Evolution

Evolution, Chance, and God looks at the relationship between religion and evolution from a philosophical perspective.

Population genomics has provided unprecedented opportunities to unravel the mysteries of marine organisms in the oceans' depths.

Eine Reise durch mehr als 14 Milliarden Jahre der Evolution: zu fernsten Planeten, die noch unerreichbar sind, und kaum bekannten Welten auf der Erde wie die Tiefsee, aber auch unser Hirn.

Esta autobiografía de Charles Darwin se publicó en su primera edición censurada por la familia (especialmente por sus opiniones sobre la religión), y sólo en la década de 1950 se recuperó la versión íntegra, sin recortes, que publicamos aquí.

This volume reaches beyond the controversy surrounding the teaching and learning of evolution in the United States, specifically in regard to the culture, politics, and beliefs found in the Southeast.

This edited volume examines the relationship between collective intentionality and inferential theories of meaning.

Microbial Nanobionics: Volume 2, Basic Research Applications continues the important discussion of microbial nanoparticle synthesis with a focus on the mechanistic approach of biosynthesis towards nanobionics.

Recently, magnetic nanostructures have gained a remarkable interest for basic research and applied studies.

White biotechnology is industrial biotechnology dealing with various biotech products through applications of microbes.

This book takes readers on a journey from the very fundamental and chemical beginnings of amino acids on Earth to their role in human metabolism.

Discussing the generally ignored issue of the classification of natural objects in the philosophy of science, this book focuses on knowledge and social relations, and offers a way to understand classification as a necessary aspect of doing science.

This book provides concrete scientific basis that we can conceive the possibility of modifying or even completely canceling aging process, despite the fact that aging is commonly regarded as the result of the overall effects of many uncontrollable degenerative phenomena.

This third volume describes 226 species of 32 families of medicinal plants, which are commonly used in Chinese medicine.

This fully updated edition explores conceptual as well as technical guidelines for plant taxonomists and geneticists, such as the increasing use of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies for numerous applications in plant taxonomy.

This book simulates a historical walk through nature, teaching readers about the biodiversity on Earth in various eras with a focus on past terrestrial environments.

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.

Ethnobiology and ethnoecology have become very popular in recent years.

Together with early theoretical work in population genetics, the debate on sources of genetic makeup initiated by proponents of the neutral theory made a solid contribution to the spectacular growth in statistical methodologies for molecular evolution.

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) events encompass processes as varied as the exchange of genetic material between microbes coexisting in the same environment, between symbiotic bacteria and their eukaryotic hosts, and the evolution of organelles by symbiosis, in which whole genomes are acquired.

Together with early theoretical work in population genetics, the debate on sources of genetic makeup initiated by proponents of the neutral theory made a solid contribution to the spectacular growth in statistical methodologies for molecular evolution.

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

The hidden talents approach opens new perspectives for educators, policy makers, families, and youth to reframe the effects of adversity.

This volume brings together current research and practice on gibbon conservation, ecology, taxonomy and phylogenetics.

This volume brings together current research and practice on gibbon conservation, ecology, taxonomy and phylogenetics.

A concise and accessible introduction to the concept of species, exploring its historical, biological and philosophical uses.

This book explores, from a high level, the parallels between the evolution of humans and the evolution of machines.

The importance of the Neotropics to the world's climate, biogeochemical cycling and biodiversity cannot be questioned.

Rainbows have been a source of fascination since time immemorial.

Letters from 1882, the year of Darwin''s death, and a supplement of nearly 400 earlier letters.

This book is the fourth volume of the "e;Marine Algal Flora of China-Rhodophyta.

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

This is an introductory textbook for the study of human evolution, and covers all major topics of human origins taught under paleoanthropology, anthropology, archaeology, and evolutionary biology courses.

This edited volume provides the historical and geological background, as well as the details pertaining to the morphology and morphometric assessments, of a singular human cranial specimen from the Late Pleistocene discovered in Hofmeyr, South Africa.

This book unifies general concepts of plant and animal virus evolution and covers a broad range of topics related to theoretical and experimental aspects of virus population dynamics and viral fitness.

The Anthropocene is the "e;age of human influence"e;, an epoch well known for its urban impact.

In recent times, the philosophy of science has been reinvigorated by insights from the biological and cognitive sciences.

Insan dahil tum canli turlerinin dogal secilim yoluyla bir ya da birkac ortak atadan evrildigini one surmus ve o gunun sartlarina gore bu teoriyi destekleyen pek cok kanit sunmustur.

The Anthropocene is the "e;age of human influence"e;, an epoch well known for its urban impact.

Keine ausgedachte Geschichte könnte verblüffender sein als das, was in Wirklichkeit geschieht.

This rhetorical study of the various language strategies and competing worldviews involved in the 140-year argument between Biblical creationists and Darwinian evolutionists focuses on the 1860 Huxley/Wilberforce debate, the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, and the 1981 Arkansas Creation-Science Trial.

This self-contained textbook covers fundamental aspects of sequence analysis with special emphasis on evolutionary biology, including sequence alignment, exact matching, phylogeny reconstruction, and coalescent simulation.

En abril de 2006, Neil Shubin y su equipo aparecieron en los titulares de prensa mundiales cuando dieron a conocer al Tiktaalik, un pez fósil con extremidades de 375 millones de años de edad, el eslabón perdido entre las antiguas criaturas del mar y las primeras criaturas en empezar a caminar en tierra.

This volume presents a series of case studies, at different levels of inclusivity, of how organisms exhibit functional convergence as a key evolutionary mechanism resulting in responses to similar environmental constraints in mechanically similar ways.

This book addresses several key issues in the biological study of death with the intent of capturing their genealogy, the assumptions and presuppositions they make, and the way that they open specific new research avenues.