Evolution

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...

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