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Humanitas

De la pols estel·lar a la revolució conscient

by Xavier Ginesta López, Sergi Torres ...

Series series NO FICCIÓ COLUMNA
El llibre que haurien escrit Yuval Noah Harari i Eckhart Tolle a quatre mans.Som realment dignes del qualificatiu sapiens? La ciència ens ha permès traçar la història de l'univers fins al seu origen, però el que no ens explica és com la pols esteŀlar que va emergir del Big Bang ha acabat donant forma a criatures que creuen que el sentit de la seva existència és tenir un iPhone de darrera generació ... Read more

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El llibre que haurien escrit Yuval Noah Harari i Eckhart Tolle a quatre mans.Som realment dignes del qualificatiu sapiens? La ciència ens ha permès traçar la història de l'univers fins al seu origen, però el que no ens explica és com la pols esteŀlar que va emergir del Big Bang ha acabat donant forma a criatures que creuen que el sentit de la seva existència és tenir un iPhone de darrera generació
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Understanding DNA Ancestry

by Sheldon Krimsky ...

Series series Understanding Life
DNA ancestry companies generate revenues in the region of $1bn a year, and the company 23andMe is said to have sold 10 million DNA ancestry kits to date. Although evidently popular, the science behind how DNA ancestry tests work is mystifying and difficult for the general public to interpret and understand. In this accessible and engaging book, Sheldon Krimsky, a leading researcher, investigates ... Read more

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DNA ancestry companies generate revenues in the region of $1bn a year, and the company 23andMe is said to have sold 10 million DNA ancestry kits to date. Although evidently popular, the science behind how DNA ancestry tests work is mystifying and difficult for the general public to interpret and understand. In this accessible and engaging book, Sheldon Krimsky, a leading researcher, investigates
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Genetics, Evolution and Radiation

Crossing Borders, The Interdisciplinary Legacy of Nikolay W. Timofeeff-Ressovsky

Edited by Victoria L. Korogodina, Carmel E Mothersill, Sergey G. Inge-Vechtomov, Colin B. Seymour ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This book is dedicated to the great scientist and outstanding individual Nikolay Wladimirovich Timofeeff-Ressovsky. The book brings together a number of brief stories/essays about Timofeeff-Ressovsky including “Stories told by himself”, and scientific chapters addressing his major research areas: genetics, radiobiology, radiation ecology and epidemiology, and evolution. Timofeeff-Ressovsky ... Read more

$215.09 USD

This book is dedicated to the great scientist and outstanding individual Nikolay Wladimirovich Timofeeff-Ressovsky. The book brings together a number of brief stories/essays about Timofeeff-Ressovsky including “Stories told by himself”, and scientific chapters addressing his major research areas: genetics, radiobiology, radiation ecology and epidemiology, and evolution. Timofeeff-Ressovsky
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El origen de las especies

Selección natural, evolución y adaptación: evidencias de la transformación de los seres vivos

by Charles Darwin ...

Publicado en 1859, El origen de las especies expone, mediante una argumentación rigurosa y abundantes ejemplos de zoología, botánica, geografía y cría doméstica, la teoría de la evolución por selección natural. Darwin sostiene que las variaciones heredables, sometidas a la competencia por recursos limitados, producen adaptación y diversificación a lo largo de vastos periodos. Su estilo combina ... Read more

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Publicado en 1859, El origen de las especies expone, mediante una argumentación rigurosa y abundantes ejemplos de zoología, botánica, geografía y cría doméstica, la teoría de la evolución por selección natural. Darwin sostiene que las variaciones heredables, sometidas a la competencia por recursos limitados, producen adaptación y diversificación a lo largo de vastos periodos. Su estilo combina
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Early Evolution of Human Memory

Great Apes, Tool-making, and Cognition

by Michael J. Walker, Héctor M. Manrique ...

Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
This work examines the cognitive capacity of great apes in order to better understand early man and the importance of memory in the evolutionary process. It synthesizes research from comparative cognition, neuroscience, primatology as well as lithic archaeology, reviewing findings on the cognitive ability of great apes to recognize the physical properties of an object and then determine the most ... Read more

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This work examines the cognitive capacity of great apes in order to better understand early man and the importance of memory in the evolutionary process. It synthesizes research from comparative cognition, neuroscience, primatology as well as lithic archaeology, reviewing findings on the cognitive ability of great apes to recognize the physical properties of an object and then determine the most
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Reincarnation: Re-entering the Time Space Continuum

by FM NOTE LIGHT ...

