Evolution

In the mid- to late-twentieth century, large scientific conflicts flared in two seemingly distinct fields of scientific inquiry.

This book offers an exciting new perspective on the origins of language.

Ecotones are interface zones between different ecosystems.

This book explores the central importance of soil ingestion and earth surface processes in driving the evolution of tooth shape in mammals.

A presentation of 491 popular orchid species with 13 varieties and 3 natural hybrids in 51 genera with names beginning with A to E carefully detailed with beautiful photographs and concise descriptions of the plants, their distribution and habitats by a well-known author and photographer.

Computational Genome Analysis: An Introduction presents the foundations of key problems in computational molecular biology and bioinformatics.

This volume covers the orders Apiales (Asterids I) and Gentianales (except Rubiaceae; Asterids II).

Whatever are your beliefs, background, education, political views or interests, one thing is sure: this book will engage you, teach you something new, and more importantly make you to re-think deeply about critical aspects of your daily-life, including sex, love, food, physical activities, diseases, work and stress, and how you see and deal with other people, other animals, and the planet in general.

Crying has fascinated mankind for millenia.

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This volume handles in various perspectives the concept of function and the nature of functional explanations, topics much discussed since two major and conflicting accounts have been raised by Larry Wright and Robert Cummins' papers in the 1970s.

In Genes, Categories and Species, Jody Hey provides an enlightening new solution to one of biology's most ironic and perplexing puzzles.

This book brings together ecology, evolution, genetics, anatomy and geology to provide a new perspective on human evolution from the apes'' viewpoint.

This book offers a fresh perspective on how science and religion are connected, and how prayer aligns with the laws of nature.

This book presents an epistemological theory of revelation as perception and a relational-narrative theological ontology based on the concept of dramatic coherence, in which the triune life is understood not as an anomaly within ontology, but rather as the decisive condition of its possibility.

The purpose of this book is to show the essential and indispensable role of prokaryotes in the evolution of aliving world.

Kinship ties-the close relationships found within the family-have been a central focus of evolutionary biological analyses of social behavior ever since biologist William Hamilton extended the concept of Darwinian fitness to include an individual's actions benefiting not only his own offspring, but also collateral kin.

This book traces the evolutionary trajectory of language and teaching from the earliest periods of human evolution to the present day.

Analysis of impact of infanticide on social organization and reproductive behavior in primates including humans.

Why do people find monkeys and apes so compelling to watch?

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.

Mites are very small animals, characterized by wingless and eyeless bodies, in which sociality has been discovered.

Down from the Trees: Man's Amazing Transition from Tree-Dwelling Ape Ancestors covers the evolution of man from tree-dwelling ape to Homo sapiens as he is today.

Rudolf Raff is recognized as a pioneer in evolutionary developmental biology.

What species occur where, and why, and why some places harbor more species than others are basic questions for ecologists.

The vertebrate integument arose about 450 million years ago as an 'armour' of dermal bony plates in small, jawless fish-like creatures, informally known as the ostracoderms.

An ontogenetic series of Deltasuchus motherali helps clarify its niche and resolve a contested part of the crocodyliform family tree.

This book introduces a new field that unites history and biology to create a fuller understanding of the past.

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

This book provides the first diverse and multifaceted textual and cartographic overview of natural curative resources of mineral waters and peloids in Russia.

Second edition of Freeman Dyson''s fascinating examination of the origins of life on earth.

Evolutionary Community Ecology develops a unified framework for understanding the structure of ecological communities and the dynamics of natural selection that shape the evolution of the species inhabiting them.

"e;It may be that I have stumbled upon an adequate description of life itself.

This book addresses multiple aspects of biological clocks in prokaryotes.

Why does the human brain insist on interpreting the world and constructing a narrative?

A new, beautifully illustrated edition of David Attenborough's groundbreaking Life on Earth.

The first and so far only Plant Geography of Chile was written about 100 years ago, since when many things have changed: plants have been renamed and reclassified; taxonomy and systematics have experienced deep changes as have biology, geography, and biogeography.

Inducible defenses--those often dramatic phenotypic shifts in prey activated by biological agents ranging from predators to pathogens--are widespread in the natural world.

An overview of current research and experimental approaches in avian cognition and how this relates to other species.

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.

Modern thought is characterized by a dichotomy of meaningful culture and unmeaning nature.

This book takes a non-technical approach in covering the evolution of South American mammalian fauna throughout geological history, and discusses how South America has changed due to mammalian invasions.

In a world supposedly governed by ruthless survival of the fittest, why do we see acts of goodness in both animals and humans?

Innovative Strategies for Teaching in the Plant Sciences focuses on innovative ways in which educators can enrich the plant science content being taught in universities and secondary schools.

This two-volume edited book highlights and reviews the potential of the fossil record to calibrate the origin and evolution of parasitism, and the techniques to understand the development of parasite-host associations and their relationships with environmental and ecological changes.