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Evolution of the Insects

de David Grimaldi, Michael S. Engel ...

Series series Cambridge Evolution Series
Insects are the most diverse group of organisms in the 3 billion-year history of life on Earth, and the most ecologically dominant animals on land. This book chronicles for the first time the complete evolutionary history of insects: their living diversity, relationships and 400 million years of fossils. Whereas other volumes have focused on either living species or fossils, this is the first ... Leer más

$91.99 USD

Insects are the most diverse group of organisms in the 3 billion-year history of life on Earth, and the most ecologically dominant animals on land. This book chronicles for the first time the complete evolutionary history of insects: their living diversity, relationships and 400 million years of fossils. Whereas other volumes have focused on either living species or fossils, this is the first
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The Evolutionary Biology of Human Body Fatness

Thrift and Control

de Jonathan C. K. Wells ...

Series Libro 58 - Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology
This comprehensive synthesis of current medical and evolutionary literature addresses key questions about the role body fat plays in human biology. It explores how body energy stores are regulated, how they develop over the life-course, what biological functions they serve, and how they may have evolved. There is now substantial evidence that human adiposity is not merely a buffer against the ... Leer más

$47.99 USD

This comprehensive synthesis of current medical and evolutionary literature addresses key questions about the role body fat plays in human biology. It explores how body energy stores are regulated, how they develop over the life-course, what biological functions they serve, and how they may have evolved. There is now substantial evidence that human adiposity is not merely a buffer against the
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Seeds of Restoration Success

Wild Lands and Plant Diversity in the U.S.

de Sara F. Oldfield, Peggy Olwell, Nancy Shaw, Kayri Havens ...

Series series Springer Earth System Sciences
This book provides a general overview of the natural landscapes and vegetation types of the U.S., the key plant species that help define them, the pressures faced by natural ecosystems and the imperative for conservation and restoration. It addresses the policies that have been introduced to manage healthy ecosystems and the practical progress that is being made in restoration. A particular focus ... Leer más

$143.99 USD

This book provides a general overview of the natural landscapes and vegetation types of the U.S., the key plant species that help define them, the pressures faced by natural ecosystems and the imperative for conservation and restoration. It addresses the policies that have been introduced to manage healthy ecosystems and the practical progress that is being made in restoration. A particular focus
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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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Advances in Microbial Control of Insect Pests

Edición de Rajeev K. Upadhyay ...

The insect!1 remain in symbiotic associations with a tremendous number of microorganisms, and some of them could be classified as parasitic/pathogenic. Without question, insect pathogens act as natural mortality agents and represent the third leg of the triad of biological control which is an environmentally sound alternative to chemical control. The virulence and pathogenicity of an insect ... Leer más

$188.99 USD

The insect!1 remain in symbiotic associations with a tremendous number of microorganisms, and some of them could be classified as parasitic/pathogenic. Without question, insect pathogens act as natural mortality agents and represent the third leg of the triad of biological control which is an environmentally sound alternative to chemical control. The virulence and pathogenicity of an insect
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Philosophy Reborn Part I: Purpose

de Shawn Alli ...

Series Libro 1 - Philosophy Reborn
The disingenuous life is not worth living. Do you think that people in Western-European countries live in a democracy? Do you think that science represents objective knowledge? Do you think that the brain is the mind? Do you think that human nature defines you? If you answered yes to any of these questions then you're in for a rude awakening. What is the purpose of life? Can we create a real ... Leer más

$6.51 USD

The disingenuous life is not worth living. Do you think that people in Western-European countries live in a democracy? Do you think that science represents objective knowledge? Do you think that the brain is the mind? Do you think that human nature defines you? If you answered yes to any of these questions then you're in for a rude awakening. What is the purpose of life? Can we create a real
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Becoming Undone

Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics, and Art

de Elizabeth Grosz ...

In Becoming Undone, Elizabeth Grosz addresses three related concepts—life, politics, and art—by exploring the implications of Charles Darwin’s account of the evolution of species. Challenging characterizations of Darwin’s work as a form of genetic determinism, Grosz shows that his writing reveals an insistence on the difference between natural selection and sexual selection, the principles that ... Leer más

$25.99 USD

In Becoming Undone, Elizabeth Grosz addresses three related concepts—life, politics, and art—by exploring the implications of Charles Darwin’s account of the evolution of species. Challenging characterizations of Darwin’s work as a form of genetic determinism, Grosz shows that his writing reveals an insistence on the difference between natural selection and sexual selection, the principles that
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My Journey Through Creationism

Can We Really Trust Evolution?, #2

de Nicholas Berardo ...

Series Libro 2 - Can We Really Trust Evolution?
Is the Bible true? Did God create everything as it says in Genesis 1:1? If we believe the evolution model like the Bog Bang, scientists could not for decades confirm what caused it and how it was caused. From the 1950's to 1980's there was no absolute answers established. The book will also look at what the Bible says about creationism and how it overwhelming factors far supersede evolution. ... Leer más

$3.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Is the Bible true? Did God create everything as it says in Genesis 1:1? If we believe the evolution model like the Bog Bang, scientists could not for decades confirm what caused it and how it was caused. From the 1950's to 1980's there was no absolute answers established. The book will also look at what the Bible says about creationism and how it overwhelming factors far supersede evolution.
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Under the Open Skies

Finding Peace and Health in Nature

de Markus Torgeby, Frida Torgeby ...

Traducido por Christian Gullette ...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA guide for living outdoors and communing with the natural world—under the open skies."I believe in sleeping outdoors, surrounded by tall fir trees, darkness and cold. Lying on my back and looking up at the stars, watching my breath form thin clouds."Under the Open Skies is one man’s perspective-shifting, immersive journey into the wilds of northern Sweden and into his ... Leer más

$13.99 USD

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA guide for living outdoors and communing with the natural world—under the open skies."I believe in sleeping outdoors, surrounded by tall fir trees, darkness and cold. Lying on my back and looking up at the stars, watching my breath form thin clouds."Under the Open Skies is one man’s perspective-shifting, immersive journey into the wilds of northern Sweden and into his
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La venganza de la realidad

Un viaje al centro de las discusiones científicas más enconadas hoy

de Daniel Arjona ...

Series Libro 2 - Muckraker 01
Los primeros años del siglo XX desencadenan una orgía científica: nombres como Planck, Einstein, Heisenberg, Pauli y Born revolucionan sus disciplinas; luego el entusiasmo acaba convirtiéndose en una decepción total, y en una cierta sensación de que la física se halla en un callejón sin salida. En el siglo XIX la idea de la evolución de Darwin pone fin a siglos de superstición; su deriva, en ... Leer más

$4.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Los primeros años del siglo XX desencadenan una orgía científica: nombres como Planck, Einstein, Heisenberg, Pauli y Born revolucionan sus disciplinas; luego el entusiasmo acaba convirtiéndose en una decepción total, y en una cierta sensación de que la física se halla en un callejón sin salida. En el siglo XIX la idea de la evolución de Darwin pone fin a siglos de superstición; su deriva, en
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Segmented Negative Strand Viruses

Arenaviruses, Bunyaviruses, and Orthomyxoviruses

Edición de Richard W. Compans ...

Segmented Negative Strand Viruses: Arenaviruses, Bunyaviruses, and Orthomyxoviruses is a collection of proceedings presented at the 5th International Symposium on Negative Strand Viruses, held at Hilton Head, South Carolina, on September 11-17, 1983. The papers focus on three virus families with segmented negative RNA genomes: arenaviruses, bunyaviruses, and orthomyxoviruses. Emphasis is placed on ... Leer más

$65.99 USD

Segmented Negative Strand Viruses: Arenaviruses, Bunyaviruses, and Orthomyxoviruses is a collection of proceedings presented at the 5th International Symposium on Negative Strand Viruses, held at Hilton Head, South Carolina, on September 11-17, 1983. The papers focus on three virus families with segmented negative RNA genomes: arenaviruses, bunyaviruses, and orthomyxoviruses. Emphasis is placed on
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Adam's Nose, And The Making Of Humankind

de Michael Stoddart ...

