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How Language Began

Gesture and Speech in Human Evolution

by David McNeill ...

Series series Approaches to the Evolution of Language
Human language is not the same as human speech. We use gestures and signs to communicate alongside, or instead of, speaking. Yet gestures and speech are processed in the same areas of the human brain, and the study of how both have evolved is central to research on the origins of human communication. Written by one of the pioneers of the field, this is the first book to explain how speech and ... Read more

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Human language is not the same as human speech. We use gestures and signs to communicate alongside, or instead of, speaking. Yet gestures and speech are processed in the same areas of the human brain, and the study of how both have evolved is central to research on the origins of human communication. Written by one of the pioneers of the field, this is the first book to explain how speech and
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Fatal Jump

Tracking the Origins of Pandemics

by Leslie Reperant ...

Exploring the fateful chains of events that gave rise to humanity's infectious diseases and pandemics.Why do global pandemics materialize? To address this question, we must delve into the world of pathogens that transcend their original host species and jump into new ones. Most pathogens fail to initiate infection or spread in the population when they jump. Only a few sustain onward chains of ... Read more

$38.49 CAD

Exploring the fateful chains of events that gave rise to humanity's infectious diseases and pandemics.Why do global pandemics materialize? To address this question, we must delve into the world of pathogens that transcend their original host species and jump into new ones. Most pathogens fail to initiate infection or spread in the population when they jump. Only a few sustain onward chains of
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Ion Transport in Prokaryotes

Edited by Barry P. Rosen, Simon Silver ...

Ion Transport in Prokaryotes provides an advance treatise on ion transport and prokaryotic organisms. This book is divided into three main topics—cation transport systems, anion transport systems, and plasmid-encoded transport systems. This compilation specifically discusses the proton transport and proton-motive force in prokaryotic cells, potassium transport in bacteria, and bioenergetic ... Read more

$64.79 CAD

Ion Transport in Prokaryotes provides an advance treatise on ion transport and prokaryotic organisms. This book is divided into three main topics—cation transport systems, anion transport systems, and plasmid-encoded transport systems. This compilation specifically discusses the proton transport and proton-motive force in prokaryotic cells, potassium transport in bacteria, and bioenergetic
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The Evolution of the Human Placenta

by Michael L. Power, Jay Schulkin ...

Power and Schulkin reveal the amazing evolution of the human placenta—and in so doing show how each of our lives began.As the active interface of the most biologically intimate connection between two living organisms, a mother and her fetus, the placenta is crucial to human evolution and survival. Michael L. Power and Jay Schulkin explore the more than 100 million years of evolution that led to ... Read more

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Power and Schulkin reveal the amazing evolution of the human placenta—and in so doing show how each of our lives began.As the active interface of the most biologically intimate connection between two living organisms, a mother and her fetus, the placenta is crucial to human evolution and survival. Michael L. Power and Jay Schulkin explore the more than 100 million years of evolution that led to
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The Sea-Change

The Worldwide Hunt for the Ancestors of Animals

by Graham Bell ...

The Sea-Change: The Worldwide Hunt for the Ancestors of Animals is about one of the most absorbing puzzles in the whole of science: how the earliest animals lived, and what they looked like. These questions have haunted biology for two centuries because the facts seem to challenge its central dogma, the theory of evolution by natural selection. One of the main objections to Darwin's theory of ... Read more

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The Sea-Change: The Worldwide Hunt for the Ancestors of Animals is about one of the most absorbing puzzles in the whole of science: how the earliest animals lived, and what they looked like. These questions have haunted biology for two centuries because the facts seem to challenge its central dogma, the theory of evolution by natural selection. One of the main objections to Darwin's theory of
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Türlerin Kökeni

[Evrim Teorisi Sözlüğü İlaveli]

by Charles Darwin ...

