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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
... Read more
How Evolution Shapes Our Lives

Essays on Biology and Society

Edited by Richard E. Lenski, Jonathan B. Losos ...

An authoritative exploration of why understanding evolution is crucial to human life todayIt is easy to think of evolution as something that happened long ago, or that occurs only in "nature," or that is so slow that its ongoing impact is virtually nonexistent when viewed from the perspective of a single human lifetime. But we now know that when natural selection is strong, evolutionary change can ... Read more

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An authoritative exploration of why understanding evolution is crucial to human life todayIt is easy to think of evolution as something that happened long ago, or that occurs only in "nature," or that is so slow that its ongoing impact is virtually nonexistent when viewed from the perspective of a single human lifetime. But we now know that when natural selection is strong, evolutionary change can
... Read more
Primate Behavior and Human Origins

by Glenn King ...

This comprehensive introduction demonstrates the theoretical perspectives and concepts that are applied to primate behavior, and explores the relevance of non-human primates to understanding human behavior. Using a streamlined and student-friendly taxonomic framework, King provides a thorough overview of the primate order. The chapters cover common features and diversity, and touch on ecology, ... Read more

$100.30 CAD

This comprehensive introduction demonstrates the theoretical perspectives and concepts that are applied to primate behavior, and explores the relevance of non-human primates to understanding human behavior. Using a streamlined and student-friendly taxonomic framework, King provides a thorough overview of the primate order. The chapters cover common features and diversity, and touch on ecology,
... Read more
God of Science

Shattering the False Divide Between Scripture and Modern Physics

by MIchael Anthony Salavati ...

For generations, one question has divided believers, skeptics, and scholars alike: Can science and Scripture both be true?Many have been told they must choose between the discoveries of modern science and the biblical account of creation. A universe billions of years old seems impossible to reconcile with the six days of Genesis, leaving faith and reason at odds.In God of Science, Michael Salavati ... Read more

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For generations, one question has divided believers, skeptics, and scholars alike: Can science and Scripture both be true?Many have been told they must choose between the discoveries of modern science and the biblical account of creation. A universe billions of years old seems impossible to reconcile with the six days of Genesis, leaving faith and reason at odds.In God of Science, Michael Salavati
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Forgiving Humanity

by Peter Russell ...

Why has the most innovative of species become so dangerous? The answer, suggests Peter Russell, lies in humanity's accelerating pace of development. He shows how innovation breeds further innovation—a positive feedback loop leading to exponential rates of change. But our minds cannot grasp the full implications of exponential growth. We think more in terms of linear change, leading to a blind spot ... Read more

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Why has the most innovative of species become so dangerous? The answer, suggests Peter Russell, lies in humanity's accelerating pace of development. He shows how innovation breeds further innovation—a positive feedback loop leading to exponential rates of change. But our minds cannot grasp the full implications of exponential growth. We think more in terms of linear change, leading to a blind spot
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Hombres y mujeres: ¿qué nos dice la neurociencia? (Edición mexicana)

by René Ecochard ...

Translated by Nuria Viver ...

Este libro arroja luz sobre uno de los temas más polémicos del momento: ¿está el ser humano condicionado por su realidad biológica?Desde hace unas décadas, los estudios de género han ido ganando terreno en las universidades, la política y los medios de comunicación. Una teoría sin base científica que no reconoce la diferencia sexuada y afirma que lo masculino y lo femenino no son más que una ... Read more

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Este libro arroja luz sobre uno de los temas más polémicos del momento: ¿está el ser humano condicionado por su realidad biológica?Desde hace unas décadas, los estudios de género han ido ganando terreno en las universidades, la política y los medios de comunicación. Una teoría sin base científica que no reconoce la diferencia sexuada y afirma que lo masculino y lo femenino no son más que una
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Rapidly Evolving Genes and Genetic Systems

Edited by Rama S. Singh, Jianping Xu, Rob J. Kulathinal ...

