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Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation

by Patrick Bateson, Paul Martin ...

What role does playful behaviour and playful thought take in animal and human development? How does play relate to creativity and, in turn, to innovation? Unravelling the different meanings of 'play', this book focuses on non-aggressive playful play. The authors emphasise its significance for development and evolution, before examining the importance of playfulness in creativity. This discussion ... Read more

$39.99 USD

What role does playful behaviour and playful thought take in animal and human development? How does play relate to creativity and, in turn, to innovation? Unravelling the different meanings of 'play', this book focuses on non-aggressive playful play. The authors emphasise its significance for development and evolution, before examining the importance of playfulness in creativity. This discussion
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The Evolution of Animal Communication

Reliability and Deception in Signaling Systems

by William A. Searcy, Stephen Nowicki ...

Series series Monographs in Behavior and Ecology
Gull chicks beg for food from their parents. Peacocks spread their tails to attract potential mates. Meerkats alert family members of the approach of predators. But are these--and other animals--sometimes dishonest? That's what William Searcy and Stephen Nowicki ask in The Evolution of Animal Communication. They take on the fascinating yet perplexing question of the dependability of animal ... Read more

$70.99 USD

Gull chicks beg for food from their parents. Peacocks spread their tails to attract potential mates. Meerkats alert family members of the approach of predators. But are these--and other animals--sometimes dishonest? That's what William Searcy and Stephen Nowicki ask in The Evolution of Animal Communication. They take on the fascinating yet perplexing question of the dependability of animal
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Was Hitler a Darwinian?

Disputed Questions in the History of Evolutionary Theory

by Robert J. Richards ...

In tracing the history of Darwin’s accomplishment and the trajectory of evolutionary theory during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, most scholars agree that Darwin introduced blind mechanism into biology, thus banishing moral values from the understanding of nature. According to the standard interpretation, the principle of survival of the fittest has rendered human behavior, ... Read more

$23.99 USD

In tracing the history of Darwin’s accomplishment and the trajectory of evolutionary theory during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, most scholars agree that Darwin introduced blind mechanism into biology, thus banishing moral values from the understanding of nature. According to the standard interpretation, the principle of survival of the fittest has rendered human behavior,
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A Primer for Experimental Evolution

by Michael R Rose, Richard E Lenski, Margarida Matos, Joseph L Graves Jr. ...

The purpose of this Primer is to explain the principles of Experimental Evolution. It illustrates how evolution experiments should be properly designed to examine fundamental principles of evolution and answer big questions in biology. The need for this primer has increased with the recent advances in genomics, because the functional significance of genetic variation is not easily understood ... Read more

$26.99 USD

The purpose of this Primer is to explain the principles of Experimental Evolution. It illustrates how evolution experiments should be properly designed to examine fundamental principles of evolution and answer big questions in biology. The need for this primer has increased with the recent advances in genomics, because the functional significance of genetic variation is not easily understood
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Le tavole della legge

Divagazioni sul linguaggio e sul futuro

by Lario Sinigaglia ...

Il linguista Chomsky sostiene che il linguaggio umano non sia frutto di una graduale evoluzione genetica di tipo darwiniano ma di una conversione rapida del cervello esistente ad un nuovo uso. Accolgo l'ipotesi di Chomsky e suppongo che essa implichi la costituzione di un cervello linguistico e perciò digitale che si affianca e si oppone al precedente cervello analogico. L'opposizione consiste nel ... Read more

$5.99 USD

Il linguista Chomsky sostiene che il linguaggio umano non sia frutto di una graduale evoluzione genetica di tipo darwiniano ma di una conversione rapida del cervello esistente ad un nuovo uso. Accolgo l'ipotesi di Chomsky e suppongo che essa implichi la costituzione di un cervello linguistico e perciò digitale che si affianca e si oppone al precedente cervello analogico. L'opposizione consiste nel
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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

$132.99 USD

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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Islands in the Sand

Ecology and Management of Nearshore Hardbottom Reefs of East Florida

by Daniel A. McCarthy, Kenyon C. Lindeman, David B. Snyder, Karen G. Holloway-Adkins ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Nearshore hardbottom reefs of Florida’s east coast are used by over 1100 species of fishes, invertebrates, algae, and sea turtles. These rocky reefs support reproduction, settlement, and habitat use, and are energy sources and sinks. They are also buried by beach renourishment projects in which artificial reefs are used for mitigation. This comprehensive book is for research scientists and agency ... Read more

$170.99 USD

Nearshore hardbottom reefs of Florida’s east coast are used by over 1100 species of fishes, invertebrates, algae, and sea turtles. These rocky reefs support reproduction, settlement, and habitat use, and are energy sources and sinks. They are also buried by beach renourishment projects in which artificial reefs are used for mitigation. This comprehensive book is for research scientists and agency
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Who Discovered Natural Selection?

by Anna Claybourne ...

