Evolution

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 ...