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  • Resurrecting Extinct Species

    Ethics and Authenticity

    by Patrick Michael Whittle, Douglas Ian Campbell ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book is about the philosophy of de-extinction. To make an extinct species ‘de-extinct’ is to resurrect it by creating new organisms of the same, or similar, appearance and genetics. The book describes current attempts to resurrect three species, the aurochs, woolly mammoth and passenger pigeon. It then investigates two major philosophical questions such projects throw up. These are the ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

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  • The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar

    Evolution's Most Unbelievable Solutions to Life's Biggest Problems

    by Matt Simon ...
    **“A bizarre collection of evolution tales . . . the weirder, the better.” —Entertainment WeeklyA fascinating exploration of the awe-inspiring, unsettling ingenuity of evolution from Wired writer Matt Simon, author of Plight of the Living Dead (coming soon from Penguin Books)**On a barren seafloor, the pearlfish swims into the safety of a sea cucumber’s anus. To find a meal, the female bolas ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Insect Ecology

    Behavior, Populations and Communities

    by Peter W. Price, Robert F. Denno, Micky D. Eubanks, Deborah L. Finke, Ian Kaplan ...
    Combining breadth of coverage with detail, this logical and cohesive introduction to insect ecology couples concepts with a broad range of examples and practical applications. It explores cutting-edge topics in the field, drawing on and highlighting the links between theory and the latest empirical studies. The sections are structured around a series of key topics, including behavioral ecology; ... Read more

    $77.89 USD

  • Origins of Biogeography

    The role of biological classification in early plant and animal geography

    by Malte Christian Ebach ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book presents a revised history of early biogeography and investigates the split in taxonomic practice, between the classification of taxa and the classification of vegetation. It moves beyond the traditional belief that biogeography is born from a synthesis of Darwin and Wallace and focuses on the important pioneering work of earlier practitioners such as Zimmermann, Stromeyer, de Candolle ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Evolution Driven by Organismal Behavior

    A Unifying View of Life, Function, Form, Mismatches and Trends

    by Rui Diogo ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book proposes a new way to think about evolution. The author carefully brings together evidence from diverse fields of science. In the process, he bridges the gaps between many different--and usually seen as conflicting--ideas to present one integrative theory named ONCE, which stands for Organic Nonoptimal Constrained Evolution. The author argues that evolution is mainly driven by the ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Transhumanism and Society

    The Social Debate over Human Enhancement

    by Stephen Lilley ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book provides an introductory overview to the social debate over enhancement technologies with an overview of the transhumanists' call to bypass human nature and conservationists' argument in defense of it. The author present this controversy as it unfolds in the contest between transhumanists proponents and conservationists, who push back with an argument to conserve human nature and to ban ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Animal Ethics in the Age of Humans

    Blurring boundaries in human-animal relationships

    Edited by Bernice Bovenkerk, Jozef Keulartz ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book provides reflection on the increasingly blurry boundaries that characterize the human-animal relationship. In the Anthropocene humans and animals have come closer together and this asks for rethinking old divisions. Firstly, new scientific insights and technological advances lead to a blurring of the boundaries between animals and humans. Secondly, our increasing influence on nature ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Paleobiogeography

    by Bruce S. Lieberman ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Biogeography relates the evolution of the Earth's biota to major episodes in the Earth's history such as climatic changes and plate tectonic events. Furthermore, biogeographic patterns have played a prominent role in the development of the theory of evolution. Thus biogeography has the potential to make important contributions to the field of geobiology.Paleobiogeography emphasizes how analytical ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Evolution of Social Communication in Primates

    A Multidisciplinary Approach

    Edited by Marco Pina, Nathalie Gontier ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    How did social communication evolve in primates? In this volume, primatologists, linguists, anthropologists, cognitive scientists and philosophers of science systematically analyze how their specific disciplines demarcate the research questions and methodologies involved in the study of the evolutionary origins of social communication in primates in general and in humans in particular. In the ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Human Rights and Human Nature

    Edited by Jörn Reinhardt, Marion Albers, Thomas Hoffmann ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book explores both the possibilities and limits of arguments from human nature in the context of human rights. Can the concept of human nature provide a basis for understanding fundamental rights? Is it plausible to justify the claim to universal validity of human rights by reference to human nature? Or does the idea of human rights in its modern, post-1945 manifestation go, in essence, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Philosophy of Behavioral Biology

    Edited by Kathryn S. Plaisance, Thomas A.C. Reydon ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume provides a broad overview of issues in the philosophy of behavioral biology, covering four main themes: genetic, developmental, evolutionary, and neurobiological explanations of behavior. It is both interdisciplinary and empirically informed in its approach, addressing philosophical issues that arise from recent scientific findings in biological research on human and non-human animal ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • The Mind and the Brain

    A Multi-Aspect Interpretation

    by J.H. Ornstein ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    2 no predictions or experimental findings based on the Identity Theory differ from those based on mind-brain Parallelism or Epiphenomenal ism, i.e., Dualism in general. The Identity Theory, therefore, must stand or fall on its reputed conceptual advantages over Dualism. Then the conceptual issues at stake in the mind-brain problem are discussed. The kernel of truth present in the Identity Theory ... Read more

    $49.49 USD