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Water Bears: The Biology of Tardigrades

Edited by Ralph O. Schill ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Offering extensive information on tardigrades, this volume begins with a chapter on the history of tardigrades, from the first description by Goeze in 1773, until 1929, when the most comprehensive monographic approach by E. Marcus was published. Tardigrades’ organ systems, including their integument, body cavity, digestive, muscular, nervous and reproductive systems, as well as their overall ... Read more

$197.09 USD

Offering extensive information on tardigrades, this volume begins with a chapter on the history of tardigrades, from the first description by Goeze in 1773, until 1929, when the most comprehensive monographic approach by E. Marcus was published. Tardigrades’ organ systems, including their integument, body cavity, digestive, muscular, nervous and reproductive systems, as well as their overall
... Read more
Charles Darwin - Oeuvres

Classcompilé n° 156

by Charles Darwin ...

Series series Les Classiques Compilés
Le Classcompilé 156 contient les oeuvres de Charles DarwinCharles Darwin, né le 12 février 1809 à Shrewsbury dans le Shropshire et mort le 19 avril 1882 à Downe dans le Kent , est un naturaliste et paléontologue anglais dont les travaux sur l'évolution des espèces vivantes ont révolutionné la biologie avec son ouvrage L'Origine des espèces paru en 1859. Célèbre au sein de la communauté ... Read more

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Le Classcompilé 156 contient les oeuvres de Charles DarwinCharles Darwin, né le 12 février 1809 à Shrewsbury dans le Shropshire et mort le 19 avril 1882 à Downe dans le Kent , est un naturaliste et paléontologue anglais dont les travaux sur l'évolution des espèces vivantes ont révolutionné la biologie avec son ouvrage L'Origine des espèces paru en 1859. Célèbre au sein de la communauté
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Making Eden

How Plants Transformed a Barren Planet

by David Beerling ...

Over 7 billion people depend on plants for healthy, productive, secure lives, but few of us stop to consider the origin of the plant kingdom that turned the world green and made our lives possible. And as the human population continues to escalate, our survival depends on how we treat the plant kingdom and the soils that sustain it. Understanding the evolutionary history of our land floras, the ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Over 7 billion people depend on plants for healthy, productive, secure lives, but few of us stop to consider the origin of the plant kingdom that turned the world green and made our lives possible. And as the human population continues to escalate, our survival depends on how we treat the plant kingdom and the soils that sustain it. Understanding the evolutionary history of our land floras, the
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Behavior of Lizards

Evolutionary and Mechanistic Perspectives

Edited by Vincent Bels, Anthony Russell ...

Key features:Presents a contemporary snapshot of the mechanisms underlying the evolution and adaptation of behaviorExplores how genetics, epigenetics, development, and environment shape behaviorDiscusses a broad range of behavioral repertoires and responses, including those related to thermoregulatory, foraging, predatory, displaying, social and escape strategies.Examines physiological and sensory ... Read more

$115.99 USD

Key features:Presents a contemporary snapshot of the mechanisms underlying the evolution and adaptation of behaviorExplores how genetics, epigenetics, development, and environment shape behaviorDiscusses a broad range of behavioral repertoires and responses, including those related to thermoregulatory, foraging, predatory, displaying, social and escape strategies.Examines physiological and sensory
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El origen de las especies

Explorando la evolución y diversidad de las especies: Un clásico de la biología moderna

by Charles Darwin ...

El libro "El origen de las especies", publicado por Charles Darwin en 1859, es un hito en el ámbito de la biología y la filosofía de la ciencia. En esta obra seminal, Darwin presenta su teoría de la evolución a través de la selección natural, argumentando que las especies evolucionan con el tiempo y que las variaciones en sus características físicas son cruciales para su supervivencia. Su estilo ... Read more

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El libro "El origen de las especies", publicado por Charles Darwin en 1859, es un hito en el ámbito de la biología y la filosofía de la ciencia. En esta obra seminal, Darwin presenta su teoría de la evolución a través de la selección natural, argumentando que las especies evolucionan con el tiempo y que las variaciones en sus características físicas son cruciales para su supervivencia. Su estilo
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Coração

Conexão para a harmonia da alma

by Antônia Marilene da Silva, Carlos Eduardo Accioly Durgante, Dimitrius Gutierrez ...

