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"Many animals and plants eke out seemingly unremarkable lives. Passive, constrained, modest, threatened. Then, in a blink of evolutionary time, they flourish spectacularly. Once we start to look, these "sleeping beauties" crop up everywhere. But why? Looking at the book of life, from apex predators to keystone crops, and informed by his own cutting-edge experiments, renowned scientist Andreas Wagner demonstrates that innovations can come frequently...
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213 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
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"This book explores animal evolution and behaviour to explain how humans and birds came to share so much. How did we come to be so bird-like? Considering the answer to this question leads to an examination of the animal world that highlights fundamental and profound aspects of biology. The book looks at the value of movement in animals; the way in which traits such as intelligence, size, long life span, and the birth of very immature young are all...
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"In Eve, Cat Bohannon answers questions scientists should have been addressing for decades. With boundless curiosity and sharp wit, Bohannon covers the past 200 million years to explain the specific science behind the development of the female sex. Eve is not just a sweeping revision of human history, it's an urgent and necessary corrective for a world that has focused primarily on the male body for far too long. Bohannon's findings, including everything...
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"What makes a fish a fish? Why do giraffes have such long necks? How can all living things, from plants, tigers, and mushrooms to dragonflies, octopuses, and humans, be related? Evolution holds the answers to these, and many more, questions about life on Earth. This book explores what evolution is, how it works, and who discovered its secrets. It shows the journey of life, from the very first, simple life forms that developed on Earth 3.8 billion...
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This book examines some important key issues in the evolution versus creation debate, including the importance of the Big Bang, the building blocks of life, DNA information, archeological evidence. intelligent design, and near-death experiences. By the end of this brief discussion, you will better be able to know what you believe and explain why you believe it.
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Intelligent Design goes well beyond the evolution debate. This book explores the science of this vast subject from the universe to life as well as going down to cells and DNA. It argues that the origin of first life, complexities of a cell, unparallel information system in DNA and many perfect systems seen in all life can only come from intelligence. It also draws evidence from lesser explored topics such as the brain- the most complex in the universe,...
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The most important aspect of evolution, from a philosophical viewpoint, is the rise of complex, advanced creatures from simple, primitive ones. This "vertical" dimension of evolution has been downplayed in both the specialist and popular literature on evolution, in large part because it was in the past associated with unsavory political views. The avoidance of evolution's vertical dimension has, however, left evolutionary biology open to the perception,...
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El evolucionismo sigue evolucionando. Este libro cuenta con un lenguaje claro y muchos ejemplos, como lo que sabemos del cambio de vida en la tierra sigue siendo poco. Pero lo poco que sabemos debe hacernos humildes al no sacar conclusiones radicales, sino también abiertas a las novedades encontradas por la ciencia. Y la mayor novedad es que la colaboración entre las especies tiene un peso al menos igual que la lucha entre ellas, para explicar la...
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Get the Summary of Max Bennett's A Brief History of Intelligence in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "A Brief History of Intelligence" by Max Bennett explores the evolution of intelligence from the earliest bilaterally symmetrical animals to modern humans and artificial intelligence. The book discusses how simple organisms like nematodes exhibit complex behaviors with rudimentary brains, highlighting the significance...
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What drives us to eat and accounts for different appetites? Why is breathing at high altitudes easy for birds and difficult for humans? Why do animals have two sets of sensory organs-eyes, ears, nostrils, etc...?
In Why Geese Don't Get Obese, physiologist Eric Widmaier describes the astonishing ways humans and other creatures have adapted to their environmental challenges in order to survive. Surprising examples, a sense of humor, and some insightful...
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Michael C. Corballis (1936–2021) was professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Auckland. His books include The Recursive Mind: The Origins of Human Language, Thought, and Civilization (Princeton) and A Very Short Tour of the Mind: 21 Short Walks around the Human Brain.
A groundbreaking theory of how language arose from primate gestures
It is often said that speech is what distinguishes us from other animals. But are we all talk? What...
13) Galileos Shadow
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This work deals with the efforts of creationists during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to eliminate or limit the teaching of evolution in United States public schools and the response that these efforts generated from mainstream law, science, and religion. The confrontations that ensued often resulted in political maneuvering, the enactment of laws, and litigation. Usually, the litigation found its way into the federal courts with United...
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Améliorer les potentialités de l'être humain, le rendre moins dépendant de la nature, du vieillissement, des accidents... Un projet qui remonte aux origines de l'humanité ! Qu'il s'agisse de médecine réparatrice, de performances sportives ou de génie militaire, l'Homme a toujours cherché à se dépasser. Les progrès constants et de plus en plus rapides de la science et de la technique repoussent sans cesse les limites du possible. Aujourd'hui...
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Get the Summary of Cat Bohannon's Eve for Riders in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Eve" by Cat Bohannon delves into the evolutionary history of mammals, focusing on the development of lactation, the role of breast milk, and the intricate relationship between mother and child. The book explores the multifaceted purpose of milk, which extends beyond nutrition to include protection against dehydration, disease, and...
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George C. Williams (1926–2010) was professor emeritus of ecology and evolution at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Richard Dawkins is professor emeritus at the University of Oxford. An evolutionary biologist, he is the bestselling author of many books, including The Selfish Gene, The God Delusion, and The Extended Phenotype. Biological evolution is a fact-but the many conflicting theories of evolution remain controversial even today....
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This work, based on an earlier scholarly publication, offers an alternative paradigm to view life and its dynamic capacity for change. Rather than focusing on the end result of evolution with concepts such as resilience and fitness, it focuses on the actual process of change, in which life goes through a fragile period. Using plain-spoken language and based on an earlier scholarly work, it examines six biological domains which exhibit fragility and...
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"An evolutionary case for the existence of free will. Scientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As we probe ever deeper into the mechanics of decision making, many conclude that agency-or free will-is an illusion. In Free Agents, leading neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell presents a wealth of evidence to the contrary, arguing that we are not mere machines...
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David N. Reznick is professor of biology at the University of California, Riverside.
An accessible modern guide to Darwin's masterwork
Charles Darwin's Origin of Species is one of the most widely cited books in modern science. Yet tackling this classic can be daunting for students and general readers alike because of Darwin's Victorian prose and the complexity and scope of his ideas. The "Origin" Then and Now is a unique guide to Darwin's masterwork,...
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How is it that we came to be here? The search for answers to that question has preoccupied humans for millennia. Scientists have sought clues in the genes of living things, in the physical environments of Earth from mountaintops to the depths of the ocean, in the chemistry of this world and those nearby, in the tiniest particles of matter, and in the deepest reaches of space. In Islands of the Cosmos, Dale A. Russell traces a path from the dawn of...
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