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Hardpress Publishing Physiology of the Soul and Instinct as Distinguished from Materialism 1
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HardPress Publishing Outlines of Natural Theology
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Hardpress Publishing On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life 1
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Spektrum Academic Publishers Die Macht der Meme: oder Die Evolution von Kultur
Book SynopsisWir Menschen sind erstaunliche Wesen. Unsere Körper sind in der Evolution - genau wie die aller Tiere - durch natürliche Selektion entstanden, und doch unterscheiden wir uns von sämtlichen anderen Geschöpfen in vielfältiger Weise. Wir nutzen Sprache zur Kommunikation. Wir führen Kriege, glauben an Religionen, bestatten unsere Toten und sind bei Sex-Themen peinlich berührt. Wir sehen fern, fahren Auto und essen Eis. Warum sind wir so anders? Als einzige Vertreter unter den Tieren vermögen Menschen andere zu imitieren und können so Ideen, Angewohnheiten, Fähigkeiten, Verhaltensweisen, Erfindungen, Lieder und Geschichten untereinander kopieren. All das sind Meme, ein Begriff, den Richard Dawkins 1976 am Ende seines Buches Das egoistische Gen geprägt hat. Wie Gene sind auch Meme Replikatoren; sie wetteifern darum, in so viele Gehirne wie möglich zu gelangen, und diese Konkurrenz der Meme hat unseren Geist und unsere Kultur geformt, so wie die natürliche Selektion unsere Körper modelliert hat. Wir Menschen sind, wozu die Meme uns gemacht haben: Wir sind allesamt Mem-Maschinen. Ist die Analogie zwischen Memen und Genen überhaupt hilfreich? Führt sie uns weiter - zu starken neuen Theorien, die tatsächlich etwas Wichtiges erklären? Diese Fragen wirft Richard Dawkins in seinem Vorwort zu dem Buch auf, und seiner Ansicht nach gewinnt Susan Blackmore eben hier eigene Statur. >Sie gewöhnt uns zunächst mit einigen faszinierenden Denkanstößen an den memetischen Stil der Argumentation. Warum reden wir so viel? Warum können wir nicht aufhören zu denken? Warum schwirren uns bestimmte Melodien im Kopf herum und quälen uns bis zur Schlaflosigkeit? Ihre Antwort leitet sie in allen Fällen auf die gleiche Weise ein: "Stellen Sie sich eine Welt voller Gehirne vor, in der es weitaus mehr Meme gibt, als unterkommen können. Nun fragen Sie sich: Welche Meme werden mit größerer Wahrscheinlichkeit einen sicheren Unterschlupf finden und weiter gegeben werden?" Die Antwort ist einleuchtend, und sie verhilft uns zu einem besseren Verständnis unserer selbst. Susan Blackmore geht geduldig und geschickt weiter vor und wendet dieselbe Methode auf immer tiefgründigere und interessantere Probleme an. Wozu ist Sprache da? Was zieht uns an unseren Geschlechtspartnern an? Warum sind wir nett zueinander? Waren Meme die Triebfeder für die rasche, massive und erstaunliche evolutionäre Vergrößerung des menschlichen Gehirns?Trade ReviewGut verständlich geschrieben, auch für Laien faszinierend. (ekz-Informationsdienst)sehr verständlich und leicht lesendes Buch. (...) lesenswert und interessant. (media-mania.de)Susan Blackmores Die Macht der Meme bietet alles, was ein wissenschaftliches Buch populär macht: persönlich gefärbte Anekdoten, eine anschaulich dargestellte, flott geschriebene Theorie, die von einer zentralen These ausgeht und hier und da ein bisschen Kulturkritik mit einfließen lässt. (literaturkritik.de)Susan Blackmore schreibt leichtfüßig und witzig. Sie kennt sich nicht nur in Biologie und Psychologie gut aus. (Natur & Kosmos)Der Autorin gelingt es durch ihre angenehm lockere Sprache und einprägsame Beispiele, die auf den ersten Blick seltsam anmutende These von den sich selbst replizierenden Informationseinheiten nachvollziehbar zu machen. Sie provoziert zum Nachdenken, indem sie scheinbare Selbstverständlichkeiten hinterfragt … und kommt dabei zu überraschenden Deutungen. … Fassen wir zusammen: Susan Blackmore ist ein außergewöhnlich spannendes Buch gelungen, das sowohl Laien faszinieren als auch Forschern neue Perspektiven aufzeigen kann. (Pro Zukunft)Studenten der Psychologie, Soziologie, Anthropologie, Kommunikationswissenschaften und Wirtschaft werden ihr Buch als Schatztruhe voller Forschungsideen empfinden. amazon.de Ein originelles Buch. (Bild der Wissenschaft)Bemerkenswert! (Times Literary Supplement)Jede Theorie verdient ihre beste Darstellung, und eben dies ist Susan Blackmore für die Theorie der Meme gelungen (...) Ich bin hocherfreut, ihr Buch zu empfehlen. (Richard Dawkins)Jeder, der hofft - oder fürchtet -, dass sich die Memetik zu einer Wissenschaft der Kultur entwickelt, wird in dieser sicher angelegten Erkundung ihrer Perspektiven einen wahren Augenöffner finden. (Daniel Dennett)Blackmore (...) legt diese Theorie in sehr geschliffenem Stil dar, mit Beispielen und Anekdoten, die lebendig, informativ und manchmal geradezu charmant sind. Dies ist eines jener seltenen Wissenschaftssachbücher, die eine neue Theorie für den Laien präsentieren, aber zugleich originäre Ideen für eine wissenschaftliche Debatte liefern. Diese Veröffentlichung ist ein sicheres Zeichen dafür, dass die Wissenschaft der Memetik erwachsen geworden ist. (Library Journal)Gut geschrieben und sympathisch, liefert dieses provokative Buch eine überzeugende (...) Argumentation für das Konzept der Meme und für die Bedeutung seiner Auswirkungen auf die menschliche Kultur. (Publishers Weekly) Table of Contents1. Seltsame Geschöpfe 2. Der universelle Darwinismus 3. Die Evolution der Kultur 4. Aus der Memperspektive 5. Drei Probleme mit Memen 6. Das große Gehirn 7. Die Ursprünge der Sprache 8. Koevolution von Memen und Genen 9. Die Grenzen der Soziobiologie 10. "Ein Orgasmus rettete mein Leben" 11. Sex in der modernen Welt 12. Eine memetische Theorie des Altruismus 13. Der Altruismustrick 14. Meme des New Age 15. Religionen als Memplexe 16. Ins Internet 17. Der ultimative Memplex 18. Aus dem Memrennen hinaus
