Evolution

In The Adapted Mind, Jerome Barkow, along with Leda Cosmides and John Tooby, set out to redefine evolutionary psychology for the social sciences and to create a new agenda for the next generation of social scientists.

Over the past 40 years, the SIP meetings have played a central role in the development of the field of insect-plant relationships, providing both a show-case for current research as well as a forum for the airing and development of influential new ideas.

This book introduces cutting-edge studies on the spectrum of sex.

This volume was created initially from a symposium of the same name presented at the International Primatological Society's XVIII Congress in Adelaide.

This book provides concise and cutting-edge reviews in astrobiology, a young and still emerging multidisciplinary field of science that addresses the fundamental questions of how life originated and diversified on Earth, whether life exists beyond Earth, and what is the future for life on Earth.

This book explores the global technological transformations that have shaped development of society for eons, from the emergence of Homo sapiens to the modern day.

In 1859 Darwin described a deceptively simple mechanism that he called "e;natural selection,"e; a combination of variation, inheritance, and reproductive success.

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Explore Darwin''s world in a unique, first hand account through his letters, many of which have never been published before.

This edited volume systematically reviews the evidence for early human presence in one of the most relevant geographic regions of Europe - the Balkans and Anatolia, an area that has been crucial in shaping the course of human evolution in Europe, but whose paleoanthropological record is poorly known.

Viral Interference and Interferon details the developments in the control of virus infections by natural means.

The birth of bacterial genomics since the mid-1990s brought withit several conceptual modifications and wholly new controversies.

Gene Function, contains the proceedings of the 12th Meeting of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies held in Dresden, Germany in 1978.

Relying mostly on modern genetic science, this book exposes how various forms of creationism-including intelligent design-fail to provide testable models for the appearance and evolution of life.

This volume focuses on the ethnobiology of southern Chile's Archipelago of Chiloe.

This book presents the latest information on canine parasites with zoonotic potential, to help avoid human infections.

A transformative exploration of the development of science fiction as a central driving force of humanity’s evolution.

It is widely acknowledged that life has adapted to its environment, but the precise mechanism remains unknown since Natural Selection, Descent with Modification and Survival of the Fittest are metaphors that cannot be scientifically tested.

Leaping Ahead: Advances in Prosimian Biology presents a summary of the state of prosimian biology as we move into the second decade of the 21st century.

Phylogeography of Southern European Refugia provides the first synthesis of the remarkable diversity, evolutionary complexity, and conservation importance of the flora and fauna in the Mediterranean region, with emphasis on the three major peninsular refugia.

As Christians, we are often urged to turn away from scientific discovery and rely solely on the Bible as the source of our faith.

This edited volume provides the historical and geological background, as well as the details pertaining to the morphology and morphometric assessments, of a singular human cranial specimen from the Late Pleistocene discovered in Hofmeyr, South Africa.

This volume is a comprehensive reference work on the life, labors and influence of the great evolutionist Charles Darwin.

Countless ants transport and deposit seeds and thereby influence the survival, death, and evolution of many plant species.

This text focuses on underutilized wild plants that can help to reduce food deficiency in developing nations.

Explores fundamental philosophical and scientific questions about the nature of life, particularly in relation to the search for extraterrestrial life.

Diatom biology, genomics and ecology are becoming more relevant to the human species.

This Element explores differences across religious systems in relation to the complex history of religion and violence.

This fully updated and expanded edition addresses the origins of biological and synthetic life from a systems biology perspective.

As shown in the text, there can be little doubt that the genetic mechanism is, for all practical purposes, equivalent to life itself.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

In this landmark work, the author team led by Dr.

Nanotechnology is considered as one of the emerging fields of science.

Movement, dispersal, and migration on land, in the air, and in water, are pervading features of animal life.

A groundbreaking theory of what makes the human mind uniqueThe Recursive Mind challenges the commonly held notion that language is what makes us uniquely human.

This book is devoted to the ichnology of insects, and associated trace fossils, in soils and paleosols.

This edited research monograph brings together contributions from computer scientists, biologists, and engineers who are engaged with the study of evolution and how it may be applied to solve real-world problems.

The aim of this edited book is to provide health professionals, across a wide variety of specialisms, with a targeted access to evolutionary medicine.

This is a comprehensive overview of the basics of fuzzy control, which also brings together some recent research results in soft computing, in particular fuzzy logic using genetic algorithms and neural networks.

The bibliography provides information about the presence and distribution of plants and animals in cities throughout Europe.

Whether understood in a narrow sense as the popular works of a small number of (white male) authors, or as a larger more diffuse movement, twenty-first century scholars, journalists, and activists from all 'sides' in the atheism versus theism debate, have noted the emergence of a particular form of atheism frequently dubbed 'New Atheism'.

Humanitarian protection has evolved from an act of charity into a legal obligation not to remove certain categories of non-nationals.

In this work aggression and conflict in man and other primates are interpreted in the light of evolutionary biology and game theory models.

This book simulates a historical walk through nature, teaching readers about the biodiversity on Earth in various eras with a focus on past terrestrial environments.

The erratic motion of pollen grains and other tiny particles suspended in liquid is known as Brownian motion, after its discoverer, Robert Brown, a botanist who worked in 1828, in London.

This interdisciplinary volume brings together expert researchers coming from primatology, anthropology, ethology, philosophy of cognitive sciences, neurophysiology, mathematics and psychology to discuss both the foundations of non-human primate and human social cognition as well as the means there currently exist to study the various facets of social cognition.

Life history theory seeks to explain the evolution of the major features of life cycles by analyzing the ecological factors that shape age-specific schedules of growth, reproduction, and survival and by investigating the trade-offs that constrain the evolution of these traits.

It's time for a story of human evolution that goes beyond describing "e;ape-men"e; and talks about what women and children were doing.

In 1974 when I published my book, Biological Mechanism of Attachment, not many pages were required to report on the attachment devices of insect cuticles.

Rough-and-tumble play provided one of the paradigmatic examples of the appli- tion of ethological methods, back in the 1970's.