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On the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties

Enriched edition. Exploring Evolutionary Biology and Victorian Naturalist Writings

by Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Robert Darwin, Aurelia Ravenshaw ...

In the groundbreaking anthology "On the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties," readers are invited to explore the revolutionary thoughts that underpin the science of biodiversity and evolution. This collection pulls together a selection of essays and articles that illuminate the processes by which species diverge and adapt over time, forming a rich tapestry of insights into natural selection and ... Read more

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In the groundbreaking anthology "On the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties," readers are invited to explore the revolutionary thoughts that underpin the science of biodiversity and evolution. This collection pulls together a selection of essays and articles that illuminate the processes by which species diverge and adapt over time, forming a rich tapestry of insights into natural selection and
... Read more
Mutation-Driven Evolution

by Masatoshi Nei ...

The purpose of this book is to present a new mechanistic theory of mutation-driven evolution based on recent advances in genomics and evolutionary developmental biology. The theory asserts, perhaps somewhat controversially, that the driving force behind evolution is mutation, with natural selection being of only secondary importance. The word 'mutation' is used to describe any kind of change in ... Read more

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The purpose of this book is to present a new mechanistic theory of mutation-driven evolution based on recent advances in genomics and evolutionary developmental biology. The theory asserts, perhaps somewhat controversially, that the driving force behind evolution is mutation, with natural selection being of only secondary importance. The word 'mutation' is used to describe any kind of change in
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Перья, кровь и миллионы лет: Полная история динозавров

by Райли Блэк ...

Translated by Алексей Давыдов ...

Series series Научный интерес
В палеонтологии одна кость может переписать историю целого континента. Эта книга — история торжества эволюции, которое длился 160 миллионов лет. Автор разрушает стереотип о динозаврах как о медлительных, холоднокровных ящерах, обреченных на вымирание. Опираясь на новейшие находки — от «беременного» тираннозавра Би-рекс до пернатых хищников Китая, — исследовательница реконструирует жизнь владык ... Read more

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В палеонтологии одна кость может переписать историю целого континента. Эта книга — история торжества эволюции, которое длился 160 миллионов лет. Автор разрушает стереотип о динозаврах как о медлительных, холоднокровных ящерах, обреченных на вымирание. Опираясь на новейшие находки — от «беременного» тираннозавра Би-рекс до пернатых хищников Китая, — исследовательница реконструирует жизнь владык
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How Culture Makes Us Human

Primate Social Evolution and the Formation of Human Societies

by Dwight W Read ...

Series series Key Questions in Anthropology
What separates modern humans from our primate cousins—are we a mere blink in the march of evolution, or does human culture represent the definitive evolutionary turn? Dwight Read explores the dilemma in this engaging, thought-provoking book, taking readers through an evolutionary odyssey from our primate beginnings through the development of culture and social organization. He assesses the two ... Read more

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What separates modern humans from our primate cousins—are we a mere blink in the march of evolution, or does human culture represent the definitive evolutionary turn? Dwight Read explores the dilemma in this engaging, thought-provoking book, taking readers through an evolutionary odyssey from our primate beginnings through the development of culture and social organization. He assesses the two
... Read more
High School Biology

Questions & Explanations for Organismal Biology

by Sterling Education ...

Thousands of students use Sterling to achieve academic success!Master high school organismal biology with questions and detailed explanations.This book provides practice questions covering organismal biology topics for comprehensive high school biology preparation. The detailed explanations describe why one answer is correct and why another attractive choice is wrong. They provide comprehensive ... Read more

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Thousands of students use Sterling to achieve academic success!Master high school organismal biology with questions and detailed explanations.This book provides practice questions covering organismal biology topics for comprehensive high school biology preparation. The detailed explanations describe why one answer is correct and why another attractive choice is wrong. They provide comprehensive
... Read more
Beyond Natural Selection

Locust Plasticity, Orchestrated Objective Reduction & Morphogenic Fields

by Sajeepan Arikaran ...

Is natural selection the sole driving force of evolution, or are deeper mechanisms at play? Beyond Natural Selection challenges the conventional Darwinian framework by exploring alternative and complementary processes that shape life’s complexity—ranging from environmental plasticity and quantum consciousness to morphogenic fields and self-organizing systems.This book examines the astonishing ... Read more

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Is natural selection the sole driving force of evolution, or are deeper mechanisms at play? Beyond Natural Selection challenges the conventional Darwinian framework by exploring alternative and complementary processes that shape life’s complexity—ranging from environmental plasticity and quantum consciousness to morphogenic fields and self-organizing systems.This book examines the astonishing
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The Evolutionary Roots of Human Brain Diseases

Edited by Nico J. Diederich, Martin Brüne, Katrin Amunts, Christopher G. Goetz ...

