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Oltre il Genoma: Genetica, Farmacia e la Prossima Frontiera della Medicina

by Edenilson Brandl ...

Benvenuti in un'affascinante immersione nel mondo della genetica e della medicina di precisione! In questo libro esploreremo un'ampia gamma di argomenti relativi a queste aree della scienza che stanno rivoluzionando il modo in cui comprendiamo e affrontiamo la salute umana e animale.La genetica è stata oggetto di fascino e studio per decenni, ma i recenti progressi tecnologici e scientifici hanno ... Read more

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Benvenuti in un'affascinante immersione nel mondo della genetica e della medicina di precisione! In questo libro esploreremo un'ampia gamma di argomenti relativi a queste aree della scienza che stanno rivoluzionando il modo in cui comprendiamo e affrontiamo la salute umana e animale.La genetica è stata oggetto di fascino e studio per decenni, ma i recenti progressi tecnologici e scientifici hanno
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Génétique et Médecine Régénérative: Faire Progresser la Guérison des Maladies Héréditaires

by Edenilson Brandl ...

La science a été un phare de découvertes et d'innovations qui ont façonné le cours de l'humanité. Alors que nous entrons dans le 21e siècle, nous assistons à des progrès remarquables dans un domaine qui a le potentiel de révolutionner la médecine et de transformer des vies: la génétique et la médecine régénérative.Ce livre apparaît comme une source de connaissances complète et accessible conçue ... Read more

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La science a été un phare de découvertes et d'innovations qui ont façonné le cours de l'humanité. Alors que nous entrons dans le 21e siècle, nous assistons à des progrès remarquables dans un domaine qui a le potentiel de révolutionner la médecine et de transformer des vies: la génétique et la médecine régénérative.Ce livre apparaît comme une source de connaissances complète et accessible conçue
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Evolution Seen from the Phase Diagram of Life

by Shigeki Mitaku, Ryusuke Sawada ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This book aims to understand biological evolution through a physical approach, focusing on the macroscopic aspects of the biological genome. Readers will discover the connection between genomic information and the harmony of biological systems, a relationship that remains elusive to many researchers in biological sciences.The most common approach to understanding living organisms with physics is ... Read more

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This book aims to understand biological evolution through a physical approach, focusing on the macroscopic aspects of the biological genome. Readers will discover the connection between genomic information and the harmony of biological systems, a relationship that remains elusive to many researchers in biological sciences.The most common approach to understanding living organisms with physics is
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Эволюция на пальцах. Для детей и родителей, которые хотят объяснять детям

by Александр Никонов ...

Series series Библиотека вундеркинда
Хотели бы вы снова от звонка до звонка 10 лет отсидеть за школьной партой? Вряд ли… Школа запихивает в голову огромную кучу знаний, только вот раскиданы они беспорядочно и поэтому остаются невостребованными. Что вот вы помните из школьной программы про теорию эволюции? Обезьяны, Дарвин, гены… Эх, невелик набор, да и системы в нем нет. Эта книга знакомит детей и родителей, которые хотели бы ... Read more

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Хотели бы вы снова от звонка до звонка 10 лет отсидеть за школьной партой? Вряд ли… Школа запихивает в голову огромную кучу знаний, только вот раскиданы они беспорядочно и поэтому остаются невостребованными. Что вот вы помните из школьной программы про теорию эволюции? Обезьяны, Дарвин, гены… Эх, невелик набор, да и системы в нем нет. Эта книга знакомит детей и родителей, которые хотели бы
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Cybernetic Revolution and Global Aging

Humankind on the Way to Cybernetic Society, or the Next Hundred Years

by Leonid Grinin, Anton Grinin, Andrey Korotayev ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
This book explores the global technological transformations that have shaped development of society for eons, from the emergence of Homo sapiens to the modern day. Looking at a potential future for all of this century and the beginning of the next, the book explores how society is changing as a result of the two most powerful trends: technological advances and global aging. It studies the ... Read more

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This book explores the global technological transformations that have shaped development of society for eons, from the emergence of Homo sapiens to the modern day. Looking at a potential future for all of this century and the beginning of the next, the book explores how society is changing as a result of the two most powerful trends: technological advances and global aging. It studies the
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In Search of Human Evolution

Field Research in Diverse Environments

by Michael H. Crawford ...

