Evolution

This book summarizes the work of several decades, culminating in a revolutionary model of recent human evolution.

A friendly 2007 guide to mathematical modelling for evolutionary and behavioural ecologists.

Since the Western world first became aware of the existence of Neanderthals, this Pleistocene human has been a regular focus of interest among specialists and also among the general public.

This book focuses on the first vertebrates to conquer land and their long journey to become fully independent from the water.

One of the most intriguing paleobiogeographical phenomena involving the origins and gradual sundering of Gondwana concerns the close similarities and, in most cases, inferred sister-group relationships of a number of terrestrial and freshwater vertebrate taxa, e.

Developed after a meeting at the Santa Fe Institute on extinction modeling, this book comments critically on the various modeling approaches.

Synthesizes and re-examines the evolution of the human pelvis, which sits at the interface between locomotion and childbirth.

This book presents coverage of the principles and practice of molecular clocks, which have provided fascinating and unprecedented insights into the evolutionary timescale of life on earth.

This book studies the application of green roofs in ecoregions of the western United States and Canada.

Of the world's seven continents, Asia is the largest.

This volume aims to clarify the epistemic potential of applying evolutionary thinking outside biology, and provides a survey of the current state of the art in research on relevant topics in the life sciences, the philosophy of science, and the various areas of evolutionary research outside the life sciences.

This book showcases the diverse strategies used by invertebrate organisms to enhance their structures with metals.

The Natural History of the Doucs and Snub-nosed Monkeys provides a comprehensive introduction to the biology of some of the rarest and least-known nonhuman primates.

Along with reproduction, balancing energy expenditure with the limits of resource acquisition is essential for both a species and a population to survive.

Avoiding Attack discusses the diversity of mechanisms by which prey avoid predator attacks and explores how such defensive mechanisms have evolved through natural selection.

For the first time experts in the area of signalling research with a focus on the ARF family have contributed to the production of a title devoted to ARF biology.

William Bateson brought the work of Mendel (and much more) to the attention of the English-speaking world.

This work is a large, powerfully illustrated interdisciplinary natural sciences volume, the first of its kind to examine the critically important nature of ecological paradox, through an abundance of lenses: the biological sciences, taxonomy, archaeology, geopolitical history, comparative ethics, literature, philosophy, the history of science, human geography, population ecology, epistemology, anthropology, demographics, and futurism.

This book summarizes recent advances in carnation genome research for large-scale transcriptome analysis, the draft genome sequence, DNA markers and genome mapping, flower color, mutations, flower opening, vase life, interspecific hybridization, fragrance.

Top researchers show how molecular biology can inform paleontology, directly and indirectly, to better understand life''s past.

An authoritative exploration of why understanding evolution is crucial to human life todayIt is easy to think of evolution as something that happened long ago, or that occurs only in "e;nature,"e; or that is so slow that its ongoing impact is virtually nonexistent when viewed from the perspective of a single human lifetime.

I spent four months in New Caledonia in 1971 with the object of making a quantitative survey of the night-flying macrolepidoptera with light-traps and an assessment of the Rhopalocera and microlepidoptera.

This book defends that the pursuit of originality constitutes one of the most important characteristics of creativity, but that originality refers, etymologically, to both origin and originary.

More than 25 years ago, the first major review of primate communication appeared (Altmann, 1967).

This Element is based on the many examples of superorganisms – socially organized species – in the natural world, and in evolution.

Ask anyone who has owned a pet and they'll assure you that, yes, animals have personalities.

Darwinian evolution is an imaginative problem that has been passed down to us unsolved.

This invaluable book is the first of its kind on 'selforganizology', the science of self-organization.

Evolutionary biology has long sought to explain how new traits and new species arise.

This book provides concrete scientific basis that we can conceive the possibility of modifying or even completely canceling aging process, despite the fact that aging is commonly regarded as the result of the overall effects of many uncontrollable degenerative phenomena.

A complete account of evolutionary thought in the social, environmental and policy sciences, creating bridges with biology.

There are two driving questions informing this book.

This book gives the reader an understanding of what consciousness is about, and of how to make conscious experiences more pleasant.

Multimodal approach to primate communication with focus on its cognitive foundations and how this relates to theories of language evolution.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE'A masterpiece of biography .

Scientific discoveries about the animal kingdom fuel ideological battles on many fronts, especially battles about sex and gender.

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

This book presents an overview study about plant biogeography and vegetation of the high mountains of Central and South-West Asia, by a group of specialists familiar with its area and plant growth and ecology.

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

Studies in floral biology are largely concerned with how flowers function to promote pollination and mating.

The Rhesus Monkey, Volume I: Anatomy and Physiology discusses the anatomic and physiological measurement, microscopic anatomy, learning, skills, general behavior, and vocalization of rhesus monkey.

The fossil record of giant flightless birds extends back to the Late Cretaceous, more than 70 million years ago, but our understanding of these extinct birds is still incomplete.

This book gives an overview of gene transfer and stability in those aquatic and terrestrial environments where bacteria and fungi can survive and interact genetically.

This book on "e;Orchid Biology: Recent Trends & Challenges"e; reviews the latest strategies for the preservation and conservation of orchid diversity and orchid germplasm.

This book provides a knowledge-based view to the dynamic capabilities in an organization.

Biology is often viewed today as a bipartisan field, with molecular level genetics guiding us into the future and natural history (including ecology, evolution, and conservation biology,) chaining us to a descriptive scientific past.

Most traits in nature and of importance to agriculture are quantitatively inherited.

The cerebellum is an intriguing component of the brain.