Richly illustrated with figures and examples and supplemented with a glossary of terms, The Evolutionary Roots of Human Brain Diseases assembles recent findings in clinical neuroscience, evolutionary biology, anthropology, and cellular biology to elucidate the origins of human brain diseases and how evolution has given rise to exclusive impacts on brain health only in humans. The book is succinct, ... Read more

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Richly illustrated with figures and examples and supplemented with a glossary of terms, The Evolutionary Roots of Human Brain Diseases assembles recent findings in clinical neuroscience, evolutionary biology, anthropology, and cellular biology to elucidate the origins of human brain diseases and how evolution has given rise to exclusive impacts on brain health only in humans. The book is succinct,
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Biodiversity, Conservation and Sustainability in Asia

Volume 2: Prospects and Challenges in South and Middle Asia

Edited by Münir Öztürk, Shujaul Mulk Khan, Volkan Altay, Recep Efe, Dilfuza Egamberdieva, Furkat O. Khassanov ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Of the world’s seven continents, Asia is the largest. Its physical landscapes, political units, and ethnic groups are both wide-ranging and many. Southwest, South and Middle Asia are highly populated regions which, as a whole, cover an extremely large area of varied geography. In total, this domain is unique in its plant diversity and large vegetation zones with different communities and biomes. ... Read more

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Of the world’s seven continents, Asia is the largest. Its physical landscapes, political units, and ethnic groups are both wide-ranging and many. Southwest, South and Middle Asia are highly populated regions which, as a whole, cover an extremely large area of varied geography. In total, this domain is unique in its plant diversity and large vegetation zones with different communities and biomes.
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The Readable Darwin

The Origin of Species Edited for Modern Readers

by Jan A. Pechenik ...

Darwin's The Origin of Species is one of the most influential books ever written. It is essential reading for anyone interested in biology, evolution, the natural world, or the history of scientific thought. However, the book can be difficult to follow. The sentences and paragraphs are lengthy, and Darwin often references people and ideas unfamiliar to contemporary readers. The Readable Darwin ... Read more

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Darwin's The Origin of Species is one of the most influential books ever written. It is essential reading for anyone interested in biology, evolution, the natural world, or the history of scientific thought. However, the book can be difficult to follow. The sentences and paragraphs are lengthy, and Darwin often references people and ideas unfamiliar to contemporary readers. The Readable Darwin
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Common Chinese Materia Medica

Volume 6

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

Series series Medicine (R0)
This sixth volume describes 226 species of 32 families of medicinal plants, which are commonly used in Chinese medicine. The most important species are Aquilaria sinensis and Daphne genkwa of Thymelaeaceae; Benincasa hispida, Siraitia grosvenorii, Trichosanthes kirilowii and Trichosanthes rosthornii of Cucurbitaceae; Camellia sinensis of Theaceae; Cleistocalyx operculatus, Eugenia caryophyllata ... Read more

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This sixth volume describes 226 species of 32 families of medicinal plants, which are commonly used in Chinese medicine. The most important species are Aquilaria sinensis and Daphne genkwa of Thymelaeaceae; Benincasa hispida, Siraitia grosvenorii, Trichosanthes kirilowii and Trichosanthes rosthornii of Cucurbitaceae; Camellia sinensis of Theaceae; Cleistocalyx operculatus, Eugenia caryophyllata
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Genetics and Genomics of Linum

Edited by Christopher A. Cullis ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Linum (flax) is a genus of about 200 species in the flowering plant family Linaceae. The genus includes common flax, which is one of the best fibers to produce linen, the seeds to produce linseed oil and has health-related properties of flax in human and animal nutrition.This book describes the genetics and genomics of Linum including the development of extensive experimental resources (e.g. whole ... Read more

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Linum (flax) is a genus of about 200 species in the flowering plant family Linaceae. The genus includes common flax, which is one of the best fibers to produce linen, the seeds to produce linseed oil and has health-related properties of flax in human and animal nutrition.This book describes the genetics and genomics of Linum including the development of extensive experimental resources (e.g. whole
... Read more
Cave Ecology

Edited by Oana Teodora Moldovan, Ľubomír Kováč, Stuart Halse ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Cave organisms are the ‘monsters’ of the underground world and studying them invariably raises interesting questions about the ways evolution has equipped them to survive in permanent darkness and low-energy environments. Undertaking ecological studies in caves and other subterranean habitats is not only challenging because they are difficult to access, but also because the domain is so different ... Read more

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Cave organisms are the ‘monsters’ of the underground world and studying them invariably raises interesting questions about the ways evolution has equipped them to survive in permanent darkness and low-energy environments. Undertaking ecological studies in caves and other subterranean habitats is not only challenging because they are difficult to access, but also because the domain is so different
... Read more
The Origin of Snakes

Morphology and the Fossil Record

by Michael Wayne Caldwell ...

