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Premier Homme - L’édition illustrée avec les images du film

by Pascal Picq ...

Dans cet ouvrage réalisé simultanément à l’écriture du scénario de Premier Homme, le documentaire dont il est le conseiller scientifique, Pascal Picq déploie l’histoire de l’évolution de la grande famille des anthropoïdes à laquelle appartient l’espèce humaine, depuis les grands singes de la fin de l’ère tertiaire jusqu’à l’émergence d’Homo erectus, le premier homme au début des âges glaciaires. ... Read more

$13.99 USD

Dans cet ouvrage réalisé simultanément à l’écriture du scénario de Premier Homme, le documentaire dont il est le conseiller scientifique, Pascal Picq déploie l’histoire de l’évolution de la grande famille des anthropoïdes à laquelle appartient l’espèce humaine, depuis les grands singes de la fin de l’ère tertiaire jusqu’à l’émergence d’Homo erectus, le premier homme au début des âges glaciaires.
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The Structure of Animal Life - Six Lectures Delivered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in January and February, 1862

by Louis Agassiz ...

This book contains six classic articles on the subject of structure in animal life, being a selection of essays exploring the relationship between natural history and the idea of God. Although old and largely scientifically out-dated, the information contained within these essays will be of considerable utility to those with an interest in the development of scientific thought, especially in ... Read more

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This book contains six classic articles on the subject of structure in animal life, being a selection of essays exploring the relationship between natural history and the idea of God. Although old and largely scientifically out-dated, the information contained within these essays will be of considerable utility to those with an interest in the development of scientific thought, especially in
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The Nature of Life and Its Potential to Survive

by David S. Stevenson ...

Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
This book looks at the persistence of life and how difficult it would be to annihilate life, especially a species as successful as humanity. The idea that life in general is fragile is challenged by the hardiness of microbes, which shows that astrobiology on exoplanets and other satellites must be robust and plentiful. Microbes have adapted to virtually every niche on the planet, from the deep, ... Read more

$40.49 USD

This book looks at the persistence of life and how difficult it would be to annihilate life, especially a species as successful as humanity. The idea that life in general is fragile is challenged by the hardiness of microbes, which shows that astrobiology on exoplanets and other satellites must be robust and plentiful. Microbes have adapted to virtually every niche on the planet, from the deep,
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The Cosmic Zoo

Complex Life on Many Worlds

by William Bains, Dirk Schulze-Makuch ...

Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Are humans a galactic oddity, or will complex life with human abilities develop on planets with environments that remain habitable for long enough? In a clear, jargon-free style, two leading researchers in the burgeoning field of astrobiology critically examine the major evolutionary steps that led us from the distant origins of life to the technologically advanced species we are today.Are the key ... Read more

$58.49 USD

Are humans a galactic oddity, or will complex life with human abilities develop on planets with environments that remain habitable for long enough? In a clear, jargon-free style, two leading researchers in the burgeoning field of astrobiology critically examine the major evolutionary steps that led us from the distant origins of life to the technologically advanced species we are today.Are the key
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Kin

How We Came to Know Our Microbe Relatives

by John L. Ingraham ...

Since Darwin, people have speculated about the evolutionary relationships among dissimilar species, including our connections to the diverse life forms known as microbes. In the 1970s biologists discovered a way to establish these kinships. This new era of exploration began with Linus Pauling’s finding that every protein in every cell contains a huge reservoir of evolutionary history. His ... Read more

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Since Darwin, people have speculated about the evolutionary relationships among dissimilar species, including our connections to the diverse life forms known as microbes. In the 1970s biologists discovered a way to establish these kinships. This new era of exploration began with Linus Pauling’s finding that every protein in every cell contains a huge reservoir of evolutionary history. His
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Die Abstammung des Menschen und die geschlechtliche Zuchtwahl (Kommentiert)

Erweiterte Ausgabe. Illustrierte Ausgabe

by Charles Darwin, Svenja Rademann ...

Translated by Julius Victor Carus ...

In "Die Abstammung des Menschen und die geschlechtliche Zuchtwahl" erweitert Charles Darwin die in der "Entstehung der Arten" entwickelte Evolutionstheorie auf den Menschen. Mit nüchterner Argumentation, vergleichender Anatomie, Ethologie und Anthropologie untersucht er die Kontinuität zwischen Mensch und Tier, die Entstehung moralischer Empfindungen sowie die Rolle sexueller Auswahl bei Schönheit ... Read more

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In "Die Abstammung des Menschen und die geschlechtliche Zuchtwahl" erweitert Charles Darwin die in der "Entstehung der Arten" entwickelte Evolutionstheorie auf den Menschen. Mit nüchterner Argumentation, vergleichender Anatomie, Ethologie und Anthropologie untersucht er die Kontinuität zwischen Mensch und Tier, die Entstehung moralischer Empfindungen sowie die Rolle sexueller Auswahl bei Schönheit
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Coevolution of Animals and Plants

Symposium V, First International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology, 1973

Edited by Lawrence E. Gilbert, Peter H. Raven ...

