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Migration Strategies of Birds of Prey in Western Palearctic

Edited by Michele Panuccio, Ugo Mellone, Nicolantonio Agostini ...

Given their roles in the ecosystem, raptors are widely considered the flagship or umbrella species among birds. Most species undertake a seasonal journey that is impressive because of the length, and the imposing natural barriers such as deserts and seas that they fly over. The migration of birds of prey has unique characteristics in the animal world because of their morphology and flight style. ... Read more

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Given their roles in the ecosystem, raptors are widely considered the flagship or umbrella species among birds. Most species undertake a seasonal journey that is impressive because of the length, and the imposing natural barriers such as deserts and seas that they fly over. The migration of birds of prey has unique characteristics in the animal world because of their morphology and flight style.
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Evolution of Life and Form

Enriched edition. Four lectures delivered at the twenty-third anniversary meeting of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, Madras, 1898

by Annie Besant, Cassia Vexley ...

In "Evolution of Life and Form," Annie Besant delves into the intricate relationship between physical existence and the spiritual essence of humanity. She adeptly synthesizes scientific inquiry with metaphysical philosophy, reflecting the early 20th-century discourse on evolution and spiritualism. Besant's literary style is characterized by clarity and depth, employing a blend of rigorous analysis ... Read more

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In "Evolution of Life and Form," Annie Besant delves into the intricate relationship between physical existence and the spiritual essence of humanity. She adeptly synthesizes scientific inquiry with metaphysical philosophy, reflecting the early 20th-century discourse on evolution and spiritualism. Besant's literary style is characterized by clarity and depth, employing a blend of rigorous analysis
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La vuelta al mundo en seis millones de años

by Guido Barbujani, Andrea Bronelli ...

Translated by Pepa Linares ...

Series series El libro de bolsillo - Ciencias
Este libro cuenta la gran aventura de los avatares y de las múltiples y sucesivas migraciones de los "homininos" (es decir, del hombre y todas las especies humanas extinguidas) desde que los primeros de ellos descendieron de los árboles y, muy poco a poco, empezaron a transitar en posición erecta sobre la tierra, hasta el Neolítico y el tiempo presente. De la mano de la biología evolutiva y de la ... Read more

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Este libro cuenta la gran aventura de los avatares y de las múltiples y sucesivas migraciones de los "homininos" (es decir, del hombre y todas las especies humanas extinguidas) desde que los primeros de ellos descendieron de los árboles y, muy poco a poco, empezaron a transitar en posición erecta sobre la tierra, hasta el Neolítico y el tiempo presente. De la mano de la biología evolutiva y de la
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Overleven

Een persoonlijke kijk op een gedeelde toekomst

by Ivan Wolffers ...

De afgelopen honderdvijftig jaar is door verbeterde gezondheidszorg, voeding en leefomstandigheden de gemiddelde levensduur van de mens blijven stijgen. Een leeftijd van honderddertig jaar moet mogelijk zijn. En mensen willen altijd meer. Tienduizenden jaren heeft de evolutionaire gulheid waarmee de natuur diversiteit bevordert ervoor gezorgd dat de overlevingskansen voor de mens maximaal zijn. De ... Read more

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De afgelopen honderdvijftig jaar is door verbeterde gezondheidszorg, voeding en leefomstandigheden de gemiddelde levensduur van de mens blijven stijgen. Een leeftijd van honderddertig jaar moet mogelijk zijn. En mensen willen altijd meer. Tienduizenden jaren heeft de evolutionaire gulheid waarmee de natuur diversiteit bevordert ervoor gezorgd dat de overlevingskansen voor de mens maximaal zijn. De
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Die Entstehung der Arten

Bereicherte Ausgabe.

by Charles Darwin, Carsten Jäger ...

In "Die Entstehung der Arten" präsentiert Charles Darwin seine bahnbrechende Theorie der natürlichen Selektion, die das Verständnis der biologischen Entwicklung revolutionierte. Das Werk ist ein meisterhaftes Beispiel für Darwins klaren und analytischen Schreibstil, der komplexe wissenschaftliche Ideen mit einer zugänglichen Sprache verbindet. Im Kontext des 19. Jahrhunderts, als die ... Read more

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In "Die Entstehung der Arten" präsentiert Charles Darwin seine bahnbrechende Theorie der natürlichen Selektion, die das Verständnis der biologischen Entwicklung revolutionierte. Das Werk ist ein meisterhaftes Beispiel für Darwins klaren und analytischen Schreibstil, der komplexe wissenschaftliche Ideen mit einer zugänglichen Sprache verbindet. Im Kontext des 19. Jahrhunderts, als die
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The Missing Lemur Link

An Ancestral Step in the Evolution of Human Behaviour

by Michael Huffman, Ivan Norscia, Elisabetta Palagi ...