Ever since the pioneering work of Darwin and Wallace, evolutionary biologists have attempted to understand the evolutionary dynamics of genetic systems. A range of theories on evolutionary ratesfrom static to gradual to punctuated to quantumhave been developed, primarily by comparing morphological changes over geological timescales as described in the fossil record. Recent studies, however, are ... Read more

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Ever since the pioneering work of Darwin and Wallace, evolutionary biologists have attempted to understand the evolutionary dynamics of genetic systems. A range of theories on evolutionary ratesfrom static to gradual to punctuated to quantumhave been developed, primarily by comparing morphological changes over geological timescales as described in the fossil record. Recent studies, however, are
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Animal Athletes

An Ecological and Evolutionary Approach

by Prof Duncan J. Irschick, Prof Timothy E. Higham ...

Animals perform many athletic tasks to an amazing degree of accomplishment: not only spectacular feats of running and jumping but also routine actions that ensure survival such as feeding, vocalization, diving, flying, and many more. The study of performance capacity (defined as the ability of an animal to conduct a key task) is of great interest to both ecologists and evolutionary biologists. At ... Read more

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Animals perform many athletic tasks to an amazing degree of accomplishment: not only spectacular feats of running and jumping but also routine actions that ensure survival such as feeding, vocalization, diving, flying, and many more. The study of performance capacity (defined as the ability of an animal to conduct a key task) is of great interest to both ecologists and evolutionary biologists. At
... Read more
Foundations of Metacognition

Edited by Michael J. Beran, Johannes Brandl, Josef Perner, Joëlle 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 ... Read more

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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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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

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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
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DARWIN N'EST PAS CELUI QU'ON CROIT -BP

Idées reçues sur Darwin

by Patrick Tort ...

Rendre à Darwin ce qui lui appartient, en même temps que lui retirer ce qu'on lui attribue à tort, constitue aujourd'hui un devoir proportionné aux enjeux d'une lecture cruciale qui est encore loin d'être acquise: celle de son oeuvre. Simplifications inexactes ("l'Homme descend du Singe"), accusations polémiques ("le darwinisme est immoral"), réécritures opportunistes ("Darwin glorifie la loi du ... Read more

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Rendre à Darwin ce qui lui appartient, en même temps que lui retirer ce qu'on lui attribue à tort, constitue aujourd'hui un devoir proportionné aux enjeux d'une lecture cruciale qui est encore loin d'être acquise: celle de son oeuvre. Simplifications inexactes ("l'Homme descend du Singe"), accusations polémiques ("le darwinisme est immoral"), réécritures opportunistes ("Darwin glorifie la loi du
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Dinosaurs and Other Reptiles from the Mesozoic of Mexico

Edited by Héctor E. Rivera-Sylva, Kenneth Carpenter, Eberhard Frey ...

Series series Life of the Past
This overview of dinosaur discoveries in Mexico synthesizes current information about the geography and environment of the region during the Mesozoic when it was the western margin of the ancient continent of Pangea. The book summarizes research on various groups, including turtles, lepidosauromorphs, plesiosaurs, crocodyliforms, pterosaurs, and last but not least, dinosaurs. In addition, chapters ... Read more

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This overview of dinosaur discoveries in Mexico synthesizes current information about the geography and environment of the region during the Mesozoic when it was the western margin of the ancient continent of Pangea. The book summarizes research on various groups, including turtles, lepidosauromorphs, plesiosaurs, crocodyliforms, pterosaurs, and last but not least, dinosaurs. In addition, chapters
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People in the Americas Before the Last Ice Age Glaciation Concluded

An Emerging Western Hemisphere Population Origin Paradigm

by Bonnye Matthews ...

WARNING: Everything you know about the peopling of the Americas is wrong.People in the Americas before the Last Ice Age Glaciation Concluded: An Emerging Paradigm on Western Hemisphere Population Origin covers the turn of the century emerging science on the origin of human population in the western hemisphere. It is a booklet that is designed to provide a reference bridge until the new information ... Read more

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WARNING: Everything you know about the peopling of the Americas is wrong.People in the Americas before the Last Ice Age Glaciation Concluded: An Emerging Paradigm on Western Hemisphere Population Origin covers the turn of the century emerging science on the origin of human population in the western hemisphere. It is a booklet that is designed to provide a reference bridge until the new information
... Read more
Das geplante Universum

Wie die Wissenschaft auf Schöpfung hindeutet

Edited by Markus Widenmeyer ...