Series series Breakthroughs In Science And Technology
Written in British English, Who Discovered Natural Selection? explains how scientists worked out the way in which living things evolve. ... Read more

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Written in British English, Who Discovered Natural Selection? explains how scientists worked out the way in which living things evolve.
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Homo Deus - Summarized for Busy People

A Brief History of Tomorrow: Based on the Book by Yuval Noah Harari

by Goldmine Reads ...

This book summary and analysis was created for individuals who want to extract the essential contents and are too busy to go through the full version. This book is not intended to replace the original book. Instead, we highly encourage you to buy the full version.Yuval Noah Harari, author of the worldwide hit and New York Times bestseller Sapiens, presents another riveting and thought-provoking ... Read more

$2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This book summary and analysis was created for individuals who want to extract the essential contents and are too busy to go through the full version. This book is not intended to replace the original book. Instead, we highly encourage you to buy the full version.Yuval Noah Harari, author of the worldwide hit and New York Times bestseller Sapiens, presents another riveting and thought-provoking
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Plant Systematics

An Integrated Approach, Fourth Edition

by Gurcharan Singh ...

This fourth edition of Plant Systematics is completely revised and updated. It incorporates the updated International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi and Plants (Shenzhen Code, 2018), the new version of PhyloCode (Beta version of Phylocode 5, 2014), APweb version 14 (September, 2018), revised Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification (APG IV, 2016), new Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group ... Read more

$70.99 USD

This fourth edition of Plant Systematics is completely revised and updated. It incorporates the updated International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi and Plants (Shenzhen Code, 2018), the new version of PhyloCode (Beta version of Phylocode 5, 2014), APweb version 14 (September, 2018), revised Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification (APG IV, 2016), new Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group
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Perturbation Theory

Mathematics, Methods and Applications

Edited by Giuseppe Gaeta ...

Series series Reference Module Chemistry, Materials and Physics
This volume in the Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science, Second Edition, is devoted to the fundamentals of Perturbation Theory (PT) as well as key applications areas such as Classical and Quantum Mechanics, Celestial Mechanics, and Molecular Dynamics. Less traditional fields of application, such as Biological Evolution, are also discussed. Leading scientists in each area of the field ... Read more

$449.99 USD

This volume in the Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science, Second Edition, is devoted to the fundamentals of Perturbation Theory (PT) as well as key applications areas such as Classical and Quantum Mechanics, Celestial Mechanics, and Molecular Dynamics. Less traditional fields of application, such as Biological Evolution, are also discussed. Leading scientists in each area of the field
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Pigments, Pigment Cells and Pigment Patterns

Edited by Hisashi Hashimoto, Makoto Goda, Ryo Futahashi, Robert Kelsh, Toyoko Akiyama ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This book comprehensively summarizes the biological mechanisms of coloration and pattern formation of animals at molecular and cellular level, offering up-to-date knowledge derived from remarkable progress in the last 10 years.The brilliant coloration, conspicuous patterns and spectacular color changes displayed by some vertebrates and invertebrates are generally their strategies of the utmost ... Read more

$188.99 USD

This book comprehensively summarizes the biological mechanisms of coloration and pattern formation of animals at molecular and cellular level, offering up-to-date knowledge derived from remarkable progress in the last 10 years.The brilliant coloration, conspicuous patterns and spectacular color changes displayed by some vertebrates and invertebrates are generally their strategies of the utmost
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Sanaben

by Lorenzo Bonanni ...

La intención del libro es facilitar nuestra existencia haciéndonos entender quiénes somos y de dónde venimos y qué instintos nos mueven. En términos simples y, a veces, goliárdicos, el libro explica los motivos de nuestros deseos: el culo de las mujeres, el poder, el pelo rubio, el dinero. Explica por qué el amor, la vida, la familia, la religión y la muerte realmente están fuera de la historia y ... Read more

$7.00 USD

La intención del libro es facilitar nuestra existencia haciéndonos entender quiénes somos y de dónde venimos y qué instintos nos mueven. En términos simples y, a veces, goliárdicos, el libro explica los motivos de nuestros deseos: el culo de las mujeres, el poder, el pelo rubio, el dinero. Explica por qué el amor, la vida, la familia, la religión y la muerte realmente están fuera de la historia y
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Barbaren, Geister, Gotteskrieger

Die Evolution der Religionen – entschlüsselt

by Ina Wunn ...

