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Talking about Life

Conversations on Astrobiology

Edited by Chris Impey ...

With over 500 planets now known to exist beyond the Solar System, spacecraft heading for Mars, and the ongoing search for extraterrestrial intelligence, this timely book explores current ideas about the search for life in the Universe. It contains candid interviews with dozens of astronomers, geologists, biologists, and writers about the origin and range of terrestrial life and likely sites for ... Read more

$45.99 USD

With over 500 planets now known to exist beyond the Solar System, spacecraft heading for Mars, and the ongoing search for extraterrestrial intelligence, this timely book explores current ideas about the search for life in the Universe. It contains candid interviews with dozens of astronomers, geologists, biologists, and writers about the origin and range of terrestrial life and likely sites for
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Charles Darwin: Die Reise zur Erkenntnis (GEO eBook)

Edited by GEO Magazin, GEO eBook, GEO ...

Dies ist die Geschichte zweier abenteuerlicher Expeditionen. Die erste startet 1831 mit dem Vermessungsschiff »Beagle", auf dem Charles Darwin fünf Jahre lang um die Erde segelt. Die zweite dauert mehr als 20 Jahre, findet nur im Kopf des Forschers statt - und führt ihn tief in die Vergangenheit. Ihr Ziel: die Entstehung der Arten zu ergründen. Es ist die kühnste Entdeckungsreise des 19. ... Read more

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Dies ist die Geschichte zweier abenteuerlicher Expeditionen. Die erste startet 1831 mit dem Vermessungsschiff »Beagle", auf dem Charles Darwin fünf Jahre lang um die Erde segelt. Die zweite dauert mehr als 20 Jahre, findet nur im Kopf des Forschers statt - und führt ihn tief in die Vergangenheit. Ihr Ziel: die Entstehung der Arten zu ergründen. Es ist die kühnste Entdeckungsreise des 19.
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Progress in Botany 72

Edited by Ulrich Lüttge, Wolfram Beyschlag, Burkhard Büdel, Dennis Francis ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
With one volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences. ... Read more

$188.09 USD

With one volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences.
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Building Babies

Primate Development in Proximate and Ultimate Perspective

Edited by Kathryn B.H. Clancy, Julienne N. Rutherford, Katie Hinde ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
The ontogeny of each individual contributes to the physical, physiological, cognitive, neurobiological, and behavioral capacity to manage the complex social relationships and diverse foraging tasks that characterize the primate order. For these reasons Building Babies explores the dynamic multigenerational processes of primate development. The book is organized thematically along the developmental ... Read more

$143.09 USD

The ontogeny of each individual contributes to the physical, physiological, cognitive, neurobiological, and behavioral capacity to manage the complex social relationships and diverse foraging tasks that characterize the primate order. For these reasons Building Babies explores the dynamic multigenerational processes of primate development. The book is organized thematically along the developmental
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Vegetation Survey and Classification of Subtropical Forests of Southern Africa

by Ladislav Mucina ...

Series series Geobotany Studies
This book highlights classification patterns and underlying ecological drivers structuring the vegetation of selected indigenous subtropical forests in South Africa. It uses original field sampling and advanced numerical data analysis to examine three major types of forest – Albany Coastal Forests, Pondoland Coastal Scarp and Eastern Scarp – all of which are of high conservation value. Offering a ... Read more

$143.09 USD

This book highlights classification patterns and underlying ecological drivers structuring the vegetation of selected indigenous subtropical forests in South Africa. It uses original field sampling and advanced numerical data analysis to examine three major types of forest – Albany Coastal Forests, Pondoland Coastal Scarp and Eastern Scarp – all of which are of high conservation value. Offering a
... Read more
The Evolutionary Biology of Human Body Fatness

Thrift and Control

by Jonathan C. K. Wells ...

Series Book 58 - Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology
This comprehensive synthesis of current medical and evolutionary literature addresses key questions about the role body fat plays in human biology. It explores how body energy stores are regulated, how they develop over the life-course, what biological functions they serve, and how they may have evolved. There is now substantial evidence that human adiposity is not merely a buffer against the ... Read more

$47.59 USD

This comprehensive synthesis of current medical and evolutionary literature addresses key questions about the role body fat plays in human biology. It explores how body energy stores are regulated, how they develop over the life-course, what biological functions they serve, and how they may have evolved. There is now substantial evidence that human adiposity is not merely a buffer against the
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The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 28, 1880

by Charles Darwin, The Editors of the Darwin Correspondence Project ...

