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Genetics and the Extinction of Species

DNA and the Conservation of Biodiversity

Edición de Laura Landweber, Andrew P. Dobson ...

Darwin's Origin of Species and Dobzhansky's Genetics and the Origin of Species have been the cornerstones of modern evolutionary and population genetic theory for the past hundred years, but in the twenty-first century, biologists will face graver problems of extinction. In this collection, a team of leading biologists demonstrates why the burgeoning field of conservation biology must continue to ... Leer más

$70.59 USD

Darwin's Origin of Species and Dobzhansky's Genetics and the Origin of Species have been the cornerstones of modern evolutionary and population genetic theory for the past hundred years, but in the twenty-first century, biologists will face graver problems of extinction. In this collection, a team of leading biologists demonstrates why the burgeoning field of conservation biology must continue to
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OUR HUMAN DESTINY

de Lou Shook ...

How can we Humans live within Earth’s limitations? We Humans seem to have lost ‘concern’ for the well-being of our fellow Humans. The life style among much of our Human population tends to aim at, “how much can I get” - with little concern about, “how much can I give." This loss of concern threatens the successful continuation of our Human Civilization. With our concentration on “how much can we ... Leer más

$4.99 USD

How can we Humans live within Earth’s limitations? We Humans seem to have lost ‘concern’ for the well-being of our fellow Humans. The life style among much of our Human population tends to aim at, “how much can I get” - with little concern about, “how much can I give." This loss of concern threatens the successful continuation of our Human Civilization. With our concentration on “how much can we
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Animal Behavior Desk Reference

A Dictionary of Animal Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution, Third Edition

de Edward M. Barrows ...

Words are our tools, and, as a minimum, we should use clean tools. We should know what we mean and what we do not, and we must forearm ourselves against the traps that language sets us.-- The Need for Precise Terminology, Austin (1957, 7–8)It follows that, for effective and efficient communication, people should have, or at least understand, the same precise terminology. Such terminology is ... Leer más

$115.99 USD

Words are our tools, and, as a minimum, we should use clean tools. We should know what we mean and what we do not, and we must forearm ourselves against the traps that language sets us.-- The Need for Precise Terminology, Austin (1957, 7–8)It follows that, for effective and efficient communication, people should have, or at least understand, the same precise terminology. Such terminology is
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Handbook of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi

de Tancredo Souza ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are obligate root symbionts that impact plant growth, productivity and competitiveness. The book integrates key information about AMF concepts, structures and functions, and the new classification of Glomeromycota, including topics about AMF history and evolution, AMF families, genus and species description, as well as a compilation about several protocols to assess ... Leer más

$152.09 USD

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are obligate root symbionts that impact plant growth, productivity and competitiveness. The book integrates key information about AMF concepts, structures and functions, and the new classification of Glomeromycota, including topics about AMF history and evolution, AMF families, genus and species description, as well as a compilation about several protocols to assess
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Common Sense vs Evolution

de Shane Anderson ...

Can Common-sense take down the idea of Evolution? It can. Can Evolution stand up against a few common-sense questions? It cannot.If evolution is taught as proven science, why hasn't science proven evolution? If evolution furthers life by natural selection, why did evolution create predators? If evolution is proven science, why is there a debate about every evolutionary achievement in the ... Leer más

$2.99 USD

Can Common-sense take down the idea of Evolution? It can. Can Evolution stand up against a few common-sense questions? It cannot.If evolution is taught as proven science, why hasn't science proven evolution? If evolution furthers life by natural selection, why did evolution create predators? If evolution is proven science, why is there a debate about every evolutionary achievement in the
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Holocene Extinctions

Edición de Samuel T. Turvey ...

The extent to which human activity has influenced species extinctions during the recent prehistoric past remains controversial due to other factors such as climatic fluctuations and a general lack of data. However, the Holocene (the geological interval spanning the last 11,500 years from the end of the last glaciation) has witnessed massive levels of extinctions that have continued into the modern ... Leer más

$81.89 USD

The extent to which human activity has influenced species extinctions during the recent prehistoric past remains controversial due to other factors such as climatic fluctuations and a general lack of data. However, the Holocene (the geological interval spanning the last 11,500 years from the end of the last glaciation) has witnessed massive levels of extinctions that have continued into the modern
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Social Dynamics

de Brian Skyrms ...

