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Reading Ruse

Michael Ruse on Darwinism, Science, and Faith

de Michael Ruse ...

Philosopher of science Michael Ruse is an influential and provocative voice in current debates on biology, religion, and ethics. This collection brings into one volume representative samples of the broad range of Ruse's oeuvre, as represented in his academic books, mainly from post-2000. Ruse's writings in this period are gathered under seven headings, each with five readings: -Atheism, Belief, ... Leer más

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Philosopher of science Michael Ruse is an influential and provocative voice in current debates on biology, religion, and ethics. This collection brings into one volume representative samples of the broad range of Ruse's oeuvre, as represented in his academic books, mainly from post-2000. Ruse's writings in this period are gathered under seven headings, each with five readings: -Atheism, Belief,
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Catalogue of Selected Angiosperm Pollen Grains from Palaeogene and Neogene Sediments of India

de Surya Kant Mani Tripathi ...

Series series Society of Earth Scientists Series
This book summarizes the taxonomic details of selected fossil angiosperm pollen genera and species along with their affinity and occurrences in space and time. It provides information about the historical background of palynology from Palaeogene and Neogene sediments in India, general pollen morphology along with the terms commonly used in describing fossil angiosperm pollen and an overview of the ... Leer más

$125.09 USD

This book summarizes the taxonomic details of selected fossil angiosperm pollen genera and species along with their affinity and occurrences in space and time. It provides information about the historical background of palynology from Palaeogene and Neogene sediments in India, general pollen morphology along with the terms commonly used in describing fossil angiosperm pollen and an overview of the
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So What Does It All Mean?

The Secrets of Life: From Big Bang to Trump

de SS O'Connor ...

Series Libro 4 - The Secrets of Life Series: From Big Bang To Trump
Why are humans neither 'good' nor 'bad'? How can so much chaos and confusion in the world actually lead to order? Why are we so often wrong when we're asked if the world's getting better?In this, the last book in The Secrets of Life quartet, SS O'Connor pulls together the threads of genetic and cultural evolution, and then adds to these the conclusions of evolutionary game theory. As he does this, ... Leer más

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Why are humans neither 'good' nor 'bad'? How can so much chaos and confusion in the world actually lead to order? Why are we so often wrong when we're asked if the world's getting better?In this, the last book in The Secrets of Life quartet, SS O'Connor pulls together the threads of genetic and cultural evolution, and then adds to these the conclusions of evolutionary game theory. As he does this,
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That Complex Whole

Culture And The Evolution Of Human Behavior

de Lee Cronk ...

Our understanding of the evolution of human behavior has grown enormously over the past few decades, and an increasing number of behavioral and social scientists are making use of evolutionary theory in their work to shed light on issues ranging from marriage and parenting to the study of mental illness. The success of this research program is thre ... Leer más

$60.99 USD

Our understanding of the evolution of human behavior has grown enormously over the past few decades, and an increasing number of behavioral and social scientists are making use of evolutionary theory in their work to shed light on issues ranging from marriage and parenting to the study of mental illness. The success of this research program is thre
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Human Evolution

An Introduction for the Behavioural Sciences

de Graham Richards ...

Series series Routledge Library Editions: Evolution
Originally published in 1987, Human Evolution looks at theories of the evolution of human behaviour (contemporary at the time of publication). The book reviews competing theories of psychological and social evolution and provides a detailed historical introduction to the subject. A key theoretical concern which emerges in the book includes the psychological significance of the human evolution ... Leer más

$55.99 USD

Originally published in 1987, Human Evolution looks at theories of the evolution of human behaviour (contemporary at the time of publication). The book reviews competing theories of psychological and social evolution and provides a detailed historical introduction to the subject. A key theoretical concern which emerges in the book includes the psychological significance of the human evolution
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Evo-Devo: Non-model Species in Cell and Developmental Biology

Edición de Waclaw Tworzydlo, Szczepan M. Bilinski ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Evolutionary developmental biology or evo-devo is a field of biological research that compares the underlying mechanisms of developmental processes in different organisms to infer the ancestral condition of these processes and elucidate how they have evolved. It addresses questions about the developmental bases of evolutionary changes and evolution of developmental processes.The book’s content is ... Leer más

$161.09 USD

Evolutionary developmental biology or evo-devo is a field of biological research that compares the underlying mechanisms of developmental processes in different organisms to infer the ancestral condition of these processes and elucidate how they have evolved. It addresses questions about the developmental bases of evolutionary changes and evolution of developmental processes.The book’s content is
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Biogeology

Evolution in a Changing Landscape

de Bernard Michaux ...

