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The Evolution of Death

Author : Stanley Shostak
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 079148081X
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Death written by Stanley Shostak and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Evolution of Death, the follow-up to Becoming Immortal: Combining Cloning and Stem-Cell Therapy, also published by SUNY Press, Stanley Shostak argues that death, like life, can evolve. Observing that literature, philosophy, religion, genetics, physics, and gerontology still struggle to explain why we die, Shostak explores the mystery of death from a biological perspective. Death, Shostak claims, is not the end of a linear journey, static and indifferent to change. Instead, he suggests, the current efforts to live longer have profoundly affected our ecological niche, and we are evolving into a long-lived species. Pointing to the artificial means currently used to prolong life, he argues that as we become increasingly juvenilized in our adult life, death will become significantly and evolutionarily delayed. As bodies evolve, the embryos of succeeding generations may be accumulating the stem cells that preserve and restore, providing the resources necessary to live longer and longer. If trends like this continue, Shostak contends, future human beings may join the ranks of other animals with indefinite life spans.

Evolution of the Forebrain

Author : R.G. Hassler
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1489965270
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book Evolution of the Forebrain written by R.G. Hassler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-11 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Biological Evolution of Religious Mind and Behavior

Author : Eckart Voland
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642001289
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Biological Evolution of Religious Mind and Behavior written by Eckart Voland and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-08-12 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a Darwinian world, religious behavior - just like other behaviors - is likely to have undergone a process of natural selection in which it was rewarded in the evolutionary currency of reproductive success. This book aims to provide a better understanding of the social scenarios in which selection pressure led to religious practices becoming an evolved human trait, i.e. an adaptive answer to the conditions of living and surviving that prevailed among our prehistoric ancestors. This aim is pursued by a team of expert authors from a range of disciplines. Their contributions examine the relevant physiological, emotional, cognitive and social processes. The resulting understanding of the functional interplay of these processes gives valuable insights into the biological roots and benefits of religion.

History and Evolution

Author : Matthew H. Nitecki
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791412114
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book History and Evolution written by Matthew H. Nitecki and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the differences and similarities of historical and evolutionary approaches to investigating and interpreting the past. The 11 papers were presented at the Spring Systematics Symposium in Chicago, May 1989. They discuss philosophy and methodology, and such topics as the history of evolution and the evolution of history. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

From Darwinian Metaphysics Towards Understanding the Evolution of Evolutionary Mechanisms

Author : Momme von Sydow
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Göttingen
ISBN 13 : 3863950062
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (639 download)

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Download or read book From Darwinian Metaphysics Towards Understanding the Evolution of Evolutionary Mechanisms written by Momme von Sydow and published by Universitätsverlag Göttingen. This book was released on 2012 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Although Charles Darwin predicted that his theory 'would give zest to ... metaphysics, ' even he would be astonished at the variety of paths his theory has in fact taken. This holds with regard to both gene-Darwinism, a purified Darwinian approach biologizing the social sciences, and process- Darwinism found in the disciplines of psychology, philosophy of science, and economics. Although Darwinism is often linked to highly confirmed biological theories, some of its interpretations seem to profit from tautological claims as well, where scientific reputation cloaks ideological usage. This book discusses central tenets of Darwinism historically as well as systematically, for example the history of different Darwinian paradigms, the units-of-selection debate, and the philosophical problem of induction as basis of metaphysical Darwinism. Crucially the book addresses the Darwinian claim that evolution is governed by an immutable and unrelentingly cruel law of natural selection. Paradoxically, Darwins theory is a static, non-evolutionary theory of evolution. The current book sketches the historical background and provides suggestions that may help to replace this approach by the idea of an evolution of evolutionary mechanisms (see Escher's 'Drawing Hands' on the cover). This view even suggests a tendency to overcome the blindness of the knowledge acquisition of primordial Darwinian processes and allows for some freedom from external environments. This book first develops a radically Darwinian approach, then criticises this approach from within. Even Darwinism has a tendency to transcend itself. Although the book addresses several empirical issues, it does not challenge particular findings. Instead it builds on many insights of Darwinism and provides a proposal for interpreting known empirical evidence in a different light. It should help pave the way for further developing an understanding of nature that transcends Darwinian metaphysics"--Publisher's description.

