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Otras mentes. El pulpo, el mar y los orígenes profundos de la consciencia

de Peter Godfrey-Smith ...

Traducido por Joandomènec Ros i Aragonès ...

El libro del año para mentes curiosas, lo más parecido a un encuentro alienígena.«Una fabulosa mezcla de encuentros a lo Cousteau con cefalópodos, apasionantes discusiones científicas y reflexión filosófica. Maravillosamente escrito, estimulante y audaz.»Olivia Judson, The AtlanticEn una rama muy distante de la nuestra en el árbol de las especies surgió otra mente elevada: la de los cefalóp... ... Leer más

$12.99 USD

El libro del año para mentes curiosas, lo más parecido a un encuentro alienígena.«Una fabulosa mezcla de encuentros a lo Cousteau con cefalópodos, apasionantes discusiones científicas y reflexión filosófica. Maravillosamente escrito, estimulante y audaz.»Olivia Judson, The AtlanticEn una rama muy distante de la nuestra en el árbol de las especies surgió otra mente elevada: la de los cefalóp...
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The Fox, the Shrew, and You

How Brains Evolved

de Rogier B. Mars ...

A leading neuroscientist describes the long evolutionary process that led to the human brainOur human brain is both unique and similar to that of other species. The only way we can trace its evolution is by comparing it to the brains of animals alive today. In this book, leading neuroscientist Rogier Mars offers an engaging account of the evolution of the brain by exploring the brains and ... Leer más

$17.99 USD

A leading neuroscientist describes the long evolutionary process that led to the human brainOur human brain is both unique and similar to that of other species. The only way we can trace its evolution is by comparing it to the brains of animals alive today. In this book, leading neuroscientist Rogier Mars offers an engaging account of the evolution of the brain by exploring the brains and
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People in the Americas Before the Last Ice Age Glaciation Concluded

An Emerging Western Hemisphere Population Origin Paradigm

de Bonnye Matthews ...

WARNING: Everything you know about the peopling of the Americas is wrong.People in the Americas before the Last Ice Age Glaciation Concluded: An Emerging Paradigm on Western Hemisphere Population Origin covers the turn of the century emerging science on the origin of human population in the western hemisphere. It is a booklet that is designed to provide a reference bridge until the new information ... Leer más

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WARNING: Everything you know about the peopling of the Americas is wrong.People in the Americas before the Last Ice Age Glaciation Concluded: An Emerging Paradigm on Western Hemisphere Population Origin covers the turn of the century emerging science on the origin of human population in the western hemisphere. It is a booklet that is designed to provide a reference bridge until the new information
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The Trials of Life

A Natural History of Animal Behaviour

de David Attenborough ...

The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough’s classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covered evolution, Living Planet , ecology, and now The Trials of Life tackles ethology, the study of how animals behave.‘This is, quite simply, the best thing I’ve ever done.’ Sir David Attenborough on the TV series, The Trials of Life, upon which this book is based.This is the third and last of Sir ... Leer más

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The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough’s classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covered evolution, Living Planet , ecology, and now The Trials of Life tackles ethology, the study of how animals behave.‘This is, quite simply, the best thing I’ve ever done.’ Sir David Attenborough on the TV series, The Trials of Life, upon which this book is based.This is the third and last of Sir
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Mortal Rituals

What the Story of the Andes Survivors Tells Us About Human Evolution

de Matt J. Rossano ...

A psychology professor examines what the survivors of the airplane crash hailed "The Miracle of the Andes" can show us about human evolution.On December 21, 1972, sixteen young survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 were rescued after spending ten weeks stranded at the crash site of their plane, high in the remote Andes Mountains. The incident made international headlines and spawned several ... Leer más

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A psychology professor examines what the survivors of the airplane crash hailed "The Miracle of the Andes" can show us about human evolution.On December 21, 1972, sixteen young survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 were rescued after spending ten weeks stranded at the crash site of their plane, high in the remote Andes Mountains. The incident made international headlines and spawned several
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Biology Through the Eyes of Faith

Christian College Coalition Series

de Richard Wright ...

Newly RevisedThe Council of Christian Colleges and Universities SeriesStressing the biblical message of stewardship, biologist Richard T. Wright celebrates the study of God's creation and examines the interaction of the life sciences with society in medicine, genetics, and the environment. The author brings a biblical perspective to theories on origins, contrasting creationism, intelligent design, ... Leer más

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Newly RevisedThe Council of Christian Colleges and Universities SeriesStressing the biblical message of stewardship, biologist Richard T. Wright celebrates the study of God's creation and examines the interaction of the life sciences with society in medicine, genetics, and the environment. The author brings a biblical perspective to theories on origins, contrasting creationism, intelligent design,
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Origin Story

The Trials of Charles Darwin

de Howard Markel ...

