Evolution

In diesem Buch werden experimentelle Ergebnisse zum Konzept der molekularen Evolution geschildert und kritisch bewertet.

The fossil record of giant flightless birds extends back to the Late Cretaceous, more than 70 million years ago, but our understanding of these extinct birds is still incomplete.

The aim of this book is to offer information about the Pharmacological Properties of Native Plants from Argentina to students, researchers and graduates interested in the fields of Ethnobotany, Pharmacognosy, Phytochemistry, Pharmacy, and Medicine.

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In focusing on the story of Darwin's religious doubts, scholars too often overlook Darwin's positive contribution to the study of religion.

This book presents a detailed examination of the current state of knowledge in the field of paleoneurology in the main amniote groups (reptiles, birds and mammals), and advances  resulting from new non-invasive technologies.

A renaissance of virus research is taking centre stage in biology.

The impact of bees on our world is immeasurable.

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

Considered by many during his lifetime as the most well-known scientist in the world, Stephen Jay Gould left an enormous and influential body of work.

Abdoul Koudouss Kamara is a Mauritanian mining engineer, born in 1938, who lives in the United States.

On the basis of thermodynamic considerations and the Earth's historical processes, this book argues the physical inevitability of life's generation and evolution, i.

When the The Dinosauria was first published more than a decade ago, it was hailed as "e;the best scholarly reference work available on dinosaurs"e; and "e;an historically unparalleled compendium of information.

"e;Near time"e; -an interval that spans the last 100,000 years or so of earth history-qualifies as a remarkable period for many reasons.

This publication is unique among a number of books on cyanobacteria because it focuses on the bioenergetics of these widespread organisms which are the evolutionary prerequisite for the development of all higher forms of life on our "e;blue"e; planet.

The idea of writing this book was conceived when, in the late 1960s, I began teaching a senior undergraduate class in general entomology.

This book explores the underlying forces that have shaped the history and prehistory of the earth and humanity.

Information is a core concept in animal communication: individuals routinely produce, acquire, process and store information, which provides the basis for their social life.

Playback is the technique of rebroadcasting natural or synthetic signals to animals and observing their response.

Current Ornithology publishes authoritative, up-to-date, scholarly reviews of topics selected from the full range of current research in avian biology.

This book covers the applications of fungi used in biorefinery technology.

This book focuses on a critical reexamination of two prominent categories used in modern historiography of biology - "e;the eclipse of Darwinism"e; and the "e;modern synthesis"e;.

Principles and Standards for Measuring Net Primary Production in Long-Term Ecological Studies is the first book to establish a standardized method for measuring net primary productivity (NPP) in ecological research.

The follow-up to the BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Other MindsA Times and Sunday Times Book of the YearA Waterstones Best Book of 2020The scuba-diving philosopher explores the origins of animal consciousness.

The Quaternary comprises a brief time in the Earth's history, and apart from a few exceptions, molluscan assemblages recovered from exposures along the coast of Southwestern South America (Southern Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina) are essentially the same than those that inhabit the region today, leading to the assumption that no important change in the distribution of the faunas since Pleistocene times has occurred.

This book is a provocative and invigorating real-time exploration of the future of human evolution by two of the world's leading interdisciplinary ecologists - Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison.

Letters from 1881, when Darwin published The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms.

When, why, and how early humans began to eat meat are three of the most fundamental unresolved questions in the study of human origins.

Michael Ruse, a leading expert on Charles Darwin, presents a fictional dialogue among characters with sharply contrasting positions regarding the tensions between science and religious belief.

Philosophy of Biology is a rapidly expanding field.

By dividing the creation of matter, energy, life, and mind into three big bangs, Holmes Rolston III brings into focus a history of the universe that respects both scientific discovery and the potential presence of an underlying intelligence.

What teeth can tell us about human evolution, development, and behavior.

This book focuses on bioinformatics, the study of the management and analysis of information used in biological systems.

Plant based biotechnology has come to represent a means of mitigating the problems of global food security in the twenty-first century.

This book provides a comprehensive, detailed, and coherent spatio-temporal account of Caribbean mangrove evolution from its evolutionary origins to the present that is not available for any mangrove region in the world.

This fascinating book draws it subject matter from a range of relevant disciplines that extend from molecular nutrition, nutritional sciences, and nutrition dietetics through to genetics, genomics, and anthropology.

This volume brings together diverse contributions from leading archaeologists and paleoanthropologists, covering various spatial and temporal periods to distinguish convergent evolution from cultural transmission in order to see if we can discover ancient human populations.

This book gives specific instruction on the use of two methods of family planning: Natural Family Planning and Fertility Awareness Method.

It is forty years since Burgeff published, in 1926, the first comprehensive catalogue of the genus Zygaena Fabricius, forming part 33 of the Lepidopterorum Catalogus.

Molecular Basis of Biological Degradative Processes contains the proceedings of the 1977 symposium held at the University of Connecticut Health Science Center.

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.

An enticing illustrated look at pollination, one of the most astonishing marvels of the natural worldPollination is essential to the survival of most plants on Earth.

Analysis of molecular sequence data is the main subject of this introduction to computational biology.

Parental care includes a wide variety of traits that enhance offspring development and survival.

Argues for the importance of Darwin for the development of Nietzsche''s philosophy, but emphasizes the antagonistic character of their relationship.

Rigorously and objectively examines the evolving context within which great ape and gibbon habitats are increasingly interfacing with extractive industries.

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