Evolutionary History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Evolutionary History write by Edmund Russell. This book was released on 2011-04-11. Evolutionary History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We tend to see history and evolution springing from separate roots, one grounded in the human world and the other in the natural world. Human beings have, however, become probably the most powerful species shaping evolution today, and human-caused evolution in other species has probably been the most important force shaping human history. This book introduces readers to evolutionary history, a new field that unites history and biology to create a fuller understanding of the past than either can produce on its own. Evolutionary history can stimulate surprising new hypotheses for any field of history and evolutionary biology. How many art historians would have guessed that sculpture encouraged the evolution of tuskless elephants? How many biologists would have predicted that human poverty would accelerate animal evolution? How many military historians would have suspected that plant evolution would convert a counter-insurgency strategy into a rebel subsidy? With examples from around the globe, this book will help readers see the broadest patterns of history and the details of their own life in a new light.
The Evolutionary History of Nematodes
The Evolutionary History of Nematodes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Evolutionary History of Nematodes write by George O. Poinar Jr.. This book was released on 2011-03-05. The Evolutionary History of Nematodes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nematodes are one of the most abundant groups of invertebrates on the face of the earth. Their numbers are estimated to range from 1000 per cm2 in the sand-covered hydrogen sulphide ‘black zone’ beneath the ocean floors to 1.2 billion in a single hectare of soil. Estimates for their species diversity range from 100 000 to 10 million. The past history of nematodes is a mystery, since very few fossils have been discovered. This book establishes a solid base in palaeonematology with descriptions of 66 new fossil species and accounts of all previous fossil and subfossil nematodes from sedimentary deposits, coprolites, amber and mummies. It shows how nematode fossils can be used to establish lineages at various locations and time periods in the earth’s history and when nematodes entered into symbiotic and parasitic associations with plants and animals.
Evolutionary History of Bats
Evolutionary History of Bats - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Evolutionary History of Bats write by Gregg F. Gunnell. This book was released on 2012-03-29. Evolutionary History of Bats available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the rich evolutionary history of bats from multiple perspectives, presenting some of the most remarkable discoveries involving fossil bats.
Evolutionary History of the Marsupials and an Analysis of Osteological Characters
Evolutionary History of the Marsupials and an Analysis of Osteological Characters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Evolutionary History of the Marsupials and an Analysis of Osteological Characters write by Frederick S. Szalay. This book was released on 1994. Evolutionary History of the Marsupials and an Analysis of Osteological Characters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines a variety of problems in the understanding of the evolutionary history of the marsupials. In reviewing the evidence from bones, the author presents much new information on both living and fossil groups of marsupials. All groups of marsupials are treated in detail, and in the final chapter their history in space and time and their palaeobiogeography are considered.
Evolutionary Restraints
Evolutionary Restraints - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Evolutionary Restraints write by Mark E. Borrello. This book was released on 2010-10-15. Evolutionary Restraints available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Much of the evolutionary debate since Darwin has focused on the level at which natural selection occurs. Most biologists acknowledge multiple levels of selection—from the gene to the species. The debate about group selection, however, is the focus of Mark E. Borrello’s Evolutionary Restraints. Tracing the history of biological attempts to determine whether selection leads to the evolution of fitter groups, Borrello takes as his focus the British naturalist V. C. Wynne-Edwards, who proposed that animals could regulate their own populations and thus avoid overexploitation of their resources. By the mid-twentieth century, Wynne-Edwards became an advocate for group selection theory and led a debate that engaged the most significant evolutionary biologists of his time, including Ernst Mayr, G. C. Williams, and Richard Dawkins. This important dialogue bled out into broader conversations about population regulation, environmental crises, and the evolution of human social behavior. By examining a single facet in the long debate about evolution, Borrello provides powerful insight into an intellectual quandary that remains relevant and alive to this day.
