Evolution

This book presents a series of perspectives showing the current knowledge about human evolution.

How culture evolves through algorithms rather than knowledge inherited from ancestors.

How and why did humans get to be so clever and thoughtful?

Das Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen umfasst die Mehrzahl der in den deutschsprachigen Gebieten Europas vorkommenden wirbellosen Tiere, für die bereits Trivialnamen existieren.

In this book Diogo, a renowned biologist and anthropologist, addresses a question that is critical for the understanding of science, beliefs, idolization, systemic racism and sexism, and our societies in general: why has Darwin been idolized in such a unique way, particularly by Western scholars?

When faced with new challenges, it's easy to feel our solutions need to be equally unprecedented.

Are there dinosaurs in the Bible?

The Study of Prosimian Behavior aims to provide as complete coverage as possible to the field of prosimian behavior.

Research in recent years has increasingly shifted away from purely academic research, and into applied aspects of the discipline, including climate change research, conservation, and sustainable development.

Philosophy in Reality offers a new vision of the relation between science and philosophy in the framework of a non-propositional logic of real processes, grounded in the physics of the real world.

The broad arc of islands north of Australia that extends from Indonesia east towards the central Pacific is home to a set of human populations whose concentration of diversity is unequaled elsewhere.

En 1994, un equipo dirigido por el legendario cazador de fósiles Tim White descubrió un conjunto de huesos antiguos en la región etíope de Afar.

This book introduces a new field that unites history and biology to create a fuller understanding of the past.

Social behavior occurs in some of the smallest animals as well as some the largest, and the transition from solitary life to sociality is an unsolved evolutionary mystery.

This book introduces readers to nearly 600 common weeds.

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The Asian beans and grams, the species of Vigna (subgenus Ceratotropis), include several legumes that are an essential component in the diets of a large proportion of Asia's population, and interest in these legumes is growing as ethnic cuisine spreads worldwide.

This eighth volume describes 272 species of 13 families of medicinal plants, which are commonly used in Chinese medicine.

Trial and Error traces the coverage or lack thereof, of evolution in textbooks used in American public schools from the mid-1800s to the present.

Copepods, or more commonly referred to as the "e;insects of the sea"e;, have successfully colonised every aquatic environment, equating insects in terms of absolute and relative success.

Why do we think that we can understand animal voices - such as the aggressive barking of a pet dog, and the longing meows of the family cat?

Primate Locomotion discusses researches on the concept of primate locomotion.

The revolution in science that is transforming our understanding of extinct lifeWe used to think of fossils as being composed of nothing but rock and minerals, all molecular traces of life having vanished long ago.

This book reviews state-of-the-art research into trait-based effects and their importance in community and ecosystem ecology.

The epic story of human evolution, from our primate beginnings more than five million years ago to the agricultural eraOver the course of five million years, our primate ancestors evolved from a modest population of sub-Saharan apes into the globally dominant species Homo sapiens.

Love, one of the most profound of human emotions, love that accompanies us from puberty to old age, love that follows us from ancient times to modern, from ancient writings, through the Bible and the texts of medieval scribes to modern day books and movies.

We are interested in the evolution of hominin diets for several reasons.

This book proposes a way to radically renew medicine by extending to medicine the concepts of evolutionary biology.

Why do females in male-philopatric species seem to show larger variation in their life history strategies than males in female-philopatric species?

In the mid- to late-twentieth century, large scientific conflicts flared in two seemingly distinct fields of scientific inquiry.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

This book introduces some basic mathematical tools in reaction-diffusion models, with applications to spatial ecology and evolutionary biology.

This book provides a conceptually organized framework to understand the phenomenon of biological invasions at the Anthropocene global scale.

"e;Peking Man,"e; a cave man once thought a great hunter who had first tamed fire, actually was a composite of the gnawed remains of some fifty women, children, and men unfortunate enough to have been the prey of the giant cave hyena.

Honey bees have been described as exceptionally clever, well-organized, mutualistic, collaborative, busy, efficient--in short a perfect society.

Mary Catherine Bateson, author of Composing a Life, is our guide on a fascinating intellectual exploration of lifetime learning from experience and encountering the unfamiliar.

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Planthoppers include some of the most devastating pests of major agricultural crops throughout the world.

Arthur Milnes Marshall was a 19th-century scientist who gave lectures addressing the biological debates of his time.

The Tropics are home to the greatest biodiversity in the world, but tropical species are at risk due to anthropogenic activities, mainly land use change, habitat loss, invasive species, and pathogens.

This book presents the whole picture of the ecological and evolutionary study on the ground beetle group, the subgenus Ohomopterus of the genus Carabus, endemic to Japan.

This book is dedicated to the great scientist and outstanding individual Nikolay Wladimirovich Timofeeff-Ressovsky.

Nearly, 50 years ago, Karl Pribram in a discussion section accompanying MacLean's proposal of a limbic system, criticized the visceral or limbic brain concept as theoretically too vague and cumbersome.

Discussing the generally ignored issue of the classification of natural objects in the philosophy of science, this book focuses on knowledge and social relations, and offers a way to understand classification as a necessary aspect of doing science.

In this time of edited volumes when the list of individual contributors may reach double figures, it is appropriate to question the usefulness of a volume, with such a broad scope, by a single author.

Darwin's concept of natural selection has been exhaustively studied, but his secondary evolutionary principle of sexual selection remains largely unexplored and misunderstood.

Bereits ein Jahr, bevor Charles Darwin seine Evolutionstheorie veröffentlicht, hat Alfred Russel Wallace Evolutionsmechanismen zu Papier gebracht, die verblüffende Ähnlichkeiten mit Darwins später publizierten Überlegungen aufweisen.

The hidden talents approach opens new perspectives for educators, policy makers, families, and youth to reframe the effects of adversity.