Evolution

This book is the first comprehensive volume on conifers detailing their genomes, variations, and evolution.

The aim of the book is to present original and though-provoking essays in human paleontology and prehistory, which are at the forefront of human evolutionary research, in honor of Professor Yoel Rak (a leading scholar in paleoanthropology).

The Southern Oceans including Antarctic regions are peculiar and very sensitive water biotopes, where animal life and species interrelations are only poorly investigated.

Building upon the previous editions, this textbook is a first course in stochastic processes taken by undergraduate and graduate students (MS and PhD students from math, statistics, economics, computer science, engineering, and finance departments) who have had a course in probability theory.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of different biomedical data types, including both clinical and genomic data.

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Have you ever wondered what could happen when we discover another communicating species outside the Earth?

This book is devoted to the knowledge of up to 250 years of collecting, organizing and preserving animals by generations of scientists.

The central focus of this book is the avian respiratory system.

This book discusses several recent theoretic advancements in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary integration in the field of evolution.

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

This book introduces updated information on conservation issues, providing an overview of what is needed to advance the global conservation of freshwater decapods such as freshwater crabs, crayfish, and shrimps.

This book presents visual plant defenses (camouflage, mimicry and aposematism via coloration, morphology and even movement) against herbivores.

This book presents selected contributions to the 19th Evolutionary Biology Meeting, which took place in September 2015 in Marseille.

This edited volume is a timely and comprehensive summary of the New Zealand lizard fauna.

This textbook provides a collection of case studies in paleoanthropology demonstrating the method and limitations of science.

This volume critically reviews all previously published work of parasites that interact with krill (order Euphausiacea) updating misconceptions and summarizing the diversity of epibionts, ectoparasites, mesoparasites and endoparasites that interact with these crustaceans.

This contributed volume explores the emerging intersection between big data analytics and genomics.

The "e;omics"e; era has given a new perspective to the findings on the origin and evolution of the process of translation.

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

Blast is an important foliar disease that infects the majority of cereal crops like rice, finger millet, pearl millet, foxtail millet and wheat, and thus resulting in a huge economic impact.

The book explores how Darwin's legendary and mythologized visit to the Galapagos affected the socioecosystems of the Islands, as well as the cultural and intellectual traditions of Ecuador and Latin America.

This reference work provides an comprehensive and easily accessible source of information on numerous aspects of Evolutionary Developmental Biology.

This book provides a comprehensive review of the evolution of traits associated with predation and predator defense for bats and all of their prey, both invertebrates (e.

This book investigates the mathematical analysis of biological invasions.

This volume gathers papers originally presented at the 3rd Workshop on Branching Processes and their Applications (WBPA15), which was held from 7 to 10 April 2015 in Badajoz, Spain (http://branching.

The bibliography provides information about the presence and distribution of plants and animals in cities throughout Europe.

The book combines information about the behaviour that allowedruminants to survive and to evolve on Earth: the rumen.

This work provides a user-friendly, species level taxonomic key based on morphology, current nomenclature, and modern taxonomy using molecular tools which fulfill the most pressing needs of both researchers and environmental managers.

Philosophy in Reality offers a new vision of the relation between science and philosophy in the framework of a non-propositional logic of real processes, grounded in the physics of the real world.

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The aim of this edited book is to provide health professionals, across a wide variety of specialisms, with a targeted access to evolutionary medicine.

This volume covers theorders Boraginales, Garryales and Solanales (except Convolvulaceae) of theLamiids (Asterids I) as well as three unplaced families of that clade, i.

Genetics professor Michelle Murphy loses her husband under mysterious circumstances and without warning, while their brilliant eight year old daughter Avalon, adopted in Kazakhstan, stubbornly believes she is a mutant.

Now in its third edition and supplemented with more online material, this book aims to make the "e;new"e; information-based (rather than gene-based) bioinformatics intelligible both to the "e;bio"e; people and the "e;info"e; people.

This book is devoted to the ichnology of insects, and associated trace fossils, in soils and paleosols.

Published in a modern, user-friendly format this fully revised and updated edition of The Handbook of Protoctista (1990) is the resource for those interested in the biology, diversity and evolution of eukaryotic microorganisms and their descendants, exclusive of animals, plants and fungi.

This volume summarizes recent advances in our understanding of the mechanisms that produce successful symbiotic partnerships involving microorganisms.

This book is the first of its kind, providing in-depth analysis of the retrograde evolution occurring during major extinction periods.

The world population is estimated to reach to more than 10 billion by the year 2050.

The world population is estimated to reach to more than 10 billion by the year 2050.

This book explores the potential and challenges of implementing evolutionary phylogenetic methods in archaeological research, by discussing key concepts and presenting concrete applications of these approaches.

With one volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences.

This book focuses on early germination, one of maize germplasm most important strategies for adapting to drought-induced stress.

This volume presents an eclectic mix of original research articles in areas covering the analysis of ordered data, stochastic modeling and biostatistics.

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

This atlas presents the basic concepts and principles of functional animal anatomy and histology thereby furthering our understanding of evolutionary concepts and adaptation to the environment.

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are obligate root symbionts that impact plant growth, productivity and competitiveness.

These proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Difference Equations and Applications cover the areas of difference equations, discrete dynamical systems, fractal geometry, difference equations and biomedical models, and discrete models in the natural sciences, social sciences and engineering.

This book covers the ethnobiology and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) of the Solega people of southern India.