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Download or read book WTF, Evolution?! written by Mara Grunbaum and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all have our off days. Why should Evolution be any different? Maybe Evolution got carried away with an idea that was just a little too crazy—like having the Regal Horned Lizard defend itself by shooting three-foot streams of blood from its eyes. Or maybe Evolution ran out of steam (Memo to Evolution: The Irrawaddy Dolphin looks like a prototype that should have been left on the drawing board). Or maybe Evolution was feeling cheeky—a fish with hands? Joke’s on you, Red Handfish! Or maybe Evolution simply goofed up: How else to explain the overgrown teeth of the babirusas that curl backward over their face? Oops. Mara Grunbaum is a very smart, very funny science writer who celebrates the best—or, really, the worst—of Evolution’s blunders. Here are more than 100 outlandish mammals, reptiles, insects, fish, birds, and other creatures whose very existence leaves us shaking our heads and muttering WTF?! Ms. Grunbaum’s especially brilliant stroke is to personify Evolution as a well-meaning but somewhat oblivious experimenter whose conversations with a skeptical narrator are hilarious. For almost 4 billion years, Evolution has produced a nonstop parade of inflatable noses, bizarre genitalia, and seriously awkward necks. What a comedian!
Book Synopsis Universal Evolution by : Michael Hendrick Fitch
Download or read book Universal Evolution written by Michael Hendrick Fitch and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Evolution Theory by : Francis Marion Bruner
Download or read book The Evolution Theory written by Francis Marion Bruner and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Evolution of the Social Contract by : Brian Skyrms
Download or read book Evolution of the Social Contract written by Brian Skyrms and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition further develops the application of evolutionary game theory to an analysis of the origins of social contracts.
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Book Synopsis The Evolutionary Fix by : Allan Webber
Download or read book The Evolutionary Fix written by Allan Webber and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although evolution is a well established concept the mechanism by which the transition from a physical mechanism to one able to shape the future has still to be satisfactorily explained. This book offers a sequence of natural events that allow the known capabilities of life to be reached by chance alone. In doing so it offers and explains four new ideas. The first is the strengthening of the role of the time vector by tying it to the ability of the evolutionary process to manipulate space.The second involves the transforming mechanism of evolution in which the time vector uses the existence of past and future to anticipate, shape and exploit the future.The third major idea is the recognition and defining of eternal zones that evolution of the universe and life has always relied on. We humans have always exploited this idea but in the main have not acknowledged its importance.And the fourth idea is the natural existence of a simple chain escape mechanism that gives evolution the ability to maximise chance . It is this that makes natural selection work.
Book Synopsis From Darwinian Metaphysics Towards Understanding the Evolution of Evolutionary Mechanisms by : Momme von Sydow
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.
Book Synopsis The Evolution of Mind by : Joseph McCabe
Download or read book The Evolution of Mind written by Joseph McCabe and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Evolution of Technology by : George Basalla
Download or read book The Evolution of Technology written by George Basalla and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three emerging themes challenge the popular notion that technology advances through the efforts of a few who produce a series of revolutionary inventions that owe little or nothing to the technological past.
Book Synopsis The Evolution of Social Behaviour by : Michael Taborsky
Download or read book The Evolution of Social Behaviour written by Michael Taborsky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First book to outline the fundamental principles of social evolution underlying the stunning diversity of social systems and behaviours.
Book Synopsis Evolution Illuminated by : Stephen C. Stearns
Download or read book Evolution Illuminated written by Stephen C. Stearns and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-27 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will appeal to investigators in each of the scientific disciplines it integrates--evolutionary biology, ecology, salmonid biology, management, and conservation. Variation in salmonids can be used to illustrate virtually all evolutionary questions, and so the work will also attract general scientific interest by ecologists and evolutionary and conservation biologists.
Book Synopsis Ecology and Evolution of the Acari by : J. Bruin
Download or read book Ecology and Evolution of the Acari written by J. Bruin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acarology is on the move! The growing interest from evolutionary and molecular biologists and from population and community ecologists in mites and ticks has a strong impetus on the field of acarology. This book contains many chapters that illustrate the recent progress in the field.
