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Book Synopsis Lucrèce et les sciences de la vie by : Schrijvers
Download or read book Lucrèce et les sciences de la vie written by Schrijvers and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a collection of 11 studies on the philosophical and scientific background of Lucretius' De rerum natura. The studies 1-7 form a running commentary on the history of ideas in Drn. 5.780-1160 (Lucretius' famous description of the History of Human Mankind); 8-10 discuss some topics from book 4 (sleep, dreams, optical illusions) in relationship to other philosophical doctrines and ancient medical thought; the last study (11) treats the use of analogy by Lucretius.
Book Synopsis The wild cat of Europe, felis catus by : Edward Hamilton
Download or read book The wild cat of Europe, felis catus written by Edward Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Wild Cat of Europe (Felix Catus) by : Edward Hamilton
Download or read book The Wild Cat of Europe (Felix Catus) written by Edward Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nature written by Sir Norman Lockyer and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Primate Locomotion by : Farish A. Jr. Jenkins
Download or read book Primate Locomotion written by Farish A. Jr. Jenkins and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primate Locomotion discusses researches on the concept of primate locomotion. It is organized into 11 chapters that cover biomechanical principles, which are the foundation of understanding of locomotor adaptations. This book first gives an introduction to parallels and analogs between mammalian and mechanical structures. It then describes the mechanisms of arboreal mammal locomotion, as well as the behavioral observations and locomotor patterns of tree shrew. The jumping locomotion of Galago alleni and the role of wrist specialization in the locomotor evolution of the Hominoidea are also explained. The subsequent chapter discusses the relationship between the mechanical features of the scapula and shoulder region and the characteristics of locomotor behavior. A chapter also discusses the adaptive nature of postural behavior in quadrupedal primates, represented by the New and Old World monkeys. Moreover, this book examines the morphological differences between living Insectivora, Carnivora, Primates, and the relevant known fossils of Cretaceous and Early Tertiary Eutheria. This is to evaluate the origins, evolution, and function of the Tarsus. Another chapter presents a functional analysis of most of the foot skeleton, primarily, the Lemuriformes. The concluding chapters deal with electromyographical studies on gorillas; the mechanics of knuckle-walking; the theories on hominoid phylogeny; and the locomotor adaptations in prosimians. This text is intended not only for researchers dealing with primate locomotion, but equally for students and others who share an interest in mammals and locomotor adaptations.
Book Synopsis The New International Year Book by :
Download or read book The New International Year Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New International Yearbook written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 2216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book British Museum Catalogue of printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals by : Bo Beolens
Download or read book The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals written by Bo Beolens and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-09-28 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just who was the Przewalski after whom Przewalski's horse was named? Or Husson, the eponym for the rat Hydromys hussoni? Or the Geoffroy whose name is forever linked to Geoffroy's cat? This unique reference provides a brief look at the real lives behind the scientific and vernacular mammal names one encounters in field guides, textbooks, journal articles, and other scholarly works. Arranged to mirror standard dictionaries, the more than 1,300 entries included here explain the origins of over 2,000 mammal species names. Each bio-sketch lists the scientific and common-language names of all species named after the person, outlines the individual's major contributions to mammalogy and other branches of zoology, and includes brief information about his or her mammalian namesake's distribution. The two appendixes list scientific and common names for ease of reference, and, where appropriate, individual entries include mammals commonly -- but mistakenly -- believed to be named after people. The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals is a highly readable and informative guide to the people whose names are immortalized in mammal nomenclature.
Book Synopsis Picturing Evolution and Extinction by : Fae Brauer
Download or read book Picturing Evolution and Extinction written by Fae Brauer and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the increasing loss of biological diversity in this Sixth Age of Mass Extinction, it is timely to show that devolutionary paranoia is not new, but rather stretches back to the time of Charles Darwin. It is also an opportune moment to show how human-driven extinction, as designated by the term, Anthropocene, has long been acknowledged. The halcyon days of European industrial progress, colonial expansion and scientific revolution trumpeted from the Great Exhibition of 1851 until the Dresden International Hygiene Exhibition of 1930 were constantly marred by fears of rampant degeneration, depopulation, national decline, environmental devastation and racial extinction. This is demonstrated by the discourses of catastrophism charted in this book that percolated across Europe in response to the theories of Darwin and Jean Baptiste Lamarck, as well as Marcellin Berthelot, Camille Flammarion, Ernst Haeckel, Louis Landouzy, Félix Le Dantec, Cesare Lombroso, Thomas Huxley, Bénédite-Augustin Morel, Louis Pasteur, Élisée Reclus, Rudolf Steiner and Wilhelm Wundt, among others. This book presents pioneering explorations of the interrelationship between these discourses and modern visual cultures and the ways in which the “picturing of evolution and extinction” by artists as diverse as Roger Broders, Albert Besnard, Fernand Cormon, Hélène Dufau, Émile Gallé, František Kupka, Pablo Picasso, Carles Mani y Roig, Sophie Taeuber and Vasilii Vatagin betrayed anxieties subliminally festering over degeneration alongside latent hopes of regeneration. Following Darwin’s concept of evolution as Janus-faced, the dialectical interplay of evolution and extinction and degeneration and regeneration is explored in modern visual cultures in Australia, America, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Spain and Switzerland at significant spatio-temporal junctures between 1860 and 1930. By unravelling the “picturing” of the dread of alcoholism, cholera, dysentery, tuberculosis, typhoid and rabies, alongside phobias of animalism, criminality, hysteria, impotency and ecological disaster, each chapter makes an original contribution to this new field of scholarship. By locating these discourses and visual cultures within the “golden age of Neo-Lamarckism”, they also reveal how regeneration was pictured as the Janus-face of degeneration able to facilitate evolution through the inheritance of beneficial characteristics in propitious environments. In striking such an uplifting note amidst the dissonant cacophony of catastrophism, this book reveals why the art and science of Transformism proved so appealing in France as elsewhere, and why visual cultures of regeneration became as dominant in the twentieth century as the picturing of degeneration had been in the nineteenth century. It also illuminates the paradoxical inversion that occurred in the twentieth century when devolution became equivalent to evolution for many Modernists. Hence, whilst this book opens with the picturing of indigenous people in Australia and North America as “doomed races” by the first publication of Darwin’s On The Origin of Species, it closes with the quest by 1930 for a regenerative suntan as dark as the skin of those indigenous people.
Book Synopsis The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 20, 1872 by : Charles Darwin
Download or read book The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 20, 1872 written by Charles Darwin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 1013 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. Notes and appendixes put these fascinating and wide-ranging letters in context, making the letters accessible to both scholars and general readers. Darwin depended on correspondence to collect data from all over the world and to discuss his emerging ideas with scientific colleagues, many of whom he never met in person. The letters are published chronologically: volume 20 includes letters from 1872, the year in which The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals was published, making ground-breaking use of photography. Also in this year, the sixth and final edition of On the Origin of Species was published and Darwin resumed his work on carnivorous plants and plant movement, finding unexpected similarities between the plant and animal kingdoms.
Book Synopsis Catalogue by : Zoological Society of London. Library
Download or read book Catalogue written by Zoological Society of London. Library and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Library of the Zoological Society of London by : Zoological Society of London. Library
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Zoological Society of London written by Zoological Society of London. Library and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Naturalist written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Library of the Zoological Society of London by :
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Zoological Society of London written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Naturalists' Leisure Hour and Monthly Bulletin by :
Download or read book The Naturalists' Leisure Hour and Monthly Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Change of Air and Scene: a Physicians Hints: with Notes of Excursions for Health Amongst the Watering-places of the Pyrenees, France (inland & Sea-ward,) Switzerland, Corsica, and the Mediterranean by : Alphonse Donne
Download or read book Change of Air and Scene: a Physicians Hints: with Notes of Excursions for Health Amongst the Watering-places of the Pyrenees, France (inland & Sea-ward,) Switzerland, Corsica, and the Mediterranean written by Alphonse Donne and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
