Evolution

While much attention has been given to animal life in amber, the remains of a variety of plants, including angiosperm flowers, also exist in fossilized resin.

In the mid- to late-twentieth century, large scientific conflicts flared in two seemingly distinct fields of scientific inquiry.

This volume details the function of hydrocarbon seeps, their evolution over time, the most important seep occurrences and the fauna present in ancient hydrocarbon seeps.

Other animals are driven to spend essentially their whole lives just trying to get fed, stay alive, and get laid.

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

This book explores the nature of cultural and culturally structured social and behavioral entities, their evolutionary interactions, and the central role purposive behaviors play in those interactions.

The epistemological synthesis of the various theories of evolution, since the first formulation in 1802 with the transmission of the inherited characters by J.

This book presents a synthesis of critical new information for the Melastomataceae, one of the ten richest families among flowering plants with over 5,800 species that has its diversity highly concentrated in tropical or subtropical areas.

A presentation of over 700 popular orchid species in 104 genera carefully detailed with beautiful photographs and concise descriptions of plants, their distribution and habitats by a well-known author and photographer.

Dramatic advances in computing power enable simulation of DNA sequences generated by complex microevolutionary scenarios that include mutation, population structure, natural selection, meiotic recombination, demographic change, and explicit spatial geographies.

Petrus van Stijn's world is besieged by two prime engines of destruction: massive geomagnetic storms caused by unprecedented solar storms - protracted coronal mass ejections (CME), and climate change wreaking unprecedented, but predictable collapse of the Antarctic ice shelves.

Biotremology is a new and emerging discipline in biological sciences that covers all aspects of behavior associated with substrate-borne mechanical waves.

This book approaches two behavioral domains involved with human nature and actions related to dominance, an ancient animal, survival-linked, behavioral drive anchored in basal neural brain circuits.

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

Cellular-molecular approach to evolution has led to radical changes in our understanding of biologic principles ranging from the Cell, to the Life Cycle, Development, Homeostasis, Senescence/Aging, Heterochrony, Pleiotropy, Phenotype, and perhaps the purpose of life itself.

Global industrial growth has resulted in numerous pollutants being introduced into the environment.

Development is a complex and highly dynamic process involving the cross talk among genes, maternal effects and environmental circumstances.

This book is designed as an easy night's read and introduction to fossil soils and the relatively new disciplines of Paleopedology and Astropedology.

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

This book takes a new approach to the debate on causal pluralism in the philosophy of biology by asking how useful pluralism is instead of debating its truth.

This second, completely revised edition of "e;Paleogene fossil birds"e; gives a comprehensive, updated overview of the avian fossil record from a geological period that lasted from the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event (66 million years ago) to the end of the Oligocene epoch (23 mya).

This book is about evolutionary theory.

This book answers the question "e;What is it that viruses do?

Survival of the fittest"e; is a tautology, because those that are "e;fit"e; are the ones that survive, but to survive, a species must be "e;fit"e;.

This book reviews the evolution of Biosemiotics and gives an outlook on the future of this interdisciplinary new discipline.

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.

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.

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 will present information on Pantanal vegetation including an updated checklist of flora, useful plants, ecological aspects and some topics never published for this region, such as lichens.

This book charts the history of how biological evolution has been depicted on British television and radio, from the first radio broadcast on evolution in 1925 through to the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's Origin of the Species in 2009.

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

This book provides a comprehensive monograph of the family Humiraceae.

This book outlines the evolution of our political nature over two million years and explores many of the rituals, plays, films, and other performances that gave voice and legitimacy to various political regimes in our species' history.

A presentation of over 700 popular orchid species in 104 genera carefully detailed with beautiful photographs and concise descriptions of plants, their distribution and habitats by a well-known author and photographer.

This book, by an eminent scientist and philosopher, provides strong evidence for the claim that language is a general principle of Nature, rooted exclusively in physical and chemical laws.

This book introduces the value of a Darwinian social evolutionary approach to understanding social change.

'Developmental biology' is widely understood as processes, which mainly concern embryonic animal development and differentiation of cells and tissue.

For humankind, the most irreducible idea is the concept of life itself.

This book describes the variety of direct and indirect population size estimation (PSE) methods available along with their strengths and weaknesses.

Explorer-naturalists Robert Brown and Mungo Park played a pivotal role in the development of natural history and exploration in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

This book presents the result of an innovative challenge, to create a systematic literature overview driven by machine-generated content.

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.

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

This book addresses multiple aspects of biological clocks in prokaryotes.

This new edition captures the advances made in the field of evolutionary systems biology since the publication of the first edition.

The origin of life has been investigated by many researchers from various research fields, such as Geology, Geochemistry, Physics, Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Astronomy and so on.

The study of religion by the humanities and social sciences has become receptive for an evolutionary perspective.

Plants are an important source of fats and oils, which are essential for the human diet.

A growing body of evidence from the sciences suggests that our moral beliefs have an evolutionary basis.