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Darwins Rätsel

Schöpfung ohne Schöpfer?

by Reinhard Junker, Henrik Ullrich ...

Series series Wort und Wissen
Das Rätsel Schöpfung. Charles Darwin habe vor 150 Jahren die Biologie vom Schöpfungsglauben befreit und mit der Evolutionstheorie gezeigt, dass ein Schöpfer überflüssig sei, behaupten viele. Das "Darwin-Jahr" 2009 wird allerorts gefeiert. Darwin wusste allerdings, dass die Vorstellung einer sich selbst erschaffenden Natur voller Rätsel ist. Trotz des Fortschritts der Wissenschaft ist das heute ... Read more

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Das Rätsel Schöpfung. Charles Darwin habe vor 150 Jahren die Biologie vom Schöpfungsglauben befreit und mit der Evolutionstheorie gezeigt, dass ein Schöpfer überflüssig sei, behaupten viele. Das "Darwin-Jahr" 2009 wird allerorts gefeiert. Darwin wusste allerdings, dass die Vorstellung einer sich selbst erschaffenden Natur voller Rätsel ist. Trotz des Fortschritts der Wissenschaft ist das heute
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Intelligence Unbound

by Georgy Iashvili ...

How do we find good tricks—whether in nature, science, or society? Why is intelligence not just about knowing things but about navigating constraints? And what if the search for goodness itself is just an ongoing, open-ended process—one that, like evolution, must stumble before it soars?In Intelligence Unbound, Georgy Iashvili takes the reader on a journey through the evolution of intelligence, ... Read more

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How do we find good tricks—whether in nature, science, or society? Why is intelligence not just about knowing things but about navigating constraints? And what if the search for goodness itself is just an ongoing, open-ended process—one that, like evolution, must stumble before it soars?In Intelligence Unbound, Georgy Iashvili takes the reader on a journey through the evolution of intelligence,
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Myth, Chaos, and Certainty

Notes on Cosmos, Life, and Knowledge

by Rosolino Buccheri ...

This book offers a study of the three evolutions in a circle (cosmos, life, and knowledge) with the aim of discussing human social behavior, a metaphor of the general behavior of nature (from which man derives) within the fluctuating equilibrium between the opposite tendencies to cohesion and shredding; a circularity revealing an indefinite and probably never conclusive run-up of human beings to ... Read more

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This book offers a study of the three evolutions in a circle (cosmos, life, and knowledge) with the aim of discussing human social behavior, a metaphor of the general behavior of nature (from which man derives) within the fluctuating equilibrium between the opposite tendencies to cohesion and shredding; a circularity revealing an indefinite and probably never conclusive run-up of human beings to
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Coconut Biotechnology: Towards the Sustainability of the ‘Tree of Life’

Edited by Steve Adkins, Mike Foale, Roland Bourdeix, Quang Nguyen, Julianne Biddle ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Widely known as the ‘tree of life’, coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) provides a bountiful source for making a wide variety of healthy foods and industrial items. Its cultivation, however, has been encountering seriously destructive issues including lethal diseases and natural adversities which are currently distressing livelihoods of millions of small-holder farmers around the world. There is an urgent ... Read more

$143.09 USD

Widely known as the ‘tree of life’, coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) provides a bountiful source for making a wide variety of healthy foods and industrial items. Its cultivation, however, has been encountering seriously destructive issues including lethal diseases and natural adversities which are currently distressing livelihoods of millions of small-holder farmers around the world. There is an urgent
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The Dawn Angiosperms

Uncovering the Origin of Flowering Plants

by Xin Wang ...

Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
This book discusses the controversial and conflicting hypotheses on the origin of angiosperms, which was generally assumed to be restricted to the Cretaceous and later ages. Since publishing the first edition of “The Dawn of Angiosperms” in 2010, several important advances have been made in this field of science, namely 1) the discovery of new fossil angiosperms from the Jurassic; 2) European ... Read more

$143.09 USD

This book discusses the controversial and conflicting hypotheses on the origin of angiosperms, which was generally assumed to be restricted to the Cretaceous and later ages. Since publishing the first edition of “The Dawn of Angiosperms” in 2010, several important advances have been made in this field of science, namely 1) the discovery of new fossil angiosperms from the Jurassic; 2) European
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Data Integration, Manipulation and Visualization of Phylogenetic Trees

by Guangchuang Yu ...

Series series Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Biology Series
Data Integration, Manipulation and Visualization of Phylogenetic Trees introduces and demonstrates data integration, manipulation and visualization of phylogenetic trees using a suite of R packages, tidytree, treeio, ggtree and ggtreeExtra. Using the most comprehensive packages for phylogenetic data integration and visualization, contains numerous examples that can be used for teaching and ... Read more

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Data Integration, Manipulation and Visualization of Phylogenetic Trees introduces and demonstrates data integration, manipulation and visualization of phylogenetic trees using a suite of R packages, tidytree, treeio, ggtree and ggtreeExtra. Using the most comprehensive packages for phylogenetic data integration and visualization, contains numerous examples that can be used for teaching and
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Evolution or Creation?

A Comparison of the Arguments

by Albert Debenedictis ...

This book is designed to share the research on the origins of the universe and the origins of life with those who are truly interested in making their decisions regarding origins as well as those who are simply curious about opposing views. ... Read more

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This book is designed to share the research on the origins of the universe and the origins of life with those who are truly interested in making their decisions regarding origins as well as those who are simply curious about opposing views.
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L'evoluzione è ovunque. Vedere il mondo con gli occhi di Darwin

by Marco Ferrari ...

La teoria darwiniana dell'evoluzione – una delle intuizioni più rivoluzionarie nella storia dell'uomo – anche se per molti rimane chiusa nei laboratori e negli articoli scientifici, difficile ed esoterica, è presente in tutto il pianeta, addirittura nell'intero universo. Con essa possiamo interpretare quello che vediamo attorno a noi, e usarla come strumento: per salvare vite e disegnare ... Read more

$5.99 USD

La teoria darwiniana dell'evoluzione – una delle intuizioni più rivoluzionarie nella storia dell'uomo – anche se per molti rimane chiusa nei laboratori e negli articoli scientifici, difficile ed esoterica, è presente in tutto il pianeta, addirittura nell'intero universo. Con essa possiamo interpretare quello che vediamo attorno a noi, e usarla come strumento: per salvare vite e disegnare
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The Genus Diplusodon (Lythraceae)

by Taciana Barbosa Cavalcanti ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This volume is a monograph of the genus Diplusodon (Lythraceae), written by the world authority on this plant group. Diplusodon is a monophyletic genus of shrubs and subshrubs, with showy, 6-merous, actinomorphic flowers, and floral tubes on which the sepals alternate with conspicuous epicalyx segments. The capsular fruit contains winged seeds and, uniquely for the family, is divided by a ... Read more

$170.09 USD

This volume is a monograph of the genus Diplusodon (Lythraceae), written by the world authority on this plant group. Diplusodon is a monophyletic genus of shrubs and subshrubs, with showy, 6-merous, actinomorphic flowers, and floral tubes on which the sepals alternate with conspicuous epicalyx segments. The capsular fruit contains winged seeds and, uniquely for the family, is divided by a
... Read more
Music as Biology

The Tones We Like and Why

by Dale Purves ...

The universality of musical tones has long fascinated philosophers, scientists, musicians, and ordinary listeners. Why do human beings worldwide find some tone combinations consonant and others dissonant? Why do we make music using only a small number of scales out of the billions that are possible? Why do differently organized scales elicit different emotions? Why are there so few notes in scales ... Read more

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The universality of musical tones has long fascinated philosophers, scientists, musicians, and ordinary listeners. Why do human beings worldwide find some tone combinations consonant and others dissonant? Why do we make music using only a small number of scales out of the billions that are possible? Why do differently organized scales elicit different emotions? Why are there so few notes in scales
... Read more
SAPIENS RISING

The Epic Saga of Human Evolution from Primates to Pioneers

by Karun Sha ...

What does it mean to be human?In this sweeping, captivating narrative, Karun Sha takes readers on an unprecedented journey through the greatest story ever told—the 7-million-year evolution of our species. Sapiens Rising transforms our understanding of human origins from a dry academic subject into a living, breathing epic filled with drama, discovery, and profound insights about our place in the ... Read more

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What does it mean to be human?In this sweeping, captivating narrative, Karun Sha takes readers on an unprecedented journey through the greatest story ever told—the 7-million-year evolution of our species. Sapiens Rising transforms our understanding of human origins from a dry academic subject into a living, breathing epic filled with drama, discovery, and profound insights about our place in the
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Come costruire un gatto

L'evoluzione e l'arte di arrangiarsi

by Domenico Ridente ...

L'evoluzione è come un gioco di prestigio di cui non si riesce a cogliere il trucco e per questo si rimane confusi e increduli. Ci è voluto un lungo dibattito storico per passare dal rifiuto derivante da questa incredulità all'accettare l'evoluzione come un dato di fatto. Tuttavia, anche se la teoria evolutiva di Darwin viene oggi annoverata tra le più grandi conquiste scientifiche del ... Read more

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L'evoluzione è come un gioco di prestigio di cui non si riesce a cogliere il trucco e per questo si rimane confusi e increduli. Ci è voluto un lungo dibattito storico per passare dal rifiuto derivante da questa incredulità all'accettare l'evoluzione come un dato di fatto. Tuttavia, anche se la teoria evolutiva di Darwin viene oggi annoverata tra le più grandi conquiste scientifiche del
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How Molecular Forces and Rotating Planets Create Life

The Emergence and Evolution of Prokaryotic Cells

by Jan Spitzer ...