De há muito vem a neurociência, em seus estudos, assinalando o papel central das emoções e dos sentimentos na vida mental e na vida social, papel esse ancorado em estruturas orgânicas específicas. O corpo é expressão da mente. A fisiologia é expressão da dinâmica psíquica. O coração, em sua expressão física habitual, é o correlato fisiológico dos processos espirituais profundos de sustentação da ... Read more

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De há muito vem a neurociência, em seus estudos, assinalando o papel central das emoções e dos sentimentos na vida mental e na vida social, papel esse ancorado em estruturas orgânicas específicas. O corpo é expressão da mente. A fisiologia é expressão da dinâmica psíquica. O coração, em sua expressão física habitual, é o correlato fisiológico dos processos espirituais profundos de sustentação da
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Why Size Matters

From Bacteria to Blue Whales

by John Tyler Bonner ...

Series series Princeton Science Library
John Tyler Bonner, one of our most distinguished and creative biologists, here offers a completely new perspective on the role of size in biology. In his hallmark friendly style, he explores the universal impact of being the right size. By examining stories ranging from Alice in Wonderland to Gulliver's Travels, he shows that humans have always been fascinated by things big and small. Why then ... Read more

$12.99 USD

John Tyler Bonner, one of our most distinguished and creative biologists, here offers a completely new perspective on the role of size in biology. In his hallmark friendly style, he explores the universal impact of being the right size. By examining stories ranging from Alice in Wonderland to Gulliver's Travels, he shows that humans have always been fascinated by things big and small. Why then
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The Physics of Evolution

by Michael W. Roth ...

This book provides an introduction to the significant role of physics in evolution, based on the ideas of matter and energy resource flow, organism self-copying, and ecological change. The text employs these ideas to create quantitative models for important evolutionary processes.Many fields of science and engineering have come up against the problem of complex design—when details become so ... Read more

$77.99 USD

This book provides an introduction to the significant role of physics in evolution, based on the ideas of matter and energy resource flow, organism self-copying, and ecological change. The text employs these ideas to create quantitative models for important evolutionary processes.Many fields of science and engineering have come up against the problem of complex design—when details become so
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Overlevers

Hoe het komt dat wij de enige mensachtigen op aarde zijn

by Chris Stringer ...

Translated by Mark van Nieuwstadt ...

In dit baanbrekende boek tracht Chris Stringer antwoord te gevenop de grote vragen in het debat over onze oorsprong. Hebbenmodernemensen en neanderthalers elkaar ooit ontmoet enstroomt ermisschien zelfs neanderthalerbloed door onze aderen?Waren onze voorouders vervaarlijke kannibalen of bewerkten ze deoverblijfselen van hun doden uit eerbetoon? Waren grotschilderingenen gestileerde voorwerpen puur ... Read more

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In dit baanbrekende boek tracht Chris Stringer antwoord te gevenop de grote vragen in het debat over onze oorsprong. Hebbenmodernemensen en neanderthalers elkaar ooit ontmoet enstroomt ermisschien zelfs neanderthalerbloed door onze aderen?Waren onze voorouders vervaarlijke kannibalen of bewerkten ze deoverblijfselen van hun doden uit eerbetoon? Waren grotschilderingenen gestileerde voorwerpen puur
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Palaeogeography and Palaeobiogeography: Biodiversity in Space and Time

Edited by Paul Upchurch, Alistair J. McGowan, Claire S.C. Slater ...

Series series Systematics Association Special Volumes
Biogeography represents one of the most complex and challenging aspects of macroevolutionary research, requiring input from both the earth and life sciences. Palaeogeographic reconstruction is frequently carried out by researchers with backgrounds in geology and palaeontology, who are less likely to be familiar with the latest biogeographic techniq ... Read more

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Biogeography represents one of the most complex and challenging aspects of macroevolutionary research, requiring input from both the earth and life sciences. Palaeogeographic reconstruction is frequently carried out by researchers with backgrounds in geology and palaeontology, who are less likely to be familiar with the latest biogeographic techniq
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Why Humans Cooperate

A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation

by Joseph Henrich, Natalie Henrich ...

Series series Evolution and Cognition
Cooperation among humans is one of the keys to our great evolutionary success. Natalie and Joseph Henrich examine this phenomena with a unique fusion of theoretical work on the evolution of cooperation, ethnographic descriptions of social behavior, and a range of other experimental results. Their experimental and ethnographic data come from a small, insular group of middle-class Iraqi Christians ... Read more

$66.59 USD

Cooperation among humans is one of the keys to our great evolutionary success. Natalie and Joseph Henrich examine this phenomena with a unique fusion of theoretical work on the evolution of cooperation, ethnographic descriptions of social behavior, and a range of other experimental results. Their experimental and ethnographic data come from a small, insular group of middle-class Iraqi Christians
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Literal Genesis -- A Fresh Look at the Creation Account

by John Thomas ...

