Evolution

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

The book aims to revitalise the interdisciplinary debate about evolutionary ethics and substantiate the idea that evolution science can provide a rational and robust framework for understanding morality.

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.

Two discoveries of early human relatives, one in 1924 and one in 2003, radically changed scientific thinking about our origins.

In past years there have been several unsuccessful attempts to arrange a symposium on Trichoptera.

This multi-author, six-volume work summarizes our current knowledge on the developmental biology of all major invertebrate animal phyla.

Life As we Know It ["e;LAKI"e;] covers several aspects of Life, ranging from the prebiotic level, origin of life, evolution of prokaryotes to eukaryotes and finally to various affairs of human beings.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Der Aufstieg zum Menschen" verfügbar.

Darwin did not discover evolution.

This book puts multilevel selection theory into a much needed historical perspective.

There are two driving questions informing this book.

A cast of leading animal biologists reflect on the enduring significance of Nobel laureate Niko Tinbergen''s groundbreaking proposals for behavioural biology.

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.

A groundbreaking theory of what makes the human mind uniqueThe Recursive Mind challenges the commonly held notion that language is what makes us uniquely human.

Presents new insights into speciation through an in-depth analysis of extraordinary chromosomal variation in one species written by leading experts.

An introduction to chimpanzee behavior and conservation, synthesizing findings from long-term field studies in the African rainforest belt.

This book examines central topics in philosophy of biology and challenges much of the current thinking.

Qu’est-ce que la vie ?

Ecological and evolutionary genetics span many disciplines and virtually all levels of biological investigation, from the genetic information itself to the principles governing the complex organization of living things.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the major key concepts common to economics and evolutionary biology.

As the human population increases and nations become more industrialized, the habitat and water quality required for the survival of fish continues to decline.

This volume of Progress in Brain Research provides a synthetic source of information about state-of-the-art research that has important implications for the evolution of the brain and cognition in primates, including humans.

The terrestrial organisms of the Galapagos Islands live under conditions unlike those anywhere else.

This book offers a step-by-step introduction to an integrated theory of physical and biological evolution, from the early universe to the world we know today.

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Three-year-old Kwara'ae children in Oceania act as caregivers of their younger siblings, but in the UK, it is an offense to leave a child under age 14 ears without adult supervision.

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.

An up-to-date portrait of the giraffe, summarising current knowledge on their biology and behaviour along with current conservation efforts.

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

Data Analysis in Molecular Biology and Evolution introduces biologists to DAMBE, a proprietary, user-friendly computer program for molecular data analysis.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the design, generation and characterization of minimal cell systems.

An essential introduction to microbiome science, a new cutting-edge discipline that is transforming the life sciencesThis book provides an accessible and authoritative guide to the fundamental principles of microbiome science, an exciting and fast-emerging new discipline that is reshaping many aspects of the life sciences.

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

When I first proposed a series entitled Current Mammalogy to the pub- lishers, they were reluctant to undertake such a project because they viewed the field of mammology as overly fragmented.

Are humans a galactic oddity, or will complex life with human abilities develop on planets with environments that remain habitable for long enough?

In his Descent of Man, Charles Darwin placed sympathy at the crux of morality in a civilized human society.

This book shows the importance of rice for human consumption.

This book explores the possibility that life exists on Mars.

In order to feed the world, global agriculture will have to double food production by 2050.

Many of us would like to change one or more of our own behaviors, or those of others.

This fully updated second edition explores protocols that address the most challenging aspects of experimental work in ancient DNA, such as preparing ancient samples for DNA extraction, the DNA extraction itself, and transforming extracted ancient DNA molecules for sequencing library preparation.

This edited book cover over 200 mushrooms with detailed profiles of all the species.

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