Evolution category: 1570 books
How Science Works: Evolution
The Nature of Science & The Science of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2016
Evolution is just a theory, isn’t it? What is a scientific theory anyway? Don’t scientists prove things? What is the difference between a fact, a hypothesis and a theory in science? How does scientific thinking differ from religious thinking? Why are most leading scientists atheists? Are science...
Evolution of Island Mammals
Adaptation and Extinction of Placental Mammals on Islands
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Evolution on islands differs in a number of important ways from evolution on mainland areas. Over millions of years of isolation, exceptional and sometimes bizarre mammals evolved on islands, such as pig-sized elephants and hippos, giant rats and gorilla-sized lemurs that would have been formidable...
The Nature of Diversity
An Evolutionary Voyage of Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
All living things on earth—from individual species to entire ecosystems—have evolved through time, and evolution is the acknowledged framework of modern biology. Yet many areas of biology have moved from a focus on evolution to much narrower perspectives.
Daniel R. Brooks and Deborah A....
On the Origin of Autonomy
A New Look at the Major Transitions in Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
This volume describes features of autonomy and integrates them into the recent discussion of factors in evolution. In recent years ideas about major transitions in evolution are undergoing a revolutionary change. They include questions about the origin of evolutionary innovation, their genetic and...
Why Penguins Communicate
The Evolution of Visual and Vocal Signals
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Why Penguins Communicate: The Evolution of Visual and Vocal Signals is a comprehensive and condensed review of several hundred publications on the evolution of penguin behaviors, particularly signaling, linking genetics and ecology via such behavioral adaptations as nuptial displays. This exciting...
by Gary Tomlinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
The rapid evolutionary development of modern Homo sapiens over the past 200,000 years is a topic of fevered interest in numerous disciplines. How did humans, while undergoing few physical changes from their first arrival, so quickly develop the capacities to transform their world? Gary Tomlinson’s...
Where Are We Heading?
The Evolution of Humans and Things
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
A theory of human evolution and history based on ever-increasing mutual dependency between humans and things
In this engaging exploration, archaeologist Ian Hodder departs from the two prevailing modes of thought about human evolution: the older idea of constant advancement toward a civilized...
by Thomas N. Sherratt, David M. Wilkinson
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
Why do we age? Why cooperate? Why do so many species engage in sex? Why do the tropics have so many species? When did humans start to affect world climate? This book provides an introduction to a range of fundamental questions that have taxed evolutionary biologists and ecologists for decades. Some...
Evolution Science and Ethics in the Third Millennium
Challenges and Choices for Humankind
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
The book aims to revitalise the interdisciplinary debate about evolutionary ethics and substantiate the idea that evolution science can provide a rational and robust framework for understanding morality. It also traces pathways for knowledge-based choices to be made about directions for future long-term...
The Story of Genetics, Development and Evolution
A Historical Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
This unique story offers an introductory conversation to genetics, embryology and evolution, taking us on a historical journey of biology through the ages. Using a series of dialogues between the Greek philosopher Democritus and his disciple Alkimos, we travel through time visiting eminent scientists...
Avian Brood Parasitism
Behaviour, Ecology, Evolution and Coevolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Brood parasitism has become one of the most flourishing areas of research in evolutionary ecology and one of the best model systems for investigating coevolution. This subject has undergone remarkable advances during the last two decades, but has not been covered by any book in the 21st century.
This...
Evolution by the Numbers
The Origins of Mathematical Argument in Biology
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
In Evolution by the Numbers: The Origins of Mathematical Argument in Biology, James Wynn examines the confluence of science, mathematics, and rhetoric in the development of theories of evolution and heredity in the nineteenth century. Evolution by the Numbers shows how mathematical warrants become...
by Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Boys and girls, most people believe that fossils support the theory of evolution. This is what evolutionists tell them. but it is a lie. The truth is the opposite: fossils are the most important proof that evolution has never happened. There are many books about evolution that tell stories that are...
by Scott Orland Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Evolutionary biology has increasingly relied upon tools developed in molecular biology that allow for the structure and function of macromolecules to be used as data for exploring the patterns and processes of evolutionary change. Integrated Molecular Evolution, Second Edition is a textbook intended...