Evolution

In May 2004, the Alexander Koenig Zoological Research Museum hosted the Fifth International Symposium on Tropical Biology.

This unique book offers a comprehensive guide to the fascinating world of polystomatid flatworms.

How developments in science and technology may enable the emergence of purely digital minds—intelligent machines equal to or greater in power than the human brain.

The isolation of leptin in 1994 and its characterization as a factor influencing appetite, energy balance, and adiposity, immediately thrust the polypeptide into the rapidly growing body of literature centered on the physiology of obesity.

This book serves as a brief introduction to phylogenetic trees and molecular evolution for biologists and biology students.

Use and misuse of statistics seems to be the signum temporis of past decades.

Sixty years after their discovery, this is the first anthropological synthesis of the ancient Arctic foragers of Point Hope, Alaska.

Radiations, or Evolution in Action We have just celebrated the "e;Darwin Year"e; with the double anniversary of his 200th birthday and 150th year of his masterpiece, "e;On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection"e;.

Competition is one of the most important factors controlling the distribution and abundance of living creatures.

A new edition of Peter and Rosemary Grant's classic account of their groundbreaking forty-year study of Darwin's finches40 Years of Evolution is a landmark study of the finches first made famous by Charles Darwin, one that documents as never before the evolution of species through natural selection.

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.

This volume is an up-to-date treatise of chemosensory vertebrate research performed by over 200 scientists from 22 countries.

Mutualisms, interactions between two species that benefit both of them, have long captured the public imagination.

When a parasite invades an ant, does the ant behave like other ants?

We are interested in the evolution of hominin diets for several reasons.

This Element presents guides to applying PCMs with fossil taxa as well as example analayses illustrating common applications.

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

Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine are concerned with medical conditions affecting brain, mind and behaviour in manifold ways.

Flowers are essential crops which beautify interiorscapes, outdoor landscapes and enhance human health.

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A new account of the central role developmental processes play in evolutionA new scientific view of evolution is emergingone that challenges and expands our understanding of how evolution works.

Genomic Selection for Crop Improvement serves as handbook for users by providing basic as well as advanced understandings of genomic selection.

The first comprehensive look at menopause from prehistory to todayAre the ways we look at menopause all wrong?

This book provides a detailed overview of the microorganisms that form the initial growth on the exterior facades of buildings.

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.

Consider the possibility that the history of the human race is not as simple as what has been taught in classroom textbooks.

Explores a variety of outcomes of the evolutionary process, including both adaptations and alternatives to adaptations.

This book aims to provide fundamental knowledge and information for research in molecular systematics on parasitic helminths (nematode, trematode, cestode).

This book provides a benchmark study of southern African landscape evolution during the Quaternary, for researchers, professionals and policymakers.

This volume provides insight into gibbon diet and community ecology, the mating system and reproduction, and conservation biology, all topics which represent areas of substantial progress in understanding socio-ecological flexibility and conservation needs of the hylobatid family.

Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness.

Die ganze Welt der Biologie verständlich erklärtWarum tanzen Bienen?

How the science of evolution explains how everything came to be, from bacteria and blue whales to cell phones, cities, and artificial intelligenceEverything Evolves reveals how evolutionary dynamics shape the world as we know it and how we are harnessing the principles of evolution in pursuit of many goals, such as increasing the global food supply and creating artificial intelligence capable of evolving its own solutions to thorny problems.

Annotated with original illustrations, this valuable text brings together all known shorter publications, letters and journals written by Charles Darwin.

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

Microbes are ubiquitous in nature.

This book is a practical guide for biologists who use multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) for their data analysis and are looking for a comprehensive overview of the many different programs.

Biologists have made significant advances in our understanding of the Earth's shallow subtidal marine ecosystems, but the findings on these disparate regions have never before been documented and gathered in a single volume.

The Study of Prosimian Behavior aims to provide as complete coverage as possible to the field of prosimian behavior.

More than 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America, a continent that was then truly a new world.

Aging is one of those subjects that many biologists feel is largely unknown.

Over the last 25 years, evolutionary game theory has grown with theoretical contributions from the disciplines of mathematics, economics, computer science and biology.

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are obligate root symbionts that impact plant growth, productivity and competitiveness.