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The Biology of Camel-Spiders

Arachnida, Solifugae

de Fred Punzo ...

My initial interest in the Solifugae (camel-spiders) stems from an incident that occurred in the summer of 1986. I was studying the behavioral ecology of spider wasps of the genus Pepsis and their interactions with their large theraphosid (tarantula) spider hosts, in the Chihuahuan Desert near Big Bend National Park, Texas. I was monitoring a particular tarantula burrow one night when I noticed ... Leer más

$242.09 USD

My initial interest in the Solifugae (camel-spiders) stems from an incident that occurred in the summer of 1986. I was studying the behavioral ecology of spider wasps of the genus Pepsis and their interactions with their large theraphosid (tarantula) spider hosts, in the Chihuahuan Desert near Big Bend National Park, Texas. I was monitoring a particular tarantula burrow one night when I noticed
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Oxidative Stress and Hormesis in Evolutionary Ecology and Physiology

A Marriage Between Mechanistic and Evolutionary Approaches

de David Costantini ...

This book discusses oxidative stress and hormesis from the perspective of an evolutionary ecologist or physiologist. In the first of ten chapters, general historical information, definitions, and background of research on oxidative stress physiology, hormesis, and life history are provided. Chapters 2-10 highlight the different solutions that organisms have evolved to cope with the oxidative ... Leer más

$143.09 USD

This book discusses oxidative stress and hormesis from the perspective of an evolutionary ecologist or physiologist. In the first of ten chapters, general historical information, definitions, and background of research on oxidative stress physiology, hormesis, and life history are provided. Chapters 2-10 highlight the different solutions that organisms have evolved to cope with the oxidative
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European Hair, Eye, and Skin Color

Solving the Puzzle

de Peter Frost ...

Europeans, especially those from northern and eastern Europe, are unique in having diverse hair and eye colors and a skin almost as pale as an albino’s. Those colors are not only brighter than the original black and brown but also “purer”—they lie within thin slices of the visible spectrum. Overall, that color scheme is more developed in women, who naturally have a higher incidence of red hair, ... Leer más

$100.79 USD

Europeans, especially those from northern and eastern Europe, are unique in having diverse hair and eye colors and a skin almost as pale as an albino’s. Those colors are not only brighter than the original black and brown but also “purer”—they lie within thin slices of the visible spectrum. Overall, that color scheme is more developed in women, who naturally have a higher incidence of red hair,
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Adorning Bodies

Meaning, Evolution, and Beauty in Humans and Animals

de Dr Marilynn Johnson ...

How is meaning in our bodies constructed? To what extent is meaning in bodies innate, evolved through biological adaptations? To what extent is meaning in bodies culturally constructed? Does it change when we adorn ourselves in dress? In *Adorning Bodies,*Marilynn Johnsondraws on evolutionary theory and philosophy in order to think about art, beauty, and aesthetics.Considering meaning in bodies ... Leer más

$33.19 USD

How is meaning in our bodies constructed? To what extent is meaning in bodies innate, evolved through biological adaptations? To what extent is meaning in bodies culturally constructed? Does it change when we adorn ourselves in dress? In *Adorning Bodies,*Marilynn Johnsondraws on evolutionary theory and philosophy in order to think about art, beauty, and aesthetics.Considering meaning in bodies
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Niche Evolution and Phylogenetic Community Paleoecology of Late Ordovician Crinoids

de Selina R. Cole, David F. Wright ...

Series series Elements of Paleontology
Fossil crinoids are exceptionally suited to deep-time studies of community paleoecology and niche partitioning. By merging ecomorphological trait and phylogenetic data, this Element summarizes niche occupation and community paleoecology of crinoids from the Bromide fauna of Oklahoma (Sandbian, Upper Ordovician). Patterns of community structure and niche evolution are evaluated over a ~5 million ... Leer más

$20.49 USD

Fossil crinoids are exceptionally suited to deep-time studies of community paleoecology and niche partitioning. By merging ecomorphological trait and phylogenetic data, this Element summarizes niche occupation and community paleoecology of crinoids from the Bromide fauna of Oklahoma (Sandbian, Upper Ordovician). Patterns of community structure and niche evolution are evaluated over a ~5 million
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Survival of the Virtuous

The Evolution of Moral Psychology

de Dennis L. Krebs ...

Do good guys finish last? Did we evolve to look out for number one? Are we bad by nature? At first glance, the theory of evolution seems to imply that all organisms are evolved to be selfish. In this book, evolutionary psychologist Dennis Krebs explains how virtuous behaviors such as altruism, justice, honesty, loyalty, self-control, purity, and respect for authority, have evolved in humans and ... Leer más

$70.19 USD

Do good guys finish last? Did we evolve to look out for number one? Are we bad by nature? At first glance, the theory of evolution seems to imply that all organisms are evolved to be selfish. In this book, evolutionary psychologist Dennis Krebs explains how virtuous behaviors such as altruism, justice, honesty, loyalty, self-control, purity, and respect for authority, have evolved in humans and
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Fuori dall'Asia

Come la Teoria dell'Out of Africa Potrebbe Essere Sbagliata

de Adrian W. Caldwell ...

