Evolution

Seas and oceans cover 71 % of the earth's surface and they are home to 80% of all life found on the planet .

This book discusses the natural classification and biosystematics of Triticeae, and presents the most significant findings of comprehensive studies on the Triticeae, an important tribe in the grass family (Poaceae) that includes major crops such as wheat, barley, rye and triticale, as well as various forage crops found in different genera.

This book summarizes the latest research on sheepgrass, both in China and around the globe, as well as fundamental information on the topic.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the Yangtze River system and its water resources development and management.

This book focuses on the morphology, exine ornamentation and the associated evolutionary trends of crabapple pollen and anatomical developmental patterns.

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 comprehensively discusses our current understanding of the role and biological mechanisms of horizontal transfer of genetic elements in the environment, which has been important in the evolution of prokaryotes (archaea and bacteria).

This book provides cutting-edge studies and technologies using small fishes, including zebrafish, medaka, and other fishes as new model animals for molecular biology, developmental biology, and medicine.

Humans now wield a greater influence on the planet than any other species in history, and human-developed technologies like genetic engineering and artificial intelligence stand poised to overtake biological evolution.

On the basis of thermodynamic considerations and the Earth's historical processes, this book argues the physical inevitability of life's generation and evolution, i.

This book introduces readers to nearly 600 common weeds.

The present edited book is an attempt to update the state of art of the knowledge on metabolism of ROS and antioxidants and their relationship in plant adaptation to abiotic stresses involving physiological, biochemical and molecular processes.

This book serves the larger community of plant researchers working on the taxonomy, species delimitation, phylogeny, and biogeography of pseudo-cereals, with a special emphasis on amaranths.

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.

Autores como Mayr (1998) parten de considerar a las ciencias de la vida divididas en dos dominios generales de indagación: la biología funcional ocupada en estudiar experimentalmente las causas próximas que, actuando a nivel del organismo individual, nos explican cómo los fenómenos vitales se encadenan e integran en la constitución de esas estructuras; y la biología evolutiva, ocupada en reconstruir, básicamente por métodos comparativos e inferencias históricas, las causas remotas que, actuando a nivel de las poblaciones, nos explicarían por qué cada una de estas evolucionan o evolucionaron en el modo en que efectivamente lo hacen y lo hicieron.

Este libro propone que la teoría de la selección natural de Darwin puede ser reformulada como un proceso general seleccionista que incluye, como instanciaciones suyas, otras teorías cuyos dominios van desde el nivel de la evolución biológica hasta el nivel de la evolución cultural de las teorías científicas… todas hacen parte de ese proceso general de selección natural en niveles emergentes.

Del big bang al Homo sapiens resume de manera amena, didáctica y bella los acontecimientos que llevan al Homo sapiens: desde el surgimiento del universo y los orígenes de la Tierra, pasando por la aparición de la vida y sus incontables desarrollos evolutivos, hasta el presente, con consideraciones sobre nuestro futuro.

Nuestros pensamientos, deseos, dolores y emociones no son más que nuevas manifestaciones sensibles de la química.

Pocos textos científicos hay que sean tan brillantes en su concepción y tan claros en su desarrollo como este.

En el presente, gran parte de las actitudes que poseen los seres humanos es el resultado de miles de años de evolución.

Plant palaeoecologists use data from plant fossils and plant subfossils to reconstruct ecosystems of the past.

Mean field approximation has been adopted to describe macroscopic phenomena from microscopic overviews.

The monograph discusses models of synthetic protocells, which are cell-like structures obtained from non-living matter endowed with some rudimentary kind of metabolism and genetics, but much simpler than biological cells.

This book introduces readers to nearly 600 common weeds.

This book provides an introduction to age-structured population modeling which emphasizes the connection between mathematical theory and underlying biological assumptions.

This volume in the series is devoted to Africa, a continent that possesses a vast treasure of medicinal plants and has produced some exclusive materials for the world market.

'The Essential Tension' explores how agents that naturally compete come to act together as a group.

This volume focuses on small mammal fossils from extinct Asian faunas of about 1 to 7 million years ago in North China.

This book introduces readers to nearly 600 common weeds.

This volume constitutes the most recent and most comprehensive consideration of the largest family of bony fishes, the Cichlidae.

This book, published in two volumes, provides the most comprehensive review of lamprey biology since Hardisty and Potter's "e;The Biology of Lampreys"e; published more than 30 years ago.

This book is the first to explore in detail the systematics and taxonomy of the digenean fauna of fish in Indian marine waters.

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.

Meaning, feeling and expression - the experience of inwardness - matter most in human existence.

This book presents a revised history of early biogeography and investigates the split in taxonomic practice, between the classification of taxa and the classification of vegetation.

In this brief, the authors explore and review the current knowledge regarding the role of molybdenum in the evolution of biological systems and their interaction with biogeochemical cycles.

The book integrates our understanding of the factors and processes underlying the evolution of multicellularity by providing several complementary perspectives (both theoretical and experimental) and using examples from various lineages in which multicellularity evolved.

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This two-volume work is a testament to the abiding interest and human fascination with ammonites.

This volume addresses major evolutionary changes that took place during the Ediacaran and the Paleozoic.

This root-and-branch re-evaluation of Darwin's concept of sexual selection tackles the subject from historical, epistemological and theoretical perspectives.

This volume contains studies on the evolution and function of lightweight constructions of planktonic and other organisms, and examples of how they can be used to create new solutions for radical innovations of lightweight constructions for technological application.

Medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) have accompanied mankind from its very early beginnings.

The present volume by the author is based on the outcome of extensive explorations in the Himalayas for more than a decade.

This volume explores questions about conceptual change from both scientific and philosophical viewpoints by analyzing the recent history of evolutionary developmental biology.

Predaceous diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) constitute one of the largest families of freshwater insects (~ 4,200 species).

Having indicators to assess the effect of zootechnical, sanitary, economic or political intervention or the impact of environmental risks makes it possible to draw up strategies for improving domestic animal populations.

The Darwinian theory of evolution is itself evolving and this book presents the details of the core of modern Darwinism and its latest developmental directions.

The book brings to light the most recent findings on the biogeography, biodiversity, host plant induction and natural history of gall inducing insects in the Neotropical region.

These chapters provide up-to-date information on nematophagous fungi, particularly those of the Orbiliaceae in Ascomycota, whose asexual states produce nematode-trapping devices.