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Evolutionary Biology

Edición de Michael T. Clegg, Ross J. MacIntyre, Max K. Hecht ...

Series Libro 31 - Evolutionary Biology
$143.09 USD
Personality and Temperament in Nonhuman Primates

Edición de Alexander Weiss, James E. King, Lindsay Murray ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Recently, there has been an increased interest in research on personality, temperament, and behavioral syndromes (henceforth to be referred to as personality) in nonhuman primates and other animals. This follows, in part, from a general interest in the subject matter and the realization that individual differences, once consigned to ‘error’ terms in statistical analyses, are potentially important ... Leer más

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Recently, there has been an increased interest in research on personality, temperament, and behavioral syndromes (henceforth to be referred to as personality) in nonhuman primates and other animals. This follows, in part, from a general interest in the subject matter and the realization that individual differences, once consigned to ‘error’ terms in statistical analyses, are potentially important
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Homínidos en la sombra

de Rodrigo de la Barra ...

En el presente, gran parte de las actitudes que poseen los seres humanos es el resultado de miles de años de evolución. Mecanismos tan sencillos a nuestra actual mirada, son vestigio del desarrollo evolutivo de cientos de antepasados que pulieron sus herramientas, homínidos que tuvieron el peso de la esquiva sobrevivencia sobre sus hombros, y que a pasos tambaleantes caminaron para construir el ... Leer más

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En el presente, gran parte de las actitudes que poseen los seres humanos es el resultado de miles de años de evolución. Mecanismos tan sencillos a nuestra actual mirada, son vestigio del desarrollo evolutivo de cientos de antepasados que pulieron sus herramientas, homínidos que tuvieron el peso de la esquiva sobrevivencia sobre sus hombros, y que a pasos tambaleantes caminaron para construir el
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Revisiting the Eclipse of Darwinism

A Historiographical and Philosophical Analysis

de Michał Jakub Wagner ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This book focuses on a critical reexamination of two prominent categories used in modern historiography of biology – “the eclipse of Darwinism” and the “modern synthesis”. The main objective is to critically analyze the main existing interpretations of the “eclipse of Darwinism” and emergence of the “modern synthesis”, with particular emphasis on the philosophical assumptions adopted in these ... Leer más

$152.99 USD

This book focuses on a critical reexamination of two prominent categories used in modern historiography of biology – “the eclipse of Darwinism” and the “modern synthesis”. The main objective is to critically analyze the main existing interpretations of the “eclipse of Darwinism” and emergence of the “modern synthesis”, with particular emphasis on the philosophical assumptions adopted in these
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Cosmology, Atomic Theory, Evolution

Classic Readings in the Literature of Science

Edición de William Dampier, Margaret Dampier ...

"Sir William Cecil Dampier's Readings in the Literature of Science has long been a classic. Unlike many other collections, it has the virtue of dealing thoroughly with three major subjects which are at the very heart of science: cosmogony, atomic theory and evolution. For each, the readings have been selected so as to give a continuous story, enabling the reader to share in the great excitement of ... Leer más

$11.59 USD

"Sir William Cecil Dampier's Readings in the Literature of Science has long been a classic. Unlike many other collections, it has the virtue of dealing thoroughly with three major subjects which are at the very heart of science: cosmogony, atomic theory and evolution. For each, the readings have been selected so as to give a continuous story, enabling the reader to share in the great excitement of
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Evoluzione culturale

de Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Telmo Pievani ...

Series series Voci
Uno dei punti di forza del lavoro di Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, annoverato tra i più importanti genetisti a livello mondiale, è l'abbraccio multidisciplinare che ha innervato il suo approccio alla ricerca scientifica. Gli studi sull'evoluzione biologica di Homo sapiens e sulla genetica delle popolazioni, di cui è stato un pioniere, non avrebbero avuto la stessa dirompente carica innovativa se non ... Leer más

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Uno dei punti di forza del lavoro di Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, annoverato tra i più importanti genetisti a livello mondiale, è l'abbraccio multidisciplinare che ha innervato il suo approccio alla ricerca scientifica. Gli studi sull'evoluzione biologica di Homo sapiens e sulla genetica delle popolazioni, di cui è stato un pioniere, non avrebbero avuto la stessa dirompente carica innovativa se non
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Toba: When Humanity Nearly Went Extinct

de Heinrich Wilson ...