Series Book 5 - FM/NOTE/LIGHT: The Chapter Series
Looking to change your fashion? Perhaps your lifestyle? A complete overhaul of your engine perhaps? Walk this way. ... Read more

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Looking to change your fashion? Perhaps your lifestyle? A complete overhaul of your engine perhaps? Walk this way.
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Honeybees of Asia

Edited by H. Randall Hepburn, Sarah E. Radloff ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
A multi-authored work on the basic biology of Asian honeybees, written by expert specialists in the field, this book highlights phylogeny, classification, mitochondrial and nuclear DNA, biogeography, genetics, physiology, pheromones, nesting, self-assembly processes, swarming, migration and absconding, reproduction, ecology, foraging and flight, dance languages, pollination, diseases/pests, colony ... Read more

$188.09 USD

A multi-authored work on the basic biology of Asian honeybees, written by expert specialists in the field, this book highlights phylogeny, classification, mitochondrial and nuclear DNA, biogeography, genetics, physiology, pheromones, nesting, self-assembly processes, swarming, migration and absconding, reproduction, ecology, foraging and flight, dance languages, pollination, diseases/pests, colony
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Flowering Plants. Eudicots

Santalales, Balanophorales

by Job Kuijt, Bertel Hansen (deceased) ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
In the present volume taxonomic treatments including descriptions of and keys to the families and genera for the orders Santalales and Balanophorales are offered, the former group here comprising 12 families with 162 genera and about 2100 species, and the latter with the single family Balanophoraceae composed of 16 genera and about 42 species. The contentious family classification of Santalales ... Read more

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In the present volume taxonomic treatments including descriptions of and keys to the families and genera for the orders Santalales and Balanophorales are offered, the former group here comprising 12 families with 162 genera and about 2100 species, and the latter with the single family Balanophoraceae composed of 16 genera and about 42 species. The contentious family classification of Santalales
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Human Evolution

Genes, Genealogies and Phylogenies

by Graeme Finlay ...

Controversy over human evolution remains widespread. However, the human genome project and genetic sequencing of many other species have provided myriad precise and unambiguous genetic markers that establish our evolutionary relationships with other mammals. Human Evolution: Genes, Genealogies and Phylogenies identifies and explains these identifiable, rare and complex markers including endogenous ... Read more

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Controversy over human evolution remains widespread. However, the human genome project and genetic sequencing of many other species have provided myriad precise and unambiguous genetic markers that establish our evolutionary relationships with other mammals. Human Evolution: Genes, Genealogies and Phylogenies identifies and explains these identifiable, rare and complex markers including endogenous
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The Parasite-Stress Theory of Values and Sociality

Infectious Disease, History and Human Values Worldwide

by Randy Thornhill, Corey L. Fincher ...

This book develops and tests an ecological and evolutionary theory of the causes of human values—the core beliefs that guide people’s cognition and behavior—and their variation across time and space around the world. We call this theory the parasite-stress theory of values or the parasite-stress theory of sociality. The evidence we present in our book indicates that both a wide span of human ... Read more

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This book develops and tests an ecological and evolutionary theory of the causes of human values—the core beliefs that guide people’s cognition and behavior—and their variation across time and space around the world. We call this theory the parasite-stress theory of values or the parasite-stress theory of sociality. The evidence we present in our book indicates that both a wide span of human
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Subtelomeres

Edited by Edward J Louis, Marion M Becker ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
New genes and diversity leading to adaptation and evolution are generated in special areas of genomes. One such area in all eukaryotic genomes and in those prokaryotes with linear chromosomes is the region near the ends of the chromosomes. These telomere-associated sequences or subtelomeres, have different properties than the rest of the genome and are one of the most exciting frontiers left in ... Read more

$143.09 USD

New genes and diversity leading to adaptation and evolution are generated in special areas of genomes. One such area in all eukaryotic genomes and in those prokaryotes with linear chromosomes is the region near the ends of the chromosomes. These telomere-associated sequences or subtelomeres, have different properties than the rest of the genome and are one of the most exciting frontiers left in
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The Effects of Cross and Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom

by Charles Darwin ...

The Introductory Remarks begin: "There is weighty and abundant evidence that the flowers of most kinds of plants are constructed so as to be occasionally or habituallycross-fertilised by pollen from another flower, produced either by the same plant, or generally, as we shall hereafter see reason to believe, by a distinct plant. Cross-fertilisation is sometimes ensured by the sexes being separated, ... Read more

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The Introductory Remarks begin: "There is weighty and abundant evidence that the flowers of most kinds of plants are constructed so as to be occasionally or habituallycross-fertilised by pollen from another flower, produced either by the same plant, or generally, as we shall hereafter see reason to believe, by a distinct plant. Cross-fertilisation is sometimes ensured by the sexes being separated,
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Flight From the Absolute: Cynical Observations on the Postmodern West. volume 2

by Paul Gosselin ...