Fuori dall'Asia è un saggio scientifico ambizioso e provocatorio che rimette in discussione una delle storie più radicate della scienza moderna, l’idea che tutta l’umanità contemporanea discenda da una sola piccola popolazione uscita dall’Africa circa duecentomila anni fa. Adrian W. Caldwell non propone una provocazione ideologica, ma una rilettura rigorosa di fossili, genetica, modelli evolutivi ... Leer más

$5.99 USD

Fuori dall'Asia è un saggio scientifico ambizioso e provocatorio che rimette in discussione una delle storie più radicate della scienza moderna, l’idea che tutta l’umanità contemporanea discenda da una sola piccola popolazione uscita dall’Africa circa duecentomila anni fa. Adrian W. Caldwell non propone una provocazione ideologica, ma una rilettura rigorosa di fossili, genetica, modelli evolutivi
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Amazon Fruits: An Ethnobotanical Journey

de Nigel Smith ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This is the first comprehensive listing of Amazon fruits from an ethnobotanical perspective. This detailed book covers 50 botanical families, 207 species, in the Amazon including how the people of each region use them. It is lavishly illustrated with high-quality photographs taken by the author, an extensive list of references, and Dr. Smith’s latest, meticulous research. This book should be a ... Leer más

$170.09 USD

This is the first comprehensive listing of Amazon fruits from an ethnobotanical perspective. This detailed book covers 50 botanical families, 207 species, in the Amazon including how the people of each region use them. It is lavishly illustrated with high-quality photographs taken by the author, an extensive list of references, and Dr. Smith’s latest, meticulous research. This book should be a
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From Atoms to Awareness

The Journey of Life and Meaning

de Jaleth Draim ...

This book is a sweeping, accessible journey through the story of the universe—from the Big Bang to the search for life beyond Earth. It weaves together discoveries from astronomy, biology, chemistry, and geology into one coherent narrative, showing how stars created the atoms in our bodies, how life evolved from single cells to ecosystems, and how modern science continues the search for our cosmic ... Leer más

$1.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

This book is a sweeping, accessible journey through the story of the universe—from the Big Bang to the search for life beyond Earth. It weaves together discoveries from astronomy, biology, chemistry, and geology into one coherent narrative, showing how stars created the atoms in our bodies, how life evolved from single cells to ecosystems, and how modern science continues the search for our cosmic
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EL IMPERATIVO EVOLUTIVO

Por qué suceden los cambios, hacia dónde nos llevan, y cómo podríamos sobrevivir

de Charles H. M. Beck, Louis Neal Irwin ...

El Imperativo Evolutivo proporciona una perspectiva unificadora sobre la evolución del universo en todos sus detalles físicos y biológicos, con un llamado a la acción para redirigir la trayectoria evolutiva de la sociedad humana. La tesis del libro es que el cambio es inevitable, impulsado por la resolución de los gradientes de energía a través del Principio de Mínima Acción y la Segunda Ley de la ... Leer más

$3.99 USD

El Imperativo Evolutivo proporciona una perspectiva unificadora sobre la evolución del universo en todos sus detalles físicos y biológicos, con un llamado a la acción para redirigir la trayectoria evolutiva de la sociedad humana. La tesis del libro es que el cambio es inevitable, impulsado por la resolución de los gradientes de energía a través del Principio de Mínima Acción y la Segunda Ley de la
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Ce serait lui notre aïeul ?

de André Epron ...

Animé par un profond souci de justice intellectuelle, cet essai explore l’origine de l’homme et de l’univers à travers une analyse rigoureuse, comparant données historiques, témoignages anciens et observations scientifiques. Loin des idées reçues, il met en lumière les incohérences des explications purement évolutionnistes et révèle la force d’arguments souvent ignorés. Au fil des pages se dessine ... Leer más

$16.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Animé par un profond souci de justice intellectuelle, cet essai explore l’origine de l’homme et de l’univers à travers une analyse rigoureuse, comparant données historiques, témoignages anciens et observations scientifiques. Loin des idées reçues, il met en lumière les incohérences des explications purement évolutionnistes et révèle la force d’arguments souvent ignorés. Au fil des pages se dessine
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Fundamentals of Biogeography

de Richard John Huggett ...

