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Author : Michael N. Bruton
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400926057
Total Pages : 621 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Alternative Life-History Styles of Animals written by Michael N. Bruton and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elliot Hearst
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000766837
Total Pages : 725 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The First Century of Experimental Psychology written by Elliot Hearst and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, originally published in 1979, sponsored by the Psychonomic Society (the North American association of research psychologists), commemorates the centennial of experimental psychology as a separate discipline – dated from the opening of Wilhelm Wundt’s laboratory at Leipzig in 1879. Each major research area is surveyed by distinguished experts, and the chapters treat historical background and progress, experimental findings and methods, critical theoretical issues, evaluations of the current state of the art, future prospects, and even practical and social relevance of the work. Writing in a lively style suitable for non-specialists, the authors provide a general introduction to the history of experimental psychology. Illustrated by many photographs of leading historical figures, this book blends history with methodology, findings with theory, and discussion of specific topics with integrated assessments of what has truly been accomplished in the first hundred years of experimental psychology.
Author : George F. Michel
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262133128
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (331 download)
Download or read book Developmental Psychobiology written by George F. Michel and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is the first to provide a coherent theoretical treatment of the flourishing new field of developmental psychobiology which has arisen in recent years on the crest of exciting advances in evolutionary biology, developmental neuroscience, and dynamic systems theory. Michel and Moore, two of the field's key pioneers and researchers, integrate primary source information from research in both biological and psychological disciplines in a clear account of the frontier of biopsychological investigation and theorizing. Explicitly conceptual and historical, the first three chapters set the stage for a clear understanding of the field and its research, with particular attention to the nature-nurture question. The next three chapters each provide information about a basic subfield in biology (genetics, evolution, embryology) that is particularly relevant for developmental studies of behavior. These are followed by extended treatments of three spheres of inquiry (behavioral embryology, cognitive neuroscience, animal behavior) in terms of how a successful interdisciplinary approach to behavioral development might look. A final chapter comments on some of the unique aspects of development study. From this detailed and clearly organized text, students will achieve a firm grasp of some of science's most fertile questions about the relation between evolution and development, the relation between brain and cognitive development, the value of a natural history approach to animal behavior--and what it teaches us about humans--and much more. Each chapter contains material that questions the conventional wisdom held in many subdisciplines of biology and psychology. Throughout, the text challenges students to think creatively as it thoroughly grounds them in the field's approach to such topics as behavioral-genetic analysis, the concept of innateness, molecular genetics and development, neuroembryology, behavioral embryology, maturation, cognition, and ethology. A Bradford Book
Author : J.T. Bonner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642455328
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (424 download)
Download or read book Evolution and Development written by J.T. Bonner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 3 There are other trends in the attempt to meld evolution and development which immodesty permits me to add. I have been concerned over the years with the selection forces which might have produced larger organisms and therefore a development of increasing complexity. This is nowhere more evident than in the multiple evolutionary origins of multicellularity and all the variety of developmental mechanics that have gone with it. (I discuss this and related themes in various places, but see especially The Evolution of Development (1958; (1)) and Size and Cycle (1965; (2)). To some degree these examples of the bringing together of evolu tion and development are exceptions. By far the most important historical trends in this century have been the success of in dividual disciplines. Embryology had its great flowering be ginning in the last century, coming to a climax with the work of Spemann on induction in the first two decades of this cen tury. Genetics has had an extraordinary continuing series of revolutions beginning with the rediscovery of Mendel and pro gressing through Morgan to the flash flood of molecular genetics and the structure of DNA. This flood was a flash only in the sense that it rushed upon us with amazing speed; its effects in the form of important and exciting work produced has not subsided and we are still in a peak period of molecular genetics.