Seventy-five thousand years ago, something tore the sky open over Sumatra. By the time the ash settled, an estimated 10,000 humans were all that remained on Earth.We are the descendants of those few who didn't die. Every person alive today, regardless of nationality or culture, carries the genetic footprint of that tiny, desperate remnant of survivors who pushed through a decade of volcanic winter ... Leer más

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Seventy-five thousand years ago, something tore the sky open over Sumatra. By the time the ash settled, an estimated 10,000 humans were all that remained on Earth.We are the descendants of those few who didn't die. Every person alive today, regardless of nationality or culture, carries the genetic footprint of that tiny, desperate remnant of survivors who pushed through a decade of volcanic winter
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L'evoluzione è ovunque. Vedere il mondo con gli occhi di Darwin

de Marco Ferrari ...

La teoria darwiniana dell'evoluzione – una delle intuizioni più rivoluzionarie nella storia dell'uomo – anche se per molti rimane chiusa nei laboratori e negli articoli scientifici, difficile ed esoterica, è presente in tutto il pianeta, addirittura nell'intero universo. Con essa possiamo interpretare quello che vediamo attorno a noi, e usarla come strumento: per salvare vite e disegnare ... Leer más

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La teoria darwiniana dell'evoluzione – una delle intuizioni più rivoluzionarie nella storia dell'uomo – anche se per molti rimane chiusa nei laboratori e negli articoli scientifici, difficile ed esoterica, è presente in tutto il pianeta, addirittura nell'intero universo. Con essa possiamo interpretare quello che vediamo attorno a noi, e usarla come strumento: per salvare vite e disegnare
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Nati per credere

de Vittorio Girotto ...

La teoria darwiniana dell'evoluzione rappresenta uno dei maggiori successi scientifici di ogni tempo; eppure molte persone che non si occupano di scienza a livello professionale la rifiutano e mostrano invece di credere in varie forme di creazionismo. Sembra, come ha osservato Richard Dawkins, che il nostro cervello sia stato specificamente "progettato" per fraintendere il darwinismo e che l ... Leer más

$11.99 USD

La teoria darwiniana dell'evoluzione rappresenta uno dei maggiori successi scientifici di ogni tempo; eppure molte persone che non si occupano di scienza a livello professionale la rifiutano e mostrano invece di credere in varie forme di creazionismo. Sembra, come ha osservato Richard Dawkins, che il nostro cervello sia stato specificamente "progettato" per fraintendere il darwinismo e che l
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Sheepgrass (Leymus chinensis): An Environmentally Friendly Native Grass for Animals

Edición de Gongshe Liu, Xiaoxia Li, Qingfen Zhang ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This book summarizes the latest research on sheepgrass, both in China and around the globe, as well as fundamental information on the topic. Sheepgrass (Leymus chinensis (Trin.) Tzvel) is a key species in the eastern part of the Eurasian steppe and widely distributed in northern China. It is highly adaptable and holds considerable value in terms of animal husbandry and ecology / the environment. ... Leer más

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This book summarizes the latest research on sheepgrass, both in China and around the globe, as well as fundamental information on the topic. Sheepgrass (Leymus chinensis (Trin.) Tzvel) is a key species in the eastern part of the Eurasian steppe and widely distributed in northern China. It is highly adaptable and holds considerable value in terms of animal husbandry and ecology / the environment.
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Origin and Evolution of Metazoan Cell Types

Edición de Sally Leys, Andreas Hejnol ...

Series series Evolutionary Cell Biology
The evolution of animal diversity is strongly affected by the origin of novel cell and tissue types and their interactions with each other. Understanding the evolution of cell types will shed light on the evolution of novel structures, and in turn highlight how animals diversified. Several cell types may also have been lost as animals simplified – for example did sponges have nerves and lose them? ... Leer más

$68.99 USD

The evolution of animal diversity is strongly affected by the origin of novel cell and tissue types and their interactions with each other. Understanding the evolution of cell types will shed light on the evolution of novel structures, and in turn highlight how animals diversified. Several cell types may also have been lost as animals simplified – for example did sponges have nerves and lose them?
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Soy amado, luego existo. Darwinismo, diseño inteligente y fe cristiana

de Daniel Iglesias Grèzes ...

La alianza entre el ateísmo y el darwinismo es una de las fuerzas que han caracterizado el pensamiento de los últimos ciento cincuenta años. Esta alianza, que va más allá de la ciencia y se adentra, a menudo sin reconocerlo, en el campo de la metafísica, ha sido utilizada por el ateísmo para dar un barniz científico a la negación de Dios y presentar al ser humano como un mero animal producto del ... Leer más

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La alianza entre el ateísmo y el darwinismo es una de las fuerzas que han caracterizado el pensamiento de los últimos ciento cincuenta años. Esta alianza, que va más allá de la ciencia y se adentra, a menudo sin reconocerlo, en el campo de la metafísica, ha sido utilizada por el ateísmo para dar un barniz científico a la negación de Dios y presentar al ser humano como un mero animal producto del
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Fathers Of The Unexplained: Ivan Sanderson

de Barry Davenport ...