A fresh look at the Genesis account of creation -- correcting the errors of both evolution and young-earth creationism, then combining their truths to develop a simple new synthesis, showing the Genesis account to be scientifically accurate and literally true. ... Read more

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A fresh look at the Genesis account of creation -- correcting the errors of both evolution and young-earth creationism, then combining their truths to develop a simple new synthesis, showing the Genesis account to be scientifically accurate and literally true.
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Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change

Interim Results from the U.S. Country Studies Program

Edited by Ivana Nemesová, Saleemul Huq, Sekou Touré, Joel B. Smith, Stephanie Lenhart, Luis José Mata ...

Series Book 8 - Environmental Science and Technology Library
Martin Parry University College, London, UK The 13 country studies collected in this re Adaptations Assessment published by the port represent the first of what is likely to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change become a worldwide, country-by-country (Carter et al., 1994) as an agreed technical estimate of the likely impacts of, and appro set of scientific methods for climate impact priate ... Read more

$143.09 USD

Martin Parry University College, London, UK The 13 country studies collected in this re Adaptations Assessment published by the port represent the first of what is likely to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change become a worldwide, country-by-country (Carter et al., 1994) as an agreed technical estimate of the likely impacts of, and appro set of scientific methods for climate impact priate
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Sé menos humano: Fusiónate con la inteligencia artificial (IA)

by José Peña Coto ...

"Conservar nuestra humanidad en su forma actual es condenarnos a la extinción."LA TECNOLOGÍA ES EL SIGUIENTE ESCALÓN EVOLUTIVO.No te quedes atrás. Adáptate.El ser humano debe integrarse con la inteligencia artificial para superar sus limitaciones biológicas y asegurar su supervivencia en un sistema solar que tiene los días contados.Acepta la invitación a ser parte de la vanguardia en la ... Read more

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"Conservar nuestra humanidad en su forma actual es condenarnos a la extinción."LA TECNOLOGÍA ES EL SIGUIENTE ESCALÓN EVOLUTIVO.No te quedes atrás. Adáptate.El ser humano debe integrarse con la inteligencia artificial para superar sus limitaciones biológicas y asegurar su supervivencia en un sistema solar que tiene los días contados.Acepta la invitación a ser parte de la vanguardia en la
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Origin(s) of Design in Nature

A Fresh, Interdisciplinary Look at How Design Emerges in Complex Systems, Especially Life

Edited by Liz Swan, Richard Gordon, Joseph Seckbach ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Origin(s) of Design in Nature is a collection of over 40 articles from prominent researchers in the life, physical, and social sciences, medicine, and the philosophy of science that all address the philosophical and scientific question of how design emerged in the natural world. The volume offers a large variety of perspectives on the design debate including progressive accounts from artificial ... Read more

$188.09 USD

Origin(s) of Design in Nature is a collection of over 40 articles from prominent researchers in the life, physical, and social sciences, medicine, and the philosophy of science that all address the philosophical and scientific question of how design emerged in the natural world. The volume offers a large variety of perspectives on the design debate including progressive accounts from artificial
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Cultural Selection

by A. Fog ...

INTRODUCTION This book describes a new interdisciplinary theory for explaining cultural change. In contrast to traditional evolutionist theories, the present theory stresses the fact that a culture can evolve in different directions depending on its life conditions. Cultural selection theory explains why certain cultures or cultural ele ments spread, possibly at the expense of other cultures or ... Read more

$143.09 USD

INTRODUCTION This book describes a new interdisciplinary theory for explaining cultural change. In contrast to traditional evolutionist theories, the present theory stresses the fact that a culture can evolve in different directions depending on its life conditions. Cultural selection theory explains why certain cultures or cultural ele ments spread, possibly at the expense of other cultures or
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Animal of realities

Our evolutionary identity as a species and individuals

by Xosé Gabriel Vázquez Fernández ...

Our definition as rational animals has expired, since we now know that other species also have that characteristic. Hence the inquiry in this regard and its corresponding result, which are addressed in this book and whose conclusion is that evolution itself has endowed us with something specific: our ability to devise, based on which all and only sapiens live an external reality, in relation to ... Read more

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Our definition as rational animals has expired, since we now know that other species also have that characteristic. Hence the inquiry in this regard and its corresponding result, which are addressed in this book and whose conclusion is that evolution itself has endowed us with something specific: our ability to devise, based on which all and only sapiens live an external reality, in relation to
... Read more
Feeding in Vertebrates

Evolution, Morphology, Behavior, Biomechanics

Edited by Vincent Bels, Ian Q. Whishaw ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This book provides students and researchers with reviews of biological questions related to the evolution of feeding by vertebrates in aquatic and terrestrial environments. Based on recent technical developments and novel conceptual approaches, the book covers functional questions on trophic behavior in nearly all vertebrate groups including jawless fishes. The book describes mechanisms and ... Read more

$134.09 USD

This book provides students and researchers with reviews of biological questions related to the evolution of feeding by vertebrates in aquatic and terrestrial environments. Based on recent technical developments and novel conceptual approaches, the book covers functional questions on trophic behavior in nearly all vertebrate groups including jawless fishes. The book describes mechanisms and
... Read more
Pocket Evolution

by Rumi Michael Leigh ...