Series Book 74 - Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology
Lemurs share a common distant ancestor with humans. Following their own evolutionary pathway, lemurs provide the ideal model to shed light on the behavioural traits of primates including conflict management, communication strategies and society building and how these aspects of social living relate to those found in the anthropoid primates. Adopting a comparative approach throughout, lemur ... Read more

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Lemurs share a common distant ancestor with humans. Following their own evolutionary pathway, lemurs provide the ideal model to shed light on the behavioural traits of primates including conflict management, communication strategies and society building and how these aspects of social living relate to those found in the anthropoid primates. Adopting a comparative approach throughout, lemur
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Emerging Viruses in Latin America

Contemporary Virology

Edited by Flor H. Pujol, Alberto E. Paniz-Mondolfi ...

Series series Medicine (R0)
Latin America has extensive microbial diversity and is endemic for a wide array of infectious agents including dengue, chikungunya, malaria and tuberculosis. In 2014, the WHO cited 93 public health events of potential international concern in the Latin American region where over half (47 events) were caused specifically by chikungunya and other zoonotic pathogens, causing geographically widespread ... Read more

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Latin America has extensive microbial diversity and is endemic for a wide array of infectious agents including dengue, chikungunya, malaria and tuberculosis. In 2014, the WHO cited 93 public health events of potential international concern in the Latin American region where over half (47 events) were caused specifically by chikungunya and other zoonotic pathogens, causing geographically widespread
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40 Years of Evolution

Darwin's Finches on Daphne Major Island, New Edition

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

A new edition of Peter and Rosemary Grant’s classic account of their groundbreaking forty-year study of Darwin’s finches40 Years of Evolution is a landmark study of the finches first made famous by Charles Darwin, one that documents as never before the evolution of species through natural selection. In this now-legendary study, renowned evolutionary biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant draw on a ... Read more

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A new edition of Peter and Rosemary Grant’s classic account of their groundbreaking forty-year study of Darwin’s finches40 Years of Evolution is a landmark study of the finches first made famous by Charles Darwin, one that documents as never before the evolution of species through natural selection. In this now-legendary study, renowned evolutionary biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant draw on a
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An Anthropogenic Table of Elements

Experiments in the Fundamental

Edited by Timothy Neale, Courtney Addison, Thao Phan ...

Series series Technoscience and Society
An Anthropogenic Table of Elements provides a contemporary rethinking of Dmitri Mendeleev’s periodic table of elements, bringing together "elemental" stories to reflect on everyday life in the Anthropocene.Concise and engaging, this book provides stories of scale, toxicity, and temporality that extrapolate on ideas surrounding ethics, politics, and materiality that are fundamental to this ... Read more

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An Anthropogenic Table of Elements provides a contemporary rethinking of Dmitri Mendeleev’s periodic table of elements, bringing together "elemental" stories to reflect on everyday life in the Anthropocene.Concise and engaging, this book provides stories of scale, toxicity, and temporality that extrapolate on ideas surrounding ethics, politics, and materiality that are fundamental to this
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Our Ancient Brain: Why We Think the Way We Do

by James S. Bucko ...

Belief, superstition, and conspiracy… Where did they come from? This book explains everything.How did our species evolve from stone axe chippers living in dank caves to the architects of artificial intelligence living in air-conditioned high-rise penthouses?As author Jim Bucko explains, our tool-making capability seems to have preceded and then paralleled other developments in human language, art, ... Read more

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Belief, superstition, and conspiracy… Where did they come from? This book explains everything.How did our species evolve from stone axe chippers living in dank caves to the architects of artificial intelligence living in air-conditioned high-rise penthouses?As author Jim Bucko explains, our tool-making capability seems to have preceded and then paralleled other developments in human language, art,
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The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 29, 1881

by Charles Darwin ...

