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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
... Read more
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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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

$23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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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Signs of Life: A Semantic Critique of Evolutionary Theory

by Ashish Dalela ...

This book challenges the fundamental ideas in the Neo-Darwinian theory of evolution from the perspective of mathematics, physics, computing, game theory, and non-linear dynamics.It argues that the key ideas underlying evolution—random mutation and natural selection—are based on notions about matter, causality, space-time, and lawfulness, which were supposed true in Darwin's time, but have been ... Read more

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This book challenges the fundamental ideas in the Neo-Darwinian theory of evolution from the perspective of mathematics, physics, computing, game theory, and non-linear dynamics.It argues that the key ideas underlying evolution—random mutation and natural selection—are based on notions about matter, causality, space-time, and lawfulness, which were supposed true in Darwin's time, but have been
... Read more
From Stars to Brains: Milestones in the Planetary Evolution of Life and Intelligence

by Andrew Y. Glikson ...

Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
The permutation of basic atoms—nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, carbon and phosphorus―into the biomolecules DNA and RNA, subsequently evolved in cells and brains, defining the origin of life and intelligence, remains unexplained. Equally the origin of the genetic information and the intertwined nature of ‘hardware’ and ‘software’ involved in the evolution of bio-molecules and the cells are shrouded in ... Read more

$80.09 USD

The permutation of basic atoms—nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, carbon and phosphorus―into the biomolecules DNA and RNA, subsequently evolved in cells and brains, defining the origin of life and intelligence, remains unexplained. Equally the origin of the genetic information and the intertwined nature of ‘hardware’ and ‘software’ involved in the evolution of bio-molecules and the cells are shrouded in
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Darwin's Lost World

The hidden history of animal life

by Martin Brasier ...

Darwin made a powerful argument for evolution in the Origin of Species, based on all the evidence available to him. But a few things puzzled him. One was how inheritance works - he did not know about genes. This book concerns another of Darwin's Dilemmas, and the efforts of modern palaeontologists to solve it. What puzzled Darwin is that the most very ancient rocks, before the Cambrian, seemed to ... Read more

$9.99 USD

Darwin made a powerful argument for evolution in the Origin of Species, based on all the evidence available to him. But a few things puzzled him. One was how inheritance works - he did not know about genes. This book concerns another of Darwin's Dilemmas, and the efforts of modern palaeontologists to solve it. What puzzled Darwin is that the most very ancient rocks, before the Cambrian, seemed to
... Read more
Frogfishes

Biodiversity, Zoogeography, and Behavioral Ecology

by Theodore W. Pietsch, Rachel J. Arnold ...

The authoritative expert's guide to fascinating frogfishes and their unusual lives.Winner of the PROSE Award for Best Single Volume Reference in Science by the Association of American PublishersUnique among the world's fishes, frogfishes display a bizarre combination of attributes and behaviors that make them a subject of fervent study. Through cunning and trickery, they turn would-be predators ... Read more

$104.99 USD

The authoritative expert's guide to fascinating frogfishes and their unusual lives.Winner of the PROSE Award for Best Single Volume Reference in Science by the Association of American PublishersUnique among the world's fishes, frogfishes display a bizarre combination of attributes and behaviors that make them a subject of fervent study. Through cunning and trickery, they turn would-be predators
... Read more
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

$99.95 USD

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
Le Fil de la vie

La face immatérielle du vivant

by Jean-Louis Dessalles, Cédric Gaucherel, Pierre-Henri Gouyon ...

Et si certaines entités vivantes n’étaient pas matérielles ? Potentiellement éternelles, en lutte pour la survie, elles évoluent. Elles constituent ce qui unit les êtres à travers le temps. Elles sont le fil de la vie. Ces entités vivantes immatérielles sont des informations. Elles existent à travers nous, dans nos gènes, dans notre culture, dans nos écosystèmes. La vie produit l’information, lit ... Read more

$21.99 USD

Et si certaines entités vivantes n’étaient pas matérielles ? Potentiellement éternelles, en lutte pour la survie, elles évoluent. Elles constituent ce qui unit les êtres à travers le temps. Elles sont le fil de la vie. Ces entités vivantes immatérielles sont des informations. Elles existent à travers nous, dans nos gènes, dans notre culture, dans nos écosystèmes. La vie produit l’information, lit
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Natural Selection

On the Origin of Species and Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection

by Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace ...

