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The Evolutionary Biology of Colonizing Species by Peter Angas Parsons 9780521252478
RRP: £105.00£93.23Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Darwin's Mentor: John Stevens Henslow, 1796-1861 by S. M. Walters 9780521117999
RRP: £49.99£42.44John Stevens Henslow is known for his formative influence on Charles Darwin, who described their meeting as the one circumstance 'which influenced my career more than any other'. As Professor of Botany at Cambridge University, Henslow was Darwin's... -
Complexity and Evolution by Max Pettersson 9780521117951
RRP: £42.99£36.19This unique book ranges across the physical, biological and social sciences in the development of its primary theme, that there are nine major 'integrative levels' which can be recognised. The term integrative levels was first used by Joseph Needham in... -
Human Evolutionary Trees by Edward Arthur Thompson 9780521099455
RRP: £34.99£28.38Originally published in 1975, this book provides a detailed analysis of the way in which inferences about the evolutionary history of human populations may be made from genetic data of modern populations. The pattern of genetic differentiation between... -
Sex and Death in Protozoa: The History of Obsession by Graham Bell 9780521056700
RRP: £34.99£28.38Is ageing inevitable, or can senescence and death be evaded? Large animals and plants always age if they live long enough; even individual cells from their bodies cannot continue living and dividing indefinitely. Whether or not single-celled organisms... -
Development, Function and Evolution of Teeth by Mark F. Teaford 9780521033725
RRP: £44.99£37.56In this field there has been an explosion of information generated by scientific research. One of the beneficiaries of this has been the study of morphology, where new techniques and analyses have led to insights into a wide range of topics. Advances in... -
Evolutionary History of the Marsupials and an Analysis of Osteological Characters by Frederick S. Szalay 9780521025928
RRP: £49.99£42.44The aim of this book is to examine a variety of problems in the understanding of the evolutionary history of the marsupials. In his exposition, the author covers developmental and reproductive biology, the cranio-skeletal system (including dentition,... -
The Human Inheritance: Genes, Language, and Evolution by Bryan Sykes 9780198502746
RRP: £130.00£115.71Very little excites human curiosity quite so much as contemplating human origins. More than any other branch of science, evolution - and human evolution in particular - is fraught with controversy. Working from what is essentially the same data, schools... -
Cooperation and Its Evolution by Kim Sterelny 9780262552783
£61.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262552783Author Kim SterelnyFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 369g -
The Acceleration of Cultural Change: From Ancestors to Algorithms by R. Alexander Bentley 9780262551977
£22.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262551977Author R. Alexander BentleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 369g -
Evolutionary Ecology of Plant Reproductive Strategies by Tom J. De Jong 9780521821421
RRP: £133.00£113.82Evolutionary biologists have produced a solid body of evidence to explain patterns of diversification, both within and among species. Recent textbooks are weighted towards studies of animals, which is surprising given that plants are ideally suited for... -
Macroevolutionary Theory on Macroecological Patterns by Peter W. Price 9780521817127
RRP: £127.00£107.99In Macroevolutionary Theory on Macroecological Patterns, Peter Price establishes a completely new vision of the central themes in ecology. For the first time in book form, the study of distribution, abundance, and population size variation in animals is... -
The Evolution of Population Biology by Rama S. Singh 9780521814379
RRP: £130.00£113.82This 2004 collection of essays deals with the foundation and historical development of population biology and its relationship to population genetics and population ecology on the one hand and to the rapidly growing fields of molecular quantitative... -
Evolutionary History of Bats: Fossils, Molecules and Morphology by Gregg F. Gunnell 9780521768245
RRP: £116.00£98.74Advances in morphological and molecular methods continue to uncover new information on the origin and evolution of bats. Presenting some of the most remarkable discoveries and research involving living and fossil bats, this book explores their... -
The Evolution of Social Behaviour in Insects and Arachnids by Jae C. Choe 9780521589772
RRP: £58.99£53.88'Social' insects and arachnids exhibit forms of complex behaviour that involve cooperation in building a nest, defending against attackers or rearing offspring. This book is a comprehensive, up-to-date guide to sociality and its evolution in a wide range... -
An Introduction to Arthropod Pest Control by J.R.M. Thacker 9780521567879
RRP: £57.99£50.98Arthropod pests are responsible for huge annual losses in global crop production and for transmitting a number of infectious diseases. The control of such pests is therefore of the utmost importance. An Introduction to Arthropod Pest Control provides a... -
Branching Processes: Variation, Growth, and Extinction of Populations by Patsy Haccou 9780521539852
RRP: £67.99£60.78Biology takes a special place among the other natural sciences because biological units, be they pieces of DNA, cells or organisms, reproduce more or less faithfully. As for any other biological processes, reproduction has a large random component. The... -
The Development of Darwin's Theory: Natural History, Natural Theology, and Natural Selection, 1838-1859 by Dov Ospovat 9780521469401
RRP: £53.99£44.97Dov Ospovat's book, originally published in 1981, has become generally accepted as one of the most influential books about Darwin published in recent years. Ospovat examines the period of 1838-1859 in detail, and shows that Darwin's views changed quite... -
Complexity and Evolution by Max Pettersson 9780521454001
RRP: £105.00£92.83This unique book ranges across the physical, biological and social sciences in the development of its primary theme, that there are nine major 'integrative levels' which can be recognised. The term integrative levels was first used by Joseph Needham in... -
Macroevolutionary Theory on Macroecological Patterns by Peter W. Price 9780521520379