Series series The Correspondence of Charles Darwin
This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. Notes and appendixes put these fascinating and wide-ranging letters in context, making the letters accessible to both scholars and general readers. Darwin depended on correspondence to collect data from all over the world, and to discuss his emerging ... Read more

$127.09 USD

This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. Notes and appendixes put these fascinating and wide-ranging letters in context, making the letters accessible to both scholars and general readers. Darwin depended on correspondence to collect data from all over the world, and to discuss his emerging
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Panicle Architecture of Rice and its Relationship with Grain Filling

by Pravat K. Mohapatra, Binod Bihari Sahu ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This book shows the importance of rice for human consumption. It focuses on the rice panicle, its morphology and characteristics.High genetic diversity of rice has been economically profitable for mankind; the crop provides food calories to half of the human race on earth and because of its adaptability to diversified and unstable ecological conditions, the plant has an asynchronous flowering ... Read more

$134.09 USD

This book shows the importance of rice for human consumption. It focuses on the rice panicle, its morphology and characteristics.High genetic diversity of rice has been economically profitable for mankind; the crop provides food calories to half of the human race on earth and because of its adaptability to diversified and unstable ecological conditions, the plant has an asynchronous flowering
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Molecular Biology Made Easy

by Turing Editorial Team ...

This book is an easy-to-follow journey into the hidden world inside every living thing: the cell. Written in everyday language for busy people, this is the simplest yet comprehensive introduction to Molecular Biology for EveryoneAt the center of molecular biology is the one big question: how does chemistry give rise to life? The book begins with the cell as life's basic unit: a self-maintaining, ... Read more

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This book is an easy-to-follow journey into the hidden world inside every living thing: the cell. Written in everyday language for busy people, this is the simplest yet comprehensive introduction to Molecular Biology for EveryoneAt the center of molecular biology is the one big question: how does chemistry give rise to life? The book begins with the cell as life's basic unit: a self-maintaining,
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From Aristotle's Teleology to Darwin's Genealogy

The Stamp of Inutility

by M. Solinas ...

Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
From Aristotle to Darwin, from ancient teleology to contemporary genealogies, this book offers an overview of the birth and then persistence of Aristotle's framework into modernity, until its radical overthrow by the evolutionary revolution. ... Read more

$49.49 USD

From Aristotle to Darwin, from ancient teleology to contemporary genealogies, this book offers an overview of the birth and then persistence of Aristotle's framework into modernity, until its radical overthrow by the evolutionary revolution.
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Lithic Technological Systems and Evolutionary Theory

Edited by Nathan Goodale, William Andrefsky, Jr ...

Stone tool analysis relies on a strong background in analytical and methodological techniques. However, lithic technological analysis has not been well integrated with a theoretically informed approach to understanding how humans procured, made, and used stone tools. Evolutionary theory has great potential to fill this gap. This collection of essays brings together several different evolutionary ... Read more

$109.09 USD

Stone tool analysis relies on a strong background in analytical and methodological techniques. However, lithic technological analysis has not been well integrated with a theoretically informed approach to understanding how humans procured, made, and used stone tools. Evolutionary theory has great potential to fill this gap. This collection of essays brings together several different evolutionary
... Read more
Biochemistry of Non-Shivering Thermogenesis in Vertebrates

Evolutionary Perspectives

Edited by Naresh Chandra Bal, Punyadhara Pani ...

This comprehensive reference book covers non-shivering thermogenesis, metabolic rates, and associated diseases. It emphasizes the phylogenetic relations of vertebrate non-shivering thermogenesis (NST) and its evolutionary significance. The book describes how the incidence of metabolic syndromes has reached epidemic levels worldwide due to dysregulation in energy balance. Chapters include the ... Read more

$77.99 USD

This comprehensive reference book covers non-shivering thermogenesis, metabolic rates, and associated diseases. It emphasizes the phylogenetic relations of vertebrate non-shivering thermogenesis (NST) and its evolutionary significance. The book describes how the incidence of metabolic syndromes has reached epidemic levels worldwide due to dysregulation in energy balance. Chapters include the
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Nati: The Cosmology of the New Human Being

by Nikita Kotliarov ...

