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Mutual Aid

de P. Kropotkin ...

Two aspects of animal life impressed me most during the journeys which I made in my youth in Eastern Siberia and Northern Manchuria. One of them was the extreme severity of the struggle for existence which most species of animals have to carry on against an inclement Nature; the enormous destruction of life which periodically results from natural agencies; and the consequent paucity of life over ... Leer más

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Two aspects of animal life impressed me most during the journeys which I made in my youth in Eastern Siberia and Northern Manchuria. One of them was the extreme severity of the struggle for existence which most species of animals have to carry on against an inclement Nature; the enormous destruction of life which periodically results from natural agencies; and the consequent paucity of life over
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Evolution

de William H. Pettit ...

This pamphlet is an appeal to reason and common sense.It is not written specially for scientific experts and hence technical terms have been as far as possible avoided. The student or scientist who desires a more detailed and technical treatment of these problems is referred to larger treatises, of which there are a considerable number.Our purpose is to reach intelligent and thoughtful men and ... Leer más

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This pamphlet is an appeal to reason and common sense.It is not written specially for scientific experts and hence technical terms have been as far as possible avoided. The student or scientist who desires a more detailed and technical treatment of these problems is referred to larger treatises, of which there are a considerable number.Our purpose is to reach intelligent and thoughtful men and
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Unconscious Memory

de Samuel Butler ...

Unconscious memory presents a philosophical examination of biological development through the idea that memory operates beneath awareness and guides living behavior. The work argues that habit, instinct, and inherited action are forms of memory passed forward, shaping growth and response without conscious thought. Rather than treating evolution as purely mechanical, the book suggests continuity ... Leer más

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Unconscious memory presents a philosophical examination of biological development through the idea that memory operates beneath awareness and guides living behavior. The work argues that habit, instinct, and inherited action are forms of memory passed forward, shaping growth and response without conscious thought. Rather than treating evolution as purely mechanical, the book suggests continuity
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Мавпа в чудовому вбранні.

Від первісної крихкості до універсальної свідомості.

de Bruno Del Medico ...

Series Libro 953 - UKR - PensareDiverso
Протягом тисячоліть ми розповідали про себе як про «голу мавпу»: тендітну тварину, раптово кинуту у світ без пазурів і броні, оточену незрозумілими природними силами та краще озброєними хижаками, яку прославив етолог і антрополог Десмонд Морріс завдяки своїй знаменитій книзі 1967 року під назвою «Гола мавпа». Перелякана істота, яка навчилася виживати, вигадуючи історії, символи, богів, ритуали. ... Leer más

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Протягом тисячоліть ми розповідали про себе як про «голу мавпу»: тендітну тварину, раптово кинуту у світ без пазурів і броні, оточену незрозумілими природними силами та краще озброєними хижаками, яку прославив етолог і антрополог Десмонд Морріс завдяки своїй знаменитій книзі 1967 року під назвою «Гола мавпа». Перелякана істота, яка навчилася виживати, вигадуючи історії, символи, богів, ритуали.
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Cultural Evolution and Social Ontology

Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Edición de Martina Valković, Thomas A.C. Reydon ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
This volume explores connections between two growing and complementary fields of research: cultural evolutionary theory and social ontology. It sheds light on the ontological aspects of cultural evolution that so far have been largely neglected and raises questions for social ontology regarding the relevance of evolutionary aspects of social phenomena.This volume shows that cultural evolutionary ... Leer más

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This volume explores connections between two growing and complementary fields of research: cultural evolutionary theory and social ontology. It sheds light on the ontological aspects of cultural evolution that so far have been largely neglected and raises questions for social ontology regarding the relevance of evolutionary aspects of social phenomena.This volume shows that cultural evolutionary
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There’s a Thought

A Conscious Journey

de Paul Phillips ...

This is a conscious and spiritual journey from our Humble beginnings through our evolution. How we perceive ourselves and how we have had to adapt to our changing world. The realization we have to take care of our home planet, learning how to go to other worlds for our future survival. To take on the great challenges to bridge the great distances to the stars! More importantly how to transform ... Leer más

$4.99 USD

This is a conscious and spiritual journey from our Humble beginnings through our evolution. How we perceive ourselves and how we have had to adapt to our changing world. The realization we have to take care of our home planet, learning how to go to other worlds for our future survival. To take on the great challenges to bridge the great distances to the stars! More importantly how to transform
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Australian Beetles Volume 3

Polyphaga (Part 2)

Edición de Hermes E. Escalona, Adam Slipinski ...

