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The Patchwork Human

Two Billion Years of Evolution

by Peter Luykx ...

Life began about four billion years ago on our planet. Like an old patchwork quilt, evolution stitched the human being together from parts of ancient species now long extinct. Like any species, humans have hundreds or even thousands of traits that have been passed down through time. The evolutionary age of our different traits can be told from how widely distributed they are among today's living ... Read more

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Life began about four billion years ago on our planet. Like an old patchwork quilt, evolution stitched the human being together from parts of ancient species now long extinct. Like any species, humans have hundreds or even thousands of traits that have been passed down through time. The evolutionary age of our different traits can be told from how widely distributed they are among today's living
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Geology & Mineralogy, Considered with Reference to Natural Theology, Volume I, 1836

by William Buckland ...

Moving away from his earlier belief in a short, catastrophic history of the Earth, this volume shows how Buckland envisages instead progressive change as the Earth gradually cooled as it was prepared for human occupation. Extinct creatures did not die out because they were poorly designed; God loved the dinosaurs and had adapted them to their various circumstances. ... Read more

$415.00 USD

Moving away from his earlier belief in a short, catastrophic history of the Earth, this volume shows how Buckland envisages instead progressive change as the Earth gradually cooled as it was prepared for human occupation. Extinct creatures did not die out because they were poorly designed; God loved the dinosaurs and had adapted them to their various circumstances.
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New Frontiers in Science in the Era of AI

Edited by Marilena Streit-Bianchi, Vittorio Gorini ...

Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
This interdisciplinary book enables scientists and non-specialists from various fields to delve into fascinating historical and recent scientific advancements in physics, astrophysics, genetic evolution, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence. Paradigm shifts are common in science, but some have significantly changed our perception and understanding of the world.This volume not only explores ... Read more

$152.99 USD

This interdisciplinary book enables scientists and non-specialists from various fields to delve into fascinating historical and recent scientific advancements in physics, astrophysics, genetic evolution, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence. Paradigm shifts are common in science, but some have significantly changed our perception and understanding of the world.This volume not only explores
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Polyembryonic Insects

An Extreme Clonal Reproductive Strategy

by Kikuo Iwabuchi ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This book provides an overview of our current understanding of polyembryony in insects. The study of polyembronic insects has advanced considerably over the last several decades.The book shows the exciting potential of polyembryonic insects and their impact on life sciences. It describes the mechanisms of polyembryogenesis; tissue-compatible invasion of the host, which is the first case of ... Read more

$89.09 USD

This book provides an overview of our current understanding of polyembryony in insects. The study of polyembronic insects has advanced considerably over the last several decades.The book shows the exciting potential of polyembryonic insects and their impact on life sciences. It describes the mechanisms of polyembryogenesis; tissue-compatible invasion of the host, which is the first case of
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Evolution's Complexity Problem: See How Evolution Falls Apart At Its Beginning

by Steven Sabatino ...

This is a must-read before you debate an Evolutionist!Have you ever wanted to talk about Evolution but didn't know where to begin? Or, maybe you've already had numerous discussions and felt you should know more about the subject. In this important book, the author provides the reader with powerful information which reveals the inherent weakness in the Evolutionary worldview.This book focuses on ... Read more

$4.99 USD

This is a must-read before you debate an Evolutionist!Have you ever wanted to talk about Evolution but didn't know where to begin? Or, maybe you've already had numerous discussions and felt you should know more about the subject. In this important book, the author provides the reader with powerful information which reveals the inherent weakness in the Evolutionary worldview.This book focuses on
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Vom Urknall bis zum E-Auto

Ein Museumsführer durch (fast) 14 Milliarden Jahre Geschichte

by Gideon Böss ...

Series series Business and Economics (German Language)
Nur im Museum ist es möglich, in wenigen Schritten Milliarden Jahre Evolution, Menschheits- oder Technikgeschichte hinter sich zu bringen. Auf dem Weg durch Raum und Zeit stellt dieses Buch auf kurzweilige Art Museen und das in ihnen präsentierte Wissen vor. In mehr als zwanzig Stationen geht es vom Urknall über die Entstehung der Erde und des Lebens, zur Gründung erster Königreiche, zu Kleopatra, ... Read more

$14.29 USD

Nur im Museum ist es möglich, in wenigen Schritten Milliarden Jahre Evolution, Menschheits- oder Technikgeschichte hinter sich zu bringen. Auf dem Weg durch Raum und Zeit stellt dieses Buch auf kurzweilige Art Museen und das in ihnen präsentierte Wissen vor. In mehr als zwanzig Stationen geht es vom Urknall über die Entstehung der Erde und des Lebens, zur Gründung erster Königreiche, zu Kleopatra,
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Antropológica Mente

Bitácora de un paleoneurólgo

by Emiliano Bruner ...