Series series The Correspondence of Charles Darwin
This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. Notes and appendixes put these fascinating and wide-ranging letters in context, making the letters accessible to both scholars and general readers. Darwin depended on correspondence to collect data from all over the world, and to discuss his emerging ... Read more

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This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. Notes and appendixes put these fascinating and wide-ranging letters in context, making the letters accessible to both scholars and general readers. Darwin depended on correspondence to collect data from all over the world, and to discuss his emerging
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Systematics and Evolution

Part A

Edited by Joseph W. Spatafora, David J. McLaughlin ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This volume includes treatments of systematics and related topics for both fungi and fungus-like organisms in four eukaryotic supergroups, as well as specialized chapters on nomenclature, techniques and evolution. These organisms are of great interest to mycologists, plant pathologists and others, including those interested in the animal parasitic Microsporidia. Our knowledge of the systematics ... Read more

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This volume includes treatments of systematics and related topics for both fungi and fungus-like organisms in four eukaryotic supergroups, as well as specialized chapters on nomenclature, techniques and evolution. These organisms are of great interest to mycologists, plant pathologists and others, including those interested in the animal parasitic Microsporidia. Our knowledge of the systematics
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Beginnings

How Pregnancy, Birth, and Motherhood Shaped Our Species

by Tesla Monson, PhD ...

Eve meets Who We Are and How We Got Here in this exciting new examination of human evolution that puts motherhood at the center of the story.Seven million years ago, a pregnant, apelike ancestor to the whole of our species found a secluded space on the forest floor and began her labor. An hour or two later, her baby emerged into the world, alert and able to hold on to their mother’s fur within ... Read more

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Eve meets Who We Are and How We Got Here in this exciting new examination of human evolution that puts motherhood at the center of the story.Seven million years ago, a pregnant, apelike ancestor to the whole of our species found a secluded space on the forest floor and began her labor. An hour or two later, her baby emerged into the world, alert and able to hold on to their mother’s fur within
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Cave Biodiversity

Speciation and Diversity of Subterranean Fauna

Edited by J. Judson Wynne ...

A deep-dive into the evolutionary biology, biogeography, and conservation of the most elusive subterranean creatures in the world.Far from the austere, sparsely populated ecosystems often conjured in the imagination, caves host some of the most mysterious and biodiverse natural systems in the world. Subterranean environments, however, are the least explored terrestrial habitats, contributing to ... Read more

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A deep-dive into the evolutionary biology, biogeography, and conservation of the most elusive subterranean creatures in the world.Far from the austere, sparsely populated ecosystems often conjured in the imagination, caves host some of the most mysterious and biodiverse natural systems in the world. Subterranean environments, however, are the least explored terrestrial habitats, contributing to
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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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Richard Dawkins contra Stephen Jay Gould

by Kim Sterelny ...

Dawkins y Gould. Oxford y Harvard. Un zoólogo y un paleontólogo. Un liberal y un socialista. Un inglés y un estadounidense. Una gran batalla intelectual. Dos visiones contrapuestas acerca de la verdadera naturaleza de la evolución.La historia de la ciencia está repleta de rivalidades y conflictos: Newton discutió con Leibniz sobre la naturaleza del espacio, Edison y Tesla fueron protagonistas de ... Read more

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Dawkins y Gould. Oxford y Harvard. Un zoólogo y un paleontólogo. Un liberal y un socialista. Un inglés y un estadounidense. Una gran batalla intelectual. Dos visiones contrapuestas acerca de la verdadera naturaleza de la evolución.La historia de la ciencia está repleta de rivalidades y conflictos: Newton discutió con Leibniz sobre la naturaleza del espacio, Edison y Tesla fueron protagonistas de
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La società egoista e i residui caratteristici dell'evoluzione

by Danilo Paglino ...

Oggi siamo circondati da tecnologie e siamo abituati a dilettarci con congegni che dovrebbero semplificarci la vita, ma siamo poco propensi a riflettere su cosa ci renderebbe realmente felici. Le relazioni umane sembra proprio che siano state sostituite del tutto da feticci, che ci fanno sempre più somigliare a dei robot privi di emozioni e sentimenti; tendiamo a giudicare superficialmente i ... Read more

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Oggi siamo circondati da tecnologie e siamo abituati a dilettarci con congegni che dovrebbero semplificarci la vita, ma siamo poco propensi a riflettere su cosa ci renderebbe realmente felici. Le relazioni umane sembra proprio che siano state sostituite del tutto da feticci, che ci fanno sempre più somigliare a dei robot privi di emozioni e sentimenti; tendiamo a giudicare superficialmente i
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A New Unfeathered Bird

by Katrina van Grouw ...