İnsan dahil tüm canlı türlerinin doğal seçilim yoluyla bir ya da birkaç ortak atadan evrildiğini öne sürmüş ve o günün şartlarına göre bu teoriyi destekleyen pek çok kanıt sunmuştur. Darwin'in fikirleri üzerine inşa edilen modern evrim teorisi, bugün biyoloji biliminin temeli ve birleştirici öğesidir. Evrimin gerçekleştiği gerçeği Charles Darwin'in yaşadığı dönemde, doğal seçilim teorisinin ... Read more

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İnsan dahil tüm canlı türlerinin doğal seçilim yoluyla bir ya da birkaç ortak atadan evrildiğini öne sürmüş ve o günün şartlarına göre bu teoriyi destekleyen pek çok kanıt sunmuştur. Darwin'in fikirleri üzerine inşa edilen modern evrim teorisi, bugün biyoloji biliminin temeli ve birleştirici öğesidir. Evrimin gerçekleştiği gerçeği Charles Darwin'in yaşadığı dönemde, doğal seçilim teorisinin
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Creationis Biology - Volume III

by SCRIBE OF CHRIST ...

God exists, when I was fifteen I met him, that was in 1985, at the end of that year I was taken up to the heavens in a vigil on the tannery hill in São Vicente, in the Japui neighborhood, I spent about an hour and a half in the heavens before God. But this was my particular experience, we have the duty to believe in God not because we see him, but because we can see the signs he left us in nature, ... Read more

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God exists, when I was fifteen I met him, that was in 1985, at the end of that year I was taken up to the heavens in a vigil on the tannery hill in São Vicente, in the Japui neighborhood, I spent about an hour and a half in the heavens before God. But this was my particular experience, we have the duty to believe in God not because we see him, but because we can see the signs he left us in nature,
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The Oxford Handbook of Approaches to Language Evolution

Edited by Limor Raviv, Cedric Boeckx ...

Series series Oxford Handbooks
This handbook provides a detailed account of the many methodological tools and approaches used in the field of language evolution. The field has seen a rapid growth over the last decade, with a greater focus on empirical data and interdisciplinary syntheses. This volume aims to make sense of these recent developments, to provide a clear map of the current research landscape, and to showcase some ... Read more

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This handbook provides a detailed account of the many methodological tools and approaches used in the field of language evolution. The field has seen a rapid growth over the last decade, with a greater focus on empirical data and interdisciplinary syntheses. This volume aims to make sense of these recent developments, to provide a clear map of the current research landscape, and to showcase some
... Read more
Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution

Edited by Jamshid Tehrani, Rachel L. Kendal, Jeremy Kendal ...

Series series Oxford Library of Psychology
This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of Cultural Evolution, which has in recent years matured into an increasingly diverse and wide-reaching but intellectually coherent research programme. The book showcases the disciplinary spectrum of research into Cultural Evolution, from primatology and medieval literature to gene-culture co-evolution, computer science, ... Read more

$168.19 CAD

This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of Cultural Evolution, which has in recent years matured into an increasingly diverse and wide-reaching but intellectually coherent research programme. The book showcases the disciplinary spectrum of research into Cultural Evolution, from primatology and medieval literature to gene-culture co-evolution, computer science,
... Read more
Essai de paléontologie philosophique

L’histoire du monde animé

by Albert Gaudry ...

Si récentes qu’elles soient sur la terre, les créatures pensantes aspirent à connaître les origines de la grande nature qui les a précédées et les environne. Les philosophes ont longuement discuté sur le développement des êtres. Il est utile qu’à leur tour les paléontologistes apportent leur avis ; car les philosophes n’ont présenté que des vues de leur esprit ; ils n’ont pas eu de bases ... Read more

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Si récentes qu’elles soient sur la terre, les créatures pensantes aspirent à connaître les origines de la grande nature qui les a précédées et les environne. Les philosophes ont longuement discuté sur le développement des êtres. Il est utile qu’à leur tour les paléontologistes apportent leur avis ; car les philosophes n’ont présenté que des vues de leur esprit ; ils n’ont pas eu de bases
... Read more
Fundamentals of Neuromechanics

by Francisco J. Valero-Cuevas ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This book provides a conceptual and computational framework to study how the nervous system exploits the anatomical properties of limbs to produce mechanical function. The study of the neural control of limbs has historically emphasized the use of optimization to find solutions to the muscle redundancy problem. That is, how does the nervous system select a specific muscle coordination pattern when ... Read more

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This book provides a conceptual and computational framework to study how the nervous system exploits the anatomical properties of limbs to produce mechanical function. The study of the neural control of limbs has historically emphasized the use of optimization to find solutions to the muscle redundancy problem. That is, how does the nervous system select a specific muscle coordination pattern when
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The Ascent of Man

by Henry Drummond ...