Ivan Sanderson could have stayed safely inside respectable science, cataloging known animals and leaving the strange reports to cranks. Instead, the Cambridge-trained naturalist followed the tracks that led away from certainty, into jungles, witness letters, lost clippings, and the uneasy territory where folklore and zoology begin to overlap.Bigfoot, the Yeti, sea serpents, mystery cats, giant ... Leer más

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Ivan Sanderson could have stayed safely inside respectable science, cataloging known animals and leaving the strange reports to cranks. Instead, the Cambridge-trained naturalist followed the tracks that led away from certainty, into jungles, witness letters, lost clippings, and the uneasy territory where folklore and zoology begin to overlap.Bigfoot, the Yeti, sea serpents, mystery cats, giant
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Niche Construction

How Life Contributes to Its Own Evolution

de John Odling-Smee ...

How niche construction theory extends evolutionary theory beyond natural selection to a more general theory about the coevolution of organisms with their environments.In Niche Construction, John Odling-Smee, the leading authority on niche construction theory, extends evolutionary theory from an explanation of how populations of organisms respond to natural selection pressures in their environments ... Leer más

$44.99 USD

How niche construction theory extends evolutionary theory beyond natural selection to a more general theory about the coevolution of organisms with their environments.In Niche Construction, John Odling-Smee, the leading authority on niche construction theory, extends evolutionary theory from an explanation of how populations of organisms respond to natural selection pressures in their environments
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A History of Bodies, Brains, and Minds

The Evolution of Life and Consciousness

de Francisco Aboitiz ...

A panoramic view of the evolution of life on our planet, from its origins to humanity’s future.In A History of Bodies, Brains, and Minds, Francisco Aboitiz provides a brief history of life, the brain, and cognition, from the earliest living beings to our own species. The author proceeds from the basic premise that, since evolution by natural selection is the process underlying the origin of life ... Leer más

$44.99 USD

A panoramic view of the evolution of life on our planet, from its origins to humanity’s future.In A History of Bodies, Brains, and Minds, Francisco Aboitiz provides a brief history of life, the brain, and cognition, from the earliest living beings to our own species. The author proceeds from the basic premise that, since evolution by natural selection is the process underlying the origin of life
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Lamarckism and the Emergence of 'Scientific' Social Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France

de Snait B. Gissis ...

Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
The book presents an original synthesizing framework on the relations between ‘the biological’ and ‘the social’. Within these relations, the late nineteenth-century emergence of social sciences aspiring to be constituted as autonomous, as 'scientific' disciplines, is described, analyzed and explained. Through this framework, the author points to conceptual and constructive commonalities conjoining ... Leer más

$107.09 USD

The book presents an original synthesizing framework on the relations between ‘the biological’ and ‘the social’. Within these relations, the late nineteenth-century emergence of social sciences aspiring to be constituted as autonomous, as 'scientific' disciplines, is described, analyzed and explained. Through this framework, the author points to conceptual and constructive commonalities conjoining
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The Fossil Chronicles

How Two Controversial Discoveries Changed Our View of Human Evolution

de Dean Falk ...

Two discoveries of early human relatives, one in 1924 and one in 2003, radically changed scientific thinking about our origins. Dean Falk, a pioneer in the field of human brain evolution, offers this fast-paced insider’s account of these discoveries, the behind-the-scenes politics embroiling the scientists who found and analyzed them, and the academic and religious controversies they generated. ... Leer más

$25.69 USD

Two discoveries of early human relatives, one in 1924 and one in 2003, radically changed scientific thinking about our origins. Dean Falk, a pioneer in the field of human brain evolution, offers this fast-paced insider’s account of these discoveries, the behind-the-scenes politics embroiling the scientists who found and analyzed them, and the academic and religious controversies they generated.
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History of Terrestrial Mammals in South America

How South American Mammalian Fauna Changed from the Mesozoic to Recent Times

de Thomas Defler ...

Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
This book takes a non-technical approach in covering the evolution of South American mammalian fauna throughout geological history, and discusses how South America has changed due to mammalian invasions. Unlike other works on the subject, this book attempts to answer several crucial questions that often go unmentioned together in one cohesive monograph. What was the fauna like before the American ... Leer más

$134.09 USD

This book takes a non-technical approach in covering the evolution of South American mammalian fauna throughout geological history, and discusses how South America has changed due to mammalian invasions. Unlike other works on the subject, this book attempts to answer several crucial questions that often go unmentioned together in one cohesive monograph. What was the fauna like before the American
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Cradle of Life

The Story of the Magaliesberg and the Cradle of Humankind

de Vincent Carruthers ...

The Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site situated in the heart of the Magaliesberg Biosphere Reserve is the jewel in South Africa’s evolutionary crown: an area ‘of outstanding universal value’, it has attracted world-wide interest and furnished key evidence about where, when and how we came to be. The greater Magaliesberg area is peppered with some 200 caves and has a unique geology, history ... Leer más

$14.39 USD

The Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site situated in the heart of the Magaliesberg Biosphere Reserve is the jewel in South Africa’s evolutionary crown: an area ‘of outstanding universal value’, it has attracted world-wide interest and furnished key evidence about where, when and how we came to be. The greater Magaliesberg area is peppered with some 200 caves and has a unique geology, history
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Critique of the Theory of Evolution

de Walter Friedman ...

In this book, Walter Friedman exposes internal contradictions that nullify the theory of evolution. He also reveals the ways Charles Darwin falsified observation data to promote his pseudoscientific discovery. In a variety of ways, Friedman aims to undercut the logical assumptions of evolutionary theory. First, he applies elementary probability theory to show that a random mutation cannot spread ... Leer más

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In this book, Walter Friedman exposes internal contradictions that nullify the theory of evolution. He also reveals the ways Charles Darwin falsified observation data to promote his pseudoscientific discovery. In a variety of ways, Friedman aims to undercut the logical assumptions of evolutionary theory. First, he applies elementary probability theory to show that a random mutation cannot spread
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De afstamming van den mensch en de seksueele teeltkeus, deel 2 (van 2)

de Charles Darwin ...

Ontdek de geheimen van onze oorsprong en de kracht van natuurlijke selectie!In het tweede deel van Charles Darwin's baanbrekende werk, "De afstamming van den mensch en de seksueele teeltkeus", neemt Darwin je mee op een fascinerende reis door de evolutie van de mensheid. Dit meesterwerk biedt een diepgaand inzicht in de complexe mechanismen die onze soort hebben gevormd.Met een scherpzinnige blik ... Leer más

$19.99 USD

Ontdek de geheimen van onze oorsprong en de kracht van natuurlijke selectie!In het tweede deel van Charles Darwin's baanbrekende werk, "De afstamming van den mensch en de seksueele teeltkeus", neemt Darwin je mee op een fascinerende reis door de evolutie van de mensheid. Dit meesterwerk biedt een diepgaand inzicht in de complexe mechanismen die onze soort hebben gevormd.Met een scherpzinnige blik
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China Being Led and Leading

A Literary and Cultural Interpretation

de Zhimin Li, Daniel Braun ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
This book unearths a forgotten history of exchange and enlightenment between China and the West, told through vivid examples drawn from the world of poetry, the philosophy of culture and religion, and the realm of international communication. Across chapters that cover an extraordinary range of cultural terrain, from an examination of the parallel expatriate experiences of the British critic and ... Leer más

$107.09 USD

This book unearths a forgotten history of exchange and enlightenment between China and the West, told through vivid examples drawn from the world of poetry, the philosophy of culture and religion, and the realm of international communication. Across chapters that cover an extraordinary range of cultural terrain, from an examination of the parallel expatriate experiences of the British critic and
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How Evolution Created Consciousness

de Azhar Feili ...

You are reading these words. But why is there something it feels like to read them?That question—deceptively simple, stubbornly unanswered—is where this book begins. How Evolution Created Consciousness takes you on a sweeping journey through four billion years of life on Earth, tracing the unlikely path from mindless chemical reactions to the rich, mysterious inner world of human experience.At the ... Leer más

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You are reading these words. But why is there something it feels like to read them?That question—deceptively simple, stubbornly unanswered—is where this book begins. How Evolution Created Consciousness takes you on a sweeping journey through four billion years of life on Earth, tracing the unlikely path from mindless chemical reactions to the rich, mysterious inner world of human experience.At the
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Oxygen and the Evolution of Life

de Heinz Decker, Kensal E van Holde ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This book describes the interlaced histories of life and oxygen. It opens with the generation of oxygen in ancient stars and its distribution to newly formed planets like the Earth. Free O2 was not available on the early Earth, so the first life forms had to be anaerobic. Life introduced free O2 into the environment through the evolution of photosynthesis, which must have been a disaster for many ... Leer más

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This book describes the interlaced histories of life and oxygen. It opens with the generation of oxygen in ancient stars and its distribution to newly formed planets like the Earth. Free O2 was not available on the early Earth, so the first life forms had to be anaerobic. Life introduced free O2 into the environment through the evolution of photosynthesis, which must have been a disaster for many
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