Evolution

Arguing that philosophical discussion of human freedom has been transformed by developments in modern science, especially evolutionary biology, the...

Published by Sinauer Associates, an imprint of Oxford University Press. Over the last two decades, the study of speciation has expanded from a m...

Plants, Patients, and the Historian examines the relationship between the act of historical recollection and the coming "age of genetic engineering...

This edited volume is provides an authoritative synthesis of knowledge about the history of life. All the major groups of organisms are treated, by...

Nietzsche wrote in a scientific culture transformed by Darwin. He read extensively in German and British Darwinists, and his own works dealt often ...

Arguing that philosophical discussion of human freedom has been transformed by developments in modern science, especially evolutionary biology, the...

Inducible defenses--those often dramatic phenotypic shifts in prey activated by biological agents ranging from predators to pathogens--are widespre...

Traditionally a scientific theory is viewed as based on universal laws of nature that serve as axioms for logical deduction. In analyzing the logic...

What makes humans unique? What makes us the most successful animal species inhabiting the Earth today? Most scientists agree that the key to our su...

This is a masterly theoretical treatment of one of the central problems in evolutionary biology, the evolution of social cooperation and conflict. ...

In the current resurgence of interest in the biological basis of animal behavior and social organization, the ideas and questions pursued by Charle...

Parasitoids lay their eggs on or in the bodies of other species of insect, and the parasitoid larvae develop by feeding on the host, causing its ev...

Animals do have culture, maintains this delightfully illustrated and provocative book, which cites a number of fascinating instances of animal comm...

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 ...

Scholars have long studied the impact of Charles Darwin’s writings on nineteenth-century culture. However, few have ventured to examine the precurs...

The discoveries of the last decade have brought about a completely revised understanding of human evolution, due to the recent advances in genetics...

The small, terrestrial eastern red-backed salamander is abundant on many forest floors of northeastern North America. Dr. Robert Jaeger and many of...

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 ...

This novel, interdisciplinary text achieves an integration of empirical data and theory with the aid of mathematical models and statistical methods...

Much of Charles Darwin's groundbreaking work as an evolutionary biologist stemmed from his study of birds. It is universally acknowledged that Darw...

For evolutionary biologists, the concept of chance has always played a significant role in the formation of evolutionary theory. As far back as Gre...

Sexual reproduction is a fundamental aspect of life. It is defined by the occurrence of meiosis and the fusion of two gametes of different sexes or...

Renowned evolutionary biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant have produced landmark studies of the Galapagos finches first made famous by Charles Darw...

Brian Skyrms presents eighteen essays which apply adaptive dynamics (of cultural evolution and individual learning) to social theory. Altruism, spi...

Animals perform many athletic tasks to an amazing degree of accomplishment: not only spectacular feats of running and jumping but also routine acti...

Brian Skyrms presents eighteen essays which apply adaptive dynamics (of cultural evolution and individual learning) to social theory. Altruism, spi...

The Artful Species explores the idea that our aesthetic responses and art behaviors are connected to our evolved human nature. Our humanoid forerun...

Mankind's utter dependency on technology extends back approximately three million years to the first stone tools, but it was only with the innovati...

Animals perform many athletic tasks to an amazing degree of accomplishment: not only spectacular feats of running and jumping but also routine acti...

J. L. Schellenberg articulates and defends a simple but revolutionary idea: we are still at a very early stage in the possible history of intellige...

Although the field of quantitative genetics - the study of the genetic basis of variation in quantitative characteristics such as body size, or rep...

The book presents new and stimulating approaches to the study of language evolution and considers their implications for future research. Leading s...

Ever since the pioneering work of Darwin and Wallace, evolutionary biologists have attempted to understand the evolutionary dynamics of genetic sys...

While we joke that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, our gender differences can't compare to those of many other animals. For instance, t...

The book presents new and stimulating approaches to the study of language evolution and considers their implications for future research. Leading s...

Homology--a similar trait shared by different species and derived from common ancestry, such as a seal's fin and a bird's wing--is one of the most ...

The origin of biological diversity, via the formation of new species, can be inextricably linked to adaptation to the ecological environment. Speci...

Parental care includes a wide variety of traits that enhance offspring development and survival. It is taxonomically widespread and is central to t...

The Artful Species explores the idea that our aesthetic responses and art behaviors are connected to our evolved human nature. Our humanoid forerun...

Pillars of Evolution provides a fresh and provocative perspective on adaptive evolution. Readers new to the study of evolution will find a refreshi...

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

Communication is an essential factor underpinning the interactions between species and the structure of their communities. Plant-animal interaction...

Pillars of Evolution provides a fresh and provocative perspective on adaptive evolution. Readers new to the study of evolution will find a refreshi...