This book presents perspectives on the past and present state of the understanding of snake origins. It reviews and critiques data and ideas from paleontology and neontology (herpetology), as well as ideas from morphological and molecular phylogenetics. The author reviews the anatomy and morphology of extant snakes. Methods are also critiqued, including those empirical and theoretical methods ... Read more

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This book presents perspectives on the past and present state of the understanding of snake origins. It reviews and critiques data and ideas from paleontology and neontology (herpetology), as well as ideas from morphological and molecular phylogenetics. The author reviews the anatomy and morphology of extant snakes. Methods are also critiqued, including those empirical and theoretical methods
... Read more
Sull'origine delle specie

Comunicazione alla Linnean Society (1858)

by Charles Darwin ...

Translated by Michele Luzzatto ...

Nel 1858 Charles Darwin e Alfred R. Wallace presentarono congiuntamente alla Linnean Society di Londra la sintesi di una teoria rivoluzionaria – quella dell’evoluzione delle specie per selezione naturale – a cui erano pervenuti indipendentemente. L’anno successivo Darwin ruppe gli indugi e si risolse finalmente a pubblicare L’Origine delle specie. ... Read more

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Nel 1858 Charles Darwin e Alfred R. Wallace presentarono congiuntamente alla Linnean Society di Londra la sintesi di una teoria rivoluzionaria – quella dell’evoluzione delle specie per selezione naturale – a cui erano pervenuti indipendentemente. L’anno successivo Darwin ruppe gli indugi e si risolse finalmente a pubblicare L’Origine delle specie.
... Read more
Paleoanthropology of the Balkans and Anatolia

Human Evolution and its Context

Edited by Katerina Harvati, Mirjana Roksandic ...

Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
This edited volume systematically reviews the evidence for early human presence in one of the most relevant geographic regions of Europe - the Balkans and Anatolia, an area that has been crucial in shaping the course of human evolution in Europe, but whose paleoanthropological record is poorly known. The primary aim of this book is to showcase new paleoanthropological (human paleontological and ... Read more

$116.09 USD

This edited volume systematically reviews the evidence for early human presence in one of the most relevant geographic regions of Europe - the Balkans and Anatolia, an area that has been crucial in shaping the course of human evolution in Europe, but whose paleoanthropological record is poorly known. The primary aim of this book is to showcase new paleoanthropological (human paleontological and
... Read more
Sketching Theoretical Biology

Toward a Theoretical Biology, Volume 2

by Wilhelmina A. Leigh ...

The purpose of this volume is to bring together a number of elements that would be useful in the construction of a coherent and comprehensive theory of biology. Based on the assumption that living systems represent some kind of "organized complexity," the collection discusses meaningful ways of formulating two basic questions: what is the nature of this complexity; and, what are the principles of ... Read more

$73.99 USD

The purpose of this volume is to bring together a number of elements that would be useful in the construction of a coherent and comprehensive theory of biology. Based on the assumption that living systems represent some kind of "organized complexity," the collection discusses meaningful ways of formulating two basic questions: what is the nature of this complexity; and, what are the principles of
... Read more
The Evolution of Faith

Christ, Science, and World Religions

by Thomas R. McFaul, Al Brunsting ...

A new understanding is developed in this book about the relationship between the Christian faith, modern science, and the world religions. The authors call their new position Evolutionary Pluralism. By combining the Christian faith with modern science and the global growth of religious diversity, Evolutionary Pluralism provides Christians with an alternative to current interpretations such as ... Read more

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A new understanding is developed in this book about the relationship between the Christian faith, modern science, and the world religions. The authors call their new position Evolutionary Pluralism. By combining the Christian faith with modern science and the global growth of religious diversity, Evolutionary Pluralism provides Christians with an alternative to current interpretations such as
... Read more
Evolution and the Fall

Edited by William T. Cavanaugh, James K. A. Smith ...

What does it mean for the Christian doctrine of the Fall if there was no historical Adam? If humanity emerged from nonhuman primates—as genetic, biological, and archaeological evidence seems to suggest—then what are the implications for a Christian understanding of human origins, including the origin of sin?Evolution and the Fall gathers a multidisciplinary, ecumenical team of scholars to address ... Read more

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What does it mean for the Christian doctrine of the Fall if there was no historical Adam? If humanity emerged from nonhuman primates—as genetic, biological, and archaeological evidence seems to suggest—then what are the implications for a Christian understanding of human origins, including the origin of sin?Evolution and the Fall gathers a multidisciplinary, ecumenical team of scholars to address
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Mr. Gladstone and Genesis

Essay #5 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition"

by Thomas Henry Huxley ...

