Evolution

Genetic differences in humans, like those between individuals of any animal or plant species and those between species, are all products of the evo...

This international collection of chapters comprehensively covers different aspects of procedures for speciation analysis at all levels starting fro...

A majority of evolutionary biologists believe that we now can envision our biological predecessors—not the first, but nearly the first, living bein...

Genes, Culture, and Human Evolution: A Synthesisis a textbook on human evolution that offers students a unique combination of cultural anthropology...

A powerful treatise that demonstrates the existence of altruism in nature, with surprising implications for human society Does altruism exist? Or i...

Life history theory seeks to explain the evolution of the major features of life cycles by analyzing the ecological factors that shape age-specific...

This comprehensive A to Z encyclopedia provides extensive coverage of important scientific terms related to improving our understanding of how we e...

The names given to the variety of man-like fossils known to scientists should reflect no more than scientific views of the nature of human evolutio...

The Moss Physcomitrella patens has rapidly become an experimental model of choice for many aspects of molecular, cell and developmental biology in ...

In 1859 Darwin described a deceptively simple mechanism that he called "natural selection," a combination of variation, inheritance, and reproducti...

In United States public schools, the content being taught in all subjects is determined by specialists who have the expertise necessary for the ...

This book addresses central questions in the evolution of language: where it came from; how it relates to primate communication; how and why it evo...

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

World Literature Today Editor's Pick "Enchanting...The Poetic Species is a wonderful read in its entirety, short yet infinitely simulating." --MAR...

Animal life, now and over the past half billion years, is incredibly diverse. Describing and understanding the evolution of this diversity of body ...

Evolutionary biomechanics is the study of evolution through the analysis of biomechanical systems. Its unique advantage is the precision with which...

Many of us have experienced the interruption, pleasant or otherwise, of a bird singing from high in the trees or a lone chirper perched outside a b...

Evolutionary biomechanics is the study of evolution through the analysis of biomechanical systems. Its unique advantage is the precision with which...

This book explains how the human brain evolved to make language possible and how cultural evolution took over from biological evolution during the ...

How humans acquired language and how languages evolved are two of the most intriguing questions in contemporary scientific research. Answering them...

There is a paradox when it comes to Darwinian ideas within the academy. On one hand, Darwin's theories have famously changed the foundational ideas...

The Evolution of Social Wasps resolves one of evolution's most intriguing problems - the origin of insect sociality. It also challenges conceptual ...

Water is fundamental to life and all metabolic reactions are influenced by the aqueous environment in which they occur. Osmoregulation and water ba...

In a world where natural selection has shaped adaptations of astonishing ingenuity, what is the scope and unique power of rational thinking? In thi...

This volume brings together contributions on the theme of tools from international specialists in various disciplines - anatomists, neurobiologists...

Anthony O'Hear takes a stand against the fashion for explaining human behaviour in terms of evolution. He maintains, controversially, that while th...

In most terrestrial and aquatic habitats, the vast majority of animals transmitting and receiving communicative signals are arthropods. This book p...

What is it that makes us human? This is one of the most challenging and important questions we face. Our species' defining characteristic is langu...

This book explores the relationship between various types of reproduction and the evolutionary process. Starting with the concept of meiosis, Georg...

Geographic Variation, Speciation and Clines explores the origins and development of geographic variation, divergence, and speciation. In particular...

The origin of species has fascinated both biologists and the general public since the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859. Significan...

This book presents a series of review chapters on the various aspects of primate kinship and behavior, as a fundamental reference for students and ...

Optimization theory is designed to find the best ways of doing things. The structures of animals, their movements, their behavior, and their life h...

In Moral Animals, Catherine Wilson develops a theory of morality based on two fundamental premises: first that moral progress implies the evolution...

Why is `blood thicker than water'? Are we innately violent or pacific? What is the best sex ratio? Why are plants and animals sexual? Why do we gro...

Natural selection is an immense and important subject, yet there have been few attempts to summarize its effects on natural populations, and fewer ...

John Tyler Bonner makes a new attack on an old problem: the question of how progressive increase in the size and complexity of animals and plants h...

Unifying Biology offers a historical reconstruction of one of the most important yet elusive episodes in the history of modern science: the evoluti...

Wallace noticed on expeditions to the Amazon and the Malay archipelego that mammals in Southeast Asia are more advanced than their Australian cousi...

Over the past decade, advances in both molecular developmental biology and evolutionary ecology have made possible a new understanding of organisms...

Movement, dispersal, and migration on land, in the air, and in water, are pervading features of animal life. They are performed by a huge variety o...

'Gaining control' tells the story of how human behavioral capacities evolved from those of other animal species. Exploring what is known about the ...

An international group of distinguished scientists presents an up-to-date survey of quantitative problems at the forefront of modern evolutionary t...