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The Neural Crest and Neural Crest Cells in Vertebrate Development and Evolution

by Brian K. Hall ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
A presentation of all aspects of neural crest cell origins (embryological and evolutionary) development and evolution; neural crest cell behavior (migration) and anomalies (neurocristopathies and birth defects) that arise from defective neural crest development. The treatment of development will include discussions of cellular, molecular and genetic aspects of the differentiation and morphogenesis ... Read more

$143.09 USD

A presentation of all aspects of neural crest cell origins (embryological and evolutionary) development and evolution; neural crest cell behavior (migration) and anomalies (neurocristopathies and birth defects) that arise from defective neural crest development. The treatment of development will include discussions of cellular, molecular and genetic aspects of the differentiation and morphogenesis
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Vom Urknall zum modernen Menschen

Die Entwicklung der Welt in zehn Schritten

by Peter Ulmschneider ...

Series series Life Science and Basic Disciplines (German Language)
Peter Ulmschneider zeichnet anhand von 10 Entwicklungsstufen den Weg von der Entstehung des Universums bis zum modernen Menschen. Unser Universum ist im Urknall als ein mit Materie gefüllter, sich unaufhörlich ausdehnender Raum entstanden, in dem die Naturgesetze immer komplexere Strukturen schufen: chemische Elemente, Sterne, Galaxien, Planeten, und schließlich den Menschen mit seinem Gehirn als ... Read more

$28.49 USD

Peter Ulmschneider zeichnet anhand von 10 Entwicklungsstufen den Weg von der Entstehung des Universums bis zum modernen Menschen. Unser Universum ist im Urknall als ein mit Materie gefüllter, sich unaufhörlich ausdehnender Raum entstanden, in dem die Naturgesetze immer komplexere Strukturen schufen: chemische Elemente, Sterne, Galaxien, Planeten, und schließlich den Menschen mit seinem Gehirn als
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Cells to Civilizations

The Principles of Change That Shape Life

by Enrico Coen ...

The science of change from cells to cultureCells to Civilizations is the first unified account of how life transforms itself—from the production of bacteria to the emergence of complex civilizations. What are the connections between evolving microbes, an egg that develops into an infant, and a child who learns to walk and talk? Award-winning scientist Enrico Coen synthesizes the growth of living ... Read more

$17.29 USD

The science of change from cells to cultureCells to Civilizations is the first unified account of how life transforms itself—from the production of bacteria to the emergence of complex civilizations. What are the connections between evolving microbes, an egg that develops into an infant, and a child who learns to walk and talk? Award-winning scientist Enrico Coen synthesizes the growth of living
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Der Mensch - Evolution, Natur und Kultur

Edited by Jochen Oehler ...

Series series Life Science and Basic Disciplines (German Language)
Am Anfang war DarwinGut 150 Jahren sind vergangen, seit Darwin sein Werk „Die Entstehung der Arten“ geschrieben hat. Das Evolutionsparadigma hat sich inzwischen als erfolgreicher Forschungsansatz in den Wissenschaften vom Menschen erwiesen. Er trägt zur Erklärung vieler psychologischer, kognitiver, sozialer, ethisch-moralischer, ästhetischer, künstlerischer, politischer und selbst religiöser ... Read more

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Am Anfang war DarwinGut 150 Jahren sind vergangen, seit Darwin sein Werk „Die Entstehung der Arten“ geschrieben hat. Das Evolutionsparadigma hat sich inzwischen als erfolgreicher Forschungsansatz in den Wissenschaften vom Menschen erwiesen. Er trägt zur Erklärung vieler psychologischer, kognitiver, sozialer, ethisch-moralischer, ästhetischer, künstlerischer, politischer und selbst religiöser
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Organelles, Genomes and Eukaryote Phylogeny

An Evolutionary Synthesis in the Age of Genomics

Edited by Robert P Hirt, David S. Horner ...

The recent revolution in molecular biology has spread through every field of biology including systematics and evolution. Researchers can now analyze the genomes of different species relatively quickly, and this is generating a great deal of data and theories about relationships between taxa as well as how they originated and diversified. Org ... Read more

$94.99 USD

The recent revolution in molecular biology has spread through every field of biology including systematics and evolution. Researchers can now analyze the genomes of different species relatively quickly, and this is generating a great deal of data and theories about relationships between taxa as well as how they originated and diversified. Org
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Seven Decades

How We Evolved to Live Longer

by Michael D. Gurven ...

