Evolution

Fisheries genetics researchers will find invaluable the thirty-eight peer-reviewed contributions in this book, presented at the 20th Lowell Wakefield Fisheries Symposium "e;Genetics of Subpolar Fish and Invertebrates,"e; held in May 2002 in Juneau, Alaska.

This volume handles in various perspectives the concept of function and the nature of functional explanations, topics much discussed since two major and conflicting accounts have been raised by Larry Wright and Robert Cummins' papers in the 1970s.

When it comes to reproduction, gymnosperms are deeply weird.

Pike and related fish form an important part of aquatic ecosystems and are also commercially very valuable.

The rapid evolutionary development of modern Homo sapiens over the past 200,000 years is a topic of fevered interest in numerous disciplines.

This atlas contains 189 coloured images taken from transversal, horizontal and sagittal sections of eleven organisms widely used in university teaching.

Nontarget Effects of Biological Control is the first book of its kind.

The first ever reference book on the behaviour, physiology, conservation and biogeography of the dwarf and mouse lemurs of Madagascar.

Mental disorders arise from neural and psychological mechanisms that have been built and shaped by natural selection across our evolutionary history.

This book discusses and addresses the rapidly increasing world population demand for food, which is expected to double by 2050.

Das Buch entwickelt und verteidigt eine Form des ethischen Naturalismus.

This volume is a self-contained companion piece to Studying Vibrational Communication, published in 2014 within the same series.

This book provides complete and up-to-date information on sika deer biology and its management, focusing on their life history with an integrated approach of population dynamics, morphology, genetics, and evolution.

This book investigates the limits and possibilities of mismatch theories in evolutionary medicine, a topic that has not yet received much attention in philosophy.

This volume introduces a model of the expansion of cultural capacity as a systemic approach with biological, historical and individual dimensions.

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 addresses multiple aspects of biological clocks in prokaryotes.

When Charles Darwin first proposed Sexual Selection Theory, he suggested two mechanisms: competition among males and choice by females.

This two-volume edited book highlights and reviews the potential of the fossil record to calibrate the origin and evolution of parasitism, and the techniques to understand the development of parasite-host associations and their relationships with environmental and ecological changes.

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.

This order once encompassed all insects with a complex network of wing veins, regardless of whether their metamorphosis was incomplete or complete.

An overview of current research and experimental approaches in avian cognition and how this relates to other species.

Fischer uses evolutionary psychology to explain why people''s personality and values are both similar and different across cultures worldwide.

Gene mapping is used in experimental genetics to improve the hardiness or productivity of animals or plants of agricultural value, to explore basic mechanisms of inheritance, or to study animal models of human inheritance.

An interdisciplinary book for scientists interested in the origin and existence of life in our universe, first published in 2007.

Les commémorations récentes autour de Darwin et de L’Origine des espèces ont surtout visé à défendre le darwinisme.

Evolution has long shaped human behavior.

This book introduces the value of a Darwinian social evolutionary approach to understanding social change.

The book is the most in-depth account of the fossil skull anatomy and evolutionary significance of the 3.

A presentation of over 700 popular orchid species in 104 genera carefully detailed with beautiful photographs and concise descriptions of plants, their distribution and habitats by a well-known author and photographer.

In the hard sciences, which can often feel out of grasp for many lay readers, there are "e;great thinkers"e; who go far beyond the equations, formulas, and research.

Few economists can claim the influence-or fame-of F.

After addressing strange cosmological hypotheses in Weird Universe, David Seargent tackles the no-less bizarre theories closer to home.

The volume on oilseed crops is developed as a part of a series on "e;Handbook of Agrobiodiversity: Conservation and Use of Plant Genetic Resources"e;.

In order to understand common conditions such as coeliac disease and Crohn's disease, one must view the gut in its evolutionary context.

Segmented Negative Strand Viruses: Arenaviruses, Bunyaviruses, and Orthomyxoviruses is a collection of proceedings presented at the 5th International Symposium on Negative Strand Viruses, held at Hilton Head, South Carolina, on September 11-17, 1983.

This book contains selected papers presented at ICGEC 2021, the 14th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing, held from October 21-23, 2021 in Jilin City, China.

This book explores the ethnobiology of corals by examining the various ways in which humans, past and present, have exploited and taken care of coral and coralline habitats.

Charles Darwin, the father of the theory of evolution, described the evolutionary origin of flowering plants, which appear to have risen abruptly during the late Cretaceous Period, as an "e;abominable mystery.

Based on the author's more than 40 years experience, Bacterial Growth and Form examines such important questions as what bacteria were, what they are, and what they do.

A simple clear introduction to invertebrate biology, with an emphasis on evolution in each group.

From the Scopes "e;Monkey Trial"e; of 1925 to the court ruling against the Dover Area School Board's proposed intelligent design curriculum in 2005, few scientific topics have engendered as much controversy-or grabbed as many headlines-as evolution.

The Origin of Life on the Earth covers the proceedings of the First International Symposium of The Origin of Life on the Earth, held at Moscow on August 19-24, 1957.

Plant breeders have long sought technologies to extend human control over nature.

This review volume represents the first attempt to provide a comprehensive overview of this exciting and rapidly evolving development.

This most important book fully examines the welfare of captive reptiles and discusses the positive and negative implications of general husbandry and research programmes.