Robert C. King; Pamela K. Mulligan; William Stansfield
Pages
672 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
188 x 253 mm
Pub date
Jan 2013
This eighth edition of A Dictionary of Genetics contains over 7,500 up-to-date and cross-referenced entries, including 540 that are newly written. The entries include the latest terminology, concepts, ... Read more
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John Van Wyhe; Kees Rookmaaker; David Attenborough
Pages
352 Pages
Format
Hardcover
Size
161 x 241 mm
Pub date
Oct 2013
This volume brings together the letters of the great Victorian naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) during his famous travels of 1854-62 in the Malay Archipelago (now Singapore, Malaysia, and ... Read more
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Animal Evolution provides a comprehensive analysis of the evolutionary interrelationships and myriad diversity of the Animal Kingdom. It reviews the classical, morphological information from structure ... Read more
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Explores some of the big unanswered questions about the universe
Considers the origins of life on Earth and its evolution, to understand the possibility of life elsewhere
Brings together the id ... Read more
While much has been written about the life and works of Charles Darwin, the lives of his ten children remain largely unexamined. Most "Darwin books" consider his children as footnotes to the life of t ... Read more
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Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, arguably the most important book written in English in the nineteenth century, transformed the way we looked at the world. It is usually assumed that this is ... Read more
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For evolutionary biologists, the concept of chance has always played a significant role in the formation of evolutionary theory. As far back as Greek antiquity, chance and "luck" were understood to be ... Read more
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In 1859 Darwin described a deceptively simple mechanism that he called "natural selection," a combination of variation, inheritance, and reproductive success. He argued that this mechanism was the key ... Read more
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Jean Clobert; Michel Baguette; Tim G. Benton; James M. Bullock; Simon Ducatez
Pages
496 Pages
Format
Hardcover
Size
195 x 247 mm
Pub date
Sep 2012
Now that so many ecosystems face rapid and major environmental change, the ability of species to respond to these changes by dispersing or moving between different patches of habitat can be crucial to ... Read more
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The study of genetic exchange resulting from natural hybridization, horizontal gene transfer, and viral recombination has long been marked by controversy between researchers holding different conceptu ... Read more
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