2nd Edition. — Monarch Books, 2014. — 301 p. Dr. Denis Alexander is a neuroscientist who believes passionately in both the biblical doctrine of creation and the coherence of evolutionary theory. His book draws on the latest genetic research. What do we mean by creation and evolution? What are the common scientific objections to evolution? Is evolution atheistic? Who were Adam...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 274 p. — ISBN: 9781139164856. In this book Ron Amundson examines 200 years of scientific views on the evolution-development relationship from the perspective of evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo). This new perspective challenges several popular views about the history of evolutionary thought by claiming that many earlier authors...
New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. — 209 p. Historical biogeography — the study of the history of species through both time and place — first convinced Charles Darwin of evolution. This field was so important to Darwin’s initial theories and line of thinking that he said as much in the very first paragraph of On the Origin of Species (1859) and later in his...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 248 p. Reticulate Evolution and Humans is the first book to describe the effect of genetic exchange on the origin and evolution of our own species as well as those species with which we have and continue to interact closely, both evolutionarily and culturally. After demonstrating how genetic exchange has affected H. sapiens, the book goes on to...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 296 p. Reconstructing phylogenetic trees from DNA sequences has become a popular exercise in many branches of biology, and here the well-known geneticist John Avise explains why. Molecular phylogenies provide a genealogical backdrop for interpreting the evolutionary histories of many other types of biological traits (anatomical, behavioral,...
National Academies Press, 2008. — 88 p. — ISBN: 978-0-309-10587-3 Evolution and the Nature of Science The Evidence for Biological Evolution Creationist Perspectives Frequently Asked Questions Additional Readings Committee Member Biographies
Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2018. — 378 p. — (The Frontiers Collection) — ISBN: 978-94-024-1052-5. 'The Essential Tension' explores how agents that naturally compete come to act together as a group. The author argues that the controversial concept of multilevel selection is essential to biological evolution, a proposition set to stimulate new debate. The idea of one...
Springer, 2015. — 236 p. This book is the study of all codes of life with the standard methods of science. The genetic code and the codes of culture have been known for a long time and represent the historical foundation of this book. What is really new in this field is the study of all codes that came after the genetic code and before the codes of culture. The existence of...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. — 284 p. Species' are central to understanding the origin and dynamics of biological diversity; explaining why lineages split into multiple distinct species is one of the main goals of evolutionary biology. However the existence of species is often taken for granted, and precisely what is meant by species and whether they really exist as a...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. - 437 p. - Bringing together the latest scientific advances and some of the most enduring subtle philosophical puzzles and problems, this book collects original historical and contemporary sources to explore the wide range of issues surrounding the nature of life. Selections ranging from Aristotle and Descartes to Sagan and Dawkins are...
Oxford University Press, 2007. - 306 p. Plants have profoundly moulded the Earth's climate and the evolutionary trajectory of life. Far from being 'silent witnesses to the passage of time', plants are dynamic components of our world, shaping the environment throughout history as much as that environment has shaped them. In The Emerald Planet, David Beerling puts plants centre...
FREE PRESS, 1996. - 312 p. ISBN: 0-684-82754-9 In 1996, Darwin's Black Box helped to launch the intelligent design movement: the argument that nature exhibits evidence of design, beyond Darwinian randomness. It sparked a national debate on evolution, which continues to intensify across the country. From one end of the spectrum to the other, Darwin's Black Box has established...
HarperCollins Publishers, 2019. — 352 p. — ISBN: 0062842617. The scientist who has been dubbed the “Father of Intelligent Design” and author of the groundbreaking book Darwin’s Black Box contends that recent scientific discoveries further disprove Darwinism and strengthen the case for an intelligent creator. In his controversial bestseller Darwin’s Black Box, biochemist Michael...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 185 p. — (Very Short Introductions). The origin of life The origin of sex The origin of skeletons The origin of life on land Forests and flight The biggest mass extinction The origin of modern ecosystems The origin of humans
W. W. Norton & Company, 2012. — 787 p. — ISBN: 978-0-393-92592-0. Evolution makes the big themes in evolutionary biology accessible by introducing them early and integrating them thoroughly. Extensive, in-depth, current research examples, an emphasis on problem solving, and a stunning art program engage students, helping them to understand fundamental concepts and processes....
Graphics Editor James L. Sumich. — Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. — 216 p. Marine mammals have long captured the attention of humans. Ancient peoples etched seals and dolphins on the walls of Paleolithic caves; today, engineers develop microprocessors to track these denizens of the deep. This groundbreaking book from highly respected marine mammal paleontologist Annalisa...
Routledge; Taylor & Francis Group, 2019. — 367 p. — ISBN: 9780367028541. Cognitive Evolution provides an in-depth exploration of the history and development of cognition, from the beginning of life on Earth to present-day humans. Drawing together evolutionary and comparative research, this book presents a unique perspective on the evolution of human cognition. Adopting an...
Monograph Academic Press, 1980 - Total pages: 459 The Genetics of Altruism covers the primary findings on social evolution, social trait, and altruism from a population genetics standpoint to establish a system of genetic boxes. It presents an evolutionary question with two faces: Why are there so many social species? Why, in all the diversity of the animal kingdom, are the...
Chicago, IL: University Of Chicago Press, 2010. — 228 p. — ISBN13: 978-0226067018. Much of the evolutionary debate since Darwin has focused on the level at which natural selection occurs. Most biologists acknowledge multiple levels of selection — from the gene to the species. The debate about group selection, however, is the focus of Mark E. Borrello’s "Evolutionary...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2011, 319 p. In 1995, John Maynard Smith and Ers Szathmry published their influential book The Major Transitions in Evolution. The "transitions" that Maynard Smith and Szathmry chose to describe all constituted major changes in the kinds of organisms that existed but, most important, these events also transformed the evolutionary...
London: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2006. — 304 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-393-06969-3. DNA, the genetic blueprint of all creatures, is a stunningly rich and detailed record of evolution. Every change or new trait, from the gaudy colors of tropical birds to our color vision with which we admire them, is due to changes in DNA that leave a record and can be traced. Just as importantly,...
2nd Edition. — Blackwell Publishing, 2005. — 273 p. — ISBN: 1-4051-1950-0 A Brief History of Animals The Genetic Toolkit for Development Building Animals Evolution of the Toolkit Diversification of Body Plans and Body Parts The Evolution of Morphological Novelities Morphological Variation and Species Divergence From DNA to Diversity : The Primacy of Regulatory Evolution
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. — 392 p. A small set of fossilized bones discovered almost thirty years ago led paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee on a lifelong quest to understand their place in our understanding of the history of life. They were clearly the bones of something unusual, a bird-like creature that lived long, long ago in the age of dinosaurs. He called it...
Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach, 1998. — 220 p. — ISBN13: 978-9056996017. Expanding the concept and extent of evolution beyond what is usually accepted or expected, Coren's empirically based Evolutionary Trajectory is the result of an innovative application of a cybernetic model of change and growth to the study of evolution. Bringing together a cybernetic analysis of changing...
Oxford University Press, 2009. - 336 p. ISBN: 9780199230846 The very latest research is uncovering a stream of evidence revealing evolution in action - from the actual observation of a species splitting into two, to new fossil discoveries, to the deciphering of the evidence stored in our genome. Why Evolution is True weaves together the many threads of modern work in genetics,...
Oxford University Press, 2004. - 594 p. - This edited volume is provides an authoritative synthesis of knowledge about the history of life. All the major groups of organisms are treated, by the leading workers in their fields. With sections on: The Importance of Knowing the Tree of Life; The Origin and Radiation of Life on Earth; The Relationships of Green Plants; The...
