Evolution

An integrated reference book on variations in reproductive behaviour, for graduate students and researchers.

This book provides a general overview of the natural landscapes and vegetation types of the U.

The history of science has shown the majority of hypotheses to be wrong.

Early History of the Recognition of Molecular Biochirality, by Joseph Gal, Pedro CintasSynthesis and Chirality of Amino Acids Under Interstellar Conditions, by Chaitanya Giri, Fred Goesmann, Cornelia Meinert, Amanda C.

In his characteristically iconoclastic and original way, Stephen Jay Gould argues that progress and increasing complexity are not inevitable features of the evolution of life on Earth.

Integrated regional models are conceptual and mathematical models that describe the physical environment, biological interactions, human decision-making, and human impact on the environment.

An innovative view of the role of fitness concepts in evolutionary theory.

International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Applications (BIC-TA) is one of the flagship conferences on Bio-Computing, bringing together the world's leading scientists from different areas of Natural Computing.

What is a human being?

Serology and Immunochemistry of Plant Viruses investigates the antigenic properties of plant viruses.

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

This book is a continuation and deepening of Sovereign Blockchain 1.

Echinoderm preservation provides a window into the fossil record in which ecological-time processes can be addressed.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Der Aufstieg zum Menschen" verfügbar.

Entomological research benefits from a great diversity of technical approaches - from the molecular to the descriptive - and these are applied to an even greater diversity of insect species.

How is meaning in our bodies constructed?

Frederick J.

This book is devoted to the ichnology of insects, and associated trace fossils, in soils and paleosols.

Arctic and Tropical Arboviruses contains the proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Arctic Arboviruses held at Mont Gabriel, Canada on May 26-28, 1977.

The narrative of the progression of the 'horse family' through geological time, from dog-sized fruit-eating animals with four toes on their front and three toes on their hind legs, to the valiant long-legged, single-toed modern grazing horses, beloved by racing enthusiasts, is the poster child of evolution.

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.

Biogeography relates the evolution of the Earth's biota to major episodes in the Earth's history such as climatic changes and plate tectonic events.

This book discusses the evolution of sleep and its possible function in the higher invertebrates and vertebrates, including humans.

Early Thoughts on RNA and the Origin of Life The full impact of the essential role of the nucleic acids in biological systems was forcefully demonstrated by the research community in the 1950s.

This account of the current state of foraging theory is also a valuable description of the use of optimality theory in behavioral ecology in general.

This book deals with the missing link in the domain of functional genomics viz.

This book demonstrates how the primate hand combines both primitive and novel morphology, both general function with specialization, and both a remarkable degree of diversity within some clades and yet general similarity across many others.

A pioneer in evolutionary game theory looks at selfishness and cooperationHow does cooperation emerge among selfish individuals?

The Artful Species explores the idea that our aesthetic responses and art behaviors are connected to our evolved human nature.

This Element summarizes decades of research concerning the respiratory structures of Paleozoic blastozoan echinoderms.

Outside Russia very little is known about the terrestrial ecology, vegetation, biogeographical patterns, and biodiversity of the enormously extensive ecosystems of Yakutia, Siberia.

How universal are our moral obligations?

Galileo wrote that "e;nature cannot produce a horse as large as twenty ordinary horses or a giant ten times taller than an ordinary man unless by miracle or by greatly altering the proportions of his limbs and especially of his bones"e;-a statement that wonderfully captures a long-standing scientific fascination with body size.

This is the sixth volume of a ten-volume series on The Natural History of the Crustacea.

How did life begin on the early Earth?

Brings together long-term studies of cooperation in vertebrates that challenge our understanding of the evolution of social behavior.

Using a series of case studies, the book demonstrates the power of dynamic analysis as applied to the fossil record.

Almost all evolutionary biologists, indeed all biologists, use particular features to study life.

Referred to as the 'Spiny Crayfishes' due to impressive arrays of spines on their hard armoured shells, Euastacus crayfish are the largest of the 10 genera of Australian freshwater crayfish.

This book provides an overview of our current understanding of polyembryony in insects.

This book explores the ethnobiology of corals by examining the various ways in which humans, past and present, have exploited and taken care of coral and coralline habitats.

Originally published in 1982, The Masterpiece of Nature examines sex as representative of the most important challenge to the modern theory of evolution.