Henry Drummond was a Scottish evangelist, writer and lecturer. It had been his intention to reserve these lectures for mature revision, but an attempted piracy compelled him to hasten their publication, and they appeared in 1894 under the title of The Ascent of Man. Their object was to vindicate for altruism, or the disinterested care and compassion of animals for each other, an important part in ... Read more

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Henry Drummond was a Scottish evangelist, writer and lecturer. It had been his intention to reserve these lectures for mature revision, but an attempted piracy compelled him to hasten their publication, and they appeared in 1894 under the title of The Ascent of Man. Their object was to vindicate for altruism, or the disinterested care and compassion of animals for each other, an important part in
... Read more
The Foundations of Ethology

by K. Lorenz ...

Translated by K. Lorenz, R.W. Kickert ...

Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
This book is a contribution to the history of ethology-not a definitive history, but the personal view of a major figure in that story. It is all the more welcome because such a grand theme as ethology calls for a range of perspectives. One reason is the overarching scope of the subject. Two great questions about life that constitute much of biology are "How does it work (structure and function)?" ... Read more

$70.49 CAD

This book is a contribution to the history of ethology-not a definitive history, but the personal view of a major figure in that story. It is all the more welcome because such a grand theme as ethology calls for a range of perspectives. One reason is the overarching scope of the subject. Two great questions about life that constitute much of biology are "How does it work (structure and function)?"
... Read more
Built For Other Worlds: The Evolution Of Extraterrestrial Life

by Carl Mercer ...

For generations, we have imagined alien life as a stranger wearing a familiar shape. These pages tear that illusion apart and step into a universe where life is built by forces far harsher, stranger, and less forgiving than anything on Earth.The journey begins with a simple break from convention, then keeps pushing outward into worlds of crushing gravity, black oceans, frozen seas, poisoned skies, ... Read more

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For generations, we have imagined alien life as a stranger wearing a familiar shape. These pages tear that illusion apart and step into a universe where life is built by forces far harsher, stranger, and less forgiving than anything on Earth.The journey begins with a simple break from convention, then keeps pushing outward into worlds of crushing gravity, black oceans, frozen seas, poisoned skies,
... Read more
Jezreel, You Were Not Made From Apes

by Elvis Sanchez ...

Jezreel, You Were Not Made From ApesMost books about evolution begin with the assumption that the story is already settled. This book takes a completely fresh approach. Written by structural theorist Elvis Sanchez for his teenage daughter before her high school evolution class, this work challenges one of the most influential ideas of the modern world from a Christian and logical perspective. ... Read more

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Jezreel, You Were Not Made From ApesMost books about evolution begin with the assumption that the story is already settled. This book takes a completely fresh approach. Written by structural theorist Elvis Sanchez for his teenage daughter before her high school evolution class, this work challenges one of the most influential ideas of the modern world from a Christian and logical perspective.
... Read more
Grundriß der menschlichen Erblichkeitslehre und Rassenhygiene (1/2)

by Erwin Baur ...

Entschuldigung, ich kann bei dieser Anfrage nicht helfen. ... Read more

$19.99 CAD

Entschuldigung, ich kann bei dieser Anfrage nicht helfen.
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SAPIENS RISING

The Epic Saga of Human Evolution from Primates to Pioneers

by Karun Sha ...

What does it mean to be human?In this sweeping, captivating narrative, Karun Sha takes readers on an unprecedented journey through the greatest story ever told—the 7-million-year evolution of our species. Sapiens Rising transforms our understanding of human origins from a dry academic subject into a living, breathing epic filled with drama, discovery, and profound insights about our place in the ... Read more

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What does it mean to be human?In this sweeping, captivating narrative, Karun Sha takes readers on an unprecedented journey through the greatest story ever told—the 7-million-year evolution of our species. Sapiens Rising transforms our understanding of human origins from a dry academic subject into a living, breathing epic filled with drama, discovery, and profound insights about our place in the
... Read more
Come costruire un gatto

L'evoluzione e l'arte di arrangiarsi

by Domenico Ridente ...

