Автор: Striedter Название: Principles of Brain Evolution.2005 ISBN: 0878938206 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780878938209 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 9816 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Brain Evolution is a complex weave of species similarities and differences, bound by diverse rules or principles. This book is a detailed examination of these principles, using data from a wide array of vertebrates but minimizing technical details and terminology. It is written for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and more senior scientists who already know something about 'the brain,' but want a deeper understanding of how diverse brains evolved. The book opens with a brief history of evolutionary neuroscience, then introduces the various groups of vertebrates and their major brain regions. The core of the text explores: what aspects of brain organization are conserved across the vertebrates; how brains and bodies changed in size as vertebrates evolved; how individual brain regions tend to increase or decrease in size; how regions can become structurally more (or less) complex; and how neuronal circuitry evolves. A central theme emerges from these chapters-that evolutionary changes in brain size tend to correlate with many other aspects of brain structure and function, including the proportional size of individual brain regions, their complexity, and their neuronal connections. To explain these correlations, the book delves into rules of brain development and asks how changes in brain structure impact function and behaviour. The final two chapters demonstrate the application of these rules, focusing on how mammal brains diverged from other brains and how Homo sapiens evolved a very large and 'special' brain.
Автор: Paul Falkowski Название: Evolution of Primary Producers in the Sea, ISBN: 0123705185 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780123705181 Издательство: Elsevier Science Рейтинг: Цена: 7848 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Evolution of Primary Producersin the Sea reference examines how photosynthesis evolved on Earth and how phytoplankton evolved through time – ultimately to permit the evolution of complex life, including human beings. The first of its kind, this book provides thorough coverage of key topics, with contributions by leading experts in biophysics, evolutionary biology, micropaleontology, marine ecology, and biogeochemistry.This exciting new book is of interest not only to students and researchers in marine science, but also to evolutionary biologists and ecologists interested in understanding the origins and diversification of life. Evolution of Primary Producersin the Sea offers these students and researchers an understanding of the molecular evolution, phylogeny, fossil record, and environmental processes that collectively permits us to comprehend the rise of phytoplankton and their impact on Earth's ecology and biogeochemistry. It is certain to become the first and best word on this exhilarating topic.
Описание: Examining the defining moments in the history of evolutionary biology, ecology and environmental ethics, this volume views such material as linked and attempts to trace their common epistemological tendencies, a task of urgent scientific necessity.
Автор: Charlesworth, Brian (Institute of Cell, Animal and Название: Evolution: A Very Short Introduction ISBN: 0192802518 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780192802514 Издательство: Oxford Education Рейтинг: Цена: 1483 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Talks about the role of evolutionary biology in transforming our view of human origins and relation to the universe, and the impact of this idea on traditional philosophy and religion. This book aims to introduce some of the important findings, concepts, and procedures of evolutionary biology.
Автор: Elliott Sober Название: Evidence and Evolution ISBN: 0521871883 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521871884 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Цена: 9176 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: How should the concept of evidence be understood? And how does the concept of evidence apply to the controversy about creationism as well as to work in evolutionary biology about natural selection and common ancestry? In this rich and wide-ranging book, Elliott Sober investigates general questions about probability and evidence and shows how the answers he develops to those questions apply to the specifics of evolutionary biology. Drawing on a set of fascinating examples, he analyzes whether claims about intelligent design are untestable; whether they are discredited by the fact that many adaptations are imperfect; how evidence bears on whether present species trace back to common ancestors; how hypotheses about natural selection can be tested, and many other issues. His book will interest all readers who want to understand philosophical questions about evidence and evolution, as they arise both in Darwin's work and in contemporary biological research.
Автор: N. R. Scott-Ram Название: Transformed Cladistics, Taxonomy and Evolution ISBN: 052105513X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521055130 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4107 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: This book examines the relationship between classification and evolutionary theory, with reference to the competing schools of taxonomic thinking. Emphasis is placed on one of these schools, the transformed cladists, who have attempted to reject all evolutionary thinking in classification and to cast doubt on evolution in general. The author examines the limits to this line of thought from a philosophical and methodological perspective rather than from a biological viewpoint. He concludes that transformed cladistics does not achieve what it claims and that it either implicity assumes a Platonic World View, or is unintelligible without taking into account evolutionary processes - the very processes it claims to reject. Through this analysis the author attempts to formulate criteria, of an objective and consistent nature, that can be used to judge competing methodologies and theories without resorting to any particular theoretical standpoint for justification. Philosophers of science, zoologists interested in taxonomy and evolutionary biologists will find this a compelling study of an area of biological thought that has been attracting a great deal of attention.