Series series Shackleton Books
Una genial antología de los mejores artículos para Investigación y ciencia del gran experto en antropología y evolución cerebral, Emiliano Bruner.A Emiliano Bruner se le conoce también como el "investigador de las mentes extintas", ya que es uno de los mayores expertos mundiales en paleoneurobiología. A su interés por el cerebro de nuestros antepasados, al que ha dedicado los últimos 17 años desde ... Read more

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Una genial antología de los mejores artículos para Investigación y ciencia del gran experto en antropología y evolución cerebral, Emiliano Bruner.A Emiliano Bruner se le conoce también como el "investigador de las mentes extintas", ya que es uno de los mayores expertos mundiales en paleoneurobiología. A su interés por el cerebro de nuestros antepasados, al que ha dedicado los últimos 17 años desde
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Ève. 200 millions d'années d'évolution au féminin

by Cat Bohannon ...

Translated by Odile Demange ...

Best-seller du New York Times « Les corps femelles ne sont pas de simples corps mâles avec des “trucs en plus” (graisse, seins, utérus). » Jusqu’à récemment, les scientifiques se sont contentés d’étudier la norme mâle et nous ont livré ainsi moins de la moitié de l’histoire de l’évolution. Cette immense zone d’ombre ne relève pas seulement du sexisme ou d’un problème intellectuel : c’est un sujet ... Read more

$13.99 USD

Best-seller du New York Times « Les corps femelles ne sont pas de simples corps mâles avec des “trucs en plus” (graisse, seins, utérus). » Jusqu’à récemment, les scientifiques se sont contentés d’étudier la norme mâle et nous ont livré ainsi moins de la moitié de l’histoire de l’évolution. Cette immense zone d’ombre ne relève pas seulement du sexisme ou d’un problème intellectuel : c’est un sujet
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The Origins and Dynamics of Inequality

Sex, Politics, and Ideology

by Jon D. Wisman ...

Argues that the struggle over income, wealth, status and privilege-inequality-has been the principal, defining issue in human history and provides a novel framework for understanding inequality today Whereas President Barack Obama declared inequality as the defining issue of our time, in The Origins and Dynamics of Inequality, Jon D. Wisman claims more: it is the defining issue of all human ... Read more

$27.89 USD

Argues that the struggle over income, wealth, status and privilege-inequality-has been the principal, defining issue in human history and provides a novel framework for understanding inequality today Whereas President Barack Obama declared inequality as the defining issue of our time, in The Origins and Dynamics of Inequality, Jon D. Wisman claims more: it is the defining issue of all human
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Rhodophyta - Volume 4

Sporolithales, Corallinales and Hapalidiales

Edited by Guangce Wang ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This book is the fourth volume of the “Marine Algal Flora of China-Rhodophyta.” The series has seven volumes covering about 20 orders, 45 families, 173 genera, and 560 species including over 150 species firstly described from China, indicating significant importance to the knowledge of North-Western Pacific marine algal flora. The fourth volume covers coralline algae, including Sporolithales, ... Read more

$188.09 USD

This book is the fourth volume of the “Marine Algal Flora of China-Rhodophyta.” The series has seven volumes covering about 20 orders, 45 families, 173 genera, and 560 species including over 150 species firstly described from China, indicating significant importance to the knowledge of North-Western Pacific marine algal flora. The fourth volume covers coralline algae, including Sporolithales,
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Майдони огоҳӣ. Ба сӯи зеҳни умумиҷаҳонӣ

Назарияи нави майдонҳо шуури инфиродиро ба воқеияти кайҳонӣ табдил медиҳад.

by Bruno Del Medico ...