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Sumaiyah Distributors Pvt Ltd The Origin of Species
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Sapiens. Una historia gráfica. Vol. 2: Los
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Ediciones Universidad de Navarra El evolucionismo y otros mitos
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Classy Publishing Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
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Oxford University Press Assembling Life
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Oxford University Press Natural Selection and Social Theory
Book SynopsisRobert Trivers is one of the leading figures pioneering the field of sociobiology. For Natural Selection and Social Theory, he has selected eleven of his most influential papers, including several classic papers from the early 1970s on the evolution of reciprocal altruism, parent-offspring conflicts and asymmetry in sexual selection, which helped to establish the centrality of sociobiology, as well as some of his later work on deceit in signalling, sex antagonistic genese, and imprinting. Trivers introduces each paper, setting them in their contemporary context, and critically evaluating them in the light of subsequent work and further developments. The result is a unique portrait of the intellectual development of sociobiology, with valuable insights of interest to evolutionary biology, anthropology, and psychology.Trade ReviewThis is a good book by a great evolutionary biologist, full of interesting personal narrative and readable and historically important papers on reciprocal altruism, sex ratios, parental investment and sexual selection, and much more. * Animal Behaviour *One striking feature of Trivers' papers is that most contain very little mathematics, but there is plenty of verbal logic ... the book is suitable for reading in bed with falling asleep over pages of baffling formulae ... interesting stuff. * Animal Behaviour *Table of ContentsPreface ; 1. Reciprocal altruism ; 2. Parental investment and reproductive success ; 3. The Trivers-Willard effect ; 4. Parent-offspring conflict ; 5. Haplodiploidy and the social insects ; 6. Size and reproductive success in a lizard ; 7. Selecting good genes for daughters ; 8. Self-deception in service of deceit ; 9. Genomic imprinting ; 10. Fluctuating asymmetry and 2nd:4th digit ratio in children
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Oxford University Press Signalers and Receivers
Book SynopsisIn most terrestrial and aquatic habitats, the vast majority of animals transmitting and receiving communicative signals are arthropods. This book presents the story of how this important group of animals use pheromones, sound, vibration, and light for sexual and social communication. Because of their small to minute body size most arthropods have problems sending and receiving acoustic and optical information, each of which have their own severe constraints. Because of these restraints they have developed chemical signaling which is not similarly limited by scale. Presenting the latest theoretical and experimental findings from studies of signaling, it suggests that close parallels between arthropods and vertebrates reflect a very limited number of solutions to problems in behavior that are available within the confines of physical laws.Trade ReviewIn summary, this is a valuable addition to the literature on animal communication at the introductory level. Greenfield's book is worthwile precisely because it is brief. I will recommend this book for undergraduate courses and for the generalist reader who wants to know more about this interesting subject. * Nature *On nearly every page there is an intriguing example from nature, a clear explanation, a thoughtful and novel commentary, a thread leading in an unexpected direction. * American Entomologist *The drive to organize a broad range of knowledge into a unified, comprehensible scheme is combined with an equal fascination with the details of how each particular system works and the problems that needed to be solved to make it work. This makes for rewarding reading from start to finish. * American Entomologist *Table of Contents1. Communication in a Lilliputian World ; 2. Signal Theory and the Language of Communication ; 3. Chemical Signaling and the Olfactory Channel ; 4. Sound and Vibration and the Mechanical Channel ; 5. Bioluminescence and Reflected Light and the Visual Channel ; 6. Sexual Selection and the Evolution of Signals ; 7. Signal Evolution: Modification and Diversification
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Oxford University Press The Origin and Evolution of Mammals
Book SynopsisMammals are the dominant large animals of today, occurring in virtually every environment. This book is an account of the remarkable 320 million year long fossil record that documents their origin, their long spell as no more than small, nocturnal creatures, and their explosive radiation since the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Tom Kemp also unveils the exciting molecular evidence, which, coupled with important new fossils, is presently challenging current thinking on the interrelationships and historical biogeography of mammals. The Origin and Evolution of Mammals will be of interest to advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers in vertebrate palaeontology, biogeography, mammalian systematics and molecular taxonomy. It will also be welcomed by vertebrate fossil enthusiasts and evolutionary biologists of all levels with an interest in macroevolutionary problems.Trade Reviewa splendid work . . . it seems the indispensable source of knowlegde on mammalian evolution' Acta, Palaeontol, Pol. 50, 50(2): 208, 2005Table of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. Time and Classification ; 3. Evolution of the Mammal like Reptiles ; 4. Evolution of Mammalian Biology ; 5. The Mesozoic Mammals ; 6. Living and Fossil Marsupials ; 7. Living and Fossil Placentals ; References ; Index
