Evolution

Professor H James Birx shows how the never-ending controversy of human evolution came to be. He details the events that caused thinkers like Charles Darwin to develop his theory of evolution, and what ideas caused some people to reconcile a somewhat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684849652Author Pat ShipmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 500gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375751462Author Charles DarwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 584gDimensions(mm)...

Neither cellular/molecular nor ecosystem processes can be fully understood without a detailed understanding of the biology of the whole organism. Despite this, much of modern biology teaching tends to be focused on the cellular and molecular level, with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955690287Author Nemat Saidi LavasaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Di Angelo PublicationsPublisher Di Angelo PublicationsWeight(grams)...

An "endlessly fascinating" (Michael Ruse) work of scientific thought and synthesis, Genesis is Edward O. Wilson's twenty-first-century statement on Darwinian evolution. Asserting that religious creeds and philosophical questions can be reduced to purely...

This persuasive, elegantly written book argues that understanding evolution has never mattered more in human history. The author uses evidence from archaeology, geography, anatomy, biochemistry, radiometric dating, cell biology, chromosomes, and DNA to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781564149336Author Aaron G. FillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Career PressPublisher Red Wheel/WeiserWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Historical Remarks Bearing on the Discovery of Pan paniscus Whether by accident or by design, it was most fortunate that Robert M. Yerkes, the dean of American primatologists, should have been the first scientist to describe the characteristics of a...

Scientists and educators are deeply concerned that as fundamentalists gain ever more political power, their clout will be used to foist creationism onto the curriculums of tax-supported educational institutions. In recent years, creationists have invoked...

In a book that has become a milestone of scientific writing Dr. Blum uses "time's arrow," the second law of thermodynamics, as a key concept to show how the nature and evolution of the nonliving world place limits on the nature and evolution of life. He...

After his famous visit to the Galapagos Islands, Darwin speculated that "one might fancy that, from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends." This book is the classic account of how...

Why information is the unifying principle that allows us to understand the evolution of complexity in natureMore than 150 years after Darwin's revolutionary On the Origin of Species, we are still attempting to understand and explain the amazing...

The origin of species has fascinated both biologists and the general public since the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859. Significant progress in understanding the process was achieved in the "modern synthesis," when Theodosius Dobzhansky,...

This book explores the relationship between various types of reproduction and the evolutionary process. Starting with the concept of meiosis, George C. Williams states the conditions under which an organism with both sexual and asexual reproductive...

A growing body of evidence has begun to reveal flaws in the traditional assumption of female passivity and lack of discrimination after copulation has begun. William Eberhard has compiled an impressive array of research on the ability of females to shape...

Bright colors, enlarged fins, feather plumes, song, horns, antlers, and tusks are often highly sex dimorphic. Why have males in many animals evolved more conspicuous ornaments, signals, and weapons than females? How can such traits evolve although they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648364016Author Denise Carrington-SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 692Imprint various Australia publishersPublisher various Australia...

Are selfishness and individuality - rather than kindness and cooperation - basic to biological nature? Does a 'selfish gene' create universal sexual conflict? In "The Genial Gene", Joan Roughgarden forcefully rejects these and other ideas that have come...

Ever since Darwin and The Descent of Man , the existence of humans has been attributed to our intelligence and adaptability. But in Catching Fire , renowned primatologist Richard Wrangham presents a startling alternative: our evolutionary success is...

How did everything around us-the air, the land, the sea, and the stars-originate? What is the source of order, form, and structure characterizing all material things? These are just some of the grand scientific questions Eric J. Chaisson, author of the...

Considered by many during his lifetime as the most well-known scientist in the world, Stephen Jay Gould left an enormous and influential body of work. A Harvard professor of paleontology, evolutionary biology, and the history of science, Gould provided...

This annual series of Oxford Surveys is intended to stimulate discussion, review current areas of investigation, and present new theoretical ideas in all areas of evolutionary biology. Special features include contributions from internationally...

Many of the characteristics that distinguish plants from other living organisms can be traced to their origin early in the history of life. Features such as a multicellular haploid life stage, prevalent hermaphroditism, self-fertilization, and general...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226335810Author T S KempFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)...

No fight over what gets taught in American classrooms is more heated than the battle over humanity's origins. For more than a century we have argued about evolutionary theory and creationism (and its successor theory, intelligent design), yet we seem no...

The debate between divine action, or faith, and natural selection, or science, is garnering tremendous interest. This book ventures well beyond the usual, contrasting American Protestant and atheistic points of view, and also includes the perspectives of...

A thorough and current introduction to evolutionary biology reinforced by tools that improve learning. Every chapter has been updated to provide a more focused, accessible introduction to core topics reflecting exciting new research, anthropogenic...

More than eighty years after the Scopes trial, the debate over teaching evolution continues in spite of the emptiness of the creationist positions. This accessible resource, now completely revised and updated, provides an essential introduction to the...

Arms races among invertebrates, intelligence gathering by the immune system and alarm calls by marmots are but a few of nature's security strategies that have been tested and modified over billions of years. This provocative book applies lessons from...

It has long been recognized that plants and animals profoundly affect one another's characteristics during the course of evolution. However, the importance of coevolution as a dynamic process involving such diverse factors as chemical communication,...

Two Centuries of Darwin is the outgrowth of an Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium, sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences on January 16-17, 2009. In the chapters of this book, leading evolutionary biologists and science historians reflect on and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788441425019Author Professor Charles DarwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 695Imprint Edaf AntillasPublisher Edaf AntillasWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 208mm...

The study of genetic exchange resulting from natural hybridization, horizontal gene transfer, and viral recombination has long been marked by controversy between researchers holding different conceptual frameworks. Those subscribing to a doctrine of...

Darwin's Footprint examines the impact of Darwinism in Greece, investigating how it has shaped Greece in terms of its cultural and intellectual history, and in particular its literature. The book demonstrates that in the late 19th to early 20th centuries...

This book collects the contributions to the symposium "The current state of evolutionary archeology in Argentina" that was held in Buenos Aires, for celebrating the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620815984Author Julian A Cervantes AmayaFormat HardbackPage Count 247Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620814666Author Kevin V UrbanoFormat HardbackPage Count 159Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 482g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613248683Author Kevin V. UrbanoFormat HardbackImprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 586g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781536157956Author Borje EkstigFormat HardbackPage Count 223Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 436g