Evolution

This Element presents guides to applying PCMs with fossil taxa as well as example analayses illustrating common applications.

This  comprehensive book, rich with applications,  offers a quantitative framework for the analysis of the various capture-recapture models for open animal populations, while also addressing associated computational methods.

Meta-analysis is a powerful statistical methodology for synthesizing research evidence across independent studies.

A unique study of Ice Age human and carnivore bone damage and its importance in understanding ancient life in Siberia.

Information and Its Role in Nature presents an in-depth interdisciplinary discussion of the concept of information and its role in the control of natural processes.

The origin of life is a hotly debated topic.

This book was written for graduate and medical students, as well as clinicians and postdoctoral researchers.

This book is the first to explore in detail the systematics and taxonomy of the digenean fauna of fish in Indian marine waters.

The idea of a balance of nature has been a dominant part of Western philosophy since before Aristotle, and it persists in the public imagination and even among some ecologists today.

Research conducted in the last fifteen years has placed in question many of the traditional conclusions scholars have formed about human female sexuality.

This is an integrated overview of a diverse range of approaches to studying ''evo-devo'', for researchers and graduate students.

Changes in Eukaryotic Gene Expression in Response to Environmental Stress focuses on various aspects of eukaryotic cell's response to heat stress (shock) and other stress stimuli.

Is it possible to explain and predict the development of living things?

How did life evolve on Earth?

The editors and contributors to this volume should be justifiably proud of their participation in the tenth triennial meeting of the Chemical Signals in Vertebrates International Symposium.

In this thesis two variants of the fast variable elimination method are developed.

This book is the fifth volume of the "e;Marine Algal Flora of China-Rhodophyta.

Origin(s) of Design in Nature is a collection of over 40 articles from prominent researchers in the life, physical, and social sciences, medicine, and the philosophy of science that all address the philosophical and scientific question of how design emerged in the natural world.

Other animals are driven to spend essentially their whole lives just trying to get fed, stay alive, and get laid.

The three greatest scientific mysteries, which remain poorly understood, are the origin of the universe, the origin of life and the development of consciousness.

Understanding how simple molecules have given rise to the complex biochemical systems and processes of contemporary biology is widely regarded as one of chemistry's great unsolved questions.

Animal Virus Genetics is a collection of scientific presentations of the ICN-UCLA Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology, held at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1980.

Can we can use the patterns and processes of convergent evolution to make inferences about universal laws of life, on Earth and elsewhere?

An up-to-date portrait of the giraffe, summarising current knowledge on their biology and behaviour along with current conservation efforts.

Intelligence allows people to understand events and to shape their surrounding environment.

Information is a core concept in animal communication: individuals routinely produce, acquire, process and store information, which provides the basis for their social life.

This book is a contribution to the history of ethology-not a definitive history, but the personal view of a major figure in that story.

In this powerful study the distinguished social anthropologist Alan Barnard addresses the fundamental questions surrounding the evolution of human society.

The book integrates our understanding of the factors and processes underlying the evolution of multicellularity by providing several complementary perspectives (both theoretical and experimental) and using examples from various lineages in which multicellularity evolved.

This volume investigates the effects of human activities on coral reefs, which provide important life-supporting systems to surrounding natural and human communities.

The poles undergo climate changes exceeding those in the rest of the world in terms of their speed and extent, and have a key role in modulating the climate of the Earth.

More than 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America, a continent that was then truly a new world.

Designed for new scholars, this book features a quick and easy-to-read discussion of ethnobotany along with its major developments.

This book is divided in two parts, the first of which shows how, beyond paleontology and systematics, macroevolutionary theories apply key insights from ecology and biogeography, developmental biology, biophysics, molecular phylogenetics and even the sociocultural sciences to explain evolution in deep time.

This volume focuses on the huge advances in the last 25 years on the use of this animal model for biomedical research (cancer, heart disease and neurodegeneration), fundamental neuroscience and basic subterranean biology.

What comes first, form or function?

This volume provides a comprehensive overview on developmental origins of health and disease regarding various factors related to the origins of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) from early life.

Two discoveries of early human relatives, one in 1924 and one in 2003, radically changed scientific thinking about our origins.

In a world where natural selection has shaped adaptations of astonishing ingenuity, what is the scope and unique power of rational thinking?

This book takes a new approach to the debate on causal pluralism in the philosophy of biology by asking how useful pluralism is instead of debating its truth.

The extended continental South American turtle record (Norian to Lujanian) allows us to follow the evolution of this reptile clade from its origins.

The stingless bees are the most diverse group of highly social bees and are key species in our planet's tropical and subtropical regions, where they thrive.

This book contests the general view that natural selection constitutes the explanatory core of evolutionary biology.

A fascinating account of how organisms are able to live in, or survive, extreme conditions.

Monitoring has become fashionable.

The main intention of this book is to bring together contributions from biology, cognitive science, and the humanities for a joint exploration of some of the main contemporary notions dealing with the understanding of origins in life,mind and society.