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Evolution of the Monitor Lizards

Systematics, Morphology, and Biogeography of the Varanids

by Robert George Sprackland ...

This book is a comprehensive review of the entire lineage of monitor lizards (Varanidae), living and extinct. It fills a gap in our understanding of the relationships and role of environmental and ecological diversity and their effects on evolution and ecology. The evolutionary history of varanids stretches back some 70 million years. These lizards, so often described as “morphologically uniform” ... Read more

$187.99 USD

This book is a comprehensive review of the entire lineage of monitor lizards (Varanidae), living and extinct. It fills a gap in our understanding of the relationships and role of environmental and ecological diversity and their effects on evolution and ecology. The evolutionary history of varanids stretches back some 70 million years. These lizards, so often described as “morphologically uniform”
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The Dusk of Design

Exploring Multidisciplinary Approaches and Evolutionary Biology in Architecture

Edited by Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez, Alessandro Melis, Paola Boarin, Priscila Besen ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
The Dusk of Design explores the intersection of evolutionary theories and architectural design. Drawing inspiration from the concept of exaptation in biology, the book argues that natural selection, as the most successful designer on our planet, thrives on the diversity, variability, and redundancy of creative structures. By transferring these mechanisms to architectural design, the book contends ... Read more

$116.09 USD

The Dusk of Design explores the intersection of evolutionary theories and architectural design. Drawing inspiration from the concept of exaptation in biology, the book argues that natural selection, as the most successful designer on our planet, thrives on the diversity, variability, and redundancy of creative structures. By transferring these mechanisms to architectural design, the book contends
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On the Genesis of Species

by St. George Jackson Mivart ...

Series series Inkwell Classics in Evolution and Biology
On the Genesis of SpeciesOn the Genesis of Species(1871) is St. George Jackson Mivart's seminal critique of Darwinian natural selection. Drawing on his expertise in comparative anatomy and paleontology, Mivart highlights key challenges to Darwin's theory, including the origin of incipient structures, the convergence of traits in unrelated species, abrupt appearances in the fossil record, and the ... Read more

$9.99 USD

On the Genesis of SpeciesOn the Genesis of Species(1871) is St. George Jackson Mivart's seminal critique of Darwinian natural selection. Drawing on his expertise in comparative anatomy and paleontology, Mivart highlights key challenges to Darwin's theory, including the origin of incipient structures, the convergence of traits in unrelated species, abrupt appearances in the fossil record, and the
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The Evolution of Religion and Morality

Volume I

Edited by Benjamin Grant Purzycki, Joseph Henrich, Ara Norenzayan ...

This volume assesses the role of religion in cooperation and prosocial behaviour using ethnographic and experimental methods across eight different field sites. The first of two volumes presents results from the first phase of the Evolution of Religion and Morality (ERM) Project.Using a unique combination of both experimental and ethnographic methods, the ERM project addresses pressing questions ... Read more

$64.99 USD

This volume assesses the role of religion in cooperation and prosocial behaviour using ethnographic and experimental methods across eight different field sites. The first of two volumes presents results from the first phase of the Evolution of Religion and Morality (ERM) Project.Using a unique combination of both experimental and ethnographic methods, the ERM project addresses pressing questions
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Mira quién habla

Cosas que dicen los animales

by Francesca Buoninconti ...

Translated by Leocadia del Carmen Ternero Lorenzo ...

Series series Libros Singulares (LS)
A menudo se dice que los animales no tienen voz, pero en realidad son grandes conversadores. En nuestro jardín y en las selvas tropicales, en los parques de nuestra ciudades y en las profundidades del océano, y en cualquier lugar donde haya vida animal, hay mensajes de todo tipo flotando en el ambiente.Hay animales que informan cantando, como los pájaros; y otros que, como las ballenas, entonan ... Read more

$16.19 USD

A menudo se dice que los animales no tienen voz, pero en realidad son grandes conversadores. En nuestro jardín y en las selvas tropicales, en los parques de nuestra ciudades y en las profundidades del océano, y en cualquier lugar donde haya vida animal, hay mensajes de todo tipo flotando en el ambiente.Hay animales que informan cantando, como los pájaros; y otros que, como las ballenas, entonan
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Seeds of the Living Cosmos- How Life Shaped the Universe

by Ylia Callan ...