Series series CRC Biogeography Series
This detailed exposition gives background and context to how modern biogeography has got to where it is now. For biogeographers and other researchers interested in biodiversity and the evolution of life on islands, Biogeology: Evolution in a Changing Landscape provides an overview of a large swathe of the globe encompassing Wallacea and the western Pacific. The book contains the full text of the ... Leer más

$224.99 USD

This detailed exposition gives background and context to how modern biogeography has got to where it is now. For biogeographers and other researchers interested in biodiversity and the evolution of life on islands, Biogeology: Evolution in a Changing Landscape provides an overview of a large swathe of the globe encompassing Wallacea and the western Pacific. The book contains the full text of the
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Recent Developments on Genus Chaetomium

Edición de Ahmed M. Abdel-Azeem ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Chaetomium genus was established by Gustav Kunze in 1817. According to Index Fungorum Partnership, there are 273 Chaetomium species accepted till now. Members of the genus Chaetomium are capable of colonizing various substrates and are well-known for their ability to degrade cellulose and to produce a variety of bioactive metabolites. More than 200 compounds have been reported from this genus. A ... Leer más

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Chaetomium genus was established by Gustav Kunze in 1817. According to Index Fungorum Partnership, there are 273 Chaetomium species accepted till now. Members of the genus Chaetomium are capable of colonizing various substrates and are well-known for their ability to degrade cellulose and to produce a variety of bioactive metabolites. More than 200 compounds have been reported from this genus. A
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Old Questions and Young Approaches to Animal Evolution

Edición de José M. Martín-Durán, Bruno C. Vellutini ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Animal evolution has always been at the core of Biology, but even today many fundamental questions remain open. The field of animal ‘evo-devo’ is leveraging recent technical and conceptual advances in development, paleontology, genomics and transcriptomics to propose radically different answers to traditional evolutionary controversies.This book is divided into four parts, each of which approaches ... Leer más

$98.09 USD

Animal evolution has always been at the core of Biology, but even today many fundamental questions remain open. The field of animal ‘evo-devo’ is leveraging recent technical and conceptual advances in development, paleontology, genomics and transcriptomics to propose radically different answers to traditional evolutionary controversies.This book is divided into four parts, each of which approaches
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Evolution in Isolation

The Search for an Island Syndrome in Plants

de Kevin C. Burns ...

Oceanic islands are storehouses for unique creatures. Zoologists have long been fascinated by island animals because they break all the rules. Speedy, nervous, little birds repeatedly evolve to become plump, tame and flightless on islands. Equally strange and wonderful plants have evolved on islands. However, plants are very poorly understood relative to animals. Do plants repeatedly evolve ... Leer más

$85.99 USD

Oceanic islands are storehouses for unique creatures. Zoologists have long been fascinated by island animals because they break all the rules. Speedy, nervous, little birds repeatedly evolve to become plump, tame and flightless on islands. Equally strange and wonderful plants have evolved on islands. However, plants are very poorly understood relative to animals. Do plants repeatedly evolve
... Leer más
Your Purpose, God's Design: Ending the Crisis of Meaning in a Scientific Age

de Kandis Lee ...

We live in an age of scientific wonder, but we are facing a crisis of meaning. From classrooms to culture, a dominant narrative has taken hold: that the universe is random, life is a cosmic fluke, and humanity is nothing more than sophisticated biology.But if we are merely the result of chance, why do we crave purpose? Why do we feel a "void" that biology cannot explain?In Your Purpose, God's ... Leer más

$2.99 USD

We live in an age of scientific wonder, but we are facing a crisis of meaning. From classrooms to culture, a dominant narrative has taken hold: that the universe is random, life is a cosmic fluke, and humanity is nothing more than sophisticated biology.But if we are merely the result of chance, why do we crave purpose? Why do we feel a "void" that biology cannot explain?In Your Purpose, God's
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Evolving

The Human Effect and Why It Matters

de Daniel J. Fairbanks ...

This persuasive, elegantly written book argues that understanding evolution has never mattered more in human history. The author uses evidence from archaeology, geography, anatomy, biochemistry, radiometric dating, cell biology, chromosomes, and DNA to establish the inescapable conclusion that we evolved and are still evolving. He also explains in detail how health, food production, and human ... Leer más

$15.99 USD

This persuasive, elegantly written book argues that understanding evolution has never mattered more in human history. The author uses evidence from archaeology, geography, anatomy, biochemistry, radiometric dating, cell biology, chromosomes, and DNA to establish the inescapable conclusion that we evolved and are still evolving. He also explains in detail how health, food production, and human
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Evolutionary Systems and Society

A General Theory

de Vilmos Csányi ...