Author : Alan Feduccia
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300165692
Total Pages : 631 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Riddle of the Feathered Dragons written by Alan Feduccia and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Inspired by the spectacular discoveries of the past two decades from the Age of Reptiles in China, Riddle of the Feathered Dragons explores how these miraculous fossils have transformed the contentious arena of bird and dinosaur evolution. Aside from being the most comprehensive discussion of these avian and associated discoveries, the author delves into the world of investigative journalism to expose the darker side of the world of fossil birds and dinosaurs. The book exposes the massive unfounded speculation that has characterized the field of vertebrate paleontology and published extensively in the world's most prestigious journals, including everything from supposed dinosaur protein to so-called feathered dinosaurs. The book questions the validity of the foundational tenets of the now "unquestionable orthodoxy" of bird and dinosaur evolution, including bird origins, feathered dinosaurs, flight origin from the ground-up and hot-blooded dinosaurs and their proteins. It exposes how speculation has gone far beyond the ability of the currently available evidence to yield answers. The author concludes that birds are best defined by a more traditional definition of the possession of feathers and avian flight architecture, that the so-called "feathered dinosaurs" are most likely derived avians, and that flight clearly originated from the trees-down, from ancestors that antedated the dinosaurs, rather than a direct linear descent"--
Author : Eric Schopler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1489922423
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (899 download)
Download or read book Social Behavior in Autism written by Eric Schopler and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important component of Division TEACCH's mandate from the Department of Psychiatry of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and the North Carolina State Legislature is to conduct research aimed toward improving the understanding of developmental disabilities such as autism and to train the professionals who will be needed to work with this challenging population. An important mechanism to help meet these goals is our annual conference on topics of special importance for the understanding and treatment of autism and related disorders. As with the preceding books in this series entitled Current Issues in Autism, this most recent volume is based on one of these conferences. The books are not, however, simply published proceedings of conference papers. Instead, cer tain conference participants were asked to develop chapters around their pres entations, and other national and intemational experts whose work is beyond the scope of the conference but related to the conference theme were asked to contribute manuscripts as weil. These volumes are intended to provide the most current knowledge and professional practice available to us at this time.
Author : William A Dembski
Publisher : Foundation for Thought and E
ISBN 13 : 0980021308
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Design of Life written by William A Dembski and published by Foundation for Thought and E. This book was released on 2008 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Design of Life, written by two leading intelligent design theorists, offers the clearest, most comprehensive treatment of intelligent design on the market, with answers to Darwinists' objections drawn unrelentingly from the recent science literature.
Author : Stephen J. Warburton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195168607
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Comparative Developmental Physiology written by Stephen J. Warburton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting assessments of work in the field of developmental physiology - from experimental, theoretical, and molecular perspectives - this text examines the future directions this key area will take.
Author : Kathryn E. Hood
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444351680
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Developmental Science, Behavior, and Genetics written by Kathryn E. Hood and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Developmental Science, Behavior, and Genetics brings together the cutting-edge theory, research and methodology that contribute to our current scientific understanding of the role of genetics in the developmental system. • Commemorates the historically important contributions made by Gilbert Gottlieb in comparative psychology and developmental science • Includes an international group of contributors who are among the most respected behavioral and biological scientists working today • Examines the scientific basis for rejecting the reductionism and counterfactual approach to understanding the links between genes, behavior, and development • Documents the current status of comparative psychology and developmental science and provides the foundation for future scientific progress in the field
Author : John Tyler Bonner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674634121
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (341 download)
Download or read book On Development written by John Tyler Bonner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1974-12-12 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'On Development is designed as a very general book about developmental biology...The author has a broad understanding of general biology, and a detailed knowledge of developmental biology. He writes both clearly and elegantly, so that his book cannot to fail to instruct and please...Development is considered very thoughtfully, as are all of the subsidiary subjects treated. This is a book that will inform and stimulate not only students, but also old hands at the all-inclusive subjects covered.'