Series series The Big Ideas
Brought together here in one volume are two seminal books expressing ideas that completely changed the world.On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin was published in 1859 into an inferno of controversy. In his masterpiece, Darwin cogently explains the tenets of evolutionary theory; natural selection, adaptation, inheritance, the struggle for existence, and the survival of the fittest.All of ... Read more

$2.99 USD

Brought together here in one volume are two seminal books expressing ideas that completely changed the world.On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin was published in 1859 into an inferno of controversy. In his masterpiece, Darwin cogently explains the tenets of evolutionary theory; natural selection, adaptation, inheritance, the struggle for existence, and the survival of the fittest.All of
... Read more
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
... Read more
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

$15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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
Fundamentos da biologia

by Ione Ishii ...

Series series Série Universitária
A Série Universitária foi desenvolvida pelo Senac São Paulo com o intuito de preparar profissionais para o mercado de trabalho. Os títulos abrangem diversas áreas, abordando desde conhecimentos teóricos e práticos adequados às exigências profissionais até a formação ética e sólida. Fundamentos da Biologia apresenta o estudo da evolução biológica como campo unificador da Biologia desde a bioquímica ... Read more

$5.99 USD

A Série Universitária foi desenvolvida pelo Senac São Paulo com o intuito de preparar profissionais para o mercado de trabalho. Os títulos abrangem diversas áreas, abordando desde conhecimentos teóricos e práticos adequados às exigências profissionais até a formação ética e sólida. Fundamentos da Biologia apresenta o estudo da evolução biológica como campo unificador da Biologia desde a bioquímica
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Biology of Sharks and Their Relatives

Edited by Jeffrey C. Carrier, Colin A. Simpfendorfer, Michael R. Heithaus, Kara E. Yopak ...

Series series CRC Marine Biology Series
Biology of Sharks and Their Relatives is an award-winning and groundbreaking exploration of the fundamental elements of the taxonomy, systematics, physiology, and ecology of sharks, skates, rays, and chimera. This edition presents current research as well as traditional models, to provide future researchers with solid historical foundations in shark research as well as presenting current trends ... Read more

$176.99 USD

Biology of Sharks and Their Relatives is an award-winning and groundbreaking exploration of the fundamental elements of the taxonomy, systematics, physiology, and ecology of sharks, skates, rays, and chimera. This edition presents current research as well as traditional models, to provide future researchers with solid historical foundations in shark research as well as presenting current trends
... Read more
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

$68.99 USD

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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Le belle addormentate

Innovazioni antiche in nuovi mondi

by Andreas Wagner ...

Translated by GIANNA CERNUSCHI, Andrea Migliori ...

«Un libro delizioso, accessibile e ricco di informazioni, che porta il lettore dai complessi dettagli del DNA e delle proteine ad alcuni dei più affascinanti successi (e fallimenti) dell'umanità.»«Wall Street Journal»«Argomentazioni affascinanti, raccontate in modo coinvolgente e chiaro, che ci ricordano quanto l'evoluzione possa essere creativa.»«New Scientist»«Una prospettiva nuova e ... Read more

$25.99 USD

«Un libro delizioso, accessibile e ricco di informazioni, che porta il lettore dai complessi dettagli del DNA e delle proteine ad alcuni dei più affascinanti successi (e fallimenti) dell'umanità.»«Wall Street Journal»«Argomentazioni affascinanti, raccontate in modo coinvolgente e chiaro, che ci ricordano quanto l'evoluzione possa essere creativa.»«New Scientist»«Una prospettiva nuova e
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Evolution of the Human Genome I

The Genome and Genes

Edited by Naruya Saitou ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This book reviews the human genome from an evolutionary perspective. No such book has ever been published before, although there are many books on human genomes. There are two parts in this book: Overview of the Human Genome (Part I) and The Human Genome Viewed through Genes (Part II). In Part I, after a brief review of human evolution and the human genome (by Naruya Saitou), chapters on rubbish ... Read more

$188.99 USD

This book reviews the human genome from an evolutionary perspective. No such book has ever been published before, although there are many books on human genomes. There are two parts in this book: Overview of the Human Genome (Part I) and The Human Genome Viewed through Genes (Part II). In Part I, after a brief review of human evolution and the human genome (by Naruya Saitou), chapters on rubbish
... Read more
Biogeography of Mycorrhizal Symbiosis

Edited by Leho Tedersoo ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This book offers a timely overview and synthesis of biogeographic patterns of plants and fungi and their mycorrhizal associations across geographic scales. Written by leading experts in the field, it provides an updated definition of mycorrhizal types and establishes the best practices of modern biogeographic analyses. Individual chapters address the basic processes and mechanisms driving ... Read more

$260.99 USD

This book offers a timely overview and synthesis of biogeographic patterns of plants and fungi and their mycorrhizal associations across geographic scales. Written by leading experts in the field, it provides an updated definition of mycorrhizal types and establishes the best practices of modern biogeographic analyses. Individual chapters address the basic processes and mechanisms driving
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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

$3.99 USD

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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La evolución del conocimiento científico

cómo construye su conocimiento la ciencia

by Iván Darío Parra Mesa ...

