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The Evolution of Language

by W. Tecumseh Fitch ...

Series series Approaches to the Evolution of Language
Language, more than anything else, is what makes us human. It appears that no communication system of equivalent power exists elsewhere in the animal kingdom. Any normal human child will learn a language based on rather sparse data in the surrounding world, while even the brightest chimpanzee, exposed to the same environment, will not. Why not? How, and why, did language evolve in our species and ... Read more

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Language, more than anything else, is what makes us human. It appears that no communication system of equivalent power exists elsewhere in the animal kingdom. Any normal human child will learn a language based on rather sparse data in the surrounding world, while even the brightest chimpanzee, exposed to the same environment, will not. Why not? How, and why, did language evolve in our species and
... Read more
Essential Personalities, and why humans found love, adapted to monogamy and became better parents

by Andrew Kennedy ...

A tour de force connecting the evolution of the human personality structure and the formation of parenting bonds with the passage of the sun through the year. The author builds a case for the realistic prediction of human type fundamentals from a birth date, and includes descriptions of the sixty four basic human types. The author writes convincingly about the hows and whys of making relationships ... Read more

$8.69 USD

A tour de force connecting the evolution of the human personality structure and the formation of parenting bonds with the passage of the sun through the year. The author builds a case for the realistic prediction of human type fundamentals from a birth date, and includes descriptions of the sixty four basic human types. The author writes convincingly about the hows and whys of making relationships
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Unreal Giants

Science vs. the MonsterVerse

by R. V. Cross ...

What happens when movie monsters meet the rules of real science? Unreal Giants: Science vs. the MonsterVerse dives into that collision where physics, biology, and imagination collide on screen. From Godzilla’s radioactive breath to Kong’s impossible anatomy, it explores how filmmakers bend reality just enough to make the unbelievable feel true and why audiences keep coming back for more.Inside the ... Read more

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What happens when movie monsters meet the rules of real science? Unreal Giants: Science vs. the MonsterVerse dives into that collision where physics, biology, and imagination collide on screen. From Godzilla’s radioactive breath to Kong’s impossible anatomy, it explores how filmmakers bend reality just enough to make the unbelievable feel true and why audiences keep coming back for more.Inside the
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ADVANCED TREATMENT FOR CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH DISEASE: APOMETRY, NLP, REGRESSION AND HYPNOSIS

by Edenilson Brandl, Thor Otto Alexsander ...

I wrote this book to share my knowledge and experience with apometry, a technique that I believe has the potential to help people with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT).CMT is a complex and challenging condition, and there is no cure. However, there are many things that can be done to manage the symptoms and improve quality of life.Apometry is a complementary therapy that can be used in ... Read more

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I wrote this book to share my knowledge and experience with apometry, a technique that I believe has the potential to help people with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT).CMT is a complex and challenging condition, and there is no cure. However, there are many things that can be done to manage the symptoms and improve quality of life.Apometry is a complementary therapy that can be used in
... Read more
Humans

Perspectives on Our Evolution from World Experts

by Sergio Almécija ...

How did humanity evolve? And what does our evolutionary history tell us about what it means to be human? These questions are fundamental to our identity as individuals and as a species and to our relationship with the world. But there are almost as many answers to them as there are scientists who study these topics.This book brings together more than one hundred top experts, who share their ... Read more

$25.99 USD

How did humanity evolve? And what does our evolutionary history tell us about what it means to be human? These questions are fundamental to our identity as individuals and as a species and to our relationship with the world. But there are almost as many answers to them as there are scientists who study these topics.This book brings together more than one hundred top experts, who share their
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The Descent of Man

Selection in Relation to Sex

by Charles Darwin ...

Applying his controversial theory of evolution to the origins of the human species, Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man was the culmination of his life's work. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by James Moore and Adrian Desmond.In The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin refused to discuss human evolution, believing the subject too 'surrounded with prejudices'. He had been ... Read more

$14.29 USD

Applying his controversial theory of evolution to the origins of the human species, Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man was the culmination of his life's work. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by James Moore and Adrian Desmond.In The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin refused to discuss human evolution, believing the subject too 'surrounded with prejudices'. He had been
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Supervivir. Vuelve al origen y recupera tu salud

Reconecta con la naturaleza y aleja la enfermedad

by Carlos Stro, Ricardo Stro ...

