Evolution

The Evolution of the Genome provides a much needed overview of genomic study through clear, detailed, expert-authored discussions of the key areas in genome biology.

Demonstrates how Africa''s physical features, savannas and abundant grazers enabled frugivorous apes to become savanna-living hunters.

This new edition captures the advances made in the field of evolutionary systems biology since the publication of the first edition.

This collection of essays combines different evolutionary perspectives to demonstrate how lithic technological systems are a by-product of human behavior.

This new volume of our successful book series Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology is focused on mitochondrial inheritance in humans and both vertebrate and invertrebate animals including Drosophila, C.

The small, terrestrial eastern red-backed salamander is abundant on many forest floors of northeastern North America.

This book argues that God can be found within the edifice of the scientific understanding of physics, cosmology, biology and philosophy.

Honey bees have been described as exceptionally clever, well-organized, mutualistic, collaborative, busy, efficient--in short a perfect society.

The book summarizes the achievements of the past decade in the biochemistry, bioenergetics, structural and molecular biology of respiratory processes in selected genera of the domain Bacteria along with an extensive coverage of the redox chains of extremophiles belonging to the Archaean domain.

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

This book encapsulates over three decades of the author's work on comparative functional respiratory morphology.

Over millions of years, terrestrial plants have competed for limited resources, defended themselves against herbivores, and resisted a myriad of environmental stresses.

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.

Seminal papers by A.

The extent to which human activity has influenced species extinctions during the recent prehistoric past remains controversial due to other factors such as climatic fluctuations and a general lack of data.

An examination of the causal structure of natural selection and its connections to general philosophy of science and metaphysics.

After the publication of the Diagnostic Manual for the Identification of Insect Pathogens, the authors received many queries asking why they had not included the larger metazoan parasites as well as the microbial forms.

An argument that health is optimal responsiveness and is often best treated at the system level.

This volume in the Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science, Second Edition, is devoted to the fundamentals of Perturbation Theory (PT) as well as key applications areas such as Classical and Quantum Mechanics, Celestial Mechanics, and Molecular Dynamics.

Palaeobiogeography is a complex subject which processes information provided by both Biology and Earth Sciences.

Historical Remarks Bearing on the Discovery of Pan paniscus Whether by accident or by design, it was most fortunate that Robert M.

This book presents 19 selected contributions to the 20th Evolutionary Biology Meeting in Marseille, which took place in September 2016.

A classic introduction to the fascinating science of evolutionary psychology, now in full colour and including the latest research updates.

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

Whatever are your beliefs, background, education, political views or interests, one thing is sure: this book will engage you, teach you something new, and more importantly make you to re-think deeply about critical aspects of your daily-life, including sex, love, food, physical activities, diseases, work and stress, and how you see and deal with other people, other animals, and the planet in general.

Adaptive radiation, which results when a single ancestral species gives rise to many descendants, each adapted to a different part of the environment, is possibly the single most important source of biological diversity in the living world.

This book is written as an addition to Darwin's work and that of molecular biologists on evolution so as to include views of it from the point of view of chemistry rather than just from our knowledge of the biology and genes of organisms.

A comprehensive account of the origins, evolution, and behavior of South and Central American primatesNew World Monkeys brings to life the beauty of evolution and biodiversity in action among South and Central American primates, who are now at risk.

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

From one of the world's leading authorities on animal behavior, the astonishing story of how the female brain drives the evolution of beauty in animals and humansDarwin developed the theory of sexual selection to explain why the animal world abounds in stunning beauty, from the brilliant colors of butterflies and fishes to the songs of birds and frogs.

This book offers a vision of how evolutionary life processes can be modelled.

A comprehensive treatment of the concept of causation in evolutionary biology that makes clear its central role in both historical and contemporary debates.

The book explores how Darwin's legendary and mythologized visit to the Galapagos affected the socioecosystems of the Islands, as well as the cultural and intellectual traditions of Ecuador and Latin America.

A comprehensive review of current knowledge of the deep-water fishes of the North Atlantic and their exploitation.

Explores the musical background to Darwinism and the development of the relationship between science and the arts in Victorian Britain.

This book brings together the most important insights from the vast amount of literature on the origin of language.

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

Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection was based on the observation that there is variation between individuals within the same species.

The New York Times bestselling author of Darwins Doubt, Stephen Meyer, presents groundbreaking scientific evidence of the existence of God, based on breakthroughs in physics, cosmology, and biology.

This update to the award-winning The Origins of Modern Humans: A World Survey of the Fossil Evidence covers the most accepted common theories concerning the emergence of modern Homo sapiens adding fresh insight from top young scholars on the key new discoveries of the past 25 years.

This volume, the tenth in the series, comprises modern treatments for the families and genera of the eudicot orders Sapindales and Cucurbitales.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the major key concepts common to economics and evolutionary biology.

This proceedings volume includes selected papers presented at the international symposium `Live Food Organisms in Marine Larviculture' held in Nagasaki, Japan, September 1-4 1996.

Discusses the relationship between Chomskyan syntactic theory and the evolution of language.