(French) De l'origine des espèces au moyen de la sélection naturelle, ou la préservation des races favorisées dans la lutte pour la vie (titre anglais original : On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life) est un ouvrage de Charles Darwin, publié le 24 novembre 1859 et dans lequel il explique le...
Il testo mira a dimostrare l'origine animale dell'uomo sulla base di precise considerazioni anatomiche, fisiologiche ed embriologiche. L'opera si inserì nel grande dibattito avviato da teologi e scienziati del XIX secolo.
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. By Charles Darwin. Full OCR Charles Darwin - The Origin of Species. The fundamental work of Charles Darwin on evolution, natural selection in the English fully recognized original. Variation under Domestication Variation under Nature Struggle for Existence...
150th Anniversary Edition. — Alachua, Florida: Bridge-Logos, 2009. — 304 p. According to a recent survey, more than a third of professors at the top fifty universities describe themselves as atheist or agnostic. Among biology professors, it's a whopping 61%. It's no surprise then that belief in atheism has doubled in the college age bracket in the last 20 years. Best selling...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 474 p. — ISBN: 978-1-108-48228-8. The rapidly increasing human pressure on the biosphere is pushing biodiversity into the sixth mass extinction event in the history of life on Earth. The organisms being exterminated are integral working parts of our planet's life support system, and their loss is permanent. Like climate change, this...
Mariner Books, 2003. — 269 p. — ISBN: 0618485392 Richard Dawkins has an opinion on everything biological, it seems, and in A Devil's Chaplain, everything is biological. Dawkins weighs in on topics as diverse as ape rights, jury trials, religion, and education, all examined through the lens of natural selection and evolution. Although many of these essays have been published...
Penguin, 1996. — 522 p. In a book that is both groundbreaking and accessible, Daniel C. Dennett, whom Chet Raymo of The Boston Globe calls "one of the most provocative thinkers on the planet," focuses his unerringly logical mind on the theory of natural selection, showing how Darwin's great idea transforms and illuminates our traditional view of humanity's place in the...
Penguin, 1996. — 592 p. — ISBN10: 014016734X, ISBN13: 978-0140167344 Daniel C. Dennett is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences and Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University, Massachusetts. He is also the author of Content and Consciousness (1969); Brainstorms (1978; Penguin, 1997); Elbow Room (1984); The Intentional Stance (1987); Consciousness...
Adler & Adler, 1985. — 360 p. Denton pursues his avowed purpose, to critique the Darwinian model of evolution, in a manner alternately fascinating and tiresome. He details legitimate questions, some as old as Darwin's theory, some as new as molecular biology, but he also distorts or misrepresents other "problems." For example, he falls into the classic typological trap:...
New York: St. Martin's Press,1981. — 213 p. Evolution is a process of improvement. Hence, looking at the animals and plants of today and their interactions - the delicate balance between the flora, the herbivores and the meat-eaters; the precise engineering of the load-bearing structures of the giraffe's backbone; the delicate sculpting of the monkey's foot, enabling it to...
New York:St. Martin's Press,1981. — 213 p. Evolution is a process of improvement. Hence, looking at the animals and plants of today and their interactions - the delicate balance between the flora, the herbivores and the meat-eaters; the precise engineering of the load-bearing structures of the giraffe's backbone; the delicate sculpting of the monkey's foot, enabling it to grasp...
Salem House, 1988. - 120 p. Suppose that the giant meteorite never reached the earth 65 million years ago, that dinosaurs continued to exist and followed predictable patterns of evolution. What would they be like today and where would they live? Dixon, author of After Man, offers some hypotheses as he takes us on a marvelous excursion into a fantasy that has the trappings of...
New York: Columbia University Press, 1937. - 364 p. The present book is devoted to a discussion of the mechanisms of species formation in terms of the known facts and theories of genetics. Some writers have contended that evolution involves more than species formation, that macro- and microevolutional changes may be distinguished. This may or not be true; such a duality of the...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 328 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-87896-9. More than seventy percent of the earth's surface is covered by ocean - the home to a staggering and sometimes overwhelming diversity of organisms, a majority of which reside in pelagic form. Marine invertebrate larvae are an integral part of this pelagic diversity and have stimulated the curiosity of researchers...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. - 440 p. ISBN13: 978-0470656662. "Living Dinosaurs" offers a snapshot of our current understanding of the origin and evolution of birds. After slumbering for more than a century, avian palaeontology has been awakened by startling new discoveries on almost every continent. Controversies about whether dinosaurs had real feathers or whether birds were...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 395 p. From the authors of The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs comes a new textbook designed to excite undergraduates about science by using dinosaurs to illustrate and discuss geology, natural history, and evolution. Emphasizing the logic of science over facts and details, the fundamental concepts of dinosaurs – origins –...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — 437 p. Evolutionary Ecology simultaneously unifies conceptual and empirical advances in evolutionary ecology and provides a volume that can be used as either a primary textbook or a supplemental reading in an advanced undergraduate or graduate course. The focus of the book is on current concepts in evolutionary ecology, and the empirical study...
New York: Sinauer Associates, Inc, 2017. — 724 p. Extensively rewritten and reorganized, this new edition of Evolution--featuring a new coauthor: Mark Kirkpatrick (The University of Texas at Austin)--offers additional expertise in evolutionary genetics and genomics, the fastest-developing area of evolutionary biology. Directed toward an undergraduate audience, the text...
Springer, 2019. — 289 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-25582-4. Our natural world has been irretrievably altered by humans, for humans. From domesticated wheat fields to nuclear power plants and spacecraft, everything we see and interact with has in some way been changed by the presence of our species, starting from the Neolithic era so many centuries ago. This book provides a crash course...
Nicholas Brealey, 2017. — 288 p. All cultures have a creation story, but a little over 150 years ago Charles Darwin introduced a revolutionary new one. We, and all living things, exist because of the action of evolution on the first simple life form and its descendants. We now know that it has taken 3.8 billions of years of work by the forces of evolution to turn what was once...
Springer, 2019. — 182 p. — ISBN: 978-3-662-59290-8. With spectacular large-format images complemented by scientifically grounded, yet easy-to-read, explanatory texts, Georg Glaeser and Werner Nachtigall take you on an exciting journey through the fascinating world of macrostructures – small structures in nature that fulfill specific functions. This book will pique your...
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002. — 1464 p. The world's most revered and eloquent interpreter of evolutionary ideas offers here a work of explanatory force unprecedented in our time - a landmark publication, both for its historical sweep and for its scientific vision. With characteristic attention to detail, Stephen Jay Gould first describes the content and...
New York: Springer, 2009. — 410 p. The evolution of the neural crest sheds light on many of the oldest unanswered questions in developmental biology, including the role of germ layers in early embryogenesis, the development of the nervous system, how the vertebrate head arose developmentally and evolutionarily, and how growth factors and Hox genes direct cell differentiation...
New York: Academic Press, 2005. — 577 p. Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection was based on the observation that there is variation between individuals within the same species. This fundamental observation is a central concept in evolutionary biology. However, variation is only rarely treated directly. It has remained peripheral to the study of mechanisms of...
University of Chicago Press, 2014. - 238 p. From Eve to Evolution provides the first full-length study of American women’s responses to evolutionary theory and illuminates the role science played in the nineteenth-century women’s rights movement. Kimberly A. Hamlin reveals how a number of nineteenth-century women, raised on the idea that Eve’s sin forever fixed women’s...
Springer Netherlands, 2015. — 910 p. — ISBN: 9401790132, 9789401790130 The Darwinian theory of evolution is itself evolving and this book presents the details of the core of modern Darwinism and its latest developmental directions. The authors present current scientific work addressing theoretical problems and challenges in four sections, beginning with the concepts of...
Henderson James Cleaves, Antonio Lazcano, Ismael Ledesma Mateos, Alicia Negrón-Mendoza, Juli Peretó, Ervin Silva. — Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2014. — 216 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4939-0735-9 The book you hold contains scientific work long relegated to obscurity in modern biology after Herrera’s death in 1942. Herrera’s “plasmogeny” fit into a tradition popular from the late...
New Jarsey: Prinston University Press, 2017. — 276 p. — ISBN: 0691145431. In recent years, scientists have realized that evolution can occur on timescales much shorter than the "long lapse of ages" emphasized by Darwin - in fact, evolutionary change is occurring all around us all the time. This book provides an authoritative and accessible introduction to eco-evolutionary...
5th edition. — Pearson, 2013. — 864 p. By presenting evolutionary biology as a dynamic, ongoing research effort and organizing discussions around questions, this best-selling text helps you think like a scientist as you learn about evolution. The authors convey the excitement and logic of evolutionary science by introducing principles through recent and classical studies, and...
Springer, 2002. — 360 p. Do our genes determine our behavior? Do education and environment have any influence at all? Do humans occupy a unique position in evolution? To clarify these provoking questions, the author takes the reader on an ambitious and entertaining journey through a variety of scientific disciplines. In doing so, he creates an image of human evolution that says...
Facts On File, Inc., NY, USA, 2009. — 273 p. — ISBN: 0816066795 The theory of evolution can be observed anywhere - from exotic tropical rain forests to our own backyards - and is based on three main principles: heredity, variation, and selection. In the 19th century, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace sought to explain how these processes work together to produce new...
Chelsea House Publications, 2008. - 151 p. Series "The Prehistoric Earth". The human species is relatively new to the planet in geologic terms. With origins reaching back only a few million years, the rise of humans from primate ancestors is a remarkable evolutionary success story. "Early Humans" traces the beginnings of the human species, its success and adaptability, and the...
Chelsea House Publications, 2008. - 158 p. Series "The Prehistoric Earth". In the story of human origins, the first primates were small, unremarkable tree dwellers in a world full of diverse mammals of all sizes. Over several million years, primates branched out into the groups known as monkeys and apes. Their larger brains led to new variety in mammal adaptation that led to...
Gale, 2011. — 371 p. Originally edited by the famous Frankfurt Zoo director and conservationist, Bernhard Grzimek, and translated into English in the early 1970s, the first English edition, consisting of 11 volumes, was published by Van Nostrand Reinhold in both England and the United States. That version was very popular, but after 30 years the series was in urgent need of...
Publisher: A Bradford Book; revised edition edition (March 28, 2014), 576 p. Eva Jablonka and Marion Lamb's pioneering argument proposes that there is more to heredity than genes. They describe four "dimensions" in heredity - four inheritance systems that play a role in evolution: genetic, epigenetic (or non-DNA cellular transmission of traits), behavioral, and symbolic...
Springer Science+Business Media, New York, 2017. — 201 p. — ISBN: 1493940368 Given the rapidly developing area of evolutionary medicine and public health, The Arc of Life examines ways in which research conducted by biological anthropologists can enrich our understanding of variation in human health outcomes. The book aims not only to showcase the perspective that biological...
Elsevier, 2014. — 216 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-417016-2. In a field of science in which there is no confirmed theory, two approaches are needed for the advancement of the field: (1) existing perspectives should be tested and either rejected if not supported by data, or else, sufficient evidence should be provided to lift ideas from the status of hypotheses to a confirmed theory, and...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 220 p. Biology is often viewed today as a bipartisan field, with molecular level genetics guiding us into the future and natural history (including ecology, evolution, and conservation biology,) chaining us to a descriptive scientific past. In Darwinian Detectives, Norman Johnson bridges this divide, revealing how the tried and true tools of...
Oxford University Press, 2019. - 169 p. How did life start? Is the evolution of life describable by any physics-like laws? Stuart Kauffman's latest book offers an explanation-beyond what the laws of physics can explain-of the progression from a complex chemical environment to molecular reproduction, metabolism and to early protocells, and further evolution to what we recognize...
New Heaven: Yale University Press, 2005. - 331 p. In the 150 years since Darwin, the field of evolutionary biology has left a glaring gap in understanding how animals developed their astounding variety and complexity. The standard answer has been that small genetic mutations accumulate over time to produce wondrous innovations such as eyes and wings. Drawing on cutting-edge...
Taylor&Francis. 2005. 440 p. Preface and dedication Gould, Schram, and the paleontological perspective in evolutionary biology Paleozoology Decapod crustaceans, the K/P event, and Palaeocene recovery Oelandocaris oelandica and the stem lineage of Crustacea Early Palaeozoic non-lamellipedian arthropods Comparative morphology and relationships of the Agnostida Development and...
Henry Holt and Co., 2014. - 336 p. A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around...
Pearson Education, 1st ed., 2011. - 516 p. About the evolution of life on Earth in the light of the latest achievements of modern molecular biology and comparative geomics. The “classical” model of linear “tree-like” evolution is criticized as not corresponding to reality. A variant of a more complex evolutionary model is proposed, in which the transfer of genetic information...
Wiley Publishing, Inc., 2008. — 362 p. — ISBN: 978-0-470-11773-6 Evolution is the process by which populations and species change over time. The principles of evolution explain why life on Earth is so varied and why organisms are the way they are. The study of evolution is not only interesting for its own sake, but it’s also a fundamental part of the biological sciences. You...
Wiley-VCH, 2012. — 374 S. — ISBN13: 978-3527708529. Von Ihrem Körperbau bis zu Ihrem Verhalten bei der Partnerwahl - all Ihre vererbbaren Eigenschaften sind wie bei sämtlichen Lebewesen dieser Erde durch die Evolution bestimmt. Aber was ist Evolution überhaupt? Was treibt sie an? Greg Krukonis und Tracy Barr nehmen Sie mit auf eine spannende Reise durch die Geschichte der...
Wiley-VCH, 2012. — 374 S. — ISBN13: 978-3527708529. Von Ihrem Körperbau bis zu Ihrem Verhalten bei der Partnerwahl - all Ihre vererbbaren Eigenschaften sind wie bei sämtlichen Lebewesen dieser Erde durch die Evolution bestimmt. Aber was ist Evolution überhaupt? Was treibt sie an? Greg Krukonis und Tracy Barr nehmen Sie mit auf eine spannende Reise durch die Geschichte der...
Princeton University Press, 2017. — 450 p. Humans possess an extraordinary capacity for cultural production, from the arts and language to science and technology. How did the human mind — and the uniquely human ability to devise and transmit culture — evolve from its roots in animal behavior? Darwin's Unfinished Symphony presents a captivating new theory of human cognitive...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2009. — 344 p. Where does DNA come from? What is consciousness? How did the eye evolve? Drawing on a treasure trove of new scientific knowledge, Nick Lane expertly reconstructs evolution’s history by describing its ten greatest inventions — from sex and warmth to death — resulting in a stunning account of nature’s ingenuity.
W. W. Norton & Company, 2010. — 722 p. — ISBN: 9780393071467. “Original and awe-inspiring...an exhilarating tour of some of the most profound and important ideas in biology.” — New Scientist Where does DNA come from? What is consciousness? How did the eye evolve? Drawing on a treasure trove of new scientific knowledge, Nick Lane expertly reconstructs evolution’s history by...
