From a leading computer scientist, a unifying theory that will revolutionize our understanding of how life evolves and learns.
How does life prosper in a complex and erratic world? While we know tha……続きを見る
“Carter Phipps brilliantly expands our understanding of evolution by showing us that a new science is emergingーone that will holistically integrate our understanding of consciousness, cosmology, an……続きを見る
著者:Saubhik Das
出版社: Springer Nature Singapore
発売日: 2016年07月25日
This book serves the larger community of plant researchers working on the taxonomy, species delimitation, phylogeny, and biogeography of pseudo-cereals, with a special emphasis on amaranths. It also……続きを見る
著者:Bruce Clarke
出版社: Fordham University Press
発売日: 2015年07月01日
"A strikingly original . . . collection of essays, which places the work and broad intellectual interests of Lynne Margulis in a variety of contexts." ーStacy Alaimo, author of Exposed: Environmenta……続きを見る
Over the past decade, advances in both molecular developmental biology and evolutionary ecology have made possible a new understanding of organisms as dynamic systems interacting with their environm……続きを見る
The most important investigation of genetic science since The Selfish Gene, from the author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling The Red Queen and The Origins of Virtue.
The genome is our 10……続きを見る
In The Big Questions: Evolution, one of the world's leading experts, Francisco Ayala, examines key facets of genetics, evolution and cloning. He uses the most up-to-date research to answer the 20 ke……続きを見る
Birds are among the most successful vertebrates on Earth. An important part of our natural environment and deeply embedded in our culture, birds are studied by more professional ornithologists and e……続きを見る
The most commonly kept domestic animal in the developed world, the cat has been a part of human life for thousands of years. Cats have been both worshipped and persecuted over this long period - eit……続きを見る
著者:Dale E. Greenwalt
出版社: Princeton University Press
発売日: 2023年01月17日
The revolution in science that is transforming our understanding of extinct life
We used to think of fossils as being composed of nothing but rock and minerals, all molecular traces of life having v……続きを見る
Life is definitively purposive and creative. Organisms use genes in controlling their destiny. This book presents a paradigm shift in understanding living systems. The genome is not a code, blueprin……続きを見る
著者:Joseph E. Armstrong
出版社: The University of Chicago Press
発売日: 2014年10月02日
This "amazing and wonderful book" explores the evolutionary history of photosynthesis in a grand story of how the world became the verdant place we know ( Choice).
On this blue planet, long before d……続きを見る
著者:Jonathan Weiner
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2014年05月14日
**PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A dramatic story of groundbreaking scientific research of Darwin's discovery of evolution that "spark[s] not just the intellect, but the imagination" (Washington Post Book ……続きを見る
著者:Alan F. Dixson
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2021年05月31日
There are more than 6000 species belonging to twenty-seven orders in the Class Mammalia. Comparative studies of this diverse and magnificent array of extant species provide valuable opportunities to……続きを見る
“An insightful and breathtaking exploration of humanity’s evolutionary baggage that explains some of our species’ greatest successes and failures.” ーYuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens
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著者:John M. Gowdy
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2021年07月31日
Ultrasocial argues that rather than environmental destruction and extreme inequality being due to human nature, they are the result of the adoption of agriculture by our ancestors. Human economy has……続きを見る
Human behaviour is marvellous in its complexity, variability and unpredictability. Understanding it, however, is not solely the role of psychologists: everyone has a vested interest in it, from indi……続きを見る
This book offers an introduction to the multidisciplinary subject of evolutionary linguistics, which seeks to explain the biological origins of language and its subsequent development in humans. Rou……続きを見る
A paradigm-shifting book in the vein of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, education, money, power, and sustainabilityーand offers a n……続きを見る
While evolutionary psychology is a fascinating science, it is also often misunderstood. In this highly acclaimed undergraduate textbook, Workman and Reader assume no prior knowledge of evolution and……続きを見る
For all the discussion in the media about creationism and 'Intelligent Design', virtually nothing has been said about the evidence in question - the evidence for evolution by natural selection.Yet, ……続きを見る
Decapod crustaceans, shrimps, crabs, prawns and their allies are highly visible and important members of marine environments. They are among the most charismatic of marine animals, inhabiting beache……続きを見る
A NEW APPROACH TO EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY: A leading developmental psychologist proposes an evolutionary pathway to understanding human psychological agency.
Nature cannot build organisms biological……続きを見る
*A New York Times Editor's Choice pick
*Shortlisted for the 2022 Pacific Northwest Book Awards
A beloved natural historian explores how climate change is driving evolution
In Hurricane Lizards and P……続きを見る
著者:W. Tecumseh Fitch
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
Language, more than anything else, is what makes us human. It appears that no communication system of equivalent power exists elsewhere in the animal kingdom. Any normal human child will learn a lan……続きを見る
In "The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Basis and Its Scope," Henry Edward Crampton presents a comprehensive exploration of evolutionary theory, examining its philosophical underpinnings and far-reaching……続きを見る
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST
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A pioneering canine behaviorist draws on cutting-edge research to show that a single, simple traitーthe capacity to loveーis what makes dogs such perfect companions for humans, and explains how we c……続きを見る