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  • Comparative Social Evolution

    Edición de Dustin R. Rubenstein, Patrick Abbot ...
    Darwin famously described special difficulties in explaining social evolution in insects. More than a century later, the evolution of sociality - defined broadly as cooperative group living - remains one of the most intriguing problems in biology. Providing a unique perspective on the study of social evolution, this volume synthesizes the features of animal social life across the principle ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Farm-level Modelling

    Techniques, Applications and Policy

    de Maria Maria, Arnaud Arnaud, Stephen Stephen, Michael Michael, Filippo Arfini, Michele Michele, César Revoredo-Giha, Cathal Cathal, Pavel Pavel, Bruce Bruce, Wei Wei Wei Wei, Thomas Thomas, Roberto Solazzo, Mario Veneziani, Paul Wilson, Patrick Gillespie, Fiona Thorne, Thia Hennessy, Stephen Hynes, Vera Eory, Jinxiu Ding, Dr Weiwei Wang, Eleonore Guillem, Dave Murray-Rust, Joana Guimarães Ferreira, Patrick Abbot, Alexander Gocht, Maria Espinosa, Sergio Gomez y Paloma, David A. Hennessy ...
    Agriculture is the product of a complex mixture of behavioural, biophysical and market drivers. Understanding how these factors interact to produce crops and livestock for food has been the focus of economic investigation for many years. The advent of optimisation algorithms and the exponential growth in computing technology has allowed significant growth in mathematical modelling of the dynamics ... Leer más

    $123.99 USD

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  • A New Science of Life

    de Rupert Sheldrake ...
    **The fully revised edition of Rupert Sheldrake's controversial science classic, from the author of the bestselling Dogs That Know When Their Owners are Coming Home, celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2021!**After chemists crystallised a new chemical for the first time, it became easier and easier to crystallise in laboratories all over the world. After rats at Harvard first escaped from a new ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Serengeti Rules

    The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters - With a new Q&A with the author

    de Sean B. Carroll ...
    Now the subject of an Emmy Award–winning film the New York Times calls "spellbinding"How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or fish in the ocean? How do our bodies produce the right numbers of cells in our organs and bloodstream? In The Serengeti Rules, award-winning biologist and author Sean Carroll tells the stories of the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Comparative Cognition

    de Mary C. Olmstead, Valerie A. Kuhlmeier ...
    Integrating developments from psychology, ethology and neuroscience, this is an undergraduate introduction to cognitive processes across species. The authors merge classic studies and contemporary research to give students a full picture of the evolving field of comparative cognition. Engaging students in the discipline from its roots in animal learning and evolutionary biology through to current ... Leer más

    $56.99 USD

  • The Domestic Cat

    The Biology of its Behaviour

    Edición de Dennis C. Turner, Patrick Bateson ...
    The most commonly kept domestic animal in the developed world, the cat has been a part of human life for thousands of years. Cats have been both worshipped and persecuted over this long period - either loved or hated for their enigmatic self-reliance and the subject of numerous myths and fables. Highlighting startling discoveries made over the last ten years, this new edition features ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • The Domestic Dog

    Its Evolution, Behavior and Interactions with People

    Edición de James Serpell ...
    Why do dogs behave in the ways that they do? Why did our ancestors tame wolves? How have we ended up with so many breeds of dog, and how can we understand their role in contemporary human society? Explore the answers to these questions and many more in this study of the domestic dog. Building on the strengths of the first edition, this much-anticipated update incorporates two decades of new ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • How the Zebra Got Its Stripes

    de Léo Grasset ...
    Why do giraffes have such long necks? Why are zebras striped? And why does the clitoris of the female hyena exactly resemble and in most respects function like the male's penis?Deploying the latest scientific research and his own extensive observations in Africa, Léo Grasset offers answers to these questions and many more in a book of post-Darwinian Just So stories. Complex natural phenomena are ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation

    de Patrick Bateson, Paul Martin ...
    What role does playful behaviour and playful thought take in animal and human development? How does play relate to creativity and, in turn, to innovation? Unravelling the different meanings of 'play', this book focuses on non-aggressive playful play. The authors emphasise its significance for development and evolution, before examining the importance of playfulness in creativity. This discussion ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

  • Evolutionary Biology - Concepts, Molecular and Morphological Evolution

    Edición de Pierre Pontarotti ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The annual Evolutionary Biology Meetings in Marseille aim to bring together leading scientists, promoting an exchange of state-of-the-art knowledge and the formation of inter-group collaborations. This book presents the most representative contributions to the 13th meeting, which was held in September 2009. It comprises 21 chapters, which are organized into the following three categories: • ... Leer más

    $215.09 USD

  • The Jehol Fossils

    The Emergence of Feathered Dinosaurs, Beaked Birds and Flowering Plants

    de Mee-Mann Chang ...
    No other single volume reference to the Jehol site and its fossils exists and nowhere is there such a collection of fine photos of the fossils concerned. This book has pieced together the most up-to-date information on the Jehol Biota, a place that has shown the world some of the most astonishing fossil finds including the first complete skeleton of Archaeopteryx in 1861, four-winged dinosaurs- ... Leer más

    $75.99 USD

  • Planning and Designing Research Animal Facilities

    Edición de Jack Hessler, Noel Lehner ...
    Series series American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine
    Research institutions have or are planning to build, expand and renovate animal research facilities to keep up with the demands of biomedical research caused in part by growth in the use of genetically altered rodents and the upsurge of research in infectious diseases. Properly designed facilities greatly facilitate effective management and high-quality day-to-day animal care that is required to ... Leer más

    $206.99 USD