Evolution

The main goal of this book is to encourage and formalize the infusion of evolutionary thinking into mainstream conservation biology.

It has been nearly 150 years since Darwin published On the Origin of Species, and his theory of natural selection still ignites a forest of heated debate between scientific fundamentalists on the one hand and religious fundamentalists on the other.

The history of science is mostly written retrospec- tively, a generation or two after the actual events being discussed.

For the first time in history, scholars working on language and culture from within an evolutionary epistemological framework, and thereby emphasizing complementary or deviating theories of the Modern Synthesis, were brought together.

The chapters in this book were developed from some of the lectures presented at a sym- posium at the XX International Congress of Entomology held in Florence, Italy in August 1996.

Modern humans, descendants of a founding population that separated from chimpanzees some five to eight million years ago, are today the only living representative of a branching group of African apes called hominins.

This book consists of 23 essays about prominent people and events in the history of respiratory physiology.

The orangutan is the most highly endangered species of great ape.

This book provides fascinating insights into the development and genetics of evolutionary processes on the basis of animals living in the dark, such as the Astyanax cave fish.

This book presents selected works of contemporary evolutionary morphologists and includes such topics as broad scale reconstructions of the brain and ear of dinosaurs, inference of locomotor habits from cancellous bone architecture in fossil primates, and a comparison of the independently evolved manipulating apparatuses in the lesser and giant pandas.

What is life?

A unique, multi-thematic case study of the entire monkey community of the Taï forest.

This book looks at the persistence of life and how difficult it would be to annihilate life, especially a species as successful as humanity.

The 'Adaptive Landscape' has been a central concept in population genetics and evolutionary biology since this powerful metaphor was first formulated by Sewall Wright in 1932.

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.

This Companion commemorates the 150th anniversary of the publication of the Origin of Species and examines all of its main arguments.

This book comprehensively summarizes the biological mechanisms of coloration and pattern formation of animals at molecular and cellular level, offering up-to-date knowledge derived from remarkable progress in the last 10 years.

The African lakes are an extremely important ecosystem and the subject of much study relating to species introductions and loss of biodiversity.

I Twenty-five years ago, at the Conference on the Comparative Reception of Darwinism held at the University of Texas in 1972, only two countries of the Iberian world-Spain and Mexico-were represented.

Are humans a galactic oddity, or will complex life with human abilities develop on planets with environments that remain habitable for long enough?

Die Spieltheorie wurde von ihren Gründern, dem Mathematiker John von Neumann (1903-1957) und dem Ökonomen Oskar Morgenstern (1902-1977) entworfen als eine normative Theorie darüber, wie sich rationale, nutzenmaximierende Akteure optimal zu verhalten hätten in Situationen strategischer Interaktion, in denen es keine völlige Gleichsinnigkeit der Einzelinteressen gibt.

This eighth volume describes 272 species of 13 families of medicinal plants, which are commonly used in Chinese medicine.

This book results from a summer school held at Cornell University in 1992.

A music researcher''s quest to discover other musical species.

Animals perform many athletic tasks to an amazing degree of accomplishment: not only spectacular feats of running and jumping but also routine actions that ensure survival such as feeding, vocalization, diving, flying, and many more.

Biotremology is a new and emerging discipline in biological sciences that covers all aspects of behavior associated with substrate-borne mechanical waves.

A groundbreaking theory of what makes the human mind uniqueThe Recursive Mind challenges the commonly held notion that language is what makes us uniquely human.

This two-volume work is a testament to the abiding interest and human fascination with ammonites.

Countless medical researchers over the past century have been occupied by the search for a cure of cancer.

In this book, the author gathered together all the latest evidence and progress in the scientific studies of panda's past, present and future, especially how he has introduced advanced scientific techniques such as population genomics, metagenomics and evolutionary genomics into the study of wild pandas.

How our ability to learn from each other has been the essential ingredient to our remarkable success as a speciesHuman beings are a very different kind of animal.

Conus is the largest genus of animals in the sea, occurring throughout the world's tropical and subtropical oceans and contributing significantly to marine biodiversity.

For the first time, an effort to conduct coordinated interdisciplinary research on a vast and complex saline lake has been undertaken for the purposes of providing baseline data to guide restoration project activities.

This book describes the latest advances in systems biology in four plant-based marine ecosystems: seaweeds, seagrasses, microalgae, and corals.

Dieses Buch enthält eine sehr grundlegende Einführung in die Funktionsweise der erfolgreichen PIC-Microcontroller-Familien des Herstellers Microchip und bietet darüber hinaus eine Zusammenstellung von Programmen und Schaltungen, die dem Anwender helfen, die Funktionen dieser Controller voll auszureizen.

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

Building upon the previous editions, this textbook is a first course in stochastic processes taken by undergraduate and graduate students (MS and PhD students from math, statistics, economics, computer science, engineering, and finance departments) who have had a course in probability theory.

Of the world's seven continents, Asia is the largest.

There's a silent epidemic in western civilization, and it is right under our noses.

This fourth volume describes 256 species of medicinal plants from 5 families, which are commonly used in Chinese medicine.

Genetic erosion, that is, the loss of native plant and genetic diversity has been exponential from the Mediterranean Basin through the Twentieth century.

For centuries people have been puzzled by the inevitability of human aging.

Being the only place in the northern North Atlantic yielding late Cainozoic terrestrial sediments rich in plant fossils, Iceland provides a unique archive for vegetation and climate development in this region.

This book explores the potential and challenges of implementing evolutionary phylogenetic methods in archaeological research, by discussing key concepts and presenting concrete applications of these approaches.