Evolution

In the last fifteen years a controversial new theory of the origins of biological complexity and the nature of the universe has been fomenting bitter debates in education and science policy across North America, Europe, and Australia.

Forrest and Gross expose the scientific failure, the religious essence, and the political ambitions of "e;intelligent design"e; creationism.

In just a half century, humanity has made an astounding leap in its understanding of life.

Darwin's Camera tells the extraordinary story of how Charles Darwin changed the way pictures are seen and made.

During the last ten years, remarkable progress has occurred in the study of molecular evolution.

The first comprehensive synthesis on development and evolution: it applies to all aspects of development, at all levels of organization and in all organisms, taking advantage of modern findings on behavior, genetics, endocrinology, molecular biology, evolutionary theory and phylogenetics to show the connections between developmental mechanisms and evolutionary change.

Does Aging Stop?

For all that science knows about the living world, notes David P.

There have been many books, movies, and even TV commercials featuring Neandertals--some serious, some comical.

Author Donald Symonds examines the differences between men and women in sexual behavior and attitudes, concluding that these differences are innate and that it is impossible to achieve identical sexualities in males and females.

Crustaceans are increasingly used as model organisms in all fields of biology, including neurobiology, developmental biology, animal physiology, evolutionary ecology, biogeography, and resource management.

Author Donald Symonds examines the differences between men and women in sexual behavior and attitudes, concluding that these differences are innate and that it is impossible to achieve identical sexualities in males and females.

Have humans always waged war?

For many of us, the great scientific discoveries of the modern age--the Big Bang, evolution, quantum physics, relativity-- point to an existence that is bleak, devoid of meaning, pointless.

The Crustacea is one of the dominant invertebrate groups, displaying staggering diversity in form and function, and spanning the full spectrum of Earth's environments.

Stuart Kauffman here presents a brilliant new paradigm for evolutionary biology, one that extends the basic concepts of Darwinian evolution to accommodate recent findings and perspectives from the fields of biology, physics, chemistry and mathematics.

Haldane, Mayr, and Beanbag Genetics presents a summary of the classic exchange between two great biologists - J.

Haldane, Mayr, and Beanbag Genetics presents a summary of the classic exchange between two great biologists - J.

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Crustacean Nervous Systems and their Control of Behavior is the third volume of the series The Natural History of the Crustacea.

When Charles Darwin, then age 22, first saw the HMS Beagle, he thought it looked "e;more like a wreck than a vessel commissioned to go round the world.

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Humanity's physical design flaws have long been apparent--we get hemorrhoids and impacted wisdom teeth, for instance--but do the imperfections extend down to the level of our genes?

This is the story of a profound revolution in the way biologists explore life's history, understand its evolutionary processes, and reveal its diversity.

This edited volume is provides an authoritative synthesis of knowledge about the history of life.

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

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1972, and a past president of both the Organization of American Historians and the American Historical Association, Carl Degler is one of America's most eminent living historians.

This book looks back at the simpler versions of mental life in apes, Neanderthals, and our ancestors, back before our burst of creativity started 50,000 years ago.

Three-year-old Kwara'ae children in Oceania act as caregivers of their younger siblings, but in the UK, it is an offense to leave a child under age 14 ears without adult supervision.

Charles Darwin has been at the center of white-hot public debate for more than a century.

Darwin's Camera tells the extraordinary story of how Charles Darwin changed the way pictures are seen and made.

Understanding of animal social and sexual evolution has seen a renaissance in recent years with discoveries of frequent infidelity in apparently monogamous species, the importance of sperm competition, active female mate choice, and eusocial behavior in animals outside the traditional social insect groups.

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

Relying mostly on modern genetic science, this book exposes how various forms of creationism-including intelligent design-fail to provide testable models for the appearance and evolution of life.

For many agricultural crops, bees play a vital role as pollinators, and this book discusses the interplay among bees, agriculture, and the environment.

Primary sexual traits, those structures and processes directly involved in reproduction, are some of the most diverse, specialized, and bizarre in the animal kingdom.

Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology is intended to be used as a text for graduate students and a sourcebook for professional scientists seeking an understanding of the evolutionary and ecological processes shaping behavior across a wide array of organisms and a diverse set of behaviors.

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

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.

Research conducted in the last fifteen years has placed in question many of the traditional conclusions scholars have formed about human female sexuality.

The scientific understanding of arthropod phylogeny and evolution has changed significantly in recent decades.

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With predation and carnivory as catalysts, the first known eye appeared in a trilobite during the Cambrian explosion approximately 543 million years ago.

Considered by many during his lifetime as the most well-known scientist in the world, Stephen Jay Gould left an enormous and influential body of work.

Anyone can look at a snake and see a creature unique unto itself, a reptile with a set of zoological and biological traits that are entirely its own.

In the hard sciences, which can often feel out of grasp for many lay readers, there are "e;great thinkers"e; who go far beyond the equations, formulas, and research.

In the hard sciences, which can often feel out of grasp for many lay readers, there are "e;great thinkers"e; who go far beyond the equations, formulas, and research.

Since its origin in the early 20th century, the Modern Synthesis theory of evolution has grown to become the orthodox view on the process of organic evolution.

Paleobiology struggled for decades to influence our understanding of evolution and the history of life because it was stymied by a focus on microevolution and an incredibly patchy fossil record.

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.