Evolution

The narrative of the progression of the horse family through geological time, from dog-sized fruit-eating animals with four toes on their front and...

Evolution is the central unifying theme of biology. Yet today, more than a century and a half after Charles Darwin proposed the idea of evolution t...

The hominin fossil record documents a history of critical evolutionary events that have ultimately shaped and defined what it means to be human, in...

Fish Physiology, Volume 40B recently celebrated its 50th Anniversary. The editors of the series have produced a total of 47 books (several volumes ...

The Human Condition is a collection of papers by leading evolutionary biologists and philosophers of science that reflect on the Darwinian Revoluti...

Biodiversitythe genetic variety of lifeis an exuberant product of the evolutionary past, a vast human-supportive resource (aesthetic, intellectual,...

When faced with new challenges, its easy to feel our solutions need to be equally unprecedented. We think we need a revolution. But what if this is...

This book makes a systematic empirical analysis of the quality of life of Chinese residents from the perspective of social change, expounds the con...

This book presents the essential electrical events that shaped the creation of a planet that can support life, shaped membrane formation, single ce...

The books describes the historical development of evolutionary genetics, starting from early ideas on evolution and ending with the modern synthesi...

Handedness, or manual laterality of function, is thought to be both universal and unique to humans, making it a highly derived trait, based on an e...

This book focuses on the first vertebrates to conquer land and their long journey to become fully independent from the water. It traces the origin ...

This fourth installment of The Year in Evolutionary Biology series includes reviews on competition and the evolutionary dynamics of mutualism; rapi...

Not so long ago, all a student studying human evolution needed was a familiarity with the relatively sparse fossil record and what limited informat...

Documents morphology, taxonomy, phylogeny, evolutionary changes, and interactions of 23 orders of insects from the Middle Jurassic and Early Cretac...

This reprint of Bernard Wood's best-selling 2-volume encyclopedia is now available as a single-volume paperback. It is ideal for grad students and ...

The Evolution of Plant Form is an exceptional new volume in Wiley-Blackwells highly successful and well established Annual Plant Reviews. Written b...

A seagoing scientist explores how life thrives in one of the most mysterious environments on EarthThe open ocean, far from the shore and miles abov...

This book offers a comprehensive understanding of the natural history of the Japanese Archipelago (Yaponesia), employing cutting-edge genomic resea...