It has long been recognized that plants and animals profoundly affect one another’s characteristics during the course of evolution. However, the importance of coevolution as a dynamic process involving such diverse factors as chemical communication, population structure and dynamics, energetics, and the evolution, structure, and functioning of ecosystems has been widely recognized for a ... Read more

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It has long been recognized that plants and animals profoundly affect one another’s characteristics during the course of evolution. However, the importance of coevolution as a dynamic process involving such diverse factors as chemical communication, population structure and dynamics, energetics, and the evolution, structure, and functioning of ecosystems has been widely recognized for a
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Advances in Microbial Toxin Research and Its Biotechnological Exploitation

Edited by Rajeev K. Upadhyay ...

Microbial toxins are secondary metabolites that accumulate in the organism and, to a large extent, are metabolically inactive towards the organism that produces them. The discovery of penicillin, a secondary metabolite of Penicillium notatum West (= P. chrysogenum Thom), in 1929 marked a milestone in the development of antibiotics (microbial toxins). In the intensive studies that followed this ... Read more

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Microbial toxins are secondary metabolites that accumulate in the organism and, to a large extent, are metabolically inactive towards the organism that produces them. The discovery of penicillin, a secondary metabolite of Penicillium notatum West (= P. chrysogenum Thom), in 1929 marked a milestone in the development of antibiotics (microbial toxins). In the intensive studies that followed this
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Reticulate Evolution

Symbiogenesis, Lateral Gene Transfer, Hybridization and Infectious Heredity

Edited by Nathalie Gontier ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Written for non-experts, this volume introduces the mechanisms that underlie reticulate evolution. Chapters are either accompanied with glossaries that explain new terminology or timelines that position pioneering scholars and their major discoveries in their historical contexts. The contributing authors outline the history and original context of discovery of symbiosis, symbiogenesis, lateral ... Read more

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Written for non-experts, this volume introduces the mechanisms that underlie reticulate evolution. Chapters are either accompanied with glossaries that explain new terminology or timelines that position pioneering scholars and their major discoveries in their historical contexts. The contributing authors outline the history and original context of discovery of symbiosis, symbiogenesis, lateral
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Corpus

Hoe de evolutie van het menselijk lichaam onze geschiedenis heeft bepaald

by Lewis Dartnell ...

Translated by Erik de Vries ...

De mens is een bijzondere apensoort. Onze hersenen zijn complex, onze lichamen een technisch wonder, we kunnen kennis overdragen aan volgende generaties. En onze capaciteiten nemen nog altijd toe. Toch hebben we ook gebreken: onze kinderen worden extreem kwetsbaar geboren, we zijn vatbaar voor ziektes en we zitten vol psychologische vooroordelen en defecten in onze genetica en biochemie. In Corpus ... Read more

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De mens is een bijzondere apensoort. Onze hersenen zijn complex, onze lichamen een technisch wonder, we kunnen kennis overdragen aan volgende generaties. En onze capaciteiten nemen nog altijd toe. Toch hebben we ook gebreken: onze kinderen worden extreem kwetsbaar geboren, we zijn vatbaar voor ziektes en we zitten vol psychologische vooroordelen en defecten in onze genetica en biochemie. In Corpus
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Foundations in Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience

Edited by Steven M. Platek, Todd K. Shackelford ...

This book is an introduction to the emerging field of evolutionary cognitive neuroscience, a branch of neuroscience that combines the disciplines of evolutionary psychology and cognitive neuroscience. It outlines the application of cognitive neuroscientific methods (e.g., functional magnetic resonance imaging, transcranial magnetic stimulation, magneto- and electroencephalography, and the use of ... Read more

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This book is an introduction to the emerging field of evolutionary cognitive neuroscience, a branch of neuroscience that combines the disciplines of evolutionary psychology and cognitive neuroscience. It outlines the application of cognitive neuroscientific methods (e.g., functional magnetic resonance imaging, transcranial magnetic stimulation, magneto- and electroencephalography, and the use of
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Flagellates

Unity, Diversity and Evolution

Edited by Barry S. C. Leadbeater, John C. Green ...

The Flagellates presents a multidisciplinary view of the flagellates exploring both their unity, in terms of their structure, mechanisms and processes, and their diversity in terms of biogeography, niche colonisation, and adaptations to their environment. In addition, evolutionary relationships amongst flagellates are explored. This is the only boo ... Read more

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The Flagellates presents a multidisciplinary view of the flagellates exploring both their unity, in terms of their structure, mechanisms and processes, and their diversity in terms of biogeography, niche colonisation, and adaptations to their environment. In addition, evolutionary relationships amongst flagellates are explored. This is the only boo
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Damjili Cave

Investigating the Late Pleistocene to Holocene Human History in the Southern Caucasus

Edited by Yoshihiro Nishiaki, Azad Zeynalov, Yagub Mammadov ...