Series series Routledge Fundamentals of Physical Geography
Fundamentals of Biogeography presents an accessible, engaging and comprehensive introduction to biogeography, explaining the ecology, geography, history and conservation of animals and plants. Starting with an outline of how species arise, disperse, diversify and become extinct, the book examines: how environmental factors (climate, substrate, topography, and disturbance) influence animals and ... Leer más

$76.99 USD

Fundamentals of Biogeography presents an accessible, engaging and comprehensive introduction to biogeography, explaining the ecology, geography, history and conservation of animals and plants. Starting with an outline of how species arise, disperse, diversify and become extinct, the book examines: how environmental factors (climate, substrate, topography, and disturbance) influence animals and
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Solving the Mind-Body Problem by the CODAM Neural Model of Consciousness?

de John G. Taylor ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This book details a model of consciousness supported by scientific experimental data from the human brain. It presents how the Corollary Discharge of Attention Movement (CODAM) neural network model allows for a scientific understanding of consciousness as well as provides a solution to the Mind-Body problem. The book provides readers with a general approach to consciousness that is powerful enough ... Leer más

$89.09 USD

This book details a model of consciousness supported by scientific experimental data from the human brain. It presents how the Corollary Discharge of Attention Movement (CODAM) neural network model allows for a scientific understanding of consciousness as well as provides a solution to the Mind-Body problem. The book provides readers with a general approach to consciousness that is powerful enough
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Phylogenomics

A Primer

de Rob DeSalle, Michael Tessler, Jeffrey Rosenfeld ...

Phylogenomics: A Primer, Second Edition is for advanced undergraduate and graduate biology students studying molecular biology, comparative biology, evolution, genomics, and biodiversity. This book explains the essential concepts underlying the storage and manipulation of genomics level data, construction of phylogenetic trees, population genetics, natural selection, the tree of life, DNA ... Leer más

$132.99 USD

Phylogenomics: A Primer, Second Edition is for advanced undergraduate and graduate biology students studying molecular biology, comparative biology, evolution, genomics, and biodiversity. This book explains the essential concepts underlying the storage and manipulation of genomics level data, construction of phylogenetic trees, population genetics, natural selection, the tree of life, DNA
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No Greater Faith than that of Science

de Manuel Vergara ...

Our lives are full of non-material experiences and emotions as love, happiness, joy, wonder, empathy, deep connection between mother and child, sense of morality, achievement, realization; all of which speak of our spiritual nature. There is however a great divide nowadays between the purely scientific and materialistic view of the world which denies the existence of anything spiritual or non ... Leer más

$9.00 USD

Our lives are full of non-material experiences and emotions as love, happiness, joy, wonder, empathy, deep connection between mother and child, sense of morality, achievement, realization; all of which speak of our spiritual nature. There is however a great divide nowadays between the purely scientific and materialistic view of the world which denies the existence of anything spiritual or non
... Leer más
Unto Others

The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior

de David Sloan Wilson, Elliott Sober ...

No matter what we do, however kind or generous our deeds may seem, a hidden motive of selfishness lurks--or so science has claimed for years. This book, whose publication promises to be a major scientific event, tells us differently. In Unto Others philosopher Elliott Sober and biologist David Sloan Wilson demonstrate once and for all that unselfish behavior is in fact an important feature of both ... Leer más

$46.79 USD

No matter what we do, however kind or generous our deeds may seem, a hidden motive of selfishness lurks--or so science has claimed for years. This book, whose publication promises to be a major scientific event, tells us differently. In Unto Others philosopher Elliott Sober and biologist David Sloan Wilson demonstrate once and for all that unselfish behavior is in fact an important feature of both
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Dominant Species: Thoughts on the Evolution of Ideas and the Minds in which They Live

de R. P. Pendleton ...

"As organisms are what evolve in the biological phase of evolution, so cultures are what evolve in its psychosocial or human phase." --Julian Huxley (1958).Dominant Species examines the most important aspect of evolution for us--cultural evolution, the natural selection of ideas. The greatest threat to the world for some time now has been the enslavement of millions of minds to ideas that have ... Leer más

$6.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

"As organisms are what evolve in the biological phase of evolution, so cultures are what evolve in its psychosocial or human phase." --Julian Huxley (1958).Dominant Species examines the most important aspect of evolution for us--cultural evolution, the natural selection of ideas. The greatest threat to the world for some time now has been the enslavement of millions of minds to ideas that have
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The Social Evolution of Human Nature

From Biology to Language

de Harry Smit ...

This book sheds new light on the problem of how the human mind evolved. Harry Smit argues that current studies of this problem misguidedly try to solve it by using variants of the Cartesian conception of the mind, and shows that combining the Aristotelian conception with Darwin's theory provides us with far more interesting answers. He discusses the core problem of how we can understand language ... Leer más

$38.59 USD

This book sheds new light on the problem of how the human mind evolved. Harry Smit argues that current studies of this problem misguidedly try to solve it by using variants of the Cartesian conception of the mind, and shows that combining the Aristotelian conception with Darwin's theory provides us with far more interesting answers. He discusses the core problem of how we can understand language
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The Ongoing Emergence of Human Nature

Coevolution of Concerns and Structures in Anthropogenesis and History

de Nikolai S. Rozov ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
This book presents a comprehensive scientific reconstruction of human evolution, offering an original and integrative explanation for the emergence of the traits that define our species. It explores the evolutionary roots of a remarkable range of human characteristics—from our hairless skin, nuanced facial expressions, and emotional vocalizations to male and female sexuality, language, creativity, ... Leer más

$152.09 USD

This book presents a comprehensive scientific reconstruction of human evolution, offering an original and integrative explanation for the emergence of the traits that define our species. It explores the evolutionary roots of a remarkable range of human characteristics—from our hairless skin, nuanced facial expressions, and emotional vocalizations to male and female sexuality, language, creativity,
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Civilizația foametei/ O altă abordare a umanizării

de Amalia Gabriela Diaconeasa ...

Această carte abordează evoluţia umană dintr-un unghi cu totul nou. Pe baza unui inventar bogat de date de genetică, biochimie, biologie moleculară, neurologie, dar şi etologie, sociobiologie, paleontologie, istorie, aduce în discutie o ipoteza originala a umanizarii. Această ipoteză încearcă să răspundă la unele întrebari legate de umanizare, cum ar fi apariţia unor caractere specific umane, dar ... Leer más

$12.00 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Această carte abordează evoluţia umană dintr-un unghi cu totul nou. Pe baza unui inventar bogat de date de genetică, biochimie, biologie moleculară, neurologie, dar şi etologie, sociobiologie, paleontologie, istorie, aduce în discutie o ipoteza originala a umanizarii. Această ipoteză încearcă să răspundă la unele întrebari legate de umanizare, cum ar fi apariţia unor caractere specific umane, dar
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The Universe Inside Your Head : How the Brain Works : The Story of You

de KAN ...

It weighs about three pounds—roughly the same as a medium-sized bag of apples—and has the texture of firm jelly or cold tofu. It doesn't look like much, but this small organ is responsible for every thought you've ever had, every dream you've ever chased, and every person you've ever loved. It manages your heartbeat while you sleep, allows you to recognize a friend's face in a crowded room, and ... Leer más

$3.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

It weighs about three pounds—roughly the same as a medium-sized bag of apples—and has the texture of firm jelly or cold tofu. It doesn't look like much, but this small organ is responsible for every thought you've ever had, every dream you've ever chased, and every person you've ever loved. It manages your heartbeat while you sleep, allows you to recognize a friend's face in a crowded room, and
... Leer más
Evolution The Greatest Show On Earth and The Slow Burn of Biological Innovation

Science

de KAN ...

Series series Science
Beneath the quiet surface of a garden, deep within the crushing pressures of the midnight zone in the ocean, and inside the very cells of your own body, a four-billion-year-old drama is unfolding. It is a story of survival, of impossible odds, and of a relentless drive to persist against the cold indifference of the universe. This is the story of evolution.For centuries, humanity looked at the ... Leer más

$4.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Beneath the quiet surface of a garden, deep within the crushing pressures of the midnight zone in the ocean, and inside the very cells of your own body, a four-billion-year-old drama is unfolding. It is a story of survival, of impossible odds, and of a relentless drive to persist against the cold indifference of the universe. This is the story of evolution.For centuries, humanity looked at the
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Evolution – Fact or Fiction?

de Nicholas Nurston ...

This book sets out to provide answers to the following questions: Why are we here? Were we meant to die and what happens to us when we do? Is there a supreme, intelligent energy source in the universe, able to determine such things? People of all cultures have posed these questions for millennia! Why are we so different from all other creatures? Even a well known professor and ardent evolutionist ... Leer más

$5.39 USD

This book sets out to provide answers to the following questions: Why are we here? Were we meant to die and what happens to us when we do? Is there a supreme, intelligent energy source in the universe, able to determine such things? People of all cultures have posed these questions for millennia! Why are we so different from all other creatures? Even a well known professor and ardent evolutionist
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The AI Singularity: Humanity's Greatest Risk and Opportunity

The Singularity Chronicles

de Aidan Mindfield ...

Series series The Singularity Chronicles
The race towards artificial intelligence is unstoppable—are we prepared for what's next?What happens when technology outpaces human intelligence? The AI Singularity: Humanity's Greatest Risk and Opportunity explores the chilling realities of artificial intelligence and its potential to surpass humanity. This thought-provoking book delves deeply into the technological singularity, the dangers of ... Leer más

$4.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

The race towards artificial intelligence is unstoppable—are we prepared for what's next?What happens when technology outpaces human intelligence? The AI Singularity: Humanity's Greatest Risk and Opportunity explores the chilling realities of artificial intelligence and its potential to surpass humanity. This thought-provoking book delves deeply into the technological singularity, the dangers of
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