Author : John Paul Scott
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9782881243172
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (431 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Social Systems written by John Paul Scott and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1989 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Phillip S. Strain
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483264459
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Children's Social Behavior written by Phillip S. Strain and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children's Social Behavior: Development, Assessment, and Modification presents the principal aspects of social developmental study of children; assessment methodology and techniques; and changes in the behavioral targets of intervention and in the nature of interventions. The articles in the book deal with various subjects related to the study of children's social behavior. Topics discussed include the interdependence and interplay between biological and social forces on the child's developing social repertoire; causative factors that influence peer interaction deficits; sociometric procedures and direct observation assessment methods; and issues associated with target behavior selection and the selection of intervention tactics. Psychologists, educators, ethologists, anthropologists, psychiatrists, and sociologists will find the book invaluable.
Author : Anton Markoš
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402099703
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Life as Its Own Designer written by Anton Markoš and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-07-09 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been nearly 150 years since Darwin published On the Origin of Species, and his theory of natural selection still ignites a forest of heated debate between scientific fundamentalists on the one hand and religious fundamentalists on the other. But both sides actually agree more than they disagree, and what has long been needed is a third way to view evolution, one that focuses more on the aspect of life and “being alive”, one that can guide us through, and perhaps out of, the fiery thicket. This book, a seminal work in the burgeoning field of Biosemiotics, provides that third way, by viewing living beings as genuine agents designing their communication pathways with, and in, the world. Already hailed as the best account of biological hermeneutics, Life As Its Own Designer: Darwin’s Origin and Western Thought is a wholly unique book divided into two parts. The first part is philosophical and explores the roots of rationality and the hermeneutics of the natural world with the overriding goal of discovering how narrative can help us to explain life. It analyzes why novelty is so hard to comprehend in the framework of Western thinking and confronts head-on the chasm between evolutionism and traditional rationalistic worldviews. The second part is scientific. It focuses on the life of living beings, treating them as co-creators of their world in the process of evolution. It draws on insights gleaned from the global activity of the Gaian biosphere, considers likeness as demonstrated on homology studies, and probes the problem of evo-devo science from the angle of life itself. This book is both timely and vital. Past attempts at a third way to view evolution have failed because they were written either by scientists who lacked a philosophical grounding or New Age thinkers who lacked biological credibility. Markoš and his coworkers form an original group of thinkers supremely capable in both fields, and they have fashioned a book that is ideal for researchers and scholars from both the humanities and sciences who are interested in the history and philosophy of biology, biosemiotics, and the evolution of life.
Author : Marjorie Grene
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520027657
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (276 download)
Download or read book The Knower and the Known written by Marjorie Grene and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kostas Kampourakis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400765371
Total Pages : 765 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Philosophy of Biology written by Kostas Kampourakis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 765 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together for the first time philosophers of biology to write about some of the most central concepts and issues in their field from the perspective of biology education. The chapters of the book cover a variety of topics ranging from traditional ones, such as biological explanation, biology and religion or biology and ethics, to contemporary ones, such as genomics, systems biology or evolutionary developmental biology. Each of the 30 chapters covers the respective philosophical literature in detail and makes specific suggestions for biology education. The aim of this book is to inform biology educators, undergraduate and graduate students in biology and related fields, students in teacher training programs, and curriculum developers about the current state of discussion on the major topics in the philosophy of biology and its implications for teaching biology. In addition, the book can be valuable to philosophers of biology as an introductory text in undergraduate and graduate courses.
Author : Rudolf A. Raff
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253002354
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Once We All Had Gills written by Rudolf A. Raff and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-16 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raff tells how and why he became an evolutionary biologist and describes some of the vibrant and living science of evolution.
Author : K. Bailey
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1134931700
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Human Paleopsychology written by K. Bailey and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1986. In this book the author seeks to demonstrate his believe that any credible view must grapple not only with human distinctiveness (e.g., learning capacity, language, rationality, and culture), but the dark sides of senseless violence and social disorder as well. Any such grappling with the dark side must necessarily confront our animal natures as well as our distinctly human natures.