Series series Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology
A reconceptualization of origins research that exploits a modern understanding of non-covalent molecular forces that stabilize living prokaryotic cells.Scientific research into the origins of life remains exploratory and speculative. Science has no definitive answer to the biggest questions--"What is life?" and "How did life begin on earth?" In this book, Jan Spitzer reconceptualizes origins ... Read more

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A reconceptualization of origins research that exploits a modern understanding of non-covalent molecular forces that stabilize living prokaryotic cells.Scientific research into the origins of life remains exploratory and speculative. Science has no definitive answer to the biggest questions--"What is life?" and "How did life begin on earth?" In this book, Jan Spitzer reconceptualizes origins
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Epigenetics in Biological Communication

Edited by Guenther Witzany ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Every cell, tissue, organ and organism is competent to use signs to exchange information reaching common coordinations and organisations of both single cell and group behavior. These sign-mediated interactions we term biological communication. The regulatory system that works in development, morphology, cell fate and identity, physiology, genetic instructions, immunity, memory/learning, physical ... Read more

$224.09 USD

Every cell, tissue, organ and organism is competent to use signs to exchange information reaching common coordinations and organisations of both single cell and group behavior. These sign-mediated interactions we term biological communication. The regulatory system that works in development, morphology, cell fate and identity, physiology, genetic instructions, immunity, memory/learning, physical
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Thermophiles

The Keys to the Molecular Evolution and the Origin of Life?

Edited by Juergen Wiegel, Adams W.W. Michael ...

Late-1990s developments in the study of thermophiles have had considerable significance on theories of evolution. These micro-organisms are able to thrive at temperatures near or even above 100 degrees Celsius, and scientists have begun to study their biology in an attempt to provide clues about the beginnings of life on our planet. Researchers ... Read more

$325.00 USD

Late-1990s developments in the study of thermophiles have had considerable significance on theories of evolution. These micro-organisms are able to thrive at temperatures near or even above 100 degrees Celsius, and scientists have begun to study their biology in an attempt to provide clues about the beginnings of life on our planet. Researchers
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The Physiology of Fishes

Edited by Suzanne Currie, David H. Evans ...

Series series CRC Marine Biology Series
The fifth edition of The Physiology of Fishes represents a compendium of knowledge across fish physiology, collecting up-to-date research into an easy-to-access single textbook. Written by the leaders in the field, it provides a comprehensive, accessible review of the core topics, integrating physiology with environmental science, ecology, evolution, and molecular cell biology. New chapters ... Read more

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The fifth edition of The Physiology of Fishes represents a compendium of knowledge across fish physiology, collecting up-to-date research into an easy-to-access single textbook. Written by the leaders in the field, it provides a comprehensive, accessible review of the core topics, integrating physiology with environmental science, ecology, evolution, and molecular cell biology. New chapters
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La natura è più grande di noi

by Telmo Pievani ...

La natura è più grande di noi perché ha tempi lunghi, anzi lunghissimi, mentre noi siamo su questo pianeta da duecento millenni o poco più. Come rane in un paiolo che non si accorgono di finire lentamente bollite, abbiamo cambiato la geofisiologia della Terra innescando un riscaldamento climatico che riduce la biodiversità e crea instabilità, migranti ambientali e conflitti per le risorse. La ... Read more

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La natura è più grande di noi perché ha tempi lunghi, anzi lunghissimi, mentre noi siamo su questo pianeta da duecento millenni o poco più. Come rane in un paiolo che non si accorgono di finire lentamente bollite, abbiamo cambiato la geofisiologia della Terra innescando un riscaldamento climatico che riduce la biodiversità e crea instabilità, migranti ambientali e conflitti per le risorse. La
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Восхождение на гору Невероятности

by Ричард Докинз ...

Translated by Юлия Плискина ...

Series series Весь Ричард Докинз
Как пауки, плетя свою паутину, перекидывают самую первую ее нить? Какие подарки делает паук-самец своей возлюбленной? Мог ли без Бога существовать инжир? Почему у жирафа выросла такая шея? Почему сухопутные животные, вернувшись в водную среду, не открывают заново прежний набор приспособлений к водной жизни? И напротив, почему киты и морские коровы не сменили легкие на жабры? Могла ли такая сложная ... Read more

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Как пауки, плетя свою паутину, перекидывают самую первую ее нить? Какие подарки делает паук-самец своей возлюбленной? Мог ли без Бога существовать инжир? Почему у жирафа выросла такая шея? Почему сухопутные животные, вернувшись в водную среду, не открывают заново прежний набор приспособлений к водной жизни? И напротив, почему киты и морские коровы не сменили легкие на жабры? Могла ли такая сложная
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Evolution's Wedge

Competition and the Origins of Diversity

by David Pfennig, Karin Pfennig ...