El libro esboza una visión, desde la e pistemología e volucionista, sobre la dinámica de desarrollo del conocimiento científico. Ubica inicialmente al lector en lo que se entiende por c iencia. Luego, basándose en los aportes de pensadores como Karl Popper, Thomas Kuhn, Stephen Toulmin, Chris Argyris y Donald Schön , plantea una tesis acerca de la manera como progresa el conocimiento científico. ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

El libro esboza una visión, desde la e pistemología e volucionista, sobre la dinámica de desarrollo del conocimiento científico. Ubica inicialmente al lector en lo que se entiende por c iencia. Luego, basándose en los aportes de pensadores como Karl Popper, Thomas Kuhn, Stephen Toulmin, Chris Argyris y Donald Schön , plantea una tesis acerca de la manera como progresa el conocimiento científico.
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How we Get Mendel Wrong, and Why it Matters

Challenging the narrative of Mendelian genetics

by Kostas Kampourakis ...

This book illustrates that the stereotypical representations of Gregor Mendel and his work misrepresent his findings and their historical context. The author sets the historical record straight and provides scientists with a reference guide to the respective scholarship in the early history of genetics. The overarching argument is twofold: on the one hand, that we had better avoid naïve hero ... Read more

$72.99 USD

This book illustrates that the stereotypical representations of Gregor Mendel and his work misrepresent his findings and their historical context. The author sets the historical record straight and provides scientists with a reference guide to the respective scholarship in the early history of genetics. The overarching argument is twofold: on the one hand, that we had better avoid naïve hero
... Read more
A Japanese View of Nature

The World of Living Things by Kinji Imanishi

Edited by Pamela J. Asquith ...

Series series Japan Anthropology Workshop Series
Although Seibutsu no Sekai (The World of Living Things), the seminal 1941 work of Kinji Imanishi, had an enormous impact in Japan, both on scholars and on the general public, very little is known about it in the English-speaking world. This book makes the complete text available in English for the first time and provides an extensive introduction and notes to set the work in context. Imanishi's ... Read more

$68.99 USD

Although Seibutsu no Sekai (The World of Living Things), the seminal 1941 work of Kinji Imanishi, had an enormous impact in Japan, both on scholars and on the general public, very little is known about it in the English-speaking world. This book makes the complete text available in English for the first time and provides an extensive introduction and notes to set the work in context. Imanishi's
... Read more
Evolutionary Dynamics

by Martin A. Nowak ...

At a time of unprecedented expansion in the life sciences, evolution is the one theory that transcends all of biology. Any observation of a living system must ultimately be interpreted in the context of its evolution. Evolutionary change is the consequence of mutation and natural selection, which are two concepts that can be described by mathematical equations. Evolutionary Dynamics is concerned ... Read more

$46.39 USD

At a time of unprecedented expansion in the life sciences, evolution is the one theory that transcends all of biology. Any observation of a living system must ultimately be interpreted in the context of its evolution. Evolutionary change is the consequence of mutation and natural selection, which are two concepts that can be described by mathematical equations. Evolutionary Dynamics is concerned
... Read more
Joseph Conrad and the Ethics of Darwinism (Routledge Revivals)

The Challenges of Science

by Allan Hunter ...

Series series Routledge Revivals
First published in 1983, this book explores a number of avenues of critical thinking about Joseph Conrad, showing him as an author deeply concerned with humankind’s ethical motivation and its relationship with the ideas of evolution current in his day. Allan Hunter establishes Conrad’s detailed knowledge of the leading evolutionary arguments of the period and the main questions posed: were ethics ... Read more

$45.99 USD

First published in 1983, this book explores a number of avenues of critical thinking about Joseph Conrad, showing him as an author deeply concerned with humankind’s ethical motivation and its relationship with the ideas of evolution current in his day. Allan Hunter establishes Conrad’s detailed knowledge of the leading evolutionary arguments of the period and the main questions posed: were ethics
... Read more

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