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  • Life as Its Own Designer

    Darwin's Origin and Western Thought

    de Filip Grygar, László Hajnal, Karel Kleisner, Zdenek Kratochvíl, Zdenek Neubauer, Anton Markoš ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    It has been nearly 150 years since Darwin published On the Origin of Species, and his theory of natural selection still ignites a forest of heated debate between scientific fundamentalists on the one hand and religious fundamentalists on the other. But both sides actually agree more than they disagree, and what has long been needed is a third way to view evolution, one that focuses more on the ... Leer más

    $143.99 USD

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  • The Social Conquest of Earth

    de Edward O. Wilson ...
    From the most celebrated heir to Darwin comes a groundbreaking book on evolution, the summa work of Edward O. Wilson's legendary career.Where did we come from? What are we? Where are we going? In a generational work of clarity and passion, one of our greatest living scientists directly addresses these three fundamental questions of religion, philosophy, and science while “overturning the famous ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Expanding Circle

    Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress

    de Peter Singer ...
    What is ethics? Where do moral standards come from? Are they based on emotions, reason, or some innate sense of right and wrong? For many scientists, the key lies entirely in biology--especially in Darwinian theories of evolution and self-preservation. But if evolution is a struggle for survival, why are we still capable of altruism?In his classic study The Expanding Circle, Peter Singer argues ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Bones, Stones and Molecules

    "Out of Africa" and Human Origins

    de David W. Cameron, Colin P. Groves ...
    Bones, Stones and Molecules provides some of the best evidence for resolving the debate between the two hypotheses of human origins. The debate between the 'Out of Africa' model and the 'Multiregional' hypothesis is examined through the functional and developmental processes associated with the evolution of the human skull and face and focuses on the significance of the Australian record. The book ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • Species Concepts in Biology

    Historical Development, Theoretical Foundations and Practical Relevance

    de Frank E. Zachos ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Frank E. Zachos offers a comprehensive review of one of today’s most important and contentious issues in biology: the species problem. After setting the stage with key background information on the topic, the book provides a brief history of species concepts from antiquity to the Modern Synthesis, followed by a discussion of the ontological status of species with a focus on the individuality ... Leer más

    $170.09 USD

  • Cultural Phylogenetics

    Concepts and Applications in Archaeology

    Edición de Larissa Mendoza Straffon ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the potential and challenges of implementing evolutionary phylogenetic methods in archaeological research, by discussing key concepts and presenting concrete applications of these approaches.The volume is divided into two parts: The first covers the theoretical and conceptual implications of using evolution-based models in the sociocultural domain, illustrates the sorts of ... Leer más

    $152.99 USD

  • Evolution Driven by Organismal Behavior

    A Unifying View of Life, Function, Form, Mismatches and Trends

    de Rui Diogo ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book proposes a new way to think about evolution. The author carefully brings together evidence from diverse fields of science. In the process, he bridges the gaps between many different--and usually seen as conflicting--ideas to present one integrative theory named ONCE, which stands for Organic Nonoptimal Constrained Evolution. The author argues that evolution is mainly driven by the ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • Engineering the Human

    Human Enhancement Between Fiction and Fascination

    Edición de Bert Jaap Koops, Christoph H. Lüthy, Annemiek Nelis, Carla Sieburgh, J.P.M. Jansen, Monika S. Schmid ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The volume is collection of articles treating the topic of human improvement/enhancement from a variety of perspectives – philosophical, literary, medical, genetic, sociological, legal etc. The chapters in this volume treat not only those aspects that most immediately come to mind when one thinks of ‘human enhancement’, such as genetic engineering, cloning, artificial implants and artificial ... Leer más

    $143.09 USD

  • Entangled Life

    Organism and Environment in the Biological and Social Sciences

    Edición de Eric Desjardins, Gillian Barker, Trevor Pearce ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume explores the interactions between organisms and their environments and how this “entanglement” is a fundamental aspect of all life. It brings together the work and ideas of historians, philosophers, biologists, and social scientists, uniting a range of new perspectives, methods, and frameworks for examining and understanding the ways that organisms and environments interact.The volume ... Leer más

    $116.09 USD

  • Herrera's 'Plasmogenia' and Other Collected Works

    Early Writings on the Experimental Study of the Origin of Life

    de Antonio Lazcano, Ismael Ledesma Mateos, Alicia Negrón-Mendoza, Juli Peretó, Ervin Silva, Henderson James Cleaves ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book collects three outstanding examples of the work of Mexican biologist Alfonso Luis Herrera (1868-1943), a pioneer in experimental origins of life research. Two of the collected works appear here in English for the first time. Herrera's works represent the attempt to deal experimentally with the issue of an autotrophic origin of life, a possibility that was widely accepted prior to ... Leer más

    $143.09 USD

  • On the Origin of Autonomy

    A New Look at the Major Transitions in Evolution

    de Bernd Rosslenbroich ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume describes features of autonomy and integrates them into the recent discussion of factors in evolution. In recent years ideas about major transitions in evolution are undergoing a revolutionary change. They include questions about the origin of evolutionary innovation, their genetic and epigenetic background, the role of the phenotype and of changes in ontogenetic pathways. In the ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Closing Human Evolution: Life in the Ultimate Age

    de Ladislav Kováč ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This volume analyses the evolution of humankind by combining approaches from science and the arts. It offers a novel perspective on the evolution of life on Earth, based on a recent reformulation of the second law of thermodynamics in terms of the “maximum entropy production principle.”In essence, the Earth is but one of many “white holes” in the universe, where life functions as a specific ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD