Evolution

This book introduces readers to nearly 600 common weeds.

Biology of Ticks is the most comprehensive work on tick biology and tick-borne diseases.

This book represents a first attempt to comprehensively discuss and investigate causes and potential implications of changing patterns of spouse pairing in Japan and to consider similarities and differences with patterns observed in the USA and other low-fertility Western societies.

Ich bin mir des vernichtenden Kommentars bewußt, der hinter den Ku­ lissen getuschelt wird - nämlich, daß ich wie ein Professor klinge -, aber nach all den professoralen Jahren ist es mir fast unmöglich, die Hauptbe­ schäftigung meines Lebens zu verbergen.

Is it possible to explain and predict the development of living things?

Leading scientists in the field trace the evolution of the one of the most ancient major branches of flowering plants.

Synthesizing the findings from a wide range of disciplines - from biology and anthropology to philosophy and linguistics - the emerging field of Biosemiotics explores the highly complex phenomenon of sign processing in living systems.

Sequence analyses of numerous fungal genomes over the past two decades have provided us with extensive insights into the phylogenetic relationships of fungi and the distribution of genes and their inferred functions, across the fungal kingdom.

This book is a practical, compact guide for the identification of common tropical and subtropical ornamental plants by flower colour.

This book brings together an impressive group of leading scholars in the sciences of complexity, and a few workers on the interface of science and religion, to explore the wider implications of complexity studies.

Genesis: The Evolution of Biology presents a history of the past two centuries of biology, suitable for use in courses, but of interest more broadly to evolutionary biologists, geneticists, and biomedical scientists, as well as general readers interested in the history of science.

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.

Oxford presents, in one convenient and coherently organized volume, 20 influential but until now relatively inaccessible articles that form the backbone of Boyd and Richerson's path-breaking work on evolution and culture.

The data of evolutionary biology have changed in a very radical way in recent years, the most significant input to this revolution being the advances made in developmental genetics.

This book explores fascinating topics at the edge of life, guiding the reader all the way from the relation of life processes to the second law of thermodynamics and the abundance of complex organic compounds in the universe through to the latest advances in synthetic biology and metabolic engineering.

Crayfish are one of the most iconic freshwater crustacean groups of the world.

"e;Engineering"e; has firmly taken root in the entangled bank of biology even as proposals to remake the living world have sent tendrils in every direction, and at every scale.

Reconstructs European and Mediterranean climate over the last 20 million years in relation to human evolution.

The important role that randomness plays in evolutionary changeJohn Tyler Bonner, one of our most distinguished and insightful biologists, here challenges a central tenet of evolutionary biology.

From the 'punctuated equilibrium' of Eldrege and Gould, through Lewontin's 'triple helix' and the various visions and revisions of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES) of Laland and others, both data and theory have demanded an opening-up of the 1950's Evolutionary Synthesis that so firmly wedded evolutionary theory to the mathematics of gene frequency analysis.

Fritz Muller (1821-1897), though not as well known as his colleague Charles Darwin, belongs in the cohort of great nineteenth-century naturalists.

This is the first high-quality, comprehensive overview of the field of evolutionary protein design.

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 book presents the latest information on canine parasites with zoonotic potential, to help avoid human infections.

Plants have been a source of medicines and have played crucial role for human health.

The most comprehensive state-of-the-field survey of biolinguistics available.

Adaptivity and learning have in recent decades become a common concern of scientific disciplines.

Der Band versammelt 14 interdisziplinäre Beiträge zum Thema „Personale Identität in der Antike“ und fragt danach, wie das, was in der abendländischen Tradition als Person, Bewußtsein oder Identität bezeichnet wird, in den antiken Religionen / Kulturen aufgebaut wurde.

The book presents a general overview of mathematical models in the context of evolution.

Marine Animal Forests (MAFs) are spread all over the world.

The Arctic is a special world.

The complete guide to our closest living relative, drawing on thirty years of primate observation.

Environmental Regulation of Microbial Metabolism contains the proceedings of the Federation of European Microbiological Societies Symposium held in Pushchino, USSR, on June 1-7, 1983.

French zoologist Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) helped form and bring credibility to geology and paleontology.

For most, the mere mention of lice forces an immediate hand to the head and recollection of childhood experiences with nits, medicated shampoos, and traumatic haircuts.

Introduction to Genetics: Science of Heredity presents a linear programmed text about hereditary and genetics.

This book gathers papers presented at the annual meetings  of the Acarological Society of America (ASA), jointly organized with the Entomological Society of America.

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From famed zoologist Anthony Sinclair, an account of his decades-long quest to understand one of Earth's most spectacular ecosystemsWith its rich biodiversity, astounding wildlife, and breathtaking animal migrations, Serengeti is like no other ecosystem on the planet.

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

"e;Atlas of Woody Plants in China: Distribution and Climate"e; documents the spatially-explicit county-level distribution of all 11,405 woody plants in China, together with life form information for most species.

R is a freely available, open-source statistical programming environment which provides powerful statistical analysis tools and graphics outputs.

This book critically evaluates cryptic species - a growing trend in taxonomy - and their importance for evolutionary biology.

Research in recent years has increasingly shifted away from purely academic research, and into applied aspects of the discipline, including climate change research, conservation, and sustainable development.

Eukaryotic Gene Regulation covers the aspects and mechanisms of gene regulation of selected eukaryotes, such as yeast, Drosophila, and insect.

This book was compiled by researchers of Chinese Academy of Forestry, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Southwest Forestry University, and Kunming University of Science and Technology.

In the years since the publication of Susumu Ohno's 1970 landmark book Evolution by gene duplication tremendous advances have been made in molecular biology and especially in genomics.