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Author : Herbert George Wells,Julian Huxley,George Philip Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1546 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Biology
ISBN : COLUMBIA:HS64877957
Author : Peter Ward,Joe Kirschvink
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781608199082
The history of life on Earth is, in some form or another, known to us all--or so we think. A New History of Life offers a provocative new account, based on the latest scientific research, of how life on our planet evolved--the first major new synthesis for general readers in two decades. Charles Darwin's theories, first published more than 150 years ago, form the backbone of how we understand the history of the Earth. In reality, the currently accepted history of life on Earth is so flawed, so out of date, that it's past time we need a 'New History of Life.' In their latest book, Joe Kirschvink and Peter Ward will show that many of our most cherished beliefs about the evolution of life are wrong. Gathering and analyzing years of discoveries and research not yet widely known to the public, A New History of Life proposes a different origin of species than the one Darwin proposed, one which includes eight-foot-long centipedes, a frozen “snowball Earth”, and the seeds for life originating on Mars. Drawing on their years of experience in paleontology, biology, chemistry, and astrobiology, experts Ward and Kirschvink paint a picture of the origins life on Earth that are at once too fabulous to imagine and too familiar to dismiss--and looking forward, A New History of Life brilliantly assembles insights from some of the latest scientific research to understand how life on Earth can and might evolve far into the future.
Author : John Maynard Smith,Eors Szathmary
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000-03-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780191647321
In this fascinating book, John Maynard Smith and Eors Szathmary present an original picture of evolution. They propose that during evolution there have been a number of major transitions in the way in which information is passed between generations. These transitions include the appearance of the first replicating molecules, the emergence of co-operative animal societies, and the unique language ability of humans. Containing many new ideas, this book is contemporary biology on the grandest scale, from the birth of life to the origin of language.
Author : Adrian Bejan
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781466891340
The Physics of Life explores the roots of the big question by examining the deepest urges and properties of living things, both animate and inanimate: how to live longer, with food, warmth, power, movement and free access to other people and surroundings. Bejan explores controversial and relevant issues such as sustainability, water and food supply, fuel, and economy, to critique the state in which the world understands positions of power and freedom. Breaking down concepts such as desire and power, sports health and culture, the state of economy, water and energy, politics and distribution, Bejan uses the language of physics to explain how each system works in order to clarify the meaning of evolution in its broadest scientific sense, moving the reader towards a better understanding of the world's systems and the natural evolution of cultural and political development. The Physics of Life argues that the evolution phenomenon is much broader and older than the evolutionary designs that constitute the biosphere, empowering readers with a new view of the globe and the future, revealing that the urge to have better ideas has the same physical effect as the urge to have better laws and better government. This is evolution explained loudly but also elegantly, forging a path that flows sustainability.
Author : David P. Mindell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674041080
In the 150 years since Darwin, evolutionary biology has proven as essential as it is controversial, a critical concept for answering questions about everything from the genetic code and the structure of cells to the reproduction, development, and migration of animal and plant life. But today, as David P. Mindell makes undeniably clear in The Evolving World, evolutionary biology is much more than an explanatory concept. It is indispensable to the world we live in. This book provides the first truly accessible and balanced account of how evolution has become a tool with applications that are thoroughly integrated, and deeply useful, in our everyday lives and our societies, often in ways that we do not realize. When we domesticate wild species for agriculture or companionship; when we manage our exposure to pathogens and prevent or control epidemics; when we foster the diversity of species and safeguard the functioning of ecosystems: in each of these cases, Mindell shows us, evolutionary biology applies. It is at work when we recognize that humans represent a single evolutionary family with variant cultures but shared biological capabilities and motivations. And last but not least, we see here how evolutionary biology comes into play when we use knowledge of evolution to pursue justice within the legal system and to promote further scientific discovery through education and academic research. More than revealing evolution's everyday uses and value, The Evolving World demonstrates the excitement inherent in its applications--and convinces us as never before that evolutionary biology has become absolutely necessary for human existence.
Author : National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : 0309064066
This edition of Science and Creationism summarizes key aspects of several of the most important lines of evidence supporting evolution. It describes some of the positions taken by advocates of creation science and presents an analysis of these claims. This document lays out for a broader audience the case against presenting religious concepts in science classes. The document covers the origin of the universe, Earth, and life; evidence supporting biological evolution; and human evolution. (Contains 31 references.) (CCM)
Author : Kat Arney
Publisher : BenBella Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781950665518
Why do we get cancer? Is it our modern diets and unhealthy habits? Chemicals in the environment? An unwelcome genetic inheritance? Or is it just bad luck? The answer is all of these and none of them. We get cancer because we can't avoid it—it's a bug in the system of life itself. Cancer exists in nearly every animal and has afflicted humans as long as our species has walked the earth. In Rebel Cell: Cancer, Evolution, and the New Science of Life's Oldest Betrayal, Kat Arney reveals the secrets of our most formidable medical enemy, most notably the fact that it isn't so much a foreign invader as a double agent: cancer is hardwired into the fundamental processes of life. New evidence shows that this disease is the result of the same evolutionary changes that allowed us to thrive. Evolution helped us outsmart our environment, and it helps cancer outsmart its environment as well—alas, that environment is us. Explaining why "everything we know about cancer is wrong," Arney, a geneticist and award-winning science writer, guides readers with her trademark wit and clarity through the latest research into the cellular mavericks that rebel against the rigid biological "society" of the body and make a leap towards anarchy. We need to be a lot smarter to defeat such a wily foe—smarter even than Darwin himself. In this new world, where we know that every cancer is unique and can evolve its way out of trouble, the old models of treatment have reached their limits. But we are starting to decipher cancer's secret evolutionary playbook, mapping the landscapes in which these rogue cells survive, thrive, or die, and using this knowledge to predict and confound cancer's next move. Rebel Cell is a story about life and death, hope and hubris, nature and nurture. It's about a new way of thinking about what this disease really is and the role it plays in human life. Above all, it's a story about where cancer came from, where it's going, and how we can stop it.