El ser humano antiguo sobrevivía. El ser humano moderno subsiste. A nuestro alcance tenemos la capacidad de supervivir. Aquí te mostraremos cómo.Las especies vivas llevan poblando la Tierra unos 3.500 millones de años. Durante todo este tiempo, astronómicamente imposible de comprender por la mente humana, la vida siempre estuvo conectada a la naturaleza. Nunca fue necesario explicarle a ningún ser ... Read more

$11.99 USD

El ser humano antiguo sobrevivía. El ser humano moderno subsiste. A nuestro alcance tenemos la capacidad de supervivir. Aquí te mostraremos cómo.Las especies vivas llevan poblando la Tierra unos 3.500 millones de años. Durante todo este tiempo, astronómicamente imposible de comprender por la mente humana, la vida siempre estuvo conectada a la naturaleza. Nunca fue necesario explicarle a ningún ser
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The Evolution of Parental Care

by Mathias KÃ¶lliker ...

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

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
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Life Changing

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING ON GLOBAL CONSERVATION

by Helen Pilcher ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING ON GLOBAL CONSERVATION'Pilcher is both very funny and very, very clever.' Gillian Burke'Richly entertaining throughout.' Sunday TimesFor the last three billion years or so, life on Earth was shaped by natural forces. Evolution tended to happen slowly, with species crafted across millennia. Then, a few hundred thousand years ago, along came a bolshie ... Read more

$12.29 USD

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING ON GLOBAL CONSERVATION'Pilcher is both very funny and very, very clever.' Gillian Burke'Richly entertaining throughout.' Sunday TimesFor the last three billion years or so, life on Earth was shaped by natural forces. Evolution tended to happen slowly, with species crafted across millennia. Then, a few hundred thousand years ago, along came a bolshie
... Read more
The Artful Species

Aesthetics, Art, and Evolution

by Stephen Davies ...

The Artful Species explores the idea that our aesthetic responses and art behaviors are connected to our evolved human nature. Our humanoid forerunners displayed aesthetic sensibilities hundreds of thousands of years ago and the art standing of prehistoric cave paintings is virtually uncontested. In Part One, Stephen Davies analyses the key concepts of the aesthetic, art, and evolution, and ... Read more

$26.59 USD

The Artful Species explores the idea that our aesthetic responses and art behaviors are connected to our evolved human nature. Our humanoid forerunners displayed aesthetic sensibilities hundreds of thousands of years ago and the art standing of prehistoric cave paintings is virtually uncontested. In Part One, Stephen Davies analyses the key concepts of the aesthetic, art, and evolution, and
... Read more
The Origin and Evolution of Cultures

by Robert Boyd, Peter J. Richerson ...

Series series Evolution and Cognition
Oxford presents, in one convenient and coherently organized volume, 20 influential but until now relatively inaccessible articles that form the backbone of Boyd and Richerson's path-breaking work on evolution and culture. Their interdisciplinary research is based on two notions. First, that culture is crucial for understanding human behavior; unlike other organisms, socially transmitted beliefs, ... Read more

$57.59 USD

Oxford presents, in one convenient and coherently organized volume, 20 influential but until now relatively inaccessible articles that form the backbone of Boyd and Richerson's path-breaking work on evolution and culture. Their interdisciplinary research is based on two notions. First, that culture is crucial for understanding human behavior; unlike other organisms, socially transmitted beliefs,
... Read more
Once We All Had Gills

Growing Up Evolutionist in an Evolving World

by Rudolf A. Raff ...

In this book, Rudolf A. Raff reaches out to the scientifically queasy, using his life story and his growth as a scientist to illustrate why science matters, especially at a time when many Americans are both suspicious of science and hostile to scientific ways of thinking. Noting that science has too often been the object of controversy in school curriculums and debates on public policy issues ... Read more

$9.99 USD

In this book, Rudolf A. Raff reaches out to the scientifically queasy, using his life story and his growth as a scientist to illustrate why science matters, especially at a time when many Americans are both suspicious of science and hostile to scientific ways of thinking. Noting that science has too often been the object of controversy in school curriculums and debates on public policy issues
... Read more
The Cambridge Handbook of the Imagination

Edited by Anna Abraham ...

Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
The human imagination manifests in countless different forms. We imagine the possible and the impossible. How do we do this so effortlessly? Why did the capacity for imagination evolve and manifest with undeniably manifold complexity uniquely in human beings? This handbook reﬂects on such questions by collecting perspectives on imagination from leading experts. It showcases a rich and detailed ... Read more

$63.99 USD

The human imagination manifests in countless different forms. We imagine the possible and the impossible. How do we do this so effortlessly? Why did the capacity for imagination evolve and manifest with undeniably manifold complexity uniquely in human beings? This handbook reﬂects on such questions by collecting perspectives on imagination from leading experts. It showcases a rich and detailed
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Buckets from an English Sea

1832 and the Making of Charles Darwin

by Louis B. Rosenblatt ...