RRP: £63.99£54.14In Macroevolutionary Theory on Macroecological Patterns, Peter Price establishes a completely new vision of the central themes in ecology. For the first time in book form, the study of distribution, abundance, and population size variation in animals is... -
Sex and Death in Protozoa: The History of Obsession by Graham Bell 9780521361415
RRP: £105.00£92.83Is ageing inevitable, or can senescence and death be evaded? Large animals and plants always age if they live long enough; even individual cells from their bodies cannot continue living and dividing indefinitely. Whether or not single-celled organisms... -
The Evolutionary Biology of Colonizing Species by Peter Angas Parsons 9780521272452
RRP: £34.99£28.38Professor Parsons uses the colonizing species as a case study in the dynamics of microevolution at work in living systems. The colonizing species, a lie, and potentially disruptive force in a 'naive' habitat, is studied primarily as an ecological... -
Adaptive Dynamics of Infectious Diseases: In Pursuit of Virulence Management by Ulf Dieckmann 9780521022132
RRP: £54.99£49.76Emerging diseases pose a continual threat to public health. Short multiplication time and high variability allow pathogens to evolve very rapidly. It is therefore imperative to incorporate evolutionary considerations into longer-term health management... -
Evolutionary Ecology of Marsupials by Anthony K. Lee 9780521054126
RRP: £42.99£36.19The ecological literature on marsupials is dominated by descriptive natural history, and there has hitherto been little attempt at either synthesis or evolutionary interpretation. This book attempts to provide such a synthesis, by drawing on both the... -
Hybrid Zones and the Evolutionary Process by Richard G. Harrison 9780195069174
£118.90Hybrid zones - geographical areas in which the hybrids of two races are found - have attracted the attention of evolutionary biologists for many years, both because they are windows on the evolutionary process and because the patterns of animals and... -
Between Biology and Culture by Holger Schutkowski 9780521859363
RRP: £105.00£93.22Humans adapt to their environment through a unique amalgamation of culture and biology. Both are intrinsic to our existence and constitute the dual aspect of human nature. This book addresses topics and themes exploring this close inter-relationship by... -
Why Is a Fly Not a Horse? by Giuseppe Sermonti 9780963865489
RRP: £22.00£16.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780963865489Author Giuseppe SermontiFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Discovery InstitutePublisher Discovery InstituteWeight(grams) 432g -
Outshining Darwin by Denise Carrington-Smith 9780648364078
RRP: £12.95£11.76Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Retroviridae: v. 1 by Jay A. Levy 9780306440748
RRP: £142.50£73.17The inaugural volume in a series presenting in-depth reviews of the biology, immunology, pathology, and molecular features of this viral family. Volume one contains contributed chapters that detail: the general nature and theories of the origin of the... -
Regulation of Gene Expression in Animal Viruses: Proceedings of a NATO ASI Held in Mallorca, Spain, June 7-17, 1992 by Luis Carrasco 9780306444081
RRP: £134.50£72.17Many viruses make us sick, so of course it is a good idea to find out how they work in order to stop them; in addition, however, scientists have found that the simplicity of viruses' method of replication make them excellent models for exploring the... -
Microbiology of Marine Food Products by D.R. Ward 9780442233464
RRP: £91.50£72.57Over the last decade, interest in seafood products has grown dramatically. The increasing level of consumer interest has resulted in a proliferation of research initiatives to understand the unique properties of seafoods. Microbiology is only one of the... -
First in Line: Tracing Our Ape Ancestry by Tom Gundling 9780300180176
£19.17Despite Darwin's bold contention in 1871 that the likely ancestor for Homo sapiens was an African ape, the scientific community hesitated for decades before accepting small-brained but bipedal walking "apes" from southern Africa as direct human... -
Programming of Life by Donald E. Johnson 9780982355466
RRP: £8.95£7.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982355466Author Donald E. JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Big Mac PublishersPublisher Big Mac PublishersWeight(grams) 210g -
The Paramyxoviruses by David W. Kingsbury 9780306435539
RRP: £168.50£73.17A comprehensive survey of current basic research on the paramyxo-viruses. Specialists actively working in the discipline present a variety of interpretations of paramyxovirus taxonomy, evolution, genetics, molecular biology, and epidemiology;... -
Selection in Natural Populations by Jeffry B. Mitton 9780195137866
£46.26In 1974, Richard Lewontin published The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change, focusing enormous attention on protein variation as both a model of underlying genetic variation and a level of selection itself. In the twenty years since, scientific research... -
Evolutionary Biology by Max K. Hecht 9780306456749
£90.27After volume 33, this book series was replaced by the journal "Evolutionary Biology." Please visit www.springer.com/11692 for further information. Volume 30 brings readers up to date on the investigation of eminent evolutionary biologists and... -
Journey Back to Eternity: The Story of Creation by Jack Cobleigh 9780759676855
£13.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759676855Author Jack CobleighFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 398g -
Dynamics of Nutrient Cycling and Food Webs by Donald Lee DeAngelis 9780412298400
RRP: £89.99£89.87In all fields of science today, data are collected and theories are developed and published faster than scientists can keep up with, let alone thoroughly digest. In ecology the fact that practitioners tend to be divided between such subdisciplines as... -
Darwinian Detectives: Revealing the Natural History of Genes and Genomes by Norman A. Johnson 9780195306750
RRP: £36.99£31.25Biology is often viewed today as a bipartisan field, with molecular level genetics guiding us into the future and natural history (including ecology, evolution, and conservation biology,) chaining us to a descriptive scientific past. In Darwinian... -
It's Been Four Billion Years: The Story of Life on Earth a Million Years at a Time by Joseph W Carvin 9780976818397
RRP: £12.95£11.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976818397Author Joseph W CarvinFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Nothing in Common BooksPublisher Nothing in Common BooksWeight(grams) 152g