In praise of the hand: A philosopher considers the crucial role of the hand in human evolution, particularly with respect to language.
“McGinn is an ingenious philosopher who thinks like a laser and……続きを見る
**"An arresting vision of this relentless natural world"ーNew York Times Book Review
A leading ecologist argues that if humankind is to survive on a fragile planet, we must understand and obey its i……続きを見る
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2021年03月31日
This book contests the general view that natural selection constitutes the explanatory core of evolutionary biology. It invites the reader to consider an alternative view which favors a more complet……続きを見る
Wie sich der Mensch innerhalb kurzer Zeit von einer Säugetierart unter vielen zu einem Eroberer der Welt aufschwang; und wie wir die Fähigkeit erwarben, all jenen Fortschritt über Nacht auszulöschen……続きを見る
著者:Roger Briggs
出版社: Atlantic Publishing Group
発売日: 2021年03月25日
Why is there so much chaos and suffering in the world today? Are we sliding towards dystopia and perhaps extinction, or is there hope for a better future? What happened in the human lineage over the……続きを見る
Inducible defenses--those often dramatic phenotypic shifts in prey activated by biological agents ranging from predators to pathogens--are widespread in the natural world. Yet research on the induci……続きを見る
This book provides a detailed overview of the microorganisms that form the initial growth on the exterior façades of buildings. It deals with the ecophysiological properties that characterize the ba……続きを見る
著者:Veiko Krauß
出版社: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
発売日: 2021年04月11日
Sex prägt wesentlich unser Bild einer lebendigen Natur. Entstanden vor Milliarden Jahren, spielt die Sexualität die Rolle eines Zufallsgenerators, welcher in jeder Generation Erbgut neu zusammenwürf……続きを見る
La alianza entre el ateísmo y el darwinismo es una de las fuerzas que han caracterizado el pensamiento de los últimos ciento cincuenta años. Esta alianza, que va más allá de la ciencia y se adentra,……続きを見る
著者:Gregor Majdic
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2021年02月26日
Love, one of the most profound of human emotions, love that accompanies us from puberty to old age, love that follows us from ancient times to modern, from ancient writings, through the Bible and th……続きを見る
The terrestrial organisms of the Galápagos Islands live under conditions unlike those anywhere else. At the edge of a uniquely rich mid-ocean upwelling, their world is also free of mammalian predato……続きを見る
Sociology is in crisis. While other disciplines have taken on board the revolutionary discoveries driven by evolutionary biology and psychology, genomics and behavioral genetics, and the neuroscienc……続きを見る
著者:Liv Feijen
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2021年03月31日
The last couple of years have witnessed an unprecedented battle within Europe between values and pragmatism, and between states' interests and individuals' rights. This book examines humanitarian co……続きを見る
A comprehensive, informal overview of world history and popular culture. Popular Culture: From Cavespace to Cyberspace traces the history of people's cultures from primitive to postmodern times. Edu……続きを見る
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2020年10月30日
This book includes 16 selected contributions presented at the 23rd Evolutionary Biology Meeting, which took place in Marseille in September 2019.
The annual Evolutionary Biology Meetings in Marseill……続きを見る
Winner of the Royal Society Science Book.
**'Exhilaratingly whizzes through billions of years . . . Gee is a marvellously engaging writer' - The Times
4.6 billion years of the story of life on Earth……続きを見る
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2021年03月22日
This book presents a collection of cross-disciplinary research, with contributions addressing all key features of the plant/microbe/ENP nexus in agro-ecosystems. The uptake, transport and transforma……続きを見る
The author started his working career as an Air Traffic Control Officer in the Royal Australian Air Force, and after resigning his commission, spent thirty-five years in the Information Services ind……続きを見る
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) was regarded by the Victorians as the foremost philosopher of the age, the prophet of evolution at a time when the idea had gripped the popular imagination. Until recentl……続きを見る
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) was regarded by the Victorians as the foremost philosopher of the age, the prophet of evolution at a time when the idea had gripped the popular imagination. Until recentl……続きを見る
This is a conscious and spiritual journey from our Humble beginnings through our evolution. How we perceive ourselves and how we have had to adapt to our changing world. The realization we have to t……続きを見る
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2021年04月27日
Natural resources and associated biological diversity provide the basis of livelihood for human population, particularly in the rural areas and mountain regions across the globe. Asia is home to the……続きを見る
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2021年03月26日
The range of nanomaterial applications has expanded recently from catalysis, electronics, and filtration to therapeutics, diagnostics, agriculture, and food because of unique properties and potentia……続きを見る
This book provides keys, descriptions and illustrations for about 850 species of liverworts and hornworts, in 148 genera and 47 families, of Colombia and Ecuador. The largest genera are Lejeunea (66……続きを見る
This book provides a conceptually organized framework to understand the phenomenon of biological invasions at the Anthropocene global scale. Most advances toward that aim have been provided from Nor……続きを見る
著者:Gordon Harrison
出版社: Prometheus Publications
発売日: 2015年12月15日
We left paradise when I was five and moved to the city to live with my mother’s sister. I later learned, there were two reasons for this move: so that my parents could find work and I could attend s……続きを見る
Could “UFOs” and “Aliens” simply be us from the future?
This provocative new book cautiously examines the premise that extraterrestrials may instead be our distant human descendants, using the anthr……続きを見る
著者:Shane Neeley
出版社: Fort Rock Media
発売日: 2021年04月05日
Acclaim for Stone Age Code:“The book is simply brilliant and genuine, so friendly and stimulating!" - Emiliano Bruner, Ph.D., Hominid Paleoneurology Researcher, Centro Nacional de Investigación sobr……続きを見る
We are an integrated part of cosmos. The substance related to the astronomical concepts forms the subject matter of Astronomy. It broadly studies universe, solar system, planets, galaxies, meteoroid……続きを見る
This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. Notes and appendixes put these fascinating and wi……続きを見る