Evolution category: 1570 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2013
The Evolution of Phylogenetic Systematics aims to make sense of the rise of phylogenetic systematics—its methods, its objects of study, and its theoretical foundations—with contributions from historians, philosophers, and biologists. This volume articulates an intellectual agenda for the study...
by Michael Heads
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Biogeography and Evolution in New Zealand provides the first in-depth treatment of the biogeography of New Zealand, a region that has been a place of long-enduring interest to ecologists, evolutionary scientists, geographers, geologists, and scientists in related disciplines. It serves as a key addition...
by David Steve Jacobs, Anna Bastian
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
This book provides a comprehensive review of the evolution of traits associated with predation and predator defense for bats and all of their prey, both invertebrates (e.g. insects) and vertebrates (e.g. frogs), in the context of co-evolution. It reviews current knowledge of how echolocation and passive...
Games of Life
Explorations in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
"A book accessible to all readers, whatever their level of numeracy … an excellent introduction to what theoretical biologists get up to in trying to understand evolutionary and ecological ideas." ― Nature
Why are there only two sexes? Why do stags restrain their aggression in the middle...
Life as Its Own Designer
Darwin's Origin and Western Thought
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
It has been nearly 150 years since Darwin published On the Origin of Species, and his theory of natural selection still ignites a forest of heated debate between scientific fundamentalists on the one hand and religious fundamentalists on the other. But both sides actually agree more than they disagree,...
Evolution in Action
Case studies in Adaptive Radiation, Speciation and the Origin of Biodiversity
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2010
Radiations, or Evolution in Action We have just celebrated the “Darwin Year” with the double anniversary of his 200th birthday and 150th year of his masterpiece, “On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection”. In this work, Darwin established the factual evidence of biological evolution,...
by Eugene Rosenberg, Ilana Zilber-Rosenberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Groundbreaking research over the last 10 years has given rise to the hologenome concept of evolution. This concept posits that the holobiont (host plus all of its associated microorganisms) and its hologenome (sum of the genetic information of the host and its symbiotic microorganisms), acting in...
Organelle Genetics
Evolution of Organelle Genomes and Gene Expression
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
Mitochondria and chloroplasts are eukaryotic organelles that evolved from bacterial ancestors and harbor their own genomes. The gene products of these genomes work in concert with those of the nuclear genome to ensure proper organelle metabolism and biogenesis.
This book explores the forces...
The Taming of Evolution
The Persistence of Nonevolutionary Views in the Study of Humans
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
The theory of evolution has clearly altered our views of the biological world, but in the study of human beings, evolutionary and preevolutionary views continue to coexist in a state of perpetual tension. The Taming of Evolution addresses the questions of how and why this is so. Davydd Greenwood offers...
by Dean Falk, Eve Penelope Schofield
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
In this unusual book an evolutionary anthropologist and her coauthor/granddaughter, who has Asperger syndrome, examine the emergence and spread of Asperger syndrome and other forms of high-functioning autism. The authors speak to readers with autism, parents, teachers, clinicians, psychologists, psychiatrists,...
Plant Life
A Brief History
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
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 "abominable mystery." The first seed plants appeared in the fossil record some 230 million years earlier, but the...
The Deep History of Ourselves
The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2019
A leading neuroscientist offers a history of the evolution of the brain from unicellular organisms to the complexity of animals and human beings today
Renowned neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux digs into the natural history of life on earth to provide a new perspective on the similarities between...
Big Brains and the Human Superorganism
Why Special Brains Appear in Hominids and Other Social Animals
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
This book examines why humans have big brains, what big brains enable us to do, and how specialized brains are associated with eusociality in animals. It explores why brains expanded so slowly, and then why they stopped growing. This book whittles down the theories on brain size evolution to a few...
The Evolution of Anisogamy
A Fundamental Phenomenon Underlying Sexual Selection
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
Darwin identified the existence of separate male and female gametes as one of the central mysteries of evolutionary biology. 150 years later, the question of why male gametes exist remains an intriguing puzzle. In this, the first book solely devoted to the evolution of anisogamy, top theorists in...