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Gaining Ground

The Origin and Evolution of Tetrapods

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Serier serie Life of the Past
Around 370 million years ago, a distant relative of a modern lungfish began a most extraordinary adventure—emerging from the water and laying claim to the land. Over the next 70 million years, this tentative beachhead had developed into a worldwide colonization by ever-increasing varieties of four-limbed creatures known as tetrapods, the ancestors of all vertebrate life on land. This new edition ... Læs mere

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Coral Reefs in the Anthropocene

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Serier serie Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
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Serier serie Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
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Serier serie Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
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The Early Evolution of Language

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af Pierre Bancel ...

This book proposes a step‑by‑step process through which the early evolution of human language originated. Starting from an ape‑like communication system, prehuman ancestors were "pumped" out of the rainforest by cyclic climate changes between 10 to 6 million years ago and subjected to harsh predatory conditions and the absence of safe havens. A phonetic "modal voice" evolved in response. ... Læs mere

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Biology of the Three-Spined Stickleback

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af Athena Aktipis ...

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Serier serie Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
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Ecology and Behaviour of the African Buffalo

Social inequality and decision making

af H.H.T Prins ...

Serier serie Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
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af Dr. Marcus L. Fenwick ...

What counts as life when the rules seem designed to make life impossible? In The Impossible Survivors, readers journey to Earth’s harshest places—boiling hydrothermal vents, Antarctic ice, acid pools, salt flats, and the deep subsurface—to meet microbes that do far more than endure: they flourish. For anyone fascinated by nature, evolution, or the search for alien life, this book reveals why ... Læs mere

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A Brief History of the Mind

From Apes to Intellect and Beyond

af William H. Calvin ...

This book looks back at the simpler versions of mental life in apes, Neanderthals, and our ancestors, back before our burst of creativity started 50,000 years ago. When you can't think about the future in much detail, you are trapped in a here-and-now existence with no "What if" and "Why me?" William H. Calvin takes stock of what we have now and then explains why we are nearing a crossroads, where ... Læs mere

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Death on Earth

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af Mr Jules Howard ...

There is nothing more life-affirming than understanding death in all its forms.Natural selection depends on death; little would evolve without it. Every animal on Earth is shaped by its presence and fashioned by its spectre. We are all survivors of starvation, drought, volcanic eruptions, meteorites, plagues, parasites, predators, freak weather events, tussles and scraps, and our bodies are shaped ... Læs mere

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Gaining Ground

Coral Reefs in the Anthropocene

The Lives of Lepidopterists

Evolution of the Human Genome II

Einführung in die BIOinformatik

The Current Within

The Intimate Animal

The Genetics of Political Behavior

Man the Hunter

The Heart, The Pathway of Light

In Psychic Defense

Evolutionary History of the Robust Australopithecines

Revolutionary Biology

Mind Shift

Shadow Sophia

Palaeogeography and Palaeobiogeography: Biodiversity in Space and Time

The Early Evolution of Language

Biology of the Three-Spined Stickleback

The Cheating Cell

Biopoetics

Ecology and Behaviour of the African Buffalo

The Impossible Survivors

A Brief History of the Mind

Death on Earth