Series series Things You Should Know (Questions and Answers)
Unlock the mysteries of evolution with "Pocket Evolution: Essential Knowledge in Questions and Answers." This compact guide is perfect for anyone looking to deepen their understanding of one of science's most fundamental concepts. Whether you're a student, teacher, or just curious about the origins and development of life, this book provides clear and concise answers to essential questions on ... Read more

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Unlock the mysteries of evolution with "Pocket Evolution: Essential Knowledge in Questions and Answers." This compact guide is perfect for anyone looking to deepen their understanding of one of science's most fundamental concepts. Whether you're a student, teacher, or just curious about the origins and development of life, this book provides clear and concise answers to essential questions on
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The Anthropology of Modern Human Teeth

Dental Morphology and its Variation in Recent and Fossil Homo sapiens

by G. Richard Scott, Christy G. Turner II, Grant C. Townsend, María Martinón-Torres ...

Series Book 79 - Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology
All humans share certain components of tooth structure, but show variation in size and morphology around this shared pattern. This book presents a worldwide synthesis of the global variation in tooth morphology in recent populations. Research has advanced on many fronts since the publication of the first edition, which has become a seminal work on the subject. This revised and updated edition ... Read more

$47.59 USD

All humans share certain components of tooth structure, but show variation in size and morphology around this shared pattern. This book presents a worldwide synthesis of the global variation in tooth morphology in recent populations. Research has advanced on many fronts since the publication of the first edition, which has become a seminal work on the subject. This revised and updated edition
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The Origin of Life

by Anab Whitehouse ...

The current book is not about trying to prove the truth of this or that scientific or religious account about the origins of either human beings, in particular, or life, in general. 'The Origin of Life' is about the problems surrounding the process of interpreting empirical evidence and subjecting that data to various methods of rigorous critical reflection. ... Read more

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The current book is not about trying to prove the truth of this or that scientific or religious account about the origins of either human beings, in particular, or life, in general. 'The Origin of Life' is about the problems surrounding the process of interpreting empirical evidence and subjecting that data to various methods of rigorous critical reflection.
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Les Mondes fossiles

by Jean-Jacques Jaeger ...

Pourquoi les hommes, isolés sur un île deviennent-ils géants, alors que les éléphants deviennent nains ? Quel était le climat de Paris il y a 500 000 ans ? L'humanité est-elle le résultat d'un premier génocide ? Le livre de Jean-Jacques Jaeger répond à ces questions, et à d'autres. Il nous montre que, pour qui sait observer, ces témoins du passé incarnent et résument les savoirs les plus divers ... Read more

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Pourquoi les hommes, isolés sur un île deviennent-ils géants, alors que les éléphants deviennent nains ? Quel était le climat de Paris il y a 500 000 ans ? L'humanité est-elle le résultat d'un premier génocide ? Le livre de Jean-Jacques Jaeger répond à ces questions, et à d'autres. Il nous montre que, pour qui sait observer, ces témoins du passé incarnent et résument les savoirs les plus divers
... Read more
Aurora

In Search of the Northern Lights

by Dr Melanie Windridge ...

The beautiful aurorae, or northern lights, are the stuff of legends. The ancient stories of the Sami people warn that if you mock the lights they will seize you, and their mythical appeal continues to capture the hearts and imagination of people across the globe.Aurora explores the visual beauty, ancient myths and science of the northern lights and challenges the popular theory of how the lights ... Read more

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The beautiful aurorae, or northern lights, are the stuff of legends. The ancient stories of the Sami people warn that if you mock the lights they will seize you, and their mythical appeal continues to capture the hearts and imagination of people across the globe.Aurora explores the visual beauty, ancient myths and science of the northern lights and challenges the popular theory of how the lights
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Difficulties of Development as Applied to Man

by Alfred Russel Wallace ...

This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1876 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Difficulties of Development as Applied to Man' is an article on evolutionary theory in regard to the origins of the human race. Alfred Russel Wallace was born on 8th January 1823 in the village of Llanbadoc, in Monmouthshire, Wales. Wallace was inspired ... Read more

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This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1876 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Difficulties of Development as Applied to Man' is an article on evolutionary theory in regard to the origins of the human race. Alfred Russel Wallace was born on 8th January 1823 in the village of Llanbadoc, in Monmouthshire, Wales. Wallace was inspired
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