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From two of the world’s leading authorities on dogs, an imaginative journey into a future of dogs without people What would happen to dogs if humans simply disappeared? Would dogs be able to survive……続きを見る

« On ne peut qu’admirer l’art avec lequel l’auteur présente des notions scientifiques les plus arides à une jeunesse la plupart du temps peu préparée, peu réceptive. C’est le but recherché, c’est le……続きを見る

Discover the wonders of the natural world and the animals that inhabit it in this stunningly visual hardcover guide. Nature writer Marianne Taylor guides readers through the development of life on e……続きを見る

This volume focuses on the huge advances in the last 25 years on the use of this animal model for biomedical research (cancer, heart disease and neurodegeneration), fundamental neuroscience and basi……続きを見る

Evolução Espontânea oferece um ponto de vista animador sobre o destino da humanidade e é um desses livros que podem mudar a visão do mundo. Com pitadas de humor espiritual e sólidos conhecimentos ci……続きを見る

Studying human migratory patterns can help us make sense of evolution, biology, linguistics, and so much more. Human Migration takes readers through population development and their respective orig……続きを見る

This book argues that organisms and their interactions create and maximize biodiversity. The evidence for this autocatalytic hypothesis has been collated and integrated into this provocative argumen……続きを見る

Are we now entering a mass extinction event? What can mass extinctions in Earth's history tell us about the Anthropocene? What do mass extinction events look like and how does life on Earth recover ……続きを見る

How does death help us understand the living? Death is more than the last event of life; it is interwoven into our growth, development, protection against disease, and more. It influences the direct……続きを見る

In The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, Riley Black walks readers through what happened in the days, the years, the centuries, and the million years after the impact, tracking the sweeping disruptions th……続きを見る

Dalla comparsa del celebre saggio di Darwin sull'Origine della specie (1859) il falso dilemma tra la teoria scientifica dell'evoluzione e la dottrina filosofica e teologica della creazione continua ……続きを見る

«È l’uomo che deriva dalla scimmia o la scimmia che deriva dall’uomo?» Il dilemma non ha senso, se è vero che una specie che ha già imboccato una strada non può uscirne. L’idea dell’origine di una s……続きを見る

Nel corso della nostra storia millenaria, quanto siamo cresciuti in altezza? La statura può essere influenzata, oltre che dalle caratteristiche genetiche, anche dalle condizioni di vita di una deter……続きを見る

Secondo la visione comunemente accettata della selezione naturale, perché un carattere si evolva è necessario che sia adattativo, che aumenti cioè la probabilità di sopravvivenza dell’individuo. Con……続きを見る

Let us start with the obvious. Living matter, having once emerged from obscure beginnings on this planet Earth - the home selected for it in the Universe - has continued to exist in countless differ……続きを見る

««Di una portata impressionante... Splendidamente dettagliato». » «Science» ««Una combinazione di competenza scientifica e talento di scrittura». » «The Guardian» «Un libro splendido, evocativo, aut……続きを見る

The Evolutionary Imperative provides a unifying perspective on the evolution of the universe in all its physical and biological detail, with a call to action for redirecting the evolutionary traject……続きを見る

Veniamo tutti dall’Africa. Lo hanno scoperto gli scienziati percorrendo a ritroso la storia genetica dell’umanità, trasmessa solo per via femminile. Oggi in quel continente le ragazze subiscono piu……続きを見る

A scientific look at creationism from a former creationist A significant number of Americans, especially evangelical Christians, believe Earth and humankind were created in their present form someti……続きを見る

The first modern scholarly synthesis of animal domestication Across the globe and at different times in the past millennia, the evolutionary history of domesticated animals has been greatly affected……続きを見る

Tom Wolfe, feroz y sagaz polemista, arremete contra las verdades absolutas del evolucionismo aplicado a la lingüística en su testamento literario. Además de un gran periodista y narrador, Tom Wolfe ……続きを見る

The question of the origins of the universe is probably one of the most dwelled upon and argued about over the last couple of centuries. Ever since Charles Darwin proposed his theory, evolutionists ……続きを見る

This volume constitutes the most recent and most comprehensive consideration of the largest family of bony fishes, the Cichlidae. This book offers an integrated perspective of cichlid fishes ranging……続きを見る

Plants are an important source of fats and oils, which are essential for the human diet. In recent years, genomics of oil biosynthesis in plants have attracted great interest, especially in high oil……続きを見る

How did the dog become man’s best friend? A celebrated anthropologist unearths the mysterious origins of the unique partnership that rewrote the history of both species. Dogs and humans have been in……続きを見る

A psychologist confronts our pervasive misunderstanding of anxiety and presents a powerful new framework for reimagining and reclaiming the confounding emotion as the advantage it evolved to be. We ……続きを見る

The study of religion by the humanities and social sciences has become receptive for an evolutionary perspective. Some proposals model the evolution of religion in Darwinian terms, or construct a sy……続きを見る

En el presente, gran parte de las actitudes que poseen los seres humanos es el resultado de miles de años de evolución. Mecanismos tan sencillos a nuestra actual mirada, son vestigio del desarrollo ……続きを見る

Ever wondered why you have those strange "waking dreams" just before you wake up in the morning? Those weird dreams that are just too vivid, too graphic, too "real" to be just ordinary dreams. They ……続きを見る

How did the elephant seal survive being driven to the brink of extinction in the nineteenth century? What variables determine the lifetime reproductive success of individual seals? How have elephant……続きを見る