Evolution

This book discusses how and why animals evolved into particular shapes. The book identifies the physical laws which decide over the evolutionary (s...

The author of the international bestseller The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: after d...

Dieses Werk fokussiert vor allem auf evolutionäre Prozesse (und weniger auf evolutionäre Geschichte). Themen sind abiotische Rahmenbedingungen, Mor...

Recently, magnetic nanostructures have gained a remarkable interest for basic research and applied studies. Because of their low cost and ease of m...

An Open Letters Review Best Book of the YearA leading expert in animal behavior takes us into the wild to better understand and manage our fears.Fe...

A dazzling follow-up to Life as told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal. We would love to discover that each species has a biological clock in its cell...

Tracing the leading role of emotions in the evolution of the mind, a philosopher and a psychologist pair up to reveal how thought and culture owe l...

Popular understanding holds that genetic changes create cancer. James DeGregori uses evolutionary principles to propose a new way of thinking about...

Scientists have recently begun to question one of the pillars of modern thought--Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Certainly evolution occurs; ...

Acclaimed The Science of Discworld centred around an original Pratchett story about the wizards of Discworld. In it they accidentally witnessed th...

This is the sixteenth issue in the FAO series of worldwide annotated and illustrated catalogues of major groups of organisms that enter marine fish...

This book describes the variety of direct and indirect population size estimation (PSE) methods available along with their strengths and weaknesses...

For all the selfishness of genes, they team up to survive. Is the history of life in fact a story of cooperation? Amid the violence and brutality ...

Principles of Evolution covers all aspects of the subject. Following an introductory section that provides necessary background, it has chapters on...

This book is the first major study of what was probably the most important centre or pre-Darwinian evolutionary thought in the British Isles. It sh...

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death worldwide today, but are not just a modern phenomenon. To explore the deep roots of C...

A neurosurgeon explores how our tendency to prioritize short-term consumer pleasures spurs climate change, but also how the brains amazing capacity...

We feel therefore we are. Conscious sensations ground our sense of self. They are essential to our idea of ourselves as psychic beings: present, ex...

Information is central to the evolution of biological complexity, a physical system relying on a continuous supply of energy. Biology provides supe...

Provides a broad snapshot of recent findings showing how the environment and genes influence behavior The great debate of nature versus nurture rag...

Argues that the struggle over income, wealth, status and privilege-inequality-has been the principal, defining issue in human history and provides ...

'Mind-blowing ... It is a hugely important book ... His story is crucial' Matt Ridley, The TimesOne of the world's top behavioural geneticists argu...

This volume brings together more than a decade of information collected in the field and lab on the naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber), a north...

'The who, what, where, when and how of human evolution, from one of the world's experts on the dating of prehistoric fossils' Steve Brusatte, autho...