Handbook of Evolution

Author : Franz M. Wuketits
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 3527620338
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (276 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Evolution written by Franz M. Wuketits and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-11-20 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume handbook is unique in spanning the entire field of evolution, from the origins of life up to the formation of social structures and science and technology. The author team of world-renowned experts considers the subject from a variety of disciplines, with continuous cross-referencing so as to retain a logical internal structure. The uniformly structured contributions discuss not merely the general knowledge behind the evolution of life, but also the corresponding development of language, society, economies, morality and politics. The result is an overview of the history and methods used in the study of evolution, including controversial theories and discussions. A must for researchers in the natural sciences, sociology and philosophy, as well as for those interested in an interdisciplinary view of the status of evolution today.

Becoming Immortal

Author : Stanley Shostak
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791454015
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Immortal written by Stanley Shostak and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2002-04-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how new organs might be engineered via cloning and reproductive technology to achieve human immortality.

Die Evolution.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789061823261
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Architecture-based Evolution of Dependable Software-intensive Systems

Author : Heinrich, Robert
Publisher : KIT Scientific Publishing
ISBN 13 : 3731512947
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Architecture-based Evolution of Dependable Software-intensive Systems written by Heinrich, Robert and published by KIT Scientific Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-05 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cumulative habilitation thesis, proposes concepts for (i) modelling and analysing dependability based on architectural models of software-intensive systems early in development, (ii) decomposition and composition of modelling languages and analysis techniques to enable more flexibility in evolution, and (iii) bridging the divergent levels of abstraction between data of the operation phase, architectural models and source code of the development phase.

Resonances: Neurobiology, Evolution and Theology

Author : Markus Mühling
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN 13 : 3647570362
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (475 download)

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Book Synopsis Resonances: Neurobiology, Evolution and Theology by : Markus Mühling

Download or read book Resonances: Neurobiology, Evolution and Theology written by Markus Mühling and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2014-09-17 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Markus Mühling presents an epistemological theory of revelation as perception and a relational-narrative theological ontology based on the concept of dramatic coherence, in which the triune life is understood not as an anomaly within ontology, but rather as the decisive condition of its possibility. Mühling further demonstrates that potential for resolving certain theological problems arises if new insights from the natural sciences, such as the theory of the ecological brain in the neurosciences and the theory of niche-construction in evolutionary theory, are taken into account. Similarly, he also proposes that neuroscience and evolutionary biology can procure advantages from a dialogue with theology.

Animal Evolution : Interrelationships of the Living Phyla

Author : Claus Nielsen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191588520
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Book Synopsis Animal Evolution : Interrelationships of the Living Phyla by : Claus Nielsen

Download or read book Animal Evolution : Interrelationships of the Living Phyla written by Claus Nielsen and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-03-08 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animal Evolution is a complete analysis of the evolutionary interrelationships and myriad diversity of the animal kingdom. Using modern phylogenetic reasoning based on characters from an extensive review of morphology, including ultrastructure, and embryology, each phylum is analysed to ascertain its monophyly and hence its ancestral characters. These ancestral characters are then used to construct a complete phylogenetic tree of the extant animal phyla. This new edition of Animal Evolution brings the subject fully up to date including some new ideas and emphases, as well as new bibliographic data. It also includes new chapters on the use of computer programmes and on the use of the new molecular techniques to create phylogenies, both techniques that have grown in prevalence in the field since the first edition was published. Illustrated throughout with finely detailed line drawings and clear diagrams. From reviews of the first edition of Animal Evolution: 'A clear and engaging style exemplified by a series of superbly concise descriptions of the phyla.... These are complemented by excellent illustrations.... The volume belongs on every biologist's bookshelf.' Simon Conway- Morris, Nature 'Texts like these constitute the very cream of taxonomic literature.... It really is a joy to read... and in my opinion it constitutes a highly recommended book for all zoologists. I think it is also particularly suited for seminars on animal classification for both undergraduate and graduate students.' JC von Vaupel Klein, Crustaceana 'I highly recommend this book as a fascinating theory of animal relationships, and an excellent summary of the phylogenetically informative aspects of the biology of the whole animal kingdom.' Maximilian J Telford, Systematic Entomology

Evolution Education Around the Globe

Author : Hasan Deniz
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319909398
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Evolution Education Around the Globe written by Hasan Deniz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book provides a global view on evolution education. It describes the state of evolution education in different countries that are representative of geographical regions around the globe such as Eastern Europe, Western Europe, North Africa, South Africa, North America, South America,Middle East, Far East, South East Asia, Australia, and New Zealand.Studies in evolution education literature can be divided into three main categories: (a) understanding the interrelationships among cognitive, affective, epistemological, and religious factors that are related to peoples’ views about evolution, (b) designing, implementing, evaluating evolution education curriculum that reflects contemporary evolution understanding, and (c) reducing antievolutionary attitudes. This volume systematically summarizes the evolution education literature across these three categories for each country or geographical region. The individual chapters thus include common elements that facilitate a cross-cultural meta-analysis. Written for a primarily academic audience, this book provides a much-needed common background for future evolution education research across the globe.