Why would a researcher be willing to subject themselves to scorching heat, frigid conditions, or swarms of Anopheles mosquitoes? For author Michael H. Crawford, the answer is clear. Field research in anthropological genetics helps us answer several basic, universal questions. Who are we? Where did we come from? How did we get here? In Search of Human Evolution synthesizes more than 50 years of ... Read more

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Why would a researcher be willing to subject themselves to scorching heat, frigid conditions, or swarms of Anopheles mosquitoes? For author Michael H. Crawford, the answer is clear. Field research in anthropological genetics helps us answer several basic, universal questions. Who are we? Where did we come from? How did we get here? In Search of Human Evolution synthesizes more than 50 years of
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Sanaben

by Lorenzo Bonanni ...

La intención del libro es facilitar nuestra existencia haciéndonos entender quiénes somos y de dónde venimos y qué instintos nos mueven. En términos simples y, a veces, goliárdicos, el libro explica los motivos de nuestros deseos: el culo de las mujeres, el poder, el pelo rubio, el dinero. Explica por qué el amor, la vida, la familia, la religión y la muerte realmente están fuera de la historia y ... Read more

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La intención del libro es facilitar nuestra existencia haciéndonos entender quiénes somos y de dónde venimos y qué instintos nos mueven. En términos simples y, a veces, goliárdicos, el libro explica los motivos de nuestros deseos: el culo de las mujeres, el poder, el pelo rubio, el dinero. Explica por qué el amor, la vida, la familia, la religión y la muerte realmente están fuera de la historia y
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Entstehung des Evolutionsgedankens

Geschichtlicher Rückbllick

by Tashina Werner ...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Biologie - Evolution, Note: 11,28, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Seminararbeit gibt einen historischen Rückblick über die Entstehung des Evolutionsgedankens, von den Anfängen in der Antike bis hin zur modernen Evolutionsforschung. ... Read more

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Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Biologie - Evolution, Note: 11,28, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Seminararbeit gibt einen historischen Rückblick über die Entstehung des Evolutionsgedankens, von den Anfängen in der Antike bis hin zur modernen Evolutionsforschung.
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Big Brains and the Human Superorganism

Why Special Brains Appear in Hominids and Other Social Animals

by Niccolo Leo Caldararo ...

This book examines why humans have big brains, what big brains enable us to do, and how specialized brains are associated with eusociality in animals. It explores why brains expanded so slowly, and then why they stopped growing. This book whittles down the theories on brain size evolution to a few that represent testable hypotheses to identify logical and practical explanations for the phenomenon. ... Read more

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This book examines why humans have big brains, what big brains enable us to do, and how specialized brains are associated with eusociality in animals. It explores why brains expanded so slowly, and then why they stopped growing. This book whittles down the theories on brain size evolution to a few that represent testable hypotheses to identify logical and practical explanations for the phenomenon.
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Current Ornithology Volume 17

Edited by Charles F. Thompson ...

Series Book 17 - Current Ornithology
Current Ornithology publishes authoritative, up-to-date, scholarly reviews of topics selected from the full range of current research in avian biology. Topics cover the spectrum from the molecular level of organization to population biology and community ecology. The series seeks especially to review (1) fields in which an abundant recent literature will benefit from synthesis and organization, or ... Read more

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Current Ornithology publishes authoritative, up-to-date, scholarly reviews of topics selected from the full range of current research in avian biology. Topics cover the spectrum from the molecular level of organization to population biology and community ecology. The series seeks especially to review (1) fields in which an abundant recent literature will benefit from synthesis and organization, or
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Genetic Influences on Human Fertility and Sexuality

Theoretical and Empirical Contributions from the Biological and Behavioral Sciences

Edited by David C. Rowe, Warren B. Miller, Joseph Lee Rodgers ...

Recent work in quantitative biology has shown theoretically why Fisher's Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection does not preclude genetic influences on fertility, sexuality, and related processes. Genetic Influences on Human Fertility and Sexuality takes the next step, and presents a number of successful empirical searches for such genetic influence on a broad range of processes, such as puberty ... Read more

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Recent work in quantitative biology has shown theoretically why Fisher's Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection does not preclude genetic influences on fertility, sexuality, and related processes. Genetic Influences on Human Fertility and Sexuality takes the next step, and presents a number of successful empirical searches for such genetic influence on a broad range of processes, such as puberty
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Neanderthals and Atlantis

Rudolf Steiner and the New Prehistory

by Andrew Welburn ...

Where do we come from? The idea of human origins – the whole pattern of prehistory – has been through a revolution. The long-held Darwinian view purported to show how adopting an upright posture caused the gradual transition from animal to human. That theory has fallen apart spectacularly. Human orientation and equilibrium are now seen as a 'biological new beginning'. Characteristics such as ... Read more

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Where do we come from? The idea of human origins – the whole pattern of prehistory – has been through a revolution. The long-held Darwinian view purported to show how adopting an upright posture caused the gradual transition from animal to human. That theory has fallen apart spectacularly. Human orientation and equilibrium are now seen as a 'biological new beginning'. Characteristics such as
... Read more
Save Our Selves and Protect Planet Earth

by Peter A.J. Holst, Peter A.J. Holst MD PhD ...

For half a century, the Earth has given man dominion over his own reproduction and the reproduction of all animals and plants on Earth. We are therefore indebted to repair the damage we cause. Meat and eggs for consumption are now exclusively produced by artificial insemination and with breeding and incubators.Coronavirus, African swine fever, annual Influenza viruses are the result of diseases in ... Read more

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For half a century, the Earth has given man dominion over his own reproduction and the reproduction of all animals and plants on Earth. We are therefore indebted to repair the damage we cause. Meat and eggs for consumption are now exclusively produced by artificial insemination and with breeding and incubators.Coronavirus, African swine fever, annual Influenza viruses are the result of diseases in
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Darwin's Walk and The Last Wave

Disappearing Landscapes, Declining Species

by Richard Krooth ...

This book describes the reasons humankind may be facing its last moments on Planet Earth. Darwin marked the path of species evolution, modification, and extinction. Following Darwin’s trajectory of evolution, the author reveals how human-made technologies have had a devastating impact on Earth’s biosphere, signaling the continuing disappearance of landscapes and the decline of species life. ... Read more

$105.99 USD

This book describes the reasons humankind may be facing its last moments on Planet Earth. Darwin marked the path of species evolution, modification, and extinction. Following Darwin’s trajectory of evolution, the author reveals how human-made technologies have had a devastating impact on Earth’s biosphere, signaling the continuing disappearance of landscapes and the decline of species life.
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Reincarnation: The Scientific Theory

by Michael Tewell ...

Ever wondered why you have those strange "waking dreams" just before you wake up in the morning? Those weird dreams that are just too vivid, too graphic, too "real" to be just ordinary dreams. They are the dreams that that take you back in time to a much different place than where you are now. They make you relive events that could not have possibly happened to you in THIS life. Still, the dreams ... Read more

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Ever wondered why you have those strange "waking dreams" just before you wake up in the morning? Those weird dreams that are just too vivid, too graphic, too "real" to be just ordinary dreams. They are the dreams that that take you back in time to a much different place than where you are now. They make you relive events that could not have possibly happened to you in THIS life. Still, the dreams
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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
Lateral Asymmetry in Animals

Predator-Prey Interactions, Dynamics, and Evolution

Edited by Michio Hori, Satoshi Takahashi ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This book presents the latest research findings on the laterality of fish and other animals. It describes all aspects of lateral asymmetry, including ecology, morphology, behaviour, dynamics of lefty and righty morphs, genetics and evolution, through field observations, experiments and modeling.Lateral asymmetry in scale-eating cichlids gives a simple and beautiful example of negative frequency ... Read more

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This book presents the latest research findings on the laterality of fish and other animals. It describes all aspects of lateral asymmetry, including ecology, morphology, behaviour, dynamics of lefty and righty morphs, genetics and evolution, through field observations, experiments and modeling.Lateral asymmetry in scale-eating cichlids gives a simple and beautiful example of negative frequency
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Eternal Ephemera

Adaptation and the Origin of Species from the Nineteenth Century Through Punctuated Equilibria and Beyond

by Niles Eldredge ...

All organisms and species are transitory, yet life endures. The origin, extinction, and evolution of species—interconnected in the web of life as "eternal ephemera"—are the concern of evolutionary biology. In this riveting work, renowned paleontologist Niles Eldredge follows leading thinkers as they have wrestled for more than two hundred years with the eternal skein of life composed of ephemeral ... Read more

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All organisms and species are transitory, yet life endures. The origin, extinction, and evolution of species—interconnected in the web of life as "eternal ephemera"—are the concern of evolutionary biology. In this riveting work, renowned paleontologist Niles Eldredge follows leading thinkers as they have wrestled for more than two hundred years with the eternal skein of life composed of ephemeral
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Mound Centers and Seed Security

A Comparative Analysis of Botanical Assemblages from Middle Woodland Sites in the Lower Illinois Valley

by Natalie G. Mueller ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
At Middle Woodland sites in the eastern United States, excavations have uncovered naturalistic art worked on exotic materials from points as distant Wyoming, Ontario, and the Gulf Coast, revealing a network of ritual exchange referred to as the Hopewell phenomenon. Simultaneously, Middle Woodland societies developed the earliest agricultural system in eastern North American using now-extinct ... Read more