Series Book 12 - Organisms and Environments
Evolutionary biology has long sought to explain how new traits and new species arise. Darwin maintained that competition is key to understanding this biodiversity and held that selection acting to minimize competition causes competitors to become increasingly different, thereby promoting new traits and new species. Despite Darwin’s emphasis, competition’s role in diversification remains ... Read more

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Evolutionary biology has long sought to explain how new traits and new species arise. Darwin maintained that competition is key to understanding this biodiversity and held that selection acting to minimize competition causes competitors to become increasingly different, thereby promoting new traits and new species. Despite Darwin’s emphasis, competition’s role in diversification remains
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Darwin's Walk and The Last Wave

Disappearing Landscapes, Declining Species

by Richard Krooth ...

This book describes the reasons humankind may be facing its last moments on Planet Earth. Darwin marked the path of species evolution, modification, and extinction. Following Darwin’s trajectory of evolution, the author reveals how human-made technologies have had a devastating impact on Earth’s biosphere, signaling the continuing disappearance of landscapes and the decline of species life. ... Read more

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This book describes the reasons humankind may be facing its last moments on Planet Earth. Darwin marked the path of species evolution, modification, and extinction. Following Darwin’s trajectory of evolution, the author reveals how human-made technologies have had a devastating impact on Earth’s biosphere, signaling the continuing disappearance of landscapes and the decline of species life.
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Natural Behavior

The Evolution of Behavior in Humans and Animals using Comparative Psychology and Behavioral Biology

by Burton A. Weiss ...

Natural Behavior provides seminal insights into the evolution of animal and human behavior for enthusiasts of Comparative Psychology and Behavioral Biology. Evolution and the behavior of the animal kingdom are discussed with new concepts on science, learning and instinct, and population phenomena. Hominization, interaction with Neanderthals, how the brain evolved, and the impact on the World are ... Read more

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Natural Behavior provides seminal insights into the evolution of animal and human behavior for enthusiasts of Comparative Psychology and Behavioral Biology. Evolution and the behavior of the animal kingdom are discussed with new concepts on science, learning and instinct, and population phenomena. Hominization, interaction with Neanderthals, how the brain evolved, and the impact on the World are
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Thermodynamique de l'évolution

Un essai de thermo-bio-sociologie

by François Roddier ...

Ils ne sont pas nombreux les livres qui nous donnent la vie. Celui-ci en est un. Il nous donne la vie parce qu’il va nous permettre d’éclairer l’avenir de l’humanité, si celle-ci veut survivre. Pour son auteur, le savant François Roddier, « Ce livre adresse un message aux générations actuelles et futures. L’Histoire montre que chaque fois qu’une société est en crise, elle cherche des coupables et ... Read more

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Ils ne sont pas nombreux les livres qui nous donnent la vie. Celui-ci en est un. Il nous donne la vie parce qu’il va nous permettre d’éclairer l’avenir de l’humanité, si celle-ci veut survivre. Pour son auteur, le savant François Roddier, « Ce livre adresse un message aux générations actuelles et futures. L’Histoire montre que chaque fois qu’une société est en crise, elle cherche des coupables et
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THE ORIGIN OF EVIL

MANKIND, SLAVE OF YAHWEH

by Roy Snelling ...

What is evil? Were did it come from. This is a fundamental negative aspect of the Human condition that has engaged theologians, mystics and philosophers for centuries. And more recently, psychologists. The whole evolutionary process of life entails the use of free will, in an existential sense, making mistakes, correcting such, learning, and then moving on. But evil is like taking hold of a hiking ... Read more

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What is evil? Were did it come from. This is a fundamental negative aspect of the Human condition that has engaged theologians, mystics and philosophers for centuries. And more recently, psychologists. The whole evolutionary process of life entails the use of free will, in an existential sense, making mistakes, correcting such, learning, and then moving on. But evil is like taking hold of a hiking
... Read more
Mathematical Properties of Population-Genetic Statistics

Quadratic Forms Most Beautiful

by Noah A. Rosenberg ...

Series series Princeton Series in Theoretical and Computational Biology
A powerful new approach to interpreting population-genetic data in evolution and ecologyPopulation genetics uses statistical analysis to catalog genetic variation among populations and species. Summary statistics computed from allele frequencies—mathematical functions that measure features of genetic similarity and diversity—are key to this global effort. Yet despite their widespread use in ... Read more

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A powerful new approach to interpreting population-genetic data in evolution and ecologyPopulation genetics uses statistical analysis to catalog genetic variation among populations and species. Summary statistics computed from allele frequencies—mathematical functions that measure features of genetic similarity and diversity—are key to this global effort. Yet despite their widespread use in
... Read more

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