Evolution

Evolution and the Emergent Self is an eloquent and evocative new synthesis that explores how the human species emerged from the cosmic dust.

The past decade has witnessed an explosion of information on the molecular biology of insect viruses and a frenzy of activity in applying this information to medicine and agriculture.

The papers in this volume are representative of those presented at a conference entitled "e;Creatures of the Dark: The Nocturnal Prosimians,"e; held at Duke University, June 9-12, 1993.

Nouragues is a tropical forest research station in French Guiana.

How did life begin?

Down from the Trees: Man's Amazing Transition from Tree-Dwelling Ape Ancestors covers the evolution of man from tree-dwelling ape to Homo sapiens as he is today.

This book is the third volume in the Handbook of Zoology series which treats the systematics and biology of Coleoptera.

In an age of increasing environmental problems, ecology has had to grow up fast from a discipline dealing with relatively simple interactions between species to one that tries to explain changes in global patterns of diversity and richness.

Positive psychologists focus on ways that we can advance the lives of individuals and communities by studying the factors that increase positive outcomes such as life satisfaction and happiness.

This book is the first one in which basic demographic models are rigorously formulated by using modern age-structured population dynamics, extended to study real-world population problems.

The chemicals from plant sources, generally termed as phytochemicals, play an important role in acceptance or rejection of the plant by the pests as they could be distasteful or toxic on one hand or on the other hand specialist herbivores have the capability to feed on many such chemicals, as they are able to process these natural products in a manner that is beneficial to them.

Hemiptera - Heteroptera encompasses the three well-defined suborders of the true bugs which are adapted to an aquatic or littoral habitat.

This book is an introduction to the use of information theory and coding theory in molecular biology.

Letters from 1878, when Darwin experimented with his son Francis on plant movements such as sleep and circumnutation.

Evolutionary biomechanics is the study of evolution through the analysis of biomechanical systems.

Land bridges are the causeways of biodiversity.

The history of life is a nearly four billion year old story of transformative change.

Many animals, including humans, acquire valuable skills and knowledge by copying others.

Essays from a range of disciplinary perspectives show the central role that cooperation plays in structuring our world.

This second edition textbook offers an expanded conceptual synthesis of microbial ecology with plant and animal ecology.

Dragonflies and Damselflies documents the latest advances in odonate biology and relates these to a broader ecological and evolutionary research agenda.

Presents an introduction to the area of evolutionary conservation biology.

In this worldwide survey, Clive Gamble explores the evolution of the human imagination, without which we would not have become a global species.

Highlights what we know about the pathways pursued by embryos and evolution, and stresses what we do not yet know.

Metamorphosis and the transition from larvae or embryos to juveniles in fishes are important in order to answer, for example, questions about: (1) life-history styles and their modifications in evolutionary perspective and within current environmental demands; (2) the development and application of fisheries recruitment models, (3) the use of ontogenetic scales for interspecific comparisons, (4) the identification of ontogenetic shifts in resource use, and (5) the discovery of evolutionary interrelationships of species or genera.

Empirical and philosophical perspectives on scaffolding that highlight the role of temporal and temporary resources in development across concepts of culture, cognition, and evolution.

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.

This monograph presents the results of over 10 years of paleontological and geological survey in the Baynunah Formation of the United Arab Emirates.

This book attempts to develop a Marxist theory of the human individual.

Darwin's theory of evolution transformed the life sciences and made profound claims about human origins and the human condition, topics often viewed as the prerogative of religion.

What lies beneath the surface of the ocean has mystified humankind for millennia.

Music is central to human cultural and intellectual experience.

This book provides practical ecological, ethological, evolutionary, and biogeographic data for gall-inducing cecidomyiids, their galls and host plants, based on field surveys, laboratory experiments and genetic analysis.

"e;From the formation of the Universe to today, countless major events have changed the course of life on Earth.

The definitive reference covering mammals of the southern African subregion.

Is human nature something that the natural and social sciences aim to describe, or is it a pernicious fiction?

Evolution is the most profound of human ideas integrating all natural phenomena: cosmic, biological, and cultural into a continuous universal change.

An expanded and updated second edition comprehensively looks at macroevolution, integrating evolutionary processes at all levels to explain animal diversity.

Highlights what we know about the pathways pursued by embryos and evolution, and stresses what we do not yet know.

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.

Few scientists have made lasting contributions to as many fields as Francis Galton.

'Mind expanding - this book will change your view of the world forever' Matthew SyedA blueprint for a better future.

This is the eighth volume of a ten-volume series on The Natural History of the Crustacea.

Pollination and Floral Ecology is the most comprehensive single-volume reference to all aspects of pollination biology--and the first fully up-to-date resource of its kind to appear in decades.

Genomic Selection for Crop Improvement serves as handbook for users by providing basic as well as advanced understandings of genomic selection.

Parasites have evolved independently in numerous animal lineages, and they now make up a considerable proportion of the biodiversity of life.