3rd Edition. — Oxford University Press, 2003. — 287 p. Trial and Error traces the coverage or lack thereof, of evolution in textbooks used in American public schools from the mid-1800s to the present. While the teaching of Darwinian evolution was common and not controversial in the late 19th century and into the early 20th century, the debates between evolutionists and...
Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2002. — 339 p. — ISBN: 3540431888. People have always asked what distinguishes the living from the inanimate world and what unifies the two. The fields of biology and physics have a long history of exchange. Milestones at the molecular level were the discoveries of the structure of DNA, RNA, and proteins. It is not by coincidence that this...
Second Edition,Cambridge University Press,2001. — 634 p. — ISBN: 0521005507 This expanded and updated second edition offers a comprehensive look at macroevolution and its underpinnings, with a primary emphasis on animal evolution. From a Neodarwinian point of view, the book integrates evolutionary processes at all levels to explain the diversity of animal life. It examines a...
5th Edition. — Wiley-Blackwell, 2004. — 284 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4051-0378-7. The brief length and focused coverage of Human Evolution: An Illustrated Introduction have made this best-selling textbook the ideal complement to any biology or anthropology course in which human evolution is taught. The text places human evolution in the context of humans as animals, while also showing...
Prehistoric life: evolution and the fossil record Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, 400 p. ISBN: 978-0-632-04472-6 Prehistoric life is the archive of evolution preserved in the fossil record. This book focuses on the meaning and significance of that archive and is designed for introductory college science students, including non-science majors, enrolled in survey courses emphasizing...
Monograph. — Pantheon Books, 2013. — 548 p. — ISBN: 978-0-307-37941-2 A modern monograph by a famous American evolutionary biologist, dedicated to a new scientific discipline - evolutionary biomedicine. Apes and Humans Upstanding Apes Much Depends on Dinner The First Hunter-Gatherers Energy in the Ice Age A Very Cultured Species Farming and the Industrial Revolution Progress,...
Columbia University Press, 2018. — 210 p. Few people have done as much to change how we view the world as Charles Darwin. Yet On the Origin of Species is more cited than read, and parts of it are even considered outdated. In some ways, it has been consigned to the nineteenth century. In The Theory That Changed Everything , the renowned cognitive scientist Philip Lieberman...
Columbia University Press, 2017. — 232 p. Few people have done as much to change how we view the world as Charles Darwin. Yet On the Origin of Species is more cited than read. Some of it is considered outdated; in some ways, it has been consigned to the nineteenth century. In The Theory That Changed Everything , the renowned cognitive scientist Philip Lieberman demonstrates...
Springer,2014 — 250 p. — ISBN: 3642537472 The vertebrate integument arose about 450 million years ago as an ‘armour’ of dermal bony plates in small, jawless fish-like creatures, informally known as the ostracoderms. This book reviews the major changes that have occurred in the vertebrate integument from its beginnings to the present day. Critical questions concerning the...
Springer,2015 — 364 p. — ISBN: 3662460041 The emphasis in this volume is on the structure and functional design of the integument. The book starts with a brief introduction to some basic principles of physics (mechanics) including Newton's Three Laws of Motion. These principles are subsequently used to interpret the problems animals encounter in motion. It is in only the last...
Princeton University Press, 2013. — 877 p. For more than 150 years, since the publication of On the Origin of Species , biologists have focused on understanding the evolutionary chronicle of diversification and extinction, and the underlying evolutionary processes that have produced it. Although progress in evolutionary biology has been steady since Darwin’s time, developments...
Riverhead Books, 2017. — 384 p. Earth’s natural history is full of fascinating instances of convergence: phenomena like eyes and wings and tree-climbing lizards that have evolved independently, multiple times. But evolutionary biologists also point out many examples of contingency, cases where the tiniest change - a random mutation or an ancient butterfly sneeze - caused...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 384 p. This pioneering work investigates why endothermy, or "warm-bloodedness", evolved in birds and mammals, despite its enormous energetic costs. Arguing that single-cause hypotheses to explain the origins of endothermy have stalled research since the 1970s, Barry Gordon Lovegrove advances a novel conceptual framework that considers multiple...
2nd Editiion. — Cambridge University Press, UK, 2016. — 478 p. — ISBN10: 1107092396. Addressing the emergence of life from a systems biology perspective, this new edition has undergone extensive revision, reflecting changes in scientific understanding and evolution of thought on the question 'what is life?'. With an emphasis on the philosophical aspects of science, including...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. - 332 p. - The origin of life from inanimate matter has been the focus of much research for decades, both experimentally and philosophically. Luisi takes the reader through the consecutive stages from prebiotic chemistry to synthetic biology, uniquely combining both approaches. This book presents a systematic course discussing the successive...
Columbia University Press, 2003. - 232 p. - Lurquin, a professor of genetics at Washington State University, surveys the creation of life from the Big Bang through the development of simple amino acids and proteins, the appearance of RNA and DNA and, finally, the development of single-cell organisms. The creation of basic life forms is more than enough to keep him busy, so he...
New York, "Cambridge University Press", 2004, -210 p. Darwinian Heresies looks at the history of evolutionary thought, breaking through much of the conventional thinking to see whether there are assumptions or theories that are blinding us to important issues. The collection, which includes some of today’s leading historians and philosophers of science, digs beneath the surface...
Haye: Et se trouve à Paris, chez Duchesne, libraire, rue Saint Jacques, au-dessous de la fontaine Saint Benoît, au Temple du gout, 1755. — 240 p. Le Telliamed (anagramme du nom de Maillet), ou Entretiens d'un philosophe indien avec un missionnaire français, également corrigé et remanié par Le Mascrier, paraît en 1755 et comporte quelques différences de chapitre par rapport à...
Springer, 2009. — 215 p. — ISBN: 140209969X. Authors: Anton Markos, Filip Grygar, László Hajnal, Karel Kleisner, Zdenek Kratochvíl, Zdenek Neubauer It has been nearly 150 years since Darwin published On the Origin of Species, and his theory of natural selection still ignites a forest of heated debate between scientific fundamentalists on the one hand and religious...
The Great Courses, 2010. — 126 p. How and when did life on Earth get to be the way it is today? Imagine a world without bees, butterflies, and flowering plants. That was Earth 125 million years ago. Turn back the clock 400 million years, and there were no trees. At 450 million years in the past, even the earliest insects had not yet developed. And looking back 500 million...
Phoenix, 2002. — 365 p. I thought this was a great book for someone who's already in the field of evolutionary biology or even physical anthropology. It's a bit too much to pick up without knowing anything about evolutionary theory, and although it's supposed to be for a layman, he relies on quite a lot of technical talk. Otherwise, this is an excellent resource for anyone who...
Columbia University Press, New York, 1998, 311 p. The Garden of Ediacara presents a mesmerizing documentary of a major scientific discovery, detailing McMenamin's trip to Namibia, where, with a party that included the renowned paleontologist Adolf Seilacher, the author investigates a spectacular cast made from a colony of fossils in the Nama desert. He chronicles the long,...
Springer, 2018. - 300 p. The origin of life is one of the biggest unsolved scientific questions. This book deals with the formation and first steps of the chemical evolution of nucleic acids, including the chemical roots behind the origin of their components from the simplest sources in a geochemical context. Chemical evolution encompasses the chemical processes and...
HarperOne, 2013. — 512 p. “In the origin of species, Darwin openly acknowledges important weaknesses in his theory and professed his own doubts about key aspects of it. Yet today’s public defenders of a Darwin-only science curriculum apparently do not want these, or any other scientific doubts about contemporary Darwinian theory, reported to students. This book addresses...
HarperOne, 2010. — 519 p. A Compelling Case for Intelligent Design Based on Revolutionary Discoveries in Science. In Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer has written the first comprehensive DNA-based argument for intelligent design. As he tells the story of successive attempts to unravel a mystery that Charles Darwin did not address — how did life begin?—Meyer develops the case...
Settle. Harper-Collins Publishers, 2013. 528 p. When Charles Darwin finished The Origin of Species, he thought that he had explained every clue, but one. Though his theory could explain many facts, Darwin knew that there was a significant event in the history of life that his theory did not explain. During this event, the “Cambrian explosion,” many animals suddenly appeared in...
Springer, 2011. — 400 p. Displays the current view of science of evolution Presents a systematic interdisciplinary analysis of the development of life Discusses the evolution of social organizations Develops an interdisciplinary view of protein-and citation networks Gives examples for self-organized structures in the universe With contributions from a team of leading experts,...
Academic Press, 1997. – 382 p. - ISBN10: 0124983154, ISBN13: 978-0124983151 The use of DNA and other biological macromolecules has revolutionized systematic studies of evolutionary history. Methods that use sequences of nucleotides and amino acids are now routinely used as data for addressing evolutionary questions that, although not new questions, have defied description and...
Molwickpedia, 2008. – 114 p. Ciencia y método científico Conceptos de evolución, vida y sistemas de impulso vital Análisis de las teorías de la evolución precedentes Genética y evolución TGECV - Definición de la teoría Teoría científica e investigación Desarrollo de los juegos de simulación Esnuka Evolución y psicología del desarrollo
West Conshohocken: Templeton Press, 2015. — 496 p. — ISBN: 9787-1-59947-465-6. How did human beings acquire imaginations that can conjure up untrue possibilities? How did the Universe become self-aware? In The Runes of Evolution, Simon Conway Morris revitalizes the study of evolution from the perspective of convergence, providing us with compelling new evidence to support the...
Academic Press, 2015. — 584 p. — ISBN10: 0128026529; ISBN13: 978-0128026526. Basics in Human Evolution offers a broad view of evolutionary biology and medicine. The book is written for a non-expert audience, providing accessible and convenient content that will appeal to numerous readers across the interdisciplinary field. From evolutionary theory, to the cultural evolution,...
Academic Press, 2020. — 176 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-816013-8. Although biologists recognize evolutionary ecology by name, many only have a limited understanding of its conceptual roots and historical development. Conceptual Breakthroughs in Evolutionary Ecology fills that knowledge gap in a thought-provoking and readable format. Written by a world-renowned evolutionary ecologist,...
Belknap Press (An Imprint of Harvard University Press), 2017. — 848 p. Knowledge of chimpanzees in the wild has expanded dramatically in recent years. This comprehensive volume, edited by Martin Muller, Richard Wrangham, and David Pilbeam, brings together scientists who are leading a revolution to discover and explain what is unique about humans, by studying their closest...
Quercus, 2017. — 400 p. — (In Minutes). — ISBN: 978-1681440651. Evolution in Minutes is your compact and accessible guide to the central concepts of the science of evolution, revealing how biological populations change over successive generations. Covering the basics of speciation, genesis, and extinction in animals, plants, and humans alike--from the origins and development of...
Springer, 2018. - 151 p. On the basis of thermodynamic considerations and the Earth’s historical processes, this book argues the physical inevitability of life’s generation and evolution, i.e., Why did life generate? Why does life evolve? Following an introduction to the problem, the hypothesis “Darwinian Evolution of Molecules” is proposed, which explains how, when, and where...
Oxford University Press, Inc., 2003. — 115 p. — ISBN: 0195159462. Developed after a meeting at the Santa Fe Institute on extinction modeling, this book comments critically on the various modeling approaches. In the last decade or so, scientists have started to examine a new approach to the patterns of evolution and extinction in the fossil record. This approach may be called...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2010. — 722 p. — ISBN: 9780393071467. “Original and awe-inspiring...an exhilarating tour of some of the most profound and important ideas in biology.”—New Scientist Where does DNA come from? What is consciousness? How did the eye evolve? Drawing on a treasure trove of new scientific knowledge, Nick Lane expertly reconstructs evolution’s history by...
3nd edition. — Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. — 464 p. — ISBN13: 978-0199606030. "Animal Evolution" provides a comprehensive analysis of the evolutionary interrelationships and myriad diversity of the Animal Kingdom. It reviews the classical, morphological information from structure and embryology, as well as the new data gained from studies using immune stainings of...
Oxford University Press, 2007. - 288 p. This book is about the ‘levels-of-selection’ question in evolutionary biology. It is not a work of biology, however, but rather of philosophy of science. It examines a cluster of conceptual, foundational, and philosophical problems raised by the debate over levels of selection and related topics in biology. Natural Selection in the...
Springer,1999. — 546 p. — ISBN: 1461371937 Relying on the latest analytical techniques, this all-embracing new reference offers comprehensive coverage of the development, evolution, and morphology of both fossil and living cephalopods. In 34 in-depth chapters a group of 51 international neontologists and peleontologists offer and opverview of current methods, data, analyses,...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 1322 p. — ISBN: 978-0195148657 A comprehensive guide to the essentials of evolutionary biology, these entries by leading experts survey essential concepts and theories, present methods, models and findings, and discuss both the history of the field and current controversies. Readers will find brief treatments on discrete concepts and individuals...
Cambridge, MA: Perseus Pub., 2004. — 316 p. About 550 million years ago, there was literally an explosion of life forms, as all the major animal groups suddenly and dramatically appeared. Although several books have been written about this surprising event, known as the Cambrian explosion, none has explained why it occurred. Indeed, none was able to. Here, for the first time,...
7th edition. — Б.и., 2011. — 512 p. Finally, an eBook version of this now classic textbook has become available. Largely based on the 6th edition, published in 2000, this version is competitively priced. Written by well-known ecologist Eric R. Pianka, a student of the late Robert H. MacArthur, this timeless treatment of evolutionary ecology, first published in 1974, will endure...
MIT Press, 2010. — 495 p. In the six decades since the publication of Julian Huxley's Evolution: The Modern Synthesis, the spectacular empirical advances in the biological sciences have been accompanied by equally significant developments within the core theoretical framework of the discipline. As a result, evolutionary theory today includes concepts and even entire new fields...
Bloomsbury Sigma, 2020. — 288 p. For the last three billion years or so, life on Earth was shaped by natural forces. Evolution tended to happen slowly, with species crafted across millennia. Then, a few hundred thousand years ago, along came a bolshie, big-brained, bipedal primate we now call Homo sapiens, and with that, the Earth's natural history came to an abrupt end. We are...
Springer, 2019. — 330 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-30362-4. This book presents 15 selected contributions to the 22nd Evolutionary Biology Meeting, which took place in September 2018 in Marseille. They are grouped under the following major themes: Origin of Life Concepts and Methods Genome and Phenotype Evolution The aims of these annual meetings in Marseille are to bring together...
Springer, 2013. — 300 p. — ISBN: 978-3-642-38211-6. For the 16th time, the Evolutionary Biology Meeting at Marseilles (EBM) took place. The goal of this annual meeting was to allow scientists of different disciplines, who share a deep interest in evolutionary biology concepts, knowledge and applications, to meet, exchange and start interdisciplinary collaborations. The EBM at...
2nd Edition. — Columbia University Press, 2017. — 455 p. — ISBN: 9780231180641. Donald R. Prothero’s Evolution is an entertaining and rigorous history of the transitional forms and series found in the fossil record. Its engaging narrative of scientific discovery and well-grounded analysis has led to the book’s widespread adoption in courses that teach the nature and value of...
Columbia University Press, 2007. — 381 p. Over the past twenty years, paleontologists have made tremendous fossil discoveries, including fossils that mark the growth of whales, manatees, and seals from land mammals and the origins of elephants, horses, and rhinos. Today there exists an amazing diversity of fossil humans, suggesting we walked upright long before we acquired...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. — 384 p. Artiodactyls are diverse and successful hoofed mammals, represented by nearly two hundred living species of pigs, peccaries, hippos, camels, deer, sheep, cattle, giraffes, and other even-toed ungulates. In the recent years, a tremendous amount of research has been conducted on this important order. The Evolution of Artiodactyls...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. — 312 p. Since the extinction of the dinosaurs, hoofed mammals have been the planet's dominant herbivores. Native to all continents except Australia and Antarctica, they include not only even-toed artiodactyls (pigs, hippos, camels, deer, antelopes, giraffes, sheep, goats, and cattle) and odd-toed perissodactyls (horses and rhinos), but...
Medtech Publisher, 2018. — 922 p. Evolutionary Biology is a fast developing subject to encompass animals and plants, past and present. This book on Organic Evolution is an updated exposition of the subject to include the latest concepts theories and observations in a simple and lucid language.Text is divided into five part: Part-I deals with concepts, evidences and theories of...
Medtech Publisher, 2018. — 922 p. Evolutionary Biology is a fast developing subject to encompass animals and plants, past and present. This book on Organic Evolution is an updated exposition of the subject to include the latest concepts theories and observations in a simple and lucid language.Text is divided into five part: Part-I deals with concepts, evidences and theories of...
Springer. 2008. 354 p. Historical Survey The Cosmos, the Solar System and the Primeval Earth From the Planets to Interstellar Matter Chemical Evolution Peptides and Proteins: the Protein World The RNA World Other Theories and Hypotheses The Genetic Code and Other Theories Basic Phenomena Primeval Cells and Cell Models Exo/Astrobiology and Other Related Subjects Epilogue
Princeton University Press, 2011. — 448 p. — (With Introduction by Michael Ruse). Charles Darwin's "Origin of Species" is one of the most widely cited books in modern science. Yet tackling this classic can be daunting for students and general readers alike because of Darwin's Victorian prose and the complexity and scope of his ideas. "The "Origin" Then and Now" is a unique...
Comstock Publishing Associates, 2016. — 341 p. In Origins, Frank H. T. Rhodes explores the origin and evolution of living things, the changing environments in which they have developed, and the challenges we now face on an increasingly crowded and polluted planet. Rhodes argues that the future well-being of our burgeoning population depends in no small part on our understanding...
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2019. — 250 p. A savannah scenario of human evolution has been widely accepted primarily due to fossil evidence; and fossils do not offer insight into these questions. Other alternative evolutionary scenarios might, but these models have been rejected. This book explores a controversial idea – that human evolution was intimately associated with watery...
Facts on File, 2006. — 468 p. Evolutionary science is not only one of the greatest breakthroughs of modern science, but also an area that draws a great deal of interest on the part of students and the reading public. Perhaps more than any other scientific area, evolutionary science has caused us all to question what we are, where we came from, and how we relate to the rest of...
University of Chicago Press, 1987. - 700 p. With insight and wit, Robert J. Richards focuses on the development of evolutionary theories of mind and behavior from their first distinct appearance in the eighteenth century to their controversial state today. Particularly important in the nineteenth century were Charles Darwin's ideas about instinct, reason, and morality, which...
3rd Edition. — Wiley-Blackwell, 2003. — 751 p. — ISBN: 1-4051-0345-0 Mark Ridley's Evolution has become the premier undergraduate text in the study of evolution. Readable and stimulating, yet well-balanced and in-depth, this text tells the story of evolution, from the history of the study to the most revent developments in evolutionary theory. The third edition of this...
Springer, 2011. — 216 p. Evolutionary theory addresses the phenomenon of the origin and diversity of plant and animal species that we observe. In recent times, however, it has become a predominant ideology which has gained currency far beyond its original confines. Attempts to understand the origin and historical development of human culture, civilization and language, of the...
2nd Edition. — Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 2017. — 577 p. — ISBN: 1482230895 Evolutionary biology has increasingly relied upon tools developed in molecular biology that allow for the structure and function of macromolecules to be used as data for exploring the patterns and processes of evolutionary change. Integrated Molecular Evolution, Second Edition is a textbook intended...
Seventh Edition. — McGraw-Hill , 2011. — 303 P. — ISBN: 0073383236, 9870073383231 This edition is addressed to college students with no previous experience with the subject. It is meant to stand in good stead for use as a primary text for an introductory-level evolution course or as a supplement to a basic biology or anthropology course. Brief Variation in Populations Darwinian...
Transaction Publishers, 2000. — 366 p. The issues surrounding Darwin’s theory of evolution as a function of the survival of the fittest have hardly abated since they were initially promulgated about 150 ago. The reason is clear: behind the theory of evolution is a doctrine of the structure of organisms that can be explained only by fitting the adaptation to the external world....
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. — 1008 p. Spanning evolutionary science from its inception to its latest findings, from discoveries and data to philosophy and history, this book is the most complete, authoritative, and inviting one-volume introduction to evolutionary biology available. Clear, informative, and comprehensive in scope, Evolution opens with a...
New York, Cambridge University Press, 2001. — 216 p. — (Studies in Environment and History) — ISBN 978-0-521-76211-3 (Hardback); 978-0-521-74509-3 (Paperback). We tend to see history and evolution springing from separate roots, one grounded in the human world and the other in the natural world. Human beings have, however, become probably the most powerful species shaping...
Facts On File Inc, 1986. — 259 p. — ISBN: 081601194X. An extraordinary picture book that documents quite completely the evolution of various types of mammals. It begins with a discussion of fossil formation and geologic changes with reference to geologic time periods, followed by a discussion of the biological classification of mammals and a comparison of bones and teeth....
University of California Press, 2002. - 208 p. Always a controversial and compelling topic, the origin of life on Earth was considered taboo as an area of inquiry for science as recently as the 1950s. Since then, however, scientists working in this area have made remarkable progress, and an overall picture of how life emerged is coming more clearly into focus. We now know, for...
Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2015. — 407 p. — (Interdisciplinary Evolution Research 2) — ISBN: 3319150448 Researching morphological stasis, species and above species phenomena such as (mass) extinctions and speciation events, large-scale evolutionary trends, and major transitions across all domains of life; or mapping the various units, levels, and mechanisms...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. —343 p. This is an excellent, comprehensive survey of the recent debates about three crucial issues in Darwinian evolution. The work starts with Darwin's views on the topic. Following is a chapter recounting the debate in recent decades. Then there is a chapter summing up the issues from the authors' point of view. The appendix...
Springer, 2010. — 410 p. This book is primarily for those who want to understand various theories of Charles Darwin. We have selected the most important parts of his writings and have added learned annotations. These annotations are highly precious and useful, especially for academics. This book is divided into five themes each clearly written by the eminent...
Nova Science Publishers Inc, 2016. — 247 p. The theme of this book is our primate biology, or who we are as a continuum of our animal ancestors. Professor Sharpes first uses comparative animal studies and recent finds in archaeology to outline this argument and theme, and thus provides evidence for human animal origins. He then reveals how our emotions and behaviors influence...