An anthropologist uncovers new evidence for the evolutionary origins of human longevity—and explains why growing old is an opportunity, not a burdenOur ability to live for decades may seem like a modern luxury made possible by clean water and advances in medicine. In fact, human longevity is a legacy of our unique evolutionary path as a species. Seven Decades challenges the belief that life in the ... Read more

$25.19 USD

An anthropologist uncovers new evidence for the evolutionary origins of human longevity—and explains why growing old is an opportunity, not a burdenOur ability to live for decades may seem like a modern luxury made possible by clean water and advances in medicine. In fact, human longevity is a legacy of our unique evolutionary path as a species. Seven Decades challenges the belief that life in the
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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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New World Monkeys

The Evolutionary Odyssey

by Alfred L. Rosenberger ...

A comprehensive account of the origins, evolution, and behavior of South and Central American primatesNew World Monkeys brings to life the beauty of evolution and biodiversity in action among South and Central American primates, who are now at risk. These tree-dwelling rainforest inhabitants display an unparalleled variety in size, shape, hands, feet, tails, brains, locomotion, feeding, social ... Read more

$39.59 USD

A comprehensive account of the origins, evolution, and behavior of South and Central American primatesNew World Monkeys brings to life the beauty of evolution and biodiversity in action among South and Central American primates, who are now at risk. These tree-dwelling rainforest inhabitants display an unparalleled variety in size, shape, hands, feet, tails, brains, locomotion, feeding, social
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Insects and Their Beneficial Microbes

by Angela E. Douglas ...

A comprehensive overview of symbiotic relationships between insects and microbesInsects and Their Beneficial Microbes is an authoritative and accessible synthesis of insect associations with beneficial microorganisms. Angela Douglas distills the vast literature in entomology and microbiology, as well as the burgeoning microbiome literature, to explore the full scope of insect-microbial ... Read more

$32.39 USD

A comprehensive overview of symbiotic relationships between insects and microbesInsects and Their Beneficial Microbes is an authoritative and accessible synthesis of insect associations with beneficial microorganisms. Angela Douglas distills the vast literature in entomology and microbiology, as well as the burgeoning microbiome literature, to explore the full scope of insect-microbial
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Isopod Systematics and Evolution

Edited by Richard C. Brusca ...

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

$280.00 USD

A look at isopod systematics and evolution, topics confronted include the influence of genetic and extrachromasomal factors on their population rate and a comparison of different species in different habitats.
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The Epigenetic Caterpillar: An Alternative to the Neo-Darwinian view of the Peppered Moth Phenomenon

by Maria B O'Hare ...

Industrial melanism of peppered moths is a famous case of what has often been described as: 'Darwinian evolution via selection in action'. This little book offers an alternative, yet light hearted approach, to this rather controversial topic, based upon the most recent and cutting-edge biological scientific discoveries of our present time. This alternative explanation gives us an insight into past ... Read more

$2.99 USD

Industrial melanism of peppered moths is a famous case of what has often been described as: 'Darwinian evolution via selection in action'. This little book offers an alternative, yet light hearted approach, to this rather controversial topic, based upon the most recent and cutting-edge biological scientific discoveries of our present time. This alternative explanation gives us an insight into past
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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
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演化之跡，從《物種起源》看達爾文的思想演進：家族×自傳×信仰×回憶，從巨著誕生到演化論傳播，19世紀最偉大的革命者

by 法蘭西斯．達爾文, Francis Darwin ...

Translated by 秦浚哲 ...

