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ELDER TAN

by Elder Tan ...

Wie liest man eine Geschichte, wenn man sich über ihre Hauptfigur geirrt hat? Es gibt Entdeckungen, nach denen die Welt eine andere ist. Und solche, nach denen wir erkennen, dass sie nie die war, für die wir sie hielten. In Australien untersucht ein Forscher die ältesten Lebensgemeinschaften der Erde. In Berlin begegnet eine Ärztin Patienten, deren innere Leere sich medizinisch kaum erklären lässt ... Read more

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Wie liest man eine Geschichte, wenn man sich über ihre Hauptfigur geirrt hat? Es gibt Entdeckungen, nach denen die Welt eine andere ist. Und solche, nach denen wir erkennen, dass sie nie die war, für die wir sie hielten. In Australien untersucht ein Forscher die ältesten Lebensgemeinschaften der Erde. In Berlin begegnet eine Ärztin Patienten, deren innere Leere sich medizinisch kaum erklären lässt
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Charles Darwin - Oeuvres

Classcompilé n° 156

by Charles Darwin ...

Series series Les Classiques Compilés
Le Classcompilé 156 contient les oeuvres de Charles DarwinCharles Darwin, né le 12 février 1809 à Shrewsbury dans le Shropshire et mort le 19 avril 1882 à Downe dans le Kent , est un naturaliste et paléontologue anglais dont les travaux sur l'évolution des espèces vivantes ont révolutionné la biologie avec son ouvrage L'Origine des espèces paru en 1859. Célèbre au sein de la communauté ... Read more

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Le Classcompilé 156 contient les oeuvres de Charles DarwinCharles Darwin, né le 12 février 1809 à Shrewsbury dans le Shropshire et mort le 19 avril 1882 à Downe dans le Kent , est un naturaliste et paléontologue anglais dont les travaux sur l'évolution des espèces vivantes ont révolutionné la biologie avec son ouvrage L'Origine des espèces paru en 1859. Célèbre au sein de la communauté
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Evolution, Old & New

Restored Classics to Go Edition

by Samuel Butler ...

Samuel Butler's Evolution, Old and New is a sharp, wide-ranging challenge to the accepted story of evolution, tracing the subject back through Buffon, Erasmus Darwin, Lamarck, Patrick Matthew, the Geoffroy St. Hilaires, and Herbert Spencer to show how much of Darwin's theory was anticipated before natural selection became dominant. Butler argues with wit and precision, defending his right to ... Read more

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Samuel Butler's Evolution, Old and New is a sharp, wide-ranging challenge to the accepted story of evolution, tracing the subject back through Buffon, Erasmus Darwin, Lamarck, Patrick Matthew, the Geoffroy St. Hilaires, and Herbert Spencer to show how much of Darwin's theory was anticipated before natural selection became dominant. Butler argues with wit and precision, defending his right to
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El origen de las especies

by Charles Darwin ...

Edición completa, anotada, revisada, indexada y correctamente maquetada.Con esta obra, Charles Darwin presentó su teoría de la evolución mediante la selección natural que, pasados más de cien años, continúa siendo la base del estudio de la naturaleza para la biología actual.Gran éxito desde su primera edición, suscitó vivas polémicas y su influencia se hizo notar no sólo en la comunidad científica ... Read more

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Edición completa, anotada, revisada, indexada y correctamente maquetada.Con esta obra, Charles Darwin presentó su teoría de la evolución mediante la selección natural que, pasados más de cien años, continúa siendo la base del estudio de la naturaleza para la biología actual.Gran éxito desde su primera edición, suscitó vivas polémicas y su influencia se hizo notar no sólo en la comunidad científica
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Commemorating Darwin

Scientific Memory and the Politics of Evolution

by Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis ...

