Evolution

150,000 years of human existence have passed, and yet what do we really know about our history before the advent of writing?

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Why have creatures evolved as they are?

When George Price died in January 1975, his funeral in London was attended by five homeless men.

Few lives of great men offer so much interest - and so many mysteries - as the life of Charles Darwin, the greatest figure of nineteenth-century science, whose ideas are still inspiring discoveries and controversies more than 100 years after his death.

This concluding volume of Janet Browne's biography covers the transformation in Darwin's life after the first unexpected announcement of the theory of evolution by natural selection and the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859.

Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Evolution is a clear, simple and entertaining introduction to Charles Darwin's pioneering and revolutionary theory of how all life changes through natural selection.

Noted biologist and philosopher Sahotra Sarkar exposes the frauds and fallacies of Intelligent Design Theory, and its claim to be 'good science'.

A sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when they care for babies It has long seemed self-evident that women care for babies and men do other things.

Why size plays such a big role in the living worldJohn Tyler Bonner, one of our most distinguished and creative biologists, here offers a completely new perspective on the role of size in biology.

It has been nearly 150 years since Darwin published On the Origin of Species, and his theory of natural selection still ignites a forest of heated debate between scientific fundamentalists on the one hand and religious fundamentalists on the other.

What have we learnt about the Nile since the mid-1970s, the moment when Julian Rzoska decided that the time had come to publish a comprehensive volume about the biology, and the geological and cultural history of that great river?

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Synthesizing the findings from a wide range of disciplines - from biology and anthropology to philosophy and linguistics - the emerging field of Biosemiotics explores the highly complex phenomenon of sign processing in living systems.

Carving Nature at its Joints?

Armen Takhtajan is among the greatest authorities in the world on the evolution of plants.

When it comes to reproduction, gymnosperms are deeply weird.

Ancient lakes are exceptional freshwater environments that have continued to exist for hundreds of thousands of years.

Not so long ago, karyology was considered a vanguard biological discipline, which could solve nearly all problems of systematics and phylogenetics.

From 1965-1968, I held an Agricultural Research Council Research Fellowship at Christ's College, Cambridge.

Fitness and adaptation are fundamental characteristics of plant and animal species, enabling them to survive in their environment and to adapt to the inevitable changes in this environment.

Knowledge of downy mildew pathogens and diseases has increased significantly in taxonomy, phylogeny, genetics, molecular biology, host-parasite interactions, ecology, epidemiology and control.

A series of original papers and reviews dealing with the peculiarities of island insects and their conservation in many parts of the world.

Evolution is a critical challenge for many areas of science, technology and development of society.

A long time has passed since the war act on Cancer declared by former USA president Nixon, almost half a century ago.

Much of our knowledge of stem cells has been inferred from studies of remarkable few species.

distances between groups of ciliates were as vast as significant hurdles to obtain copyright permissions the genetic distances between plants and animals for the over 1,000 required illustrations, and I put - THE major eukaryotic kingdoms at that time!

This work was begun to provide keys to the aquatic insect species known from Brazil.

After genomic sequencing, microarray technology has emerged as a widely used platform for genomic studies in the life sciences.

This volume acknowledges and celebrates the contributions of Dr.

Selection procedures used in plant breeding have gradually developed over a very long time span, in fact since settled agriculture was ?

The Encyclopedia of Entomology brings together the expertise of more than 450 distinguished entomologists from 40 countries to provide a worldwide overview of insects and their close relatives.

Building on a range of disciplines - from biology and anthropology to philosophy and linguistics - this book draws on the expertise of leading names in the study of organic, mental and cultural codes brought together by the emerging discipline of biosemiotics.

Scientists no longer accept the existence of a distinct moral organ as phrenologists once did.

Gregory Bateson's contribution to 20th century thinking has appealed to scholars from a wide range of fields dealing in one way or another with aspects of communication and epistemology.

This is a comprehensive overview of the basics of fuzzy control, which also brings together some recent research results in soft computing, in particular fuzzy logic using genetic algorithms and neural networks.

It is indeed an honour for me to write the foreword to the second edition of Forest Entomology in West Tropical Africa: Forest Insects of Ghana.

Ostracods, small aquatic Crustacea, occur in almost every marine, brackish and freshwater habitat.

Biogeography considers the distribution of biological units over a wide range of scales.

I had taught courses in applied ecology, population dynamics, and population management for many years and, like many of my colleagues, had grown acc- tomed to the blank stares of my students as we wove our way through the confused semantics and intricate concepts of traditional ecology and wrestled with elaborate mathematical arguments.