**An Economist Best Book of the Year“Wildly entertaining and thoughtful.” —Kate Tuttle, Boston GlobeA lively account of how Darwin’s work on natural selection transformed science and society, and an investigation into the mysterious illness that plagued its author.**By early morning of June 30, 1860, a large crowd began to congregate in front of Oxford University’s brand-new Museum of Natural ... Leer más

$23.99 USD

**An Economist Best Book of the Year“Wildly entertaining and thoughtful.” —Kate Tuttle, Boston GlobeA lively account of how Darwin’s work on natural selection transformed science and society, and an investigation into the mysterious illness that plagued its author.**By early morning of June 30, 1860, a large crowd began to congregate in front of Oxford University’s brand-new Museum of Natural
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Cosmic Scientists - Are We Part of the Experiment?

de The Abbotts ...

Want to know, where we have come from, who made us & where are we going?This book explains it all including, our cosmic origins, the purpose of life on Earth, why we love, hate, work, our spirituality & psychic abilities, the future & much more.Discover who the Cosmic Scientists are & their plans for Humanity!A must read for anyone who has ever asked - 'Why am I here?' The Abbotts Books. Buy Now ... Leer más

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Want to know, where we have come from, who made us & where are we going?This book explains it all including, our cosmic origins, the purpose of life on Earth, why we love, hate, work, our spirituality & psychic abilities, the future & much more.Discover who the Cosmic Scientists are & their plans for Humanity!A must read for anyone who has ever asked - 'Why am I here?' The Abbotts Books. Buy Now
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The Real Planet of the Apes

A New Story of Human Origins

de David R. Begun ...

The astonishing new story of human originsWas Darwin wrong when he traced our origins to Africa? The Real Planet of the Apes makes the explosive claim that it was in Europe, not Africa, where apes evolved the most important hallmarks of our human lineage—such as dexterous hands and larger brains. In this compelling and accessible book, David Begun, one of the world's leading paleoanthropologists, ... Leer más

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The astonishing new story of human originsWas Darwin wrong when he traced our origins to Africa? The Real Planet of the Apes makes the explosive claim that it was in Europe, not Africa, where apes evolved the most important hallmarks of our human lineage—such as dexterous hands and larger brains. In this compelling and accessible book, David Begun, one of the world's leading paleoanthropologists,
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Inner Sense

How the New Science of Interoception Can Revolutionize Your Health

de Caroline Williams ...

“A fascinating look at the power of the body to influence our mind—and even affect how we see the world.”—Janice Kaplan, New York Times bestselling author of The Gratitude Diaries and What Your Body Knows About HappinessDiscover your elusive “sixth sense”—your brain’s ability to perceive and interpret bodily sensations like hunger and thirst—and how to rewire your mind-body connection for optimal ... Leer más

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“A fascinating look at the power of the body to influence our mind—and even affect how we see the world.”—Janice Kaplan, New York Times bestselling author of The Gratitude Diaries and What Your Body Knows About HappinessDiscover your elusive “sixth sense”—your brain’s ability to perceive and interpret bodily sensations like hunger and thirst—and how to rewire your mind-body connection for optimal
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Evolution - The Greatest Deception in Modern History

de Roger Gallop ...

This is an easy-to-read, comprehensive and compelling review of scientific evidence for Divine Creation loaded with color photos and illustrations. This book is described as a tour de force which strongly refutes the notion that science supports the evolution/long age view. It clearly shows that evolutionary doctrine is not based on known scientific laws or the preponderance of scientific evidence ... Leer más

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This is an easy-to-read, comprehensive and compelling review of scientific evidence for Divine Creation loaded with color photos and illustrations. This book is described as a tour de force which strongly refutes the notion that science supports the evolution/long age view. It clearly shows that evolutionary doctrine is not based on known scientific laws or the preponderance of scientific evidence
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Towards a New Culture: From Refusal to Re-Creation. Outline of an Ecological and Humane Alternative

de Dieter Duhm ...

How will life go on after the collapse of the globalised political and economic systems? How will it survive the large-scale disruption of our planet's ecological and climatic systems? And what will become of the immense systems of belief, love and thinking as they start to shake within?The answer to these questions has to persist in the face of so many failed attempts in the past. The world ... Leer más

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How will life go on after the collapse of the globalised political and economic systems? How will it survive the large-scale disruption of our planet's ecological and climatic systems? And what will become of the immense systems of belief, love and thinking as they start to shake within?The answer to these questions has to persist in the face of so many failed attempts in the past. The world
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A Natural History of Human Thinking

de Michael Tomasello ...

A Wall Street Journal Favorite Read of the YearA Guardian Top Science Book of the YearTool-making or culture, language or religious belief: ever since Darwin, thinkers have struggled to identify what fundamentally differentiates human beings from other animals. In this much-anticipated book, Michael Tomasello weaves his twenty years of comparative studies of humans and great apes into a compelling ... Leer más

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A Wall Street Journal Favorite Read of the YearA Guardian Top Science Book of the YearTool-making or culture, language or religious belief: ever since Darwin, thinkers have struggled to identify what fundamentally differentiates human beings from other animals. In this much-anticipated book, Michael Tomasello weaves his twenty years of comparative studies of humans and great apes into a compelling
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Hierarchy in the Forest

The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior

de Christopher Boehm ...

Are humans by nature hierarchical or egalitarian? Hierarchy in the Forest addresses this question by examining the evolutionary origins of social and political behavior. Christopher Boehm, an anthropologist whose fieldwork has focused on the political arrangements of human and nonhuman primate groups, postulates that egalitarianism is in effect a hierarchy in which the weak combine forces to ... Leer más

$40.49 USD

Are humans by nature hierarchical or egalitarian? Hierarchy in the Forest addresses this question by examining the evolutionary origins of social and political behavior. Christopher Boehm, an anthropologist whose fieldwork has focused on the political arrangements of human and nonhuman primate groups, postulates that egalitarianism is in effect a hierarchy in which the weak combine forces to
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The True Origin of Species

de John Kuti ...

This book will propose an alternate theory for evolutionary adaptation and the origin of species. The theory of bilateral subjective adaptation answers most of the exceptions to Darwinian theory and offers a more comprehensive explanation for the way evolution works.Natural selection is accepted as the proven theory for evolutionary adaptation. This book presents a different theory that proposes ... Leer más

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This book will propose an alternate theory for evolutionary adaptation and the origin of species. The theory of bilateral subjective adaptation answers most of the exceptions to Darwinian theory and offers a more comprehensive explanation for the way evolution works.Natural selection is accepted as the proven theory for evolutionary adaptation. This book presents a different theory that proposes
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Journal And Remarks (The Voyage Of The Beagle) (Mobi Classics)

de Charles Darwin ...

The Voyage of the Beagle is a title commonly given to the book written by Charles Darwin published in 1839 as his Journal and Remarks, which brought him considerable fame and respect. The title refers to the second survey expedition of the ship HMS Beagle, which set sail from Plymouth Sound on 27 December 1831 under the command of captain Robert FitzRoy.While the expedition was originally planned ... Leer más

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The Voyage of the Beagle is a title commonly given to the book written by Charles Darwin published in 1839 as his Journal and Remarks, which brought him considerable fame and respect. The title refers to the second survey expedition of the ship HMS Beagle, which set sail from Plymouth Sound on 27 December 1831 under the command of captain Robert FitzRoy.While the expedition was originally planned
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Life

The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science

de John Brockman ...

Series Libro 8 - Best of Edge Series
The newest addition to John Brockman’s Edge.org series explores life itself, bringing together the world’s leading biologists, geneticists, and evolutionary theorists—including Richard Dawkins, Edward O. Wilson, J. Craig Venter, and Freeman Dyson.Scientists’ understanding of life is progressing more rapidly than at any point in human history, from the extraordinary decoding of DNA to the ... Leer más

$14.99 USD

The newest addition to John Brockman’s Edge.org series explores life itself, bringing together the world’s leading biologists, geneticists, and evolutionary theorists—including Richard Dawkins, Edward O. Wilson, J. Craig Venter, and Freeman Dyson.Scientists’ understanding of life is progressing more rapidly than at any point in human history, from the extraordinary decoding of DNA to the
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40 Days and 40 Nights

Darwin, Intelligent Design, God, Oxycontin®, and Other Oddities on Trial in Pennsylvania

de Matthew Chapman ...

In this fascinating story of evolution, religion, politics, and personalities, Matthew Chapman captures the story behind the headlines in the debate over God and science in America.Kitzmiller v. Dover Board of Education, decided in late 2005, pitted the teaching of intelligent design (sometimes known as "creationism in a lab coat") against the teaching of evolution. Matthew Chapman, the great ... Leer más

$7.99 USD

In this fascinating story of evolution, religion, politics, and personalities, Matthew Chapman captures the story behind the headlines in the debate over God and science in America.Kitzmiller v. Dover Board of Education, decided in late 2005, pitted the teaching of intelligent design (sometimes known as "creationism in a lab coat") against the teaching of evolution. Matthew Chapman, the great
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Biogeography

A Very Short Introduction

de Mark V. Lomolino ...

