Evolution

The shift of weather patterns has affected the incidence and prevalence of infectious diseases, including mycoses.

This book provides the first diverse and multifaceted textual and cartographic overview of natural curative resources of mineral waters and peloids in Russia.

This book serves as a brief introduction to phylogenetic trees and molecular evolution for biologists and biology students.

The book introduces fish distant hybridization, which covers the basic theory and applications of fish distant hybridization as well as the main biological characteristics of different ploidy fish at the individual, tissue, cell, and molecular level.

Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of population and community ecology-such as birth-death processes, species interactions, selection, and stochasticity-with larger-scale issues such as dispersal and habitat heterogeneity.

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) events encompass processes as varied as the exchange of genetic material between microbes coexisting in the same environment, between symbiotic bacteria and their eukaryotic hosts, and the evolution of organelles by symbiosis, in which whole genomes are acquired.

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

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

This fully updated second edition explores protocols that address the most challenging aspects of experimental work in ancient DNA, such as preparing ancient samples for DNA extraction, the DNA extraction itself, and transforming extracted ancient DNA molecules for sequencing library preparation.

This book is a practical guide for biologists who use multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) for their data analysis and are looking for a comprehensive overview of the many different programs.

This book reviews and summarizes the studies on the fish diversity of Japan.

The study of the chimpanzee, one of the human species' closest relatives, has led scientists to exciting discoveries about evolution, behavior, and cognition over the past half century.

The Visible Monkey is the first trial to obtain high-quality and real-color sectioned images of a rhesus monkey's whole body (intervals, 0.

Together with early theoretical work in population genetics, the debate on sources of genetic makeup initiated by proponents of the neutral theory made a solid contribution to the spectacular growth in statistical methodologies for molecular evolution.

This book addresses several key issues in the biological study of death with the intent of capturing their genealogy, the assumptions and presuppositions they make, and the way that they open specific new research avenues.

Directed Evolution Library Creation: Methods and Protocols, Second Edition presents user-friendly protocols for both proven strategies and cutting-edge approaches for the creation of mutant gene libraries for directed evolution.

The orchid family is one of the largest families of flowering plants known for their beauty and economic importance.

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

Pathbreaking and controversial, Darwin and International Relations offers the first comprehensive analysis of international affairs of state through the lens of evolutionary theory.

On the Origin of Species, published on 24 November 1859, is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin that is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology.

Este libro compila el esfuerzo del Semillero de Investigacion en Primatologia y Conservacion de sus Ecosistemas (SIPCE) y el Laboratorio de Historia Natural (IZBD) del Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad de Caldas por resaltar y divulgar informacion asociada a las especies de primates y otros vertebrados que habitan en el departamento con miras a su conservacion.

An ecologist explores how life itself shapes Earth using the elemental constituents we all shareIt is rare for life to change Earth, yet three organisms have profoundly transformed our planet over the long course of its history.

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.

This book aims to understand biological evolution through a physical approach, focusing on the macroscopic aspects of the biological genome.

This book aims to understand biological evolution through a physical approach, focusing on the macroscopic aspects of the biological genome.

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.

The first edition of Evolution of Fossil Ecosystems was widely praised for its coverage and approach in describing and illustrating 14 well-known fossil sites from around the world.

The first edition of Evolution of Fossil Ecosystems was widely praised for its coverage and approach in describing and illustrating 14 well-known fossil sites from around the world.

Das Buch entwickelt und verteidigt eine Form des ethischen Naturalismus.

Developmental Approaches to Human Evolution encapsulates the current state of evolutionary developmental anthropology.

Das Buch entwickelt und verteidigt eine Form des ethischen Naturalismus.

Darwinism and the Divine examines the implications of evolutionary thought for natural theology, from the time of publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species to current debates on creationism and intelligent design.

An ecologist explores how life itself shapes Earth using the elemental constituents we all shareIt is rare for life to change Earth, yet three organisms have profoundly transformed our planet over the long course of its history.

Latin America has extensive microbial diversity and is endemic for a wide array of infectious agents including dengue, chikungunya, malaria and tuberculosis.

Latin America has extensive microbial diversity and is endemic for a wide array of infectious agents including dengue, chikungunya, malaria and tuberculosis.

Phylogeography of California examines the evolution of a variety of taxa-ancient and recent, native and migratory-to elucidate evolutionary events both major and minor that shaped the distribution, radiation, and speciation of the biota of California.

How can we bring together the study of genes, embryos and fossils?

From two of the world's leading authorities on dogs, an imaginative journey into a future of dogs without peopleWhat would happen to dogs if humans simply disappeared?

Hans Thewissen, a leading researcher in the field of whale paleontology and anatomy, gives a sweeping first-person account of the discoveries that brought to light the early fossil record of whales.

This captivating book, laced with evocative anecdotes from the field, gives the first holistic, up-to-date overview of dinosaurs and their world for a wide audience of readers.

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.

Molecular studies reveal highly ordered geographic patterns in plant and animal distributions.

Now in its second edition, this book covers two major classes of mixed effects models-linear mixed models and generalized linear mixed models-and it presents an up-to-date account of theory and methods in analysis of these models as well as their applications in various fields.

This volume reviews our current understanding for how sex determination is initiated and how it results in sexual dimorphic development.

New viral diseases are emerging continuously.

Berta and Sumich have succeeded yet again in creating superior marine reading!

Bones and Cartilage provides the most in-depth review ever assembled on the topic.

This is the first and only book, so far, to deal with the causal basis of evolution from an epigenetic view.

Primate Adaptation and Evolution, Third Edition, is a thorough revision of the text of choice for courses in primate evolution.