This work is a bold new effort to embrace all aspects of life—molecular, cellular, behavioral, and cultural—within the formulation of a general theory of evolution that extends classical Darwinian theory to include human society. ... Leer más

$21.99 USD

This work is a bold new effort to embrace all aspects of life—molecular, cellular, behavioral, and cultural—within the formulation of a general theory of evolution that extends classical Darwinian theory to include human society.
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Recent Advancement in White Biotechnology Through Fungi

Volume 3: Perspective for Sustainable Environments

Edición de Ajar Nath Yadav, Sangram Singh, Shashank Mishra, Arti Gupta ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Over the last decade considerable progress has been made in white biotechnology research and further major scientific and technological breakthroughs are expected in the future. The first large-scale industrial applications of modern biotechnology have been in the areas of food and animal feed production (agricultural/green biotechnology) and in pharmaceuticals (medical/red biotechnology). In ... Leer más

$89.99 USD

Over the last decade considerable progress has been made in white biotechnology research and further major scientific and technological breakthroughs are expected in the future. The first large-scale industrial applications of modern biotechnology have been in the areas of food and animal feed production (agricultural/green biotechnology) and in pharmaceuticals (medical/red biotechnology). In
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Darwin's Love of Life

A Singular Case of Biophilia

de Karen L. Harel ...

Biophilia—the love of life—encompasses the drive to survive, a sense of kinship with all life-forms, and an instinct for beauty. In this unconventional book, Kay Harel uses biophilia as a lens to explore Charles Darwin’s life and thought in deeply original ways. In a set of interrelated essays, she considers how the love of life enabled him to see otherwise unseen evolutionary truths.Harel traces ... Leer más

$15.89 USD

Biophilia—the love of life—encompasses the drive to survive, a sense of kinship with all life-forms, and an instinct for beauty. In this unconventional book, Kay Harel uses biophilia as a lens to explore Charles Darwin’s life and thought in deeply original ways. In a set of interrelated essays, she considers how the love of life enabled him to see otherwise unseen evolutionary truths.Harel traces
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Soil Grown Tall

The Epic Saga of Life from Earth

de Gregory J. Retallack ...

Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
This book is designed as an easy night's read and introduction to fossil soils and the relatively new disciplines of Paleopedology and Astropedology. It includes line art and color illustrations to visualize the topic for the informed layperson or interested colleagues. It provides comprehensive information on paleosols, which are soils of the past providing a variety of clues to the evolution of ... Leer más

$44.99 USD

This book is designed as an easy night's read and introduction to fossil soils and the relatively new disciplines of Paleopedology and Astropedology. It includes line art and color illustrations to visualize the topic for the informed layperson or interested colleagues. It provides comprehensive information on paleosols, which are soils of the past providing a variety of clues to the evolution of
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Natural Selection and Tropical Nature Essays on Descriptive and Theoretical Biology

de Alfred Russel Wallace ...

This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1895 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Natural Selection and Tropical Nature Essays on Descriptive and Theoretical Biology' is a collection of essays that detail Wallace's observations of various bird species and outlines some of his ideas relating to evolutionary theory. Alfred Russel ... Leer más

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This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1895 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Natural Selection and Tropical Nature Essays on Descriptive and Theoretical Biology' is a collection of essays that detail Wallace's observations of various bird species and outlines some of his ideas relating to evolutionary theory. Alfred Russel
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Восхождение на гору Невероятности

de Ричард Докинз ...

Traducido por Юлия Плискина ...

Series series Весь Ричард Докинз
Как пауки, плетя свою паутину, перекидывают самую первую ее нить? Какие подарки делает паук-самец своей возлюбленной? Мог ли без Бога существовать инжир? Почему у жирафа выросла такая шея? Почему сухопутные животные, вернувшись в водную среду, не открывают заново прежний набор приспособлений к водной жизни? И напротив, почему киты и морские коровы не сменили легкие на жабры? Могла ли такая сложная ... Leer más

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Как пауки, плетя свою паутину, перекидывают самую первую ее нить? Какие подарки делает паук-самец своей возлюбленной? Мог ли без Бога существовать инжир? Почему у жирафа выросла такая шея? Почему сухопутные животные, вернувшись в водную среду, не открывают заново прежний набор приспособлений к водной жизни? И напротив, почему киты и морские коровы не сменили легкие на жабры? Могла ли такая сложная
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Evolution's Wedge

Competition and the Origins of Diversity

de David Pfennig, Karin Pfennig ...

