The Hypothetical Species

Author : Michael Charles Tobias,Jane Gray Morrison
Publisher : Springer
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030113193

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The Hypothetical Species by Michael Charles Tobias,Jane Gray Morrison Pdf

This book is a provocative and invigorating real-time exploration of the future of human evolution by two of the world’s leading interdisciplinary ecologists – Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison. Steeped in a rich multitude of the sciences and humanities, the book enshrines an elegant narrative that is highly empathetic, personal, scientifically wide-ranging and original. It focuses on the geo-positioning of the human Self and its corresponding species. The book's overarching viewpoints and poignant through-story examine and powerfully challenge concepts associated historically with assertions of human superiority over all other life forms. Ultimately, The Hypothetical Species: Variables of Human Evolution is a deeply considered treatise on the ecological and psychological state of humanity and her options – both within, and outside the rubrics of evolutionary research – for survival. This important work is beautifully presented with nearly 200 diverse illustrations, and is introduced with a foreword by famed paleobiologist, Dr. Melanie DeVore.

Author : Sherwood L. Washburn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351528030

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Classification and Human Evolution by Sherwood L. Washburn Pdf

The names given to the variety of man-like fossils known to scientists should reflect no more than scientific views of the nature of human evolution. However, often in the past these names have also reflected confusion regarding the basic principles of scientific nomenclature; and the matter has been further complicated by the many new finds of recent decades. It is the unique purpose of this book to clarify the present state of knowledge regarding the main lines of human evolution by expressing what is known (and what is surmised) about them in appropriate taxonomic language.The papers in this volume were prepared by the world's leading authorities on the subject, and were revised in the light of discussions at a remarkable conference held in Austria in 1962 under the auspices of the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The authors review first the meaning of taxonomic statements as such, and then consider the substance of our present knowledge regarding the number and characteristics of species among living and extinct primates, including man and his ancestors. They also examine the relationship of behavior changes and selection pressures in evolutionary sequences.Ample illustrations, bibliographies and an index enhance the permanent reference value of the book, which will undoubtedly prove to be among the fundamental paleoanthropological works of our time.

Author : Ronald J. Herring
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190226657

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The Oxford Handbook of Food, Politics, and Society by Ronald J. Herring Pdf

Food has, for most of our species history, been intensely political: who gets to eat what, how often, and through what means? The scale of polity in question has shifted over time, from very local institutions dividing up grain piles to an international community imagined in the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations. Simultaneously, the numbers and interests of people asserting political stakes in food and agriculture have likewise shifted up and out. Global networks advocate social justice in distal agrarian systems, promotion of some farming techniques and prohibition of others, food sovereignty or efficiencies of markets and trade. Political consumerism allows the well-endowed to "vote with their dollars" for changes in food systems far from home, but depends on certification and labeling from unseen institutions. As an object of governmentality, food has never been so prominent. The thirty-five handbook chapters confront four major themes in the politics of food: property, technology, justice and knowledge. Ronald Herring's editorial introduction asks how food is political, highlighting contention around the role of market, state and information in societal decisions. The first section of the handbook then examines technology, science and knowledge in food production. What is known - and disputed - about malnutrition, poverty and food security? The second section addresses ethics, rights and distributive justice: agrarian reform, gender inequality, entitlements and subsidies, and the social vision of the alternative food movement. The third section looks to intersections of agriculture and nature: wild foods, livestock, agro-ecological approaches to sustainability, and climate change and genetic engineering. The fourth section addresses food values and culture: political consumerism, labeling and certification, the science and cultural politics of food safety, values driving regulation of genetically modified foods and potential coexistence of GMOs, and organic and conventional crops. The fifth and final section looks at frontiers of global contentions: rival transnational advocacy networks, social movements for organic farming, the who and why of international land grabbing, junctures of cosmopolitan and local food narratives, the "supermarket revolution" and the international agrifood industry in low-income countries, and politics of knowledge in agricultural futures.

Author : Russell Lande,Steinar Engen,Bernt-Erik Sæther
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0198525257

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Stochastic Population Dynamics in Ecology and Conservation by Russell Lande,Steinar Engen,Bernt-Erik Sæther Pdf

1. Demographic and environmental stochasticity -- 2. Extinction dynamics -- 3. Age structure -- 4. Spatial structure -- 5. Population viability analysis -- 6. Sustainable harvesting -- 7. Species diversity -- 8. Community dynamics.

Author : Roland H. Wauer
Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1555663478

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Butterflies of the Lower Rio Grande Valley by Roland H. Wauer Pdf

Roland Wauer's "Butterflies of the Lower Rio Grande Valley" is the only field guide to cover all the reported species in what he calls the "number one butterfly area" in the country. This book includes a description of each species, when and where they can be found, a comparison of similar species, and additional remarks.

Author : Alan Fielding
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999-08-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0412841908

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Machine Learning Methods for Ecological Applications by Alan Fielding Pdf

This is the first text aimed at introducing machine learning methods to a readership of professional ecologists. All but one of the chapters have been written by ecologists and biologists who highlight the application of a particular method to a particular class of problem.

