Darwin`s Corals: A New Model of Evolution and the Tradition of Natural History, Horst Bredekamp
Автор: Archibald J. David Название: Aristotle`s Ladder, Darwin`s Tree: The Evolution of Visual Metaphors for Biological Order ISBN: 0231164122 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231164122 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 71810.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Leading paleontologist J. David Archibald explores the rich history of visual metaphors for biological order from ancient times to the present
After his famous visit to the Gal pagos Islands, Darwin speculated that one might fancy that, from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends. This book is the classic account of how much we have since learned about the evolution of these remarkable birds. Based upon over a decade's research, Grant shows how interspecific competition and natural selection act strongly enough on contemporary populations to produce observable and measurable evolutionary change. In this new edition, Grant outlines new discoveries made in the thirteen years since the book's publication. Ecology and Evolution of Darwin's Finches is an extraordinary account of evolution in action.
Originally published in 1986.
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Автор: West David a. Название: Darwin`s Man in Brazil: The Evolving Science of Fritz Muller ISBN: 0813062608 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813062600 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 66840.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: "A valuable introduction to Fritz Muller, a colorful and important figure in the story of natural history, but someone who has been seriously neglected by historians of science. This volume helps us gain a better understanding not only of Muller's many contributions but also of the development of Darwin's ideas about species diversity."--Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis, author of Unifying Biology "Impeccable research on practically every available facet of Muller's life. Relevant for both historians of science and scientists alike."--Adriana Novoa, coauthor of From Man to Ape: Darwinism in Argentina, 1870-1920 Fritz Muller (1821-1897), though not as well known as his colleague Charles Darwin, belongs in the cohort of great nineteenth-century naturalists. In Darwin's Man in Brazil, David A. West recovers Muller's legacy. He describes the close intellectual kinship between Muller and Darwin, detailing a lively correspondence spanning seventeen years, in which the two men often discussed new research topics and exchanged ideas. Darwin frequently praised Muller's powers of observation and interpretation, counting him among those scientists whose opinions he valued most. A free thinker who refused to sign the Christian oaths required of teachers in Prussia, Muller emigrated to Brazil in 1852 to become a pioneer farmer researching tropical biology. In the 1860s he reorganized his biological research in order to test Darwin's theory of evolution. Conducting field studies to answer questions generated from a Darwinian perspective, Muller was unique among naturalists testing Darwin's theory of natural selection because he investigated an enormous diversity of plants and animals rather than a relatively narrow range of taxa. Despite the importance and scope of his work, however, Muller is known for relatively few of his discoveries. West remedies this oversight, chronicling the life and work of this remarkable and overlooked man of science.
Автор: Costa James T. Название: Darwin`s Backyard: How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory ISBN: 0393239896 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780393239898 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 23220.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: How Darwin found universal evolutionary truths in simple yet ingenious home-spun experiments.
Автор: Laland Kevin N. Название: Darwin`s Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind ISBN: 0691151180 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691151182 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 40130.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
How culture transformed human evolution
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 evolution. This compelling and accessible book reveals how culture is not just the magnificent end product of an evolutionary process that produced a species unlike all others--it is also the key driving force behind that process.
Kevin Laland shows how the learned and socially transmitted activities of our ancestors shaped our intellects through accelerating cycles of evolutionary feedback. The truly unique characteristics of our species--such as our intelligence, language, teaching, and cooperation--are not adaptive responses to predators, disease, or other external conditions. Rather, humans are creatures of their own making. Drawing on his own groundbreaking research, and bringing it to life with vivid natural history, Laland explains how animals imitate, innovate, and have remarkable traditions of their own. He traces our rise from scavenger apes in prehistory to modern humans able to design iPhones, dance the tango, and send astronauts into space.
This book tells the story of the painstaking fieldwork, the key experiments, the false leads, and the stunning scientific breakthroughs that led to this new understanding of how culture transformed human evolution. It is the story of how Darwin's intellectual descendants picked up where he left off and took up the challenge of providing a scientific account of the evolution of the human mind.
Автор: Zhiyong Li Название: Symbiotic Microbiomes of Coral Reefs Sponges and Corals ISBN: 9402416102 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789402416107 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 158380.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book focuses on the symbiotic microbiomes of invertebrates in coral reefs, especially sponges and corals. It provides in-depth and up-to-date reviews on the microbial structure and diversity, metabolism and function, symbiosis and coevolution, environment and adaption, and bioactive potentials. Meanwhile, the future perspectives will be discussed according to the existing problems and the development trend. This book will be of particular interest to the professionals in marine ecology, marine biotechnology, as well as medicinal chemists and molecular biologists.
Автор: Nemer Narchi; Lisa Leimar Price Название: Ethnobiology of Corals and Coral Reefs ISBN: 3319237624 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319237626 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 130610.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book explores the ethnobiology of corals by examining the various ways in which humans, past and present, have exploited and taken care of coral and coralline habitats. Ethnobiology of Corals and Coral Reefs establishes an intimate bond between the audience and the wonder of corals and their importance to humankind.
Автор: Hunter Cornelius G. Название: Darwin`s God: Evolution and the Problem of Evil ISBN: 1532688571 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781532688577 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 23910.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Archibald J. David Название: Origins of Darwin`s Evolution: Solving the Species Puzzle Through Time and Place ISBN: 0231176856 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231176859 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 26400.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: J. David Archibald explores how Darwin first came to the conclusion that species had evolved in different regions throughout the world. Carefully retracing Darwin`s gathering of evidence and the evolution of his thinking, Origins of Darwin`s Evolution achieves a new understanding of how Darwin crafted his transformative theory.
Are humans unwitting partners in evolution with psychedelic plants? Darwin’s Pharmacy shows they are by weaving the evolutionary theory of sexual selection and the study of rhetoric together with the science and literature of psychedelic drugs. Long suppressed as components of the human tool kit, psychedelic plants can be usefully modeled as “eloquence adjuncts” that intensify a crucial component of sexual selection in humans: discourse.
Psychedelic plants seduce us to interact with them, building an ongoing interdependence: rhetoric as evolutionary mechanism. In doing so, they engage our awareness of the noosphere, or thinking stratum of the earth. The realization that the human organism is part of an interconnected ecosystem is an apprehension of immanence that could ultimately benefit the planet and its inhabitants.
To explore the rhetoric of the psychedelic experience and its significance to evolution, Doyle takes his readers on an epic journey through the writings of William Burroughs and Kary Mullis, the work of ethnobotanists and anthropologists, and anonymous trip reports. The results offer surprising insights into evolutionary theory, the war on drugs, the internet, and the nature of human consciousness itself.
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Leading scholars take stock of Darwin's ideas about human evolution in the light of modern science
In 1871, Charles Darwin published The Descent of Man, a companion to Origin of Species in which he attempted to explain human evolution, a topic he called the highest and most interesting problem for the naturalist. A Most Interesting Problem brings together twelve world-class scholars and science communicators to investigate what Darwin got right--and what he got wrong--about the origin, history, and biological variation of humans.
Edited by Jeremy DeSilva and with an introduction by acclaimed Darwin biographer Janet Browne, A Most Interesting Problem draws on the latest discoveries in fields such as genetics, paleontology, bioarchaeology, anthropology, and primatology. This compelling and accessible book tackles the very subjects Darwin explores in Descent, including the evidence for human evolution, our place in the family tree, the origins of civilization, human races, and sex differences.
A Most Interesting Problem is a testament to how scientific ideas are tested and how evidence helps to structure our narratives about human origins, showing how some of Darwin's ideas have withstood more than a century of scrutiny while others have not.
A Most Interesting Problem features contributions by Janet Browne, Jeremy DeSilva, Holly Dunsworth, Agust n Fuentes, Ann Gibbons, Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Brian Hare, John Hawks, Suzana Herculano-Houzel, Kristina Killgrove, Alice Roberts, and Michael Ryan.
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