What if life isn't rare at all, but the signature of a living universe?In Seeds of the Living Cosmos, explore the idea that life is not a cosmic accident, but a natural consequence of physics, chemistry, and time. Drawing on astrobiology, cosmology, and evolutionary science, this book challenges Earth-centric assumptions and reimagines how life emerges, spreads, and shapes planetary systems.From ... Read more

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What if life isn't rare at all, but the signature of a living universe?In Seeds of the Living Cosmos, explore the idea that life is not a cosmic accident, but a natural consequence of physics, chemistry, and time. Drawing on astrobiology, cosmology, and evolutionary science, this book challenges Earth-centric assumptions and reimagines how life emerges, spreads, and shapes planetary systems.From
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The Evolutionary Trajectory

The Growth of Information in the History and Future of Earth

by Richard L Coren ...

Coren's empirically based Evolutionary Trajectory is the result of an innovative application of a cybernetic model of change and growth to the study of evolution. ... Read more

$77.99 USD

Coren's empirically based Evolutionary Trajectory is the result of an innovative application of a cybernetic model of change and growth to the study of evolution.
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Symbiosis

A Very Short Introduction

by Nancy A. Moran ...

Series series Very Short Introductions
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Symbiosis, the sustained and intimate associations between unrelated life forms, is now recognized as a ubiquitous phenomenon, one that has shaped evolution since the origin of life and that continues to affect all species. This overview of symbiosis starts with a quick history of relevant early discoveries and researchers, and considers why ... Read more

$7.99 USD

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Symbiosis, the sustained and intimate associations between unrelated life forms, is now recognized as a ubiquitous phenomenon, one that has shaped evolution since the origin of life and that continues to affect all species. This overview of symbiosis starts with a quick history of relevant early discoveries and researchers, and considers why
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人屬的世界，骨骼、工具與遺址中的演化證據：下顎形狀、腦容量、直立姿勢、聚落痕跡……從尼安德塔人到現代人類的演變樣貌

by 畢安祺, Carl Whiting Bishop ...

Translated by 遲文成，孫建秋 ...

骨骼、頭顱、洞穴、壁畫……人類從哪裡來？我們的祖先長什麼樣子？直立人如何取火？尼安德塔人會說話嗎？克羅馬儂人靠什麼在冰河時代生存下來？從非洲草原到瑪雅高原，人類的演化之路，遠比想像更曲折壯闊！【追尋人類從遠古到文明的演化歷程】本書為美國史密森學會經典科普叢書之一，內容涵蓋人類自宇宙形成以來的演化發展，橫跨舊石器時代、新石器時代到青銅時代，完整描繪人類在地質年代中的演化脈絡與文化轉變。全書共十七章，結合古化石研究、遺址考證與大量圖像資料，帶領讀者穿越百萬年的歷史，深入了解我們如何從原始猿類一步步邁向文明。▎起源：從宇宙誕生到人類出現本書從宇宙與地球的形成談起，逐步闡述生命在地球上演化的過程，最終迎來早期人類的出現。書中透過古猿與現代人類的頭骨比較，呈現直立人、尼安德塔人與克羅馬儂人之間的差異與演化關聯，並深入說明腦容量、骨骼結構與工具使用對人類行為與社會的影響。透過考古重建與圖像對照 ... Read more

$12.16 USD

骨骼、頭顱、洞穴、壁畫……人類從哪裡來？我們的祖先長什麼樣子？直立人如何取火？尼安德塔人會說話嗎？克羅馬儂人靠什麼在冰河時代生存下來？從非洲草原到瑪雅高原，人類的演化之路，遠比想像更曲折壯闊！【追尋人類從遠古到文明的演化歷程】本書為美國史密森學會經典科普叢書之一，內容涵蓋人類自宇宙形成以來的演化發展，橫跨舊石器時代、新石器時代到青銅時代，完整描繪人類在地質年代中的演化脈絡與文化轉變。全書共十七章，結合古化石研究、遺址考證與大量圖像資料，帶領讀者穿越百萬年的歷史，深入了解我們如何從原始猿類一步步邁向文明。▎起源：從宇宙誕生到人類出現本書從宇宙與地球的形成談起，逐步闡述生命在地球上演化的過程，最終迎來早期人類的出現。書中透過古猿與現代人類的頭骨比較，呈現直立人、尼安德塔人與克羅馬儂人之間的差異與演化關聯，並深入說明腦容量、骨骼結構與工具使用對人類行為與社會的影響。透過考古重建與圖像對照
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Developmental Biology and Larval Ecology

The Natural History of the Crustacea, Volume 7

Edited by Klaus Anger, Steffen Harzsch, Martin Thiel ...