Series Libro 2 - Australian Beetles Series
The Australian Beetles series represents a comprehensive treatment of the beetles of Australia, a relatively under-studied fauna that includes many unusual and unique evolutionary lineages found nowhere else on Earth.Volume 3 (Polyphaga, Part 2) contains 12 chapters, providing critical information and identification keys to the genera of the Australian beetle families included in superfamily ... Leer más

$135.39 USD

The Australian Beetles series represents a comprehensive treatment of the beetles of Australia, a relatively under-studied fauna that includes many unusual and unique evolutionary lineages found nowhere else on Earth.Volume 3 (Polyphaga, Part 2) contains 12 chapters, providing critical information and identification keys to the genera of the Australian beetle families included in superfamily
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Introducción a la Terapia Energética para el Síndrome de Down

de Edenilson Brandl ...

Bienvenidos a "Introducción a la Terapia Energética para el Síndrome de Down". Este libro es un viaje que combina la comprensión del Síndrome de Down con la exploración de diversas terapias energéticas que pueden ofrecer apoyo y bienestar a las personas que viven con esta condición y a sus familias. A lo largo de estas páginas, exploraremos las distintas terapias y cómo pueden abordar problemas ... Leer más

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Bienvenidos a "Introducción a la Terapia Energética para el Síndrome de Down". Este libro es un viaje que combina la comprensión del Síndrome de Down con la exploración de diversas terapias energéticas que pueden ofrecer apoyo y bienestar a las personas que viven con esta condición y a sus familias. A lo largo de estas páginas, exploraremos las distintas terapias y cómo pueden abordar problemas
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The Molecular Evolutionary Clock

Theory and Practice

Edición de Simon Y. W. Ho ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This book presents coverage of the principles and practice of molecular clocks, which have provided fascinating and unprecedented insights into the evolutionary timescale of life on earth. It begins by following the early development of the molecular evolutionary clock in the 1960s, and leads to the complex statistical approaches that are now used to analyse genome sequences. The chapters of this ... Leer más

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This book presents coverage of the principles and practice of molecular clocks, which have provided fascinating and unprecedented insights into the evolutionary timescale of life on earth. It begins by following the early development of the molecular evolutionary clock in the 1960s, and leads to the complex statistical approaches that are now used to analyse genome sequences. The chapters of this
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Political Descent

Malthus, Mutualism, and the Politics of Evolution in Victorian England

de Piers J. Hale ...

Historians of science have long noted the influence of the nineteenth-century political economist Thomas Robert Malthus on Charles Darwin. In a bold move, Piers J. Hale contends that this focus on Malthus and his effect on Darwin’s evolutionary thought neglects a strong anti-Malthusian tradition in English intellectual life, one that not only predated the 1859 publication of the Origin of Species ... Leer más

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Historians of science have long noted the influence of the nineteenth-century political economist Thomas Robert Malthus on Charles Darwin. In a bold move, Piers J. Hale contends that this focus on Malthus and his effect on Darwin’s evolutionary thought neglects a strong anti-Malthusian tradition in English intellectual life, one that not only predated the 1859 publication of the Origin of Species
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Biotremology: Studying Vibrational Behavior

Edición de Peggy S. M. Hill, Reinhard Lakes-Harlan, Valerio Mazzoni, Peter M. Narins, Meta Virant-Doberlet, Andreas Wessel ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This volume is a self-contained companion piece to Studying Vibrational Communication, published in 2014 within the same series. The field has expanded considerably since then, and has even acquired a name of its own: biotremology.In this context, the book reports on new concepts in this fascinating discipline, and features chapters on state-of-the art methods for studying behavior tied to ... Leer más

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This volume is a self-contained companion piece to Studying Vibrational Communication, published in 2014 within the same series. The field has expanded considerably since then, and has even acquired a name of its own: biotremology.In this context, the book reports on new concepts in this fascinating discipline, and features chapters on state-of-the art methods for studying behavior tied to
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Redeeming Sin?

Social Diagnostics amid Ecological Destruction

de Ernst M. Conradie ...

Series series Religious Ethics and Environmental Challenges
Can Christian sin-talk be retrieved within the public sphere? In this contribution to ecotheology, Ernst M. Conradie argues that, amid ecological destruction, discourse on sin can contribute to a multidisciplinary depth diagnosis of what has gone wrong in the world. He confronts some major obstacles related to the plausibility of sin-talk in conversation with evolutionary biology, the cognitive ... Leer más

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Can Christian sin-talk be retrieved within the public sphere? In this contribution to ecotheology, Ernst M. Conradie argues that, amid ecological destruction, discourse on sin can contribute to a multidisciplinary depth diagnosis of what has gone wrong in the world. He confronts some major obstacles related to the plausibility of sin-talk in conversation with evolutionary biology, the cognitive
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Die Entstehung der Arten durch Naturauslese

oder die Erhaltung der begünstigten Rassen im Kampf ums Dasein (Premium Ebook)

de Charles Darwin ...