Author : August Weismann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Evolution
ISBN : WISC:89041292137

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Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems by August Weismann Pdf

Author : August Weismann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:24503378910

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Essays upon heredity and kindred biological problems v. 1, 1891 by August Weismann Pdf

Author : Howard Zimmerman
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780323159746

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Quantum Mechanics For Organic Chemists by Howard Zimmerman Pdf

Quantum Mechanics for Organic Chemists is based on the author's first-year graduate course on quantum mechanics for Organic Chemistry majors. The book not only makes a gradual transition from elementary to advanced, but also tries an approach that allows students to have a more intuitive learning. The book covers concepts in quantum physics and topics such as the LCAO-MO Huckel Approach; group theory; and extensions, modifications, and applications of the Huckel approach. Also included in the book are the areas of three-dimensional treatments; polyelectron wave functions; the Slater determinant; and Pople's SCF equations. The text is recommended for graduate students of organic chemistry who would like to know more about the applications of quantum mechanics in their field. Quantum physicists who are interested in the field of organic chemistry would also find the book appealing.

Author : H. Croft Hiller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Human evolution
ISBN : UCAL:$B107587

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Against Dogma and Free-will and for Weismanism by H. Croft Hiller Pdf

Author : P.A. Keddy
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001-11-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 1402002297

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Competition by P.A. Keddy Pdf

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Author : Samuel D. Robbins
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0299102602

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Wisconsin Birdlife by Samuel D. Robbins Pdf

As initially planned in 1939 by Owen J. Gromme, then curator of birds at the Milwaukee Public Museum, Wisconsin Birdlife would not only describe and document every species of bird known to have visited this state, but would also depict each species with his own original paintings. During the next two decades, Gromme concentrated primarily on the latter, resulting in the separate publication in 1963 of his now classic Birds of Wisconsin. Work on the present volume was assumed in the late 1960s by Samuel D. Robbins, whose labors of more than 20 years give us a veritable encyclopedia of the state's ornithological knowledge. A complement and supplement to field guides, picture books, and recordings, the book is designed to enlarge the reader's understanding and appreciation of statewide history, abundance, and habitat preference of every species reliably recorded in Wisconsin. The volume opens with a summary of the ornithological history of the state and an exposition of its ecological setting. The heart of Wisconsin Birdlife ensues: detailed accounts of nearly 400 species, with information on status (population and distribution), habitat, migration dates, breeding data, and wintering presence, followed by extensive discussion and commentary. Dr. James Hall Zimmerman, Senior Lecturer in Landscape Architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, provides a special discussion of bird habitats for the book. In addition, Wisconsin Birdlife features a comprehensive status and seasonal distribution chart, a detailed habitat preference chart, and an exhaustive bibliography. The ultimate resource, Wisconsin Birdlife belongs within easy reach of everyone from armchair appreciators and casual birdwatchers to ardent birders and professional ornithologists.

Author : Eric Post
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691182353

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Time in Ecology by Eric Post Pdf

Ecologists traditionally regard time as part of the background against which ecological interactions play out. In this book, Eric Post argues that time should be treated as a resource used by organisms for growth, maintenance, and offspring production. Post uses insights from phenology—the study of the timing of life-cycle events—to present a theoretical framework of time in ecology that casts long-standing observations in the field in an entirely new light. Combining conceptual models with field data, he demonstrates how phenological advances, delays, and stasis, documented in an array of taxa, can all be viewed as adaptive components of an organism’s strategic use of time. Post shows how the allocation of time by individual organisms to critical life history stages is not only a response to environmental cues but also an important driver of interactions at the population, species, and community levels. To demonstrate the applications of this exciting new conceptual framework, Time in Ecology uses meta-analyses of previous studies as well as Post’s original data on the phenological dynamics of plants, caribou, and muskoxen in Greenland.

Author : Glenn-Peter Sætre,Mark Ravinet
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780198830917

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Evolutionary Genetics by Glenn-Peter Sætre,Mark Ravinet Pdf

Evolutionary genetics is the study of how genetic variation leads to evolutionary change. With the recent explosion in the availability of whole genome sequence data, vast quantities of genetic data are being generated at an ever-increasing pace with the result that programming has become an essential tool for researchers. Most importantly, a thorough understanding of evolutionary principles is essential for making sense of this genetic data. This up-to-date textbook covers all the major components of modern evolutionary genetics, carefully explaining fundamental processes such as mutation, natural selection, genetic drift, and speciation, together with their consequences. The book also draws on a rich literature of exciting and inspiring examples to demonstrate the diversity of evolutionary research, including an emphasis on how evolution and selection has shaped our own species. Furthermore, at the end of each chapter, study questions are provided to motivate the reader to think and reflect on the concepts introduced. Practical experience is essential when it comes to developing an understanding of how to use genetic and genomic data to analyze and address interesting questions in the life sciences and how to interpret results in meaningful ways. In addition to the main text, a series of online tutorials using the R language serves as an introduction to programming, statistics, and the analysis of evolutionary genetic data. The R environment stands out as an ideal all-purpose, open source platform to handle and analyze such data. The book and its online materials take full advantage of the authors' own experience in working in a post-genomic revolution world, and introduce readers to the plethora of molecular and analytical methods that have only recently become available.

Author : Herbert William Krieger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105046412248

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Material Culture of the People of Southeastern Panama by Herbert William Krieger Pdf