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...
Бақытжан Д.Д. Актюбинский региональный университет имени К.Жубанова, Актобе, Казахстан, 2023 год, 22 страниц. Презентация по предмету "Теория Эволюции" для студентов биологических факультетов и может использоваться для уроков по биологии в старших классов на казахском языке. В презентации будет говориться о постулатах теории эволюции Ж.Б.Ламарка, о направлениях теории эволюции,...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...