The Cambridge Dictionary Of Human Biology And Evolution

Author : Larry L. Mai,Marcus Young Owl,M. Patricia Kersting
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521662508

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The Cambridge Dictionary of Human Biology and Evolution by Larry L. Mai,Marcus Young Owl,M. Patricia Kersting Pdf

The Dictionary of Human Biology and Evolution (DHBE) is an invaluable research and study tool for both professionals and students covering a broad range of subjects within human biology, physical anthropology, anatomy, auxology, primatology, physiology, genetics, paleontology and zoology. Packed with 13000 descriptions of terms, specimens, sites and names, DHBE also includes information on over 1000 word roots, taxonomies and reference tables for extinct, recent and extant primates, geological and oxygen isotope chronologies, illustrations of landmarks, bones and muscles and an illustration of current hominid phylogeny, making this a must-have volume for anyone with an interest in human biology or evolution. DHBE is especially complete in its inventory of archaeological sites and the best-known hominid specimens excavated from them, but also includes up-to-date information on terms such as in silico, and those relating to the rapidly developing fields of human genomics.

Author : Michael P. Muehlenbein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521879484

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Human Evolutionary Biology by Michael P. Muehlenbein Pdf

A wide-ranging and inclusive text focusing on topics in human evolution and the understanding of modern human variation and adaptability.

Author : Michael P. Muehlenbein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1139776126

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Human Evolutionary Biology by Michael P. Muehlenbein Pdf

A wide-ranging and inclusive text focusing on topics in human evolution and the understanding of modern human variation and adaptability.

Author : Steve Jones,Robert D. Martin,David R. Pilbeam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Human evolution
ISBN : OCLC:1028869583

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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution by Steve Jones,Robert D. Martin,David R. Pilbeam Pdf

Author : Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781108470971

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Human Evolution Beyond Biology and Culture by Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh Pdf

A complete account of evolutionary thought in the social, environmental and policy sciences, creating bridges with biology.

Author : Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781107082106

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What Teeth Reveal about Human Evolution by Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg Pdf

Explores the insights that fossil hominin teeth provide about human evolution, linking findings with current debates in palaeoanthropology.

Author : Diane Schmidt
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781466558571

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Using the Biological Literature by Diane Schmidt Pdf

The biological sciences cover a broad array of literature types, from younger fields like molecular biology with its reliance on recent journal articles, genomic databases, and protocol manuals to classic fields such as taxonomy with its scattered literature found in monographs and journals from the past three centuries. Using the Biological Literature: A Practical Guide, Fourth Edition is an annotated guide to selected resources in the biological sciences, presenting a wide-ranging list of important sources. This completely revised edition contains numerous new resources and descriptions of all entries including textbooks. The guide emphasizes current materials in the English language and includes retrospective references for historical perspective and to provide access to the taxonomic literature. It covers both print and electronic resources including monographs, journals, databases, indexes and abstracting tools, websites, and associations—providing users with listings of authoritative informational resources of both classical and recently published works. With chapters devoted to each of the main fields in the basic biological sciences, this book offers a guide to the best and most up-to-date resources in biology. It is appropriate for anyone interested in searching the biological literature, from undergraduate students to faculty, researchers, and librarians. The guide includes a supplementary website dedicated to keeping URLs of electronic and web-based resources up to date, a popular feature continued from the third edition.

Author : K. P. Wessen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-04-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1139444565

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Simulating Human Origins and Evolution by K. P. Wessen Pdf

The development of populations over time, and, on longer timescales, the evolution of species, are both influenced by a complex of interacting, underlying processes. Computer simulation provides a means of experimenting within an idealised framework to allow aspects of these processes and their interactions to be isolated, controlled, and understood. In this book, computer simulation is used to model migration, extinction, fossilisation, interbreeding, selection and non-hereditary effects in the context of human populations and the observed distribution of fossil and current hominoid species. The simulations described enable the visualisation and study of lineages, genetic diversity in populations, character diversity across species and the accuracy of reconstructions, allowing insights into human evolution and the origins of humankind for graduate students and researchers in the fields of physical anthropology, human evolution, and human genetics.

Author : Carlos A. Scolari
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000901634

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On the Evolution of Media by Carlos A. Scolari Pdf

This book describes the lifecycle of media in the context of the media ecology, presenting a general theoretical framework and a series of methodological procedures to support the construction of an eco-evolutionary approach to media change. Focusing on a series of processes - emergence, competition, dominance, hybridization, adaptation, extinction - this book goes beyond a chronological approach to propose a reticulated and multi-layered conception of media evolution. If media evolution is a network, what are the relationships between "media species" like? What happens when a new media emerges into the media ecology? How do new media influence the old ones? Can media become extinct? How do media adapt when the social and economic context changes? How can media evolution be analysed? What kinds of quantitative and qualitative techniques can be applied in media evolution research? By presenting an innovative research approach and theoretical framework to media studies, this book will be of keen interest to scholars and graduate students of new media, media history and theory, philosophy of technology, mass communication, and organisational studies.

