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Tropical Botanic Gardens
Elsevier Science 1991; US$ 111.00This book includes the proceedings of the second symposium on one important role of botanic gardens in conserving world plant resources. Sessions covered topics such as implementing the botanic gardens conservation strategy, regional networks and national programs in the tropics, and germplasm banks in botanic gardens. more...
Origin and Evolution of the Vertebrate Telencephalon
Springer 2007; US$ 139.99How could a structure as complex as the vertebrate brain develop from the simplest multicellular animals? Natural selection offers an impeccable mechanism for the gradual transformation of species, but even Darwin sometimes expressed doubts about the origin of highly complex structures. Following an approach that has been termed developmental evolutionary... more...
The Jesuit and the Skull
Penguin Group US 2008; US$ 16.00From the New York Times bestselling author of Fermat?s Last Theorem , ?an extraordinary story?( Philadelphia Inquirer ) of discovery, evolution, science, and faith. In 1929, French Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a part of a group of scientists that uncovered a skull that became known as Peking Man, a key evolutionary link that... more...
Origins of Existence
Free Press 2010; Not AvailableIn Origins of Existence astrophysicist Fred Adams takes a radically different approach from the long tradition of biologists and spiritual leaders who have tried to explain how the universe supports the development of life. He argues that life followed naturally from the laws of physics -- which were established as the universe burst into existence... more...
Origins of Existence
Free Press 2010; Not AvailableIn Origins of Existence astrophysicist Fred Adams takes a radically different approach from the long tradition of biologists and spiritual leaders who have tried to explain how the universe supports the development of life. He argues that life followed naturally from the laws of physics -- which were established as the universe burst into existence... more...
Origins of Existence
Free Press 2010; US$ 25.00In Origins of Existence astrophysicist Fred Adams takes a radically different approach from the long tradition of biologists and spiritual leaders who have tried to explain how the universe supports the development of life. He argues that life followed naturally from the laws of physics -- which were established as the universe burst into existence... more...
Ontogeny, Functional Ecology, and Evolution of Bats
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 68.00Ontogeny, Functional Ecology and Evolution of Bats explores the relationship between developmental processes and ultimate function in this highly specialised group of flighted mammals. As such it is an essential reference work not only for bat biologists, but also for all those working in ecology, developmental biology, evolution and systematics. more...
Evolutionary Ontology
Editions Rodopi 2008; US$ 64.40This book examines new concept of evolutionary ontology based on the idea of radically different ontic orders natural and cultural being. It explains how culture evolved out of nature and how it became anti-natural. The remedy is seen in the global biophilous reconstruction of culture. The value of the live planet... more...
Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids
Columbia University Press 2010; US$ 34.99Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids takes us on a journey through 65 million years, from the aftermath of the extinction of the dinosaurs to the glacial climax of the Pleistocene epoch; from the rain forests of the Paleocene and the Eocene, with their lemur-like primates, to the harsh landscape of the Pleistocene Steppes, home to the woolly mammoth.... more...
Hominoid Evolution and Climatic Change in Europe: Volume 1, The Evolution of Neogene Terrestrial Ecosystems in Europe
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 141.00Major changes have occurred in the climate of Europe and the Mediterranean in the past 20 million years. This unique books looks at this climatic history in relation to hominoid evolution, and provides a coherent image of climate change during this period for anyone interested in human evolution. more...









