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Sleep: Evolution and Functions

by Vibha M. Jha, Sushil K. Jha ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This book discusses the evolution of sleep and its possible function in the higher invertebrates and vertebrates, including humans. It describes the current concept of sleep and its functions, based on research on the mammalian system. To date, electrophysiological recordings of the brain waves, muscle activity, and eye movements are the only tools available for characterizing the sleep ... Read more

$89.09 USD

This book discusses the evolution of sleep and its possible function in the higher invertebrates and vertebrates, including humans. It describes the current concept of sleep and its functions, based on research on the mammalian system. To date, electrophysiological recordings of the brain waves, muscle activity, and eye movements are the only tools available for characterizing the sleep
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Why Ecosystems Matter

Preserving the Key to Our Survival

by Christopher Wills ...

How our growing knowledge of the evolution of complex ecosystems, using the latest genetic tools, can help us heal them - and survive This is not another Chicken Little book about the environment. Every reader already knows how overpopulation, ignorance and tribalism are contributing to environmental destruction and breakdowns in public health. We are all aware of the grim possibility that during ... Read more

$28.79 USD

How our growing knowledge of the evolution of complex ecosystems, using the latest genetic tools, can help us heal them - and survive This is not another Chicken Little book about the environment. Every reader already knows how overpopulation, ignorance and tribalism are contributing to environmental destruction and breakdowns in public health. We are all aware of the grim possibility that during
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Bacterial Genetics and Genomics

by Lori Snyder, Lori A.S. Snyder ...

Understanding of bacterial genetics and genomics is fundamental to understanding bacteria and higher organisms, as well. Novel insights in the fields of genetics and genomics are challenging the once clear borders between the characteristics of bacteria and other life. Biological knowledge of the bacterial world is being viewed under a new light with input from genetic and genomics. Replication of ... Read more

$76.99 USD

Understanding of bacterial genetics and genomics is fundamental to understanding bacteria and higher organisms, as well. Novel insights in the fields of genetics and genomics are challenging the once clear borders between the characteristics of bacteria and other life. Biological knowledge of the bacterial world is being viewed under a new light with input from genetic and genomics. Replication of
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On the Origin of Being

Understanding the Science of Evolution to Enhance Your Quality of Life

by Luke Comer, Jenny Powers ...

For greater well-being, we must adapt our modern lifestyle and live more in harmony with our natural and evolutionary selves.While giving many benefits, aspects of modern society can also be harmful to our physical, mental, and cultural health. We can overcome many of these detriments if we better understand and express our primal self, which is largely encoded into our DNA.On the Origin of Being ... Read more

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For greater well-being, we must adapt our modern lifestyle and live more in harmony with our natural and evolutionary selves.While giving many benefits, aspects of modern society can also be harmful to our physical, mental, and cultural health. We can overcome many of these detriments if we better understand and express our primal self, which is largely encoded into our DNA.On the Origin of Being
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Historia evolutive

Una fascinante guía sobre la teoría de la evolución, la historia evolutiva y la evolución humana

by Captivating History ...

¿Quiere sumergirse en la gran narrativa de la vida en la Tierra ?Sumérjase en la Historia evolutiva , un fascinante viaje a través del tiempo que traza los orígenes y el desarrollo de todos los seres vivos. Desde los primeros organismos unicelulares hasta el surgimiento del Homo sapiens , este libro desentraña el intrincado tapiz de la evolución con claridad y pasión. Explore las maravillas de la ... Read more

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¿Quiere sumergirse en la gran narrativa de la vida en la Tierra ?Sumérjase en la Historia evolutiva , un fascinante viaje a través del tiempo que traza los orígenes y el desarrollo de todos los seres vivos. Desde los primeros organismos unicelulares hasta el surgimiento del Homo sapiens , este libro desentraña el intrincado tapiz de la evolución con claridad y pasión. Explore las maravillas de la
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Восхождение на гору Невероятности

by Ричард Докинз ...

Translated by Юлия Плискина ...

Series series Весь Ричард Докинз
Как пауки, плетя свою паутину, перекидывают самую первую ее нить? Какие подарки делает паук-самец своей возлюбленной? Мог ли без Бога существовать инжир? Почему у жирафа выросла такая шея? Почему сухопутные животные, вернувшись в водную среду, не открывают заново прежний набор приспособлений к водной жизни? И напротив, почему киты и морские коровы не сменили легкие на жабры? Могла ли такая сложная ... Read more

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Как пауки, плетя свою паутину, перекидывают самую первую ее нить? Какие подарки делает паук-самец своей возлюбленной? Мог ли без Бога существовать инжир? Почему у жирафа выросла такая шея? Почему сухопутные животные, вернувшись в водную среду, не открывают заново прежний набор приспособлений к водной жизни? И напротив, почему киты и морские коровы не сменили легкие на жабры? Могла ли такая сложная
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Evolution's Wedge

Competition and the Origins of Diversity

by David Pfennig, Karin Pfennig ...

Series Book 12 - Organisms and Environments
Evolutionary biology has long sought to explain how new traits and new species arise. Darwin maintained that competition is key to understanding this biodiversity and held that selection acting to minimize competition causes competitors to become increasingly different, thereby promoting new traits and new species. Despite Darwin’s emphasis, competition’s role in diversification remains ... Read more

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Evolutionary biology has long sought to explain how new traits and new species arise. Darwin maintained that competition is key to understanding this biodiversity and held that selection acting to minimize competition causes competitors to become increasingly different, thereby promoting new traits and new species. Despite Darwin’s emphasis, competition’s role in diversification remains
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Natural Behavior

The Evolution of Behavior in Humans and Animals using Comparative Psychology and Behavioral Biology

by Burton A. Weiss ...

Natural Behavior provides seminal insights into the evolution of animal and human behavior for enthusiasts of Comparative Psychology and Behavioral Biology. Evolution and the behavior of the animal kingdom are discussed with new concepts on science, learning and instinct, and population phenomena. Hominization, interaction with Neanderthals, how the brain evolved, and the impact on the World are ... Read more

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Natural Behavior provides seminal insights into the evolution of animal and human behavior for enthusiasts of Comparative Psychology and Behavioral Biology. Evolution and the behavior of the animal kingdom are discussed with new concepts on science, learning and instinct, and population phenomena. Hominization, interaction with Neanderthals, how the brain evolved, and the impact on the World are
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Euphorbia in Southern Africa

Volume 2

by Peter V. Bruyns ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This book presents a new account of Euphorbia in southern Africa. Euphorbia is the second largest genus of plants in the world. Southern Africa enjoys a high diversity in Euphorbia and 170 species occur here naturally. Of these 170 species, 128 or 74% are endemic. Where most species of Euphorbia in the northern hemisphere are herbs or shrubs, most of those in southern African are succulent. These ... Read more

$215.09 USD

This book presents a new account of Euphorbia in southern Africa. Euphorbia is the second largest genus of plants in the world. Southern Africa enjoys a high diversity in Euphorbia and 170 species occur here naturally. Of these 170 species, 128 or 74% are endemic. Where most species of Euphorbia in the northern hemisphere are herbs or shrubs, most of those in southern African are succulent. These
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Evolution and Religious Creation Myths

How Scientists Respond

by Paul F. Lurquin, Linda Stone ...

Relying mostly on modern genetic science, this book exposes how various forms of creationism-including intelligent design-fail to provide testable models for the appearance and evolution of life. On the contrary, science has been very successful in the description of the unguided processes that led to the creation of the universe and one of its consequences, the appearance of life forms, including ... Read more

$53.09 USD

Relying mostly on modern genetic science, this book exposes how various forms of creationism-including intelligent design-fail to provide testable models for the appearance and evolution of life. On the contrary, science has been very successful in the description of the unguided processes that led to the creation of the universe and one of its consequences, the appearance of life forms, including
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Origins of Life

From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language

by John Maynard Smith, Eors Szathmary ...

Living organisms are astonishingly complex. And the more we know about them - their biochemistry, their anatomy, their behaviour - the more astonishing are the detailed adaptations that we discover. How could this complexity have arisen? Most of us are familiar with Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. The idea behind it being that, in nature, those individuals best able to survive ... Read more

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Living organisms are astonishingly complex. And the more we know about them - their biochemistry, their anatomy, their behaviour - the more astonishing are the detailed adaptations that we discover. How could this complexity have arisen? Most of us are familiar with Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. The idea behind it being that, in nature, those individuals best able to survive
... Read more
Phylogenetic Diversity

Applications and Challenges in Biodiversity Science

Edited by Rosa A. Scherson, Daniel P Faith ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
“Biodiversity” refers to the variety of life. It is now agreed that there is a “biodiversity crisis”, corresponding to extinction rates of species that may be 1000 times what is thought to be “normal”. Biodiversity science has a higher profile than ever, with the new Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services involving more than 120 countries and 1000s of ... Read more

$143.09 USD

“Biodiversity” refers to the variety of life. It is now agreed that there is a “biodiversity crisis”, corresponding to extinction rates of species that may be 1000 times what is thought to be “normal”. Biodiversity science has a higher profile than ever, with the new Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services involving more than 120 countries and 1000s of
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The Dawn Angiosperms

Uncovering the Origin of Flowering Plants

by Xin Wang ...

Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
This book discusses the controversial and conflicting hypotheses on the origin of angiosperms, which was generally assumed to be restricted to the Cretaceous and later ages. Since publishing the first edition of “The Dawn of Angiosperms” in 2010, several important advances have been made in this field of science, namely 1) the discovery of new fossil angiosperms from the Jurassic; 2) European ... Read more

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This book discusses the controversial and conflicting hypotheses on the origin of angiosperms, which was generally assumed to be restricted to the Cretaceous and later ages. Since publishing the first edition of “The Dawn of Angiosperms” in 2010, several important advances have been made in this field of science, namely 1) the discovery of new fossil angiosperms from the Jurassic; 2) European
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40 Years of Evolution

Darwin's Finches on Daphne Major Island, New Edition

by Peter R. Grant, B. Rosemary Grant ...

A new edition of Peter and Rosemary Grant’s classic account of their groundbreaking forty-year study of Darwin’s finches40 Years of Evolution is a landmark study of the finches first made famous by Charles Darwin, one that documents as never before the evolution of species through natural selection. In this now-legendary study, renowned evolutionary biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant draw on a ... Read more

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A new edition of Peter and Rosemary Grant’s classic account of their groundbreaking forty-year study of Darwin’s finches40 Years of Evolution is a landmark study of the finches first made famous by Charles Darwin, one that documents as never before the evolution of species through natural selection. In this now-legendary study, renowned evolutionary biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant draw on a
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Bacterial Genomes

Trees and Networks

by Aswin Sai Narain Seshasayee ...

Microbes form the “unseen majority” of life on Earth, with bacteria at the forefront as both the architects of life’s chemical foundations and agents of disease. But their story is far more complex. Bacteria thrive in diverse and extreme environments, driven by the dynamic evolution of their genomes. These tiny organisms wield an extraordinary ability to adapt, balancing genetic changes across ... Read more

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Microbes form the “unseen majority” of life on Earth, with bacteria at the forefront as both the architects of life’s chemical foundations and agents of disease. But their story is far more complex. Bacteria thrive in diverse and extreme environments, driven by the dynamic evolution of their genomes. These tiny organisms wield an extraordinary ability to adapt, balancing genetic changes across
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The Last Animal

Human History and the Fate of Life on Earth from the Ice Age to the Sixth Extinction

by Kyle Harper ...

From the acclaimed author of The Fate of Rome and Plagues upon the Earth, a monumental history of the world that lays bare the devastating human toll on animal lifeHumans are a force of nature like no other animal on the planet. For thousands of years, we have radically altered the destiny of other species. Today, we do so at such an accelerating rate that it is widely proposed that we live on the ... Read more

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From the acclaimed author of The Fate of Rome and Plagues upon the Earth, a monumental history of the world that lays bare the devastating human toll on animal lifeHumans are a force of nature like no other animal on the planet. For thousands of years, we have radically altered the destiny of other species. Today, we do so at such an accelerating rate that it is widely proposed that we live on the
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Prairie Dogs

Ecology and Social Behavior

by John Hoogland ...

A comprehensive overview of the behavioral ecology of a highly social group of North American mammalsBest known for their large colonies, complex burrows, and frequent alarm calls, prairie dogs are diurnal, herbivorous rodents endemic to the grasslands of western North America. Prairie Dogs synthesizes forty-five consecutive years of John Hoogland’s pioneering field research on the ecology and ... Read more

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A comprehensive overview of the behavioral ecology of a highly social group of North American mammalsBest known for their large colonies, complex burrows, and frequent alarm calls, prairie dogs are diurnal, herbivorous rodents endemic to the grasslands of western North America. Prairie Dogs synthesizes forty-five consecutive years of John Hoogland’s pioneering field research on the ecology and
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Demography and Evolutionary Ecology of Hadza Hunter-Gatherers

by Nicholas Blurton Jones ...

Series Book 71 - Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology
The Hadza, an ethnic group indigenous to northern Tanzania, are one of the few remaining hunter-gatherer populations. Archaeology shows 130,000 years of hunting and gathering in their land but Hadza are rapidly losing areas vital to their way of life. This book offers a unique opportunity to capture a disappearing lifestyle. Blurton Jones interweaves data from ecology, demography and evolutionary ... Read more

$55.79 USD

The Hadza, an ethnic group indigenous to northern Tanzania, are one of the few remaining hunter-gatherer populations. Archaeology shows 130,000 years of hunting and gathering in their land but Hadza are rapidly losing areas vital to their way of life. This book offers a unique opportunity to capture a disappearing lifestyle. Blurton Jones interweaves data from ecology, demography and evolutionary
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Forms of Becoming

The Evolutionary Biology of Development

by Alessandro Minelli ...