Springer, 2016. — 117 p. This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the chemical nature of the Earth’s early surface environment and how that led to the origin of life. This includes a detailed discussion of the likely process by which life emerged using as much quantitative information as possible. The emergence of life and the prior surface conditions of the Earth have...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 443 p. — ISBN: 0-19-514830-4. Virtually unknown today, Alfred Russel Wallace was the co-discoverer of natural selection with Charles Darwin and an eminent scientist who stood out among his Victorian peers as a man of formidable mind and equally outsized personality. Now Michael Shermer rescues Wallace from the shadow of Darwin in this landmark...
Springer, 2013. - 57 p. - This book focuses on sensing and the evolution of animals. Using the five senses (visual, auditory, and olfactory perception, and taste and touch), animals can receive environmental stimuli and respond to them. Changes in these sensitivities might cause changes in aspects of animals’ lives such as habitat, activity timing, and diet — and vice versa....
Wildtype Books, 2018. — 252 p. Humans now wield a greater influence on the planet than any other species in history, and human-developed technologies like genetic engineering and artificial intelligence stand poised to overtake biological evolution. Just how did we arrive at this unique moment in human history, 14 billion years after the birth of the universe? Sydney Brenner's...
Cambridge University Press, UK, 2016. — 705 p. — ISBN: 1107121884 Uniting the conceptual foundations of the physical sciences and biology, this groundbreaking multidisciplinary book explores the origin of life as a planetary process. Combining geology, geochemistry, biochemistry, microbiology, evolution and statistical physics to create an inclusive picture of the living state,...
Wiley, 2014. — 255 p. Providing outstanding breadth of coverage in evo-devo, Advances in Evolutionary Developmental Biology provides a comprehensive review of the milestones of research in evolution and development and outlines the exciting research agenda for the field going forward. Compiling the viewpoints of a diverse group of field experts, this timely text expands the...
Springer Basel AG, 1997. — 372 p. — ISBN: 978-3.0348-9812-6. Evolutionary ecology includes aspects of community structure, trophic interactions, life-history tactics, and reproductive modes, analyzed from an evolutionary perspective. Freshwater environments often impose spatial structure on populations, e.g. within large lakes or among habitat patches, facilitating genetic and...
Springer, 2008. - 584 p. This book gives a good introduction to evolutionary computation for those who are first entering the field and are looking for insight into the underlying mechanisms behind them. Emphasizing the scientific and machine learning applications of genetic algorithms instead of applications to optimization and engineering, the book could serve well in an...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 376 p. — ISBN: 0199595372, 0199595380 The 'Adaptive Landscape' has been a central concept in population genetics and evolutionary biology since this powerful metaphor was first formulated by Sewall Wright in 1932. Eighty years later, it has become a central framework in evolutionary quantitative genetics, selection studies in natural...
IVP Academic, 2019. — 264 p. Evolutionary science teaches that humans arose as a population, sharing common ancestors with other animals. Most readers of the book of Genesis in the past understood all humans descended from Adam and Eve, a couple specially created by God. These two teachings seem contradictory, but is that necessarily so? In the fractured conversation of human...
Scientific American, 2013. — 436 p.— ISBN: 9781466836761 Prologue: My Dinosaur Life Dragons of the Prime The Secret of Dinosaur Success Bing Bang Theory The Dinosaurs, They are a-Changin' Jurassic Thunder Dinosaur Society Dinosaur Feathers Hadrosaur Harmonics and Tyrannosaur Taster In the Bones Dinosaurs Undone Epilogue: My Beloved "Brontosaurus "
Bellevue Literary Press, 2010. — 799 p. — ISBN: 978-1-934-13736-9 The Living Rock Moving Mountains From Fins to Fingers Footprints and Feathers on the Sands of Time The Meek Inherit the Earth As Monstrous as a Whale Behemoth On a Last Leg Through the Looking Glass Time and Chance
New York: Academic Press, 1979. - 580 p. ISBN13: 9780126801507. We present in this volume a documentation and analysis of the fossil record and evolutionary history of the primates. It is our hope that this effort will in some way balance the generally available literature on primate evolution, which is predominantly con-cerned with living species. The training and experience...
Oxford University Press, 2009. - 264 p. Animal life, now and over the past half billion years, is incredibly diverse. Describing and understanding the evolution of this diversity of body plans - from vertebrates such as humans and fish to the numerous invertebrate groups including sponges, insects, molluscs, and the many groups of worms - is a major goal of evolutionary...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 302 p. Plant Evolution in the Mediterranean integrates a diverse and scattered literature to produce a synthetic account of plant evolutionary ecology. The central theme is differentiation, both among and within species in the contemporary flora of the Mediterranean basin. This approach is developed by attempting to link population processes to...
Springer, 2019. — 318 p. This book is a provocative and invigorating real-time exploration of the future of human evolution by two of the world’s leading interdisciplinary ecologists – Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison. Steeped in a rich multitude of the sciences and humanities, the book enshrines an elegant narrative that is highly empathetic, personal,...
Springer, 2019. — 318 p. This book is a provocative and invigorating real-time exploration of the future of human evolution by two of the world’s leading interdisciplinary ecologists – Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison. Steeped in a rich multitude of the sciences and humanities, the book enshrines an elegant narrative that is highly empathetic, personal,...
London: Belknap Press, 2019. — 393 p. A radical reconsideration of how we develop the qualities that make us human, based on decades of cutting-edge experimental work by the former director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Virtually all theories of how humans have become such a distinctive species focus on evolution. Here, Michael Tomasello proposes a...
Hoboken: Wiley, 2017. — 292 p. By focusing on the cellular mechanisms that underlie ontogeny, phylogeny and regeneration of complex physiologic traits, Evolution, the Logic of Biology demonstrates the use of homeostasis, the fundamental principle of physiology and medicine, as the unifying mechanism for evolution as all of biology. The homeostasis principle can be used to...
Columbia University Press, 1977. — 348 p. — ISBN: 0231039832. This is the first book to introduce the ideas of Metasystem Transitions Theory. It is directed at a broad, non-specialised public, and requires not more than high school mathematics. It discusses the evolution of humanity, starting from the first living cells up to human culture and science. It shows how the great...
Harvard Universiry Press, 2014. — 1056 p. In this masterwork, Russell H. Tuttle synthesizes a vast research literature in primate evolution and behavior to explain how apes and humans evolved in relation to one another, and why humans became a bipedal, tool-making, culture-inventing species distinct from other hominoids. Along the way, he refutes the influential theory that men...
Bloomsbury Sigma, 2017. — 288 p. — ISBN: 978-1632860293 SYSTEMATIC is the first book to introduce general readers to systems biology, which is improving medical treatments and our understanding of living things. In traditional bottom-up biology, a biologist might spend years studying how a single protein works, but systems biology studies how networks of those proteins work...
Bloomsbury Sigma, 2017. — 231 p. — ISBN: 978-1632860293 SYSTEMATIC is the first book to introduce general readers to systems biology, which is improving medical treatments and our understanding of living things. In traditional bottom-up biology, a biologist might spend years studying how a single protein works, but systems biology studies how networks of those proteins work...
University Of California Press, 2004. — 369 p. — ISBN: 0-520-23731-5. Prologue — The Fresko and the Fossil. Pahyderms in Catacombs. Doctor Jekyll and the Stonefields Jaws. The Origin of Mammals. The Noblest Conquest. Terrible Horns and Heavy Feet. Mr. Megatherium versus Professor Myolodon. Fire Beasts of the Antipodes. Titans on Parade. Five — Toed Horses and Missed Links. The...
