Evolution

This book presents a series of review chapters on the various aspects of primate kinship and behavior, as a fundamental reference for students and ...

Optimization theory is designed to find the best ways of doing things. The structures of animals, their movements, their behavior, and their life h...

In Moral Animals, Catherine Wilson develops a theory of morality based on two fundamental premises: first that moral progress implies the evolution...

Why is `blood thicker than water'? Are we innately violent or pacific? What is the best sex ratio? Why are plants and animals sexual? Why do we gro...

Natural selection is an immense and important subject, yet there have been few attempts to summarize its effects on natural populations, and fewer ...

John Tyler Bonner makes a new attack on an old problem: the question of how progressive increase in the size and complexity of animals and plants h...

Unifying Biology offers a historical reconstruction of one of the most important yet elusive episodes in the history of modern science: the evoluti...

Wallace noticed on expeditions to the Amazon and the Malay archipelego that mammals in Southeast Asia are more advanced than their Australian cousi...

Over the past decade, advances in both molecular developmental biology and evolutionary ecology have made possible a new understanding of organisms...

Movement, dispersal, and migration on land, in the air, and in water, are pervading features of animal life. They are performed by a huge variety o...

'Gaining control' tells the story of how human behavioral capacities evolved from those of other animal species. Exploring what is known about the ...

An international group of distinguished scientists presents an up-to-date survey of quantitative problems at the forefront of modern evolutionary t...

Movement, dispersal, and migration on land, in the air, and in water, are pervading features of animal life. They are performed by a huge variety o...

Tim Lewens aims to understand what it means to take an evolutionary approach to cultural change, and why it is that this approach is often treated ...

It is easy to think of evolution as something that happened long ago, or that occurs only in "nature," or that is so slow that its ongoing impact i...

J.B.S. Haldane (1892-1964) is widely appreciated as one of the greatest and most influential British scientists of the 20th century, making signifi...

The scientific study of networks - computer, social, and biological - has received an enormous amount of interest in recent years. However, the net...

The purpose of this book is to explain why red-winged blackbirds are polygynous and to describe the effects of this mating system on other aspects ...

The enormous recent success of molecular developmental biology has yielded a vast amount of new information on the details of development. So much ...

The concept of the social brain has become a popular topic in the last decade and has generated interest within the research community and contribu...

This book offers an exciting new perspective on the origins of language. Language is conceptualized as a collective invention, on the model of writ...

Over the past decade, advances in both molecular developmental biology and evolutionary ecology have made possible a new understanding of organisms...

Is it possible to explain and predict the development of living things? What is development? Articulate answers to these seemingly innocuous questi...