What comes first, form or function? Trumpeted as the future of biological science, evolutionary developmental biology (or "evo-devo") answers this fundamental question by showing how evolution controls the development of organisms. In Forms of Becoming, Alessandro Minelli, a leading international figure in the field, takes an in-depth and comprehensive look at the history and key issues of evo ... Read more

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What comes first, form or function? Trumpeted as the future of biological science, evolutionary developmental biology (or "evo-devo") answers this fundamental question by showing how evolution controls the development of organisms. In Forms of Becoming, Alessandro Minelli, a leading international figure in the field, takes an in-depth and comprehensive look at the history and key issues of evo
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Der Urvogel Archaeopteryx

by Martin Sauter ...

Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Biologie - Evolution, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Als ich begann, mich aufgrund meines Hobbys Fossiliensammeln mit Archaeopteryx zu beschäftigen, hatte ich nicht vor, und auch nicht im Traum daran gedacht, jemals ein derartig großes Manuskript zu diesem Thema zu verfassen. Manch einer wird nun sagen: „Bitte nicht noch eine Veröffentlichung über den ... Read more

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Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Biologie - Evolution, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Als ich begann, mich aufgrund meines Hobbys Fossiliensammeln mit Archaeopteryx zu beschäftigen, hatte ich nicht vor, und auch nicht im Traum daran gedacht, jemals ein derartig großes Manuskript zu diesem Thema zu verfassen. Manch einer wird nun sagen: „Bitte nicht noch eine Veröffentlichung über den
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On Teaching Evolution

by Bertha Vazquez ...

Written by members of the Teacher Institute for Evolutionary Science who have tackled the topic of evolution in their classroom for decades, On Teaching Evolution offers practical advice and sample lesson plans for fellow science teachers. Learn about what inspired them to love teaching evolution and the experiences that help guide their teaching practices.Contributing authors include: Bertha ... Read more

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Written by members of the Teacher Institute for Evolutionary Science who have tackled the topic of evolution in their classroom for decades, On Teaching Evolution offers practical advice and sample lesson plans for fellow science teachers. Learn about what inspired them to love teaching evolution and the experiences that help guide their teaching practices.Contributing authors include: Bertha
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The Evolution of Entomophily and Diaspore Dispersal in Seed Plants, the Reproductive Biology of Basal Angiosperms, and the Development of Beetle Pollination in Gymnosperms and Angiosperms

Up-to-date information of evolution of land plant reproductive biology (pollination modes, seed dispersal and breeding systems) during the last 400 million years.

by Prof. Dr. Gerhard Gottsberger, Dr. Ilse Gottsberger, Dr. Dawn Frame ...

The book provides up-to-date information of evolution of land plant reproductive biology (pollination modes, seed dispersal and breeding systems) during the last 400 million years. What were the characteristics of the hypothetical survivors of early angiosperms? These questions are an active area of research and debate today. The third part of the book considers the importance of beetles in ... Read more

$44.62 USD

The book provides up-to-date information of evolution of land plant reproductive biology (pollination modes, seed dispersal and breeding systems) during the last 400 million years. What were the characteristics of the hypothetical survivors of early angiosperms? These questions are an active area of research and debate today. The third part of the book considers the importance of beetles in
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Evolution 2.0

Implications of Darwinism in Philosophy and the Social and Natural Sciences

Edited by Martin Brinkworth, Friedel Weinert ...

Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
These essays by leading philosophers and scientists focus on recent ideas at the forefront of modern Darwinism, showcasing and exploring the challenges they raise as well as open problems. This interdisciplinary volume is unique in that it addresses the key notions of evolutionary theory in approaches to the mind, in the philosophy of biology, in the social sciences and humanities; furthermore it ... Read more

$49.49 USD

These essays by leading philosophers and scientists focus on recent ideas at the forefront of modern Darwinism, showcasing and exploring the challenges they raise as well as open problems. This interdisciplinary volume is unique in that it addresses the key notions of evolutionary theory in approaches to the mind, in the philosophy of biology, in the social sciences and humanities; furthermore it
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Post-Genome Biology of Primates

Edited by Hiroo Imai, Yasuhiro Go, Hirohisa Hirai ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
In 2001, first reports of the human draft genome were published. Since then, genomes of many other organisms have been sequenced, including several primate species: the chimpanzee, rhesus macaque, gorilla, orangutan, gibbon, baboon, marmoset, tarsier, galago, lemur, and more recently Neanderthals. In a new era of "post-genome biology", scientists now have the vast amount of information revealed by ... Read more

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In 2001, first reports of the human draft genome were published. Since then, genomes of many other organisms have been sequenced, including several primate species: the chimpanzee, rhesus macaque, gorilla, orangutan, gibbon, baboon, marmoset, tarsier, galago, lemur, and more recently Neanderthals. In a new era of "post-genome biology", scientists now have the vast amount of information revealed by
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