Information theory and evolution (2nd edition), Avery, John Scales (univ Of Copenhagen, Denmark)
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Автор: Anton Mauricio Название: Sabertooth ISBN: 025301042X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253010421 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 51480.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: With their spectacularly enlarged canines, sabertooth cats are among the most popular of prehistoric animals, yet it is surprising how little information about them is available for the curious layperson. What's more, there were other sabertooths that were not cats, animals with exotic names like nimravids, barbourofelids, and thylacosmilids. Some were no taller than a domestic cat, others were larger than a lion, and some were as weird as their names suggest. Sabertooths continue to pose questions even for specialists. What did they look like? How did they use their spectacular canine teeth? And why did they finally go extinct? In this visual and intellectual treat of a book, Mauricio Ant?n tells their story in words and pictures, all scrupulously based on the latest scientific research. The book is a glorious wedding of science and art that celebrates the remarkable diversity of the life of the not-so-distant past.
Автор: Coyne, Jerry A Название: Why evolution is true ISBN: 0199230854 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199230853 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 12660.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Why Evolution is True focuses on the hard evidence that proves evolution by natural selection to be a fact. Weaving together and explaining the latest discoveries and ideas from many disparate areas of modern science, this succinct and important book will leave no one with an open mind in any doubt about the truth-and the beauty-of evolution.
Автор: Clark Robert Название: Evolution: A Visual Record ISBN: 0714871184 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780714871189 Издательство: Phaidon Press Ltd. Рейтинг: Цена: 26350.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Stunning images to reawaken us to the scientific process that drives the amazing diversity of life on earth
Автор: Wallace Arthur Название: The Biological Universe: Life in the Milky Way and Beyond ISBN: 1108836941 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108836944 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 25330.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book is for everyone with an interest in whether there is extraterrestrial life. Recent discoveries of planets beyond the solar system (more than 4000 of them) suggest that the question is not `whether?` but `where?`. This book enables general readers to understand current endeavours to answer this question and the related one of `what kind?`
Автор: Avery John Scales Название: Information Theory And Evolution (2Nd Edition) ISBN: 9814401226 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789814401227 Издательство: World Scientific Publishing Рейтинг: Цена: 73920.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Information Theory and Evolution discusses the phenomenon of life, including its origin and evolution (and also human cultural evolution), against the background of thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and information theory. Among the central themes is the seeming contradiction between the second law of thermodynamics and the high degree of order and complexity produced by living systems. This paradox has its resolution in the information content of the Gibbs free energy that enters the biosphere from outside sources, as the author will show. The role of information in human cultural evolution is another focus of the book.The first edition of Information Theory and Evolution made a strong impact on thought in the field by bringing together results from many disciplines. The new second edition offers updated results based on reports of important new research in several areas, including exciting new studies of the human mitochondrial and Y-chromosomal DNA. Another extensive discussion featured in the second edition is contained in a new appendix devoted to the relationship of entropy and Gibbs free energy to economics. This appendix includes a review of the ideas of Alfred Lotka, Frederick Soddy, Nicholas Georgiescu-Roegen and Herman E. Daly, and discusses the relevance of these ideas to the current economic crisis.The new edition discusses current research on the origin of life, the distinction between thermodynamic information and cybernetic information, new DNA research and human prehistory, developments in current information technology, and the relationship between entropy and economics.
Автор: Ausich, Willian I. (ohio State University) Название: Disarticulation and preservation of fossil echinoderms: recognition of ecological-time information in the echinoderm fossil record ISBN: 1108789803 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108789806 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 19010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The time-sensitivity and predictability of echinoderm disarticulation makes them model organisms to determine post-mortem transportation and allows recognition of ecological-time data within paleocommunity accumulations. The patterns present in crinoids and echinoids can be used to develop a more thorough understanding of all echinoderm clades.
Автор: Douglas J. Emlen, Carl Zimmer Название: Evolution: Making Sense of Life ISBN: 1319322190 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781319322199 Издательство: Macmillan Learning Рейтинг: Цена: 84470.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Evolution: Making Sense of Life brings technical rigor and conceptual depth that today’s biology students require. Zimmer, an award-winning New York Times columnist, brings compelling storytelling to the book, bringing evolutionary research to life through a narrative sure to capture the attention of evolution students. With riveting stories about evolutionary biologists at work everywhere from the Arctic to tropical rainforests to hospital wards, the book is a reading adventure designed to grab the imagination of students, showing them exactly why it is that evolution makes such brilliant sense of life. This edition of Evolution: Making Sense of Life is now supported in SaplingPlus. Created and supported by the author and other educators, SaplingPlus’s instructional online homework drives student success and saves educators’ time. Automatically graded homework problem contains hints, answer-specific feedback, and solutions to ensure that students find the help they need.
Автор: Futuyma, Douglas J. Kirkpatrick, Mark Название: Evolution, IE 4 ed. ISBN: 1605357405 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781605357409 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 195350.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Published by Sinauer Associates, an imprint of Oxford University Press. 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 emphasizes the interplay between theory and empirical tests of hypotheses, thus acquainting students with the process of science.
It addresses major themes-includingthe history of evolution, evolutionary processes, adaptation, and evolution as an explanatory framework-at levels of biological organization ranging from genomes to ecological communities.
Автор: Travers, Andrew (university Of Cambridge) Название: Why dna? ISBN: 1107697522 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107697522 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 21110.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Describes how the physical chemistry of the DNA molecule links biological complexity, information flux and evolution to energy. Revisits Schroedinger`s What is Life? published before the structure of DNA was known, and examines Schroedinger`s ideas in the context of our current biological understanding.
Автор: Brazma, Prof Alvis (senior Research Scientist, Senior Research Scientist, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (embl) - European Bioinformatics Insti Название: Living computers ISBN: 0192871943 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780192871947 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 31670.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Julian Chela-Flores; Fran?ois Raulin Название: Exobiology: Matter, Energy, and Information in the Origin and Evolution of Life in the Universe ISBN: 9401061246 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789401061247 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 204970.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Proceedings of the Fifth Trieste Conference on Chemical Evolution: An Abdus Salam Memorial, Trieste, Italy, 22-26 September 1997
The Ontogeny of Information is a critical intervention into the ongoing and perpetually troubling nature-nurture debates surrounding human development. Originally published in 1985, this was a foundational text in what is now the substantial field of developmental systems theory. In this revised edition Susan Oyama argues compellingly that nature and nurture are not alternative influences on human development but, rather, developmental products and the developmental processes that produce them. Information, says Oyama, is thought to reside in molecules, cells, tissues, and the environment. When something wondrous occurs in the world, we tend to question whether the information guiding the transformation was pre-encoded in the organism or installed through experience or instruction. Oyama looks beyond this either-or question to focus on the history of such developments. She shows that what developmental “information” does depends on what is already in place and what alternatives are available. She terms this process “constructive interactionism,” whereby each combination of genes and environmental influences simultaneously interacts to produce a unique result. Ontogeny, then, is the result of dynamic and complex interactions in multileveled developmental systems. The Ontogeny of Information challenges specialists in the fields of developmental biology, philosophy of biology, psychology, and sociology, and even nonspecialists, to reexamine the existing nature-nurture dichotomy as it relates to the history and formation of organisms.
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