Sometimes a small change in the way we define a basic term can have major repercussions on the way we look at the world. What happens, for example, when you change the way you look at concepts such as "religion" or "myth"? How might this affect the way we look at forces shaping the modern and postmodern West? Does religion always involve belief in the "supernatural"? What if this is not always ... Read more

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Sometimes a small change in the way we define a basic term can have major repercussions on the way we look at the world. What happens, for example, when you change the way you look at concepts such as "religion" or "myth"? How might this affect the way we look at forces shaping the modern and postmodern West? Does religion always involve belief in the "supernatural"? What if this is not always
... Read more
Introduction to Conservation Genetics

by Richard Frankham, Jonathan D. Ballou, David A. Briscoe ...

This impressive author team brings the wealth of advances in conservation genetics into the new edition of this introductory text, including new chapters on population genomics and genetic issues in introduced and invasive species. They continue the strong learning features for students - main points in the margin, chapter summaries, vital support with the mathematics, and further reading - and ... Read more

$73.79 USD

This impressive author team brings the wealth of advances in conservation genetics into the new edition of this introductory text, including new chapters on population genomics and genetic issues in introduced and invasive species. They continue the strong learning features for students - main points in the margin, chapter summaries, vital support with the mathematics, and further reading - and
... Read more
Prairie Dogs

Ecology and Social Behavior

by John Hoogland ...

A comprehensive overview of the behavioral ecology of a highly social group of North American mammalsBest known for their large colonies, complex burrows, and frequent alarm calls, prairie dogs are diurnal, herbivorous rodents endemic to the grasslands of western North America. Prairie Dogs synthesizes forty-five consecutive years of John Hoogland’s pioneering field research on the ecology and ... Read more

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A comprehensive overview of the behavioral ecology of a highly social group of North American mammalsBest known for their large colonies, complex burrows, and frequent alarm calls, prairie dogs are diurnal, herbivorous rodents endemic to the grasslands of western North America. Prairie Dogs synthesizes forty-five consecutive years of John Hoogland’s pioneering field research on the ecology and
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Génome néandertalien

Les Grands Articles d'Universalis

by Encyclopaedia Universalis ...

Partez à la découverte du génome néandertalien avec ce Grand Article Universalis !Paléoanthropologues et biologistes de l'évolution humaine ont assisté en 2010 au déchiffrage d'une partie du génome néandertalien. Cette lignée humaine, qui a peuplé l'Asie de l'Ouest et l'Europe pendant 400 000 ans, a disparu il y a environ 30 000 ans…Un ouvrage spécialement conçu pour le numérique afin d’en savoir ... Read more

$6.99 USD

Partez à la découverte du génome néandertalien avec ce Grand Article Universalis !Paléoanthropologues et biologistes de l'évolution humaine ont assisté en 2010 au déchiffrage d'une partie du génome néandertalien. Cette lignée humaine, qui a peuplé l'Asie de l'Ouest et l'Europe pendant 400 000 ans, a disparu il y a environ 30 000 ans…Un ouvrage spécialement conçu pour le numérique afin d’en savoir
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Origins of Life: The Primal Self-Organization

Edited by Armen Y. Mulkidjanian, Richard Egel, Dirk-Henner Lankenau ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
If theoretical physicists can seriously entertain canonical “standard models” even for the big-bang generation of the entire universe, why cannot life scientists reach a consensus on how life has emerged and settled on this planet? Scientists are hindered by conceptual gaps between bottom-up inferences (from early Earth geological conditions) and top-down extrapolations (from modern life forms to ... Read more

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If theoretical physicists can seriously entertain canonical “standard models” even for the big-bang generation of the entire universe, why cannot life scientists reach a consensus on how life has emerged and settled on this planet? Scientists are hindered by conceptual gaps between bottom-up inferences (from early Earth geological conditions) and top-down extrapolations (from modern life forms to
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Darwin's Sciences

by Duncan Porter, Peter Graham ...

A complete scientific biography of Darwin that takes into account the latest research findings, both published and unpublished, on the life of this remarkable man.Considered the first book to thoroughly emphasize Darwin’s research in various fields of endeavor, what he did, why he did it, and its implications for his time and ours.Rather than following a strictly chronological approach - a ... Read more

$42.95 USD

A complete scientific biography of Darwin that takes into account the latest research findings, both published and unpublished, on the life of this remarkable man.Considered the first book to thoroughly emphasize Darwin’s research in various fields of endeavor, what he did, why he did it, and its implications for his time and ours.Rather than following a strictly chronological approach - a
... Read more
Explorando la diversidad de la vida: Comprender, salvaguardar y restaurar la biodiversidad

by Lucien Sina ...

