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  • Pathogenesis

    How germs made history: A Sunday Times Science Book of the Year

    A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'Powerfully argued... Fascinating and pacy' Sunday Times, Book of the Week'Superbly written... sure to please readers of Yuval Noah Harari or Rutger Bregman' The Times'Full of amazing facts' ObserverIn this revelatory book, Dr Jonathan Kennedy argues that germs have shaped humanity at every stage, from the first success of Homo s... ... Læs mere

    103,24 kr.

  • The Reluctant Mr. Darwin

    An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution

    af David Quammen ...
    Serier serie Great Discoveries
    "Quammen brilliantly and powerfully re-creates the 19th century naturalist's intellectual and spiritual journey."--Los Angeles Times Book ReviewTwenty-one years passed between Charles Darwin's epiphany that "natural selection" formed the basis of evolution and the scientist's publication of On the Origin of Species. Why did Darwin delay, and what happened during the course of those two decades? ... Læs mere

    109,36 kr.

  • A Place like No Other

    Discovering the Secrets of Serengeti

    From famed zoologist Anthony Sinclair, an account of his decades-long quest to understand one of Earth's most spectacular ecosystemsWith its rich biodiversity, astounding wildlife, and breathtaking animal migrations, Serengeti is like no other ecosystem on the planet. A Place like No Other is Anthony Sinclair's firsthand account of how he and other scientists discovered the biological principles ... Læs mere

    Før 245,36 kr. Nu 149,61 kr.

  • Integrative Organismal Biology

    Integrative Organismal Biology synthesizes current understandings of the causes and consequences of individual variation at the physiological, behavioral and organismal levels. Emphasizing key topics such as phenotypic plasticity and flexibility, and summarizing emerging areas such as ecological immunology, oxidative stress biology and others, Integrative Organismal Biology pulls together ... Læs mere

    1.124,24 kr.

  • The Evolutionary Strategies that Shape Ecosystems

    THE EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGIES THAT SHAPE ECOSYSTEMSIn 1837 a young Charles Darwin took his notebook, wrote “I think”, and then sketched a rudimentary, stick-like tree. Each branch of Darwin’s tree of life told a story of survival and adaptation – adaptation of animals and plants not just to the environment but also to life with other living things. However, more than 150 years since Darwin published ... Læs mere

    626,74 kr.

  • The Ancestor's Tale

    A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

    The renowned biologist and thinker Richard Dawkins presents his most expansive work in this revised edition that offers a comprehensive look at evolution.Loosely based on the form of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Dawkins's tale takes us modern humans back through four billion years of life on our planet. As the pilgrimage progresses, we join with other organisms at the forty "rendezvous points" ... Læs mere

    133,24 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Human Lineage

    Serier serie Foundation of Human Biology
    The newly revised and thoroughly updated standard source for mastering the human fossil record.This new edition of The Human Lineage is the best and most current guide to the morphological, geological, paleontological, and archeological evidence for the story of human evolution. This comprehensive textbook presents the history, methods, and issues of paleoanthropology through detailed analyses of ... Læs mere

    1.062,86 kr.

  • Crumbling Genome

    The Impact of Deleterious Mutations on Humans

    A thought-provoking exploration of deleterious mutations in the human genome and their effects on human health and wellbeingDespite all of the elaborate mechanisms that a cell employs to handle its DNA with the utmost care, a newborn human carries about 100 new mutations, originated in their parents, about 10 of which are deleterious. A mutation replacing just one of the more than three billion ... Læs mere

    783,49 kr.

  • Estimating Species Trees

    Practical and Theoretical Aspects

    Recent computational and modeling advances have produced methods for estimating species trees directly, avoiding the problems and limitations of the traditional phylogenetic paradigm where an estimated gene tree is equated with the history of species divergence. The overarching goal of the volume is to increase the visibility and use of these new methods by the entire phylogenetic community by ... Læs mere

    1.294,61 kr.

  • Eve

    How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution (Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction)

    af Cat Bohannon ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024FOYLE'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023LONGLISTED FOR BLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S BEST IDEAS BOOKS OF 2023ONE OF THE TELEGRAPH'S FIFTY BEST BOOKS OF 2023ONE OF PROSPECT'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2... ... Læs mere

    111,85 kr.

  • Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?

    And Other Reflections on Being Human

    af Jesse Bering ...
    Why do testicles hang the way they do? Is there an adaptive function to the female orgasm? What does it feel like to want to kill yourself? Does "free will" really exist? And why is the penis shaped like that anyway?In Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?, the research psychologist and award-winning columnist Jesse Bering features more than thirty of his most popular essays from Scientific American ... Læs mere

    94,11 kr.

  • Population Wars

    A New Perspective on Competition and Coexistence

    af Greg Graffin ...
    The evolution lecturer and front man for the punk band Bad Religion discusses how the mainstream view of evolutionary theory has led us astray.Population Wars is a paradigm-shifting look at why humans behave the way they do and the ancient history that explains that behavior. In this eye-opening book, Greg Graffin points to where the mainstream view of evolutionary theory has led us astray. ... Læs mere

    104,49 kr.

  • Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal

    A New Scientist Book of the YearPrehistory is all around us. We just need to know where to look.Juan José Millás has always felt like he doesn’t quite fit into human society. Sometimes he wonders if he is even a Homo sapiens at all, or something simpler. Perhaps he is a Neanderthal who somehow survived? So he turns to Juan Luis Arsuaga, one of the world’s leading palaeontologists and a super-smart ... Læs mere

    256,49 kr.

  • Woman

    An Intimate Geography

    National Book Award finalistA New York Times notable book“One knows early on one is reading a classic—a text so necessary and abundant and true that all efforts of its kind, for decades before and after it, will be measured by it.”—Thomas Lynch, Los Angeles TimesAfter fifteen years in print, Woman remains an essential guide to everything from organs to orgasms and hormones to hysterectomies. With ... Læs mere

    104,15 kr.