This book is about the evolution of the sense of smell, from its bacterial origin 3.4 billion years ago, to today's modern, sophisticated humans with an insatiable appetite for perfumes and fragrances. It explains how smell works and how animals sense the environment. The relationship between sex and smell drives much of animal behaviour, and the significance of the human loss of the vomeronasal ... Leer más

$14.99 USD

This book is about the evolution of the sense of smell, from its bacterial origin 3.4 billion years ago, to today's modern, sophisticated humans with an insatiable appetite for perfumes and fragrances. It explains how smell works and how animals sense the environment. The relationship between sex and smell drives much of animal behaviour, and the significance of the human loss of the vomeronasal
... Leer más
Applied Evolutionary Anthropology

Darwinian Approaches to Contemporary World Issues

Edición de Mhairi A. Gibson, David W. Lawson ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
As a species, we are currently experiencing dramatic shifts in our lifestyle, family structure, health, and global contact. Evolutionary Anthropology provides a powerful theoretical framework to study such changes, revealing how current environments and legacies of past selection shape human diversity. This book is the first major review of the emerging field of Applied Evolutionary Anthropology ... Leer más

$89.99 USD

As a species, we are currently experiencing dramatic shifts in our lifestyle, family structure, health, and global contact. Evolutionary Anthropology provides a powerful theoretical framework to study such changes, revealing how current environments and legacies of past selection shape human diversity. This book is the first major review of the emerging field of Applied Evolutionary Anthropology
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De l'origine de la diversité et de l'évolution du vivant

Théorie sur la dynamique d'expression de l'ADN et ses prolongements

de Eric Roche ...

Eric Roche s'est longuement penché sur les diverses interprétations relatives à la naissance et à la complexification de la vie. Après quelque interruption dans ce domaine, il rassemble aujourd'hui ses idées sur ce thème de l'évolution et revient sur la conception la plus en vogue actuellement, darwinienne, ou néo-darwinienne, qu'il réfute, la jugeant incomplète car trop « figée », pas assez « ... Leer más

$6.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Eric Roche s'est longuement penché sur les diverses interprétations relatives à la naissance et à la complexification de la vie. Après quelque interruption dans ce domaine, il rassemble aujourd'hui ses idées sur ce thème de l'évolution et revient sur la conception la plus en vogue actuellement, darwinienne, ou néo-darwinienne, qu'il réfute, la jugeant incomplète car trop « figée », pas assez «
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Sanaben

de Lorenzo Bonanni ...

La intención del libro es facilitar nuestra existencia haciéndonos entender quiénes somos y de dónde venimos y qué instintos nos mueven. En términos simples y, a veces, goliárdicos, el libro explica los motivos de nuestros deseos: el culo de las mujeres, el poder, el pelo rubio, el dinero. Explica por qué el amor, la vida, la familia, la religión y la muerte realmente están fuera de la historia y ... Leer más

$7.00 USD

La intención del libro es facilitar nuestra existencia haciéndonos entender quiénes somos y de dónde venimos y qué instintos nos mueven. En términos simples y, a veces, goliárdicos, el libro explica los motivos de nuestros deseos: el culo de las mujeres, el poder, el pelo rubio, el dinero. Explica por qué el amor, la vida, la familia, la religión y la muerte realmente están fuera de la historia y
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From Evolutionary Biology to Economics and Back

Parallels and Crossings between Economics and Evolution

de Jean-Baptiste André, Mikael Cozic, Silvia De Monte, Jean Gayon, Philippe Huneman, Johannes Martens, Bernard Walliser ...

Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the major key concepts common to economics and evolutionary biology. Written by a group of philosophers of science, biologists and economists, it proposes analyses of the meaning of twenty-five concepts from the viewpoint respectively of economics and of evolutionary biology –each followed by a short synthesis emphasizing major discrepancies and ... Leer más

$98.99 USD

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the major key concepts common to economics and evolutionary biology. Written by a group of philosophers of science, biologists and economists, it proposes analyses of the meaning of twenty-five concepts from the viewpoint respectively of economics and of evolutionary biology –each followed by a short synthesis emphasizing major discrepancies and
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The Pulvinar Thalamic Nucleus of Non-Human Primates: Architectonic and Functional Subdivisions

de Juliana G.M. Soares, Ricardo Gattass, Bruss Lima ...

Series series Medicine (R0)
This book discusses the hypothesis that the primate pulvinar contains an original scaffold which is derived from cytoarchitectural markers and specific protein distributions. Thereafter, along primate evolution, different selective pressures acted in order to shape and fine-tune the connectivity of the pulvinar with specific regions of the neocortex. This divergence created, among other things, ... Leer más

$98.99 USD

This book discusses the hypothesis that the primate pulvinar contains an original scaffold which is derived from cytoarchitectural markers and specific protein distributions. Thereafter, along primate evolution, different selective pressures acted in order to shape and fine-tune the connectivity of the pulvinar with specific regions of the neocortex. This divergence created, among other things,
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L’étonnant Panda

Erreur de la nature ou merveille d'adaptation?

de Cyrille Barrette ...

Tout le monde est séduit par ce drôle d’animal au pelage noir et blanc, placide, potelé et apparemment inoffensif. Mais l’histoire et l’évolution du Panda sont énigmatiques. Comment cet ours – car c’est un ours – est-il devenu végétarien ? Pourquoi arbore-t-il cette fourrure si spectaculaire ? Comment expliquer la présence d’un deuxième pouce ? Pourquoi ne mange-t-il que du bambou qu’il ne digère ... Leer más

$15.99 USD

Tout le monde est séduit par ce drôle d’animal au pelage noir et blanc, placide, potelé et apparemment inoffensif. Mais l’histoire et l’évolution du Panda sont énigmatiques. Comment cet ours – car c’est un ours – est-il devenu végétarien ? Pourquoi arbore-t-il cette fourrure si spectaculaire ? Comment expliquer la présence d’un deuxième pouce ? Pourquoi ne mange-t-il que du bambou qu’il ne digère
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Early Evolution of Human Memory

Great Apes, Tool-making, and Cognition

de Michael J. Walker, Héctor M. Manrique ...

Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
This work examines the cognitive capacity of great apes in order to better understand early man and the importance of memory in the evolutionary process. It synthesizes research from comparative cognition, neuroscience, primatology as well as lithic archaeology, reviewing findings on the cognitive ability of great apes to recognize the physical properties of an object and then determine the most ... Leer más

$53.99 USD

This work examines the cognitive capacity of great apes in order to better understand early man and the importance of memory in the evolutionary process. It synthesizes research from comparative cognition, neuroscience, primatology as well as lithic archaeology, reviewing findings on the cognitive ability of great apes to recognize the physical properties of an object and then determine the most
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Cryptic Female Choice in Arthropods

Patterns, Mechanisms and Prospects

Edición de Anita Aisenberg, Alfredo V. Peretti ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This timely book revisits cryptic female choice in arthropods, gathering detailed contributions from around the world to address key behavioral, ecological and evolutionary questions. The reader will find a critical summary of major breakthroughs in taxon-oriented chapters that offer many new perspectives and cases to explore and in many cases unpublished data. Many groups of arthropods such as ... Leer más

$143.99 USD

This timely book revisits cryptic female choice in arthropods, gathering detailed contributions from around the world to address key behavioral, ecological and evolutionary questions. The reader will find a critical summary of major breakthroughs in taxon-oriented chapters that offer many new perspectives and cases to explore and in many cases unpublished data. Many groups of arthropods such as
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Und Gott schuf die Evolution

Warum Glaube und Wissenschaft Hand in Hand gehen können.

de Matthew Nelson Hill ...