Embárquese en una enriquecedora odisea a través de las páginas de "Explorando la diversidad de la vida", de Lucien Sina. Este libro cautivador no es sólo una exploración científica; es una invitación a presenciar la intrincada danza de la vida en nuestro planeta. Desentrañe los secretos codificados en el ADN, enfréntese a los peligros que amenazan la biodiversidad y déjese inspirar por los ... Read more

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Embárquese en una enriquecedora odisea a través de las páginas de "Explorando la diversidad de la vida", de Lucien Sina. Este libro cautivador no es sólo una exploración científica; es una invitación a presenciar la intrincada danza de la vida en nuestro planeta. Desentrañe los secretos codificados en el ADN, enfréntese a los peligros que amenazan la biodiversidad y déjese inspirar por los
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Life on Earth-like Planets

Gaia and Her Sisters

by Gerald E Marsh retired ...

From its ancient Greek roots to Lovelock's groundbreaking 1979 book, the concept of Gaia has evolved to depict Earth as a single, intricate organism sustaining life through the interplay of its organic and inorganic elements. From the Hadean epoch, where life's emergence radically transformed our planet, to the present, Earth stands as our sole model for understanding life's potential on other ... Read more

$55.79 USD

From its ancient Greek roots to Lovelock's groundbreaking 1979 book, the concept of Gaia has evolved to depict Earth as a single, intricate organism sustaining life through the interplay of its organic and inorganic elements. From the Hadean epoch, where life's emergence radically transformed our planet, to the present, Earth stands as our sole model for understanding life's potential on other
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Immortality Unveiled: Navigating the Labyrinth of Eternal Life

by Aidan Mindfield ...

"Immortality Unveiled: Navigating the Labyrinth of Eternal Life " invites you on an exhilarating journey through the mysteries of immortality, blending scientific insights with profound philosophical musings. Aidan Mindfield explores the paradox of life's fleeting moments and humanity's eternal quest to transcend death in this thought-provoking work.This book is perfect for anyone fascinated by ... Read more

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"Immortality Unveiled: Navigating the Labyrinth of Eternal Life " invites you on an exhilarating journey through the mysteries of immortality, blending scientific insights with profound philosophical musings. Aidan Mindfield explores the paradox of life's fleeting moments and humanity's eternal quest to transcend death in this thought-provoking work.This book is perfect for anyone fascinated by
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Darwin and International Relations

On the Evolutionary Origins of War and Ethnic Conflict

by Bradley A. Thayer ...

" Shows a mastery of research and theory in both biology and international relations and weaves the two fields together in a compelling fashion." —Dr. Steven A. Peterson, Director, School of Public Affairs, Penn StatePathbreaking and controversial, Darwin and International Relations offers the first comprehensive analysis of international affairs of state through the lens of evolutionary theory ... Read more

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" Shows a mastery of research and theory in both biology and international relations and weaves the two fields together in a compelling fashion." —Dr. Steven A. Peterson, Director, School of Public Affairs, Penn StatePathbreaking and controversial, Darwin and International Relations offers the first comprehensive analysis of international affairs of state through the lens of evolutionary theory
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Primates

An Introduction

by Alfred L. Rosenberger ...

This book is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to primates. It provides both a survey and synthesis of primate history, biology, and behavior. As a survey, it offers a focused review of living and extinct primates in regional and community frameworks. As a synthesis, it applies the community perspective in a unique way to explore primates’ adaptive diversity in the context of how ... Read more

$55.99 USD

This book is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to primates. It provides both a survey and synthesis of primate history, biology, and behavior. As a survey, it offers a focused review of living and extinct primates in regional and community frameworks. As a synthesis, it applies the community perspective in a unique way to explore primates’ adaptive diversity in the context of how
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The Evolution of Charles Darwin

by George A. Dorsey ...

Series series Routledge Revivals
Charles Darwin is well-known throughout the world for his revolutionary work from 1859; The Origin of Species, the foundational study of evolution which greatly challenged the near-universal belief in the Christian world, at that time, of creationism. Originally published in 1928, Dorsey attempts to provide a detailed account of the scientist’s life and personality informed by letters, published ... Read more

$57.99 USD

Charles Darwin is well-known throughout the world for his revolutionary work from 1859; The Origin of Species, the foundational study of evolution which greatly challenged the near-universal belief in the Christian world, at that time, of creationism. Originally published in 1928, Dorsey attempts to provide a detailed account of the scientist’s life and personality informed by letters, published
... Read more

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