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Lowly Origin: Where, When, and Why Our Ancestors First Stood Up
ISBN: 9780691120287 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 of the things that apes cannot do: cross wide open spaces, manipulate complex tools, communicate with new signal systems, and light fires. Titled after the last two words of Darwin's Descent of Man and written by a leading scholar of human evolution, Lowly Origin is the first book to explain the sources and consequences of bipedalism to a broad audience. Along the way, it accounts... 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 ance... |
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222,71 zł |
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Nature: An Economic History
ISBN: 9780691127934 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From humans to hermit crabs to deep water plankton, all living things compete for locally limiting resources. This universal truth unites three bodies of thought--economics, evolution, and history--that have developed largely in mutual isolation. Here, Geerat Vermeij undertakes a groundbreaking and provocative exploration of the facts and theories of biology, economics, and geology to show how processes common to all economic systems--competition, cooperation, adaptation, and feedback--govern evolution as surely as they do the human economy, and how historical patterns in both human and... From humans to hermit crabs to deep water plankton, all living things compete for locally limiting resources. This universal truth unites three bod... |
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185,59 zł |
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Children of Prometheus: The Accelerating Pace of Human Evolution
ISBN: 9780738201689 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Are we still evolving? Scientists have grappled with this question since the time of Darwin. Now, in this provocative book, biologist Christopher Wills argues that we are not only continuing to evolve but that our pace of change is accelerating. He examines the rapid, short-term evolutionary change taking place in people living at the earth's extremes (even as babies, Tibetans can draw in more oxygen than lowlanders), and the new physiology of those who participate in extreme sports. But the more we shape our environment, the more it seems to shape us: Whether the future has us wiring our...
Are we still evolving? Scientists have grappled with this question since the time of Darwin. Now, in this provocative book, biologist Christopher Will...
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94,67 zł |
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The Spark Of Life
ISBN: 9780738204932 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A highly readable survey of the historical prelude to the study of the origins of life, as well as selected areas of current research, including the search for extraterrestrial life."-NatureWhere did we come from? Did life arise on earth or on some other planet? What did the earliest primitive organisms look like? Untangling a century of contentious debate, the authors explore current theories of the source of life-from Martian meteors to hydrothermal vents-and then present their own elegant scenario: Life arose not in the subterranean depths, as many believe, but on Earth's tumultuous...
"A highly readable survey of the historical prelude to the study of the origins of life, as well as selected areas of current research, including the ...
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94,67 zł |
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Artificial Worlds: Computers, Complexity, and the Riddle of Life
ISBN: 9780738208718 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An exciting exploration of how complexity theory is answering all of our questions about evolution and might even show us how life developed.
An exciting exploration of how complexity theory is answering all of our questions about evolution and might even show us how life developed.
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126,78 zł |
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The Species Problem: Biological Species, Ontology, and the Metaphysics of Biology
ISBN: 9780739105030 / Angielski / Twarda / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this provocative work, David N. Stamos tackles the problem of determining exactly what a biological species is: in short, whether species are real and the nature of their reality. Although many have written on this topic, The Species Problem is the only comprehensive single-authored book on this central concern of biology. Stamos critically considers the evolution of the three major contemporary views of species: species nominalism, species as classes, and species as individuals. Finally, he develops his own solution to the species problem, a solution aimed at providing a universal species...
In this provocative work, David N. Stamos tackles the problem of determining exactly what a biological species is: in short, whether species are real ...
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609,79 zł |
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The Collapse of Darwinism: Or the Rise of a Realist Theory of Life
ISBN: 9780739106136 / Angielski / Twarda / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this provocative work, noted social and economic theorist Graeme D. Snooks exposes fatal flaws in the foundations of the Darwinian theory of evolution, which he deems an "artificial algorithm," as well as the neo-Darwinian synthesis adopted by many social scientists. Utilizing the historical method, Snooks develops a remarkable replacement theory of evolution, which he calls the "dynamic-strategy" theory. While the neo-Darwinian position places too great an emphasis on genetic change giving rise to untenable but popular concepts such as the "selfish gene" and fails to explain the...
In this provocative work, noted social and economic theorist Graeme D. Snooks exposes fatal flaws in the foundations of the Darwinian theory of evolut...
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567,37 zł |
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No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased Without Intelligence
ISBN: 9780742512979 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Darwin's greatest accomplishment was to show how life might be explained as the result of natural selection. But does Darwin's theory mean that life was unintended? William A. Dembski argues that it does not. In this book Dembski extends his theory of intelligent design. Building on his earlier work in The Design Inference (Cambridge, 1998), he defends that life must be the product of intelligent design. Critics of Dembski's work have argued that evolutionary algorithms show that life can be explained apart from intelligence. But by employing powerful recent results from the No Free Lunch...
Darwin's greatest accomplishment was to show how life might be explained as the result of natural selection. But does Darwin's theory mean that life w...
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323,45 zł |
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Nature's Destiny: How the Laws of Biology Reveal Purpose in the Universe
ISBN: 9780743237628 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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128,94 zł |
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Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
ISBN: 9780743290319 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Darwin's Black Box helped to launch the Intelligent Design movement: the argument that nature exhibits evidence of design, beyond Darwinian randomness. Today, with the movement stronger than ever, Michael J. Behe updates the book with an important new Afterword on the state of the debate. --Time Naming Darwin's Black Box to the National Review's list of the 100 most important nonfiction works of the twentieth century, George Gilder wrote that it "overthrows Darwin at the end of the twentieth century in the same way that quantum theory overthrew Newton at the...
Darwin's Black Box helped to launch the Intelligent Design movement: the argument that nature exhibits evidence of design, beyond Darwinian ran...
