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Aborygeni dalekich gwiazd

by David C. Sterling ...

CZY KIEDYKOWIEK CZUŁEŚ SIĘ OBCY NA WŁASNEJ PLANECIE?Przyjmujemy za pewnik, że Ziemia jest "kolebką ludzkości". Ale dlaczego ta kolebka jest dla nas tak nieprzyjazna? Dlaczego grawitacja niszczy nasze kręgosłupy, światło słoneczne parzy naszą skórę, a nasze dzieci rodzą się najbardziej bezbronne w całej naturze? Żaden inny gatunek na tej planecie nie jest tak źle przystosowany do życia w ziemskich ... Read more

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CZY KIEDYKOWIEK CZUŁEŚ SIĘ OBCY NA WŁASNEJ PLANECIE?Przyjmujemy za pewnik, że Ziemia jest "kolebką ludzkości". Ale dlaczego ta kolebka jest dla nas tak nieprzyjazna? Dlaczego grawitacja niszczy nasze kręgosłupy, światło słoneczne parzy naszą skórę, a nasze dzieci rodzą się najbardziej bezbronne w całej naturze? Żaden inny gatunek na tej planecie nie jest tak źle przystosowany do życia w ziemskich
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Tu pez interior

3.500 millones de años de historia del cuerpo humano

by Neil Shubin ...

Translated by Ricardo García Pérez ...

Series series Ensayo
En abril de 2006, Neil Shubin y su equipo aparecieron en los titulares de prensa mundiales cuando dieron a conocer al Tiktaalik, un pez fósil con extremidades de 375 millones de años de edad, el eslabón perdido entre las antiguas criaturas del mar y las primeras criaturas en empezar a caminar en tierra. Sus descubrimientos fósiles han cambiado la manera en que entendíamos muchas de las ... Read more

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En abril de 2006, Neil Shubin y su equipo aparecieron en los titulares de prensa mundiales cuando dieron a conocer al Tiktaalik, un pez fósil con extremidades de 375 millones de años de edad, el eslabón perdido entre las antiguas criaturas del mar y las primeras criaturas en empezar a caminar en tierra. Sus descubrimientos fósiles han cambiado la manera en que entendíamos muchas de las
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On the Antiquity and the Unity of the Human Race

Enriched edition.

by Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield, Quinn Theodore ...

In "On the Antiquity and the Unity of the Human Race," Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield undertakes a profound exploration of human origins through the lens of biblical theology, historical anthropology, and contemporary scientific discourse. Warfield's literary style is characterized by meticulous argumentation and a harmonious integration of scriptural insights with empirical evidence. Amidst the ... Read more

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In "On the Antiquity and the Unity of the Human Race," Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield undertakes a profound exploration of human origins through the lens of biblical theology, historical anthropology, and contemporary scientific discourse. Warfield's literary style is characterized by meticulous argumentation and a harmonious integration of scriptural insights with empirical evidence. Amidst the
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Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature

A Victorian Perspective on Human Evolution and Zoological Studies

by Thomas Henry Huxley ...

In "Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature," Thomas Henry Huxley presents a meticulously crafted argument that places humans within the broader context of the natural world. Written during the late 19th century, a period marked by significant advancements in evolutionary theory, Huxley employs a scholarly yet accessible style to draw on anatomical, paleontological, and embryological evidence. With ... Read more

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In "Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature," Thomas Henry Huxley presents a meticulously crafted argument that places humans within the broader context of the natural world. Written during the late 19th century, a period marked by significant advancements in evolutionary theory, Huxley employs a scholarly yet accessible style to draw on anatomical, paleontological, and embryological evidence. With
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Zeugnisse für die Stellung des Menschen in der Natur

by Thomas Henry Huxley ...

Translated by Julius Victor Carus ...

In "Zeugnisse für die Stellung des Menschen in der Natur" bietet Thomas Henry Huxley eine fundierte Untersuchung über die biologische und anthropologische Stellung des Menschen innerhalb der Natur. Dieses Werk, das im Kontext des 19. Jahrhunderts verfasst wurde, stellt einen bedeutenden Beitrag zur Evolutionstheorie dar und reflektiert Huxleys herausragenden literarischen Stil, der von Klarheit ... Read more

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In "Zeugnisse für die Stellung des Menschen in der Natur" bietet Thomas Henry Huxley eine fundierte Untersuchung über die biologische und anthropologische Stellung des Menschen innerhalb der Natur. Dieses Werk, das im Kontext des 19. Jahrhunderts verfasst wurde, stellt einen bedeutenden Beitrag zur Evolutionstheorie dar und reflektiert Huxleys herausragenden literarischen Stil, der von Klarheit
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THE TRAVELLER WHO COLLECTED ROADS

Stories, Insights and Visual Journeys

by Benjamin Katz ...