Series Book 956 - TGK - PensareDiverso
Муддати тӯлонӣ мо бовар доштем, ки огоҳӣ масъалаи хусусӣ аст, ки дар даруни сари ҳар кас ниҳон аст. Як навъ ҳуҷраи баста, як шамъи инфиродӣ, ки танҳо ҷаҳони ботинии моро равшан мекард. Аммо имрӯз чизе тағйир меёбад. Тадқиқоти илмӣ дар бораи рафтори коллективӣ, кашфиётҳо дар нейроиҷтимоӣ, назарияҳои муосири зеҳни паҳншуда ва ҳатто баъзе дарки анъанаҳои тафаккури маънавӣ ҳама ба назар мерасанд, ки ... Read more

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Муддати тӯлонӣ мо бовар доштем, ки огоҳӣ масъалаи хусусӣ аст, ки дар даруни сари ҳар кас ниҳон аст. Як навъ ҳуҷраи баста, як шамъи инфиродӣ, ки танҳо ҷаҳони ботинии моро равшан мекард. Аммо имрӯз чизе тағйир меёбад. Тадқиқоти илмӣ дар бораи рафтори коллективӣ, кашфиётҳо дар нейроиҷтимоӣ, назарияҳои муосири зеҳни паҳншуда ва ҳатто баъзе дарки анъанаҳои тафаккури маънавӣ ҳама ба назар мерасанд, ки
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Hard Ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) Parasitizing Humans

A Global Overview

by Alberto A. Guglielmone, Richard G. Robbins ...

Ticks of the family Ixodidae, commonly known as hard ticks, occur worldwide and are second only to mosquitoes as vectors of agents pathogenic to humans. Of the 729 currently recognized hard tick species, 283 (39%) have been implicated as human parasites, but the literature on these species is both immense and scattered, with the result that health professionals are often unable to determine ... Read more

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Ticks of the family Ixodidae, commonly known as hard ticks, occur worldwide and are second only to mosquitoes as vectors of agents pathogenic to humans. Of the 729 currently recognized hard tick species, 283 (39%) have been implicated as human parasites, but the literature on these species is both immense and scattered, with the result that health professionals are often unable to determine
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The Funny Society

by Lorenzo Bonanni ...

The book describes scientifically but with a simple terminology, sometimes with irony and humour, the evolutionary and ethological reasons of the love and hate within the couple, why we use deception, why we are attracted to flowers. ... Read more

$6.00 USD

The book describes scientifically but with a simple terminology, sometimes with irony and humour, the evolutionary and ethological reasons of the love and hate within the couple, why we use deception, why we are attracted to flowers.
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Ecosystem Ecology and Geochemistry of Cuatro Cienegas

How to Survive in an Extremely Oligotrophic Site

Edited by Felipe García-Oliva, James Elser, Valeria Souza ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Carbon (C), Nitrogen (N) and Phosphorus (P) are three of the most important elements used to build living beings, and their uptake from the environment is consequently essential for all organisms. Photosynthesis is the process in which plants absorb atmospheric C as they grow and convert it to biomass. However, plants acquire N and P only when these are available in the soil solution, which makes ... Read more

$89.09 USD

Carbon (C), Nitrogen (N) and Phosphorus (P) are three of the most important elements used to build living beings, and their uptake from the environment is consequently essential for all organisms. Photosynthesis is the process in which plants absorb atmospheric C as they grow and convert it to biomass. However, plants acquire N and P only when these are available in the soil solution, which makes
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Après Moi

Un essai

by Christopher Young, Steven Bednikoff ...

L’être humain, Homo sapiens… Espèce unique qui s’est hissée au sommet de la chaîne alimentaire et domine presque l’écosystème terrestre. À quoi ressemble la vie tout en haut de cette chaîne? Arrivons-nous à jouir de ce statut durement acquis? En y regardant de près, nous semblons avoir remplacé une course à la survie par une course à l’existence : une quête de la performance, une quête de soi, ... Read more

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L’être humain, Homo sapiens… Espèce unique qui s’est hissée au sommet de la chaîne alimentaire et domine presque l’écosystème terrestre. À quoi ressemble la vie tout en haut de cette chaîne? Arrivons-nous à jouir de ce statut durement acquis? En y regardant de près, nous semblons avoir remplacé une course à la survie par une course à l’existence : une quête de la performance, une quête de soi,
... Read more
The Jumping Genome

How Mobile DNA Shapes Evolution and Fuels Disease

by Celia T. Pemberton ...

Your genome is not a tidy instruction manual made mostly of genes. It is a crowded, restless landscape filled with ancient hitchhikers, copied fragments, and sequences that can still move today. The Jumping Genome answers a startling question: what if some of the most important forces shaping who we are come from DNA once dismissed as junk? Curious general readers, biology enthusiasts, and anyone ... Read more

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Your genome is not a tidy instruction manual made mostly of genes. It is a crowded, restless landscape filled with ancient hitchhikers, copied fragments, and sequences that can still move today. The Jumping Genome answers a startling question: what if some of the most important forces shaping who we are come from DNA once dismissed as junk? Curious general readers, biology enthusiasts, and anyone
... Read more
Who Discovered Natural Selection?

by Anna Claybourne ...