Series series Social Science and Law (German Language)
Ein neuer Blick auf die Entwicklung der ReligionenIn diesem Buch geht es um die Evolution der Religionen, also um die Frage, wie und warum sich Religionen im Laufe ihrer geschichtlichen Entwicklung verändern und welche Gesetzmäßigkeiten diesen Veränderungen zugrunde liegen. Die Autorin schildert zunächst, wie der Evolutionsgedanke sowohl in der Biologie als auch in den Geisteswissenschaften Fuß ... Read more

$18.99 USD

Ein neuer Blick auf die Entwicklung der ReligionenIn diesem Buch geht es um die Evolution der Religionen, also um die Frage, wie und warum sich Religionen im Laufe ihrer geschichtlichen Entwicklung verändern und welche Gesetzmäßigkeiten diesen Veränderungen zugrunde liegen. Die Autorin schildert zunächst, wie der Evolutionsgedanke sowohl in der Biologie als auch in den Geisteswissenschaften Fuß
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Restoring Meaning: Evolution Revisited

by Albert Low ...

"Restoring Meaning: Evolution Revisited" offers an original and fertile way to integrate spiritual and scientific views of human evolution. It offers a new and refreshing alternative to the way we think about our origins: random mutation (mechanistic neo-Darwinism), Genesis (God did it all personally), and Intelligent Design (God personally does what we can't otherwise account for). The result is ... Read more

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"Restoring Meaning: Evolution Revisited" offers an original and fertile way to integrate spiritual and scientific views of human evolution. It offers a new and refreshing alternative to the way we think about our origins: random mutation (mechanistic neo-Darwinism), Genesis (God did it all personally), and Intelligent Design (God personally does what we can't otherwise account for). The result is
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The Language Phenomenon

Human Communication from Milliseconds to Millennia

Edited by K. Smith, P.-M. Binder ...

Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
This volume contains a contemporary, integrated description of the processes of language. These range from fast scales (fractions of a second) to slow ones (over a million years). The contributors, all experts in their fields, address language in the brain, production of sentences and dialogues, language learning, transmission and evolutionary processes that happen over centuries or millenia, the ... Read more

$49.99 USD

This volume contains a contemporary, integrated description of the processes of language. These range from fast scales (fractions of a second) to slow ones (over a million years). The contributors, all experts in their fields, address language in the brain, production of sentences and dialogues, language learning, transmission and evolutionary processes that happen over centuries or millenia, the
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Beneficial Microorganisms in Multicellular Life Forms

Edited by Uri Gophna, Eugene Rosenberg ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
All animals and plants form associations with hundreds or thousands of different beneficial microorganisms. These symbiotic microbes play an important role in the development, adaptation, health and evolution of their hosts. This book brings together a group of diverse biologists to discuss microbial interactions with multicellular life forms including insects, corals, plants, and mammals, ... Read more

$143.99 USD

All animals and plants form associations with hundreds or thousands of different beneficial microorganisms. These symbiotic microbes play an important role in the development, adaptation, health and evolution of their hosts. This book brings together a group of diverse biologists to discuss microbial interactions with multicellular life forms including insects, corals, plants, and mammals,
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Estimating Species Trees

Practical and Theoretical Aspects

Edited by L. Lacey Knowles, Laura S. Kubatko ...

Recent computational and modeling advances have produced methods for estimating species trees directly, avoiding the problems and limitations of the traditional phylogenetic paradigm where an estimated gene tree is equated with the history of species divergence. The overarching goal of the volume is to increase the visibility and use of these new methods by the entire phylogenetic community by ... Read more

$152.00 USD

Recent computational and modeling advances have produced methods for estimating species trees directly, avoiding the problems and limitations of the traditional phylogenetic paradigm where an estimated gene tree is equated with the history of species divergence. The overarching goal of the volume is to increase the visibility and use of these new methods by the entire phylogenetic community by
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Mütter und Väter im evolutionären Licht betrachtet – Überraschende Antworten auf alte Fragen

Neue Perspektiven für die Elternbildung vor dem Hintergrund der Biowissenschaften

by Annette Mennicke ...

Die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf ist ein altes Thema mit modernen Lösungen: Väter beteiligen sich an der Elternzeit und der Familienarbeit – die Beteiligungsquote der Väter ist jedoch weit davon entfernt, eine egalitäre Rollenverteilung widerzuspiegeln. Annette Mennicke sucht in ihrer Studie Antworten auf das Warum. Mennicke nimmt eine für die aktuelle öffentliche Debatte ungewohnte ... Read more

$17.99 USD

Die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf ist ein altes Thema mit modernen Lösungen: Väter beteiligen sich an der Elternzeit und der Familienarbeit – die Beteiligungsquote der Väter ist jedoch weit davon entfernt, eine egalitäre Rollenverteilung widerzuspiegeln. Annette Mennicke sucht in ihrer Studie Antworten auf das Warum. Mennicke nimmt eine für die aktuelle öffentliche Debatte ungewohnte
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Survival

Evolutionary Rules for Intelligent Species Survival

by Samuel Layne ...