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Oxford University Press, USA Mass Extinctions and Their Aftermath Cambridge Texts in Hist.of Philosophy
Book SynopsisWhy do mass extinctions occur? The demise of the dinosaurs has been discussed exhaustively, but has never been out into the context of other extinction events. This is the first systematic review of the mass extinctions of all organisms, plant and animal, terrestrial and marine, that have occurred in the history of life. This includes the major crisis 250 million years ago which nearly wiped out all life on Earth. By examining current paleontological, geological, and sedimentological evidence of environmental changes, the cases for explanations based on climate change, marine regressions, asteroid or comet impact, anoxia, and volcanic eruptions are all critically evaluated.Trade ReviewHallam and Wignall provide a sobering antidote to simplistic applications of extraterrestrial "crash-bang-you're-dead" interpretations. * New Scientist *the book is unique in that all major extinction intervals are considered ... Mass Extinctions and their Aftermath will richly reward the efforts made by students and laymen to come to grips with the material presented ... the book is well-written, comprehensive, copiously referenced and closely reasoned. It succeeds in its aim to be the foremost scientific introduction to the phenomenon of mass extinction on virtually every level. Hallam and Wignall's volume is the only comprehensive "single author" treatment of the major features of the entire paleontological extinction record. It deserves a wide audience within and outside the earth science community. * Times Higher Education Supplement *The authors have provided a comprehensive and well-documented account of all the known mass extinctions of plant and animal life which have occurred on this planet. * Aslib Book Guide, vol. 63, no. 3, March 1998 *'...It is a pleasure to recommend a book that should be purchased by anyone (yes, even undergraduates) interested in geology...This book....represents an impressive summary of the literature...a valuable addition to the mass extinction literature...' * S.Conway Morris, Geological Mag. No.5, 1998. *
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OUP Oxford The Talking Ape
Book SynopsisIn this mind-opening book, Robbins Burling presents the most convincing - and the most readable - account of the origins of language yet published. He sheds new light on how language affects the way we think, behave, and relate to each other, and he gives us a deeper understanding of the nature of language itself.The author traces language back to its earliest origins among our distant ape-like forbears several million years ago. He offers a new account of the route by which we acquired our defining characteristic and explores the changing nature of language as it developed through the course of our evolution. He considers what the earliest forms of communication are likely to have been, how they worked, and why they were deployed. He examines the qualities of mind and brain needed to support the operations of language and the advantages they offered for survival and reproduction. He investigates the beginnings and prehistories of vocabulary and grammar; and connects work in fields extTrade ReviewReview from previous edition Robbins Burling does a superb job of explaining just what language is and how it might have originated. This is one of those popular science books that just reads itself - although Burling does use a little jargon, he employs it sparingly, and with careful explanation. The text along the way is easy to follow and the arguments are absolutely fascinating... A delightful book for anyone interested in language or the development of the human mind. Popular Science * Popular Science *A great book ... one of the most approachable books on the development of human language available. OxbowTable of Contents1. In The Beginning ; 2. Smiles, Winks, and Words ; 3. Truths and Lies ; 4. The Mind and Language ; 5. Signs and Symbols ; 6. Icons Gained and Icons Lost ; 7. From A Few Sounds To Many Words ; 8. Syntax: Wired and Learned ; 9. Step By Step To Grammar ; 10. Power, Gossip, and Seduction ; 11. What Has Language Done To Us? ; Notes ; Glossary ; Bibliography ; Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The History of Creation Or the Development of the Earth and its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes Volume 2 Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The History of Creation
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Extreme Habitable Environments
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Library Editions Evolution
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Taylor & Francis Darwinism Democracy and Race
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Key Transitions in Animal Evolution
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Medicine and Evolution Current Applications Future Prospects