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86,10 zł |
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Thermophiles: The Keys to the Molecular Evolution and the Origin of Life?
ISBN: 9780748407477 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Late-1990s developments in the study of thermophiles have had considerable significance on theories of evolution. These micro-organisms are able to thrive at temperatures near or even above 100 degrees celcius, and scientists have begun to study their biology in an attempt to provide clues about the beginnings of life on our planet.
Late-1990s developments in the study of thermophiles have had considerable significance on theories of evolution. These micro-organisms are able to th...
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1083,03 zł |
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Homology and Systematics: Coding Characters for Phylogenetic Analysis
ISBN: 9780748409204 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Systematists, comparative biologists, taxonomists and evolutionary biologists all concern themselves with the evolutionary relationships between animals and plants. Homology is the principle underlying these disciplines. When looking at groups of organisms, similarities between them (homologies) suggest a close common ancestor. For example, human and porcine insulin is very similar in structure (porcine insulin was once used to treat human diabetics). However, there are usually characteristics which would oppose such theories. For example: totally different foetal development, and the...
Systematists, comparative biologists, taxonomists and evolutionary biologists all concern themselves with the evolutionary relationships between anima...
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579,30 zł |
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In Darwin's Image: How Human Biology Confirms Evolution Theory
ISBN: 9780759622418 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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102,21 zł |
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Journey Back to Eternity: The Story of Creation
ISBN: 9780759676855 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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74,29 zł |
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New Principles of Origins and Evolution: Revolutionary Paradigms of Beauty, Power and Precision
ISBN: 9780759684171 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Well-substantiated, overwhelmingly persuasive evidence, structured with works of Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, Descartes, Einstein and Scarborough's revolutionary Fourth Law of Planetary Motion (1995), supports definitive paradigms that are destined to displace conjectural beliefs about solar system origins and planetary evolution.
Well-substantiated, overwhelmingly persuasive evidence, structured with works of Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, Descartes, Einstein and Scarborough's rev...
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94,77 zł |
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Snapshots of the Past
ISBN: 9780761991090 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Archaeology has been a subject of endless fascination to scholars, students and the general public. For the past three decades, Prof. Brian Fagan has been the key narrator of the story of the past for many, through his textbooks, trade books and numerous magazine and journal articles. In recent years, Fagan has reported on the latest news, theories, and controversies in archaeology through his regular Timelines column in Archaeology Magazine. In Snapshots of the Past, Fagan collects many of these vignettes into a single work, leading the reader on a tour through time and space that ranges...
Archaeology has been a subject of endless fascination to scholars, students and the general public. For the past three decades, Prof. Brian Fagan has ...
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307,65 zł |
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Handbook of the Evolution of Human Sexuality
ISBN: 9780789035080 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Human sexuality can be better understood by knowing how sexual psychologies may have evolved throughout the ages. Handbook of the Evolution of Human Sexuality presents a detailed examination of human sexuality, the assumptions about concepts and terms pertaining to sexuality, and the latest theories on the evolution of human sexual attraction. Leading experts explore various aspects of evolutionary theory, with a focus on Evolutionary Psychology (EP). Discussions include mate preferences, mating behavior, mate signaling, pheromones, and same-sex attraction. This comprehensive source also...
Human sexuality can be better understood by knowing how sexual psychologies may have evolved throughout the ages. Handbook of the Evolution of Human S...
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362,64 zł |
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Trees of Life: Essays in Philosophy of Biology
ISBN: 9780792317098 / Angielski / Twarda / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Australia and New Zealand boast an active community of scholars working in the field of history, philosophy and social studies of science. - Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science' aims to provide a distinctive publication outlet for their work. Each volume comprises a group of essays on a connected theme, edited by an Australian or a New Zealander with special expertise in that particular area .. In each volume, a majority of the contributors is from Australia or New Zealand. O;mtributions from elsewhere are by no means ruled out, however, and are indeed actively...
Australia and New Zealand boast an active community of scholars working in the field of history, philosophy and social studies of science. - Australas...
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381,06 zł |
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Evolutionary Systems: Biological and Epistemological Perspectives on Selection and Self-Organization
ISBN: 9780792352600 / Angielski / Twarda / 438 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The three well known revolutions of the past centuries - the Copernican, the Darwinian and the Freudian - each in their own way had a deflating and mechanizing effect on the position of humans in nature. They opened up a richness of disillusion: earth acquired a more modest place in the universe, the human body and mind became products of a long material evolutionary history, and human reason, instead of being the central, immaterial, locus of understanding, was admitted into the theater of discourse only as a materialized and frequently out-of-control actor. Is there something objectionable...
The three well known revolutions of the past centuries - the Copernican, the Darwinian and the Freudian - each in their own way had a deflating and me...
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647,83 zł |
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Evolutionary Theory and Processes: Modern Perspectives: Papers in Honour of Eviatar Nevo
ISBN: 9780792355182 / Angielski / Twarda / 466 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volwne consists ofpapers written by evolutionary, molecular and organismal biologists, geneticists, ecologists, behavioural ecologists, morphologists, mathematicians, theoreticians and experimentalists, in honour of Professor Eviatar (Eibi) Nevo on the occasion ofhis seventieth birthday. The contributors are only a small subset ofEibi's many friends, collaborators and students (not that one can distinguish these categories among Eibi's colleagues). His widespread influence and activity, both in Ismel and more genemlly, as a leading evolutionary biologist is indicated by his many...
This volwne consists ofpapers written by evolutionary, molecular and organismal biologists, geneticists, ecologists, behavioural ecologists, morpholog...
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762,15 zł |
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