L'evoluzione è come un gioco di prestigio di cui non si riesce a cogliere il trucco e per questo si rimane confusi e increduli. Ci è voluto un lungo dibattito storico per passare dal rifiuto derivante da questa incredulità all'accettare l'evoluzione come un dato di fatto. Tuttavia, anche se la teoria evolutiva di Darwin viene oggi annoverata tra le più grandi conquiste scientifiche del ... Read more

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L'evoluzione è come un gioco di prestigio di cui non si riesce a cogliere il trucco e per questo si rimane confusi e increduli. Ci è voluto un lungo dibattito storico per passare dal rifiuto derivante da questa incredulità all'accettare l'evoluzione come un dato di fatto. Tuttavia, anche se la teoria evolutiva di Darwin viene oggi annoverata tra le più grandi conquiste scientifiche del
... Read more
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
... Read more
An Introduction to Methods and Models in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology

Edited by Stanton Braude, Bobbi S. Low ...

An innovative introduction to ecology and evolutionThis unique textbook introduces undergraduate students to quantitative models and methods in ecology, behavioral ecology, evolutionary biology, and conservation. It explores the core concepts shared by these related fields using tools and practical skills such as experimental design, generating phylogenies, basic statistical inference, and ... Read more

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An innovative introduction to ecology and evolutionThis unique textbook introduces undergraduate students to quantitative models and methods in ecology, behavioral ecology, evolutionary biology, and conservation. It explores the core concepts shared by these related fields using tools and practical skills such as experimental design, generating phylogenies, basic statistical inference, and
... Read more
Origin Africa

A Natural History

by Jonathan Kingdon ...

A richly illustrated journey through the evolution of Africa’s extraordinary natural world across deep timeOrigin Africa is a unique introduction to the natural history and evolution of the most misrepresented continent on Earth. Celebrated evolutionary biologist and artist Jonathan Kingdon, a leading expert on the natural history of Africa, tells this extraordinary story as no one else can. ... Read more

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A richly illustrated journey through the evolution of Africa’s extraordinary natural world across deep timeOrigin Africa is a unique introduction to the natural history and evolution of the most misrepresented continent on Earth. Celebrated evolutionary biologist and artist Jonathan Kingdon, a leading expert on the natural history of Africa, tells this extraordinary story as no one else can.
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Unsolved Problems in Ecology

Edited by David Tilman, Robert D. Holt, Andrew P. Dobson ...

Leading ecologists discuss some of the most compelling open questions in the field todayUnsolved Problems in Ecology brings together many of the world's leading ecologists to discuss the most fundamental research questions confronting the field today. This diverse and thought-provoking collection of essays spans virtually all of the key subfields of the discipline, from behavioral and evolutionary ... Read more

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Leading ecologists discuss some of the most compelling open questions in the field todayUnsolved Problems in Ecology brings together many of the world's leading ecologists to discuss the most fundamental research questions confronting the field today. This diverse and thought-provoking collection of essays spans virtually all of the key subfields of the discipline, from behavioral and evolutionary
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In Search of the Causes of Evolution

From Field Observations to Mechanisms

Edited by Peter R. Grant, B. Rosemary Grant ...

Evolutionary biology has witnessed breathtaking advances in recent years. Some of its most exciting insights have come from the crossover of disciplines as varied as paleontology, molecular biology, ecology, and genetics. This book brings together many of today's pioneers in evolutionary biology to describe the latest advances and explain why a cross-disciplinary and integrated approach to ... Read more

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Evolutionary biology has witnessed breathtaking advances in recent years. Some of its most exciting insights have come from the crossover of disciplines as varied as paleontology, molecular biology, ecology, and genetics. This book brings together many of today's pioneers in evolutionary biology to describe the latest advances and explain why a cross-disciplinary and integrated approach to
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The New Evolutionary Paradigm

Keynote Volume

Edited by Ervin Laszlo ...

Series series Routledge Revivals
Originally published in 1991, The New Evolutionary Paradigm provides an innovative and cross disciplinary look at evolution. While Darwin’s theory of evolution was originally restricted to the life sciences, in recent years the same principles have been applied successfully to historical, social and natural sciences. The papers included in The New Evolutionary Paradigm analyse the facts, ... Read more

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Originally published in 1991, The New Evolutionary Paradigm provides an innovative and cross disciplinary look at evolution. While Darwin’s theory of evolution was originally restricted to the life sciences, in recent years the same principles have been applied successfully to historical, social and natural sciences. The papers included in The New Evolutionary Paradigm analyse the facts,
... Read more

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