Series series Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Since Charles Darwin’s death in 1882, people across the world have used forms of commemoration and memorialization to celebrate, and at times critique, various aspects of Darwin’s scientific, social, and cultural impact. Commemorative events, activities, and publications marking major anniversaries of Darwin’s birth and death, of the publication of On the Origin of Species (1859) and other works, ... Read more

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Since Charles Darwin’s death in 1882, people across the world have used forms of commemoration and memorialization to celebrate, and at times critique, various aspects of Darwin’s scientific, social, and cultural impact. Commemorative events, activities, and publications marking major anniversaries of Darwin’s birth and death, of the publication of On the Origin of Species (1859) and other works,
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A New Human

The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the "Hobbits" of Flores, Indonesia

by Mike Morwood, Penny Van Oosterzee ...

In October 2004, a team of Australian and Indonesian anthropologists led by Mike Morwood and Raden Pandji Soejono stunned the world with their announcement of the discovery of the first example of a new species of human, Homo floresiensis, which they nicknamed the "Hobbit." This was no creation of Tolkien's fantasy, however, but a tool-using, fire-making, cooperatively hunting person. The more ... Read more

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In October 2004, a team of Australian and Indonesian anthropologists led by Mike Morwood and Raden Pandji Soejono stunned the world with their announcement of the discovery of the first example of a new species of human, Homo floresiensis, which they nicknamed the "Hobbit." This was no creation of Tolkien's fantasy, however, but a tool-using, fire-making, cooperatively hunting person. The more
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La conciencia contada por un sapiens a un neandertal (De un sapiens a un neandertal)

by Juan José Millás, Juan Luis Arsuaga ...

Series series De un sapiens a un neandertal
EL FENÓMENO LITERARIO DE LOS ÚLTIMOS AÑOSVuelve el tándem más exitoso para abordar el mayor misterio de la naturaleza humana: nuestro cerebro«El cerebro vive en un cuarto oscuro».«Tal es el gran misterio al que nos enfrentamos», afirma Arsuaga en este libro en el que el sapiens y el neandertal afrontan el mayor desafío de su proyecto en común, el más complejo, el que supone abrir una puerta a lo ... Read more

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EL FENÓMENO LITERARIO DE LOS ÚLTIMOS AÑOSVuelve el tándem más exitoso para abordar el mayor misterio de la naturaleza humana: nuestro cerebro«El cerebro vive en un cuarto oscuro».«Tal es el gran misterio al que nos enfrentamos», afirma Arsuaga en este libro en el que el sapiens y el neandertal afrontan el mayor desafío de su proyecto en común, el más complejo, el que supone abrir una puerta a lo
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Het verhaal van onze voorouder

Een pelgrimstocht naar de oorsprong van het leven

by Richard Dawkins ...

Translated by Bart Voorzanger ...

Richard Dawkins en Yan Wong nemen ons mee op een opwindende, omgekeerde reis door vier miljard jaar evolutie, van de hedendaagse mens terug naar de microbiële oorsprong van het leven. Naast mensen komen we onderweg ook dieren, planten en bacteriën tegen, ieder met een eigen verhaal.Vrijwel elke pagina in deze nieuwe uitgave is aangepast op basis van de resultaten van recente onderzoeken. Zo ... Read more

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Richard Dawkins en Yan Wong nemen ons mee op een opwindende, omgekeerde reis door vier miljard jaar evolutie, van de hedendaagse mens terug naar de microbiële oorsprong van het leven. Naast mensen komen we onderweg ook dieren, planten en bacteriën tegen, ieder met een eigen verhaal.Vrijwel elke pagina in deze nieuwe uitgave is aangepast op basis van de resultaten van recente onderzoeken. Zo
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Identidad

Qué nos dice el ADN sobre quiénes somos

by Carles Lalueza-Fox ...

Translated by Pedro Pacheco González ...

Series series Drakontos
La genética revela hasta qué punto somos únicos y, al mismo tiempo, profundamente interdependientes¿Qué significa realmente tener una identidad? ¿Hasta dónde llega lo que creemos ser y qué papel desempeña nuestro ADN en esa construcción? En Identidad Carles Lalueza-Fox aborda una de las cuestiones más complejas y actuales de nuestro tiempo desde una perspectiva científica rigurosa y profundamente ... Read more

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La genética revela hasta qué punto somos únicos y, al mismo tiempo, profundamente interdependientes¿Qué significa realmente tener una identidad? ¿Hasta dónde llega lo que creemos ser y qué papel desempeña nuestro ADN en esa construcción? En Identidad Carles Lalueza-Fox aborda una de las cuestiones más complejas y actuales de nuestro tiempo desde una perspectiva científica rigurosa y profundamente
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Droidica

Clearance for Takeoff, #2

by Karlo Beyer, Cosmo Claude ...

Series Book 2 - Clearance for Takeoff
Two billion years ago, one cell swallowed another and did not digest it. Four hundred million years ago, a fish propped itself up in the shallows. Five thousand years ago, someone scratched a delivery of beer into clay, and for the first time something learned outlived the one who had learned it. Each time, something new built on the old, and the old remained, as the layer beneath.This book tells ... Read more

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Two billion years ago, one cell swallowed another and did not digest it. Four hundred million years ago, a fish propped itself up in the shallows. Five thousand years ago, someone scratched a delivery of beer into clay, and for the first time something learned outlived the one who had learned it. Each time, something new built on the old, and the old remained, as the layer beneath.This book tells
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From Observations to Optimal Phylogenetic Trees

Phylogenetic Analysis of Morphological Data: Volume 1

by Pablo A. Goloboff ...

Series series Species and Systematics
Taxonomists specializing in different groups once based phylogenetic analysis only on morphological data; molecular data was used more rarely. Although molecular systematics is routine today, the use of morphological data continues to be important, especially for phylogenetic placement of many taxa known only from fossils and rare or difficult to collect species. In addition, morphological ... Read more

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Taxonomists specializing in different groups once based phylogenetic analysis only on morphological data; molecular data was used more rarely. Although molecular systematics is routine today, the use of morphological data continues to be important, especially for phylogenetic placement of many taxa known only from fossils and rare or difficult to collect species. In addition, morphological
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L’innéité aujourd’hui

Connaissances scientifiques et problèmes philosophiques

by Denis Forest ...

Une étude approfondie de la notion d'innéitéDans la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, la notion d’innéité est revenue au premier plan du débat intellectuel avec trois phénomènes connexes. Le premier est l’essor de la génétique moléculaire, qui confortait l’idée d’un programme contenu dans le génome, programme que l’individu biologique viendrait réaliser. Le second est la linguistique chomskyenne, qui ... Read more

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Une étude approfondie de la notion d'innéitéDans la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, la notion d’innéité est revenue au premier plan du débat intellectuel avec trois phénomènes connexes. Le premier est l’essor de la génétique moléculaire, qui confortait l’idée d’un programme contenu dans le génome, programme que l’individu biologique viendrait réaliser. Le second est la linguistique chomskyenne, qui
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How Men Age

What Evolution Reveals about Male Health and Mortality

by Richard G. Bribiescas ...

A groundbreaking book that examines all aspects of male aging through an evolutionary lensWhile the health of aging men has been a focus of biomedical research for years, evolutionary biology has not been part of the conversation—until now. How Men Age is the first book to explore how natural selection has shaped male aging, how evolutionary theory can inform our understanding of male health and ... Read more

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A groundbreaking book that examines all aspects of male aging through an evolutionary lensWhile the health of aging men has been a focus of biomedical research for years, evolutionary biology has not been part of the conversation—until now. How Men Age is the first book to explore how natural selection has shaped male aging, how evolutionary theory can inform our understanding of male health and
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Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology

Volume I

Edited by Stefan Linquist ...

Series series The International Library of Essays on Evolutionary Thought
The impact of evolutionary theory on the philosophy of science has been no less profound than its impact on the science of biology itself. Advances in this theory provide a rich set of examples for thinking about the nature of scientific explanation and the structure of science. Many of the developments in our understanding of evolution resulted from contributions by both philosophers and ... Read more

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The impact of evolutionary theory on the philosophy of science has been no less profound than its impact on the science of biology itself. Advances in this theory provide a rich set of examples for thinking about the nature of scientific explanation and the structure of science. Many of the developments in our understanding of evolution resulted from contributions by both philosophers and
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Philosophy of Biology

A Contemporary Introduction

by Alex Rosenberg, Daniel W. McShea ...