Introduction to Mechanical Engineering

Author : J. Paulo Davim
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319784889
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Mechanical Engineering written by J. Paulo Davim and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-28 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook fosters information exchange and discussion on all aspects of introductory matters of modern mechanical engineering from a number of perspectives including: mechanical engineering as a profession, materials and manufacturing processes, machining and machine tools, tribology and surface engineering, solid mechanics, applied and computational mechanics, mechanical design, mechatronics and robotics, fluid mechanics and heat transfer, renewable energies, biomechanics, nanoengineering and nanomechanics. At the end of each chapter, a list of 10 questions (and answers) is provided.

Jahrbuch

Author : Geologische Bundesanstalt (Austria)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Jahrbuch written by Geologische Bundesanstalt (Austria) and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Architecture of Evolution

Author : Marco Tamborini
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822989077
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of Evolution written by Marco Tamborini and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2022-12-20 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the final decades of the twentieth century, the advent of evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo) offered a revolutionary new perspective that transformed the classical neo-Darwinian, gene-centered study of evolution. In The Architecture of Evolution, Marco Tamborini demonstrates how this radical innovation was made possible by the largely forgotten study of morphology. Despite the key role morphology played in the development of evolutionary biology since the 1940s, the architecture of organisms was excluded from the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis. And yet, from the beginning of the twentieth century to the 1970s and ’80s, morphologists sought to understand how organisms were built and how organismal forms could be generated and controlled. The generation of organic form was, they believed, essential to understanding the mechanisms of evolution. Tamborini explores how the development of evo-devo and the recent organismal turn in biology involved not only the work of morphologists but those outside the biological community with whom they exchanged their data, knowledge, and practices. Together with architects and engineers, they worked to establish a mathematical and theoretical basis for the study of organic form as a mode of construction, developing and reinterpreting important notions that would play a central role in the development of evolutionary developmental biology in the late 1980s. This book sheds light not only on the interdisciplinary basis for many of the key concepts in current developmental biology but also on contributions to the study of organic form outside the English-speaking world.

Evolution of Brain and Behavior in Vertebrates

Author : R.B. Masterton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351246569
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Evolution of Brain and Behavior in Vertebrates written by R.B. Masterton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1976, the object of this volume was to present a relatively up-to-date overview of what was known, what was suspected, and what remained to be discovered concerning the general question of the evolution of the vertebrate brain and behaviour, and to present a list of references for those who wanted to delve deeper into one or another aspect of the problem. Accordingly, it contains chapters by palaeontologists, sensory morphologists and physiologists, comparative neurologists and comparative psychologists. The chapters are arranged in a sequence loosely approximating the order in which the various animals, brain structures, or behaviour first appeared. Therefore, the chapters fall naturally into sections, each section directed to a group of vertebrates, beginning with those which have very remote common ancestry and progressing to those with more recent common ancestry with mankind.

The Evolution of Primary Sexual Characters in Animals

Author : Janet Leonard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199717036
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Primary Sexual Characters in Animals written by Janet Leonard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primary sexual traits, those structures and processes directly involved in reproduction, are some of the most diverse, specialized, and bizarre in the animal kingdom. Moreover, reproductive traits are often species-specific, suggesting that they evolved very rapidly. This diversity, long the province of taxonomists, has recently attracted broader interest from evolutionary biologists, especially those interested in sexual selection and the evolution of reproductive strategies. Primary sexual characters were long assumed to be the product of natural selection, exclusively. A recent alternative suggests that sexual selection explains much of the diversity of "primary" sexual characters. A third approach to the evolution of reproductive interactions after copulation or insemination has been to consider the process one of sexual conflict. That is, the reproductive processes of a species may reflect, as does the mating system, evolution acting on males and on females, but in different directions. In this volume, authors explore a wide variety of primary sexual characters and selective pressures that have shaped them, from natural selection for offspring survival to species-isolating mechanisms, sperm competition, cryptic female choice and sexual arms races. Exploring diverse reproductive adaptations from a theoretical and practical perspective, The Evolution of Primary Sexual Characters will provide an unparalleled overview of sexual diversity in many taxa and an introduction to the issues in sexual selection that are changing our view of sexual processes.