Series series Very Short Introductions
Biogeography is the study of geographic variation in all characteristics of life - ranging from genetic, morphological and behavioural variation among regional populations of a species, to geographic trends in diversity of entire communities across our planet's sufrace. From the ancient hunters and gatherers to the earliest naturalists, Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace, and scientists today, ... Leer más

$7.99 USD

Biogeography is the study of geographic variation in all characteristics of life - ranging from genetic, morphological and behavioural variation among regional populations of a species, to geographic trends in diversity of entire communities across our planet's sufrace. From the ancient hunters and gatherers to the earliest naturalists, Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace, and scientists today,
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On The Origin Of Species By Means Of Natural Selection (2nd Edition): Preservation Of Favoured Races In The Struggle For Life (Mobi Classics)

de Charles Darwin ...

Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, published on Thursday 24 November 1859, is a seminal work of scientific literature considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. Its full title was On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. For the sixth edition of 1872, the short title was changed to The Origin of ... Leer más

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Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, published on Thursday 24 November 1859, is a seminal work of scientific literature considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. Its full title was On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. For the sixth edition of 1872, the short title was changed to The Origin of
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Evolving Human Nutrition

Implications for Public Health

de Neil Mann, Sarah Elton, Stanley J. Ulijaszek ...

Series Libro 64 - Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology
While most of us live our lives according to the working week, we did not evolve to be bound by industrial schedules, nor did the food we eat. Despite this, we eat the products of industrialization and often suffer as a consequence. This book considers aspects of changing human nutrition from evolutionary and social perspectives. It considers what a 'natural' human diet might be, how it has been ... Leer más

$47.99 USD

While most of us live our lives according to the working week, we did not evolve to be bound by industrial schedules, nor did the food we eat. Despite this, we eat the products of industrialization and often suffer as a consequence. This book considers aspects of changing human nutrition from evolutionary and social perspectives. It considers what a 'natural' human diet might be, how it has been
... Leer más
Identified Flying Objects

A Multidisciplinary Scientific Approach to the UFO Phenomenon

de Michael Paul Masters ...

Could “UFOs” and “Aliens” simply be us from the future?This provocative new book cautiously examines the premise that extraterrestrials may instead be our distant human descendants, using the anthropological tool of time travel to visit and study us in their own hominin evolutionary past.Dr. Michael P. Masters, a professor of biological anthropology specializing in human evolutionary anatomy, ... Leer más

$8.99 USD

Could “UFOs” and “Aliens” simply be us from the future?This provocative new book cautiously examines the premise that extraterrestrials may instead be our distant human descendants, using the anthropological tool of time travel to visit and study us in their own hominin evolutionary past.Dr. Michael P. Masters, a professor of biological anthropology specializing in human evolutionary anatomy,
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Survivors

The Animals and Plants that Time has Left Behind (Text Only)

de Richard Fortey ...

This ebook edition does not include illustrations.An awe-inspiring journey through the eons and across the globe, in search of visible traces of evolution in the living creatures which have survived from earlier times and whose stories speak to us of seminal events in the history of life.The history of life on Earth is far older – and far odder – than many of us realise. In ‘Survivors’, acclaimed ... Leer más

$4.99 USD

This ebook edition does not include illustrations.An awe-inspiring journey through the eons and across the globe, in search of visible traces of evolution in the living creatures which have survived from earlier times and whose stories speak to us of seminal events in the history of life.The history of life on Earth is far older – and far odder – than many of us realise. In ‘Survivors’, acclaimed
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The Pangenome

Diversity, Dynamics and Evolution of Genomes

Edición de Hervé Tettelin, Duccio Medini ...

This open access book offers the first comprehensive account of the pan-genome concept and its manifold implications.The realization that the genetic repertoire of a biological species always encompasses more than the genome of each individual is one of the earliest examples of big data in biology that opened biology to the unbounded. The study of genetic variation observed within a species ... Leer más

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This open access book offers the first comprehensive account of the pan-genome concept and its manifold implications.The realization that the genetic repertoire of a biological species always encompasses more than the genome of each individual is one of the earliest examples of big data in biology that opened biology to the unbounded. The study of genetic variation observed within a species
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