Book Synopsis Methuselah Flies: A Case Study In The Evolution Of Aging by : Michael Robertson Rose
Download or read book Methuselah Flies: A Case Study In The Evolution Of Aging written by Michael Robertson Rose and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2004-06-14 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Methuselah Flies presents a trailblazing project on the biology of aging. It describes research on the first organisms to have their lifespan increased, and their aging slowed, by hereditary manipulation. These organisms are fruit flies from the species Drosophila melanogaster, the great workhorse of genetics. Michael Rose and his colleagues have been able to double the lifespan of these insects, and improved their health in numerous respects as well. The study of these flies with postponed aging is one of the best means we have of understanding, and ultimately achieving, the postponement of aging in humans. As such, the carefully presented detail of this book will be of value to research devoted to the understanding and control of aging.Methuselah Flies:• is a tightly edited distillation of twenty years of work by many scientists• contains the original publications regarding the longer-lived fruit flies• offers commentaries on each of the topics covered — new, short essays that put the individual research papers in a wider context• gives full access to the original data • captures the scientific significance of postponed aging for a wide academic audience
Book Synopsis The Evolution of Conceptual Modeling by : Roland Kaschek
Download or read book The Evolution of Conceptual Modeling written by Roland Kaschek and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-01-19 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conceptual modeling represents a recent approach to creating knowledge. It has emerged in response to the computer revolution, which started in the middle of the 20th century. Computers, in the meantime, have become a major knowledge media. Conceptual modeling provides an answer to the difficulties experienced throughout the development of computer applications and aims at creating effective, reasonably priced, and sharable knowledge about using computers in business. Moreover, it has become evident that conceptual modeling has the potential to exceed the boundaries of business and computer usage. This state-of-the-art survey originates from the International Seminar on the Evolution of Conceptual Modeling, held in Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, in April 2008. The major objective of this seminar was to look into conceptual modeling from a historical perspective with a view towards the future of conceptual modeling and to achieve a better understanding of conceptual modeling issues in several different domains of discourse, going beyond individual (modeling) projects. The book contains 14 chapters. These were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement from 26 presentations at the seminar and are preceded by a detailed preface providing general insights into the field of conceptual modeling that are not necessarily discussed in any of the chapters but nevertheless aid in conceptualizing the inner structure and coherence of the field. The chapters are grouped into the following three thematic sections: the evolution of conceptual modeling techniques; the extension of conceptual modeling to a service-oriented, peer-to-peer, or Web context; and new directions for conceptual modeling.
Book Synopsis Horizontal Gene Transfer in the Evolution of Pathogenesis by : Michael Hensel
Download or read book Horizontal Gene Transfer in the Evolution of Pathogenesis written by Michael Hensel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horizontal gene transfer is a major driving force in the evolution of many bacterial pathogens. The development of high-throughput sequencing tools and more sophisticated genomic and proteomic techniques in recent years has resulted in a better understanding of this phenomenon. Written by leading experts in the field, this edited volume is aimed at graduate students and researchers and provides an overview of current knowledge relating to the evolution of microbial pathogenicity. This volume provides an overview of the mechanisms and biological consequences of the genome rearrangements resulting from horizontal gene transfer, in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes, as well as overviews of the key mobile genetic elements involved. Subsequent chapters focus on paradigms for the evolution of important bacterial pathogens, including Salmonella enterica, Streptococcus pneumoniae, and Staphylococcus aureus. The influence of socioeconomic parameters in the dissemination of transferable elements, such as antibiotic resistant genes in bacteria, is also discussed.
Book Synopsis The Evolution of Marriage by : Charles Letourneau
Download or read book The Evolution of Marriage written by Charles Letourneau and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Recombination Variability and Evolution by : A.B. Korol
Download or read book Recombination Variability and Evolution written by A.B. Korol and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1994-08-31 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using an interdisciplinary approach, the authors provide an adaptionist interpretation of the basic features of recombination, its evolutionary significance as a key process in reproduction and its importance in genetic mapping. The book synthesizes much recent information in the fields of evloutionary genetics of recombination, the analysis of genetic markers and breeding applications. The authors analyse recombination through a consideration of computer models, large Drosophila populations and an empirical approach to current theories. Practically-orientated readers will be interested in the discussion of a wide spectrum of mapping methods and the new algorithms proposed for genetic mapping of quantitative loci.