SOME JOURNEYS ARE MEASURED IN MILES.OTHERS, IN MEANING.The Traveller Who Collected Roads is a timeless meditation on life, choice, and the quiet transformations that shape a human being.Through encounters with fools and sages, artists and scholars, success and failure, the traveller learns that the world is not made of straight lines, but of countless paths—each with its own beauty, its own danger ... Read more

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SOME JOURNEYS ARE MEASURED IN MILES.OTHERS, IN MEANING.The Traveller Who Collected Roads is a timeless meditation on life, choice, and the quiet transformations that shape a human being.Through encounters with fools and sages, artists and scholars, success and failure, the traveller learns that the world is not made of straight lines, but of countless paths—each with its own beauty, its own danger
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Bacterial Genetics and Genomics

by Lori Snyder, Lori A.S. Snyder ...

Understanding of bacterial genetics and genomics is fundamental to understanding bacteria and higher organisms, as well. Novel insights in the fields of genetics and genomics are challenging the once clear borders between the characteristics of bacteria and other life. Biological knowledge of the bacterial world is being viewed under a new light with input from genetic and genomics. Replication of ... Read more

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Understanding of bacterial genetics and genomics is fundamental to understanding bacteria and higher organisms, as well. Novel insights in the fields of genetics and genomics are challenging the once clear borders between the characteristics of bacteria and other life. Biological knowledge of the bacterial world is being viewed under a new light with input from genetic and genomics. Replication of
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Understanding the Tree of Life

by Kevin Omland ...

Series series Understanding Life
Challenge outdated views of evolution and embrace a clearer understanding of life's incredible diversity with this enlightening exploration of evolutionary trees. Far from being a linear ladder of progress, evolution is a vast, branching tree where all species-humans included-are evolutionary cousins, not ancestors or descendants. Every organism alive today shares the same 3.5 billion years of ... Read more

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Challenge outdated views of evolution and embrace a clearer understanding of life's incredible diversity with this enlightening exploration of evolutionary trees. Far from being a linear ladder of progress, evolution is a vast, branching tree where all species-humans included-are evolutionary cousins, not ancestors or descendants. Every organism alive today shares the same 3.5 billion years of
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Redeeming Sin?

Social Diagnostics amid Ecological Destruction

by 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 ... Read more

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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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Evolution and the Fall

Edited by William T. Cavanaugh, James K. A. Smith ...

What does it mean for the Christian doctrine of the Fall if there was no historical Adam? If humanity emerged from nonhuman primates—as genetic, biological, and archaeological evidence seems to suggest—then what are the implications for a Christian understanding of human origins, including the origin of sin?Evolution and the Fall gathers a multidisciplinary, ecumenical team of scholars to address ... Read more

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What does it mean for the Christian doctrine of the Fall if there was no historical Adam? If humanity emerged from nonhuman primates—as genetic, biological, and archaeological evidence seems to suggest—then what are the implications for a Christian understanding of human origins, including the origin of sin?Evolution and the Fall gathers a multidisciplinary, ecumenical team of scholars to address
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Wild Chimpanzees

Social Behavior of an Endangered Species

by Adam Clark Arcadi ...

As our closest primate relatives, chimpanzees offer tantalizing clues about the behavior of early human ancestors. This book provides a rich and detailed portrait of chimpanzee social life in the wild, synthesizing hundreds of thousands of hours of research at seven long-term field sites. Why are the social lives of males and females so different? Why do groups of males sometimes seek out and kill ... Read more

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As our closest primate relatives, chimpanzees offer tantalizing clues about the behavior of early human ancestors. This book provides a rich and detailed portrait of chimpanzee social life in the wild, synthesizing hundreds of thousands of hours of research at seven long-term field sites. Why are the social lives of males and females so different? Why do groups of males sometimes seek out and kill
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The Hunting Apes

Meat Eating and the Origins of Human Behavior

by Craig B. Stanford ...