Series Libro 12 - Organisms and Environments
Evolutionary biology has long sought to explain how new traits and new species arise. Darwin maintained that competition is key to understanding this biodiversity and held that selection acting to minimize competition causes competitors to become increasingly different, thereby promoting new traits and new species. Despite Darwin’s emphasis, competition’s role in diversification remains ... Leer más

$76.99 USD

Evolutionary biology has long sought to explain how new traits and new species arise. Darwin maintained that competition is key to understanding this biodiversity and held that selection acting to minimize competition causes competitors to become increasingly different, thereby promoting new traits and new species. Despite Darwin’s emphasis, competition’s role in diversification remains
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Evolution of Kangaroos in Australia

Ancient Origins to Modern Science

de Azhar ul Haque Sario ...

Embark on an unprecedented journey through deep time to uncover the evolutionary saga, biomechanical miracles, and survival secrets of the Australian kangaroo. This book explores the rise of the kangaroo from the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana to the modern Australian outback. You will discover how a tiny, possum-like ancestor transformed into a bipedal titan. It reveals hidden secrets written ... Leer más

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Embark on an unprecedented journey through deep time to uncover the evolutionary saga, biomechanical miracles, and survival secrets of the Australian kangaroo. This book explores the rise of the kangaroo from the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana to the modern Australian outback. You will discover how a tiny, possum-like ancestor transformed into a bipedal titan. It reveals hidden secrets written
... Leer más
Microbial Iron Metabolism

A Comprehensive Treatise

Edición de J. B. Neilands ...

Microbial Iron Metabolism: A Comprehensive Treatise provides a comprehensive treatment of microbial iron metabolism. It aims to contribute to an increased understanding of the path of iron in microbial species and, eventually, in the plant and animal. The book is organized into five parts. Part I describes some features of iron and its function in the microbial world. These include a historical ... Leer más

$84.99 USD

Microbial Iron Metabolism: A Comprehensive Treatise provides a comprehensive treatment of microbial iron metabolism. It aims to contribute to an increased understanding of the path of iron in microbial species and, eventually, in the plant and animal. The book is organized into five parts. Part I describes some features of iron and its function in the microbial world. These include a historical
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Evolution and Water Resources Utilization of the Yangtze River

de Jin Chen ...

Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the Yangtze River system and its water resources development and management. From the perspectives of geology, hydrology, zoology, ecology, it discusses the Yangtze River’s geological history and aquatic environments, analyses the endangered species along the river basin, and reviews the effects of human hydrolytic activities on its ecosystem. By ... Leer más

$89.99 USD

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the Yangtze River system and its water resources development and management. From the perspectives of geology, hydrology, zoology, ecology, it discusses the Yangtze River’s geological history and aquatic environments, analyses the endangered species along the river basin, and reviews the effects of human hydrolytic activities on its ecosystem. By
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A Brief Natural History of Civilization

Why a Balance Between Cooperation & Competition Is Vital to Humanity

de Mark Bertness ...

A compelling evolutionary narrative that reveals how human civilization follows the same ecological rules that shape all life on EarthOffering a bold new understanding of who we are, where we came from, and where we are going, noted ecologist Mark Bertness argues that human beings and their civilization are the products of the same self-organization, evolutionary adaptation, and natural selection ... Leer más

$20.99 USD

A compelling evolutionary narrative that reveals how human civilization follows the same ecological rules that shape all life on EarthOffering a bold new understanding of who we are, where we came from, and where we are going, noted ecologist Mark Bertness argues that human beings and their civilization are the products of the same self-organization, evolutionary adaptation, and natural selection
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Sodium and Water Homeostasis

Comparative, Evolutionary and Genetic Models

Edición de Kelly Anne Hyndman, Thomas L. Pannabecker ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This book presents cutting edge methods that provide insights into the pathways by which salt and water traverse cell membranes and flow in an orchestrated fashion amongst the many compartments of the body. It focuses on a number of molecular, cellular and whole animal studies that involve multiple physiological systems and shows how the internal milieu is regulated by multifactorial gene ... Leer más

$143.99 USD

This book presents cutting edge methods that provide insights into the pathways by which salt and water traverse cell membranes and flow in an orchestrated fashion amongst the many compartments of the body. It focuses on a number of molecular, cellular and whole animal studies that involve multiple physiological systems and shows how the internal milieu is regulated by multifactorial gene
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