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Dear Machine: A Letter to a Super-Aware/Intelligent Machine (SAIM)

by Greg Kieser ...

Brief description: Dear Machine is a letter to a future superintelligent entity, which Kieser identifies as a super-aware/intelligent machine (SAIM). Through the letter, he shares several hypotheses about how SAIMs will emerge and engage humanity. At its core, Dear Machine is a treatise on how humanity might strive for symbiosis with superintelligent entities.Long description: A growing number of ... Read more

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Brief description: Dear Machine is a letter to a future superintelligent entity, which Kieser identifies as a super-aware/intelligent machine (SAIM). Through the letter, he shares several hypotheses about how SAIMs will emerge and engage humanity. At its core, Dear Machine is a treatise on how humanity might strive for symbiosis with superintelligent entities.Long description: A growing number of
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Mismatch

The lifestyle diseases timebomb

by Peter Gluckman, Mark Hanson ...

We have built a world that no longer fits our bodies. Our genes - selected through our evolution - and the many processes by which our development is tuned within the womb, limit our capacity to adapt to the modern urban lifestyle. There is a mismatch. We are seeing the impact of this mismatch in the explosion of diabetes, heart disease and obesity. But it also has consequences in earlier puberty ... Read more

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We have built a world that no longer fits our bodies. Our genes - selected through our evolution - and the many processes by which our development is tuned within the womb, limit our capacity to adapt to the modern urban lifestyle. There is a mismatch. We are seeing the impact of this mismatch in the explosion of diabetes, heart disease and obesity. But it also has consequences in earlier puberty
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Evolution and Religion in American Education

An Ethnography

by David E. Long ...

Series series Education (R0)
Evolution and Religion in American Education shines a light into one of America’s dark educational corners, exposing the regressive pedagogy that can invade science classrooms when school boards and state overseers take their eyes off the ball. It sets out to examine the development of college students’ attitudes towards biological evolution through their lives. The fascinating insights provided ... Read more

$89.09 USD

Evolution and Religion in American Education shines a light into one of America’s dark educational corners, exposing the regressive pedagogy that can invade science classrooms when school boards and state overseers take their eyes off the ball. It sets out to examine the development of college students’ attitudes towards biological evolution through their lives. The fascinating insights provided
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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

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
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Insects and Society

by Timothy D. Schowalter ...

Insects are all around us, outweighing humanity by 17 times. Many are nuisances; they compete with us for food and carry some of our most devastating diseases. Yet, recent reports suggest dramatic declines in some important groups, such as pollinators and detritivores. Should we care?Yes, we should. Without insect pollinators, we’d lose 35% of our global food production; without detritivores, we ... Read more

$84.99 USD

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Insects are all around us, outweighing humanity by 17 times. Many are nuisances; they compete with us for food and carry some of our most devastating diseases. Yet, recent reports suggest dramatic declines in some important groups, such as pollinators and detritivores. Should we care?Yes, we should. Without insect pollinators, we’d lose 35% of our global food production; without detritivores, we
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Early Mammals & Placental Elaboration

Couplets in Evolutionary Time, #3

by Michael A. Susko ...

Series Book 3 - Couplets in Evolutionary Time
Early Mammals & Placental ElaborationThe third couplet in Couplets in Evolutionary Time explores one of the great turning points in life's history: the emergence of the mammalian grade and its later refinement through placental development. Using a logarithmic framework that charts evolutionary change as a sequence of accelerating pulses, the author examines when mammals first crossed a functional ... Read more

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Early Mammals & Placental ElaborationThe third couplet in Couplets in Evolutionary Time explores one of the great turning points in life's history: the emergence of the mammalian grade and its later refinement through placental development. Using a logarithmic framework that charts evolutionary change as a sequence of accelerating pulses, the author examines when mammals first crossed a functional
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兰科植物的受精

by （英）达尔文 ...

Translated by 唐进 ...

《兰科植物的受精》是达尔文继《物种起源》之后最重要的著作，出版于1862年，15年后（1877年）出版第二版，本中译本是根据第二版译出的。在本书中描述了许多兰花与昆虫精巧的传粉系统，他认为自然选择作用使花的构造适合异花受精，这为他的进化论提供了有力的证据。 ... Read more

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《兰科植物的受精》是达尔文继《物种起源》之后最重要的著作，出版于1862年，15年后（1877年）出版第二版，本中译本是根据第二版译出的。在本书中描述了许多兰花与昆虫精巧的传粉系统，他认为自然选择作用使花的构造适合异花受精，这为他的进化论提供了有力的证据。
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The Eugenics Code How the Quest for Perfect Humans Never Ended

by Julia Wolbrook ...

In November 2018, a video appeared online that should not have been possible.A scientist in a lab coat, speaking calmly to a camera, announced something no doctor had ever dared claim before: he had rewritten the DNA of two human babies before they were born. Not treated a disease. Not managed a condition. Rewritten. Edited, at the molecular level, in a way that would pass to their children, and ... Read more

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In November 2018, a video appeared online that should not have been possible.A scientist in a lab coat, speaking calmly to a camera, announced something no doctor had ever dared claim before: he had rewritten the DNA of two human babies before they were born. Not treated a disease. Not managed a condition. Rewritten. Edited, at the molecular level, in a way that would pass to their children, and
... Read more
Beyond Natural Selection

Locust Plasticity, Orchestrated Objective Reduction & Morphogenic Fields

by Sajeepan Arikaran ...

Is natural selection the sole driving force of evolution, or are deeper mechanisms at play? Beyond Natural Selection challenges the conventional Darwinian framework by exploring alternative and complementary processes that shape life’s complexity—ranging from environmental plasticity and quantum consciousness to morphogenic fields and self-organizing systems.This book examines the astonishing ... Read more

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Is natural selection the sole driving force of evolution, or are deeper mechanisms at play? Beyond Natural Selection challenges the conventional Darwinian framework by exploring alternative and complementary processes that shape life’s complexity—ranging from environmental plasticity and quantum consciousness to morphogenic fields and self-organizing systems.This book examines the astonishing
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On the Law Which Has Regulated the Introduction of New Species

by Alfred Russel Wallace ...

This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1855 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'On the Law Which Has Regulated the Introduction of New Species' is an article that details Wallace's ideas on the natural arrangement of species and their successive creation. Alfred Russel Wallace was born on 8th January 1823 in the village of ... Read more

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This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1855 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'On the Law Which Has Regulated the Introduction of New Species' is an article that details Wallace's ideas on the natural arrangement of species and their successive creation. Alfred Russel Wallace was born on 8th January 1823 in the village of
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Living with Darwin

Evolution, Design, and the Future of Faith

by Philip Kitcher ...

Series series Philosophy in Action
Charles Darwin has been at the center of white-hot public debate for more than a century. In Living With Darwin, Philip Kitcher stokes the flames swirling around Darwin's theory, sifting through the scientific evidence for evolution, Creation Science, and Intelligent Design, and revealing why evolution has been the object of such vehement attack. Kitcher first provides valuable perspective on the ... Read more

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Charles Darwin has been at the center of white-hot public debate for more than a century. In Living With Darwin, Philip Kitcher stokes the flames swirling around Darwin's theory, sifting through the scientific evidence for evolution, Creation Science, and Intelligent Design, and revealing why evolution has been the object of such vehement attack. Kitcher first provides valuable perspective on the
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Vom Urknall bis zum E-Auto

Ein Museumsführer durch (fast) 14 Milliarden Jahre Geschichte

by Gideon Böss ...

Series series Business and Economics (German Language)
Nur im Museum ist es möglich, in wenigen Schritten Milliarden Jahre Evolution, Menschheits- oder Technikgeschichte hinter sich zu bringen. Auf dem Weg durch Raum und Zeit stellt dieses Buch auf kurzweilige Art Museen und das in ihnen präsentierte Wissen vor. In mehr als zwanzig Stationen geht es vom Urknall über die Entstehung der Erde und des Lebens, zur Gründung erster Königreiche, zu Kleopatra, ... Read more

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Nur im Museum ist es möglich, in wenigen Schritten Milliarden Jahre Evolution, Menschheits- oder Technikgeschichte hinter sich zu bringen. Auf dem Weg durch Raum und Zeit stellt dieses Buch auf kurzweilige Art Museen und das in ihnen präsentierte Wissen vor. In mehr als zwanzig Stationen geht es vom Urknall über die Entstehung der Erde und des Lebens, zur Gründung erster Königreiche, zu Kleopatra,
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The Foundations of the Origin of Species

by Charles Darwin ...

We know from the contents of Charles Darwin’s Note Book of 1837 that he was at that time a convinced Evolutionist. Nor can there be any doubt that, when he started on board the Beagle, such opinions as he had were on the side of immutability. When therefore did the current of his thoughts begin to set in the direction of Evolution?We have first to consider the factors that made for such a change. ... Read more

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We know from the contents of Charles Darwin’s Note Book of 1837 that he was at that time a convinced Evolutionist. Nor can there be any doubt that, when he started on board the Beagle, such opinions as he had were on the side of immutability. When therefore did the current of his thoughts begin to set in the direction of Evolution?We have first to consider the factors that made for such a change.
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The Evolution of Primary Sexual Characters in Animals

Edited by Janet Leonard, Alex Cordoba-Aguilar ...

Primary sexual traits, those structures and processes directly involved in reproduction, are some of the most diverse, specialized, and bizarre in the animal kingdom. Moreover, reproductive traits are often species-specific, suggesting that they evolved very rapidly. This diversity, long the province of taxonomists, has recently attracted broader interest from evolutionary biologists, especially ... Read more

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Primary sexual traits, those structures and processes directly involved in reproduction, are some of the most diverse, specialized, and bizarre in the animal kingdom. Moreover, reproductive traits are often species-specific, suggesting that they evolved very rapidly. This diversity, long the province of taxonomists, has recently attracted broader interest from evolutionary biologists, especially
... Read more
The Eye

A Very Short Introduction

by Michael F. Land ...

Series series Very Short Introductions
The eye is one of the most remarkable achievements of evolution, and has evolved up to 40 times in different parts of the animal kingdom. In humans, vision is the most important sense, and much of the brain is given over to the processing of visual information. In this Very Short Introduction, Michael Land describes the evolution of vision and the variety of eyes found in both humans and animals. ... Read more

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The eye is one of the most remarkable achievements of evolution, and has evolved up to 40 times in different parts of the animal kingdom. In humans, vision is the most important sense, and much of the brain is given over to the processing of visual information. In this Very Short Introduction, Michael Land describes the evolution of vision and the variety of eyes found in both humans and animals.
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Creationism's Trojan Horse

The Wedge of Intelligent Design

by Barbara Forrest, Paul R. Gross ...

Forrest and Gross expose the scientific failure, the religious essence, and the political ambitions of "intelligent design" creationism. They examine the movement's "Wedge Strategy," which has advanced and is succeeding through public relations rather than through scientific research. Analyzing the content and character of "intelligent design theory," they highlight its threat to public education ... Read more

$28.79 USD

Forrest and Gross expose the scientific failure, the religious essence, and the political ambitions of "intelligent design" creationism. They examine the movement's "Wedge Strategy," which has advanced and is succeeding through public relations rather than through scientific research. Analyzing the content and character of "intelligent design theory," they highlight its threat to public education
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Deep-Sea Fishes

Biology, Diversity, Ecology and Fisheries

by Imants G. Priede ...

The technological advances of the last twenty years have brought huge advances in our understanding of the deep sea and of the species inhabiting this elusive and fascinating environment. Synthesising the very latest research and discoveries, this is a comprehensive and much-needed account of deep-sea fishes. Priede examines all aspects of this incredibly diverse group of animals, reviewing almost ... Read more

$105.79 USD

The technological advances of the last twenty years have brought huge advances in our understanding of the deep sea and of the species inhabiting this elusive and fascinating environment. Synthesising the very latest research and discoveries, this is a comprehensive and much-needed account of deep-sea fishes. Priede examines all aspects of this incredibly diverse group of animals, reviewing almost
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Sensory Ecology, Behaviour, and Evolution

by Martin Stevens ...

Throughout their lives animals must complete many tasks, including finding food, avoiding predators, attracting mates, and navigating through a complex and dynamic environment. Consequently, they have evolved a staggering array of sensory organs that are fundamental to survival and reproduction and shape much of their evolution and behaviour. Sensory ecology deals with how animals acquire, process ... Read more

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Throughout their lives animals must complete many tasks, including finding food, avoiding predators, attracting mates, and navigating through a complex and dynamic environment. Consequently, they have evolved a staggering array of sensory organs that are fundamental to survival and reproduction and shape much of their evolution and behaviour. Sensory ecology deals with how animals acquire, process
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The Monkey in Splendid Attire..

From original fragility to universal consciousness.

by Bruno Del Medico ...

Series Book 953 - ING - PensareDiverso
For millennia, we have described ourselves as "naked apes": fragile animals, suddenly thrown into the world without claws or armor, surrounded by incomprehensible natural forces and better-equipped predators, made famous by Desmond Morris, ethologist and anthropologist, thanks to his famous 1967 book entitled "The Naked Ape." A frightened creature that has learned to survive by inventing stories, ... Read more

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For millennia, we have described ourselves as "naked apes": fragile animals, suddenly thrown into the world without claws or armor, surrounded by incomprehensible natural forces and better-equipped predators, made famous by Desmond Morris, ethologist and anthropologist, thanks to his famous 1967 book entitled "The Naked Ape." A frightened creature that has learned to survive by inventing stories,
... Read more
Science and Religion in Dialogue

Two Histories of Discarded Images

by Raymond E. Grizzle ...

This book provides an overview of the history of interactions between science and religion, with an emphasis on Christianity. Raymond E. Grizzle examines his own history of self-reflection on science and religion, focusing on what we have learned about the structure, history, and functioning of creation. Both histories are interpreted as histories of discarded images, largely consisting of the ... Read more

$64.79 USD

This book provides an overview of the history of interactions between science and religion, with an emphasis on Christianity. Raymond E. Grizzle examines his own history of self-reflection on science and religion, focusing on what we have learned about the structure, history, and functioning of creation. Both histories are interpreted as histories of discarded images, largely consisting of the
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Recent Developments in Fungal Diseases of Laboratory Animals

Edited by Arti Gupta, Nagendra Pratap Singh ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Fungal growths affect both human and animal well-being. Many natural pathogens of laboratory animals alter host physiology, rendering the host unsuitable for experimental uses. While the number and prevalence of few pathogens have declined considerably, many still turn up in laboratory animals and represent unwanted variables in research. Investigators using laboratory animals in biomedical ... Read more

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Fungal growths affect both human and animal well-being. Many natural pathogens of laboratory animals alter host physiology, rendering the host unsuitable for experimental uses. While the number and prevalence of few pathogens have declined considerably, many still turn up in laboratory animals and represent unwanted variables in research. Investigators using laboratory animals in biomedical
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Evolution, Denken, Kultur

Das soziale Gehirn und die Entstehung des Menschlichen

by Clive Gamble, John Gowlett, Robin Dunbar ...

Translated by Sebastian Vogel ...

Series series Life Science and Basic Disciplines (German Language)
Die Entdeckung der GemeinsamkeitDieses bemerkenswerte Buch, das die Evolution und die Archäologie des menschlichen Sozialverhaltens zusammenführt, spannt den Bogen von den sozialen Gruppen der Steinzeit bis zu den modernen digitalen Netzwerken – und zeigt, dass wir heute in sozialen Welten leben, die sich tief in unserer evolutionären Vergangenheit entwickelt haben.Sie werden in diesem Jahr kein ... Read more

$31.49 USD

Die Entdeckung der GemeinsamkeitDieses bemerkenswerte Buch, das die Evolution und die Archäologie des menschlichen Sozialverhaltens zusammenführt, spannt den Bogen von den sozialen Gruppen der Steinzeit bis zu den modernen digitalen Netzwerken – und zeigt, dass wir heute in sozialen Welten leben, die sich tief in unserer evolutionären Vergangenheit entwickelt haben.Sie werden in diesem Jahr kein
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Entstehung des Evolutionsgedankens

Geschichtlicher Rückbllick

by Tashina Werner ...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Biologie - Evolution, Note: 11,28, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Seminararbeit gibt einen historischen Rückblick über die Entstehung des Evolutionsgedankens, von den Anfängen in der Antike bis hin zur modernen Evolutionsforschung. ... Read more

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Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Biologie - Evolution, Note: 11,28, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Seminararbeit gibt einen historischen Rückblick über die Entstehung des Evolutionsgedankens, von den Anfängen in der Antike bis hin zur modernen Evolutionsforschung.
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Evolved

Chronicles of a Pleistocene Mind

by Maximilian Werner ...

B and N ebook promotions.Free ebook promotion available to indie bookstores.A humanities guy exploring backyard science, Werner offers a layman's view of evolutionary theory.Werner's accessible, welcoming prose invites the reader to move in closer for a fresh look at everyday human activities and commonplace natural wonders.With a voice and viewpoint all his own, Werner takes a well-earned place ... Read more

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B and N ebook promotions.Free ebook promotion available to indie bookstores.A humanities guy exploring backyard science, Werner offers a layman's view of evolutionary theory.Werner's accessible, welcoming prose invites the reader to move in closer for a fresh look at everyday human activities and commonplace natural wonders.With a voice and viewpoint all his own, Werner takes a well-earned place
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