  • Deceit and Self-Deception

    Fooling Yourself the Better to Fool Others

    In this foundational book, Robert Trivers seeks to answer one of the most provocative and consequential questions to face humanity: why do we lie to ourselves?Deception is everywhere in nature. And nowhere more so than in our own species. We humans are especially good at telling others less - or more - than the truth. Why, however, would organisms both seek out information and then act to destroy ... Læs mere

    94,63 kr.

  • Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Biology, Science and Education (IcoBioSE 2021)

    Serier serie Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This is an open access book.ICoBioSE stands for International Conference on Biology, Science and Education. ICoBioSE is the international conference held by the Biology Department and Master Program of Biology Education, Faculty of Mathematic and Sains, Universitas Negeri Padang. The aim of this international conference is to facilitate scientific publications of lecturers, biologists and biology ... Læs mere

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  • Handbook of Evolutionary Machine Learning

    Serier serie Computer Science (R0)
    This book, written by leading international researchers of evolutionary approaches to machine learning, explores various ways evolution can address machine learning problems and improve current methods of machine learning. Topics in this book are organized into five parts. The first part introduces some fundamental concepts and overviews of evolutionary approaches to the three different classes of ... Læs mere

    2.325,95 kr.

  • Remapping Biology with Goethe, Schelling, and Herder

    Romanticizing Evolution

    af Gregory Rupik ...
    Serier serie History and Philosophy of Biology
    Remapping Biology with Goethe, Schelling, and Herder recruits a Romantic philosophy of biology into contemporary debates to both integrate the theoretical implications of ecology, evolution, and development, and to contextualize the successes of the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis’s gene’s-eye-view of biology.The dominant philosophy of biology in the twentieth century was one developed within and ... Læs mere

    516,51 kr.

  • Placebo

    Mind over Matter in Modern Medicine

    af Dylan Evans ...
    A lucid and stimulating explanation of how the body’s natural healing mechanisms work – and how they can be triggered in non-chemical ways via the ‘placebo effect’.Can we really cure ourselves of disease by the power of thought alone? Faith healers and alternative therapists are convinced that we can, but what does science say?Contrary to public perception, orthodox medical opinion is remarkably ... Læs mere

    113,12 kr.

  • 物種源始(達爾文二一二歲誕辰紀念版,完整重現寫給所有人的演化論)

    On the Origin of Species

    Serier serie 貓頭鷹書房
    160年來歷久彌新的經典理論完整重現演化論精髓,了解達爾文最真實的思想◎程延年(台灣演化生物學權威)專文推薦版本特色:→首度完整翻譯自原書第二版,呈現最純粹的理論經典→特別收錄三版後的物種理論簡史,向演化學說發展致敬十九世紀以降最重要的思想鉅著1831年,達爾文踏上小獵犬號,展開一段為期五年,後續卻影響世界深遠的航行。回國後,達爾文開始潛心研究旅途中生物與環境間的複雜關係。1859年,他出版了十九世紀最重要的思想鉅著《物種源始》。《物種源始》甫一出版便飽受關注與批評,然而在接下來的兩百年間,這本書和達爾文的思想被不斷地引用、延伸甚至濫用,比如史賓塞以達爾文理論為基礎發展出的「社會達爾文主義」,助長了優生學、民族主義等思想。而如「適者生存」的延伸解讀甚至間接導致了第一次世界大戰,至今仍影響深遠。儘管在過去飽受誤解與批評,達爾文的演化論在現代對古生物學、分類學 ... Læs mere

    93,91 kr.

  • The Origin Enigma

    Darwin, Design, and Creation

    This book represents an inquisitive investigation into one of the most compelling topics imaginable: How and why are we here? The Origin Enigma will equip believers to engage intelligently and confidently with Darwinian evolutionists by exposing their limitations and assumptions. It will also encourage Christians and other theists by detailing significant extrabiblical evidence in support of ... Læs mere

    133,86 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Corpus

    Hoe de evolutie van het menselijk lichaam onze geschiedenis heeft bepaald

    Oversat af Erik de Vries ...
    De mens is een bijzondere apensoort. Onze hersenen zijn complex, onze lichamen een technisch wonder, we kunnen kennis overdragen aan volgende generaties. En onze capaciteiten nemen nog altijd toe. Toch hebben we ook gebreken: onze kinderen worden extreem kwetsbaar geboren, we zijn vatbaar voor ziektes en we zitten vol psychologische vooroordelen en defecten in onze genetica en biochemie. In Corpus ... Læs mere

    75,00 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Time's Second Arrow

    Evolution, Order, and a New Law of Nature

    A distinguished geoscientist and rising-star astrobiologist offer a stunning new theory upending 150 years of established science—and an inspiring new vision of our universe.Of the codified laws of nature, famously, only one inscribes a direction to time: the dreaded second law of thermodynamics, which declares that the disorder of a closed system tends to increase as time passes. New shoes ... Læs mere

    187,74 kr.

  • Toen wij nog Neanderthaler waren

    en andere verhalen over de menselijke evolutie

    Wanneer en waar verschenen onze vroegste voorouders voor het eerst? Wanneer liepen we voor het eerst rechtop? Hoe zijn wij vleeseters geworden? En wat hebben wij gemeen met de neanderthalers? Paleoantropoloog Sang-Hee Lee neemt ons mee op een bijzonder aanstekelijke ontdekkingsreis langs de grootste evolutionaire vraagstukken en belicht ze vanuit verrassende en onverwachte invalshoeken. Zo legt ze ... Læs mere

    105,00 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus