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  • Evolutionary Systems

    Biological and Epistemological Perspectives on Selection and Self-Organization

    Edición de G. Vijver, Stanley N. Salthe, M. Delpos ...
    The three well known revolutions of the past centuries - the Copernican, the Darwinian and the Freudian - each in their own way had a deflating and mechanizing effect on the position of humans in nature. They opened up a richness of disillusion: earth acquired a more modest place in the universe, the human body and mind became products of a long material evolutionary history, and human reason, ... Leer más

    $170.99 USD

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  • 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

  • The Scopes Monkey Trial

    de Randy Moore, William McComas ...
    Series series Images of America
    The 1925 case against high school coach and science teacher John Scopes, arrested for teaching evolution in defiance of a Tennessee state law, was America's original "Trial of the Century." The proceedings began as a publicity stunt but grew into a landmark event in the nation's history. The trial featured three-time presidential candidate and fundamentalist leader William Jennings Bryan, who ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • 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

  • Reticulate Evolution

    Symbiogenesis, Lateral Gene Transfer, Hybridization and Infectious Heredity

    Edición de Nathalie Gontier ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Written for non-experts, this volume introduces the mechanisms that underlie reticulate evolution. Chapters are either accompanied with glossaries that explain new terminology or timelines that position pioneering scholars and their major discoveries in their historical contexts. The contributing authors outline the history and original context of discovery of symbiosis, symbiogenesis, lateral ... Leer más

    $143.99 USD

  • Principles of Evolution

    From the Planck Epoch to Complex Multicellular Life

    Edición de Hildegard Meyer-Ortmanns, Stefan Thurner ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    With contributions from a team of leading experts, this volume provides a comprehensive survey of recent achievements in our scientific understanding of evolution. The questions it asks concern the beginnings of the universe, the origin of life and the chances of its arising at all, the role of contingency, and the search for universal features in the plethora of evolutionary phenomena. Rather ... Leer más

    $62.99 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