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Author: Douglas Futuyma
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1992-10-08
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 0195360419
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new volume in the OSEB series presents reviews of key theoretical ideas and frameworks, and outlines progress in evolutionary studies.
Author: Douglas Futuyma
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1992-10-08
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 0195076230
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPart of a continuing series on evolutionary biology, this volume contains essays on morphology, symbiosis, co-evolution among competitors and the implications of DNA variations on human evolution, among other topics.
Author: Richard Dawkins
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1987-11
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780198541998
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvolutionary biology draws on all levels and branches of biological science, from molecular biology to ecology to paleontology; it also makes use of such disciplines as economics. This series provides a medium whereby researchers and students can keep abreast of the large amount of research conducted each year in every area. It will be invaluable to those in all fields of biology, but particularly in botany, ecology, zoology, and paleobotany.
Author: Michael R. Rose
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1994-10-27
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 0198022727
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis unique book looks at the biology of aging from a fundamentally new perspective, one based on evolutionary theory rather than traditional concepts which emphasize molecular and cellular processes. The basis for this approach lies in the fact that natural selection, as a powerful determining force, tends to decline in importance with age. Many of the characteristics we associate with aging, the author argues, are more the result of this decline than any mechanical imperative contained within organic structures. This theory in turn yields the most fruitful avenues for seeking answers to the problem of aging, and should be recognized as the intellectual core of gerontology and the foundation for future research. The author ably surveys the vast literature on aging, presenting mathematical, experimental, and comparative findings to illustrate and support the central thesis. The result is the first complete synthesis of this vital field. Evolutionary biologists, gerontologists, and all those concerned with the science of aging will find it a stimulating, strongly argued account.
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Published: 1987
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Alexander Moore
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9780674794825
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book makes Moore's wisdom available to students in a lively, richly illustrated account of the history and workings of life. Employing rhetoric strategies including case histories, hypotheses and deductions, and chronological narrative, it provides both a cultural history of biology and an introduction to the procedures and values of science.
Author: Peter D. Gluckman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 0199663920
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new updated edition of the first integrated and comprehensive textbook to explain the principles of evolutionary biology from a medical perspective and to focus on how medicine and public health might utilise evolutionary biology.
Author: Tessa M. Pollard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-04-10
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780521617376
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs a group, western diseases such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, breast cancer, allergies and mental health problems constitute one of the major problems facing humans at the beginning of the 21st century, particularly as they extend into poorer countries. An evolutionary perspective has much to offer standard biomedical understandings of western diseases. At the heart of this approach is the notion that human evolution occurred in circumstances very different from the modern affluent western environment and that, as a consequence, human biology is not adapted to the contemporary western environment. Written with an anthropological perspective and aimed at advanced undergraduates and graduates taking courses in the ecology and evolution of disease, Tessa Pollard applies and extends this evolutionary perspective by analysing trends in rates of western diseases and providing a new synthesis of current understandings of evolutionary processes, and of the biology and epidemiology of disease.
Author: Richard Gerald Harrison
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 019506917X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHybrid zones--geographical areas in which the hybrids of two races are found--have attracted the attention of evolutionary biologists for many years, both because they are windows on the evolutionary process and because the patterns of animals and plant variation seen in hybrid zones do notfit the traditional classification schemes of taxonomists. Hybrid zones provide insights into the nature of the species, the way barriers to gene exchange function, the genetic basis of those barriers, the dynamics of the speciation process. Hybrid Zones and the Evolutionary Process synthesizes theextensive research literature in this field and points to new directions in research. It will be read with interest by evolutionary biologists, geneticists, and biogeographers.
Author: Douglas J. Futuyma
Publisher: Sinauer Associates, Incorporated
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 630
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovers the genetic, developmental, and ecological mechanisms of evolutionary change, the major features of evolutionary history as revealed by phylogenetic and paleontological studies, and material on adaptation, molecular evolution, co-evolution, and human evolution.