達爾文如何信仰起演化論？何時起相信物種是會演變？如何猜想出物種演進的方式？又是何時開始相信自然選擇學說？《達爾文傳》將為讀者一一解答這些問題「在博物學上，就算你稱不上所有世紀的最偉大的革命者，至少你是本世紀的最偉大的革命者。」──H.C.沃森給達爾文的信我作為一個致力於科學的人，不管取得了多少成功，我認為都是依靠我的科學情結以及多種精神稟賦與客觀條件取得的。其中最重要的，是我對科學的熱愛，是我深思各種問題的無限耐心，是我觀察與蒐集現象的勤奮，外加我不錯的創新精神與常識感。我所擁有的能力不過如此，卻能在某些方面對科學家的觀念影響到如此深遠的程度，這實在令人吃驚。──〈達爾文自傳〉　　達爾文是英國生物學家，1831年開始，他踏上小獵犬號所進行的旅程，是他一生中最重要的事件，為他後續寫下《物種起源》立下深刻基礎，更深深影響了他的科學生涯。經過長時間的研究與思索，他於185... ... Read more

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達爾文如何信仰起演化論？何時起相信物種是會演變？如何猜想出物種演進的方式？又是何時開始相信自然選擇學說？《達爾文傳》將為讀者一一解答這些問題「在博物學上，就算你稱不上所有世紀的最偉大的革命者，至少你是本世紀的最偉大的革命者。」──H.C.沃森給達爾文的信我作為一個致力於科學的人，不管取得了多少成功，我認為都是依靠我的科學情結以及多種精神稟賦與客觀條件取得的。其中最重要的，是我對科學的熱愛，是我深思各種問題的無限耐心，是我觀察與蒐集現象的勤奮，外加我不錯的創新精神與常識感。我所擁有的能力不過如此，卻能在某些方面對科學家的觀念影響到如此深遠的程度，這實在令人吃驚。──〈達爾文自傳〉　　達爾文是英國生物學家，1831年開始，他踏上小獵犬號所進行的旅程，是他一生中最重要的事件，為他後續寫下《物種起源》立下深刻基礎，更深深影響了他的科學生涯。經過長時間的研究與思索，他於185...
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Games, Groups, and the Global Good

Edited by Simon A. Levin ...

Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
How do groups form, how do institutions come into being, and when do moral norms and practices emerge? This volume explores how game-theoretic approaches can be extended to consider broader questions that cross scales of organization, from individuals to cooperatives to societies. Game theory' strategic formulation of central problems in the analysis of social interactions is used to develop multi ... Read more

$143.09 USD

How do groups form, how do institutions come into being, and when do moral norms and practices emerge? This volume explores how game-theoretic approaches can be extended to consider broader questions that cross scales of organization, from individuals to cooperatives to societies. Game theory' strategic formulation of central problems in the analysis of social interactions is used to develop multi
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Una herencia incómoda

Genes, raza e historia humana

by Nicholas Wade ...

Translated by Joandomènec Ros ...

Series series Ariel
Buceando en las nuevas evidencias que ha dejado la descodificación del genoma humano, el periodista científico Nicholas Wade nos adentra en las bases genéticas de la raza y su rol fundamental en la historia de la humanidad.Pocas ideas han sido más perniciosas que aquellas que afirman que hay razas inherentemente superiores a otras. Por esa razón, el debate sobre las diferencias biológicas entre ... Read more

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Buceando en las nuevas evidencias que ha dejado la descodificación del genoma humano, el periodista científico Nicholas Wade nos adentra en las bases genéticas de la raza y su rol fundamental en la historia de la humanidad.Pocas ideas han sido más perniciosas que aquellas que afirman que hay razas inherentemente superiores a otras. Por esa razón, el debate sobre las diferencias biológicas entre
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Explaining Human Diversity

Cultures, Minds, Evolution

by Carles Salazar ...

Why are humans so different from each other and what makes the human species so different from all other living organisms? This introductory book provides a concise and accessible account of human diversity, of its causes and the ways in which anthropologists go about trying to make sense of it. Carles Salazar offers students a thoroughly integrated view by bringing together biological and ... Read more

$60.99 USD

Why are humans so different from each other and what makes the human species so different from all other living organisms? This introductory book provides a concise and accessible account of human diversity, of its causes and the ways in which anthropologists go about trying to make sense of it. Carles Salazar offers students a thoroughly integrated view by bringing together biological and
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The Collected Letters of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Volume 1

by Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek ...

This volume (the 1st of a series of 19) contains 21 letters. Every volume in the series contains the texts in the original Dutch and an English translation. ... Read more

$77.99 USD

This volume (the 1st of a series of 19) contains 21 letters. Every volume in the series contains the texts in the original Dutch and an English translation.
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The Language Phenomenon

Human Communication from Milliseconds to Millennia

Edited by K. Smith, P.-M. Binder ...

Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
This volume contains a contemporary, integrated description of the processes of language. These range from fast scales (fractions of a second) to slow ones (over a million years). The contributors, all experts in their fields, address language in the brain, production of sentences and dialogues, language learning, transmission and evolutionary processes that happen over centuries or millenia, the ... Read more

$49.49 USD

This volume contains a contemporary, integrated description of the processes of language. These range from fast scales (fractions of a second) to slow ones (over a million years). The contributors, all experts in their fields, address language in the brain, production of sentences and dialogues, language learning, transmission and evolutionary processes that happen over centuries or millenia, the
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Evolutionary Restraints

The Contentious History of Group Selection

by Mark E. Borrello ...

Much of the evolutionary debate since Darwin has focused on the level at which natural selection occurs. Most biologists acknowledge multiple levels of selection—from the gene to the species. The debate about group selection, however, is the focus of Mark E. Borrello's Evolutionary Restraints.Tracing the history of biological attempts to determine whether selection leads to the evolution of fitter ... Read more

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Much of the evolutionary debate since Darwin has focused on the level at which natural selection occurs. Most biologists acknowledge multiple levels of selection—from the gene to the species. The debate about group selection, however, is the focus of Mark E. Borrello's Evolutionary Restraints.Tracing the history of biological attempts to determine whether selection leads to the evolution of fitter
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40 Years of Evolution

Darwin's Finches on Daphne Major Island, New Edition

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

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

$28.79 USD

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

Full Report of the Lectures Given in February 1907, and of the Evening Discussion

by Erich Wasmann, S.J. ...

First published in 1909, this book collects the author’s lectures on the ‘problem of evolution’ and the resultant debate. The first considers the validity of the Theory of Evolution and whether it is in opposition to the Christian view of creation. The second examines the assertion that evolution harmonises only with Monism rather than Theism and which of the two views is preferable. It also looks ... Read more

$176.99 USD

First published in 1909, this book collects the author’s lectures on the ‘problem of evolution’ and the resultant debate. The first considers the validity of the Theory of Evolution and whether it is in opposition to the Christian view of creation. The second examines the assertion that evolution harmonises only with Monism rather than Theism and which of the two views is preferable. It also looks
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Come costruire un alieno

Ipotesi di biologia extraterrestre

by Marco Ferrari ...

Quali forme di vita potremmo trovare su altri pianeti? Obbediranno a leggi e regole che conosciamo, o la loro biologia sarà del tutto differente? Chi, o cosa, accoglierà i primi esploratori terrestri, ad anni luce di distanza, dipende da quello che troverete in Costruire un alieno, il nuovo libro di Marco Ferrari. Ci sono pochi dubbi che le leggi della fisica e della chimica siano valide sulla ... Read more

$12.99 USD

Quali forme di vita potremmo trovare su altri pianeti? Obbediranno a leggi e regole che conosciamo, o la loro biologia sarà del tutto differente? Chi, o cosa, accoglierà i primi esploratori terrestri, ad anni luce di distanza, dipende da quello che troverete in Costruire un alieno, il nuovo libro di Marco Ferrari. Ci sono pochi dubbi che le leggi della fisica e della chimica siano valide sulla
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Paléontologie

Les Grands Articles d'Universalis

by Encyclopaedia Universalis ...

Partez à la découverte de la paléontologie avec ce Grand Article Universalis !La paléontologie, terme créé en 1834 par le zoologiste français Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, a pour objet l'étude des êtres (ontologie) qui ont vécu à la surface du globe terrestre avant les temps actuels (palaios en grec signifie «ancien»). Ces êtres sont connus grâce aux fossiles ...Un ouvrage spécialement conçu ... Read more

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Partez à la découverte de la paléontologie avec ce Grand Article Universalis !La paléontologie, terme créé en 1834 par le zoologiste français Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, a pour objet l'étude des êtres (ontologie) qui ont vécu à la surface du globe terrestre avant les temps actuels (palaios en grec signifie «ancien»). Ces êtres sont connus grâce aux fossiles ...Un ouvrage spécialement conçu
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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

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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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