Автор: Robert J. Morley Название: Origin and Evolution of Tropical Rain Forests ISBN: 0471983268 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780471983262 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 40597 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: This book provides the first comprehensive review of the history of tropical rainforests on a long-term geological time scale, beginning with the origin of the angiosperms over 100 million years ago, which today overwhelmingly dominate these forests. Rainforests are reviewed on a continent-by-continent basis, culminating with a global synthesis of their history in relation to the changing positions of the world's tectonic plates and changing climates. The book establishes the age of the great tropical rainforest blocks and compares 20Th-century rainforest destruction with prehistoric forest clearance in temperate regions.
Автор: Michael Ruse Название: Darwinism and its Discontents ISBN: 052182947X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521829472 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3970 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Presenting an ardent defence of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, this book offers a clear and comprehensive exposition of Darwin’s thinking. Michael Ruse brings the story up to date, examining the origins of life, the fossil record, and the mechanism of natural selection. Rival theories are explored, from punctuated equilibrium to human evolution (including the recently found ‘hobbits’, Homo floresiensis). The philosophical and religious implications of Darwinism are discussed, including a discussion of Creationism and its modern day offshoot, Intelligent Design Theory. Ruse draws upon the most recent discoveries, writing with a minimum of jargon in order to appeal to all readers, from professional biologists to those concerned that Darwinism is a naturalistic religion that is forced on school children despite their own Christian convictions. Openly revealing his own beliefs, Ruse presents readers with all the information and critical tools they need to make an informed decision on evolutionary theory.
Описание: This reissued volume studies the effect of Darwin's biological theories on American society and thought.
Автор: Edited by Walter D. Koenig Название: Ecology and Evolution of Cooperative Breeding in Birds ISBN: 0521530997 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521530996 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 9037 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Cooperative breeders are species in which more than a pair of individuals assist in the production of young. Cooperative breeding is found in only a few hundred bird species world-wide, and understanding this often strikingly altruistic behaviour has remained an important challenge in behavioural ecology for over 30 years. This book highlights the theoretical, empirical and technical advances that have taken place in the field of cooperative breeding research since the publication of the seminal work Cooperative Breeding in Birds: Long-term Studies of Behavior and Ecology (1990, HB ISBN 0521 372984, PB ISBN 0521 378907). Organized conceptually, special attention is given to ways in which cooperative breeders have proved fertile subjects for testing modern advances to classic evolutionary problems including those of sexual selection, sex-ratio manipulation, life-history evolution, partitioning of reproduction and incest avoidance. It will be of interest to both students and researchers interested in behaviour and ecology.
Автор: Timothy Shanahan Название: The Evolution of Darwinism ISBN: 0521834139 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521834131 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 9311 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: No other scientific theory has had as tremendous an impact on our understanding of the world as Darwin’s theory as outlined in his Origin of Species, yet from the very beginning the theory has been subject to controversy. The Evolution of Darwinism focuses on three issues of debate - the nature of selection, the nature and scope of adaptation, and the question of evolutionary progress. It traces the varying interpretations to which these issues were subjected from the beginning and the fierce contemporary debates that still rage on and explores their implications for the greatest questions of all: Where we come from, who we are and where we might be heading. Written in a clear and non-technical style, this book will be of use as a textbook for students in the philosophy of science who need to become familiar with the background to the debates about evolution.
Автор: Ruse, Michael Название: Darwinism and its discontents ISBN: 052172824X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521728249 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3148 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Presenting an ardent defence of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, this book offers a clear and comprehensive exposition of Darwin’s thinking. Michael Ruse brings the story up to date, examining the origins of life, the fossil record, and the mechanism of natural selection. Rival theories are explored, from punctuated equilibrium to human evolution (including the recently found ‘hobbits’, Homo floresiensis). The philosophical and religious implications of Darwinism are discussed, including a discussion of Creationism and its modern day offshoot, Intelligent Design Theory. Ruse draws upon the most recent discoveries, writing with a minimum of jargon in order to appeal to all readers, from professional biologists to those concerned that Darwinism is a naturalistic religion that is forced on school children despite their own Christian convictions. Openly revealing his own beliefs, Ruse presents readers with all the information and critical tools they need to make an informed decision on evolutionary theory.
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