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  • The Process of Animal Domestication

    The first modern scholarly synthesis of animal domesticationAcross the globe and at different times in the past millennia, the evolutionary history of domesticated animals has been greatly affected by the myriad, complex, and diverse interactions humans have had with the animals closest to them. The Process of Animal Domestication presents a broad synthesis of this subject, from the rich biology ... Leer más

    $667 MXN

  • Evolutionary Biology: Biodiversification from Genotype to Phenotype

    Edición de Pierre Pontarotti ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book presents 20 selected contributions to the 18th Evolutionary Biology Meeting, which took place in September 2014 in Marseille. They are grouped under the following major themes:· Genotype to Phenotype· Genetic Mechanisms of Diversification· Evolutionary Mechanisms· Speciation and BiodiversityThe aims of these annual meetings in Marseille are to bring together leading evolutionary ... Leer más

    $2,545 MXN

  • The Neanderthal Legacy

    An Archaeological Perspective from Western Europe

    The Neanderthals populated western Europe from nearly 250,000 to 30,000 years ago when they disappeared from the archaeological record. In turn, populations of anatomically modern humans, Homo sapiens, came to dominate the area. Seeking to understand the nature of this replacement, which has become a hotly debated issue, Paul Mellars brings together an unprecedented amount of information on the ... Leer más

    $654 MXN

  • Resource Strategies of Wild Plants

    Over millions of years, terrestrial plants have competed for limited resources, defended themselves against herbivores, and resisted a myriad of environmental stresses. These struggles have helped generate more than a quarter million terrestrial plant species, each possessing a unique strategy for success. Yet, as Resource Strategies of Wild Plants demonstrates, the constraints on plant growth are ... Leer más

    Antes $1,198 MXN Ahora $1,049 MXN

  • Evolution in a Toxic World

    How Life Responds to Chemical Threats

    With BPA in baby bottles, mercury in fish, and lead in computer monitors, the world has become a toxic place. But as Emily Monosson demonstrates in her groundbreaking new book, it has always been toxic. When oxygen first developed in Earth's atmosphere, it threatened the very existence of life: now we literally can't live without it. According to Monosson, examining how life adapted to such early ... Leer más

    $457 MXN

  • Beyond the Brain

    How Body and Environment Shape Animal and Human Minds

    A new approach to understanding animal and human cognitionWhen a chimpanzee stockpiles rocks as weapons or when a frog sends out mating calls, we might easily assume these animals know their own motivations--that they use the same psychological mechanisms that we do. But as Beyond the Brain indicates, this is a dangerous assumption because animals have different evolutionary trajectories, ... Leer más

    $840 MXN

  • Evolutionary Ecology of Parasites

    Second Edition

    de Robert Poulin ...
    Parasites have evolved independently in numerous animal lineages, and they now make up a considerable proportion of the biodiversity of life. Not only do they impact humans and other animals in fundamental ways, but in recent years they have become a powerful model system for the study of ecology and evolution, with practical applications in disease prevention. Here, in a thoroughly revised and ... Leer más

    Antes $1,332 MXN Ahora $1,173 MXN

  • Charles Darwin

    An Anthology

    Although his name has become a household word after he published Th e Origin of Species, a one-volume edition of his writings that covers the full gamut of his theoretical as well as scientific writings has not been available for many years. Charles Darwin: An Anthology, covers the heart of the five books for which the author is best known. This readable volume includes The Autobiography, The ... Leer más

    $1,183 MXN

  • Biogeology

    Evolution in a Changing Landscape

    Series series CRC Biogeography Series
    This detailed exposition gives background and context to how modern biogeography has got to where it is now. For biogeographers and other researchers interested in biodiversity and the evolution of life on islands, Biogeology: Evolution in a Changing Landscape provides an overview of a large swathe of the globe encompassing Wallacea and the western Pacific. The book contains the full text of the ... Leer más

    $3,858 MXN

  • The Adam Quest

    Eleven Scientists Who Held on to a Strong Faith While Wrestling with the Mystery of Human Origins

    de Tim Stafford ...
    Science and faith should be allies, not opponents, in the search for truth.But when it comes to understanding the very beginnings of life, it is no easy task to reconcile the history taught in the Bible with the discoveries of the scientific community.Author Tim Stafford watched the tension between the beliefs of Darwin and the teaching of Genesis shake the faith of his family, ruin friendships, ... Leer más

    $243 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Nature of Culture

    Based on an Interdisciplinary Symposium ‘The Nature of Culture’, Tübingen, Germany

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume introduces a model of the expansion of cultural capacity as a systemic approach with biological, historical and individual dimensions. It is contrasted with existing approaches from primatology and behavioural ecology; influential factors like differences in life history and demography are discussed; and the different stages of the development of cultural capacity in human evolution ... Leer más

    $909 MXN

  • Arthropod Biology and Evolution

    Molecules, Development, Morphology

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    More than two thirds of all living organisms described to date belong to the phylum Arthropoda. But their diversity, as measured in terms of species number, is also accompanied by an amazing disparity in terms of body form, developmental processes, and adaptations to every inhabitable place on Earth, from the deepest marine abysses to the earth surface and the air. The Arthropoda also include one ... Leer más

