This book is a Weekend Pocketbook on Everything You Should Know About the Biodiversity Crisis, the quiet unraveling of the living world we depend on more than we realize.
«Estoy plenamente convencido de que las especies no son inmutables, sino que las que pertenecen a lo que se conoce como un mismo género son descendientes directas de alguna otra especie por lo común extinta, de igual modo que las variedades reconocidas de una especie cualquiera son descendientes de esa especie.
Este libro cuenta la gran aventura de los avatares y de las múltiples y sucesivas migraciones de los "homininos" (es decir, del hombre y todas las especies humanas extinguidas) desde que los primeros de ellos descendieron de los árboles y, muy poco a poco, empezaron a transitar en posición erecta sobre la tierra, hasta el Neolítico y el tiempo presente.
First published in 1859 and revised through six editions in response to two decades of scientific debate, On the Origin of Species laid out the theory of evolution by natural selection with a wealth of evidence drawn from geology, breeding, and comparative anatomy.
Como declara ya en el prólogo su autor, Giorgio Manzi, "Últimas noticias sobre la evolución humana" es un libro esencialmente divulgativo acerca de nuestra prehistoria, desde Lucy a los neanderthales, del misterioso "Homo naledi" a Ötzi o a los hallazgos de Atapuerca.
Launching a new series, Monographs in Behavior and Ecology, this work is an intensive study of five species of New World monkeys--all omnivores with a diet of fruit and small prey.
Since its discovery in I960, the hybridization of somatic cells has evolved from a biological curiosity into an analytical method that today underlies nearly all investigations of the genetic aspects of various biological phenomena.
Robin Dunbar uses economic models to explore the social behavior of the gelada baboon (Theropithecus gelada), a unique species, whose social system is one of the most complex among the primates.
The purpose of this book is to explain why red-winged blackbirds are polygynous and to describe the effects of this mating system on other aspects of the biology of the species.
An international group of distinguished scientists presents an up-to-date survey of quantitative problems at the forefront of modern evolutionary theory.
After his famous visit to the Galapagos Islands, Darwin speculated that "e;one might fancy that, from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends.
Glimpses of Creatures in Their Physical Worlds offers an eye-opening look into how the characteristics of the physical world drive the designs of animals and plants.
Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of theoretical and empirical studies of sex allocation, transforming how we understand the allocation of resources to male and female reproduction in vertebrates, invertebrates, protozoa, and plants.
In the current resurgence of interest in the biological basis of animal behavior and social organization, the ideas and questions pursued by Charles Darwin remain fresh and insightful.
Mechanical Design of Structural Materials in Animals explores the principles underlying how molecules interact to produce the functional attributes of biological materials: their strength and stiffness, ability to absorb and store energy, and ability to resist the fatigue that accrues through a lifetime of physical insults.
A lavishly illustrated look at how evolution plays out in selective breedingUnnatural Selection is a stunningly illustrated book about selective breeding-the ongoing transformation of animals at the hand of man.
The concept of fitness has long been a topic of intense debate among evolutionary biologists and their critics, with its definition and explanatory power coming under attack.
Synthesizing studies of parental care in a wide variety of animals, this book is the first attempt to provide general answers to the following important questions: Why does the extent of parental care vary so widely between species?
Natural selection is an immense and important subject, yet there have been few attempts to summarize its effects on natural populations, and fewer still which discuss the problems of working with natural selection in the wild.
This book deals with a key area of population genetics: the ratio of the sexes in a population, or the allocation of resources to male versus female reproductive function.
Although ecologists have long considered morphology and life history to be important determinants of the distribution, abundance, and dynamics of plants in nature, this book contains the first theory to predict explicitly both the evolution of plant traits and the effects of these traits on plant community structure and dynamics.
Professor Levins, one of the leading explorers in the field of integrated population biology, considers the mutual interpenetration and joint evolution of organism and environment, occurring on several levels at once.
In spite of the fact that parasites represent more than half of all living species of plants and animals, their role in the evolution of life on earth has been substantially underestimated.
A number of scholars have found that concepts such as mutation, selection, and random drift, which emerged from the theory of biological evolution, may also explain evolutionary phenomena in other disciplines as well.
Evolutionary Community Ecology develops a unified framework for understanding the structure of ecological communities and the dynamics of natural selection that shape the evolution of the species inhabiting them.