$49.99 USD

At Middle Woodland sites in the eastern United States, excavations have uncovered naturalistic art worked on exotic materials from points as distant Wyoming, Ontario, and the Gulf Coast, revealing a network of ritual exchange referred to as the Hopewell phenomenon. Simultaneously, Middle Woodland societies developed the earliest agricultural system in eastern North American using now-extinct
... Read more
The Hypothetical Species

Variables of Human Evolution

by Michael Charles Tobias, Jane Gray Morrison ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This book is a provocative and invigorating real-time exploration of the future of human evolution by two of the world’s leading interdisciplinary ecologists – Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison. Steeped in a rich multitude of the sciences and humanities, the book enshrines an elegant narrative that is highly empathetic, personal, scientifically wide-ranging and original. It focuses on ... Read more

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This book is a provocative and invigorating real-time exploration of the future of human evolution by two of the world’s leading interdisciplinary ecologists – Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison. Steeped in a rich multitude of the sciences and humanities, the book enshrines an elegant narrative that is highly empathetic, personal, scientifically wide-ranging and original. It focuses on
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Allergy and Tissue Metabolism

by W. G. Smith ...

Allergy and Tissue Metabolism covers some of the more important features of the state of knowledge in the relevant areas of allergy and tissue metabolism. This book is composed of nine chapters, and starts with a survey of the link between immune system and allergic diseases. The subsequent chapters deal with the evaluation of anaphylactic shock mechanisms using some animal models and the ... Read more

$28.99 USD

Allergy and Tissue Metabolism covers some of the more important features of the state of knowledge in the relevant areas of allergy and tissue metabolism. This book is composed of nine chapters, and starts with a survey of the link between immune system and allergic diseases. The subsequent chapters deal with the evaluation of anaphylactic shock mechanisms using some animal models and the
... Read more
Star Struck

Seeing the Creator in the Wonders of Our Cosmos

by David Bradstreet, Steve Rabey ...

The heavens are beckoning us, telling us that this wonderful, mind-boggling cosmic display is indeed the work of the creator. And now, using rovers and satellites, we're venturing further out into the vastness of space than ever before.In Star Struck, Christian astronomer David Bradstreet and writer Steve Rabey take readers on a guided tour of the biggest story ever, offering both intriguing ... Read more

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The heavens are beckoning us, telling us that this wonderful, mind-boggling cosmic display is indeed the work of the creator. And now, using rovers and satellites, we're venturing further out into the vastness of space than ever before.In Star Struck, Christian astronomer David Bradstreet and writer Steve Rabey take readers on a guided tour of the biggest story ever, offering both intriguing
... Read more
The Biological Problem of To-day: Preformation Or Epigenesis?

The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development

by Oscar Hertwig ...

Translated by P. Chalmers Sir Mitchell ...

Oscar Hertwig's "The Biological Problem of To-day: Preformation Or Epigenesis?" presents a rigorous exploration of two pivotal biological theories concerning development: preformation and epigenesis. Written during a time of burgeoning interest in embryology and evolutionary theory in the late 19th century, Hertwig employs a methodical scientific approach, blending empirical evidence with ... Read more

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Oscar Hertwig's "The Biological Problem of To-day: Preformation Or Epigenesis?" presents a rigorous exploration of two pivotal biological theories concerning development: preformation and epigenesis. Written during a time of burgeoning interest in embryology and evolutionary theory in the late 19th century, Hertwig employs a methodical scientific approach, blending empirical evidence with
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De la sabana a Marte

La economía de la inteligencia natural

by Xavier Sala i Martín ...

¿Cómo funciona el cerebro? ¿Qué es la inteligencia? ¿Cuáles son las ideas que han transformado el mundo?Una historia apasionante de la humanidad a través de las ideas científicas, tecnológicas y sociales que nos han permitido alcanzar niveles de prosperidad colosales.Un homenaje a las 10.000 generaciones que han sido necesarias para poder realizar el viaje desde la vida con los leones en la sabana ... Read more

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¿Cómo funciona el cerebro? ¿Qué es la inteligencia? ¿Cuáles son las ideas que han transformado el mundo?Una historia apasionante de la humanidad a través de las ideas científicas, tecnológicas y sociales que nos han permitido alcanzar niveles de prosperidad colosales.Un homenaje a las 10.000 generaciones que han sido necesarias para poder realizar el viaje desde la vida con los leones en la sabana
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