Le ultime scoperte scientifiche ci forniscono numerosi identikit, sia della nostra specie che di quelle a noi a affini. Sono identikit composti da tante tessere, molto dettagliate. In questo libro g……続きを見る
著者:Christoph Grüter
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2020年12月03日
Stingless bees (Meliponini) are the largest and most diverse group of social bees, yet their largely tropical distribution means that they are less studied than their relatives, the bumble bees and ……続きを見る
著者:Charles Foster
出版社: Henry Holt and Co.
発売日: 2021年08月31日
**NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ATLANTIC, KIRKUS REVIEWS, AND NEW STATESMAN
A radically immersive exploration of three pivotal moments in the evolution of human consciousness, asking what kin……続きを見る
Our lives are full of non-material experiences and emotions as love, happiness, joy, wonder, empathy, deep connection between mother and child, sense of morality, achievement, realization; all of wh……続きを見る
著者:Giovanni Leonardi
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2020年12月07日
This monograph is the result of eight years of bibliographical and field research concerning several behavioural ecology aspects of the Palaearctic falcons. For a while, this book grew along with “T……続きを見る
"Endlessly fascinating, unpretentiously educational, thoughtfully accessible and beautifully presented" - Alex Tattersall, award-winning underwater photographer and the founder of Underwater Visions……続きを見る
Darwin's Origin of Species and Dobzhansky's Genetics and the Origin of Species have been the cornerstones of modern evolutionary and population genetic theory for the past hundred years, but in the ……続きを見る
Untangling Molecular Biodiversity presents a unique global framework to explain molecular and organismal biodiversity that is grounded in evolutionary genomics. This book will tackle important quest……続きを見る
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2020年12月09日
Population genomics is revolutionizing wildlife biology, conservation, and management by providing key and novel insights into genetic, population and landscape-level processes in wildlife, with unp……続きを見る
著者:Frans de Waal
出版社: Princeton University Press
発売日: 2009年01月12日
"It's the animal in us," we often hear when we've been bad. But why not when we're good? Primates and Philosophers tackles this question by exploring the biological foundations of one of humanity's ……続きを見る
Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of population and community ecologyーsuch as birth-death processes, species interactions, selection, and stochastici……続きを見る
Mutualistic interactions among plants and animals have played a paramount role in shaping biodiversity. Yet the majority of studies on mutualistic interactions have involved only a few species, as o……続きを見る
著者:Michael Doebeli
出版社: Princeton University Press
発売日: 2011年08月01日
Understanding the mechanisms driving biological diversity remains a central problem in ecology and evolutionary biology. Traditional explanations assume that differences in selection pressures lead ……続きを見る
Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites--such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form o……続きを見る
How human language evolved from the need for social communication
The origins of human language remain hotly debated. Despite growing appreciation of cognitive and neural continuity between humans a……続きを見る
The number of species found at a given point on the planet varies by orders of magnitude, yet large-scale gradients in biodiversity appear to follow some very general patterns. Little mechanistic th……続きを見る
Biological evolution is a factーbut the many conflicting theories of evolution remain controversial even today. When Adaptation and Natural Selection was first published in 1966, it struck a powerfu……続きを見る
著者:Howard Burton
出版社: Open Agenda Publishing
発売日: 2020年12月11日
This book is based on an in-depth conversation between Howard Burton and Nick Lane, Professor of Evolutionary Biochemistry at University College London and bestselling author. After an inspiring sto……続きを見る
**In Sentient, Jackie Higgins assembles a menagerie of zoological creatures – from land, air, sea and all four corners of the globe – to understand what it means to be human.
'Spellbinding . . . Mor……続きを見る
著者:Jay Hosler
出版社: Active Synapse
発売日: 2014年09月01日
Optical Allusions is for those people seeking a painstakingly researched, scientifically accurate, eye-themed comic book adventure! Wrinkles the Wonder Brain has lost his bosses' eye and now he has ……続きを見る
The theory of evolution unites the past, present, and future of living things. It puts humanity’s place in the universe into necessary perspective. Despite a history of controversy, the evidence for……続きを見る
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2020年12月15日
The Theraphosidae are the most famous and diverse mygalomorph spiders, and include some of the largest arachnids on earth. Their unique defense mechanisms, predatory tactics, reproductive strategies……続きを見る
著者:Jonathan Kingdon
出版社: Princeton University Press
発売日: 2021年01月12日
Our ability to walk on two legs is not only a characteristic human trait but one of the things that made us human in the first place. Once our ancestors could walk on two legs, they began to do many……続きを見る
This book summarizes recent advances in carnation genome research for large-scale transcriptome analysis, the draft genome sequence, DNA markers and genome mapping, flower color, mutations, flower o……続きを見る
This volume is the definitive record of the living mammals collected by Charles Darwin during his historic five-year circumnavigation aboard H.M.S. Beagle (1832-1836).
Part II ;of the comprehensive ……続きを見る