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  • Industrializing Organisms

    Introducing Evolutionary History

    Modifié par Susan Schrepfer, Philip Scranton ...
    Collections series Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture
    Scientists have developed a featherless chicken designed to make industrial chicken production more efficient, while specially trained Pacific bottlenose dolphins are being deployed in the Persian Gulf to disarm mines and protect our Navy. Everyone knows Darwin's theory of natural selection, but what about his idea of artificial selection--how humans, not nature, rework natural organisms to meet ... En savoir plus

    $89.31 CAD

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  • The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1

    par Alfred Russel Wallace ...
    My readers will naturally ask why I have delayed writing this book for six years after my return; and I feel bound to give them full satisfaction on this point. ... En savoir plus

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Reluctant Mr. Darwin

    An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution

    par David Quammen ...
    Collections series Great Discoveries
    "Quammen brilliantly and powerfully re-creates the 19th century naturalist's intellectual and spiritual journey."--Los Angeles Times Book ReviewTwenty-one years passed between Charles Darwin's epiphany that "natural selection" formed the basis of evolution and the scientist's publication of On the Origin of Species. Why did Darwin delay, and what happened during the course of those two decades? ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things

    Why Smart People Do Stupid Things

    par Laurence Gonzales ...
    “Well-written and fascinating . . . this is the kind of book you want everyone to read.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer“Curiosity, awareness, attention,” Laurence Gonzales writes. “Those are the tools of our everyday survival. . . . We all must be scientists at heart or be victims of forces that we don’t understand.” In this fascinating account, Gonzales turns his talent for gripping narrative, knowledge ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Story of Life

    par Southwood ...
    How did life begin? What really was 'snowball earth'? Why did the dinosaurs go extinct? Are we all descended from 'African Eve'? Will humans be responsible for the next major extinction? All these are addressed in this fascinating book. The story unfolds with the formation of the earth around four thousand million years ago, though it took until after massive bombardment by asteroids a hundred ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Genetics Demystified

    par Edward Willett ...
    Collections series Demystified
    There’s no easier, faster, or more practical way to learn the really tough subjectsGenetics Demystified offers an up-to-date, highly readable explanation of the basic principles of genetics, covering key topics such as human genetics, DNA, heredity, mutations, traits, chromosomes, and much more. This self-teaching guide comes complete with key points, background information, quizzes at the end of ... En savoir plus

    $24.79 CAD

  • Animal Evolution

    Genomes, Fossils, and Trees

    par NATURAL SCIENCES and MATHEMATICS (500), ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCES (590) ...
    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 biology. In this book, a group of leading researchers adopt a ... En savoir plus

    $70.99 CAD

  • Human Population Genetics

    par John H. Relethford ...
    Collections Livre 7 - Foundation of Human Biology
    Introductory guide to human population genetics and microevolutionary theoryProviding an introduction to mathematical population genetics, Human Population Genetics gives basic background on the mechanisms of human microevolution. This text combines mathematics, biology, and anthropology and is best suited for advanced undergraduate and graduate study.Thorough and accessible, Human Population ... En savoir plus

    $101.99 CAD

  • Homo Novus - A Human Without Illusions

    Modifié par Charlotte Störmer, Kai P. Willführ, Ulrich J. Frey ...
    Collections series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Converging evidence from disciplines including sociobiology, evolutionary psychology and human biology forces us to adopt a new idea of what it means to be a human. As cherished concepts such as free will, naïve realism, humans as creation's crowning glory fall and our moral roots in ape group dynamics become clearer, we have to take leave of many concepts that have been central to defining our ... En savoir plus

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  • Human Evolutionary Biology

    Modifié par Michael P. Muehlenbein ...
    Wide-ranging and inclusive, this text provides an invaluable review of an expansive selection of topics in human evolution, variation and adaptability for professionals and students in biological anthropology, evolutionary biology, medical sciences and psychology. The chapters are organized around four broad themes, with sections devoted to phenotypic and genetic variation within and between human ... En savoir plus

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  • The Social Origins of Language

    par Robert Seyfarth, Dorothy Cheney ...
    Collections series Duke Institute for Brain Sciences Series
    How human language evolved from the need for social communicationThe origins of human language remain hotly debated. Despite growing appreciation of cognitive and neural continuity between humans and other animals, an evolutionary account of human language—in its modern form—remains as elusive as ever. The Social Origins of Language provides a novel perspective on this question and charts a new ... En savoir plus

    $48.39 CAD

  • The Woolly Monkey

    Behavior, Ecology, Systematics, and Captive Research

    Modifié par Pablo R. Stevenson, Thomas R. Defler ...
    Collections series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Woolly monkeys are large, attractive and widespread primates found throughout many parts of the Amazon basin. It is only in the last twenty-five years or so that long-term studies of woollies in their forest habitat have been successful; they have not generally been successfully kept in captivity. But now, especially because of their size, these creatures are pressed on all sides by bush meat ... En savoir plus

    $179.39 CAD