M.S. Beagle. The notes and observations that he recorded in his diary included Chile, Argentina and Galapagos Islands and encompasses the ecology, geology and anthropology of the places he visits. A fascinating travel memoir the ideas that were later to evolve into Darwin's theory of natural selection find ... Read more

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  • Pollination and Floral Ecology

    by Patricia Willmer ...
    Pollination and Floral Ecology is the most comprehensive single-volume reference to all aspects of pollination biology--and the first fully up-to-date resource of its kind to appear in decades. This beautifully illustrated book describes how flowers use colors, shapes, and scents to advertise themselves; how they offer pollen and nectar as rewards; and how they share complex interactions with ... Read more

    $98.69 USD

  • Natural Selection

    On the Origin of Species and Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection

    by Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace ...
    Series series The Big Ideas
    Brought together here in one volume are two seminal books expressing ideas that completely changed the world.On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin was published in 1859 into an inferno of controversy. In his masterpiece, Darwin cogently explains the tenets of evolutionary theory; natural selection, adaptation, inheritance, the struggle for existence, and the survival of the fittest.All of ... Read more

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  • Evolutionary Ecology of Parasites

    Second Edition

    by Robert Poulin ...
    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 and evolution, with practical applications in disease prevention. Here, in a thoroughly revised and ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Animal Evolution

    Genomes, Fossils, and Trees

    by NATURAL SCIENCES and MATHEMATICS (500), ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCES (590) ...
    Animal life, now and over the past half billion years, is incredibly diverse. Describing and understanding the evolution of this diversity of body plans - from vertebrates such as humans and fish to the numerous invertebrate groups including sponges, insects, molluscs, and the many groups of worms - is a major goal of evolutionary biology. In this book, a group of leading researchers adopt a ... Read more

    $62.09 USD

  • Mutual Aid

    by P. Kropotkin ...
    Two aspects of animal life impressed me most during the journeys which I made in my youth in Eastern Siberia and Northern Manchuria. One of them was the extreme severity of the struggle for existence which most species of animals have to carry on against an inclement Nature; the enormous destruction of life which periodically results from natural agencies; and the consequent paucity of life over ... Read more

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  • Evolutionary Biology: Self/Nonself Evolution, Species and Complex Traits Evolution, Methods and Concepts

    Edited by Pierre Pontarotti ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book presents 19 selected contributions to the 20th Evolutionary Biology Meeting in Marseille, which took place in September 2016. They are grouped under the following major themes:· Self/Nonself Evolution· Species Evolution and Evolution of Complex Traits· Methods and ConceptsThe aims of the annual meetings in Marseille – which bring together leading evolutionary biologists and other ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Woolly Monkey

    Behavior, Ecology, Systematics, and Captive Research

    Edited by Pablo R. Stevenson, Thomas R. Defler ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Woolly monkeys are large, attractive and widespread primates found throughout many parts of the Amazon basin. It is only in the last twenty-five years or so that long-term studies of woollies in their forest habitat have been successful; they have not generally been successfully kept in captivity. But now, especially because of their size, these creatures are pressed on all sides by bush meat ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Evolution of Parental Care

    by Mathias Kölliker ...
    Parental care includes a wide variety of traits that enhance offspring development and survival. It is taxonomically widespread and is central to the maintenance of biodiversity through its close association with other phenomena such as sexual selection, life-history evolution, sex allocation, sociality, cooperation and conflict, growth and development, genetic architecture, and phenotypic ... Read more

    $82.79 USD

  • Phylogenomics

    An Introduction

    by Christoph Bleidorn ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This unique textbook provides a clear and concise overview of the key principles of the complex field of phylogenomics, with a particular focus on sequencing technologies that are crucial to studying and understanding interrelations in evolutionary genomics. It includes chapters dedicated to the analysis of nucleotide sequences using assembling and alignment methods and also discusses the main ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Coordination in Human and Primate Groups

    Edited by Margarete Boos, Michaela Kolbe, Peter M. Kappeler, Thomas Ellwart ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Coordination in Human and Primate Groups presents one of the first collections of the different approaches and methods used to assess coordination processes in groups. Written by psychologists and primatologists, the book represents a broad range of coordination research fields such as social psychology, work and organizational psychology, medicine, primatology, and behavioural ecology. It is ... Read more

    $143.09 USD