This collection of the highly regarded Herbert Spencer Lectures (Oxford University) is intended to survey the profound influence on many disciplines of the Darwinian theory of evolution by natural selection....
National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, Committee on the Earth ... among research institutions, museums, science centers, and national scientific and education organizations, ...
A beginner's guide to and critical assessment of Bruce Cockburn's music and influence. Includes interviews with musicians, producers, activists, as well as Bruce Cockburn himself. The book considers the life altering potential of music.
An approach suggested to obviate the above limitations is based on the “Robertson-Price Identity” (Robertson 1966, Price 1970): ∆Z 5 COV(z,w). where COV(zw,) is the additive genetic covariance between a trait z and fitness.
This thought-provoking book cuts through the conceptual tangle at the intersection of mutation, randomness, and evolution, offering a fresh, far-reaching, and testable view of the role of variation as a dispositional evolutionary factor.
A valuable overview and analysis of foundational concepts in animal behaviour studies, including information, meaning, communication, signals and cues.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there...
Diogo R, Peng, Z, Wood B. 2013b. First comparative study of morphological and molecular evolutionary rates within primates: implications for the tempo and mode of primate and human evolution. J Anat 222:410–418. Diogo R, Smith C, ...
As he described it in an autobiographical chapter written toward the end of his life, the theory of organic selection involved the claim that: "natural selection operating on "spontaneous variations" is sufficient alone to produce ...
This book includes material written by top global scientists. Such detailed summaries and recent advances include topics like genomics, epigenetics, evolutionary theory, and the evolution of cancer.