    $3,636 MXN

  • De club van ik

    Het evolutionaire nut van sociaal gedrag

    de Mark Nelissen ...
    Populaire wetenschap op zijn best: helder, humoristisch en stevig onderbouwd 'Sociaal en egoïstisch gedrag zijn geen tegengestelde uitersten, maar lopen sterk door elkaar. De mens is niet goed en niet slecht, hij is sociaal.' Honderdduizend jaar geleden wat het simpel: dit zijn wij, onze gemeenschap, ons dorp, en daar, kilometers verder, zijn zij, de vreemden. Intussen is onze samenleving veel ... Leer más

    $211 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Contingency and Convergence

    Toward a Cosmic Biology of Body and Mind

    Series series Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology
    Can we can use the patterns and processes of convergent evolution to make inferences about universal laws of life, on Earth and elsewhere?In this book, Russell Powell investigates whether we can use the patterns and processes of convergent evolution to make inferences about universal laws of life, on Earth and elsewhere. Weaving together disparate philosophical and empirical threads, Powell offers ... Leer más

    $741 MXN

  • The Ancient Origins of Consciousness

    How the Brain Created Experience

    How consciousness appeared much earlier in evolutionary history than is commonly assumed, and why all vertebrates and perhaps even some invertebrates are conscious.How is consciousness created? When did it first appear on Earth, and how did it evolve? What constitutes consciousness, and which animals can be said to be sentient? In this book, Todd Feinberg and Jon Mallatt draw on recent scientific ... Leer más

    $370 MXN

  • Evolution

    The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory

    Series Libro 17 - Modern Library Chronicles
    “I often said before starting, that I had no doubt I should frequently repent of the whole undertaking.” So wrote Charles Darwin aboard The Beagle, bound for the Galapagos Islands and what would arguably become the greatest and most controversial discovery in scientific history. But the theory of evolution did not spring full-blown from the head of Darwin. Since the dawn of humanity, priests, ... Leer más

    $201 MXN

  • Snowball Earth

    The Story of a Maverick Scientist and His Theory of the Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life As We Know It

    Did the Earth once undergo a super ice age, one that froze the entire planet from the poles to the equator? In Snowball Earth, gifted writer Gabrielle Walker has crafted an intriguing global adventure story, following maverick scientist Paul Hoffman’s quest to prove a theory so audacious and profound that it is shaking the world of earth sciences to its core.In lyrical prose that brings each ... Leer más

    $126 MXN

  • The Evolved Apprentice

    How Evolution Made Humans Unique

    de Kim Sterelny ...
    Series series Jean Nicod Lectures
    A new theory of the evolution of human cognition and human social life that emphasizes the role of information sharing across generations.Over the last three million years or so, our lineage has diverged sharply from those of our great ape relatives. Change has been rapid (in evolutionary terms) and pervasive. Morphology, life history, social life, sexual behavior, and foraging patterns have all ... Leer más

    $432 MXN

  • Niche Construction

    How Life Contributes to Its Own Evolution

    How niche construction theory extends evolutionary theory beyond natural selection to a more general theory about the coevolution of organisms with their environments.In Niche Construction, John Odling-Smee, the leading authority on niche construction theory, extends evolutionary theory from an explanation of how populations of organisms respond to natural selection pressures in their environments ... Leer más

    $802 MXN

  • The Evolution of Agency

    Behavioral Organization from Lizards to Humans

    A NEW APPROACH TO EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY: A leading developmental psychologist proposes an evolutionary pathway to understanding human psychological agency.Nature cannot build organisms biologically prepared for every contingency they might possibly encounter. Instead, Nature builds some organisms to function as feedback control systems that pursue goals, make informed behavioral decisions about ... Leer más

    $494 MXN

  • The First Human

    de Ann Gibbons ...
    In this dynamic account, award-winning science writer Ann Gibbons chronicles an extraordinary quest to answer the most primal of questions: When and where was the dawn of humankind?Following four intensely competitive international teams of scientists in a heated race to find the “missing link”–the fossil of the earliest human ancestor–Gibbons ventures to Africa, where she encounters a fascinating ... Leer más

    $90 MXN

  • How to Be Human

    The Manual

    de Ruby Wax ...
    *FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FRAZZLED*A three way encounter between a Monk, a neuroscientist and Ruby Wax sounds like the set up for a joke. Instead it's produced one of the most fascinating, intriguing and informative books about minds and bodies and brains and mindfulness I've ever encountered. A triangulation on what it means to be human. Utterly readable and surprisingly wise. ... Leer más

    $183 MXN

  • Goldfish Development and Evolution

    de Kinya G. Ota ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book explains how the beautiful goldfish body develops from a single fertilized egg and how this developmental process was changed during the process of domestication. The contents can be categorized as follows: i) numerous high-quality live photo images of embryonic and larval stage goldfish, ii) detailed descriptions of skeletogenesis with fluorescent microscopic and histological images, ... Leer más

    $2,182 MXN

  • Worms in Motion

    How Tiny Creatures Reveal the Deep History of Animal Life

    Series Libro 3 - The Nature Files
    Worms in Motion shows why some of the simplest animals on Earth are among the most revealing. In clear, accessible language, Nora F. Mercer explains how worm-like bodies help scientists investigate the deep history of animal life, from the earliest movements to the origins of body plans, symmetry, and support structures. Rather than treating worms as biological footnotes, this book places them at ... Leer más

    $51 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus