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How Molecular Forces and Rotating Planets Create Life

The Emergence and Evolution of Prokaryotic Cells

by Jan Spitzer ...

Series series Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology
A reconceptualization of origins research that exploits a modern understanding of non-covalent molecular forces that stabilize living prokaryotic cells.Scientific research into the origins of life remains exploratory and speculative. Science has no definitive answer to the biggest questions--"What is life?" and "How did life begin on earth?" In this book, Jan Spitzer reconceptualizes origins ... Read more

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A reconceptualization of origins research that exploits a modern understanding of non-covalent molecular forces that stabilize living prokaryotic cells.Scientific research into the origins of life remains exploratory and speculative. Science has no definitive answer to the biggest questions--"What is life?" and "How did life begin on earth?" In this book, Jan Spitzer reconceptualizes origins
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Эволюция человека. Кн. 2. Обезьяны, нейроны и душа

by Александр Марков ...

Series series Элементы (Россия)
В своей новой книге "Эволюция человека" Александр Марков затрагивает самые разные темы — от периодизации расселения первых людей до генетических основ политических и религиозных воззрений. Автор ставит множество вопросов и ищет на них ответы вместе с читателем, привлекая обширный материал последних исследований в антропологии, генетике и эволюционной психологии. Кто мы? Чем мы отличаемся от ... Read more

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В своей новой книге "Эволюция человека" Александр Марков затрагивает самые разные темы — от периодизации расселения первых людей до генетических основ политических и религиозных воззрений. Автор ставит множество вопросов и ищет на них ответы вместе с читателем, привлекая обширный материал последних исследований в антропологии, генетике и эволюционной психологии. Кто мы? Чем мы отличаемся от
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Desert Weeds

Personal Narrative on Botanical First Responders

by Garry Rogers ...

In their rapid colonization of soil exposed by fires, floods, and grazing animals, weeds resemble the human specialists we label Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs). Weeds are the first responders when disasters occur in nature. They occupy bare soil and prevent erosion by wind and water. In extreme cases such as a landslide, weeds are essential to the healing processes that replace the lost soil ... Read more

$170.09 USD

In their rapid colonization of soil exposed by fires, floods, and grazing animals, weeds resemble the human specialists we label Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs). Weeds are the first responders when disasters occur in nature. They occupy bare soil and prevent erosion by wind and water. In extreme cases such as a landslide, weeds are essential to the healing processes that replace the lost soil
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Star Struck

Seeing the Creator in the Wonders of Our Cosmos

by David Bradstreet, Steve Rabey ...

The heavens are beckoning us, telling us that this wonderful, mind-boggling cosmic display is indeed the work of the creator. And now, using rovers and satellites, we're venturing further out into the vastness of space than ever before.In Star Struck, Christian astronomer David Bradstreet and writer Steve Rabey take readers on a guided tour of the biggest story ever, offering both intriguing ... Read more

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The heavens are beckoning us, telling us that this wonderful, mind-boggling cosmic display is indeed the work of the creator. And now, using rovers and satellites, we're venturing further out into the vastness of space than ever before.In Star Struck, Christian astronomer David Bradstreet and writer Steve Rabey take readers on a guided tour of the biggest story ever, offering both intriguing
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Being Human

Wie unser Körper Weltgeschichte schrieb

by Lewis Dartnell ...

Translated by Sebastian Vogel ...

»Eine erhellende Reise durch die Geschichte, mit unserem Körper als Transportmittel. Was für ein Ritt!« Tim Marshall.Wir sind ohne Zweifel ein Wunder der Evolution. Unsere außergewöhnlichen körperlichen Eigenschaften und unsere Innovationen haben unsere Zivilisationen geschaffen. Aber wir sind auch zutiefst fehlerbehaftet. Unsere Körper brechen, ersticken und versagen, ob wir nun Könige oder ... Read more

$26.99 USD

»Eine erhellende Reise durch die Geschichte, mit unserem Körper als Transportmittel. Was für ein Ritt!« Tim Marshall.Wir sind ohne Zweifel ein Wunder der Evolution. Unsere außergewöhnlichen körperlichen Eigenschaften und unsere Innovationen haben unsere Zivilisationen geschaffen. Aber wir sind auch zutiefst fehlerbehaftet. Unsere Körper brechen, ersticken und versagen, ob wir nun Könige oder
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Tændernes bevaring uden lægekunstens hjælp

by Alfred Bramsen ...

”Nutidsmennesket fører som alle ved, et helt igennem kunstigt liv. Oprindelig levede menneskene i naturen og tilbragte de 16 af døgnets timer i fri luft. Føden bestod af kød med sener og knogler, lidt eller slet ikke kogt, grov plantekost med hårde, kiselholdige stængler, desuden rødder og frugter, som var urensede, og som derfor fordrede en ret alvorlig knusning inden synkningen.”Tandlæge Alfred ... Read more

$5.55 USD

”Nutidsmennesket fører som alle ved, et helt igennem kunstigt liv. Oprindelig levede menneskene i naturen og tilbragte de 16 af døgnets timer i fri luft. Føden bestod af kød med sener og knogler, lidt eller slet ikke kogt, grov plantekost med hårde, kiselholdige stængler, desuden rødder og frugter, som var urensede, og som derfor fordrede en ret alvorlig knusning inden synkningen.”Tandlæge Alfred
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See. for. Yourself.

by Kendrick R Young ...

There is a warmth that arrives in certain moments and stays longer than the moment that caused it. You have felt it. You have never had quite the right words for it.See for Yourself is built around five ordinary lives at the edge of that experience: an eighty-one-year-old woman who learns to read her late husband's Bible. A teenager in a dark car who finally opens a message he has been avoiding ... Read more

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There is a warmth that arrives in certain moments and stays longer than the moment that caused it. You have felt it. You have never had quite the right words for it.See for Yourself is built around five ordinary lives at the edge of that experience: an eighty-one-year-old woman who learns to read her late husband's Bible. A teenager in a dark car who finally opens a message he has been avoiding
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El libro genético de los muertos

Una ensoñación darwiniana

by Richard Dawkins ...

Translated by Pedro Pacheco González ...

Series series Ariel
Deslumbrante, imaginativo y profundamente original, este libro propone una idea fascinante: cada ser vivo contiene escrita en sus genes la historia de los mundos en los que sobrevivieron sus antepasados.¿Qué pasaría si pudiéramos leer a un animal como si fuera un libro? ¿Y si sus genes desvelaran los mundos donde vivieron sus antepasados?Richard Dawkins desarrolla en este libro una de las ideas ... Read more

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Deslumbrante, imaginativo y profundamente original, este libro propone una idea fascinante: cada ser vivo contiene escrita en sus genes la historia de los mundos en los que sobrevivieron sus antepasados.¿Qué pasaría si pudiéramos leer a un animal como si fuera un libro? ¿Y si sus genes desvelaran los mundos donde vivieron sus antepasados?Richard Dawkins desarrolla en este libro una de las ideas
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Force of Nature

Understanding Evolution's Deepest Logic-and Putting It to Use

by Owen D. Jones ...

An eye-opening exploration of natural selection’s power and how it can help human society flourish.Most of us learned about natural selection in our school days and remember the basics of how it drives evolution, plus a few of its everyday implications, like the risks of overusing antibiotics. Yet deep misconceptions about evolution and natural selection abound—even, studies show, among medical ... Read more

$21.89 USD

An eye-opening exploration of natural selection’s power and how it can help human society flourish.Most of us learned about natural selection in our school days and remember the basics of how it drives evolution, plus a few of its everyday implications, like the risks of overusing antibiotics. Yet deep misconceptions about evolution and natural selection abound—even, studies show, among medical
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Bruder Tier

Mensch und Tier in Mythos und Evolution

by Karl König ...

Series series Karl König Werkausgabe
Karl Königs auf Brüderlichkeit begründetes Denken und Sinnen galt neben dem Menschen gleichermaßen den Tieren. Seine Tierbetrachtungen erlauben einen imaginativen Zugang zur Tierwelt und ein vertieftes Verständnis des Evolutionsgeschehens. Letztlich zeigt sich die unzertrennliche Verbundenheit von Mensch und Tier sowie die Notwendigkeit, das gegenwärtige Schicksal der Tiere in den Blick zu nehmen ... Read more

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Karl Königs auf Brüderlichkeit begründetes Denken und Sinnen galt neben dem Menschen gleichermaßen den Tieren. Seine Tierbetrachtungen erlauben einen imaginativen Zugang zur Tierwelt und ein vertieftes Verständnis des Evolutionsgeschehens. Letztlich zeigt sich die unzertrennliche Verbundenheit von Mensch und Tier sowie die Notwendigkeit, das gegenwärtige Schicksal der Tiere in den Blick zu nehmen
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Human Migration

Biocultural Perspectives

Edited by Michael H. Crawford, María de Lourdes Muñoz-Moreno ...

Studying human migratory patterns can help us make sense of evolution, biology, linguistics, and so much more. Human Migration takes readers through population development and their respective origins to create a comprehensive picture of human migratory patterns. This book explores human migration as a major contributor to globalization that facilitates gene flow and the exchange of cultures and ... Read more

$100.79 USD

Studying human migratory patterns can help us make sense of evolution, biology, linguistics, and so much more. Human Migration takes readers through population development and their respective origins to create a comprehensive picture of human migratory patterns. This book explores human migration as a major contributor to globalization that facilitates gene flow and the exchange of cultures and
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物种起源（附《进化论的十大猜想》）（彩图珍藏版）

by （英）达尔文著, 舒德干等译 ...

本书主要讲述了生物变异、生存斗争、杂种性质、地质记录的不完整性、生物分布等内容。用大量资料证明了所有的生物都是从简单到复杂、从低级到高级慢慢发展起来的，这不是超自然力量干预的结果，而是自然界内部斗争的结果。 ... Read more

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本书主要讲述了生物变异、生存斗争、杂种性质、地质记录的不完整性、生物分布等内容。用大量资料证明了所有的生物都是从简单到复杂、从低级到高级慢慢发展起来的，这不是超自然力量干预的结果，而是自然界内部斗争的结果。
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Psychological Mechanisms in Animal Communication

Edited by Mark A. Bee, Cory T. Miller ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This book analyzes the psychological mechanisms critical to animal communication. The topics covered range from single neurons to broad-scale phylogenetic patterns, shedding new light on the sensory, perceptual, and cognitive processes that underlie the communicative behaviors of signalers and receivers alike. In so doing, the contributing authors collectively integrate research questions and ... Read more

$152.09 USD

This book analyzes the psychological mechanisms critical to animal communication. The topics covered range from single neurons to broad-scale phylogenetic patterns, shedding new light on the sensory, perceptual, and cognitive processes that underlie the communicative behaviors of signalers and receivers alike. In so doing, the contributing authors collectively integrate research questions and
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Biogeography and Evolution in New Zealand

by Michael Heads ...

Series series CRC Biogeography Series
Biogeography and Evolution in New Zealand provides the first in-depth treatment of the biogeography of New Zealand, a region that has been a place of long-enduring interest to ecologists, evolutionary scientists, geographers, geologists, and scientists in related disciplines. It serves as a key addition to the contemporary discussion on regionalization—how is New Zealand different from the rest of ... Read more

$76.99 USD

Biogeography and Evolution in New Zealand provides the first in-depth treatment of the biogeography of New Zealand, a region that has been a place of long-enduring interest to ecologists, evolutionary scientists, geographers, geologists, and scientists in related disciplines. It serves as a key addition to the contemporary discussion on regionalization—how is New Zealand different from the rest of
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What Comes After Homo Sapiens?

When and How Our Species Will Evolve Into Another Species

by Don Simborg ...

Life began on earth 3.8 billion years ago. We have had two momentous evolutionary events since then: the emergence of Eukarya about 2 billion years ago (the basis of all plants and animals) and the enlargement in size and capability of the human brain, which began about 2 million years ago. Otherwise humans have had a remarkably stable evolutionary process. But now, two technologies, artificial ... Read more

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Life began on earth 3.8 billion years ago. We have had two momentous evolutionary events since then: the emergence of Eukarya about 2 billion years ago (the basis of all plants and animals) and the enlargement in size and capability of the human brain, which began about 2 million years ago. Otherwise humans have had a remarkably stable evolutionary process. But now, two technologies, artificial
... Read more
Recent Advancement in White Biotechnology Through Fungi

Volume 1: Diversity and Enzymes Perspectives

Edited by Ajar Nath Yadav, Shashank Mishra, Sangram Singh, Arti Gupta ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
White biotechnology, or industrial biotechnology as it is also known, refers to the use of living cells and/or their enzymes to create industrial products that are more easily degradable, require less energy, create less waste during production and sometimes perform better than products created using traditional chemical processes.Over the last decade considerable progress has been made in white ... Read more

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White biotechnology, or industrial biotechnology as it is also known, refers to the use of living cells and/or their enzymes to create industrial products that are more easily degradable, require less energy, create less waste during production and sometimes perform better than products created using traditional chemical processes.Over the last decade considerable progress has been made in white
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Evolutionary Politics

by Anthony Skews ...

The foundational myth of contemporary capitalism - the individual alone, in a state of nature - is just that: a myth. Both Darwin and early anarchists like Piotr Kropotkin understood that mutual aid lay at the heart of nature's conquest of the earth. A rich tradition of evolutionary socialism and left-wing Darwinism has been forgotten. "Evolutionary Politics: Socialism for Social Species" applies ... Read more

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The foundational myth of contemporary capitalism - the individual alone, in a state of nature - is just that: a myth. Both Darwin and early anarchists like Piotr Kropotkin understood that mutual aid lay at the heart of nature's conquest of the earth. A rich tradition of evolutionary socialism and left-wing Darwinism has been forgotten. "Evolutionary Politics: Socialism for Social Species" applies
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L'Origine des espèces au moyen de la sélection naturelle

ou la préservation des races favorisées dans la lutte pour la vie

by Charles Darwin, Jean-Marc Drouin, Jean-Marc Drouin ...

Translated by Edmond Barbier, Daniel Becquemont ...

La publication de L’Origine des espèces, en 1859, a marqué une révolution intellectuelle comparable à celle qui est associée aux noms de Copernic et Galilée. En proposant une théorie de la « descendance avec modification » et de la « sélection naturelle », Darwin apportait des réponses aux questions qui préoccupaient les naturalistes de son époque. Le caractère radical de ces réponses aussi bien ... Read more

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La publication de L’Origine des espèces, en 1859, a marqué une révolution intellectuelle comparable à celle qui est associée aux noms de Copernic et Galilée. En proposant une théorie de la « descendance avec modification » et de la « sélection naturelle », Darwin apportait des réponses aux questions qui préoccupaient les naturalistes de son époque. Le caractère radical de ces réponses aussi bien
... Read more
Exploring Personal Genomics

by Joel T. Dudley, Konrad J. Karczewski ...

Rapid advances in high-throughput genome sequencing technologies foreshadow a near-future in which millions of individuals will gain affordable access to their complete genome sequence. This promises to offer unprecedented insights into the fundamental biological nature of ourselves and our species: where we came from, how we begin our lives, how we develop and grow, how we interact with our ... Read more

$66.59 USD

Rapid advances in high-throughput genome sequencing technologies foreshadow a near-future in which millions of individuals will gain affordable access to their complete genome sequence. This promises to offer unprecedented insights into the fundamental biological nature of ourselves and our species: where we came from, how we begin our lives, how we develop and grow, how we interact with our
... Read more
Paleontology and Geology of Laetoli: Human Evolution in Context

Volume 2: Fossil Hominins and the Associated Fauna

Edited by Terry Harrison ...

Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
This volume 2 and its companion volume 1 present the results of new investigations into the geology, paleontology and paleoecology of the early hominin site of Laetoli in northern Tanzania. The site is one of the most important paleontological and paleoanthropological sites in Africa, worldrenowned for the discovery of fossils of the early hominin Australopithecus afarensis, as well as remarkable ... Read more

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This volume 2 and its companion volume 1 present the results of new investigations into the geology, paleontology and paleoecology of the early hominin site of Laetoli in northern Tanzania. The site is one of the most important paleontological and paleoanthropological sites in Africa, worldrenowned for the discovery of fossils of the early hominin Australopithecus afarensis, as well as remarkable
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Aphid Ecology An optimization approach

by A.F.G. Dixon ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Aphids are the most important of the sap sucking insects, they are also major pests of agriculture, horticulture and forestry. This book covers the evolution of aphids and their development in relation to specific plants. Optimization is used to explain how modes of feeding and reproduction have affected their size and population structure and led to a very close and specific association with ... Read more

$215.09 USD

Aphids are the most important of the sap sucking insects, they are also major pests of agriculture, horticulture and forestry. This book covers the evolution of aphids and their development in relation to specific plants. Optimization is used to explain how modes of feeding and reproduction have affected their size and population structure and led to a very close and specific association with
... Read more
The Evolution of Everything

The Patterns and Causes of Big History

by Brian Villmoare ...

Big History seeks to retell the human story in light of scientific advances by such methods as radiocarbon dating and genetic analysis. This book provides a deep, causal view of the forces that have shaped the universe, the earth, and humanity. Starting with the Big Bang and the formation of the earth, it traces the evolutionary history of the world, focusing on humanity's origins. It also ... Read more

$40.99 USD

Big History seeks to retell the human story in light of scientific advances by such methods as radiocarbon dating and genetic analysis. This book provides a deep, causal view of the forces that have shaped the universe, the earth, and humanity. Starting with the Big Bang and the formation of the earth, it traces the evolutionary history of the world, focusing on humanity's origins. It also
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Sanaben

by Lorenzo Bonanni ...

L’objectif de ce livre est de nous simplifier l’existence en nous faisant prendre conscience de qui nous sommes, de nos origines et des instincts qui nous guident. Avec des mots simples et parfois satyriques, cet ouvrage explique les objets de nos désirs : le cul des femmes, le pouvoir, les cheveux blonds, l’argent. Il précise ce qu’est vraiment l’amour, la vie, la famille, la religion et la mort, ... Read more

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L’objectif de ce livre est de nous simplifier l’existence en nous faisant prendre conscience de qui nous sommes, de nos origines et des instincts qui nous guident. Avec des mots simples et parfois satyriques, cet ouvrage explique les objets de nos désirs : le cul des femmes, le pouvoir, les cheveux blonds, l’argent. Il précise ce qu’est vraiment l’amour, la vie, la famille, la religion et la mort,
... Read more
Avian Brood Parasitism

Behaviour, Ecology, Evolution and Coevolution

Edited by Manuel Soler ...

Series series Fascinating Life Sciences
Brood parasitism has become one of the most flourishing areas of research in evolutionary ecology and one of the best model systems for investigating coevolution. This subject has undergone remarkable advances during the last two decades, but has not been covered by any book in the 21st century.This book offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the fascinating field of avian brood ... Read more

$116.09 USD

Brood parasitism has become one of the most flourishing areas of research in evolutionary ecology and one of the best model systems for investigating coevolution. This subject has undergone remarkable advances during the last two decades, but has not been covered by any book in the 21st century.This book offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the fascinating field of avian brood
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