Darwin did not discover evolution. He didn't trip over it on the way to somewhere else the way Columbus discovered the New World. Like the atom, planetary orbits, and so many other scientific constructs, evolution was invented in order to explain striking phenomena. And it has been most successful. A century and a half has not simply confirmed Darwin's work, it has linked evolution to the ... Read more

$28.49 USD

Darwin did not discover evolution. He didn't trip over it on the way to somewhere else the way Columbus discovered the New World. Like the atom, planetary orbits, and so many other scientific constructs, evolution was invented in order to explain striking phenomena. And it has been most successful. A century and a half has not simply confirmed Darwin's work, it has linked evolution to the
... Read more
Biology and Its Makers

Enriched edition. With Portraits and Other Illustrations

by William A. Locy, Lauren Ashfield ...

In "Biology and Its Makers," William A. Locy offers a comprehensive exploration of the evolution of biological thought and the pivotal figures who shaped the discipline. The text weaves together a narrative rich in historical context and scientific rigor, presenting the lives and contributions of notable biologists alongside the broader scientific developments of their eras. Written in a clear and ... Read more

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In "Biology and Its Makers," William A. Locy offers a comprehensive exploration of the evolution of biological thought and the pivotal figures who shaped the discipline. The text weaves together a narrative rich in historical context and scientific rigor, presenting the lives and contributions of notable biologists alongside the broader scientific developments of their eras. Written in a clear and
... Read more
The Evolutionary World

How Adaptation Explains Everything from Seashells to Civilization

by Geerat J. Vermeij ...

"One of the master naturalists of our time" (American Scientist) reveals how evolutionary theory explains and affects not just the natural world but our society---and its future.Evolution has outgrown its original home in biology and geology. The Evolutionary World shows how evolution---descent with modification---is a concept that organizes, explains, and predicts a multitude of unconnected facts ... Read more

$14.39 USD

"One of the master naturalists of our time" (American Scientist) reveals how evolutionary theory explains and affects not just the natural world but our society---and its future.Evolution has outgrown its original home in biology and geology. The Evolutionary World shows how evolution---descent with modification---is a concept that organizes, explains, and predicts a multitude of unconnected facts
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A Billion Years of Sex Differences

How Evolution Shaped the Minds of Men and Women

by Steve Stewart-Williams ...

According to an old joke, everyone knows that men and women are different… except social scientists. In A Billion Years of Sex Differences, evolutionary psychologist Steve Stewart-Williams tackles some of science's most controversial questions: How do men and women differ? Where do the differences come from? And how do they shape modern life?The result is the most up-to-date, balanced, and ... Read more

$22.99 USD

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According to an old joke, everyone knows that men and women are different… except social scientists. In A Billion Years of Sex Differences, evolutionary psychologist Steve Stewart-Williams tackles some of science's most controversial questions: How do men and women differ? Where do the differences come from? And how do they shape modern life?The result is the most up-to-date, balanced, and
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Did Extraterrestrials Bring Us to Intelligence on Our Planet? a Scientist Speculates on the Sparse Information Available from Prehistory

by John F. Caddy Ph.D. ...

This book results from my literature search as an interested ecologist into the origin of intelligent life on our planet. I conclude that the evolution of life here was speeded up by extraterrestrial life forms of advanced intelligence who long preceded us. Through directed panspermia, they inoculated DNA or living cells onto our planet once its surface had cooled adequately—evolution then ... Read more

$4.99 USD

This book results from my literature search as an interested ecologist into the origin of intelligent life on our planet. I conclude that the evolution of life here was speeded up by extraterrestrial life forms of advanced intelligence who long preceded us. Through directed panspermia, they inoculated DNA or living cells onto our planet once its surface had cooled adequately—evolution then
... Read more
Milk

The Biology of Lactation

by Michael L. Power, Jay Schulkin ...

Everything you ever wanted to know about the substance that binds all mammals together.After drawing its first breath, every newborn mammal turns his or her complete attention to obtaining milk. This primal act was once thought to stem from a basic fact: milk provides the initial source of calories and nutrients for all mammalian young. But it turns out that milk is a much more complicated ... Read more

$59.89 USD

Everything you ever wanted to know about the substance that binds all mammals together.After drawing its first breath, every newborn mammal turns his or her complete attention to obtaining milk. This primal act was once thought to stem from a basic fact: milk provides the initial source of calories and nutrients for all mammalian young. But it turns out that milk is a much more complicated
... Read more
Constitution of Organs of the Higher Plants

The multiple secondary axis theory

by Chi Yen ...

