Evolution

This book reviews the human genome from an evolutionary perspective.

Introduces the diverse roles metaphors play in the life sciences and highlights their significance for theory, communication, and education.

Begging by nestling birds has become the model system for investigating evolutionary conflicts of interest within families and their theoretical resolution provided by honest signals of offspring need.

In this book, Glenn Barenthin provides a new solution to a key question in the cognitive and evolutionary study of religion: why do humans cooperate?

New genes and diversity leading to adaptation and evolution are generated in special areas of genomes.

A study of how evolution has forged our modern lives-from work and relationships to leadership and innovation, as well as our quest for happiness.

This pathbreaking book explores how life can begin, taking us from cosmic clouds of stardust, to volcanoes on Earth, to the modern chemistry laboratory.

The conflict between creationists and evolutionists has raged ever since the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859.

Why Penguins Communicate: The Evolution of Visual and Vocal Signals is a comprehensive and condensed review of several hundred publications on the evolution of penguin behaviors, particularly signaling, linking genetics and ecology via such behavioral adaptations as nuptial displays.

This book offers a timely overview and synthesis of biogeographic patterns of plants and fungi and their mycorrhizal associations across geographic scales.

A journey into the lives of chimpanzees, revealing the many parallels and differences between us.

Among the fishes, a remarkably wide range of biological adaptations to diverse habitats has evolved.

Changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and global climate conditions have altered photosynthesis and plant respiration across both geologic and contemporary time scales.

This book starts from the very beginning of the cultural exchanges between China and the western regions, to the exchanges in modern times, featuring large time span and interdisciplinarity.

This book traces the history of life-concepts, with a focus on the vegetable souls of Aristotle, investigating how they were interpreted and eventually replaced by evolutionary biology.

Hunter-gatherer research has played a historically central role in the development of anthropological and evolutionary theory.

From two of the world's leading authorities on dogs, an imaginative journey into a future of dogs without peopleWhat would happen to dogs if humans simply disappeared?

This book considers the complexities of human nature from a biological, psychological, and evolutionary standpoint and demonstrates how common modern behaviors can be traced back to early man.

A comprehensive overview of symbiotic relationships between insects and microbesInsects and Their Beneficial Microbes is an authoritative and accessible synthesis of insect associations with beneficial microorganisms.

Mammals of Africa (MoA) is a series of six volumes which describes, in detail, every currently recognized species of African land mammal.

This book presents 19 selected contributions to the 16th Evolutionary Biology Meeting, which took place in September 2012 in Marseilles.

This book provides a comprehensive review of hermaphroditism in fishes.

Ecomorphology is the comparative study of the influence of morphology on ecological relationships and the evolutionary impact of ecological factors on morphology in different life intervals, populations, species, communities, and evolutionary lineages.

Evolution is the single most important idea in modern biology, shedding light on virtually every biological question, from the shape of orchid blossoms to the distribution of species across the planet.

The present book aims to examine how sexual selection works in the human species.

In the follow up to Darwin's Lost World, Martin Brasier introduces the quest for the missing history of life and the cell.

This unique story offers an introductory conversation to genetics, embryology and evolution, taking us on a historical journey of biology through the ages.

An evaluation of Chomsky''s work from the perspectives of linguistics, evolution of language, history of physics, and philosophy of mind.

'The mind unlearns with difficulty what has long been impressed upon it.

The history of life on Earth is, in some form or another, known to us all--or so we think.

What makes humans unique?

This edited volume is provides an authoritative synthesis of knowledge about the history of life.

These notes are intended to help undergraduates who need to understand something of behavior both for its intrinsic interest and for their future careers in medicine, biology, psychology, anthropology, veterinary medicine, and nursing.

This collection of 29 papers grew out of a symposium entitled "e;Setting the Future Agenda for Neotropical Primates.

Leading scientists in the field trace the evolution of the one of the most ancient major branches of flowering plants.

Genetic effects are the core concepts from which quantitative genetics and the evolutionary synthesis emerged.

In the past several years, DNA microarray technology has attracted tremendous interest in both the scientific community and in industry.

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.

Basics in Human Evolution offers a broad view of evolutionary biology and medicine.

Now that so many ecosystems face rapid and major environmental change, the ability of species to respond to these changes by dispersing or moving between different patches of habitat can be crucial to ensuring their survival.

Winner, 2022 RUSA Outstanding Reference SourceThis encyclopedia provides readers with a comprehensive look at the Galapagos Islands, from the wildlife and scientists that made them famous to the challenges and issues the islands face today.

This book will appeal to an international audience as well as be irresistible to local readers.

One of the attractive features of the great classical ethologists was their readiness to ask different kinds of questions about behavior - and to do so without muddling the answers.

This book introduces a 'Big History' perspective to understand the acceleration of social, technological and economic trends towards a near-term singularity, marking a radical turning point in the evolution of our planet.

Nicola Hoggard Creegan offers a compelling examination of the problem of evil in the context of animal suffering, disease, and extinction and the violence of the evolutionary process.

This book challenges media-celebrated evolutionary studies linking Indo-European languages to Neolithic Anatolia, instead defending traditional practices in historical linguistics.