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Telling the Evolutionary Time Molecular Clocks and the Fossil Record The Systematics Association Special Volume Series
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Antievolution Works of Arthur I. Brown
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Antievolution Works of Arthur I. Brown
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Antievolution Pamphlets of William Bell Riley
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Antievolution Pamphlets of William Bell Riley
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Reproductive Biology and Early Life History of Fishes in the Ohio River Drainage Aphredoderidae through Cottidae Moronidae and Sciaenidae Volume 5
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Evolutionary Ecology of Amphibians
Book SynopsisAmphibians are the oldest tetrapod group and show an astonishing diversity in lifestyles, many of them being unique. However, globally, they are on a decline. Hence, their study is fundamental to understanding the evolution of diversity and conserving them. This book, authored by experts from around the world, summarizes the current knowledge on the evolutionary ecology of amphibians. The book treats biological concepts related to the evolution, ecology, physiology, immunology, behaviour, and morphology of amphibians in their different states. This book constitutes an actualized work indispensable for evolutionary ecologists and herpetologists.Table of ContentsIntroduction to the Book. Origin, Evolution and Diversification of Extant Amphibians. Amphibian Ecophysiology. Eco-Immunology of Amphibians. Amphibian Crisis and the Impact of Emerging Pathogens. Thermoregulation and Hydric Balance in Amphibians. The Biogeography of Body Size in Amphibians. Evolution and Ecology of Locomotion in Amphibians. Diversity of Reproductive Strategies in the Amphibia. Chemical Communication and Deterrence in Amphibians. Acoustic Communication in Anurans. Amphibian Coloration: Proximate Mechanisms, Function, and Evolution.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Molt in Neotropical Birds Life History and Aging Criteria
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Stochastic Communities A Mathematical Theory of Biodiversity
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Dynamic Society The Sources of Global Change
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Common Surgical Diseases An Algorithmic Approach to Problem Solving
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Taylor & Francis The End of the World The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Performance and Evolution in the Age of Darwin Out of the Natural Order
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference
Book SynopsisMoving away from his earlier belief in a short, catastrophic history of the Earth, this volume shows how Buckland envisages instead progressive change as the Earth gradually cooled as it was prepared for human occupation. Extinct creatures did not die out because they were poorly designed; God loved the dinosaurs and had adapted them to their various circumstances.Table of ContentsList of Engravings, Explanation of the Plates, Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Palaeontology 1860 06 The Evolution Debate 18131870
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Beast and Man The Roots of Human Nature Routledge Classics
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Alfred Russell Wallace Contributions to the theory of Natural Selection 1870 and Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties Papers presented to the Linnean Society 30th June 1858
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Taylor & Francis Evolution and Behavior Foundations of Psychology
Book SynopsisThe relationship between how we evolved and how we behave is a controversial and fascinating field of study. From how we choose a mate to how we socialize with other people, the evolutionary process has an enduring legacy on the way we view the world. Evolution and Behavior provides students with a thorough and accessible introduction to this growing discipline.Placing evolutionary psychology in context with the core areas of psychology â developmental, cognitive and social â the book explores some of the most fundamental questions we can ask about ourselves. Taking students through the principles of natural selection, it provides a nuanced understanding of key topics such as: cognitive development and the role of intelligence, memory, emotions and perception, mental health and abnormal psychology, sexual reproduction and family relationships, the development of culture. Trade Review"As this book demonstrates clearly, behavior becomes immensely more comprehensible through the lens of evolution. Workman and Reader’s text is thorough and readable, and not afraid to tackle the issues that many see as most challenging from an evolutionary perspective, such as culture and mental illness."– Dr Michael E. Price, Department of Life Sciences, Brunel University London, UK Table of Contents1. Why the fuss? Evolution and human behavior 2. How did we get here: human evolution and genetics 3. Darwin’s second selective force: sexual selection 4. Mate choice: the origin of human sexual preferences 5. Living with others: evolution and social behaviour 6. Growing up: Evolution and development 7. Decisions, decisions: the evolution of cognition and emotion 8. When things go wrong – evolution and abnormal psychology 9. Culture vultures: evolution and culture 10. Darwinian differences 11. Putting it together: Criticisms, Debates and Future Directions
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