Translated by Yang Yen ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This book written by Professor Chi Yen of Sichuan Agricultural University in Chinese was published by China Agriculture Press (ISBN 978-7-109-22791-0). It describes a new theory on the constitution of organs of the higher plants based on experimental evidence, the multiple secondary axis theory. This theory states that all organs of the higher plants are the constitution of multiple secondary axes ... Read more

$134.09 USD

This book written by Professor Chi Yen of Sichuan Agricultural University in Chinese was published by China Agriculture Press (ISBN 978-7-109-22791-0). It describes a new theory on the constitution of organs of the higher plants based on experimental evidence, the multiple secondary axis theory. This theory states that all organs of the higher plants are the constitution of multiple secondary axes
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Industrializing Organisms

Introducing Evolutionary History

Edited by Susan Schrepfer, Philip Scranton ...

Series series Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture
Scientists have developed a featherless chicken designed to make industrial chicken production more efficient, while specially trained Pacific bottlenose dolphins are being deployed in the Persian Gulf to disarm mines and protect our Navy. Everyone knows Darwin's theory of natural selection, but what about his idea of artificial selection--how humans, not nature, rework natural organisms to meet ... Read more

$64.99 USD

Scientists have developed a featherless chicken designed to make industrial chicken production more efficient, while specially trained Pacific bottlenose dolphins are being deployed in the Persian Gulf to disarm mines and protect our Navy. Everyone knows Darwin's theory of natural selection, but what about his idea of artificial selection--how humans, not nature, rework natural organisms to meet
... Read more
On Evolution

by John C. Avise ...

Essays from the award-winning geneticist on evolutionary biology—from protein electrophoresis to the recent ability to scan entire genomes.John Avise is one of the most distinguished evolutionary biologists of our time. His groundbreaking work with mitochondrial DNA created the entire discipline of phylogeography and his work on the Pleistocene refugia hypothesis redirected scientific thinking ... Read more

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Essays from the award-winning geneticist on evolutionary biology—from protein electrophoresis to the recent ability to scan entire genomes.John Avise is one of the most distinguished evolutionary biologists of our time. His groundbreaking work with mitochondrial DNA created the entire discipline of phylogeography and his work on the Pleistocene refugia hypothesis redirected scientific thinking
... Read more
Covid-19. Eta ondoren zer?

by Olaso Dorrea Fundazioa ...

Series Book 41 - Eztabaida
COVID-19aren ondorengo mundua ez da berdina izango, eta kudeatu beharreko ondorioak eta erronkak nabariak izan arren ez dira neurgarriak oraindik, ez Euskal Herri mailan, ez mundu mailan. Birusaren bilakaera bera oraindik ezezaguna zaigun arren, hartuko diren erabaki eta kudeaketa moduek ondorengo hilabete eta urteetako Euskal Herriko dinamika kultural, ekonomiko, politiko, ekologiko eta soziala ... Read more

$12.79 USD

COVID-19aren ondorengo mundua ez da berdina izango, eta kudeatu beharreko ondorioak eta erronkak nabariak izan arren ez dira neurgarriak oraindik, ez Euskal Herri mailan, ez mundu mailan. Birusaren bilakaera bera oraindik ezezaguna zaigun arren, hartuko diren erabaki eta kudeaketa moduek ondorengo hilabete eta urteetako Euskal Herriko dinamika kultural, ekonomiko, politiko, ekologiko eta soziala
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Beasts

What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good and Evil

by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson ...

Bestselling author Jeffrey Masson shows us what the animals at the top of the food chain-orca whales, big cats, etc.-can teach us about the origins of good and evil in ourselves.In his previous bestsellers, Masson has showed us that animals can teach us much about our own emotions-love (dogs), contentment (cats), and grief (elephants), among others. In Beasts, he demonstrates that the violence we ... Read more

$14.99 USD

Bestselling author Jeffrey Masson shows us what the animals at the top of the food chain-orca whales, big cats, etc.-can teach us about the origins of good and evil in ourselves.In his previous bestsellers, Masson has showed us that animals can teach us much about our own emotions-love (dogs), contentment (cats), and grief (elephants), among others. In Beasts, he demonstrates that the violence we
... Read more

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