Kategoria BISAC: Science >> Life Sciences - Evolution

How did social communication evolve in primates? In this volume, primatologists, linguists, anthropologists, cognitive scientists and philosophers of science systematically analyze how their specific disciplines demarcate the research questions and methodologies involved in the study of the evolutionary origins of social communication in primates in general and in humans in particular. In the first part of the book, historians and philosophers of science address how the epistemological frameworks associated with primate communication and language evolution studies have changed over time...

The editors draw together a number of...

This book collects three outstanding examples of the work of Mexican biologist Alfonso Luis Herrera (1868-1943), a pioneer in experimental origins of life research. Two of the collected works appear here in English for the first time. Herrera's works represent the attempt to deal experimentally with the issue of an autotrophic origin of life, a possibility that was widely accepted prior to Alexander I. Oparin's ideas regarding the possibility of organic synthesis and the origin of life in an early Earth environment. An active promoter of Darwinian ideas in Latin America, Herrera was also...

Weit springen oder tief tauchen: Welche Vorteile bieten diese Fahigkeiten, und warum sind sie moglich? Auf diese und andere Fragen mehr liefert das Buch Antworten anhand von Beispielen und Erlauterungen der Zusammenhange. Es ist in drei Teile gegliedert: Ubersicht uber die grossen Wirbeltier-Gruppen; Vergleichende Anatomie der Organsysteme; Physikalische und biomechanische Grundsteine der Funktionsmorphologie. Gute Lesbarkeit, klare Erklarungen und der direkte Bezug zu biologischen Beispielen machen dieses Buch zu einer einzigartigen Wissensquelle.

Year 2009 was the triumph of Darwin as a global superstar, spinning from the pop icon to the actual understanding to what make him a great innovator, able to give a turn to whole modern culture. Does all this activity mean evolution has lost its ability to excite fear and opposition? After such a deluge of books, conferences, reviews, gadgets, what is today our vision on theory of Evolution and its Impact? These are the questions asked at an inter-academy conference held in Torino (May 27-29, 2010) among the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei...

Molluscan Communities of the Florida Keys and Adjacent Areas: Their Ecology and Biodiversity is the first comprehensive overview of the ecology and biodiversity of the phylum Mollusca in the area of Florida extending from the Dry Tortugas and Ten Thousand Islands in the west to Palm Beach in the east. The book provides detailed analyses of molluscan faunas found in 20 different ecosystems, emphasizing the marine environments of the Florida Keys archipelago and its extensive coral reef tracts.

Full-page color illustrations portray living animals, unique Keys...