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Dinosaurs

New Visions of a Lost World

de Michael J. Benton ...

The world’s leading paleontologist takes us on a visual tour of the latest dinosaur science, illustrated with accurate and stunning paleoart.Dinosaurs are not what you thought they were—or at least, they didn’t look like you thought they did. The world-leading paleontologist Michael J. Benton brings us a new visual guide to the world of the dinosaurs, showing how rapid advances in technology and ... Leer más

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The world’s leading paleontologist takes us on a visual tour of the latest dinosaur science, illustrated with accurate and stunning paleoart.Dinosaurs are not what you thought they were—or at least, they didn’t look like you thought they did. The world-leading paleontologist Michael J. Benton brings us a new visual guide to the world of the dinosaurs, showing how rapid advances in technology and
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Evolution in the Dark

Darwin's Loss Without Selection

de Horst Wilkens, Ulrike Strecker ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This book provides fascinating insights into the development and genetics of evolutionary processes on the basis of animals living in the dark, such as the Astyanax cave fish.Biologically functionless traits show high variability, which results from neutral deleterious mutations no longer being eliminated by natural selection, which normally acts to preserve functional capability. These negative ... Leer más

$143.99 USD

This book provides fascinating insights into the development and genetics of evolutionary processes on the basis of animals living in the dark, such as the Astyanax cave fish.Biologically functionless traits show high variability, which results from neutral deleterious mutations no longer being eliminated by natural selection, which normally acts to preserve functional capability. These negative
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చైతన్య క్షేత్రం: సార్వత్రిక మనస్సు వైపు

క్షేత్రాల సరికొత్త సిద్ధాంతం వ్యక్తిగత చైతన్యాన్ని ఒక విశ్వ వాస్తవంగా పరివర్తింపజేస్తుంది.

de Bruno Del Medico ...

Series Libro 956 - YEL - PensareDiverso
చాలా కాలం పాటు, చైతన్యం అనేది ప్రతి వ్యక్తి తలలో దాచుకునే ఒక వ్యక్తిగత విషయమని మనం నమ్మాము. అది ఒక రకమైన మూసివేసిన గది, మన అంతర్గత ప్రపంచాన్ని మాత్రమే ప్రకాశింపజేసే ఒక వ్యక్తిగత జ్వాల. అయితే, ఈ రోజుల్లో, ఏదో మారుతోంది. సామూహిక ప్రవర్తనపై శాస్త్రీయ పరిశోధన, సామాజిక న్యూరోసైన్స్లో ఆవిష్కరణలు, పంపిణీ చేయబడిన మనస్సు యొక్క సమకాలీన సిద్ధాంతాలు, మరియు ధ్యాన సంప్రదాయాల నుండి వచ్చిన కొన్ని అంతర్దృష్టులు క ... Leer más

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చాలా కాలం పాటు, చైతన్యం అనేది ప్రతి వ్యక్తి తలలో దాచుకునే ఒక వ్యక్తిగత విషయమని మనం నమ్మాము. అది ఒక రకమైన మూసివేసిన గది, మన అంతర్గత ప్రపంచాన్ని మాత్రమే ప్రకాశింపజేసే ఒక వ్యక్తిగత జ్వాల. అయితే, ఈ రోజుల్లో, ఏదో మారుతోంది. సామూహిక ప్రవర్తనపై శాస్త్రీయ పరిశోధన, సామాజిక న్యూరోసైన్స్లో ఆవిష్కరణలు, పంపిణీ చేయబడిన మనస్సు యొక్క సమకాలీన సిద్ధాంతాలు, మరియు ధ్యాన సంప్రదాయాల నుండి వచ్చిన కొన్ని అంతర్దృష్టులు క
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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
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Reticulate Evolution

Symbiogenesis, Lateral Gene Transfer, Hybridization and Infectious Heredity

Edición de Nathalie Gontier ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Written for non-experts, this volume introduces the mechanisms that underlie reticulate evolution. Chapters are either accompanied with glossaries that explain new terminology or timelines that position pioneering scholars and their major discoveries in their historical contexts. The contributing authors outline the history and original context of discovery of symbiosis, symbiogenesis, lateral ... Leer más

$143.99 USD

Written for non-experts, this volume introduces the mechanisms that underlie reticulate evolution. Chapters are either accompanied with glossaries that explain new terminology or timelines that position pioneering scholars and their major discoveries in their historical contexts. The contributing authors outline the history and original context of discovery of symbiosis, symbiogenesis, lateral
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Near Future

Know your world, #1

de Parth Sarthi Pandey ...