Brian Skyrms presents eighteen essays which apply adaptive dynamics (of cultural evolution and individual learning) to social theory. Altruism, spite, fairness, trust, division of labor, and signaling are treated from this perspective. Correlation is seen to be of fundamental importance. Interactions with neighbors in space, on static networks, and on co-evolving dynamics networks are investigated ... Leer más

$42.29 USD

Brian Skyrms presents eighteen essays which apply adaptive dynamics (of cultural evolution and individual learning) to social theory. Altruism, spite, fairness, trust, division of labor, and signaling are treated from this perspective. Correlation is seen to be of fundamental importance. Interactions with neighbors in space, on static networks, and on co-evolving dynamics networks are investigated
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Animal Diversity and Biogeography of the Cuatro Ciénegas Basin

Edición de Fernando Álvarez, Margarita Ojeda ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This volume investigates the contemporary fauna that inhabit the Cuatro Ciénegas Basin. Divided into 15 chapters, it addresses and describes their diversity, taxonomic and biogeogaphic affinities, and ecological characteristics.The Cuatro Ciénegas Valley is a unique oasis in the south-central region of the State of Coahuila, part of the Sonoran Desert, in Mexico. Several clues, specially derived ... Leer más

$89.99 USD

This volume investigates the contemporary fauna that inhabit the Cuatro Ciénegas Basin. Divided into 15 chapters, it addresses and describes their diversity, taxonomic and biogeogaphic affinities, and ecological characteristics.The Cuatro Ciénegas Valley is a unique oasis in the south-central region of the State of Coahuila, part of the Sonoran Desert, in Mexico. Several clues, specially derived
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The Language Phenomenon

Human Communication from Milliseconds to Millennia

Edición de K. Smith, P.-M. Binder ...

Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
This volume contains a contemporary, integrated description of the processes of language. These range from fast scales (fractions of a second) to slow ones (over a million years). The contributors, all experts in their fields, address language in the brain, production of sentences and dialogues, language learning, transmission and evolutionary processes that happen over centuries or millenia, the ... Leer más

$49.49 USD

This volume contains a contemporary, integrated description of the processes of language. These range from fast scales (fractions of a second) to slow ones (over a million years). The contributors, all experts in their fields, address language in the brain, production of sentences and dialogues, language learning, transmission and evolutionary processes that happen over centuries or millenia, the
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Parasitic Crustacea

State of Knowledge and Future Trends

Edición de Nico J. Smit, Niel L. Bruce, Kerry A. Hadfield ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This book offers the first comprehensive review of parasitic Crustacea, which are among the most successful and diverse parasites. Starting with an introductory chapter, followed by an historic overview and topic-specific chapters, each presenting a different aspect of parasitic crustacean biology, it enables readers to gain a better understanding of how these parasites function and allows direct ... Leer más

$170.09 USD

This book offers the first comprehensive review of parasitic Crustacea, which are among the most successful and diverse parasites. Starting with an introductory chapter, followed by an historic overview and topic-specific chapters, each presenting a different aspect of parasitic crustacean biology, it enables readers to gain a better understanding of how these parasites function and allows direct
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Remapping Biology with Goethe, Schelling, and Herder

Romanticizing Evolution

de Gregory Rupik ...

Series series History and Philosophy of Biology
Remapping Biology with Goethe, Schelling, and Herder recruits a Romantic philosophy of biology into contemporary debates to both integrate the theoretical implications of ecology, evolution, and development, and to contextualize the successes of the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis’s gene’s-eye-view of biology.The dominant philosophy of biology in the twentieth century was one developed within and ... Leer más

$64.99 USD

Remapping Biology with Goethe, Schelling, and Herder recruits a Romantic philosophy of biology into contemporary debates to both integrate the theoretical implications of ecology, evolution, and development, and to contextualize the successes of the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis’s gene’s-eye-view of biology.The dominant philosophy of biology in the twentieth century was one developed within and
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Homo Sapiens. Обезьяна, которая отказалась взрослеть

Занимательная наука об эволюции и невероятно длинном детстве

de Бренна Хассетт ...

Traducido por Анастасия Бродоцкая ...

Series series Хиты научпопа
Антрополог и биоархеолог Бренна Хассетт бросает вызов устоявшимся представлениям об эволюции Homo Sapiens и предлагает свои ответы на одни из самых занимательных вопросов всех времен: •Как и почему два миллиона лет назад на земле появился человек? •Зачем человеку нужен такой необоснованно длинный с точки зрения биологии период взросления? •Как в природе связаны плодовитость и жир? •Какие тайны ... Leer más

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Антрополог и биоархеолог Бренна Хассетт бросает вызов устоявшимся представлениям об эволюции Homo Sapiens и предлагает свои ответы на одни из самых занимательных вопросов всех времен: •Как и почему два миллиона лет назад на земле появился человек? •Зачем человеку нужен такой необоснованно длинный с точки зрения биологии период взросления? •Как в природе связаны плодовитость и жир? •Какие тайны
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Early Life on Earth

Evolution, Diversification, and Interactions

de Kenichiro Sugitani ...