University Of California Press, 2007. — 314 p. — ISBN: 978-0-520-24322-4. Prologue — Stellar s Sea Ape. Reefs in the Desert. Amphibious Ambiguetes. Bird Teeth and Reptike Neck. Tail Tales. Cope Elusive Ophidians. Hooves in the Flippers. March s Deceptive Desmostylians. Emlong s Whale. Paw s into Flippers. Sea Cow s and Oyster Bears. The Long, Warm Summer. Emptying Bays....
Springer,2015 — 251 p. — ISBN: 3709118611 This multi-author, six-volume work summarizes our current knowledge on the developmental biology of all major invertebrate animal phyla. The main aspects of cleavage, embryogenesis, organogenesis and gene expression are discussed in an evolutionary framework. Each chapter presents an in-depth yet concise overview of both classical and...
Springer,2015 — 289 p. — ISBN: 3709118700 This multi-author, six-volume work summarizes our current knowledge on the developmental biology of all major invertebrate animal phyla. The main aspects of cleavage, embryogenesis, organogenesis and gene expression are discussed in an evolutionary framework. Each chapter presents an in-depth yet concise overview of both classical and...
Springer,2015 — 200 p. — ISBN: 3709118646 This multi-author, six-volume work summarizes our current knowledge on the developmental biology of all major invertebrate animal phyla. The main aspects of cleavage, embryogenesis, organogenesis and gene expression are discussed in an evolutionary framework. Each chapter presents an in-depth yet concise overview of both classical and...
Springer,2015 — 190 p. — ISBN: 3709118522 This multi-author, six-volume work summarizes our current knowledge on the developmental biology of all major invertebrate animal phyla. The main aspects of cleavage, embryogenesis, organogenesis and gene expression are discussed in an evolutionary framework. Each chapter presents an in-depth yet concise overview of both classical and...
Springer,2015 — 219 p. — ISBN: 3709118670 This multi-author, six-volume work summarizes our current knowledge on the developmental biology of all major invertebrate animal phyla. The main aspects of cleavage, embryogenesis, organogenesis and gene expression are discussed in an evolutionary framework. Each chapter presents an in-depth yet concise overview of both classical and...
Springer,2015 — 214 p. — ISBN: 3709118557 This multi-author, six-volume work summarizes our current knowledge on the developmental biology of all major invertebrate animal phyla. The main aspects of cleavage, embryogenesis, organogenesis and gene expression are discussed in an evolutionary framework. Each chapter presents an in-depth yet concise overview of both classical and...
Springer, 2004. — 483 p. Evolution is the most profound of human ideas integrating all natural phenomena: cosmic, biological, and cultural into a continuous universal change. This volume deals with evolutionary observations, experiments, and theories contributing to a deeper understanding of the evolutionary process, th honoring the 75 birthday of Eviatar (Eibi) Nevo. I first...
Springer, 2019. — 280 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-06127-2. This book focuses on modules and emergence with self-organization in the life sciences. As Aristotle observed so long ago, the whole is more than the sum of its parts. However, contemporary science is dominated by reductionist concepts and tends to neglect the non-reproducible features of complex systems, which emerge from the...
New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1994. - 352 p. ISBN13: 9780679733379. On a desert island in the heart of the Galapagos archipelago, where Darwin received his first inklings of the theory of evolution, two scientists, Peter and Rosemary Grant, have spent twenty years proving that Darwin did not know the strength of his own theory. For among the finches of Daphne...
Regnery Publishing, 2000. — 278 p. How would you react if told that you and your children have been lied to in science lessons at school and university? Yet this is exactly what has been happening for decades, as Icons of Evolution' demonstrates. The author, a Berkeley Ph.D in Biology, is not a creationist, but his book describes many serious misrepresentations of facts...
Discovery Institute Press, 2011. — 174 p. According to a number of leading proponents of Darwin’s theory, “junk DNA”—the non-protein coding portion of DNA — provides decisive evidence for Darwinian evolution and against intelligent design, since an intelligent designer would presumably not have filled our genome with so much garbage. But in this provocative book, biologist...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 144 p. Most people are familiar with the dodo and the dinosaur, but extinction has occurred throughout the history of life, with the result that nearly all the species that have ever existed are now extinct. Today, species are disappearing at an ever increasing rate, whilst past losses have occurred during several great crises. Issues such as...
Princeton University Press, 2019. — 328 p. — ISBN: 978-0-691-18286-5. Biological evolution is a fact — but the many conflicting theories of evolution remain controversial even today. When Adaptation and Natural Selection was first published in 1966, it struck a powerful blow against those who argued for the concept of group selection — the idea that evolution acts to select...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 132 p. — (Very Short Introductions). The recent discovery of the diminutive Homo floresiensis (nicknamed "the Hobbit") in Indonesia has sparked new interest in the study of human evolution. In this Very Short Introduction, renowned evolutionary scholar Bernard Wood traces the history of paleoanthropology from its beginnings in the eighteenth...
2nd Ed. — Oxford University Press, 2019. — 160 p. — (Very Short Introductions). — ISBN: 978-0-198831-74-9. This Very Short Introduction traces the history of paleoanthropology from its beginnings in the eighteenth century to the latest fossil finds. Although concentrating on the fossil evidence for human evolution, it also covers the latest genetic evidence about regional...
Basic Books, 2009. — 320 p. Ever since Darwin and The Descent of Man , the existence of humans has been attributed to our intelligence and adaptability. But in Catching Fire , renowned primatologist Richard Wrangham presents a startling alternative: our evolutionary success is the result of cooking. In a groundbreaking theory of our origins, Wrangham shows that the shift from...
Pantheon Books, 2019. — 400 p. We Homo sapiens can be the nicest of species and also the nastiest. What occurred during human evolution to account for this paradox? What are the two kinds of aggression that primates are prone to, and why did each evolve separately? How does the intensity of violence among humans compare with the aggressive behavior of other primates? How did...
Pantheon Books, 2019. — 400 p. We Homo sapiens can be the nicest of species and also the nastiest. What occurred during human evolution to account for this paradox? What are the two kinds of aggression that primates are prone to, and why did each evolve separately? How does the intensity of violence among humans compare with the aggressive behavior of other primates? How did...
L.: Random House Group Limited, 2001. — 657 p. — ISBN: 0-06-113840-1. This remarkable book presents a rich and up–to–date view of evolution that explores the far–reaching implications of Darwin's theory and emphasizes the power, significance, and relevance of evolution to our lives today. After all, we ourselves are the product of evolution, and we can tackle many of our...
2nd Edition. — Roberts, NY, USA, 2016. — 1357 p. — ISBN: 1936221551. Science writer Carl Zimmer and evolutionary biologist Douglas Emlen have produced a thoroughly revised new edition of their widely praised evolution textbook. Emlen, an award-winning evolutionary biologist at the University of Montana, has infused Evolution: Making Sense of Life with the technical rigor and...
2nd Edition. — Roberts, NY, USA, 2016. — 1357 p. — ISBN: 1936221551. Science writer Carl Zimmer and evolutionary biologist Douglas Emlen have produced a thoroughly revised new edition of their widely praised evolution textbook. Emlen, an award-winning evolutionary biologist at the University of Montana, has infused Evolution: Making Sense of Life with the technical rigor and...
2nd Edition. - Academic Press, 2000. - 585 p. - Origins of Life on the Earth and in the Cosmos, Second Edition, suggests answers to the age-old questions of how life arose in the universe and how it might arise elsewhere. This thorough revision of a very successful text describes key events in the evolution of living systems, starting with the creation of an environment...
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