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  • Species, Science and Society

    The Role of Systematic Biology

    de Quentin Wheeler ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Conservation and the Environment
    This book presents an engaging and accessible examination of the role of systematic biology in species exploration and biodiversity conservation.Our planet and systematic biology are at a crossroads. Millions of species face an imminent threat of extinction, and, with knowledge of only a fraction of earth’s species we are unprepared to respond. Species, Science and Society explains what is at ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Species Concepts and Phylogenetic Theory

    A Debate

    Edición de Quentin Wheeler, Rudolf Meier ...
    No question in theoretical biology has been more perennially controversial or perplexing than "What is a species?" Recent advances in phylogenetic theory have called into question traditional views of species and spawned many concepts that are currently competing for general acceptance. Once the subject of esoteric intellectual exercises, the "species problem" has emerged as a critically important ... Leer más

    Antes $41.99 USD Ahora $35.99 USD

  • What on Earth?

    100 of Our Planet's Most Amazing New Species

    de Quentin Wheeler, Sara Pennak ...
    A chameleon so tiny it can fit on your thumbnail? A spider named after David Bowie? A fungus that turns ants into zombies? What on Earth?What on Earth? is a compendium of the 100 coolest, weirdest, and most intriguing new species of this century as determined by the International Institute for Species Exploration. From animals to plants, fossils to bacteria, What on Earth? is an accessible, ... Leer más

    Antes $18.99 USD Ahora $14.99 USD

  • The Future of Phylogenetic Systematics

    The Legacy of Willi Hennig

    Edición de David Williams, Michael Schmitt, Quentin Wheeler ...
    Series Libro 86 - Systematics Association Special Volume Series
    Willi Hennig (1913–76), founder of phylogenetic systematics, revolutionised our understanding of the relationships among species and their natural classification. An expert on Diptera and fossil insects, Hennig's ideas were applicable to all organisms. He wrote about the science of taxonomy or systematics, refining and promoting discussion of the precise meaning of the term 'relationship', the ... Leer más

    $164.99 USD

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  • Improbable Destinies

    Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution

    de Jonathan B. Losos ...
    A major new book overturning our assumptions about how evolution worksEarth’s natural history is full of fascinating instances of convergence: phenomena like eyes and wings and tree-climbing lizards that have evolved independently, multiple times. But evolutionary biologists also point out many examples of contingency, cases where the tiniest change—a random mutation or an ancient butterfly sneeze ... Leer más

    Antes $8.99 USD Ahora $7.99 USD

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  • The World From Beginnings To 4000 Bce

    de Ian Tattersall ...
    To be human is to be curious. And one of the things we are most curious about is how we came to be who we are--how we evolved over millions of years to become creatures capable of inquiring into our own evolution. In this lively and readable introduction, renowned anthropologist Ian Tattersall thoroughly examines both fossil and archaeological records to trace human evolution from the earliest ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The Accidental Species

    Misunderstandings of Human Evolution

    de Henry Gee ...
    "With a delightfully irascible sense of humor, Henry Gee reflects on our origin . . . an excellent primer on how—and how not—to think about human evolution." —Carl Zimmer, author of Parasite RexThe idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually has religious roots in the deist concept of the Great Chain of Being. Yet, the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Genome

    The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

    de Matt Ridley ...
    "Ridley leaps from chromosome to chromosome in a handy summation of our ever increasing understanding of the roles that genes play in disease, behavior, sexual differences, and even intelligence. . . . . He addresses not only the ethical quandaries faced by contemporary scientists but the reductionist danger in equating inheritability with inevitability." — The New YorkerThe genome's been mapped. ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Letters to a Young Scientist

    de Edward O. Wilson ...
    Pulitzer Prize–winning biologist Edward O. Wilson imparts the wisdom of his storied career to the next generation.Edward O. Wilson has distilled sixty years of teaching into a book for students, young and old. Reflecting on his coming-of-age in the South as a Boy Scout and a lover of ants and butterflies, Wilson threads these twenty-one letters, each richly illustrated, with autobiographical ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Adam's Tongue

    How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans

    de Derek Bickerton ...
    How language evolved has been called "the hardest problem in science." In Adam's Tongue, Derek Bickerton—long a leading authority in this field—shows how and why previous attempts to solve that problem have fallen short. Taking cues from topics as diverse as the foraging strategies of ants, the distribution of large prehistoric herbivores, and the construction of ecological niches, Bickerton ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet

    Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene

    Edición de Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Nils Bubandt, Elaine Gan, Heather Anne Swanson ...
    Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology calls on twenty eminent humanists and scientists to revitalize curiosity, observation, and transdisciplinary conversation about life on earth.As human-induced environmental change threatens multispecies livability, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet puts forward a bold proposal: entangled histories, situated ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Rewilding

    The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery

    de Cain Blythe, Paul Jepson ...
    Series Libro 14 - Hot Science
    'A hugely useful and fascinating resume of rewilding - what it means, where it came from, why it's important and where it's going. Jepson and Blythe have done a masterly job, explaining the science behind rewilding in an accessible, honest and compelling way. It deserves to be widely read and become a book of great influence.' Isabella Tree, author of Wilding'Compelling ... [a] succinct and ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus