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Author : Weiwei Zhai
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
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Download or read book Explorations in Studying Natural Selection written by Weiwei Zhai and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Levins
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691209413
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Evolution in Changing Environments written by Richard Levins and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Levins, one of the leading explorers in the field of integrated population biology, considers the mutual interpenetration and joint evolution of organism and environment, occurring on several levels at once. Physiological and behavioral adaptations to short-term fluctuations of the environment condition the responses of populations to long-term changes and geographic gradients. These in turn affect the way species divide the environments among themselves in communities, and, therefore, the numbers of species which can coexist. Environment is treated here abstractly as pattern: patchiness, variability, range, etc. Populations are studied in their patterns: local heterogeneity, geographic variability, faunistic diversity, etc.
Author : Sarah Adelaide Crawford
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781516545247
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (452 download)
Download or read book The Gene Book written by Sarah Adelaide Crawford and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gene Book: Explorations in the Code of Life is designed to introduce undergraduate college students to foundational concepts in genetics. The text provides in-depth coverage of the essential principles of genetics, from Mendel to molecular gene therapy, and reads like a story, guiding readers through each of these areas in an interesting, engaging, and enlightening way. Milestone scientific discoveries introduce conceptual topics in each of the 10 chapters. The significance of each genetics paradigm is reinforced by the meaningful research context in which it is placed, whether the focus is single gene inheritance of disorders such as PKU and cystic fibrosis, or more complex genetic phenomena. Chromosomes, cell division, and cytogenetic disorders, including Down Syndrome and leukemia, are presented in a riveting historical context. In addition, the principles of molecular genetics are a major focus of this book. Students learn about the double helix, DNA replication, gene expression, mutation, natural selection, genomics, and the tools of molecular DNA analysis. Approachable and effective, The Gene Book is a highly readable comprehensive text on genetics principles designed to highlight essential concepts that make up their very core. The text is well suited to undergraduate genetics courses and can also be used as a primer for more advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in medical or molecular genetics.
Author : Richard G. Delisle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350259586
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Rereading Darwin’s Origin of Species written by Richard G. Delisle and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-10 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely seen as evolution's founding figure, Charles Darwin is taken by many evolutionists to be the first to propose a truly modern theory of evolution. Darwin's greatness, however, has obscured the man and his work, at times even to the point of distortion. Accessibly written, this book presents a more nuanced picture and invites us to discover some neglected ambiguities and contradictions in Darwin's masterwork. Delisle and Tierney show Darwin to be a man who struggled to reconcile the received wisdom of an unchanging natural world with his new ideas about evolution. Arguing that Darwin was unable to break free entirely from his contemporaries' more traditional outlook, they show his theory to be a fascinating compromise between old and new. Rediscovering this other Darwin – and this other side of On the Origin of Species – helps shed new light on the immensity of the task that lay before 19th century scholars, as well as their ultimate achievements.
Author : Jeremy Daniel Lange
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Natural Selection in Drosophila Melanogaster written by Jeremy Daniel Lange and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding how natural selection works in nature has been a goal of population geneticists for many decades. This thesis offers an exploration of natural selection in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. In Chapter 1, we present a novel haplotype statistic that assesses whether pairwise haplotype sharing at a locus in one population is unusually large compared with another population relative to genome-wide trends. Using simulation of Drosophila-like parameters, we show that this statistic has power to detect both hard and soft selective sweeps. We demonstrate that its broad utility and computational simplicity makes this a valuable tool to discover instances of recent adaptation.In Chapter 2, we examine the effects of recurrent hitchhiking on demographic inference. We show that neutralist assumptions made by a common demographic inference method is indeed biased by high rates of natural selection, but such biases are weaker for parameters relating recently diverged populations, resolving the utility of estimated demographies. In Chapters 3 and 4, we utilize temporal genetic sampling to study the population genomics of two different populations of D. melanogaster. Studying temporal changes in allele frequencies can better illuminate the role of natural selection on very short time scales. In the first of these studies, the subject of Chapter 3, we use whole genome sequencing of isofemale D. melanogaster lines originally collected 35 years ago and compare genetic variation to modern samples collected from the same location. We reveal recent targets of adaptation to insecticide resistance alleles and uncover a shift toward Northern-associated alleles at well-studied clinal SNPs, possibly due to continued local adaptation favoring alleles of European ancestry in this relatively cool environment. In a second study, the subject of Chapter 4, we analyze genomic data collected from eight museum specimens collected in the 1840s. Comparing these samples with modern populations, we reveal potential targets of recent adaptation, and again find evidence of adaptation of resistance to insecticides. We also show limited evidence that inversions may have been at a lower frequency than modern populations, giving additional evidence to the hypothesis that inversions are a more recent arrival into modern European populations.
Author : Alfred Russel Wallace
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection written by Alfred Russel Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wallace noticed on expeditions to the Amazon and the Malay archipelego that mammals in Southeast Asia are more advanced than their Australian cousins. His suggestion was that the two continents had split before the better adapted mammals had evolved in Asia. The isolated Australian marsupials were able to thrive, whilst those in Asia were driven to extinction by competition from more advanced mammals. This led to his theory of natural selection, which he presented to the Linnean Society in 1858 with Charles Darwin. This volume reprints those papers presented to the Linnean Society.
Author : Richard D. Alexander
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Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Natural Selection and Social Behavior written by Richard D. Alexander and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Beth Alison Schultz Shook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781931303811
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (38 download)
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Author : Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 516 pages
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Download or read book Natural Selection and Tropical Nature written by Alfred Russel Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter J. Katzenstein
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262611442
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Exploration and Contestation in the Study of World Politics written by Peter J. Katzenstein and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New insights into the interplay between conflict and cooperation, the impact of domestic political structures on foreign policy, the role of institutions, and the influence of worldviews and causal beliefs on decision-making.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309179246
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Exploration of Antarctic Subglacial Aquatic Environments written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-07-09 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antarctica is renowned for its extreme cold; yet surprisingly, radar measurements have revealed a vast network of lakes, rivers, and streams several kilometers beneath the Antarctic ice sheet. Sealed from Earth's atmosphere for millions of years, they may provide vital information about microbial evolution, the past climate of the Antarctic, and the formation of ice sheets, among other things. The next stage of exploration requires direct sampling of these aquatic systems. However, if sampling is not done cautiously, the environmental integrity and scientific value of these environments could be compromised. At the request of the National Science Foundation, this National Research Council assesses what is needed to responsibly explore subglacial lakes. Exploration of Antarctic Subglacial Aquatic Environments concludes that it is time for research on subglacial lakes to begin, and this research should be guided by internationally agreed upon protocols. The book suggests an initial protocol, which includes full characterization of the lakes by remote sensing, and minimum standards for biological and other types of contamination.
Author : Fred Bortz
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1477718117
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (777 download)
Download or read book Charles Darwin and the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection written by Fred Bortz and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains Charles Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection while telling how a hypothesis became not merely a theory but the foundation of an entire science.
Author : Edward Bagnall Sir Poulton
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Charles Darwin and the Theory of Natural Selection written by Edward Bagnall Sir Poulton and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Edward Bagnall Sir Poulton's work, 'Charles Darwin and the Theory of Natural Selection,' the reader is taken on a journey through the life and groundbreaking discoveries of Charles Darwin, particularly focusing on his theory of natural selection. Poulton's literary style is both informative and engaging, providing a detailed analysis of Darwin's theory within the context of the scientific and social milieu of the 19th century. Through meticulous research and compelling writing, Poulton sheds light on the importance of Darwin's theory in the broader scope of scientific thought and its impact on the field of biology. The book is a must-read for those interested in evolutionary biology and the history of science. Edward Bagnall Sir Poulton, a renowned biologist and historian of science, delves into Darwin's life and work with a depth of knowledge and insight that only a true expert in the field could provide. Poulton's understanding of Darwin's contributions to the study of evolution enriches the narrative, making it a valuable resource for scholars and enthusiasts alike. I highly recommend 'Charles Darwin and the Theory of Natural Selection' to anyone seeking a comprehensive and engaging exploration of one of the most influential scientific theories in history. Poulton's expertise and passion for the subject shine through in this masterful work.
Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0756673305
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (566 download)
Download or read book The Most Brilliant, Boldly Going Book of Exploration Ever... by the Brainwaves written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-04-19 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More delightful fun with the Brainwaves. This time they take you back in time as you discover the world and its many explorers! From Christopher Columbus to Magellan, the Age of Exploration is discussed in clear text, meant to engage and entertain readers of all ages.
Author : Society for the Study of Human Biology
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Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Natural Selection in Human Populations written by Society for the Study of Human Biology and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Sean Reidy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1576079864
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Exploration and Science written by Michael Sean Reidy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-12-27 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive volume explores the intricate, mutually dependent relationship between science and exploration—how each has repeatedly built on the discoveries of the other and, in the process, opened new frontiers. A simple question: Which came first, advances in navigation or successful voyages of discovery? A complicated answer: Both and neither. For more than four centuries, scientists and explorers have worked together—sometimes intentionally and sometimes not—in an ongoing, symbiotic partnership. When early explorers brought back exotic flora and fauna from newly discovered lands, scientists were able to challenge ancient authorities for the first time. As a result, scientists not only invented new navigational tools to encourage exploration, but also created a new approach to studying nature, in which observations were more important than reason and authority. The story of the relationship between science and exploration, analyzed here for the first time, is nothing less than the history of modern science and the expanding human universe.
Author : Rajendra Prasath
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319038443
Total Pages : 862 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration written by Rajendra Prasath and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration, MIKE 2013, held in Tamil Nadu, India on December 2013. The 82 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 334 submissions. The papers cover the topics such as feature selection, classification, clustering, image processing, network security, speech processing, machine learning, information retrieval, recommender systems, natural language processing, language, cognition and computation and other certain problems in dynamical systems.