This book comprehensively explores the early evolution of life and the Archean environment. Topics include the differences between prokaryotes and eukaryotes, variations in metabolisms, concepts of ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles (nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorous), Archean geology and environments, and the widely accepted early evolutionary history of life. The text addresses controversies ... Leer más

$115.99 USD

This book comprehensively explores the early evolution of life and the Archean environment. Topics include the differences between prokaryotes and eukaryotes, variations in metabolisms, concepts of ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles (nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorous), Archean geology and environments, and the widely accepted early evolutionary history of life. The text addresses controversies
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Cro-Magnon

The Story of the Last Ice Age People of Europe

de Trenton W. Holliday ...

During the Last Ice Age, Europe was a cold, dry place teeming with mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, reindeer, bison, cave bears, cave hyenas, and cave lions. It was also the home of people physically indistinguishable from humans today, commonly known as the Cro-Magnons. Our knowledge of them comes from either their skeletons or the tools, art, and debris they left behind.This book tells the story ... Leer más

$25.19 USD

During the Last Ice Age, Europe was a cold, dry place teeming with mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, reindeer, bison, cave bears, cave hyenas, and cave lions. It was also the home of people physically indistinguishable from humans today, commonly known as the Cro-Magnons. Our knowledge of them comes from either their skeletons or the tools, art, and debris they left behind.This book tells the story
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

(Illustrated)

de Adam Smith ...

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, generally referred to by its shortened title The Wealth of Nations, is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith. First published in 1776, the book offers one of the world's first collected descriptions of what builds nations' wealth, and is today a fundamental work in classical economics. By ... Leer más

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, generally referred to by its shortened title The Wealth of Nations, is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith. First published in 1776, the book offers one of the world's first collected descriptions of what builds nations' wealth, and is today a fundamental work in classical economics. By
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Rhodophyta Volume 5

Ahnfeltiales, Gigartinales, Sebdeniales, Nemastomatales, Plocamiales, Gracilariales and Rhodymeniales

Edición de Guangce Wang ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This book is the fifth volume of the “Marine Algal Flora of China-Rhodophyta.” The series has seven volumes covering about 20 orders, 45 families, 173 genera, and 560 species including over 150 species firstly described from China, indicating significant importance to the knowledge of North-Western Pacific marine algal flora. The fifth volume Ahnfeltiales, Gigartinales, Sebdeniales, Nemastomatales ... Leer más

$179.99 USD

This book is the fifth volume of the “Marine Algal Flora of China-Rhodophyta.” The series has seven volumes covering about 20 orders, 45 families, 173 genera, and 560 species including over 150 species firstly described from China, indicating significant importance to the knowledge of North-Western Pacific marine algal flora. The fifth volume Ahnfeltiales, Gigartinales, Sebdeniales, Nemastomatales
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Rhinos of the World

Ecology, Conservation and Management

Edición de Mario Melletti, Bibhab Talukdar, David Balfour ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This book represents the culmination of more than four years of work by many rhino experts, primarily from Africa, Asia, the United States, and Europe, involved in rhino conservation, research and management. It is one of the most comprehensive reference works ever published on the systematics, ecology, conservation status, and management of all rhinoceros species.Covering all five rhino species ... Leer más

$116.09 USD

This book represents the culmination of more than four years of work by many rhino experts, primarily from Africa, Asia, the United States, and Europe, involved in rhino conservation, research and management. It is one of the most comprehensive reference works ever published on the systematics, ecology, conservation status, and management of all rhinoceros species.Covering all five rhino species
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The Logarithmic Nature of Time: From the Start of Life to Symbolizing Humanity

de Michael A. Susko ...

The two works collated here encompass a vast time from the start of life until the dawn to what we refer to as "civilization." In the first volume, a consistent logarithmic pulsing was found in biological evolution from life's beginning to the first humans. The evidence for these first ten nodes was primarily fossils or other life signatures in a given setting. The second volume continues the ... Leer más

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The two works collated here encompass a vast time from the start of life until the dawn to what we refer to as "civilization." In the first volume, a consistent logarithmic pulsing was found in biological evolution from life's beginning to the first humans. The evidence for these first ten nodes was primarily fossils or other life signatures in a given setting. The second volume continues the
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Sleeps With Wolves

de Neil Bockoven ...