Presents archaeological evidence from the Azerbaijan–Japan excavations, revealing insights into Mesolithic to Neolithic transition and farming communities in the South Caucasus.Modern archaeological research carried out since the late 19th century has sufficiently demonstrated that the beginning of the food production economy and the establishment of a farming society had a significant impact on ... Read more

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Presents archaeological evidence from the Azerbaijan–Japan excavations, revealing insights into Mesolithic to Neolithic transition and farming communities in the South Caucasus.Modern archaeological research carried out since the late 19th century has sufficiently demonstrated that the beginning of the food production economy and the establishment of a farming society had a significant impact on
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Audhumbla Remembers

by Andreas Paul John ...

Audhumbla Remembers: From the Big Bang to the Digital Primordial Soup.Why, of all things, should a cow tell you the story of the world?Because Audhumbla is a very special cow. She has been alive since the Big Bang — perhaps even before that; who knows for sure? Sometimes she lives on a farm, in a barn, or in a pasture; sometimes she lives in Ginnungagap — that special realm that lies beyond our ... Read more

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Audhumbla Remembers: From the Big Bang to the Digital Primordial Soup.Why, of all things, should a cow tell you the story of the world?Because Audhumbla is a very special cow. She has been alive since the Big Bang — perhaps even before that; who knows for sure? Sometimes she lives on a farm, in a barn, or in a pasture; sometimes she lives in Ginnungagap — that special realm that lies beyond our
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How Can God Be Inside and Outside the Universe?

by Azhar Feili ...

What if God is not outside the universe… but emerging from within it?For centuries, we've imagined an all-knowing intelligence standing beyond reality—watching, predicting, controlling. But what if that idea is not just incomplete… but logically impossible?In a universe shaped by true unpredictability, no external mind can fully know the future without breaking the rules of reality itself.This ... Read more

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What if God is not outside the universe… but emerging from within it?For centuries, we've imagined an all-knowing intelligence standing beyond reality—watching, predicting, controlling. But what if that idea is not just incomplete… but logically impossible?In a universe shaped by true unpredictability, no external mind can fully know the future without breaking the rules of reality itself.This
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Navigating Complexity in Big History

Exploring Periodization Across Cosmic and Biosocial Dimensions

Edited by David J. LePoire, Leonid Grinin, Andrey Korotayev ...

Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
This book explores periodization in Big History against the background of complexity growth across the Universe, on our planet, and in biological, social, and cultural systems. It traces the accelerating rise in complexity throughout history and the major historical transformations involved in the evolution of life, humans, and civilization. It draws on concepts from physics and evolutionary ... Read more

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This book explores periodization in Big History against the background of complexity growth across the Universe, on our planet, and in biological, social, and cultural systems. It traces the accelerating rise in complexity throughout history and the major historical transformations involved in the evolution of life, humans, and civilization. It draws on concepts from physics and evolutionary
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Maximum Power and its Philosophical Roots

The Critical Importance Today of the Ideas of Howard Odum and Friedrich Nietzsche

by Timothy McWhirter ...

Series series Energy (R0)
This Briefs volume focuses on the maximum power principle, which was created by the mathematician and physical chemist Alfred Lotka, and further developed and utilized most prominently by the systems ecologist H. T. Odum, who applied it to different physical, biological, ecological and economic systems. They both described this principle providing a thermodynamic framework for evolutionary theory. ... Read more

$53.99 USD

This Briefs volume focuses on the maximum power principle, which was created by the mathematician and physical chemist Alfred Lotka, and further developed and utilized most prominently by the systems ecologist H. T. Odum, who applied it to different physical, biological, ecological and economic systems. They both described this principle providing a thermodynamic framework for evolutionary theory.
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Un cervello dellʼEtà della pietra nellʼEra degli schermi

Affrontare distrazione e ansia senza farsi travolgere

by Richard E. Cytowic ...

Il nostro cervello non è molto diverso da quello degli antenati dell'età della pietra. Ecco perché è così poco attrezzato per resistere alle incursioni delle Big Tech: a livello fisiologico il cervello umano è ancora programmato per le esigenze di un mondo preistorico. La funzione della dopamina negli istinti fondamentali di sopravvivenza, il ruolo delle emozioni nella competizione e, soprattutto, ... Read more

$20.99 USD

Il nostro cervello non è molto diverso da quello degli antenati dell'età della pietra. Ecco perché è così poco attrezzato per resistere alle incursioni delle Big Tech: a livello fisiologico il cervello umano è ancora programmato per le esigenze di un mondo preistorico. La funzione della dopamina negli istinti fondamentali di sopravvivenza, il ruolo delle emozioni nella competizione e, soprattutto,
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The Third Law of Evolution and The Future of Life

A systems approach to natural philosophy

by Gerard A. J. M. Jagers op Akkerhuis ...

Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
This book offers a step-by-step introduction to an integrated theory of physical and biological evolution, from the early universe to the world we know today. To this end, the well-known laws of variation and selection are supplemented by a third law. This law describes the increase in complexity based on the transitions from quarks to hadrons, to atoms, to molecules, to bacteria, to eukaryotic ... Read more

$161.99 USD

This book offers a step-by-step introduction to an integrated theory of physical and biological evolution, from the early universe to the world we know today. To this end, the well-known laws of variation and selection are supplemented by a third law. This law describes the increase in complexity based on the transitions from quarks to hadrons, to atoms, to molecules, to bacteria, to eukaryotic
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The Score

The Science of the Male Sex Drive

by Faye Flam ...

A smart, witty, and fresh look at the male side of the male-female relationship from a science writer at The Philadelphia Inquirer.In The Score, Faye Flam examines how the desire to "score" has profoundly shaped males over millions of years. Sweeping from the origin of the sexes to the sexual foibles of twenty-first-century humans, Flam, a science writer at The Philadelphia Inquirer, shows how a ... Read more

$4.99 USD

A smart, witty, and fresh look at the male side of the male-female relationship from a science writer at The Philadelphia Inquirer.In The Score, Faye Flam examines how the desire to "score" has profoundly shaped males over millions of years. Sweeping from the origin of the sexes to the sexual foibles of twenty-first-century humans, Flam, a science writer at The Philadelphia Inquirer, shows how a
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Closing Human Evolution: Life in the Ultimate Age

by Ladislav Kováč ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This volume analyses the evolution of humankind by combining approaches from science and the arts. It offers a novel perspective on the evolution of life on Earth, based on a recent reformulation of the second law of thermodynamics in terms of the “maximum entropy production principle.”In essence, the Earth is but one of many “white holes” in the universe, where life functions as a specific ... Read more

$49.49 USD

This volume analyses the evolution of humankind by combining approaches from science and the arts. It offers a novel perspective on the evolution of life on Earth, based on a recent reformulation of the second law of thermodynamics in terms of the “maximum entropy production principle.”In essence, the Earth is but one of many “white holes” in the universe, where life functions as a specific
... Read more
Flowering Plants. Monocots

Poaceae

by Elizabeth A. Kellogg ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This volume is the outcome of a modern phylogenetic analysis of the grass family based on multiple sources of data, in particular molecular systematic studies resulting from a concerted effort by researchers worldwide, including the author. In the classification given here grasses are subdivided into 12 subfamilies with 29 tribes and over 700 genera. The keys and descriptions for the taxa above ... Read more

$242.09 USD

This volume is the outcome of a modern phylogenetic analysis of the grass family based on multiple sources of data, in particular molecular systematic studies resulting from a concerted effort by researchers worldwide, including the author. In the classification given here grasses are subdivided into 12 subfamilies with 29 tribes and over 700 genera. The keys and descriptions for the taxa above
... Read more
Evolutionary Perspectives on Pregnancy

by John Avise ...

Covering both the internal and external incubation of offspring, this book provides a biology-rich survey of the natural history, ecology, genetics, and evolution of pregnancy-like phenomena. From mammals and other live-bearing organisms to viviparous reptiles, male-pregnant fishes, larval-brooding worms, crabs, sea cucumbers, and corals, the world's various species display pregnancy and other ... Read more

$89.99 USD

Covering both the internal and external incubation of offspring, this book provides a biology-rich survey of the natural history, ecology, genetics, and evolution of pregnancy-like phenomena. From mammals and other live-bearing organisms to viviparous reptiles, male-pregnant fishes, larval-brooding worms, crabs, sea cucumbers, and corals, the world's various species display pregnancy and other
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A Brief History of Time #2

by R White ...

A Brief History of Time #2 - At Last The Truth!This brilliant sequel demolishes the lies and ideologies of the warring armies of Creationists and Evolutionists with startling new revelations that will rock cherished beliefs just as surely as did Stephen Hawking's original book.Scientific research and space exploration has progressed vastly since 1988 and now #2 takes the reader into mysteries of ... Read more

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A Brief History of Time #2 - At Last The Truth!This brilliant sequel demolishes the lies and ideologies of the warring armies of Creationists and Evolutionists with startling new revelations that will rock cherished beliefs just as surely as did Stephen Hawking's original book.Scientific research and space exploration has progressed vastly since 1988 and now #2 takes the reader into mysteries of
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