Series series Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy
Is life a purely physical process? What is human nature? Which of our traits is essential to us? In this volume, Daniel McShea and Alex Rosenberg – a biologist and a philosopher, respectively – join forces to create a new gateway to the philosophy of biology; making the major issues accessible and relevant to biologists and philosophers alike.Exploring concepts such as supervenience; the ... Read more

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Is life a purely physical process? What is human nature? Which of our traits is essential to us? In this volume, Daniel McShea and Alex Rosenberg – a biologist and a philosopher, respectively – join forces to create a new gateway to the philosophy of biology; making the major issues accessible and relevant to biologists and philosophers alike.Exploring concepts such as supervenience; the
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The Evolutionary Biology Papers of Elie Metchnikoff

Edited by H. Gourko, A.I. Tauber, D. Williamson ...

Series series History (R0)
Elie Metchnikoff (1845-1916), winner of the Nobel Prize in 1907 for his contributions to immunology, was first a comparative zoologist, who, working in the wake of Darwin's On the Origin of Species, made seminal contributions to evolutionary biology. His work in comparative embryology is best known in regard to the debates with Ernst Haeckel concerning animal genealogical relationships and the ... Read more

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Elie Metchnikoff (1845-1916), winner of the Nobel Prize in 1907 for his contributions to immunology, was first a comparative zoologist, who, working in the wake of Darwin's On the Origin of Species, made seminal contributions to evolutionary biology. His work in comparative embryology is best known in regard to the debates with Ernst Haeckel concerning animal genealogical relationships and the
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Evolutionary Linguistics

by April McMahon, Robert McMahon ...

Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
How did the biological, brain and behavioural structures underlying human language evolve? When, why and where did our ancestors become linguistic animals, and what has happened since? This book provides a clear, comprehensive but lively introduction to these interdisciplinary debates. Written in an approachable style, it cuts through the complex, sometimes contradictory and often obscure ... Read more

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How did the biological, brain and behavioural structures underlying human language evolve? When, why and where did our ancestors become linguistic animals, and what has happened since? This book provides a clear, comprehensive but lively introduction to these interdisciplinary debates. Written in an approachable style, it cuts through the complex, sometimes contradictory and often obscure
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Gender Gap

How Genes and Gender Influence Our Relationships

by David P. Barash, Judith Eve Lipton ...

Let's face it, say Barash and Lipton: Males and females, boys and girls, men and women are different. To be sure, these differences are often heightened by distinctions in learning, cultural tradition, and social expectation, but underpinning them all is a fundamental difference that derives from biology. Throughout the natural world, males are those creatures that make sperm; females make eggs. ... Read more

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Let's face it, say Barash and Lipton: Males and females, boys and girls, men and women are different. To be sure, these differences are often heightened by distinctions in learning, cultural tradition, and social expectation, but underpinning them all is a fundamental difference that derives from biology. Throughout the natural world, males are those creatures that make sperm; females make eggs.
... Read more
Paleogene Fossil Birds

by Gerald Mayr ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This second, completely revised edition of “Paleogene fossil birds” gives a comprehensive, updated overview of the avian fossil record from a geological period that lasted from the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event (66 million years ago) to the end of the Oligocene epoch (23 mya). Paleogene avifaunas are highly diversified and not only feature unusual archaic groups without close living ... Read more

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This second, completely revised edition of “Paleogene fossil birds” gives a comprehensive, updated overview of the avian fossil record from a geological period that lasted from the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event (66 million years ago) to the end of the Oligocene epoch (23 mya). Paleogene avifaunas are highly diversified and not only feature unusual archaic groups without close living
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Geniale Bäume

Wie sie seit Jahrtausenden das Leben auf der Erde bestimmen | »Ein wahres Meisterwerk« The Telegraph

by Harriet Rix ...

