Evolution

The study of fossilised remains of herbivorous animals, particularly those rare findings with well-preserved gastrointestinal tracts filled with pl...

Since the 1980s, a renewed understanding of molecular development has afforded an unprecedented level of knowledge of the mechanisms by which pheno...

There is increasing evidence that the structure and functioning of ecological communities and ecosystems are strongly influenced by flexible traits...

Human language is not the same as human speech. We use gestures and signs to communicate alongside, or instead of, speaking. Yet gestures and speec...

Devoted to exploring questions about the origin and evolution of life in our Universe, this highly interdisciplinary book brings together a broad a...

Evolutionary biology has witnessed breathtaking advances in recent years. Some of its most exciting insights have come from the crossover of discip...

Darwin identified the existence of separate male and female gametes as one of the central mysteries of evolutionary biology. 150 years later, the q...

Members of the mammalian clade Carnivora have invaded nearly every continent and ocean, evolving into bamboo-eating pandas, clam-eating walruses an...

Bringing together the latest scientific advances and some of the most enduring subtle philosophical puzzles and problems, this book collects origin...

Plant remains can preserve a critical part of history of life on Earth. While telling the fascinating evolutionary story of plants and vegetation a...

Biological anthropology is a diverse field, with countless research methods and techniques in different sub-disciplines. This book takes a critical...

Quantitative genetics is the study of continuously varying traits which make up the majority of biological attributes of evolutionary and commercia...

Quantitative genetics is the study of continuously varying traits which make up the majority of biological attributes of evolutionary and commercia...

This book provides a synthetic overview of all evidence concerning the evolution of the morphology of the human pelvis, including comparative anato...

Understanding the interaction between cooperation and conflict in establishing effective social behaviour is a fundamental challenge facing societi...

This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century...

This new edition of a foundational text presents a contemporary review of cladistics, as applied to biological classification. It provides a compre...

Reproduction is a fundamental feature of life, it is the way life persists across the ages. This book offers new, wider vistas on this fundamental ...

Why do the debates about evolution persist, despite the plentiful evidence for it? Breaking down the notion that public resistance to evolution is ...

Can Christianity and evolution coexist? Traditional Christian teaching presents Jesus as reversing the effects of the fall of Adam. But an evolutio...

Why do the debates about evolution persist, despite the plentiful evidence for it? Breaking down the notion that public resistance to evolution is ...

With contributions from a team of leading experts, this volume provides a comprehensive survey of recent achievements in our scientific understandi...

Pollination is one of the most important processes in plant reproduction. It directly influences reproductive success and fitness and the genetic s...

Darwin famously described special difficulties in explaining social evolution in insects. More than a century later, the evolution of sociality - d...

Obvious questions do not always have obvious answers. John Gribbin is known for giving us simple explanations of big concepts in science. But there...

The flock of greylag geese established by Konrad Lorenz in Austria in 1973 has become an influential model animal system and one of the few worldwi...

This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century...

Willi Hennig (191376), founder of phylogenetic systematics, revolutionised our understanding of the relationships among species and their natural c...

Uniting the conceptual foundations of the physical sciences and biology, this groundbreaking multidisciplinary book explores the origin of life as ...

This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century...

The field of molecular and genomic evolution has been catalysed by the ever increasing availability of high throughput data such as transcriptome e...

The field of molecular and genomic evolution has been catalysed by the ever increasing availability of high throughput data such as transcriptome e...

Although their vocabularies differ, biologists, biblical authors, and playwrights describe the paradox that Charles Darwin outlines in The Origin o...

Adaptive radiation, which results when a single ancestral species gives rise to many descendants, each adapted to a different part of the environme...

While much has been written about the impact of Darwins theories on U.S. culture, and countless scholarly collections have been devoted to the scie...

Organism and Environment performs an examination into the way the contemporary life sciences are heralding a revolution of the most basic philosoph...

What does it mean to say that mutation is random? How does mutation influence evolution? Are mutations merely the raw material for selection to sha...

A comprehensive pocket guide to dinosaurs and prehistoric animals and the world they inhabited millions of years ago. Packed with more than 700 ful...

What does it mean to say that mutation is random? How does mutation influence evolution? Are mutations merely the raw material for selection to sha...

This volume, the tenth in the series, comprises modern treatments for the families and genera of the eudicot orders Sapindales and Cucurbitales. Th...

Alone in the known universe the Earth glows bright with life, a unique cosmic oasis of biodiversity which is now under threat from our own actions....

During the Last Ice Age, Europe was a cold, dry place teeming with mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, reindeer, bison, cave bears, cave hyenas, and cav...

During the Last Ice Age, Europe was a cold, dry place teeming with mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, reindeer, bison, cave bears, cave hyenas, and cav...

Travel back in time almost eight million years to explore the roots of the human family tree. Written and authenticated by a team of experts and wi...