Sind der Mensch und das Universum Zufallsprodukte? Das gilt heute für viele als das Ergebnis wissenschaftlichen Fortschritts. Die moderne Wissenschaft zeigt jedoch: Wir leben in einem Universum, das in vielerlei Hinsicht verblüffend präzise auf uns zugeschnitten ist. Der Schluss liegt nahe, dass hinter dieser Welt ein höchst intelligenter Schöpfer steht, der uns gewollt hat. ... Read more

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Sind der Mensch und das Universum Zufallsprodukte? Das gilt heute für viele als das Ergebnis wissenschaftlichen Fortschritts. Die moderne Wissenschaft zeigt jedoch: Wir leben in einem Universum, das in vielerlei Hinsicht verblüffend präzise auf uns zugeschnitten ist. Der Schluss liegt nahe, dass hinter dieser Welt ein höchst intelligenter Schöpfer steht, der uns gewollt hat.
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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

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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
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La società buffa

by Lorenzo Bonanni ...

Veramente bizzarra, buffa è la specie umana a causa della sua evoluzione. Il libro, in maniera scientifica ma semplice, a tratti con ironia ed umorismo, spiega le ragioni evoluzionistiche ed etologiche dell’amore e dell’odio all’interno della coppia, il perché ci rifugiamo nell’inganno, perché siamo così attratti dai fiori. Propone un nuovo concetto di malattia ed una nuova organizzazione della ... Read more

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Veramente bizzarra, buffa è la specie umana a causa della sua evoluzione. Il libro, in maniera scientifica ma semplice, a tratti con ironia ed umorismo, spiega le ragioni evoluzionistiche ed etologiche dell’amore e dell’odio all’interno della coppia, il perché ci rifugiamo nell’inganno, perché siamo così attratti dai fiori. Propone un nuovo concetto di malattia ed una nuova organizzazione della
... Read more
Politically Incorrect Guide to Science

by Tom Bethell ...

"If the globe is warming, is mankind responsible, or is the sun?" Such a statement does not appear out of place in Bethell's entertaining account of how modern science is politically motivated and in desperate need of oversight. Bethell writes in a compulsively readable style, and although he provides legitimate insight into the potential benefits of nuclear power and hormesis, some readers will ... Read more

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"If the globe is warming, is mankind responsible, or is the sun?" Such a statement does not appear out of place in Bethell's entertaining account of how modern science is politically motivated and in desperate need of oversight. Bethell writes in a compulsively readable style, and although he provides legitimate insight into the potential benefits of nuclear power and hormesis, some readers will
... Read more
Evolutionary Ecology of Plant-Herbivore Interaction

Edited by Juan Núñez-Farfán, Pedro Luis Valverde ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Plant-herbivore interactions are a central topic in evolutionary ecology. Historically, their study has been a cornerstone for coevolutionary theory. Starting from classic ecological studies at the phenotypic level, it has since expanded to molecular and genomic approaches. After a historical perspective, the book’s subsequent chapters cover a wide range of topics: from populations to ecosystems; ... Read more

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Plant-herbivore interactions are a central topic in evolutionary ecology. Historically, their study has been a cornerstone for coevolutionary theory. Starting from classic ecological studies at the phenotypic level, it has since expanded to molecular and genomic approaches. After a historical perspective, the book’s subsequent chapters cover a wide range of topics: from populations to ecosystems;
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Efficient Cognition

The Evolution of Representational Decision Making

by Armin W. Schulz ...

