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  • Molybdenum Cofactors and Their role in the Evolution of Metabolic Pathways

    by Luana Presta, Marco Fondi, Giovanni Emiliani, Renato Fani ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    In this brief, the authors explore and review the current knowledge regarding the role of molybdenum in the evolution of biological systems and their interaction with biogeochemical cycles. Special emphasis is placed on biological nitrogen fixation and the nitrogen element cycle.The origin and evolution of molybdenum cofactor biosynthetic pathways as well as the evolutionary significance of ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Go Wild

    Free Your Body and Mind from the Afflictions of Civilization

    by Richard Manning, John J. Ratey, MD ...
    The scientific evidence behind why maintaining a lifestyle more like that of our ancestors will restore our health and well-being.In Go Wild, Harvard Medical School Professor John Ratey, MD, and journalist Richard Manning reveal that although civilization has rapidly evolved, our bodies have not kept pace. This mismatch affects every area of our lives, from our general physical health to our ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Nobody Knows Evolution!: Bulldogs, Rottweilers and the Intelligent Designers

    Goldman's Bulldog Presents, #2

    by Nobody! ...
    Series Book 2 - Goldman's Bulldog Presents
    "Nobody Knows Evolution!: Bulldogs, Rottweilers and the Intelligent Designers" unifies science, religion and mysticism in a way that is sure to irritate everybody!"Nobody! drags Darwin's theory kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century. It's a hole-in-one!" Nobody teeing off at the Darwin Golf Club"Evolution for idiots!" Nobody on the Board of Education"You mean idiots for evolution!" ... Read more

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  • Evolving Human Nutrition

    Implications for Public Health

    by Neil Mann, Sarah Elton, Stanley J. Ulijaszek ...
    Series Book 64 - Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology
    While most of us live our lives according to the working week, we did not evolve to be bound by industrial schedules, nor did the food we eat. Despite this, we eat the products of industrialization and often suffer as a consequence. This book considers aspects of changing human nutrition from evolutionary and social perspectives. It considers what a 'natural' human diet might be, how it has been ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • The Origins of Creativity

    by Edward O. Wilson ...
    “Brimming with ideas. . . . The Origins of Creativity approach[es] creativity scientifically but sensitively, feeling its roots without pulling them out.”—EconomistIn a stirring exploration of human nature recalling his foundational work Consilience, Edward O. Wilson offers a “luminous” (Kirkus Reviews) reflection on the humanities and their integral relationship to science. Both endeavors, Wilson ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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  • Darwin Among The Machines

    The Evolution Of Global Intelligence

    by George B. Dyson ...
    As timely now as it was when it was first published in 1997, Darwin Among the Machines tells the story of humankind's long journey into the digital age. Historian of technology George Dyson traces the course of the information revolution, illuminating the lives and work of visionaries -- from Thomas Hobbes to John von Neumann -- who foresaw the development of artificial intelligence, artificial ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • 11 Explorations into Life on Earth

    Christmas Lectures from the Royal Institution

    by Dr Helen Scales, Sir David Attenborough ...
    Series Book 2 - The RI Lectures
    The second in a series of books in association with the Royal Institution on their world-renowned Christmas Lectures, this time exploring the secrets of the natural world – with a foreword by Sir David Attenborough.Following on from the success of 13 Journeys Through Space and Time, which took us on a voyage of astronomical discovery through past Christmas Lectures given at the Royal Institution ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Mutual Aid

    by P. Kropotkin ...
    Two aspects of animal life impressed me most during the journeys which I made in my youth in Eastern Siberia and Northern Manchuria. One of them was the extreme severity of the struggle for existence which most species of animals have to carry on against an inclement Nature; the enormous destruction of life which periodically results from natural agencies; and the consequent paucity of life over ... Read more

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  • Social Learning

    An Introduction to Mechanisms, Methods, and Models

    by William Hoppitt, Kevin N. Laland ...
    Many animals, including humans, acquire valuable skills and knowledge by copying others. Scientists refer to this as social learning. It is one of the most exciting and rapidly developing areas of behavioral research and sits at the interface of many academic disciplines, including biology, experimental psychology, economics, and cognitive neuroscience. Social Learning provides a comprehensive, ... Read more

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  • Social Dynamics

    by Brian Skyrms ...
    Brian Skyrms presents eighteen essays which apply adaptive dynamics (of cultural evolution and individual learning) to social theory. Altruism, spite, fairness, trust, division of labor, and signaling are treated from this perspective. Correlation is seen to be of fundamental importance. Interactions with neighbors in space, on static networks, and on co-evolving dynamics networks are investigated ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Carnivoran Evolution

    New Views on Phylogeny, Form and Function

    Edited by Anjali Goswami, Anthony Friscia ...
    Series Book 1 - Cambridge Studies in Morphology and Molecules: New Paradigms in Evolutionary Bio
    Members of the mammalian clade Carnivora have invaded nearly every continent and ocean, evolving into bamboo-eating pandas, clam-eating walruses and of course, flesh-eating sabre-toothed cats. With this ecological, morphological and taxonomic diversity and a fossil record spanning over sixty million years, Carnivora has proven to be a model clade for addressing questions of broad evolutionary ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Divided Brains

    The Biology and Behaviour of Brain Asymmetries

    by Lesley J. Rogers, Giorgio Vallortigara, Richard J. Andrew ...
    Asymmetry of the brain and behaviour (lateralization) has traditionally been considered unique to humans. However, research has shown that this phenomenon is widespread throughout the vertebrate kingdom and found even in some invertebrate species. A similar basic plan of organisation exists across vertebrates. Summarising the evidence and highlighting research from the last twenty years, the ... Read more

    $43.99 USD