Evolution

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

The Caucasus MRW (online and print) Volume will cover this European Macroregion.

This book explores how genetics and the new technologies in genomics have been used for conservation of plants and animals in the Neotropics.

This section of the Handbook of Zoology is intended as a comprehensive and exhaustive account of the biology of the taxa Gastrotricha, Nematoda, Nematomorpha, Priapulida, Kinorhyncha, Loricifera, Gnathostomulida, Micrognathozoa, Rotifera, Seisonida and Acanthocephala, covering all relevant topics such as morphology, ecology, phylogeny and diversity.

Explores fundamental philosophical and scientific questions about the nature of life, particularly in relation to the search for extraterrestrial life.

Computer-Assisted Bacterial Systematics examines the theoretical basis of numerical taxonomy and its impact on microbial classification and identification.

This book summarizes the taxonomic details of selected fossil angiosperm pollen genera and species along with their affinity and occurrences in space and time.

The first detailed collation of the evolution, ecology and conservation of some of South America''s least-known, and most endangered, primates.

This book includes the most essential contributions presented at the 17th Evolutionary Biology Meeting in Marseille, which took place in September 2013.

This volume presents a new approach to conceptualizing animal vocal communication, with an emphasis on how receivers'' responses influence signalling.

The Neanderthals populated western Europe from nearly 250,000 to 30,000 years ago when they disappeared from the archaeological record.

Cell biology is moving at breakneck speed, and many of the results from studies on insects have helped in understanding some of the central problems of biology.

A treasure trove of illuminating and entertaining quotations from the legendary naturalistHere is Charles Darwin in his own words-the naturalist, traveler, scientific thinker, and controversial author of On the Origin of Species, the book that shook the Victorian world.

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.

This work examines the cognitive capacity of great apes in order to better understand early man and the importance of memory in the evolutionary process.

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.

An integrative view of the evolution of genetics and the natural world Even in this advanced age of genomics, the evolutionary process of unicellular and multicellular organisms is continually in debate.

Covering colobine biology, behaviour, ecology and conservation, this book summarises current knowledge of this fascinating group of primates.

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

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

Genetic studies aimed at understanding the origin of species are dominating major scientific journals.

Der Verstand gilt als schärfste Waffe des Menschen.

Explores how form is described in primate biology, and the effects of form on function and behavior.

Our intention with this book was to present the reader with the most accurate, significant, and up-to-date background and knowledge in the areas of ethnomedicinal and nutraceutical vegetation for the Lesser Himalayas in a comprehensive text.

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;.

This book is the first one in which basic demographic models are rigorously formulated by using modern age-structured population dynamics, extended to study real-world population problems.

The present book aims to examine how sexual selection works in the human species.

This book is the first comprehensive volume on conifers detailing their genomes, variations, and evolution.

The nervous system is particularly fascinating for many biologists because it controls animal characteristics such as movement, behavior, and coordinated thinking.

The vertebral spine is a key element of the human anatomy.

'Homology' as a concept became increasingly elusive during the course of the 20th century.

Rotifera VIII: A Comparative Approach is a record of the proceedings of the VIIIth International Rotifer Symposium which was held in Collegeville, Minnesota, USA, on June 22-27, 1997.

In The Intelligent Movement Machine: An Ethological Perspective on the Primate Motor System, Michael Graziano offers a fundamentally new theory of motor cortex organization: the rendering of the movement repertoire onto the cortex.

Ticks of the family Ixodidae, commonly known as hard ticks, occur worldwide and are second only to mosquitoes as vectors of agents pathogenic to humans.

Explores how Victorian fiction and science imagined the evolution of language, from primordial noise to modern English.

The important role that randomness plays in evolutionary changeJohn Tyler Bonner, one of our most distinguished and insightful biologists, here challenges a central tenet of evolutionary biology.

The book discusses ideas concerning the order and balance of nature (or "e;economy of nature"e;) from the late 17th century to the early 20th century.

This volume is a collection of papers concerning the biology of large branchiopod crustaceans: Anostraca, Conchostraca, and Notostraca.

Charles Darwin, the father of the theory of evolution, described the evolutionary origin of flowering plants, which appear to have risen abruptly during the late Cretaceous Period, as an "e;abominable mystery.

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

This book focuses on the evolution, biogeography, systematics, taxonomy, and ecology  of New World and Australasian marsupials, greatly expanding the current knowledge base.

Sauropod dinosaurs were the largest animals ever to walk the earth, and they represent a substantial portion of vertebrate biomass and biodiversity during the Mesozoic Era.

This volume is the twenty-ninth in this series, which includes twenty-eight numbered volumes and one unnumbered supplement.

Holmes Rolston III has long been recognized as the father of environmental ethics.

Our ability to walk on two legs is not only a characteristic human trait but one of the things that made us human in the first place.

In this interdisciplinary work, author Ron Edwards offers an innovative rereading of H.