Evolution

The overall aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive review of the current understanding of the mechanisms that the micro-organisms known as extremophiles have evolved to survive and grow in particular extreme environments, and how these may be, or...

The properties of continuous variation are basic to the theory of evolution and to the practice of plant and animal improvement. Yet the genetical study of continuous variation has lagged far behind that of discontinuous variation. The reason for this...

Why Evolution Works (and Creationism Fails) is an impassioned argument in favor of science - primarily the theory of evolution - and against creationism. Why impassioned? Should not scientists be dispassionate in their work? 'Perhaps', write the authors,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674188686Author A J KluyverFormat HardbackPage Count 189Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 449g

This timely encyclopedia presents an arsenal of evidence for evolution that goes beyond the typical textbook examples. Arguing for Evolution: An Encyclopedia for Understanding Science provides readers with a single source for the scientific evidence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987494511Author A. K.H. TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint PaperrataPublisher PaperrataWeight(grams) 667g

This text on animal pollution dynamics should be of interest to those studying ecology, population dynamics and pest control.Book InformationISBN 9780412222405Author R MossFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Chapman and HallPublisher Chapman and...

Evolutionary theory has long been debated, not only on religious grounds, but in terms of its usefulness as a scientific model. A common objection is that the theory does not fit the hypothetical-deductive standard used in the physical sciences and is...

Chaos in Real Data studies the range of data analytic techniques available to study nonlinear population dynamics for ecological time series. Several case studies are studied using typically short and noisy population data from field and laboratory. A...

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Modern approaches to microbial classification and identification, particularly those based on nucleic acid analysis, have raised the awareness and interest of microbiologists in systematics during the past decade. The extended scope of the subject has...

This is an account of studies of the function and evolution of colorful plumage in the House Finch. It is also an engaging study on the evolution of sexual selection in birds and a lively portrait of the challenges and constraints of experimental design...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759622418Author Arndt von HippelFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 364g

This is an inadvertent book, though it did arise naturally enough from a course I give in theoretical ecology. But I wouldn't have given the course at all if one colleague in my department hadn't left for a leave of absence, while another abruptly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692249444Author David MeunierFormat PaperbackImprint David MeunierPublisher David MeunierWeight(grams) 313g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674865372Author Ernst MayrFormat HardbackPage Count 498Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 875g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674283695Author Professor William ColemanFormat HardbackPage Count 222Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 503g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374189938Author Peter Godfrey-SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 454g

This book examines the relationship between classification and evolutionary theory, with reference to the competing schools of taxonomic thinking. Emphasis is placed on one of these schools, the transformed cladists, who have attempted to reject all...

The International Biological Programme took the form of an evolving process which occupied some five years of preliminary planning, followed by a decade of work. Just how it was conceived, initiated, conducted and completed is set down in this volume...

In 1837 a young Charles Darwin took his notebook, wrote "I think" and then sketched a rudimentary, stick-like tree. Each branch of Darwin's tree of life told a story of survival and adaptation adaptation of animals and plants not just to the...

Contains papers from a June 1996 symposium, covering both shoot- and root-borne roots in sections on diversity of roots, induction of root formation and root development, hormonal control of root induction and development, molecular biology, ecological...

Coronaviruses represent a major group of viruses of both molecular biological interest and clinical significance in animals and humans. The proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Coronaviruses, held in Chantilly, France, September 1992,...

An extremely well-organized, conceptually clear, empirically informed, and carefully argued volume...What makes this contribution special is the invigorating infusion of a wealth of principles and knowledge derived from evolutionary biology,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306446498Author Kenneth E. MaxwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Kluwer Academic/Plenum PublishersPublisher Springer Science+Business...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546744Author Jeffrey H. SchwartzFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 178g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262539098Author George R McGhee Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

A recent poll revealed that one in four Americans believe in both creationism and evolution, while another 41% believe that creationism is true and evolution is false. A minority (only 13%) believe only in evolution. Given the widespread resistance to...

In 1859 Darwin described a deceptively simple mechanism that he called "natural selection," a combination of variation, inheritance, and reproductive success. He argued that this mechanism was the key to explaining the most puzzling features of...

While much has been written about the life and works of Charles Darwin, the lives of his ten children remain largely unexamined. Most "Darwin books" consider his children as footnotes to the life of their famous father and close with the death...

This book considers evolution at different scales: sequences, genes, gene families, organelles, genomes and species. The focus is on the mathematical and computational tools and concepts, which form an essential basis of evolutionary studies, indicate...

This is the story of a profound revolution in the way biologists explore life's history, understand its evolutionary processes, and reveal its diversity. It is about life's smallest entities, deepest diversity, and greatest cellular biomass: the...

As a college student, Werner Maas took a course in genetics in 1941 and wondered why so little was said about the biochemical action of genes in controlling the specific function of an organism. Just at that time, biochemists and geneticists began to...

In 1974, Richard Lewontin published The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change, focusing enormous research attention on protein variation as both a model of underlying genetic variation and as a level of selection itself. Two decades later, scientific...

This book outlines four different categories of co-operation - reciprocal altruism, kinship, group-selected co-operation, and by-product mutualism - and ties them together in a single framework called the Co-operator's Dilemma. Hundreds of studies on...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780521229746Author Graham W. GoodayFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University PressWeight(grams) 152g

Morality is often defined in opposition to the natural "instincts," or as a tool to keep those instincts in check. New findings in neuroscience, social psychology, animal behavior, and anthropology have brought us back to the original Darwinian...

In this assessment of Darwinism, Christopher Wills explains how, during the course of their long histories, genes have acquired a "wisdom" that enables them to change more easily in some directions than in others. He opens up the recently discovered...