Series series Breakthroughs In Science And Technology
Who Discovered Natural Selection? explains how scientists worked out the way in which living things evolve. ... Read more

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Who Discovered Natural Selection? explains how scientists worked out the way in which living things evolve.
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Mind And Reality: The Space-time Window

by Wolfram Schommers ...

The relationship between mind and reality is usually perceived as an event that takes place in reality and producing simultaneously an internal image in the mind. So it takes place twice, so to speak, and there is a one-to-one correspondence between the two events. Within this conception, matter is embedded in space and time, and can be designated as “container-principle”. This monograph ... Read more

$14.29 USD

The relationship between mind and reality is usually perceived as an event that takes place in reality and producing simultaneously an internal image in the mind. So it takes place twice, so to speak, and there is a one-to-one correspondence between the two events. Within this conception, matter is embedded in space and time, and can be designated as “container-principle”. This monograph
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明晰夢のアトラス。深層心理学から意識のフィールドへ。

深層心理を探求するための地図、実践法、理論。実践演習60種付き。

by Bruno Del Medico ...

Series Book 955 - JAP - PensareDiverso
1918年6月7日の夜明け、ヨーロッパが第一次世界大戦の炎に包まれていた頃、英国の哲学者兼数学者アルフレッド・ノース・ホワイトヘッドは、驚くほど鮮明な夢を日記に記した。「自分が夢を見ていることを完全に自覚していたにもかかわらず、その世界は現実そのものよりも現実的に感じられた」。公式な伝記ではしばしば見落とされるこの短い記述は、明晰夢が思考の歴史を静かに貫いてきたことを示す数多くの手がかりの一つであり、チベットの神秘家たちのノート、中世のアラビアの夢占い書、19世紀の旅行記、そして科学者や詩人たちの孤独な直感の中にその姿を見出すことができる。本書は、まさにその認識から出発する。明晰夢は、エキゾチックな心理学的珍事ではなく、人間が自らの無意識を探求するためにこれまでに手にした最も強力な道具の一つである。躊躇の余地はない。直接的な経験が示すように、夢の中で意識が覚醒すると ... Read more

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1918年6月7日の夜明け、ヨーロッパが第一次世界大戦の炎に包まれていた頃、英国の哲学者兼数学者アルフレッド・ノース・ホワイトヘッドは、驚くほど鮮明な夢を日記に記した。「自分が夢を見ていることを完全に自覚していたにもかかわらず、その世界は現実そのものよりも現実的に感じられた」。公式な伝記ではしばしば見落とされるこの短い記述は、明晰夢が思考の歴史を静かに貫いてきたことを示す数多くの手がかりの一つであり、チベットの神秘家たちのノート、中世のアラビアの夢占い書、19世紀の旅行記、そして科学者や詩人たちの孤独な直感の中にその姿を見出すことができる。本書は、まさにその認識から出発する。明晰夢は、エキゾチックな心理学的珍事ではなく、人間が自らの無意識を探求するためにこれまでに手にした最も強力な道具の一つである。躊躇の余地はない。直接的な経験が示すように、夢の中で意識が覚醒すると
... Read more
意识之域。迈向共享的宇宙意识

新的场论将个体意识转化为宇宙现实。

by Bruno Del Medico ...

Series Book 956 - ZHO - PensareDiverso
长期以来，我们一直认为意识是一种私人体验，存在于每个人的头脑中。它像一个封闭的房间，像一盏只照亮我们内心世界的个人小灯。但如今，情况正在发生变化。关于集体行为的科学研究、社会神经科学的发现、当代分布式思维理论，甚至某些源于冥想传统的洞见，似乎都在讲述一个不同的故事：也许意识不仅属于“我”或“你”。也许它并非始于并止于我们身体的边界。或许，存在着一个更广阔的空间将我们包裹其中，一个共享的疆域里，我们的思想、情感与感知并非彼此割裂，而是深度交织。这个空间惊人地类似于一种弥漫的场域——如同电磁场或引力场般环绕并穿透我们。我们看不见它，正如看不见重力，却能感知其效应。我们无法触摸它，正如无法触摸无线电波，却始终浸润于其影响之中。种种迹象表明，意识场确实存在：一个微妙而广阔的场域，不属于任何人，却支撑着所有人。当两人建立联系时，不仅是两个心灵的相遇，更是这个场域的局部激活。某种东西被点燃 ... Read more

