Evolution

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.

Winner of the 2010 Royal Society Prize for science booksPowerful new research methods are providing fresh and vivid insights into the makeup of life.

Microbial Nanobionics: Volume 1, State of the Art, discusses a wide range of microbial systems and their utilization in biogenic synthesis of metallic nanoparticles.

Photochemistry is an important facet in the study of the origin of life and prebiotic chemistry.

Molecular approaches have opened new windows on a host of ecological and evolutionary disciplines, ranging from population genetics and behavioral ecology to conservation biology and systematics.

This book includes descriptive keys for identifying every stage of all the species of ticks reported in Europe and northern Africa.

This book offers to the international reader a collection of original articles of some of the most skillful historians and philosophers of biology currently working in Latin American universities.

Plant based Biotechnology has come to represent a means of mitigating the problems of global food security in the twenty first century.

The Ontogeny of Human Bonding Systems takes an interdisciplinary look at the phenomena of human bonding.

After volume 33, this book series was replaced by the journal "e;Evolutionary Biology.

This novel, interdisciplinary text achieves an integration of empirical data and theory with the aid of mathematical models and statistical methods.

Primate Locomotion discusses researches on the concept of primate locomotion.

Three of the most original thinkers of our time explore issues that call into question our current views of reality, morality, and the nature of life.

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

This timely book revisits cryptic female choice in arthropods, gathering detailed contributions from around the world to address key behavioral, ecological and evolutionary questions.

This book introduces readers to the application of evolutionary ideas to moral thinking and justification, presenting contrasting perspectives on controversial issues.

Poisonous mushrooms have fascinated scientists and laypersons alike for thousands of years.

This book discusses the influence of Friedrich Ratzel's ideas in more contemporary geopolitical analytical systems and the geodeterminism commonly attributed to him.

From the Scopes "e;Monkey Trial"e; of 1925 to the court ruling against the Dover Area School Board's proposed intelligent design curriculum in 2005, few scientific topics have engendered as much controversy-or grabbed as many headlines-as evolution.

Our purposes in this preface are, first, to reiterate our view of Current Ornithology's role; second, to describe briefly the contents of this vol- ume; and third, to acknowledge the generous help of our Editorial Board and of the reviewers we have consulted about the contents of Volumes 13 and 14.

This book presents a new account of Euphorbia in southern Africa.

Invasion Genetics: the Baker & Stebbins legacy provides a state-of-the-art treatment of the evolutionary biology of invasive species, whilst also revisiting the historical legacy of one of the most important books in evolutionary biology: The Genetics of Colonizing Species, published in 1965 and edited by Herbert Baker and G.

Has there ever been a history of the world as readable as this?

Many biological facts are irreconcilable with the assumption that larvae and adults evolved from the same genetic stock.

As a novel endeavour in ecological science, this book focuses on a major issue in organismal life on Earth:species coexistence.

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.

The intent of this publication is to bring together reviews and discussions from several disciplines, all treating the basidium and basidiocarp of the Basidiomy- cotina (= basidiomycetes), a subdivision of the true or higher fungi.

Parasites have evolved independently in numerous animal lineages, and they now make up a considerable proportion of the biodiversity of life.

Today many school students are shielded from one of the most important concepts in modern science: evolution.

Addresses key questions about the development of evolutionary thinking to explore the interaction between evolutionary theory and its practical applications.

This book provides students and researchers with reviews of biological questions related to the evolution of feeding by vertebrates in aquatic and terrestrial environments.

Over the past decade, advances in both molecular developmental biology and evolutionary ecology have made possible a new understanding of organisms as dynamic systems interacting with their environments.

Environmental and specific diversity in the Chihuahuan desert in general, and in the Cuatro Cienegas Basin in particular, has long been recognized as outstanding.

This book presents a new account of Euphorbia in southern Africa.

An innovative introduction to ecology and evolutionThis unique textbook introduces undergraduate students to quantitative models and methods in ecology, behavioral ecology, evolutionary biology, and conservation.

This book examines identity theory's centrality within social psychology and its foundations within structural symbolic interaction, highlighting its links not only to other prominent sociological subfields, but also to other theoretical perspectives within and beyond sociology.

Over the course of the past decade, there has been an enormous augmentation in the amount of information available on the lemurs of Madagascar.

This book outlines the evolution of our political nature over two million years and explores many of the rituals, plays, films, and other performances that gave voice and legitimacy to various political regimes in our species' history.

What teeth can teach us about the evolution of the human speciesWhether we realize it or not, we carry in our mouths the legacy of our evolution.

An accessible modern guide to Darwin's masterworkCharles Darwin's Origin of Species is one of the most widely cited books in modern science.

Letters from 1877, when Darwin published Forms of Flowers and, with his son Francis, experimented on plant movement.

This book focuses on the significance and implications of Calcium (Ca2+) transport machinery in the plant cell in generating alternating Ca2+ levels and impacting the cell's physiological, biochemical and developmental processes.

This book discusses oxidative stress and hormesis from the perspective of an evolutionary ecologist or physiologist.