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On the Zoological Geography of the Malay Archipelago

by Alfred Russel Wallace ...

This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1859 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'On the Zoological Geography of the Malay Archipelago' is an article detailing Wallace's observations during his travels in Asia. Alfred Russel Wallace was born on 8th January 1823 in the village of Llanbadoc, in Monmouthshire, Wales. Wallace was ... Read more

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This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1859 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'On the Zoological Geography of the Malay Archipelago' is an article detailing Wallace's observations during his travels in Asia. Alfred Russel Wallace was born on 8th January 1823 in the village of Llanbadoc, in Monmouthshire, Wales. Wallace was
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Introducción a la Terapia Energética para el Síndrome de Down

by 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 ... Read more

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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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Lifestyles and Feeding Biology

Edited by Martin Thiel, Les Watling ...

Series series The Natural History of the Crustacea
This second volume in the Natural History of the Crustacea series examines how crustaceans-the different body shapes and adaptations of which are described in volume 1-make a living in the wide range of environments they inhabit, and how they exploit food sources. The contributions in the volume give synthetic overviews of particular lifestyles and feeding mechanisms, and offer a fresh look at ... Read more

$214.99 CAD

This second volume in the Natural History of the Crustacea series examines how crustaceans-the different body shapes and adaptations of which are described in volume 1-make a living in the wide range of environments they inhabit, and how they exploit food sources. The contributions in the volume give synthetic overviews of particular lifestyles and feeding mechanisms, and offer a fresh look at
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Evolution of Infectious Disease

by Paul W. Ewald ...

Findings from the field of evolutionary biology are yielding dramatic insights for health scientists, especially those involved in the fight against infectious diseases. This book is the first in-depth presentation of these insights. In detailing why the pathogens that cause malaria, smallpox, tuberculosis, and AIDS have their special kinds of deadliness, the book shows how efforts to control ... Read more

$50.99 CAD

Findings from the field of evolutionary biology are yielding dramatic insights for health scientists, especially those involved in the fight against infectious diseases. This book is the first in-depth presentation of these insights. In detailing why the pathogens that cause malaria, smallpox, tuberculosis, and AIDS have their special kinds of deadliness, the book shows how efforts to control
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From Complexity to Life

On The Emergence of Life and Meaning

Edited by Niels Henrik Gregersen ...

This book brings together an impressive group of leading scholars in the sciences of complexity, and a few workers on the interface of science and religion, to explore the wider implications of complexity studies. It includes an introduction to complexity studies and explores the concept of information in physics and biology and various philosophical and religious perspectives. Chapter authors ... Read more

$43.99 CAD

This book brings together an impressive group of leading scholars in the sciences of complexity, and a few workers on the interface of science and religion, to explore the wider implications of complexity studies. It includes an introduction to complexity studies and explores the concept of information in physics and biology and various philosophical and religious perspectives. Chapter authors
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La Sélection naturelle

by Alfred Russel Wallace ...

La Sélection naturelle est un essai du naturaliste, anthropologue et biologiste britannique Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 – 1913).Il a mis au point la théorie de l'évolution par la sélection naturelle avec Charles Darwin.Il fit tout d'abord d'amples recherches sur le bassin fluvial de l'Amazone, puis dans l'archipel malais, où il identifia la ligne séparant la faune australienne de celle de l'Asie, ... Read more

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La Sélection naturelle est un essai du naturaliste, anthropologue et biologiste britannique Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 – 1913).Il a mis au point la théorie de l'évolution par la sélection naturelle avec Charles Darwin.Il fit tout d'abord d'amples recherches sur le bassin fluvial de l'Amazone, puis dans l'archipel malais, où il identifia la ligne séparant la faune australienne de celle de l'Asie,
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New World Tarantulas

Taxonomy, Biogeography and Evolutionary Biology of Theraphosidae

Edited by Fernando Pérez-Miles ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
The Theraphosidae are the most famous and diverse mygalomorph spiders, and include some of the largest arachnids on earth. Their unique defense mechanisms, predatory tactics, reproductive strategies and ecological adaptations are displayed by a wide range of terrestrial, burrowing and arboreal species. These arachnids are familiar to the general public thanks to horror movies and a growing ... Read more

$231.99 CAD

The Theraphosidae are the most famous and diverse mygalomorph spiders, and include some of the largest arachnids on earth. Their unique defense mechanisms, predatory tactics, reproductive strategies and ecological adaptations are displayed by a wide range of terrestrial, burrowing and arboreal species. These arachnids are familiar to the general public thanks to horror movies and a growing
... Read more
Active Biological Evolution: Feedback-Driven, Actively Accelerated, Organismal and Cancer Evolution

by Frank H. Laukien ...