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长期以来，我们一直认为意识是一种私人体验，存在于每个人的头脑中。它像一个封闭的房间，像一盏只照亮我们内心世界的个人小灯。但如今，情况正在发生变化。关于集体行为的科学研究、社会神经科学的发现、当代分布式思维理论，甚至某些源于冥想传统的洞见，似乎都在讲述一个不同的故事：也许意识不仅属于“我”或“你”。也许它并非始于并止于我们身体的边界。或许，存在着一个更广阔的空间将我们包裹其中，一个共享的疆域里，我们的思想、情感与感知并非彼此割裂，而是深度交织。这个空间惊人地类似于一种弥漫的场域——如同电磁场或引力场般环绕并穿透我们。我们看不见它，正如看不见重力，却能感知其效应。我们无法触摸它，正如无法触摸无线电波，却始终浸润于其影响之中。种种迹象表明，意识场确实存在：一个微妙而广阔的场域，不属于任何人，却支撑着所有人。当两人建立联系时，不仅是两个心灵的相遇，更是这个场域的局部激活。某种东西被点燃
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Plant Life

A Brief History

by Frederick B. Essig ...

Charles Darwin, the father of the theory of evolution, described the evolutionary origin of flowering plants, which appear to have risen abruptly during the late Cretaceous Period, as an "abominable mystery." The first seed plants appeared in the fossil record some 230 million years earlier, but the transitions leading to the flowering plants left few fossils and remain obscure. The evolutionary ... Read more

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Charles Darwin, the father of the theory of evolution, described the evolutionary origin of flowering plants, which appear to have risen abruptly during the late Cretaceous Period, as an "abominable mystery." The first seed plants appeared in the fossil record some 230 million years earlier, but the transitions leading to the flowering plants left few fossils and remain obscure. The evolutionary
... Read more
The Symbolic Species Evolved

Edited by Theresa Schilhab, Frederik Stjernfelt, Terrence Deacon ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This anthology is a compilation of the best contributions from Symbolic Species Conferences I, II (which took place in 2006, 2007).In 1997 the American anthropologist Terrence Deacon published The Symbolic Species: The Coevolution of Language and the Brain. The book is widely considered a seminal work in the subject of evolutionary cognition. However, Deacons book was the first step – further ... Read more

$188.09 USD

This anthology is a compilation of the best contributions from Symbolic Species Conferences I, II (which took place in 2006, 2007).In 1997 the American anthropologist Terrence Deacon published The Symbolic Species: The Coevolution of Language and the Brain. The book is widely considered a seminal work in the subject of evolutionary cognition. However, Deacons book was the first step – further
... Read more
Thermophiles

The Keys to the Molecular Evolution and the Origin of Life?

Edited by Juergen Wiegel, Adams W.W. Michael ...

Late-1990s developments in the study of thermophiles have had considerable significance on theories of evolution. These micro-organisms are able to thrive at temperatures near or even above 100 degrees Celsius, and scientists have begun to study their biology in an attempt to provide clues about the beginnings of life on our planet. Researchers ... Read more

$325.00 USD

Late-1990s developments in the study of thermophiles have had considerable significance on theories of evolution. These micro-organisms are able to thrive at temperatures near or even above 100 degrees Celsius, and scientists have begun to study their biology in an attempt to provide clues about the beginnings of life on our planet. Researchers
... Read more
Le Fil de la vie

La face immatérielle du vivant

by Jean-Louis Dessalles, Cédric Gaucherel, Pierre-Henri Gouyon ...

Et si certaines entités vivantes n’étaient pas matérielles ? Potentiellement éternelles, en lutte pour la survie, elles évoluent. Elles constituent ce qui unit les êtres à travers le temps. Elles sont le fil de la vie. Ces entités vivantes immatérielles sont des informations. Elles existent à travers nous, dans nos gènes, dans notre culture, dans nos écosystèmes. La vie produit l’information, lit ... Read more

$21.99 USD

Et si certaines entités vivantes n’étaient pas matérielles ? Potentiellement éternelles, en lutte pour la survie, elles évoluent. Elles constituent ce qui unit les êtres à travers le temps. Elles sont le fil de la vie. Ces entités vivantes immatérielles sont des informations. Elles existent à travers nous, dans nos gènes, dans notre culture, dans nos écosystèmes. La vie produit l’information, lit
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