**** PREMIUM EBOOK (fürs digitale Lesen optimiert) ****Während ich als Naturforscher an Bord von Ihrer Majestät Schiff »Spürhund« war, wurde ich durch gewisse Vorkommnisse in der Verteilung des organischen Lebens in Südamerika und in den geologischen Beziehungen der gegenwärtigen Bewohnerschaft dieses Erdteils zu der vergangenen sehr in Erstaunen gesetzt. Ich hatte den Eindruck, als ob diese ... Leer más

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**** PREMIUM EBOOK (fürs digitale Lesen optimiert) ****Während ich als Naturforscher an Bord von Ihrer Majestät Schiff »Spürhund« war, wurde ich durch gewisse Vorkommnisse in der Verteilung des organischen Lebens in Südamerika und in den geologischen Beziehungen der gegenwärtigen Bewohnerschaft dieses Erdteils zu der vergangenen sehr in Erstaunen gesetzt. Ich hatte den Eindruck, als ob diese
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A Fossil History of Southern African Land Mammals

de D. Margaret Avery ...

This reference provides comprehensive information on the taxonomy and distribution in time and space of all currently recognized southern African fossil mammals. After an introductory background chapter on southern Africa, mammals, sites and dating, the following chapters are presented by epoch, covering the Eocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene and Holocene. Individual maps provide information ... Leer más

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This reference provides comprehensive information on the taxonomy and distribution in time and space of all currently recognized southern African fossil mammals. After an introductory background chapter on southern Africa, mammals, sites and dating, the following chapters are presented by epoch, covering the Eocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene and Holocene. Individual maps provide information
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Recent Advancement in White Biotechnology Through Fungi

Volume 3: Perspective for Sustainable Environments

Edición de Ajar Nath Yadav, Sangram Singh, Shashank Mishra, Arti Gupta ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Over the last decade considerable progress has been made in white biotechnology research and further major scientific and technological breakthroughs are expected in the future. The first large-scale industrial applications of modern biotechnology have been in the areas of food and animal feed production (agricultural/green biotechnology) and in pharmaceuticals (medical/red biotechnology). In ... Leer más

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Over the last decade considerable progress has been made in white biotechnology research and further major scientific and technological breakthroughs are expected in the future. The first large-scale industrial applications of modern biotechnology have been in the areas of food and animal feed production (agricultural/green biotechnology) and in pharmaceuticals (medical/red biotechnology). In
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The Evolution of Consciousness

Implications for Mental Health and Quality of Life

de Bjørn Grinde ...

Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
This book gives the reader an understanding of what consciousness is about, and of how to make conscious experiences more pleasant. It expands on a new theory that describes the evolutionary trajectory leading to conscious life forms. In short, the evidence suggests that consciousness first evolved some 300 million years ago as a consequence of the introduction of feelings. Feelings offer a ... Leer más

$89.09 USD

This book gives the reader an understanding of what consciousness is about, and of how to make conscious experiences more pleasant. It expands on a new theory that describes the evolutionary trajectory leading to conscious life forms. In short, the evidence suggests that consciousness first evolved some 300 million years ago as a consequence of the introduction of feelings. Feelings offer a
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Ethnobiology of Mountain Communities in Asia

Edición de Arshad Mehmood Abbasi, Rainer W. Bussmann ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Natural resources and associated biological diversity provide the basis of livelihood for human population, particularly in the rural areas and mountain regions across the globe. Asia is home to the world's highest mountain regions including the Himalayas, Karakorum and Hindukush. These regions are renowned around the globe because of their unique beauty, climate, and biocultural diversity. ... Leer más

$170.09 USD

Natural resources and associated biological diversity provide the basis of livelihood for human population, particularly in the rural areas and mountain regions across the globe. Asia is home to the world's highest mountain regions including the Himalayas, Karakorum and Hindukush. These regions are renowned around the globe because of their unique beauty, climate, and biocultural diversity.
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Foundations of Metacognition

Edición de Michael J. Beran, Johannes Brandl, Josef Perner, JoÃ«lle Proust ...

Metacognition refers to the awareness an individual has of their own mental processes (also referred to as ' thinking about thinking'). In the past thirty years metacognition research has become a rapidly growing field of interdisciplinary research within the cognitive sciences. Just recently, there have been major changes in this field, stimulated by the controversial issues of metacognition in ... Leer más

$104.39 USD

Metacognition refers to the awareness an individual has of their own mental processes (also referred to as ' thinking about thinking'). In the past thirty years metacognition research has become a rapidly growing field of interdisciplinary research within the cognitive sciences. Just recently, there have been major changes in this field, stimulated by the controversial issues of metacognition in
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Martinus, Darwin and Intelligent Design - A new Theory of Evolution

de OIe Therkelsen ...