What if your search for meaning was not a spiritual mystery, but a scientific frontier? What if the laws of physics held the master key to your consciousness, your suffering, and your purpose?Nati is a groundbreaking work of live intellectual exploration. It begins with a deceptively simple, profoundly scientific question — "What is light?" — and follows this thread into the very fabric of reality ... Read more

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What if your search for meaning was not a spiritual mystery, but a scientific frontier? What if the laws of physics held the master key to your consciousness, your suffering, and your purpose?Nati is a groundbreaking work of live intellectual exploration. It begins with a deceptively simple, profoundly scientific question — "What is light?" — and follows this thread into the very fabric of reality
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The Hierarchies in Biological Systematics

A Conceptual Perspective

by Igor Ya. Pavlinov ...

Series series Species and Systematics
The Hierarchies in Biological Systematics: A Conceptual Perspective examines the diverse hierarchies shaping the field of biology. From the overarching cognitive frameworks to the specific classifications that define biological taxonomy, this book is a comprehensive analysis of hierarchical structures and their inherent complexities.Through a conceptual lens, the author explores the fundamental ... Read more

$249.99 USD

The Hierarchies in Biological Systematics: A Conceptual Perspective examines the diverse hierarchies shaping the field of biology. From the overarching cognitive frameworks to the specific classifications that define biological taxonomy, this book is a comprehensive analysis of hierarchical structures and their inherent complexities.Through a conceptual lens, the author explores the fundamental
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Behave

by Robert Sapolsky ...

De la Robert Sapolsky, avem una dintre cele mai orbitoare sinteze încercate vreodată a cunoștințelor științifice despre comportamentul omenesc, o grandioasă retrospectivă care unifică o diversitate de discipline, ca să ofere o perspectivă subtilă și nuanțată asupra cauzelor care ne determină, în ultimă instanță, să facem lucrurile pe care le facem... spre bine ori spre rău.Prima categorie de ... Read more

$24.99 USD

De la Robert Sapolsky, avem una dintre cele mai orbitoare sinteze încercate vreodată a cunoștințelor științifice despre comportamentul omenesc, o grandioasă retrospectivă care unifică o diversitate de discipline, ca să ofere o perspectivă subtilă și nuanțată asupra cauzelor care ne determină, în ultimă instanță, să facem lucrurile pe care le facem... spre bine ori spre rău.Prima categorie de
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The Current Within

How Fish Movement Reveals the Evolutionary Roots They Share with Human Life

by Nora F. Mercer ...

Series Book 1 - The Nature Files
To watch a fish move is to see biology made visible. In The Current Within, Nora F. Mercer shows how every turn, pause, burst, and glide reveals the forces that shaped fish bodies and behaviors over deep time. Written for curious general readers, science enthusiasts, and students, this accessible exploration explains why movement is one of the clearest windows into anatomy, ecology, and evolution. ... Read more

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To watch a fish move is to see biology made visible. In The Current Within, Nora F. Mercer shows how every turn, pause, burst, and glide reveals the forces that shaped fish bodies and behaviors over deep time. Written for curious general readers, science enthusiasts, and students, this accessible exploration explains why movement is one of the clearest windows into anatomy, ecology, and evolution.
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Form and Function in Developmental Evolution

Edited by Manfred D. Laubichler, Jane Maienschein ...

Series series Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
This book represents an effort to understand very old questions about biological form, function, and the relationships between them. The essays collected here reflect the diversity of approaches in evolutionary developmental biology (Evo Devo), including not only studies by prominent scientists whose research focuses on topics concerned with evolution and development, but also historically and ... Read more

$38.59 USD

This book represents an effort to understand very old questions about biological form, function, and the relationships between them. The essays collected here reflect the diversity of approaches in evolutionary developmental biology (Evo Devo), including not only studies by prominent scientists whose research focuses on topics concerned with evolution and development, but also historically and
... Read more
Improving GIS-based Wildlife-Habitat Analysis

by Jeffrey K. Keller, Charles R. Smith ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) provide a powerful tool for the investigation of species-habitat relationships and the development of wildlife management and conservation programs. However, the relative ease of data manipulation and analysis using GIS, associated landscape metrics packages, and sophisticated statistical tests may sometimes cause investigators to overlook important species ... Read more

$49.49 USD

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) provide a powerful tool for the investigation of species-habitat relationships and the development of wildlife management and conservation programs. However, the relative ease of data manipulation and analysis using GIS, associated landscape metrics packages, and sophisticated statistical tests may sometimes cause investigators to overlook important species
... Read more
Charles Darwin In Cambridge: The Most Joyful Years

by John Van Wyhe ...

Charles Darwin's years as a student at the University of Cambridge were some of the most important and formative of his life. Thereafter he always felt a particular affection for Cambridge. For a time he even considered a Cambridge professorship as a career and sent three of his sons there to be educated. Unfortunately the remaining traces of what Darwin actually did and experienced in Cambridge ... Read more

$18.99 USD

Charles Darwin's years as a student at the University of Cambridge were some of the most important and formative of his life. Thereafter he always felt a particular affection for Cambridge. For a time he even considered a Cambridge professorship as a career and sent three of his sons there to be educated. Unfortunately the remaining traces of what Darwin actually did and experienced in Cambridge
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The Maiden Voyage of Petrus van Stijn

A Novel

by Michael Charles Tobias ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Petrus van Stijn’s world is besieged by two prime engines of destruction: massive geomagnetic storms caused by unprecedented solar storms – protracted coronal mass ejections (CME), and climate change wreaking unprecedented, but predictable collapse of the Antarctic ice shelves. Petrus has other problems to contend with, like surviving on a floating archipelago of ice, and then walking 2200 ... Read more

$28.49 USD

Petrus van Stijn’s world is besieged by two prime engines of destruction: massive geomagnetic storms caused by unprecedented solar storms – protracted coronal mass ejections (CME), and climate change wreaking unprecedented, but predictable collapse of the Antarctic ice shelves. Petrus has other problems to contend with, like surviving on a floating archipelago of ice, and then walking 2200
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Evolutionary Ecology and Human Behavior

by Eric Alden Smith ...

Series series Foundations of Human Behavior
""à required reading for anyone interested in the economy, ecology, and demography of human societies."" --American Journal of Human Biology ""This excellent book can serve both as a text¼book and as a scholarly reference."" --American Scientist ... Read more

$69.99 USD

""à required reading for anyone interested in the economy, ecology, and demography of human societies."" --American Journal of Human Biology ""This excellent book can serve both as a text¼book and as a scholarly reference."" --American Scientist
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Endosymbiotic Theories of Organelles Revisited

Retrospects and Prospects

by Naoki Sato ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This book re-examines the endosymbiotic theory, and presents various related theories and hypotheses since the first proposal in 1905 by a Russian biologist. It also demonstrates that Lynn Margulis’s contribution to the current endosymbiotic is less than sometimes thought, and presents a plausible idea on how the organelles were formed. Explaining that Margulis’s initial work did not intend to ... Read more

$152.09 USD

This book re-examines the endosymbiotic theory, and presents various related theories and hypotheses since the first proposal in 1905 by a Russian biologist. It also demonstrates that Lynn Margulis’s contribution to the current endosymbiotic is less than sometimes thought, and presents a plausible idea on how the organelles were formed. Explaining that Margulis’s initial work did not intend to
... Read more
Biology and Ecology of Venomous Marine Cnidarians

by Ramasamy Santhanam ...

Seas and oceans cover 71 % of the earth’s surface and they are home to 80% of all life found on the planet . Among the different components of marine life, the phylum Cnidaria (formerly Coelenterata) has been reported to be responsible for more envenomations than any other marine phylum. It is believed that 2% of its known 11000 species are venomous to humans. Incidents caused by jellyfish are ... Read more

$215.09 USD

Seas and oceans cover 71 % of the earth’s surface and they are home to 80% of all life found on the planet . Among the different components of marine life, the phylum Cnidaria (formerly Coelenterata) has been reported to be responsible for more envenomations than any other marine phylum. It is believed that 2% of its known 11000 species are venomous to humans. Incidents caused by jellyfish are
... Read more
Zoogeography of Arachnida

by Petar Beron ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This volume merges all geographical and paleogeographical data on all groups of the arachnofauna. The book features topics such as the ecological factors, climate and other barriers that influence the distribution of arachnida. It also elaborates on the characteristics of the distribution such as arachnida at high altitude (e.g. Himalaya), in caves, in polar regions and highlights differences ... Read more

$260.09 USD

This volume merges all geographical and paleogeographical data on all groups of the arachnofauna. The book features topics such as the ecological factors, climate and other barriers that influence the distribution of arachnida. It also elaborates on the characteristics of the distribution such as arachnida at high altitude (e.g. Himalaya), in caves, in polar regions and highlights differences
... Read more

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