Автор: Darwin, Charles Название: On the origin of species ISBN: 0199219222 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199219223 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 9490.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In the Origin of Species (1859) Darwin challenged many of the most deeply held beliefs of the Western world. The present edition provides a detailed discussion of his theories and adds an account of the responses of readers to the book on first publication. These cast light on recent controversies, such as questions of design and descent.
Автор: Begun David Название: The Real Planet of the Apes: A New Story of Human Origins ISBN: 0691182809 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691182803 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 21120.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
The astonishing new story of human origins
Was Darwin wrong when he traced our origins to Africa? The Real Planet of the Apes makes the explosive claim that it was in Europe, not Africa, where apes evolved the most important hallmarks of our human lineage. In this compelling and accessible book, David Begun, one of the world's leading paleoanthropologists, transports readers to an epoch in the remote past when the Earth was home to many migratory populations of ape species. Begun draws on the latest astonishing discoveries in the fossil record, as well as his own experiences conducting field expeditions, to offer a sweeping evolutionary history of great apes and humans. He tells the story of how one of the earliest members of our evolutionary group evolved from lemur-like monkeys in the primeval forests of Africa. Begun then vividly describes how, over the next ten million years, these hominoids expanded into Europe and Asia and evolved climbing and hanging adaptations, longer maturation times, and larger brains. As the climate deteriorated in Europe, these apes either died out or migrated south, reinvading the African continent and giving rise to the lineages of African great apes, and, ultimately, humans. Presenting startling new insights, The Real Planet of the Apes fundamentally alters our understanding of human origins.
Автор: Kauffman, Stuart A. Название: The Origins of Order: Self Organization and Selection in Evolution ISBN: 0195079515 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195079517 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 65050.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: This monograph extends the basic concepts of Darwinian evolution to accommodate recent findings and perspectives from the fields of biology, physics, chemistry and mathematics. It explains how complex systems, contrary to expectations, can spontaneously exhibit degrees of order.
The information age owes its existence to a little-known but crucial development, the theoretical study of logic and the foundations of mathematics. The Great Formal Machinery Works draws on original sources and rare archival materials to trace the history of the theories of deduction and computation that laid the logical foundations for the digital revolution.
Jan von Plato examines the contributions of figures such as Aristotle; the nineteenth-century German polymath Hermann Grassmann; George Boole, whose Boolean logic would prove essential to programming languages and computing; Ernst Schr der, best known for his work on algebraic logic; and Giuseppe Peano, cofounder of mathematical logic. Von Plato shows how the idea of a formal proof in mathematics emerged gradually in the second half of the nineteenth century, hand in hand with the notion of a formal process of computation. A turning point was reached by 1930, when Kurt G del conceived his celebrated incompleteness theorems. They were an enormous boost to the study of formal languages and computability, which were brought to perfection by the end of the 1930s with precise theories of formal languages and formal deduction and parallel theories of algorithmic computability. Von Plato describes how the first theoretical ideas of a computer soon emerged in the work of Alan Turing in 1936 and John von Neumann some years later.
Shedding new light on this crucial chapter in the history of science, The Great Formal Machinery Works is essential reading for students and researchers in logic, mathematics, and computer science.
Автор: Shank J. B. Название: Before Voltaire: The French Origins of "Newtonian " Mechanics, 1680-1715 ISBN: 022650929X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226509297 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 50690.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: We have grown accustomed to the idea that scientific theories are embedded in their place and time. But in the case of the development of mathematical physics in eighteenth-century France, the relationship was extremely close. In Before Voltaire, J.B. Shank shows that although the publication of Isaac Newton's Principia in 1687 exerted strong influence, the development of calculus-based physics is better understood as an outcome that grew from French culture in general.
Before Voltaire explores how Newton's ideas made their way not just through the realm of French science, but into the larger world of society and culture of which Principia was an intertwined part. Shank also details a history of the beginnings of calculus-based mathematical physics that integrates it into the larger intellectual currents in France at the time, including the Battle of the Ancients and the Moderns, the emergence of wider audiences for science, and the role of the newly reorganized Royal Academy of Sciences. The resulting book offers an unprecedented cultural history of one the most important and influential elements of Enlightenment science.
Автор: Hodge, M.J.S. Название: Before and After Darwin ISBN: 1138375195 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138375192 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 53070.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This is the first of a pair of volumes by Jonathan Hodge, collecting all his most innovative, revisionist and influential papers on Charles Darwin and on the theories about origins and species from ancient times to the present. The foci of this volume are the diversity of theories among such pre-Darwinian authors as Lamarck and Whewell, and the developments in the theory of natural selection since Darwin. The papers explore the ontological and cosmogonical contexts for theories about origins and species, while clarifying continuities and discontinuities in thinking, and showing how controversy persists over the old issues about order, chance, necessity and purpose in the living world and the wider universe as a whole.
Автор: Powell Miles A Название: Vanishing America ISBN: 0674971566 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674971561 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 40070.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Miles Powell explores how early conservationists became convinced that the vitality of America`s white races depended on preserving the wilderness. Some conservationists embraced scientific racism, eugenics, and restrictive immigration laws, but these activists also laid the groundwork for the many successes of the modern environmental movement.
Автор: Hallett Mark, Harris John Название: On the Prowl: In Search of Big Cat Origins ISBN: 0231184506 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231184502 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 31680.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: On the Prowl is a fully illustrated and approachable guide to the evolution of the big cats and what it portends for their conservation today. Mark Hallett and John M. Harris trace the origins of these iconic carnivores, venturing down the evolutionary pathways that produced the diversity of big cat species that have walked the earth.
Автор: Donald Merlin Название: Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition ISBN: 0674644840 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674644847 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 34790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This bold and brilliant book asks the ultimate question of the life sciences: How did the human mind acquire its incomparable power? In seeking the answer, Donald traces the evolution of human culture and cognition from primitive apes to A.I., presenting an enterprising and original theory of how the human mind evolved from its presymbolic form.
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.
Автор: Hodge, M.J.S. Название: Before and After Darwin ISBN: 0754659380 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780754659389 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 153120.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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