A marvelous, original fusion of art and scienceThis extensively revised and expanded edition of The Unfeathered Bird features hundreds of new illustrations and a new text exploring the origins, anatomy, evolution and diversity of birds across deep timeSince it was first published in 2013, The Unfeathered Bird has established itself as a favourite among bird lovers and dinosaur enthusiasts ... ... Read more

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A marvelous, original fusion of art and scienceThis extensively revised and expanded edition of The Unfeathered Bird features hundreds of new illustrations and a new text exploring the origins, anatomy, evolution and diversity of birds across deep timeSince it was first published in 2013, The Unfeathered Bird has established itself as a favourite among bird lovers and dinosaur enthusiasts ...
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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

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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
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Early Evolutionary History of the Synapsida

Edited by Christian F. Kammerer, Jörg Fröbisch, Kenneth D. Angielczyk ...

Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Non-mammalian synapsids were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates from the Late Carboniferous to the Middle Triassic and play a key role in understanding the origin and evolution of mammals. Despite these facts and the outstanding fossil record of the group, early synapsids remain obscure. This book showcases the full breadth of contemporary research on non-mammalian synapsids, ranging from ... Read more

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Non-mammalian synapsids were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates from the Late Carboniferous to the Middle Triassic and play a key role in understanding the origin and evolution of mammals. Despite these facts and the outstanding fossil record of the group, early synapsids remain obscure. This book showcases the full breadth of contemporary research on non-mammalian synapsids, ranging from
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Sirius Reconnection

by Randall Dunn ...

First came Sirius Rising, and next came the epic Sirius Risen. And, finally now in the long anticipated Sirius Reconnection, Dr. Randall J. Dunn masterfully reweaves threads long scattered across timelines and dimensions. This book is not just a reading experience; it is a remembrance. With clarity and reverence, Dr. Dunn bridges science and mysticism, history and intuition, Earth and Sirius — ... Read more

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First came Sirius Rising, and next came the epic Sirius Risen. And, finally now in the long anticipated Sirius Reconnection, Dr. Randall J. Dunn masterfully reweaves threads long scattered across timelines and dimensions. This book is not just a reading experience; it is a remembrance. With clarity and reverence, Dr. Dunn bridges science and mysticism, history and intuition, Earth and Sirius —
... Read more
Isopod Systematics and Evolution

Edited by Richard C. Brusca ...

Series series Advances in Crustacean Research
A look at isopod systematics and evolution, topics confronted include the influence of genetic and extrachromasomal factors on their population rate and a comparison of different species in different habitats. ... Read more

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A look at isopod systematics and evolution, topics confronted include the influence of genetic and extrachromasomal factors on their population rate and a comparison of different species in different habitats.
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The Origin and Early Evolutionary History of Snakes

Edited by David J. Gower, Hussam Zaher ...

Series series Systematics Association Special Volume Series
Snakes comprise nearly 4,000 extant species found on all major continents except Antarctica. Morphologically and ecologically diverse, they include burrowing, arboreal, and marine forms, feeding on prey ranging from insects to large mammals. Snakes are strikingly different from their closest lizard relatives, and their origins and early diversification have long challenged and enthused ... Read more

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Snakes comprise nearly 4,000 extant species found on all major continents except Antarctica. Morphologically and ecologically diverse, they include burrowing, arboreal, and marine forms, feeding on prey ranging from insects to large mammals. Snakes are strikingly different from their closest lizard relatives, and their origins and early diversification have long challenged and enthused
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Common Chinese Materia Medica

Volume 4

Edited by Huagu Ye, Chuyuan Li, Wencai Ye, Feiyan Zeng ...

Series series Medicine (R0)
This fourth volume describes 256 species of medicinal plants from 5 families, which are commonly used in Chinese medicine. The most important species are Agrimonia pilosa, Amygdalus persica, Armeniaca mume, Armeniaca vulgaris, Armeniaca sibirica, Chaenomeles sinensis, Eriobotrya japonica of Rosaceae; Chimonanthus praecox of Calycanthaceae；Albizia julibrissin, Archidendron clypearia, Entada ... Read more

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This fourth volume describes 256 species of medicinal plants from 5 families, which are commonly used in Chinese medicine. The most important species are Agrimonia pilosa, Amygdalus persica, Armeniaca mume, Armeniaca vulgaris, Armeniaca sibirica, Chaenomeles sinensis, Eriobotrya japonica of Rosaceae; Chimonanthus praecox of Calycanthaceae；Albizia julibrissin, Archidendron clypearia, Entada
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