Darwin takes as his starting point a gradual evolution on the basis of mutations and natural selection. Intelligent Design attempts to show in a purely scientific way that a supreme intelligence exists behind all of creation. As against these two theories, Ole Therkelsen, public speaker and former lecturer in chemistry and biology, presents a third explanatory model of the complex organisms in ... Leer más

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Darwin takes as his starting point a gradual evolution on the basis of mutations and natural selection. Intelligent Design attempts to show in a purely scientific way that a supreme intelligence exists behind all of creation. As against these two theories, Ole Therkelsen, public speaker and former lecturer in chemistry and biology, presents a third explanatory model of the complex organisms in
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Late Cretaceous/Paleogene West Antarctica Terrestrial Biota and its Intercontinental Affinities

de Marcelo Reguero, Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche, Tania Dutra, Sergio Marenssi, Francisco Goin ...

Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
One of the most intriguing paleobiogeographical phenomena involving the origins and gradual sundering of Gondwana concerns the close similarities and, in most cases, inferred sister-group relationships of a number of terrestrial and freshwater vertebrate taxa, e.g., dinosaurs, flying birds, mammals, etc., recovered from uppermost Cretaceous/ Paleogene deposits of West Antarctica, South America, ... Leer más

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One of the most intriguing paleobiogeographical phenomena involving the origins and gradual sundering of Gondwana concerns the close similarities and, in most cases, inferred sister-group relationships of a number of terrestrial and freshwater vertebrate taxa, e.g., dinosaurs, flying birds, mammals, etc., recovered from uppermost Cretaceous/ Paleogene deposits of West Antarctica, South America,
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Organism and Environment

Ecological Development, Niche Construction, and Adaptation

de Sonia E. Sultan ...

Over the past decade, advances in both molecular developmental biology and evolutionary ecology have made possible a new understanding of organisms as dynamic systems interacting with their environments. This innovative book synthesizes a wealth of recent research findings to examine how environments influence phenotypic expression in individual organisms (ecological development or 'eco-devo'), ... Leer más

$62.99 USD

Over the past decade, advances in both molecular developmental biology and evolutionary ecology have made possible a new understanding of organisms as dynamic systems interacting with their environments. This innovative book synthesizes a wealth of recent research findings to examine how environments influence phenotypic expression in individual organisms (ecological development or 'eco-devo'),
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The Choanoflagellates

Evolution, Biology and Ecology

de Barry S. C. Leadbeater ...

Choanoflagellates have three distinctive claims to fame: they are the closest, living, unicellular relatives of animals; they are a major component of aquatic microbial foodwebs; and one group is remarkable for its siliceous basket-like coverings. This landmark book offers a unique synthesis of over forty years of choanoflagellates research. Key areas are covered, from the phylogenetic evidence ... Leer más

$127.09 USD

Choanoflagellates have three distinctive claims to fame: they are the closest, living, unicellular relatives of animals; they are a major component of aquatic microbial foodwebs; and one group is remarkable for its siliceous basket-like coverings. This landmark book offers a unique synthesis of over forty years of choanoflagellates research. Key areas are covered, from the phylogenetic evidence
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Mutualism

Edición de Judith L. Bronstein ...

Mutualisms, interactions between two species that benefit both of them, have long captured the public imagination. Their influence transcends levels of biological organization from cells to populations, communities, and ecosystems. Mutualistic symbioses were crucial to the origin of eukaryotic cells, and perhaps to the invasion of land. Mutualisms occur in every terrestrial and aquatic habitat; ... Leer más

$66.59 USD

Mutualisms, interactions between two species that benefit both of them, have long captured the public imagination. Their influence transcends levels of biological organization from cells to populations, communities, and ecosystems. Mutualistic symbioses were crucial to the origin of eukaryotic cells, and perhaps to the invasion of land. Mutualisms occur in every terrestrial and aquatic habitat;
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Darwin the Writer

de George Levine ...

Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, arguably the most important book written in English in the nineteenth century, transformed the way we looked at the world. It is usually assumed that this is because the idea of evolution was so staggeringly powerful. Prize-winning author George Levine suggests that much of its influence was due, in fact, to its artistry; to the way it was written. Alive ... Leer más

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Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, arguably the most important book written in English in the nineteenth century, transformed the way we looked at the world. It is usually assumed that this is because the idea of evolution was so staggeringly powerful. Prize-winning author George Levine suggests that much of its influence was due, in fact, to its artistry; to the way it was written. Alive
... Leer más

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