George - Evolution 1

Once in a great while, as the New York Times noted recently, a naturalist writes a book that changes the way people look at the living world. John James Audubon’s Birds of America, published in 1838……続きを見る

George C. Williams explains how evolution can produce remarkable adaptations in the natural world, and examines how the same process can also produce design flaws that can cause serious problems in ……続きを見る

Physics underlies all complexity, including our own existence: how is this possible? How can our own lives emerge from interactions of electrons, protons, and neutrons? This book considers the inter……続きを見る

The Essays which follow represent an attempt at intellectual coöperation. No effort has been made, however, to attain unanimity of belief nor to proffer a platform of "planks" on which there is agre……続きを見る

This comprehensive book, rich with applications, offers a quantitative framework for the analysis of the various capture-recapture models for open animal populations, while also addressing associate……続きを見る

As timely now as it was when it was first published in 1997, Darwin Among the Machines tells the story of humankind's long journey into the digital age. Historian of technology George Dyson traces t……続きを見る

Picture a world of dog-sized scorpions and millipedes as long as a car; tropical rainforests with trees towering over 150 feet into the sky and a giant polar continent five times larger than Antarct……続きを見る

An analysis of patterns of convergent evolution on Earth that suggests where we might look for similar convergent forms on other planets. Why does a sea lily look like a palm tree? And why is a sea ……続きを見る

First published in 1842, this vintage book contains part two of Charles Darwin's “The Zoology of The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle”, a fascinating and detailed account of the research he did whilst aboard……続きを見る

EVOLUTION OF ISLAND MAMMALS Evolution on islands differs in a number of important ways from evolution on mainland areas. Over millions of years of isolation, exceptional and sometimes bizarre mammal……続きを見る

**Finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction and the 2023 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Winner of the Acoustical Society of America's 2023 Science Communication Awar……続きを見る

Picture a world of dog-sized scorpions and millipedes as long as a car; tropical rainforests with trees towering over 150 feet into the sky and a giant polar continent five times larger than Antarct……続きを見る

In 'The Scientific Evidences of Organic Evolution' by George John Romanes, the reader is taken on a profound exploration of the scientific evidence supporting the theory of organic evolution. Romane……続きを見る

George John Romanes' 'Mental Evolution in Man: Origin of Human Faculty' is a groundbreaking work that explores the development of the human mind and its evolution. Delving into the fields of psychol……続きを見る

Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, arguably the most important book written in English in the nineteenth century, transformed the way we looked at the world. It is usually assumed that this ……続きを見る

'Full of historical anecdotes . . . but this is much more than a history book. [George Dyson] weaves his threads together for a purpose. Using voices of the past and present, he describes a fresh an……続きを見る

Biological control is the suppression of populations of pests and weeds by living organisms. These organisms can provide important protection from invasive species and protect our environment by red……続きを見る

Living things are constantly engaged in a struggle for existence, and ingenious devices for the purpose of self-preservation can be seen in all types of animal and plant life. However, nature also d……続きを見る

There are a great many people who constantly wonder why we are having all this fuss about the theory of evolution. Many think it a shame that professing Christians should engage in such an unseemly ……続きを見る

In this thesis two variants of the fast variable elimination method are developed. They are intuitive, simple to implement and give results which are in very good agreement with those found from num……続きを見る

PROCESSES AND PERSPECTIVES deals with the evolution/creation issue, but in a different manner from the usual mainstream works. As a retired professional biologist and Christian, I defend Darwins bas……続きを見る

Introduction and Preface It was in the course of some researches into the origin of the Child Protection movement in this country that I discovered how little attention had been paid to the historic……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

Charles Darwin is well-known throughout the world for his revolutionary work from 1859; The Origin of Species, the foundational study of evolution which greatly challenged the near-universal belief ……続きを見る

Versión española de "La fleur au fusil" La relación entre nuestro bioma y los suelos que producen nuestros alimentos. Cómo conseguir una nutrición completa. Comprensión y soluciones de la contaminac……続きを見る

While much attention has been given to animal life in amber, the remains of a variety of plants, including angiosperm flowers, also exist in fossilized resin. Presented here is a pictorial synopsis ……続きを見る

A comprehensive intellectual history of America’s century-old debate over teaching evolution in public schools. For well over a century, the United States has witnessed a prolonged debate over the t……続きを見る

In George John Romanes' seminal work, 'The Scientific Evidences of Organic Evolution', the author presents a comprehensive examination of the evidence supporting Charles Darwin's theory of evolution……続きを見る

« ... Cette relation entre la couleur des animaux et la lumière est évidente pour ceux qui habitent la terre et l’air ; ils sont d’autant plus brillants qu’ils baignent davantage dans les rayons du ……続きを見る

"Kant y el chimpancé" aborda un tema crucial: cuánto persiste de animal en nuestra naturaleza. Los seres humanos oscilamos entre la animalidad primaria de un chimpancé y la excelencia intelectual de……続きを見る