Traducido por Beate Zobel ...

Nicht wenige Christen haben ein gespanntes Verhältnis zu den Naturwissenschaften, insbesondere wenn es um das Thema Evolution geht. Der Autor geht der Frage nach, ob und wie eine evolutionäre Sicht auf den Ursprung des Menschen den Glauben beleben und fördern kann. Dabei klammert er die Konflikte zwischen naturwissenschaftlichen Konzepten und theologischen Sichtweisen an keiner Stelle aus. ... Leer más

$9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Nicht wenige Christen haben ein gespanntes Verhältnis zu den Naturwissenschaften, insbesondere wenn es um das Thema Evolution geht. Der Autor geht der Frage nach, ob und wie eine evolutionäre Sicht auf den Ursprung des Menschen den Glauben beleben und fördern kann. Dabei klammert er die Konflikte zwischen naturwissenschaftlichen Konzepten und theologischen Sichtweisen an keiner Stelle aus.
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L'origine della donna

de Elaine Morgan ...

Traducido por Bruno Oddera ...

Elaine Morgan, autrice di questo libro, non è né una femminista né un’accademica, ma una delle maggiori scrittrici di scienza. Madre di tre bambini, all’età di cinquantadue anni, nel 1972, scrisse L’origine della donna, che divenne subito un best seller mondiale, tradotto in venticinque paesi ma ignorato dalla comunità scientifica. Dissacratorio sin dal titolo (echeggia con sorridente humour ... Leer más

$18.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Elaine Morgan, autrice di questo libro, non è né una femminista né un’accademica, ma una delle maggiori scrittrici di scienza. Madre di tre bambini, all’età di cinquantadue anni, nel 1972, scrisse L’origine della donna, che divenne subito un best seller mondiale, tradotto in venticinque paesi ma ignorato dalla comunità scientifica. Dissacratorio sin dal titolo (echeggia con sorridente humour
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What We Are: The Evolutionary Roots of Our Future

de Lonnie Aarssen ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Other animals are driven to spend essentially their whole lives just trying to get fed, stay alive, and get laid. That’s about it. The same was true for our proto-human ancestors. And modern humans of course also require a Survival Drive and a Sex Drive in order to leave descendants. But today we spend most of our lives mainly just trying to convince ourselves that our existence is not absurd.In ... Leer más

$40.99 USD

Other animals are driven to spend essentially their whole lives just trying to get fed, stay alive, and get laid. That’s about it. The same was true for our proto-human ancestors. And modern humans of course also require a Survival Drive and a Sex Drive in order to leave descendants. But today we spend most of our lives mainly just trying to convince ourselves that our existence is not absurd.In
... Leer más
Biology of Gall Midges

Evolution, Ecology, and Biological Interactions

Edición de Junichi Yukawa, Makoto Tokuda ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This book provides practical ecological, ethological, evolutionary, and biogeographic data for gall-inducing cecidomyiids, their galls and host plants, based on field surveys, laboratory experiments and genetic analysis. It refers to various researches on gall-inducing insects published by a world of biologists. Practical methods of field surveys and data analysis are presented, as well as topics ... Leer más

$152.99 USD

This book provides practical ecological, ethological, evolutionary, and biogeographic data for gall-inducing cecidomyiids, their galls and host plants, based on field surveys, laboratory experiments and genetic analysis. It refers to various researches on gall-inducing insects published by a world of biologists. Practical methods of field surveys and data analysis are presented, as well as topics
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