What makes humans unique? What makes us the most successful animal species inhabiting the Earth today? Most scientists agree that the key to our success is the unusually large size of our brains. Our large brains gave us our exceptional thinking capacity and led to humans' other distinctive characteristics, including advanced communication, tool use, and walking on two legs. Or was it the other ... Read more

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What makes humans unique? What makes us the most successful animal species inhabiting the Earth today? Most scientists agree that the key to our success is the unusually large size of our brains. Our large brains gave us our exceptional thinking capacity and led to humans' other distinctive characteristics, including advanced communication, tool use, and walking on two legs. Or was it the other
... Read more
Robert Brown and Mungo Park

Travels and Explorations in Natural History for the Royal Society

by Joel Schwartz ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Explorer-naturalists Robert Brown and Mungo Park played a pivotal role in the development of natural history and exploration in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This work is a fresh examination of the lives and careers of Brown and Park and their impact on natural history and exploration. Brown and Park were part of a group of intrepid naturalists who brought back some of the ... Read more

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Explorer-naturalists Robert Brown and Mungo Park played a pivotal role in the development of natural history and exploration in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This work is a fresh examination of the lives and careers of Brown and Park and their impact on natural history and exploration. Brown and Park were part of a group of intrepid naturalists who brought back some of the
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A Review of Blastozoan Echinoderm Respiratory Structures

by Sarah L. Sheffield, Maggie R. Limbeck, Jennifer E. Bauer, Stephen A. Hill, Martina Nohejlová ...

Series series Elements of Paleontology
Echinoderms have evolved diverse and disparate morphologies throughout the Phanerozoic. Among them, blastozoans, an extinct group of echinoderms that were an important component of Paleozoic marine ecosystems, are primarily subdivided into groups based on the morphology of respiratory structures. However, systematic and phylogenetic research from the past few decades have shown that respiratory ... Read more

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Echinoderms have evolved diverse and disparate morphologies throughout the Phanerozoic. Among them, blastozoans, an extinct group of echinoderms that were an important component of Paleozoic marine ecosystems, are primarily subdivided into groups based on the morphology of respiratory structures. However, systematic and phylogenetic research from the past few decades have shown that respiratory
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Biodiversity

Maintenance, Function, Origin, and Self-Organisation into Life-Support Systems

by Edmundas Lekevičius ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Species are not functionally independent. From a long-term perspective, only ecosystem with a fully integrated nutrient cycle is alive. The lack of trophic autonomy should be considered one of the key factors that ensure and maintain biodiversity. The variability of abiotic conditions, both in space and in time, also creates a huge diversity of niches and subniches for genotypes and species. In ... Read more

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Species are not functionally independent. From a long-term perspective, only ecosystem with a fully integrated nutrient cycle is alive. The lack of trophic autonomy should be considered one of the key factors that ensure and maintain biodiversity. The variability of abiotic conditions, both in space and in time, also creates a huge diversity of niches and subniches for genotypes and species. In
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Sea Mammals

The Past and Present Lives of Our Oceans’ Cornerstone Species

by Annalisa Berta ...

A richly illustrated introduction to the world’s living and extinct sea mammalsFrom the gregarious sea otter and playful dolphins to the sociable narwhal and iconic polar bear, sea mammals are a large, diverse, and increasingly precious group. In this book, Annalisa Berta, a leading expert on sea mammals and their evolution, presents an engaging and richly illustrated introduction to past and ... Read more

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A richly illustrated introduction to the world’s living and extinct sea mammalsFrom the gregarious sea otter and playful dolphins to the sociable narwhal and iconic polar bear, sea mammals are a large, diverse, and increasingly precious group. In this book, Annalisa Berta, a leading expert on sea mammals and their evolution, presents an engaging and richly illustrated introduction to past and
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Life's Engines

How Microbes Made Earth Habitable

by Paul G. Falkowski ...

Series series Princeton Science Library
The marvelous microbes that made life on Earth possible and support our very existenceFor almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans all to themselves. The stewards of Earth, these organisms transformed the chemistry of our planet to make it habitable for plants, animals, and us. Life's Engines takes readers deep into the microscopic world to explore how these marvelous ... Read more

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The marvelous microbes that made life on Earth possible and support our very existenceFor almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans all to themselves. The stewards of Earth, these organisms transformed the chemistry of our planet to make it habitable for plants, animals, and us. Life's Engines takes readers deep into the microscopic world to explore how these marvelous
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The Green Evolution

How we can survive the global ecological collapse and continue as a technological civilization

by Jeffrey Ravage ...