Series Libro 1 - Know your world
Hey! Did you say, Aliens! I don't know, maybe they are the humans of the future, which are genetically enhanced by CRISPR, and accommodated to different planets. They are successful at making a time machine, and who knows a Dyson sphere.A type 2 civilization who maybe somehow passed the great filter. Oh No! This is not our near future, but the advances of the near future that makes this all happen ... Leer más

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Hey! Did you say, Aliens! I don't know, maybe they are the humans of the future, which are genetically enhanced by CRISPR, and accommodated to different planets. They are successful at making a time machine, and who knows a Dyson sphere.A type 2 civilization who maybe somehow passed the great filter. Oh No! This is not our near future, but the advances of the near future that makes this all happen
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Derived Embodiment in Abstract Language

de Theresa Schilhab ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
How does knowledge of phenomena and events we have no direct experiences of emerge? Having a brain that learns from being in the world, how can we conceive of prehistoric dinosaurs, Atlantis, unicorns or even ‘desire’? This book is about how abstract knowledge becomes anchored in direct experiences through well-formed conversations.Within the framework of evolutionary biology and through the lens ... Leer más

$89.99 USD

How does knowledge of phenomena and events we have no direct experiences of emerge? Having a brain that learns from being in the world, how can we conceive of prehistoric dinosaurs, Atlantis, unicorns or even ‘desire’? This book is about how abstract knowledge becomes anchored in direct experiences through well-formed conversations.Within the framework of evolutionary biology and through the lens
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Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection

de Alfred Russel Wallace ...

This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1870 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection' is a series of essays on evolutionary theory, that include 'Mimicry, and Other Protective Resemblances Among Animals, 'The Philosohy of Birds' Nests', 'Creation by Law', and more. Alfred Russel Wallace ... Leer más

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This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1870 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection' is a series of essays on evolutionary theory, that include 'Mimicry, and Other Protective Resemblances Among Animals, 'The Philosohy of Birds' Nests', 'Creation by Law', and more. Alfred Russel Wallace
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Spectrum of Sex

The Molecular Bases that Induce Various Sexual Phenotypes

Edición de Minoru Tanaka, Makoto Tachibana ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This book introduces cutting-edge studies on the spectrum of sex. The sex spectrum can be understood as an interwoven mechanism sustaining graded phenotypes between the two sexes.The book overviews three elements that develop the sex spectrum: genetics, the endocrine system, and the environment. Part I discusses the genetic regulation during sex determination, which often results in a mixture of ... Leer más

$179.99 USD

This book introduces cutting-edge studies on the spectrum of sex. The sex spectrum can be understood as an interwoven mechanism sustaining graded phenotypes between the two sexes.The book overviews three elements that develop the sex spectrum: genetics, the endocrine system, and the environment. Part I discusses the genetic regulation during sex determination, which often results in a mixture of
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Şüur Sahəsi. Ümumi universal ağla doğru

Sahələrin yeni nəzəriyyəsi fərdi şüuru kosmik reallığa çevirir.

de Bruno Del Medico ...

Series Libro 956 - AZE - PensareDiverso
Uzun müddət biz şüurun hər bir insanın başında saxlanılan, şəxsi məsələ olduğuna inanırdıq. Bir növ qapalı otaq, yalnız daxili dünyamızı işıqlandıran fərdi alov. Lakin bu gün nəsə dəyişir. Kollektiv davranışa dair elmi tədqiqatlar, sosial neyroelm sahəsindəki kəşflər, paylanmış ağlın müasir nəzəriyyələri və hətta bəzi düşüncə ənənələrindən gələn anlayışlar fərqli bir hekayə danışır: bəlkə şüur ... Leer más

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Uzun müddət biz şüurun hər bir insanın başında saxlanılan, şəxsi məsələ olduğuna inanırdıq. Bir növ qapalı otaq, yalnız daxili dünyamızı işıqlandıran fərdi alov. Lakin bu gün nəsə dəyişir. Kollektiv davranışa dair elmi tədqiqatlar, sosial neyroelm sahəsindəki kəşflər, paylanmış ağlın müasir nəzəriyyələri və hətta bəzi düşüncə ənənələrindən gələn anlayışlar fərqli bir hekayə danışır: bəlkə şüur
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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

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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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The Chemistry of a County

Norfolk as a Paradigm for the Impact of Chemistry over Time

de Bryan Hanley ...

Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Chemistry is transformative science and creates things that change the landscape.  There is a profound difference between the synthesis of something new with novel properties and the mixing of constituents to produce a blend of the constituents. Chemists seek to understand how things combine (rather than blend) under different conditions and what the consequences of these combining reactions are. ... Leer más

$197.99 USD

Chemistry is transformative science and creates things that change the landscape.  There is a profound difference between the synthesis of something new with novel properties and the mixing of constituents to produce a blend of the constituents. Chemists seek to understand how things combine (rather than blend) under different conditions and what the consequences of these combining reactions are.
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Evolutionary Thinking Across Disciplines

Problems and Perspectives in Generalized Darwinism

Edición de Agathe du Crest, Martina Valković, André Ariew, Hugh Desmond, Philippe Huneman, Thomas A. C. Reydon ...

Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
This volume aims to clarify the epistemic potential of applying evolutionary thinking outside biology, and provides a survey of the current state of the art in research on relevant topics in the life sciences, the philosophy of science, and the various areas of evolutionary research outside the life sciences. By bringing together chapters by evolutionary biologists, systematic biologists, ... Leer más

$161.99 USD

This volume aims to clarify the epistemic potential of applying evolutionary thinking outside biology, and provides a survey of the current state of the art in research on relevant topics in the life sciences, the philosophy of science, and the various areas of evolutionary research outside the life sciences. By bringing together chapters by evolutionary biologists, systematic biologists,
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Ethnobiology of Uzbekistan

Ethnomedicinal Knowledge of Mountain Communities

Edición de Olim K. Khojimatov, Yusufjon Gafforov, Rainer W. Bussmann ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Natural resources and associated biological diversity provide the basis of livelihood for humans, particularly in rural areas and mountain regions around the world. Over centuries, indigenous peoples, traditional societies and local communities have developed their own specific knowledge regarding plant use, management, and conservation. The history of plant use by humans as food and to treat ... Leer más

$161.99 USD

Natural resources and associated biological diversity provide the basis of livelihood for humans, particularly in rural areas and mountain regions around the world. Over centuries, indigenous peoples, traditional societies and local communities have developed their own specific knowledge regarding plant use, management, and conservation. The history of plant use by humans as food and to treat
... Leer más
Life and Mind

Theoretical and Applied Issues in Contemporary Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences

Edición de Mariano Martín-Villuendas, Juan Gefaell, Ana Cuevas-Badallo ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
In recent times, the philosophy of science has been reinvigorated by insights from the biological and cognitive sciences. These disciplines have provided not only new perspectives to approach traditional philosophical problems but have also opened the way to new conceptual and methodological questions that call for new and innovative solutions.This book brings together some of the main debates ... Leer más

$197.99 USD

In recent times, the philosophy of science has been reinvigorated by insights from the biological and cognitive sciences. These disciplines have provided not only new perspectives to approach traditional philosophical problems but have also opened the way to new conceptual and methodological questions that call for new and innovative solutions.This book brings together some of the main debates
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Darwinian Delusion

de Russ Miller ...

The claims of Darwinian-style evolution are systematically exposed as frauds by subjecting those claims to the microscope of real science. You'll learn why science is a Christian's best friend. Miller gives amazing examples of Intelligent Biblical Design, and explains why Intelligent Design is not necessarily a Christian movement. He shows that true science supports a young earth. ... Leer más

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The claims of Darwinian-style evolution are systematically exposed as frauds by subjecting those claims to the microscope of real science. You'll learn why science is a Christian's best friend. Miller gives amazing examples of Intelligent Biblical Design, and explains why Intelligent Design is not necessarily a Christian movement. He shows that true science supports a young earth.
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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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La scimmia vestita

Dalle tribù di primati all’intelligenza artificiale

de Claudio, Tuniz, Patrizia, Tiberi Vipraio ...

Le ultime scoperte scientifiche ci forniscono numerosi identikit, sia della nostra specie che di quelle a noi a affini. Sono identikit composti da tante tessere, molto dettagliate. In questo libro gli autori hanno tentato di metterle insieme e di capire quali fisionomie emergono da una visione a distanza. Ne è scaturita una narrazione che rifugge dalla natura antropocentrica che oggi caratterizza ... Leer más

$12.99 USD

Le ultime scoperte scientifiche ci forniscono numerosi identikit, sia della nostra specie che di quelle a noi a affini. Sono identikit composti da tante tessere, molto dettagliate. In questo libro gli autori hanno tentato di metterle insieme e di capire quali fisionomie emergono da una visione a distanza. Ne è scaturita una narrazione che rifugge dalla natura antropocentrica che oggi caratterizza
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The Origin of Language and Consciousness

How Social Orders and Communicative Concerns Gave Rise to Speech and Cognitive Abilities

de Nikolai S. Rozov ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
This book presents an evolutionary theory of the origin and step-by-step development of linguistic structures and cognitive abilities from the early stages of anthropogenesis to the Upper Paleolithic. Emphasizing the social nature of the human mind and using an extended version of C.Hempel's explanatory logic, the author proves that language and consciousness emerged and evolved through the daily ... Leer más

$134.99 USD

This book presents an evolutionary theory of the origin and step-by-step development of linguistic structures and cognitive abilities from the early stages of anthropogenesis to the Upper Paleolithic. Emphasizing the social nature of the human mind and using an extended version of C.Hempel's explanatory logic, the author proves that language and consciousness emerged and evolved through the daily
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Baobab

The Hadza of Tanzania and the Baobab as Humanity's Tree of Life

de John Rashford ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Modern humans, descendants of a founding population that separated from chimpanzees some five to eight million years ago, are today the only living representative of a branching group of African apes called hominins. Because of its extraordinary size and shape, the baobab (Adansonia digitata L.) has long been identified as the most striking tree of Africa’s mosaic savanna, the landscape generally ... Leer más

$170.99 USD

Modern humans, descendants of a founding population that separated from chimpanzees some five to eight million years ago, are today the only living representative of a branching group of African apes called hominins. Because of its extraordinary size and shape, the baobab (Adansonia digitata L.) has long been identified as the most striking tree of Africa’s mosaic savanna, the landscape generally
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Unfit for Purpose

When Human Evolution Collides with the Modern World

de Adam Hart ...

'A gripping and sobering reminder of how much we are all governed by our genetic inheritance. So much for free will.' The Mail on SundayStress, obesity, poor mental health, drug addiction, bowel diseases, violence and fake news; a stark checklist of modern world problems and every one of them is an echo of our evolutionary past.In Unfit for Purpose, biologist and broadcaster Adam Hart explores the ... Leer más

$16.99 USD

'A gripping and sobering reminder of how much we are all governed by our genetic inheritance. So much for free will.' The Mail on SundayStress, obesity, poor mental health, drug addiction, bowel diseases, violence and fake news; a stark checklist of modern world problems and every one of them is an echo of our evolutionary past.In Unfit for Purpose, biologist and broadcaster Adam Hart explores the
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Current Topics in Primate Vocal Communication

Edición de U. Jürgens, J. Newman, E. Zimmermann ...

More than 25 years ago, the first major review of primate communication appeared (Altmann, 1967). Since then, information on the communicative abilities of primates increased rapidly, resulting, 15 years later, in the appearance of the first volume in which signaling systems were analyzed in a broader variety of primate groups within an evolutionary perspective (Snowdon, Brown and Petersen, 1982). ... Leer más

$143.99 USD

More than 25 years ago, the first major review of primate communication appeared (Altmann, 1967). Since then, information on the communicative abilities of primates increased rapidly, resulting, 15 years later, in the appearance of the first volume in which signaling systems were analyzed in a broader variety of primate groups within an evolutionary perspective (Snowdon, Brown and Petersen, 1982).
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Palaeoclimates and their Modelling

With special reference to the Mesozoic era

de P.J. Valdes, B.J. Hoskins, R. Spicer, J.R.L. Allen, B.W. Sellwood ...

Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
The climate of the Earth has undergone many changes and for those times when geologic data are widespread and abundant the Mesozoic appears to have been one of the warmest intervals. This was a time during which the single continent Pangea disintegrated into continental units similar to those of today, a time when there were no significant polar ice caps and sea level was generally much higher ... Leer más

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The climate of the Earth has undergone many changes and for those times when geologic data are widespread and abundant the Mesozoic appears to have been one of the warmest intervals. This was a time during which the single continent Pangea disintegrated into continental units similar to those of today, a time when there were no significant polar ice caps and sea level was generally much higher
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The Ascent of Man

de Henry Drummond ...

In the Ascent of Man, Henry Drummond gives his take on Evolution. He sees evolution as divinely guided-- a position that made him no friends on either side of the debate. "'The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way.' In these pages an attempt is made to tell 'in a plain way' a few of the things which Science is now seeing with ... Leer más

$1.99 USD

In the Ascent of Man, Henry Drummond gives his take on Evolution. He sees evolution as divinely guided-- a position that made him no friends on either side of the debate. "'The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way.' In these pages an attempt is made to tell 'in a plain way' a few of the things which Science is now seeing with
... Leer más

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