In "Mr. Gladstone and Genesis," Thomas Henry Huxley navigates the intersection of science and religion during a period of intense debate in Victorian England. Written in response to British statesman William Ewart Gladstone's views on the compatibility of Genesis with modern scientific understanding, Huxley's work offers a cogent argument advocating for the integrity of scientific inquiry. His ... Read more

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In "Mr. Gladstone and Genesis," Thomas Henry Huxley navigates the intersection of science and religion during a period of intense debate in Victorian England. Written in response to British statesman William Ewart Gladstone's views on the compatibility of Genesis with modern scientific understanding, Huxley's work offers a cogent argument advocating for the integrity of scientific inquiry. His
... Read more
The New Foundations of Evolution : On the Tree of Life

On the Tree of Life

by Jan Sapp ...

This is the story of a profound revolution in the way biologists explore life's history understand its evolutionary processes and reveal its diversity. It is about life's smallest entities deepest diversity and greatest cellular biomass: the microbiosphere. Jan Sapp introduces us to a new field of evolutionary biology and a new brand of molecular evolutionists who descend to the foundations of ... Read more

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This is the story of a profound revolution in the way biologists explore life's history understand its evolutionary processes and reveal its diversity. It is about life's smallest entities deepest diversity and greatest cellular biomass: the microbiosphere. Jan Sapp introduces us to a new field of evolutionary biology and a new brand of molecular evolutionists who descend to the foundations of
... Read more
How Molecular Forces and Rotating Planets Create Life

The Emergence and Evolution of Prokaryotic Cells

by Jan Spitzer ...

Series series Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology
A reconceptualization of origins research that exploits a modern understanding of non-covalent molecular forces that stabilize living prokaryotic cells.Scientific research into the origins of life remains exploratory and speculative. Science has no definitive answer to the biggest questions--"What is life?" and "How did life begin on earth?" In this book, Jan Spitzer reconceptualizes origins ... Read more

$36.99 USD

A reconceptualization of origins research that exploits a modern understanding of non-covalent molecular forces that stabilize living prokaryotic cells.Scientific research into the origins of life remains exploratory and speculative. Science has no definitive answer to the biggest questions--"What is life?" and "How did life begin on earth?" In this book, Jan Spitzer reconceptualizes origins
... Read more
Nanostructures for Antimicrobial and Antibiofilm Applications

Edited by Ram Prasad, Busi Siddhardha, Madhu Dyavaiah ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
In the pursuit of technological advancement in the field of biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries to counteract health issues, bacterial infections remain a major cause of morbidity and mortality. The ability of bacterial pathogens to form biofilms further agglomerates the situation by showing resistance to conventional antibiotics. To overcome this serious issue, bioactive metabolites and ... Read more

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In the pursuit of technological advancement in the field of biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries to counteract health issues, bacterial infections remain a major cause of morbidity and mortality. The ability of bacterial pathogens to form biofilms further agglomerates the situation by showing resistance to conventional antibiotics. To overcome this serious issue, bioactive metabolites and
... Read more
Neopoetics

The Evolution of the Literate Imagination

by Christopher Collins ...

The quest to understand the evolution of the literary mind has become a fertile field of inquiry and speculation for scholars across literary studies and cognitive science. In Paleopoetics, Christopher Collins's acclaimed earlier title, he described how language emerged both as a communicative tool and as a means of fashioning other communicative tools—stories, songs, and rituals. In Neopoetics, ... Read more

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The quest to understand the evolution of the literary mind has become a fertile field of inquiry and speculation for scholars across literary studies and cognitive science. In Paleopoetics, Christopher Collins's acclaimed earlier title, he described how language emerged both as a communicative tool and as a means of fashioning other communicative tools—stories, songs, and rituals. In Neopoetics,
... Read more
Dinosaures : Le livre scientifique sur les dinosaures

by Boreas M. L. Saage - Français ...

Plongez dans l'univers fascinant des dinosaures avec ce livre scientifique complet qui vous transportera à travers les âges mésozoïques. 'Dinosaures : Le livre scientifique sur les dinosaures' est un guide détaillé qui combine rigueur scientifique et accessibilité pour tous les passionnés de paléontologie.Cet ouvrage richement illustré présente les dinosaures dans toute leur diversité, des ... Read more

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Plongez dans l'univers fascinant des dinosaures avec ce livre scientifique complet qui vous transportera à travers les âges mésozoïques. 'Dinosaures : Le livre scientifique sur les dinosaures' est un guide détaillé qui combine rigueur scientifique et accessibilité pour tous les passionnés de paléontologie.Cet ouvrage richement illustré présente les dinosaures dans toute leur diversité, des
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