A hybrid girl. A killer’s trail. A brutal Ice Age wilderness.Fourteen-year-old Elka—half Neanderthal, half Homo sapiens—has always lived on the margins of her tribe. When a deadly raid leaves her father near death and her brother slain, she sets off alone with her wolf companion, Misha, determined to track the killers and take vengeance. But in a world where snow falls hard, prey is scarce, and ... Leer más

$18.99 USD

A hybrid girl. A killer’s trail. A brutal Ice Age wilderness.Fourteen-year-old Elka—half Neanderthal, half Homo sapiens—has always lived on the margins of her tribe. When a deadly raid leaves her father near death and her brother slain, she sets off alone with her wolf companion, Misha, determined to track the killers and take vengeance. But in a world where snow falls hard, prey is scarce, and
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¿Deberíamos comer carne?

Evolución y consecuencias de la dieta carnívora moderna

de Václav Smil ...

Históricamente, el consumo de carne se ha asociado con una cuestión de estatus en la mayoría de las culturas. Esto cambió de manera radical durante el siglo xx, cuando se dejaron de emplear animales como fuerza de trabajo para la agricultura, lo que dio pie al crecimiento de la industria cárnica a tal punto que hoy se pueden encontrar en cualquier supermercado diversos cortes de una gran variedad ... Leer más

$8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Históricamente, el consumo de carne se ha asociado con una cuestión de estatus en la mayoría de las culturas. Esto cambió de manera radical durante el siglo xx, cuando se dejaron de emplear animales como fuerza de trabajo para la agricultura, lo que dio pie al crecimiento de la industria cárnica a tal punto que hoy se pueden encontrar en cualquier supermercado diversos cortes de una gran variedad
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A Colour Atlas of Medical Entomology

de Nicholas Burgess, G.O. Cowan ...

Series series Medicine (R0)
A there it is! guide to insects of medical and public health concern, mainly in the tropics. Each chapter covers identification, life cycle and habits of the causative stage and its medical/public health significance. ... Leer más

$49.49 USD

A there it is! guide to insects of medical and public health concern, mainly in the tropics. Each chapter covers identification, life cycle and habits of the causative stage and its medical/public health significance.
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Escaping From Predators

An Integrative View of Escape Decisions

Edición de William E. Cooper, Jr, Daniel T. Blumstein ...

When a predator attacks, prey are faced with a series of 'if', 'when' and 'how' escape decisions – these critical questions are the foci of this book. Cooper and Blumstein bring together a balance of theory and empirical research to summarise over fifty years of scattered research and benchmark current thinking in the rapidly expanding literature on the behavioural ecology of escaping. The book ... Leer más

$57.39 USD

When a predator attacks, prey are faced with a series of 'if', 'when' and 'how' escape decisions – these critical questions are the foci of this book. Cooper and Blumstein bring together a balance of theory and empirical research to summarise over fifty years of scattered research and benchmark current thinking in the rapidly expanding literature on the behavioural ecology of escaping. The book
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The Evolution of Inanimate Objects

The Life and Collected Works of Thomas Darwin (1857-1879)

de Harry Karlinsky ...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME TRUST BOOK PRIZE 2012While carrying out historical research at an Ontario asylum, psychiatrist Harry Karlinsky comes across a familiar surname in the register. Could the “Thomas Darwin of Down, England” be a relative of the famous Charles Darwin?In a narrative woven from letters, photographs, historical documents and illustrations, what emerges is a sketch of Thomas’s ... Leer más

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LONGLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME TRUST BOOK PRIZE 2012While carrying out historical research at an Ontario asylum, psychiatrist Harry Karlinsky comes across a familiar surname in the register. Could the “Thomas Darwin of Down, England” be a relative of the famous Charles Darwin?In a narrative woven from letters, photographs, historical documents and illustrations, what emerges is a sketch of Thomas’s
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The Evolution of Mammalian Sociality in an Ecological Perspective

de Clara B. Jones ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This brief discusses factors associated with group formation, group maintenance, group population structure, and other events and processes (e.g., physiology, behavior) related to mammalian social evolution. Within- and between-lineages, features of prehistoric and extant social mammals, patterns and linkages are discussed as components of a possible social “tool-kit”. "Top-down” (predators to ... Leer más

$49.49 USD

This brief discusses factors associated with group formation, group maintenance, group population structure, and other events and processes (e.g., physiology, behavior) related to mammalian social evolution. Within- and between-lineages, features of prehistoric and extant social mammals, patterns and linkages are discussed as components of a possible social “tool-kit”. "Top-down” (predators to
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