Translated by Elisabeth Liebl ...

Bäume – die stillen Strippenzieher unserer ErdeWir stellen uns Bäume als eine passive Spezies vor, die an einen Ort gebunden ist, dabei gestalten sie ihre Umwelt aktiv. Sie zerkleinern Felsen, verbreitern die Küsten, vergiften gezielt Tiere, kontrollieren Wasserkreisläufe und lösen sogar Waldbrände aus. Seit prähistorischen Zeiten beeinflussen Bäume so ganze Ökosysteme, das Klima und schließlich ... Read more

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Bäume – die stillen Strippenzieher unserer ErdeWir stellen uns Bäume als eine passive Spezies vor, die an einen Ort gebunden ist, dabei gestalten sie ihre Umwelt aktiv. Sie zerkleinern Felsen, verbreitern die Küsten, vergiften gezielt Tiere, kontrollieren Wasserkreisläufe und lösen sogar Waldbrände aus. Seit prähistorischen Zeiten beeinflussen Bäume so ganze Ökosysteme, das Klima und schließlich
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Why Are We Here?

The Story of the Origin, Evolution, and Future of Life on Our Planet

by Bruce Brodie ...

From the big bang, to the origin and evolution of intelligent life in a search for the meaning of human existence, Why are We Here?, by author Bruce Brodie, offers a look at evolution and the future of life on the planet. Through many years of research and study, Brodie addresses a host of questions: • How did chemistry come to life? • How did the release of oxygen by cyanobacteria change the ... Read more

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From the big bang, to the origin and evolution of intelligent life in a search for the meaning of human existence, Why are We Here?, by author Bruce Brodie, offers a look at evolution and the future of life on the planet. Through many years of research and study, Brodie addresses a host of questions: • How did chemistry come to life? • How did the release of oxygen by cyanobacteria change the
... Read more
Brain Evolution by Design

From Neural Origin to Cognitive Architecture

Edited by Shuichi Shigeno, Yasunori Murakami, Tadashi Nomura ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This book presents a new, detailed examination that explains how elegant brains have been shaped in evolution. It consists of 19 chapters written by academic professionals in neuroscience, opening with the origin of single-celled creatures and then introducing primordial types in invertebrates with the great abundance of the brains of vertebrates. Important topics are provided in a timely manner, ... Read more

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This book presents a new, detailed examination that explains how elegant brains have been shaped in evolution. It consists of 19 chapters written by academic professionals in neuroscience, opening with the origin of single-celled creatures and then introducing primordial types in invertebrates with the great abundance of the brains of vertebrates. Important topics are provided in a timely manner,
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Is Your Ancestor A Monkey?

An Exploration of Key Issues in the Evolution Versus Creation Debate

by Clifford L. Fry Ph.D. ...

This book examines some important key issues in the evolution versus creation debate, including the importance of the Big Bang, the building blocks of life, DNA information, archeological evidence. intelligent design, and near-death experiences. By the end of this brief discussion, you will better be able to know what you believe and explain why you believe it. ... Read more

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This book examines some important key issues in the evolution versus creation debate, including the importance of the Big Bang, the building blocks of life, DNA information, archeological evidence. intelligent design, and near-death experiences. By the end of this brief discussion, you will better be able to know what you believe and explain why you believe it.
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The Evolution and Fossil Record of Parasitism

Identification and Macroevolution of Parasites

Edited by Kenneth De Baets, John Warren Huntley ...

Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
This two-volume edited book highlights and reviews the potential of the fossil record to calibrate the origin and evolution of parasitism, and the techniques to understand the development of parasite-host associations and their relationships with environmental and ecological changes. The book deploys a broad and comprehensive approach, aimed at understanding the origins and developments of various ... Read more

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This two-volume edited book highlights and reviews the potential of the fossil record to calibrate the origin and evolution of parasitism, and the techniques to understand the development of parasite-host associations and their relationships with environmental and ecological changes. The book deploys a broad and comprehensive approach, aimed at understanding the origins and developments of various
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