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“nick j royle”

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  • The Evolution of Parental Care

    Edited by Nick J. Royle, Per T. Smiseth, Mathias Kölliker ...
    Parental care includes a wide variety of traits that enhance offspring development and survival. It is taxonomically widespread and is central to the maintenance of biodiversity through its close association with other phenomena such as sexual selection, life-history evolution, sex allocation, sociality, cooperation and conflict, growth and development, genetic architecture, and phenotypic ... Read more

    $90.79 CAD

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  • A New Science of Life

    by 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 ... Read more

    $9.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pollination and Floral Ecology

    by Patricia Willmer ...
    Pollination and Floral Ecology is the most comprehensive single-volume reference to all aspects of pollination biology--and the first fully up-to-date resource of its kind to appear in decades. This beautifully illustrated book describes how flowers use colors, shapes, and scents to advertise themselves; how they offer pollen and nectar as rewards; and how they share complex interactions with ... Read more

    $161.69 CAD

  • Nature's Compass

    The Mystery of Animal Navigation

    by James L. Gould, Carol Grant Gould ...
    Series series Science Essentials
    The mysterious and remarkable ways that animals navigateWe know that animals cross miles of water, land, and sky with pinpoint precision on a daily basis. But it is only in recent years that scientists have learned how these astounding feats of navigation are actually accomplished. With colorful and thorough detail, Nature's Compass explores the remarkable methods by which animals find their way ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Odd Couples

    Extraordinary Differences between the Sexes in the Animal Kingdom

    by Daphne J. Fairbairn ...
    While we joke that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, our gender differences can't compare to those of other animals. For instance: the male garden spider spontaneously dies after mating with a female more than fifty times his size. Female cichlids must guard their eggs and larvae--even from the hungry appetites of their own partners. And male blanket octopuses employ a copulatory arm ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

  • Mechanisms of Life History Evolution

    The Genetics and Physiology of Life History Traits and Trade-Offs

    Edited by Thomas Flatt, Andreas Heyland ...
    Life history theory seeks to explain the evolution of the major features of life cycles by analyzing the ecological factors that shape age-specific schedules of growth, reproduction, and survival and by investigating the trade-offs that constrain the evolution of these traits. Although life history theory has made enormous progress in explaining the diversity of life history strategies among ... Read more

    $84.79 CAD

  • Ecosystem Engineers

    Plants to Protists

    by Kim Cuddington, James E. Byers, William G. Wilson, Alan Hastings ...
    Series Book 4 - Theoretical Ecology Series
    The first book entirely devoted to this topic, Ecosystem Engineers begins with the history of the concept, presenting opposing definitions of ecosystem engineeing. These varied definitions advance the debate and move past trivial difficulties to crystallize key issues such as the value of process-based vs. outcome-based. Authors include case studies spanning a wide spectrum of species and habitats ... Read more

    $89.59 CAD

  • Ecological Genomics

    Ecology and the Evolution of Genes and Genomes

    Edited by Nadia Aubin-Horth, Christian R. Landry ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Researchers in the field of ecological genomics aim to determine how a genome or a population of genomes interacts with its environment across ecological and evolutionary timescales. Ecological genomics is trans-disciplinary by nature. Ecologists have turned to genomics to be able to elucidate the mechanistic bases of the biodiversity their research tries to understand. Genomicists have turned to ... Read more

    $306.19 CAD

  • Species Diversity of Animals in Japan

    Edited by Masaharu Motokawa, Hiroshi Kajihara ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book summarizes the status quo of the knowledge about the biodiversity in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine animals that live in Japan. Consisting of some 6,800 islands that are arrayed for approximately 3,500 km from north to south, the Japanese archipelago has a complex history in a paleogeographic formation process over time and harbors rich flora and fauna. This work will contribute to ... Read more

    $344.59 CAD

  • Paleontology and Geology of Laetoli: Human Evolution in Context

    Volume 2: Fossil Hominins and the Associated Fauna

    Edited by Terry Harrison ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume 2 and its companion volume 1 present the results of new investigations into the geology, paleontology and paleoecology of the early hominin site of Laetoli in northern Tanzania. The site is one of the most important paleontological and paleoanthropological sites in Africa, worldrenowned for the discovery of fossils of the early hominin Australopithecus afarensis, as well as remarkable ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Invertebrates 6

    Deuterostomia

    Edited by Andreas Wanninger ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This multi-author, six-volume work summarizes our current knowledge on the developmental biology of all major invertebrate animal phyla. The main aspects of cleavage, embryogenesis, organogenesis and gene expression are discussed in an evolutionary framework. Each chapter presents an in-depth yet concise overview of both classical and recent literature, supplemented by numerous color illustrations ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Bat Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation

    Edited by Rick A. Adams, Scott C. Pedersen ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Recent advances in the study of bats have changed the way we understand this illusive group of mammals. This volume consist of 25 chapters and 57 authors from around the globe all writing on the most recent finding on the evolution, ecology and conservation of bats. The chapters in this book are not intended to be exhaustive literature reviews, but instead extended manuscripts that bring new and ... Read more

    $256.19 CAD