394 books (20 pages) in this category
The Human Event; or, The Origin of the Human Species; or, The Chimp and the Double Chromosome
The Chromosomal Fusion Event that Separated Us From Other Apes
by Man Running Free
<p>Human chromosome 2 was formed in a single chimpanzee by a fusion of chimpanzee chromosomes 2A and 2B. The progeny of this chimp formed a family with 46-chromosomes. This family could not breed with the rest of the 48-chromosome chimps. As a ...
ISBN: 9780578428901
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eBookby Razie Mah
<p>Why is the current story of human evolution so dissatisfying?<br /> The answer is simple. It is not adequate.<br /> To date, modern biological theories are built on the idea that adaptation responds to material advantage or causation, ...
ISBN: 9781942824428
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eBookThe Indispensable Excess of the Aesthetic
Evolution of Sensibility in Nature
by Katya Mandoki
<p><em>The**Indispensable Excess of the Aesthetic: Evolution of Sensibility in Nature</em> traces the evolution of sensibility from the most primal indications detectable at the level of cellular receptors and plant tendril sensitivity, animal ...
ISBN: 9781498503075
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eBookAnatomy and Evolution
by Gary W. Kaiser
<p>Birds are among the most successful vertebrates on Earth. An important part of our natural environment and deeply embedded in our culture, birds are studied by more professional ornithologists and enjoyed by more amateur enthusiasts than ever
ISBN: 9780774859813
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eBookby Pierre Doucet & Paul Doucet
<p>How does a single acorn produce an intricate structure of branches and leaves? How do migrating birds organize into sweeping patterns across the sky? How does a grounded caterpillar acquire wings and the gift of flight? These are just a few ...
ISBN: 9781770844896
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eBookby Douglas Dewar
<p>The purpose of this book is well expressed in the Preface by the statement of the authors that each had a feeling that the problems of the origin of species had not been settled, and alone each one felt unable to attack and settle so ...
ISBN: 1230002048222
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eBookVolume I of II
by Alfred Russel Wallace
<p> The Malay Archipelago is a book by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace that chronicles his scientific exploration, during the eight year period 1854 to 1862, of the southern portion of the Malay Archipelago including Malaysia, ...
ISBN: 1230000098070
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eBookVolume II of II
by Alfred Russel Wallace
<p> The Malay Archipelago is a book by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace that chronicles his scientific exploration, during the eight year period 1854 to 1862, of the southern portion of the Malay Archipelago including Malaysia, ...
ISBN: 1230000098071
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eBookCompassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics
by Michael Shermer
<p><strong>Bestselling author Michael Shermer explains how evolution shaped the modern economy—and why people are so irrational about money</strong></p> <p>How did we make the leap from ancient hunter-gatherers to modern consumers and traders? ...
ISBN: 9781429924436
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eBookEvolution Its Amazing Truths and Neglected Mysteries
by Beck Anamin
<p>One could think of The Mineral Eaters as a mosaic of the information in other books that separately portray the evolutions of the universe, the planet, life, and our species. Early on, the book brings attention to major mysteries. The first ...
ISBN: 9781543950670
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eBookThe Modes of Origin of Lowest Organisms
by H. Charlton Basian
<p>The Modes of Origin of Lowest Organisms is a short overview of the origin of bacteria, and discussion of early experiments. A table of contents is included.</p> ...
ISBN: 9781508018674
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eBookHuman Nature and the Origins of War
by David Livingstone Smith
<p>Almost 200 million human beings, mostly civilians, have died in wars over the last century, and there is no end of slaughter in sight.<br /> <em>The Most Dangerous Animal</em> asks what it is about human nature that makes it possible for ...
ISBN: 9781429994637
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eBookThe Nature of Difference: Science, Society and Human Biology (PBK)
by Ellison, George
Unprecedented advances in genetics and biotechnology have brought profound new insights into human biological variation. These present challenges and opportunities for understanding the origins of human nature, the nature of difference, and the ...
ISBN: 9781420004175
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eBookby Warren LeRoi Johns
<p>We are not an accident of nature, nor a transit life form put together by the luck of the draw. Life can neither design nor create itself from non-living matter. Life on Planet Earth, complete with its supporting ecosystem, exists in obedient
ISBN: 9780979095825
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eBookThe Origin and Evolution of Cultures
by Robert Boyd & Peter J. Richerson
<p>Oxford presents, in one convenient and coherently organized volume, 20 influential but until now relatively inaccessible articles that form the backbone of Boyd and Richerson's path-breaking work on evolution and culture. Their ...
ISBN: 9780199883127
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eBookby Anab Whitehouse
<p>The current book is not about trying to prove the truth of this or that scientific or religious account about the origins of either human beings, in particular, or life, in general. ‘The Origin of Life' is about the problems surrounding the ...
ISBN: 9780463063613
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eBookThe Origin of Life on the Earth: Held at Moscow, 19-24 August 1957
by Oparin, A. I.
The Origin of Life on the Earth covers the proceedings of the First International Symposium of The Origin of Life on the Earth, held at Moscow on August 19-24, 1957. This symposium brings together numerous scientific studies on the evolutionary ...
ISBN: 9781483222400
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eBookby Charles Darwin
<p>The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin must rank as one of the most influential and consequential books ever published, initiating scientific, social and religious ferment ever since its first publication in 1859. Its full title is The ...
ISBN: 1230003053690
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eBookby Charles Darwin
<p><strong>Introduction by Edward J. Larson</strong><br /> <br /> ?Perhaps the most readable and accessible of the great works of scientific inquiry, <em>The Origin of Species</em> sold out its first printing on the very day it was published ...
ISBN: 9780679641308
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eBookby Charles Darwin
<p>In his famous work, Charles Darwin presents the theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through the process of natural selection.</p> ...
ISBN: 9781387584581
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