Series series The Natural History of the Crustacea
This is the seventh volume of a ten-volume series on The Natural History of the Crustacea. Chapters in this volume synthesize our current understanding of early crustacean development from the egg through the embryonic and larval phase. The first part of this book focuses on the elemental aspects of crustacean embryonic development. The second part of the book provides an account of the larval ... Read more

$179.99 USD

This is the seventh volume of a ten-volume series on The Natural History of the Crustacea. Chapters in this volume synthesize our current understanding of early crustacean development from the egg through the embryonic and larval phase. The first part of this book focuses on the elemental aspects of crustacean embryonic development. The second part of the book provides an account of the larval
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The Design of Mammals

A Scaling Approach

by John William Prothero ...

Despite an astonishing 100 million-fold range in adult body mass from bumblebee bat to blue whale, all mammals are formed of the same kinds of molecules, cells, tissues and organs and to the same overall body plan. A scaling approach investigates the principles of mammal design by examining the ways in which mammals of diverse size and taxonomy are quantitatively comparable. This book presents an ... Read more

$47.59 USD

Despite an astonishing 100 million-fold range in adult body mass from bumblebee bat to blue whale, all mammals are formed of the same kinds of molecules, cells, tissues and organs and to the same overall body plan. A scaling approach investigates the principles of mammal design by examining the ways in which mammals of diverse size and taxonomy are quantitatively comparable. This book presents an
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The Game of Species

An Introduction to Biodiversity

by Julián Simón López-Villalta ...

Why is life so diverse? Why are there so many different species? This book explores the origins of biodiversity, its evolution and its continuation, as well as the impact that humans are having on this natural heritage.Richly illustrated, accessible and engaging, The Game of Species is structured like the instruction manual for a board game whose separate pieces are individual species. Each ... Read more

$26.99 USD

Why is life so diverse? Why are there so many different species? This book explores the origins of biodiversity, its evolution and its continuation, as well as the impact that humans are having on this natural heritage.Richly illustrated, accessible and engaging, The Game of Species is structured like the instruction manual for a board game whose separate pieces are individual species. Each
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Crustacea and Arthropod Relationships

Edited by Stefan Koenemann, Ronald Jenner ...

Compared to other arthropods, crustaceans are characterized by an unparalleled disparity of body plans. Traditionally, the specialization of arthropod segments and appendages into distinct body regions has served as a convenient basis for higher classification; however, many relationships within the phylum Arthropoda still remain controversial. ... Read more

$94.99 USD

Compared to other arthropods, crustaceans are characterized by an unparalleled disparity of body plans. Traditionally, the specialization of arthropod segments and appendages into distinct body regions has served as a convenient basis for higher classification; however, many relationships within the phylum Arthropoda still remain controversial.
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Evolution and Fossil Record of African Proboscidea

by William J. Sanders ...

This book details the long, diverse, and complex phylogenetic history of elephants and their fossil relatives (the Proboscidea), whose origin is deeply embedded some 60 million years ago in Africa. Most of the major evolutionary events of proboscideans occurred in Africa, and these are examined in their geological, paleoecological, geographic, and faunal contexts. Updated information about feeding ... Read more

$77.99 USD

This book details the long, diverse, and complex phylogenetic history of elephants and their fossil relatives (the Proboscidea), whose origin is deeply embedded some 60 million years ago in Africa. Most of the major evolutionary events of proboscideans occurred in Africa, and these are examined in their geological, paleoecological, geographic, and faunal contexts. Updated information about feeding
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Hackeando Darwin

Engenharia genética e o futuro da humanidade

by Jamie Metzl ...

Translated by Renan Cardozo ...

VOCÊ ACEITARIA UM AVANÇO CIENTÍFICO QUE PROPORCIONASSE MAIS SAÚDE E TALENTO AOS SEUS DESCENDENTES? Após 3,8 bilhões de anos, a humanidade está prestes a começar a evoluir com novas regras... uma revolução futurista vai sacudir os fundamentos de nossa vida: sexo, amor e morte. Nosso DNA está se tornando tão legível e rastreável que será possível hackeá-lo como qualquer dado ou informação ... Read more

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VOCÊ ACEITARIA UM AVANÇO CIENTÍFICO QUE PROPORCIONASSE MAIS SAÚDE E TALENTO AOS SEUS DESCENDENTES? Após 3,8 bilhões de anos, a humanidade está prestes a começar a evoluir com novas regras... uma revolução futurista vai sacudir os fundamentos de nossa vida: sexo, amor e morte. Nosso DNA está se tornando tão legível e rastreável que será possível hackeá-lo como qualquer dado ou informação
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Law of Irreversibility

by IntroBooks ...

Dollo's law of irreversibility (also recognized as Dollo's principle or Dollo's law), postulated by Belgian paleontologist Louis Dollo in 1893, asserts that an organism never gets back identically to a former state, even if it uncovers itself put in conditions of life equivalent to those wherein it has originally settled. It always keeps some trail of the various intervals through which it has ... Read more

$3.99 USD

Dollo's law of irreversibility (also recognized as Dollo's principle or Dollo's law), postulated by Belgian paleontologist Louis Dollo in 1893, asserts that an organism never gets back identically to a former state, even if it uncovers itself put in conditions of life equivalent to those wherein it has originally settled. It always keeps some trail of the various intervals through which it has
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The Dynamics of Cultural Evolution

The Central Role of Purposive Behaviors

by Michael Rosenberg ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
This book explores the nature of cultural and culturally structured social and behavioral entities, their evolutionary interactions, and the central role purposive behaviors play in those interactions. It, first, makes the case for cultural and cultural structured systems being considered as true entities bounded in time and space, and not ephemera in a constant state of becoming another system. ... Read more

$107.99 USD

This book explores the nature of cultural and culturally structured social and behavioral entities, their evolutionary interactions, and the central role purposive behaviors play in those interactions. It, first, makes the case for cultural and cultural structured systems being considered as true entities bounded in time and space, and not ephemera in a constant state of becoming another system.
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From Evolutionary Biology to Economics and Back

Parallels and Crossings between Economics and Evolution

by Jean-Baptiste André, Mikael Cozic, Silvia De Monte, Jean Gayon, Philippe Huneman, Johannes Martens, Bernard Walliser ...

Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the major key concepts common to economics and evolutionary biology. Written by a group of philosophers of science, biologists and economists, it proposes analyses of the meaning of twenty-five concepts from the viewpoint respectively of economics and of evolutionary biology –each followed by a short synthesis emphasizing major discrepancies and ... Read more

$98.09 USD

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the major key concepts common to economics and evolutionary biology. Written by a group of philosophers of science, biologists and economists, it proposes analyses of the meaning of twenty-five concepts from the viewpoint respectively of economics and of evolutionary biology –each followed by a short synthesis emphasizing major discrepancies and
... Read more
Biological Essentialism

by Michael Devitt ...

Biological Essentialism addresses three main issues. The first concerns the essences (natures, identities) of biological taxa, particularly species. Kripke and other metaphysicians hold that these essences are (at least partly) intrinsic, underlying, probably largely genetic properties. This view, based largely on intuitions, is dismissed by the consensus in the philosophy of biology as being ... Read more

$75.59 USD

Biological Essentialism addresses three main issues. The first concerns the essences (natures, identities) of biological taxa, particularly species. Kripke and other metaphysicians hold that these essences are (at least partly) intrinsic, underlying, probably largely genetic properties. This view, based largely on intuitions, is dismissed by the consensus in the philosophy of biology as being
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The Ascent of Mammals

How DNA Discoveries are Rewriting Our Story

by John Reilly ...

How did the thousands of different mammal species on the planet today evolve from a shrew-like, nocturnal insectivore that lived 200 million years ago? What allowed our ancestors to survive the cataclysmic impact that wiped out the dinosaurs and become one of the most successful lineages on Earth? How did mammals adapt to myriad lifestyles and populate every corner of the globe, from oceans and ... Read more

$37.79 USD

How did the thousands of different mammal species on the planet today evolve from a shrew-like, nocturnal insectivore that lived 200 million years ago? What allowed our ancestors to survive the cataclysmic impact that wiped out the dinosaurs and become one of the most successful lineages on Earth? How did mammals adapt to myriad lifestyles and populate every corner of the globe, from oceans and
... Read more
We Are Agora

How Humanity Functions as a Single Superorganism That Shapes Our World and Our Future

by Byron Reese ...

Discover a groundbreaking new way of thinking about life, society, and the future of our species that bridges science and human history.Could humans unknowingly be a part of a larger superorganism—one with its own motivations and goals, one that is alive, and conscious, and has the power to shape the future of our species?This is the fascinating theory from author and futurist Byron Reese, who ... Read more

$14.99 USD

Discover a groundbreaking new way of thinking about life, society, and the future of our species that bridges science and human history.Could humans unknowingly be a part of a larger superorganism—one with its own motivations and goals, one that is alive, and conscious, and has the power to shape the future of our species?This is the fascinating theory from author and futurist Byron Reese, who
... Read more
Naturgewalt und Geisteskraft

Menschwerdung in der Evolution

Edited by Helmut Fink, Rainer Rosenzweig ...

Wir sind Kinder der Evolution. Durch einen jahrmillionenlangen Selektionsdruck in wilder Natur und sozialer Gemeinschaft sind wir mit einem Gehirn ausgestattet, das beeindruckende Leistungen erbringt. Im Rückblick auf unsere animalische Herkunft bleibt erstaunlich, wie gut wir uns in einer komplexen Welt behaupten können: Wahrnehmen, Vorstellen, Erinnern, Reagieren, Bewerten, Planen, Entscheiden, ... Read more

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Wir sind Kinder der Evolution. Durch einen jahrmillionenlangen Selektionsdruck in wilder Natur und sozialer Gemeinschaft sind wir mit einem Gehirn ausgestattet, das beeindruckende Leistungen erbringt. Im Rückblick auf unsere animalische Herkunft bleibt erstaunlich, wie gut wir uns in einer komplexen Welt behaupten können: Wahrnehmen, Vorstellen, Erinnern, Reagieren, Bewerten, Planen, Entscheiden,
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El origen de las especies

by Charles Darwin ...

"El origen de las especies", publicado en 1859, es una obra fundamental en la historia de la ciencia y la literatura, donde Charles Darwin presenta su teoría de la evolución por selección natural. A través de un estilo metódico y riguroso, el autor discute la variabilidad de las especies, la lucha por la existencia y el gradualismo en la transformación de los seres vivos. En un contexto literario ... Read more

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"El origen de las especies", publicado en 1859, es una obra fundamental en la historia de la ciencia y la literatura, donde Charles Darwin presenta su teoría de la evolución por selección natural. A través de un estilo metódico y riguroso, el autor discute la variabilidad de las especies, la lucha por la existencia y el gradualismo en la transformación de los seres vivos. En un contexto literario
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Flowering Plants. Eudicots

Apiales, Gentianales (except Rubiaceae)

Edited by Joachim W. Kadereit, Volker Bittrich ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This volume covers the orders Apiales (Asterids I) and Gentianales (except Rubiaceae; Asterids II). It is the last of five volumes to (almost) complete the treatment of the Asterids in this series after publication of Vols. VI (Cornales, Ericales, 2004), VII (Lamiales, 2004), VIII (Asterales, 2007) and XIV (Aquifoliales, Boraginales, Bruniales, Dipsacales, Escalloniales, Garryales, Paracryphiales, ... Read more

$215.09 USD

This volume covers the orders Apiales (Asterids I) and Gentianales (except Rubiaceae; Asterids II). It is the last of five volumes to (almost) complete the treatment of the Asterids in this series after publication of Vols. VI (Cornales, Ericales, 2004), VII (Lamiales, 2004), VIII (Asterales, 2007) and XIV (Aquifoliales, Boraginales, Bruniales, Dipsacales, Escalloniales, Garryales, Paracryphiales,
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