The underlying active mechanisms of change generation, which enable efficient adaptive evolution, have eluded biologists for decades. Until now...The prevailing scientific view still holds that organismal and cancer evolution is largely a function of accumulated random genetic mutations and natural selection.While inefficient random mutations were the primary mechanism of evolution during early ... Read more

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The underlying active mechanisms of change generation, which enable efficient adaptive evolution, have eluded biologists for decades. Until now...The prevailing scientific view still holds that organismal and cancer evolution is largely a function of accumulated random genetic mutations and natural selection.While inefficient random mutations were the primary mechanism of evolution during early
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Mushrooms of Gujarat

by Madhvi Joshi, Poonam Bhargava, Meghna Bhatt, Shaad Kadri, Manju Shri, Chaitanya G Joshi ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This edited book cover over 200 mushrooms with detailed profiles of all the species. Each profile includes information on macro-morphology, molecular characterization, application and a color photograph of the same. Gujarat mushrooms gives a complete idea of mushrooms found in Gujarat, there morphological identification, molecular barcoding and documented applications. Data presented on mushrooms ... Read more

$115.99 CAD

This edited book cover over 200 mushrooms with detailed profiles of all the species. Each profile includes information on macro-morphology, molecular characterization, application and a color photograph of the same. Gujarat mushrooms gives a complete idea of mushrooms found in Gujarat, there morphological identification, molecular barcoding and documented applications. Data presented on mushrooms
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Molecular Analyses

Edited by Scott Orland Rogers ...

Series series Molecular Genomics and Proteomics
DNA and RNA extraction methods from a variety of tissues and samples are now routine, including extraction from single cells. Many methods are now automated. Sequencing efficiency has reached the point where it is now possible to obtain gigabases of data, both quickly and inexpensively. Such methods permit the identification of gene versions, including those associated with disease (e.g. small ... Read more

$93.99 CAD

DNA and RNA extraction methods from a variety of tissues and samples are now routine, including extraction from single cells. Many methods are now automated. Sequencing efficiency has reached the point where it is now possible to obtain gigabases of data, both quickly and inexpensively. Such methods permit the identification of gene versions, including those associated with disease (e.g. small
... Read more
Why Geese Don't Get Obese (And We Do)

How Evolution's Strategies for Survival Affect Our Everyday Lives

by Eric P. Widmaier ...

What drives us to eat and accounts for different appetites? Why is breathing at high altitudes easy for birds and difficult for humans? Why do animals have two sets of sensory organs--eyes, ears, nostrils, etc...?In Why Geese Don't Get Obese, physiologist Eric Widmaier describes the astonishing ways humans and other creatures have adapted to their environmental challenges in order to survive. ... Read more

$17.99 CAD

What drives us to eat and accounts for different appetites? Why is breathing at high altitudes easy for birds and difficult for humans? Why do animals have two sets of sensory organs--eyes, ears, nostrils, etc...?In Why Geese Don't Get Obese, physiologist Eric Widmaier describes the astonishing ways humans and other creatures have adapted to their environmental challenges in order to survive.
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Understanding Morality, Freedom and Capital

Behavior is Moral Behavior if and only if it Increases the probability of freedom

by Martin J. Miles ...

This is a story about us - who we really are - and the essential morality that we assumed we had but do not have.When life began, we moved from the physical system, where the freedom of a rock is zero, to the biological system, where the freedom of life is potentially infinite. Life and freedom must coexist, and both must be maintained by moral behavior.Morality is InnateThis book shows that ... Read more

$11.99 CAD

This is a story about us - who we really are - and the essential morality that we assumed we had but do not have.When life began, we moved from the physical system, where the freedom of a rock is zero, to the biological system, where the freedom of life is potentially infinite. Life and freedom must coexist, and both must be maintained by moral behavior.Morality is InnateThis book shows that
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Evolutionary Systems Biology

Advances, Questions, and Opportunities

Edited by Anton Crombach ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This new edition captures the advances made in the field of evolutionary systems biology since the publication of the first edition. The first edition focused on laying the foundations of evolutionary systems biology as an interdisciplinary field, where a way of thinking and asking questions is combined with a wide variety of tools, both experimental and theoretical/computational. Since ... Read more

$205.99 CAD

This new edition captures the advances made in the field of evolutionary systems biology since the publication of the first edition. The first edition focused on laying the foundations of evolutionary systems biology as an interdisciplinary field, where a way of thinking and asking questions is combined with a wide variety of tools, both experimental and theoretical/computational. Since
... Read more
Muscles of Chordates

Development, Homologies, and Evolution

by Rui Diogo, Janine M. Ziermann, Julia Molnar, Natalia Siomava, Virginia Abdala ...

Chordates comprise lampreys, hagfishes, jawed fishes, and tetrapods, plus a variety of more unfamiliar and crucially important non-vertebrate animal lineages, such as lancelets and sea squirts. This will be the first book to synthesize, summarize, and provide high-quality illustrations to show what is known of the configuration, development, homology, and evolution of the muscles of all major ... Read more

$133.99 CAD

Chordates comprise lampreys, hagfishes, jawed fishes, and tetrapods, plus a variety of more unfamiliar and crucially important non-vertebrate animal lineages, such as lancelets and sea squirts. This will be the first book to synthesize, summarize, and provide high-quality illustrations to show what is known of the configuration, development, homology, and evolution of the muscles of all major
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Evaluating Evidence in Biological Anthropology

The Strange and the Familiar

Edited by Cathy Willermet, Sang-Hee Lee ...

Series Book 83 - Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology
Biological anthropology is a diverse field, with countless research methods and techniques in different sub-disciplines. This book takes a critical perspective to the current state of the field, exploring theory and practice in paleoanthropology, bioarchaeology, and ecology. Contributors challenge how evidence is discovered, collected and interpreted, and explain that researchers gain insights by ... Read more

$95.99 CAD

Biological anthropology is a diverse field, with countless research methods and techniques in different sub-disciplines. This book takes a critical perspective to the current state of the field, exploring theory and practice in paleoanthropology, bioarchaeology, and ecology. Contributors challenge how evidence is discovered, collected and interpreted, and explain that researchers gain insights by
... Read more
Digenetic Trematodes of Indian Marine Fishes

by Rokkam Madhavi, Rodney A. Bray ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This book is the first to explore in detail the systematics and taxonomy of the digenean fauna of fish in Indian marine waters. It includes morphological descriptions of 648 species in 190 genera and 30 families. The figures from the original publications are enhanced and made more attractive. Each description is accompanied by information on hosts and distribution. Digenetic trematodes, usually ... Read more

$179.99 CAD

This book is the first to explore in detail the systematics and taxonomy of the digenean fauna of fish in Indian marine waters. It includes morphological descriptions of 648 species in 190 genera and 30 families. The figures from the original publications are enhanced and made more attractive. Each description is accompanied by information on hosts and distribution. Digenetic trematodes, usually
... Read more
Follow the Science?

by David Galloway, Alastair Noble ...

This book comes from two authors with scientific backgrounds. It recognises the huge advances made through science and their beneficial impact on society. However, it also expresses concern that the essentially tentative nature of scientific conclusions is being replaced by a growing tendency to accord to science the last word on a range of subjects. While the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic of 2020 has shown ... Read more

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This book comes from two authors with scientific backgrounds. It recognises the huge advances made through science and their beneficial impact on society. However, it also expresses concern that the essentially tentative nature of scientific conclusions is being replaced by a growing tendency to accord to science the last word on a range of subjects. While the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic of 2020 has shown
... Read more
Explorando la diversidad de la vida: Comprender, salvaguardar y restaurar la biodiversidad

by Lucien Sina ...

Embárquese en una enriquecedora odisea a través de las páginas de "Explorando la diversidad de la vida", de Lucien Sina. Este libro cautivador no es sólo una exploración científica; es una invitación a presenciar la intrincada danza de la vida en nuestro planeta. Desentrañe los secretos codificados en el ADN, enfréntese a los peligros que amenazan la biodiversidad y déjese inspirar por los ... Read more

$3.00 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Embárquese en una enriquecedora odisea a través de las páginas de "Explorando la diversidad de la vida", de Lucien Sina. Este libro cautivador no es sólo una exploración científica; es una invitación a presenciar la intrincada danza de la vida en nuestro planeta. Desentrañe los secretos codificados en el ADN, enfréntese a los peligros que amenazan la biodiversidad y déjese inspirar por los
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Vegetable Crops

Edited by Pritam Kalia ...

Series series Reference Module Biomedical and Life Sciences
The volume on Vegetable Crops as a part of series entitled “Handbooks of Crop Diversity: Conservation and Use of Genetic Resources” will be a unique resource, first of its kind, which will elaborate on origin, evolution, taxonomy, identification, chemical characterization, and genetic improvement of Vegetable Crop Plants.Vegetable crops are an important group of crops comprising solanaceous ... Read more

$642.99 CAD

The volume on Vegetable Crops as a part of series entitled “Handbooks of Crop Diversity: Conservation and Use of Genetic Resources” will be a unique resource, first of its kind, which will elaborate on origin, evolution, taxonomy, identification, chemical characterization, and genetic improvement of Vegetable Crop Plants.Vegetable crops are an important group of crops comprising solanaceous
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Zoölogische Philosophie

by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ...

Ontdek de oorsprong van evolutie in een meesterwerk dat zijn tijd ver vooruit was!Duik in de fascinerende wereld van de "Zoölogische Philosophie", waar Jean Baptiste de Lamarck de fundamenten legt voor een van de meest baanbrekende wetenschappelijke theorieën ooit. Dit boek biedt een diepgaande verkenning van de natuurlijke wereld en de mechanismen die het leven op aarde vormgeven, zonder de ... Read more

$19.99 CAD

Ontdek de oorsprong van evolutie in een meesterwerk dat zijn tijd ver vooruit was!Duik in de fascinerende wereld van de "Zoölogische Philosophie", waar Jean Baptiste de Lamarck de fundamenten legt voor een van de meest baanbrekende wetenschappelijke theorieën ooit. Dit boek biedt een diepgaande verkenning van de natuurlijke wereld en de mechanismen die het leven op aarde vormgeven, zonder de
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Systematic Botany of Flowering Plants

A New Phytogenetic Approach of the Angiosperms of the Temperate and Tropical Regions

by R-E Spichiger ...

The principle objective of this book is to describe a range of families of flowering plants in a sequence corresponding to current phylogenetic classification based on the most recent results of molecular systematics. The selection of families is large and comprises families of temperate European flora as well as tropical flora. They are integrated in their respective orders and keys are given to ... Read more

$163.99 CAD

The principle objective of this book is to describe a range of families of flowering plants in a sequence corresponding to current phylogenetic classification based on the most recent results of molecular systematics. The selection of families is large and comprises families of temperate European flora as well as tropical flora. They are integrated in their respective orders and keys are given to
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Do We Need Midwives?

by Michel Odent ...

$10.99 CAD
Social Behaviour

Genes, Ecology and Evolution

Edited by Tamás Székely, Allen J. Moore, Jan Komdeur ...

Humans live in large and extensive societies and spend much of their time interacting socially. Likewise, most other animals also interact socially. Social behaviour is of constant fascination to biologists and psychologists of many disciplines, from behavioural ecology to comparative biology and sociobiology. The two major approaches used to study social behaviour involve either the mechanism of ... Read more

$69.99 CAD

Humans live in large and extensive societies and spend much of their time interacting socially. Likewise, most other animals also interact socially. Social behaviour is of constant fascination to biologists and psychologists of many disciplines, from behavioural ecology to comparative biology and sociobiology. The two major approaches used to study social behaviour involve either the mechanism of
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Life History Evolution

Traits, Interactions, and Applications

Edited by Michal Segoli, Eric Wajnberg ...

Provides a timely and authoritative account of Life History Evolution by a multidisciplinary team of scholars and researchers from around the worldLife History Evolution: Traits, Interactions, and Applications presents a cutting-edge synthesis of the mechanisms driving life history strategies that span the breadth of taxa, from bacteria to humans. Integrating classical and contemporary ... Read more

$115.99 CAD

Provides a timely and authoritative account of Life History Evolution by a multidisciplinary team of scholars and researchers from around the worldLife History Evolution: Traits, Interactions, and Applications presents a cutting-edge synthesis of the mechanisms driving life history strategies that span the breadth of taxa, from bacteria to humans. Integrating classical and contemporary
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