"The Green Evolution, or: How we can survive the global ecological collapse and continue as a technological civilization, " is a work inspired by a love of nature and humanity as well. For human nature evolved from nature. It is designed to inform the reader about how life works, not what we have been told about how it works or how we wish it would. Life has existed on this planet for over 4 ... Read more

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"The Green Evolution, or: How we can survive the global ecological collapse and continue as a technological civilization, " is a work inspired by a love of nature and humanity as well. For human nature evolved from nature. It is designed to inform the reader about how life works, not what we have been told about how it works or how we wish it would. Life has existed on this planet for over 4
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How Life is Different

by Vitaly Shubin ...

The book examines basic principles of the structure and organization of living organisms and their differences from objects of inanimate nature. It covers how a single program-information structure permeates all evolutionary stages of life, including the cell, multicellular organisms and humans. The author explains how this structure is arranged and how it functions, as well as the role of the ... Read more

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The book examines basic principles of the structure and organization of living organisms and their differences from objects of inanimate nature. It covers how a single program-information structure permeates all evolutionary stages of life, including the cell, multicellular organisms and humans. The author explains how this structure is arranged and how it functions, as well as the role of the
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Social Butterflies

by Henry S. Horn ...

Series Book 65 - Monographs in Population Biology
An ecologist's investigation of the social lives of butterfliesThroughout his career, Henry Horn took a unique approach to the study of butterflies. This book brings together his findings with recent advances in behavioral ecology to provide an incomparable look at the social lives of butterflies, illuminating for the first time the marvelously diverse range of butterfly behaviors across several ... Read more

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An ecologist's investigation of the social lives of butterfliesThroughout his career, Henry Horn took a unique approach to the study of butterflies. This book brings together his findings with recent advances in behavioral ecology to provide an incomparable look at the social lives of butterflies, illuminating for the first time the marvelously diverse range of butterfly behaviors across several
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The Nature of Classification

Relationships and Kinds in the Natural Sciences

by J. Wilkins, M. Ebach ...

Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Discussing the generally ignored issue of the classification of natural objects in the philosophy of science, this book focuses on knowledge and social relations, and offers a way to understand classification as a necessary aspect of doing science. ... Read more

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Discussing the generally ignored issue of the classification of natural objects in the philosophy of science, this book focuses on knowledge and social relations, and offers a way to understand classification as a necessary aspect of doing science.
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Medicinal Orchids of Asia

by Eng Soon Teoh ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This unique book brings together a wealth of data on the botanical, ethno-medicinal and pharmacological aspects of over 500 species of Asian medicinal orchids. It starts off by explaining the role and limitations of complimentary and herbal medicines, and how traditional Asian medicine differs from Western, “scientific” medicine. The different Asian medical traditions are described, as well as ... Read more

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This unique book brings together a wealth of data on the botanical, ethno-medicinal and pharmacological aspects of over 500 species of Asian medicinal orchids. It starts off by explaining the role and limitations of complimentary and herbal medicines, and how traditional Asian medicine differs from Western, “scientific” medicine. The different Asian medical traditions are described, as well as
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THE TWO YOUs

by Allen Robinson ...

THE TWO YOUsScientific theories have led us to amazing discoveries and inventions. Yet we have not been able to answer basic questions such as: 'What is the Self?' What specifically governs and triggers the creation of our thoughts? How do we decide right from wrong, good from awful? What was the mutation that enabled Homo sapiens to mentally evolve beyond that of all other species? Why does every ... Read more

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THE TWO YOUsScientific theories have led us to amazing discoveries and inventions. Yet we have not been able to answer basic questions such as: 'What is the Self?' What specifically governs and triggers the creation of our thoughts? How do we decide right from wrong, good from awful? What was the mutation that enabled Homo sapiens to mentally evolve beyond that of all other species? Why does every
... Read more
Applied Nonlinear Analysis and Soft Computing

Proceedings of ANASC 2020

Edited by Hemen Dutta, Nazibuddin Ahmed, Ravi P. Agarwal ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
The volume contains original research papers as the Proceedings of the International Conference on Applied Nonlinear Analysis and Soft Computing (ANASC 2020), held at Gauhati University, Guwahati, India, on 22-23 December, 2020. It focuses on current research topics in applied analysis including nonlinearity, soft computing and related areas. It primarily includes topics related to pattern ... Read more

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The volume contains original research papers as the Proceedings of the International Conference on Applied Nonlinear Analysis and Soft Computing (ANASC 2020), held at Gauhati University, Guwahati, India, on 22-23 December, 2020. It focuses on current research topics in applied analysis including nonlinearity, soft computing and related areas. It primarily includes topics related to pattern
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