Author : Frank H. T. Rhodes
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781501706233

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Origins by Frank H. T. Rhodes Pdf

"Fossils are the fragments from which, piece by laborious piece, the great mosaic of the history of life has been constructed. Here and there, we can supplement these meager scraps by the use of biochemical markers or geochemical signatures that add useful information, but, even with such additional help, our reconstructions and our models of descent are often tentative. For the fossil record is, as we have seen, as biased as it is incomplete. But fragmentary, selective, and biased though it is, the fossil record, with all its imperfections, is still a treasure. Though whole chapters are missing, many pages lost, and the earliest pages so damaged as to be, as yet, virtually unreadable, this—the greatest biography of all—is one in whose closing pages we find ourselves."—from Origins In Origins, Frank H. T. Rhodes explores the origin and evolution of living things, the changing environments in which they have developed, and the challenges we now face on an increasingly crowded and polluted planet. Rhodes argues that the future well-being of our burgeoning population depends in no small part on our understanding of life’s past, its long and slow development, and its intricate interdependencies. Rhodes’s accessible and extensively illustrated treatment of the origins narrative describes the nature of the search for prehistoric life, the significance of geologic time, the origin of life, the emergence and spread of flora and fauna, the evolution of primates, and the emergence of modern humans.

Author : Régis Ferrière,Ulf Dieckmann,Denis Couvet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781139453752

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Evolutionary Conservation Biology by Régis Ferrière,Ulf Dieckmann,Denis Couvet Pdf

As anthropogenic environmental changes spread and intensify across the planet, conservation biologists have to analyze dynamics at large spatial and temporal scales. Ecological and evolutionary processes are then closely intertwined. In particular, evolutionary responses to anthropogenic environmental change can be so fast and pronounced that conservation biology can no longer afford to ignore them. To tackle this challenge, areas of conservation biology that are disparate ought to be integrated into a unified framework. Bringing together conservation genetics, demography, and ecology, this book introduces evolutionary conservation biology as an integrative approach to managing species in conjunction with ecological interactions and evolutionary processes. Which characteristics of species and which features of environmental change foster or hinder evolutionary responses in ecological systems? How do such responses affect population viability, community dynamics, and ecosystem functioning? Under which conditions will evolutionary responses ameliorate, rather than worsen, the impact of environmental change?

Author : Giuseppe Fusco
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781139468275

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Evolving Pathways by Giuseppe Fusco Pdf

Evolutionary developmental biology, or 'evo-devo', is the study of the relationship between evolution and development. Dealing specifically with the generative mechanisms of organismal form, evo-devo goes straight to the core of the developmental origin of variation, the raw material on which natural selection (and random drift) can work. Evolving Pathways brings together contributions that represent a diversity of approaches. Topics range from developmental genetics to comparative morphology of animals and plants alike, and also include botany and palaeontology, two disciplines for which the potential to be examined from an evo-devo perspective has largely been ignored until now. Researchers and graduate students will find this book a valuable overview of current research as we begin to fill a major gap in our perception of evolutionary change.

Author : Steven W. Sowards,Juneal Chenoweth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9798216137320

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The Reference Librarian's Bible by Steven W. Sowards,Juneal Chenoweth Pdf

Divided into dedicated categories about the subjects most meaningful to librarians, this valuable resource reviews 500 texts across all major fields. Drawing on their collective experience in reference services and sifting through nearly 30,000 reviews in ARBAonline, editors Steven Sowards, associate director for collection at Michigan State University Libraries, and Juneal Chenoweth, editor of American Reference Books Annual, curated this collection of titles, most of which have been published since 2000, to serve collections and reference librarians in academic and public libraries. From the Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences and Encyclopedia of the Civil War to the Encyclopedia of Physics, Encyclopedia of Insects, and Taylor's Encyclopedia of Garden Plants to the formidable Oxford English Dictionary, The Reference Librarian's Bible encompasses every subject imaginable and will be your first stop for choosing and evaluating your library's collections as well as for answering patrons' questions.

Author : Sally C. Reynolds,René Bobe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781009293396

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African Paleoecology and Human Evolution by Sally C. Reynolds,René Bobe Pdf

Humans evolved in the dynamic landscapes of Africa under conditions of pronounced climatic, geological and environmental change during the past 7 million years. This book brings together detailed records of the paleontological and archaeological sites in Africa that provide the basic evidence for understanding the environments in which we evolved. Chapters cover specific sites, with comprehensive accounts of their geology, paleontology, paleobotany, and their ecological significance for our evolution. Other chapters provide important regional syntheses of past ecological conditions. This book is unique in merging a broad geographic scope (all of Africa) and deep time framework (the past 7 million years) in discussing the geological context and paleontological records of our evolution and that of organisms that evolved alongside our ancestors. It will offer important insights to anyone interested in human evolution, including researchers and graduate students in paleontology, archaeology, anthropology and geology.

Author : Wallace Arthur
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781108836937

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Understanding Evo-Devo by Wallace Arthur Pdf

A brief and accessible account of the new interdisciplinary science of evo-devo for a general audience.