An argument that representational decision making is more cognitively efficient, allowing an organism to adjust more easily to changes in the environment.Many organisms (including humans) make decisions by relying on mental representations. Not simply a reaction triggered by perception, representational decision making employs high-level, non-perceptual mental states with content to manage ... Read more

$47.99 CAD

An argument that representational decision making is more cognitively efficient, allowing an organism to adjust more easily to changes in the environment.Many organisms (including humans) make decisions by relying on mental representations. Not simply a reaction triggered by perception, representational decision making employs high-level, non-perceptual mental states with content to manage
... Read more
Flowering Plants. Eudicots

Aquifoliales, Boraginales, Bruniales, Dipsacales, Escalloniales, Garryales, Paracryphiales, Solanales (except Convolvulaceae), Icacinaceae, Metteniusaceae, Vahliaceae

Edited by Joachim W. Kadereit, Volker Bittrich ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This volume covers the orders Boraginales, Garryales and Solanales (except Convolvulaceae) of the Lamiids (Asterids I) as well as three unplaced families of that clade, i.e. Vahliaceae, Icacinaceae and Metteniusaceae, and the orders Aquifoliales, Escalloniales, Bruniales, Dipsacales and Paracryphiales of the Campanulids (Asterids II). It is the first of two final volumes to (almost) complete the ... Read more

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This volume covers the orders Boraginales, Garryales and Solanales (except Convolvulaceae) of the Lamiids (Asterids I) as well as three unplaced families of that clade, i.e. Vahliaceae, Icacinaceae and Metteniusaceae, and the orders Aquifoliales, Escalloniales, Bruniales, Dipsacales and Paracryphiales of the Campanulids (Asterids II). It is the first of two final volumes to (almost) complete the
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Evolução

Da Origem da Vida à Diversidade Humana

by Lucas Marino Vivot ...

Com linguagem clara e exemplos que aproximam o leitor da realidade, este livro apresenta os fundamentos da teoria da evolução biológica e sua relevância para compreender a vida em toda a sua diversidade. São abordados temas como a origem da vida, o papel das mutações e da seleção natural, a formação das espécies, o registro fóssil e as evidências moleculares que sustentam o processo evolutivo. O ... Read more

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Com linguagem clara e exemplos que aproximam o leitor da realidade, este livro apresenta os fundamentos da teoria da evolução biológica e sua relevância para compreender a vida em toda a sua diversidade. São abordados temas como a origem da vida, o papel das mutações e da seleção natural, a formação das espécies, o registro fóssil e as evidências moleculares que sustentam o processo evolutivo. O
... Read more
The Theory of Evolution in the Light of Facts

by Karl Frank ...

Series series Routledge Revivals
Published in 1913: The object of the present work is to throw some light on the theory of Descent. Among many of the students of nature of the present day we perceive that greater and greater contradictions arise between the actual results of their technical work and that which they put forward as ‘postulates’ of the theory of Evolution. ... Read more

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Published in 1913: The object of the present work is to throw some light on the theory of Descent. Among many of the students of nature of the present day we perceive that greater and greater contradictions arise between the actual results of their technical work and that which they put forward as ‘postulates’ of the theory of Evolution.
... Read more
Comparative Social Evolution

Edited by Dustin R. Rubenstein, Patrick Abbot ...

Darwin famously described special difficulties in explaining social evolution in insects. More than a century later, the evolution of sociality - defined broadly as cooperative group living - remains one of the most intriguing problems in biology. Providing a unique perspective on the study of social evolution, this volume synthesizes the features of animal social life across the principle ... Read more

$73.59 CAD

Darwin famously described special difficulties in explaining social evolution in insects. More than a century later, the evolution of sociality - defined broadly as cooperative group living - remains one of the most intriguing problems in biology. Providing a unique perspective on the study of social evolution, this volume synthesizes the features of animal social life across the principle
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Mormonism and Evolution: The Authoritative LDS Statements

by William E. Evenson, Duane E. Jefrey, ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormon Church) has generally been viewed by the public as anti-evolutionary in its doctrine and teachings. But official statements on the subject by the Church’s highest governing quorum and/or president have been considerably more open and diverse than is popularly believed.This book compiles in full all known authoritative statements (either ... Read more

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormon Church) has generally been viewed by the public as anti-evolutionary in its doctrine and teachings. But official statements on the subject by the Church’s highest governing quorum and/or president have been considerably more open and diverse than is popularly believed.This book compiles in full all known authoritative statements (either
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