Author : John Adrian LeRoy
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781524561284
This book talks about the scientific processes involved with the matter of our being and how we are evolved, as are all species when their DNA molecules react to the effects of their incoming environment and are dealt with. Some billions of years ago, DNA molecules not only came into being in the right conditionsincluding the presence of five elements (hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, carbon, and phosphorous) and a moist environment when an enzyme-assisted chemical process resulted in them becoming established, but additionally, they were activated by the damaging effects of incoming environmental-related energy pulses causing a vibrational response to occur. (The physical phenomenon of vibration and resonance is the most common in the universe.) The DNA molecules suffered controlled physical damage during this process, but by a hit-and-miss replacement procedure, they were and are adapted by way of adjustments to the individual coding of the DNA nucleotide pairs making up the molecule, which eventually becomes part of the gene, resulting in an electrical-generation force-field activated output (protein, hormones, etc.) being initiated from the cells that resulted in the protection of the DNA molecules from the incoming environmental energy pulse impacts but also resulted in these protective outputs from the cells becoming the physical attributes of the species that allow it, the specimen, to survive in its particular environment. Eukaryotic, multicell species developed when a single cell, prokaryotic species invaded another that had been invaded by a single mitochondria cell that was adept at reducing sugar molecules and releasing energy pulses and energy that was available for the combined cells utilisation. These combined cells with energy pulses and energy available twenty-four hours a day for processes then took off. With an understanding of physics, electrical engineering, etc., it became possible to establish the functioning of cells, differentiation of cells, etc., and with that the causes of genetic problems such as cancer development, MS, diabetes, etc. A similar record-based process results in the brain glia cells utilising junk DNA nucleotide pairs to guide mental reactions, leading to survival in the environment. The question then is we survive but what are we?
Author : Douglas Palmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39076002865959
"Evolution" recreates the 3.5 billion-year story of life on Earth in stunning detail through vivid full-color illustrations and graphics, the latest scientific information, and hundreds of photographs--a beautifully detailed panorama of communities from microbes to humankind that have lived on the planet's continents and in its oceans.
Author : Nick Lane
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781847658807
Why is life the way it is? Bacteria evolved into complex life just once in four billion years of life on earth-and all complex life shares many strange properties, from sex to ageing and death. If life evolved on other planets, would it be the same or completely different? In The Vital Question, Nick Lane radically reframes evolutionary history, putting forward a cogent solution to conundrums that have troubled scientists for decades. The answer, he argues, lies in energy: how all life on Earth lives off a voltage with the strength of a bolt of lightning. In unravelling these scientific enigmas, making sense of life's quirks, Lane's explanation provides a solution to life's vital questions: why are we as we are, and why are we here at all? This is ground-breaking science in an accessible form, in the tradition of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species, Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, and Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel.
Author : Gary Parker
Publisher : New Leaf Publishing Group
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780890514924
In Creation Facts of Life, Dr. Parker respectfully describes the evidences he once used to "preach" evolution - but then he explains how the "rest of the evidence" points away from evolution and toward a perfect world created by God, ruined by man, restored to new life in Christ!
Author : Catherine Barr,Steve Williams
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1786033429
At first, nothing lived on Earth. It was a noisy, hot, scary place. Choking gas exploded from volcanoes and oceans of lava bubbled around the globe... Then in the deep, dark ocean, something amazing happened. This is an exciting and dramatic story about how life began and developed on Planet Earth, written especially for younger children. The authors explain how the first living cell was created, and how the cells multiply and create jellyfish and worms, and then fish with bendy necks, which drag themselves out of the water into swampy forests. They tell the story of the biggest creatures that have ever walked on land - the dinosaurs. Long after that, hairy creatures who have babies, not eggs, take over, stand on two legs and spread around the world, some of them living through cataclysmic events such as ice ages and volcanic eruptions. Everyone living today is related to these survivors. With delightful illustrations including lots of detail and humour, all carefully researched and checked, this book shows the development of life on Earth in a truly accessible and simple way. CLICK HERE to download Teachers' Notes specially written by the authors, Catherine Barr and Steve Williams, to assist teachers and librarians in the promotion and teaching of The Story of Lifein schools and to help foster a love of good books, literature and reading in children.
Author : Theodore W. Pietsch
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781421404790
Evolution.
Author : Andrew H. Knoll
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Science
ISBN : 0691120293
Knoll explores the deep history of life from its origins on a young planet to the incredible Cambrian explosion, with the very latest discoveries in paleontology integrated with emerging insights from molecular biology and earth system science. 100 illustrations.
Author : William K. Purves
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 1256 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Science
ISBN : 0716798565
New edition of a text presenting underlying concepts and showing their relevance to medical, agricultural, and environmental issues. Seven chapters discuss the cell, information and heredity, evolutionary process, the evolution of diversity, the biology of flowering plants and of animals, and ecology and biogeography. Topics are linked by themes such as evolution, the experimental foundations of knowledge, the flow of energy in the living world, the application and influence of molecular techniques, and human health considerations. Includes a CD-ROM which covers some of the subject matter and introduces and illustrates 1,700-plus key terms and concepts. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