Series Book 1 - Survival
2021 NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARDS - FINALIST (NATURE/ENVIRONMENT)2020 14TH ANNUAL NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS - FINALISTHow different might the history of our species have been had our hunter-gatherer forebears failed to migrate out of Africa in time to survive 70,000 years ago when threatened by extinction due to climate change brought on by the last ice age? Simply put, we would not ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

2021 NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARDS - FINALIST (NATURE/ENVIRONMENT)2020 14TH ANNUAL NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS - FINALISTHow different might the history of our species have been had our hunter-gatherer forebears failed to migrate out of Africa in time to survive 70,000 years ago when threatened by extinction due to climate change brought on by the last ice age? Simply put, we would not
... Read more
Batteri, dinosauri e canguri

Breve storia della biodiversità

by Andrea Maria Francesco Valli ...

Series series Italian language eBook collection
Come ha avuto origine la vita? Quali sono stati i primi esseri viventi? E come si è arrivati alla straordinaria diversità biologica che oggi popola il nostro pianeta? In questo libro, l’autore ci guida in un’avventura scientifica che parte dalle ipotesi sul passaggio dal non vivente al vivente, con un omaggio alla teoria del professor Mario Ageno, per poi esplorare le prime tracce di vita sulla ... Read more

$28.99 USD

Come ha avuto origine la vita? Quali sono stati i primi esseri viventi? E come si è arrivati alla straordinaria diversità biologica che oggi popola il nostro pianeta? In questo libro, l’autore ci guida in un’avventura scientifica che parte dalle ipotesi sul passaggio dal non vivente al vivente, con un omaggio alla teoria del professor Mario Ageno, per poi esplorare le prime tracce di vita sulla
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The Fly Room

The Story of the Scientists Who Discovered Genetics and Reinvented Evolution

by William deJong-Lambert ...

The story of the scientists who invented genetics and proved the theory of evolutionThe Fly Room tells the story of Nobel Prize-winning biologist Thomas Hunt Morgan’s laboratory at Columbia University where, in the early twentieth century, he presided over a handful of students and a roomful of fruit flies who taught him that everything he thought was true was wrong, and everything he thought was ... Read more

$25.99 USD

The story of the scientists who invented genetics and proved the theory of evolutionThe Fly Room tells the story of Nobel Prize-winning biologist Thomas Hunt Morgan’s laboratory at Columbia University where, in the early twentieth century, he presided over a handful of students and a roomful of fruit flies who taught him that everything he thought was true was wrong, and everything he thought was
... Read more
Darwin va in città

Come la giungla urbana influenza l’evoluzione

by Menno Schilthuizen ...

Edizione Italiana a cura di Telmo Pievani Nel prossimo futuro una vasta porzione del globo sarà urbanizzata. Dove andrà a finire la natura? In città, come ci racconta Menno Schilthuizen in questo sorprendente libro. Un numero sempre maggiore di specie selvatiche ritaglia per sé nuove nicchie nei centri abitati, mentre l’evoluzione sta compiendo, sotto i nostri occhi, una svolta straordinaria. Gli ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Edizione Italiana a cura di Telmo Pievani Nel prossimo futuro una vasta porzione del globo sarà urbanizzata. Dove andrà a finire la natura? In città, come ci racconta Menno Schilthuizen in questo sorprendente libro. Un numero sempre maggiore di specie selvatiche ritaglia per sé nuove nicchie nei centri abitati, mentre l’evoluzione sta compiendo, sotto i nostri occhi, una svolta straordinaria. Gli
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Evolution Reconsidered

A Dialogue on Abiogenesis and Evolutionary Theory

by Hatem Elrefaey ...

How did life begin? And does the evidence we observe in the natural world fully support the evolutionary history commonly presented to explain life's diversity and complexity?Evolution Reconsidered takes a critical look at the explanations offered for the origin of life and the development of biological diversity. Through a structured dialogue among four interlocutors with different perspectives, ... Read more

$4.99 USD

How did life begin? And does the evidence we observe in the natural world fully support the evolutionary history commonly presented to explain life's diversity and complexity?Evolution Reconsidered takes a critical look at the explanations offered for the origin of life and the development of biological diversity. Through a structured dialogue among four interlocutors with different perspectives,
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