86 Results for : evolution's
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The Serpent Within the Beast
The Serpent Within the Beast ab 8.99 € als epub eBook: Unveiling Satan As Evolution's Missing Link. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Geschichte & Dokus,- Shop: hugendubel
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Evolution’s Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People, with a New Preface , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 977min
In this innovative celebration of diversity and affirmation of individuality in animals and humans, Joan Roughgarden challenges accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation. A distinguished evolutionary biologist, Roughgarden takes on the medical establishment, the Bible, social science--and even Darwin himself. She leads the reader through a fascinating discussion of diversity in gender and sexuality among fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals, including primates. Evolution's Rainbow explains how this diversity develops from the action of genes and hormones and how people come to differ from each other in all aspects of body and behavior. Roughgarden reconstructs primary science in light of feminist, gay, and transgender criticism and redefines our understanding of sex, gender, and sexuality. A new preface shows how this witty, playful, and daring book has revolutionized our understanding of sexuality. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Carrington MacDuffie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/004966/bk_adbl_004966_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Lamarck's Revenge
Lamarck's Revenge ab 17.99 € als epub eBook: How Epigenetics Is Revolutionizing Our Understanding of Evolution's Past and Present. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Sonstiges,- Shop: hugendubel
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Great Adaptations
Great Adaptations ab 16.99 € als epub eBook: Star-Nosed Moles Electric Eels and Other Tales of Evolution's Mysteries Solved. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks,- Shop: hugendubel
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The Genial Gene: Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 505min
Are selfishness and individuality - rather than kindness and cooperation - basic to biological nature? Does a "selfish gene" create universial sexual conflict? In The Genial Gene, Joan Roughgarden forcefully rejects these and other ideas that have come to dominate the study of animal evolution. Building on her brilliant and innovative book Evolution's Rainbow, in which she challenged accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation, Roughgarden upends the notion of the selfish gene and the theory of sexual selection and develops a compelling and controversial alternative theory called social selection. This scientifically rigorous, model-based challenge to an important tenet of new-Darwinian theory emphasizes cooperation, elucidates the factors that contribute to evolutionary success in a gene pool or animal social system, and vigorously demonstrates that to identify Darwinism with selfishness and individuality misrepresents the facts of life as we now know them.This book is published by University of California Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Carrington MacDuffie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redw/000038/bk_redw_000038_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Sounds Wild and Broken
Sounds Wild and Broken ab 20.99 € als epub eBook: Sonic Marvels Evolution's Creativity and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Wissenschaften allgemein,- Shop: hugendubel
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Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 474min
We humans like to think of ourselves as highly evolved creatures. But if we are supposedly evolution's greatest creation, why do we have such bad knees? Why do we catch head colds so often - 200 times more often than a dog does? How come our wrists have so many useless bones? Why is the vast majority of our genetic code pointless? And are we really supposed to swallow and breathe through the same narrow tube? Surely there's been some kind of mistake. As professor of biology Nathan H. Lents explains in Human Errors, our evolutionary history is nothing if not a litany of mistakes, each more entertaining and enlightening than the last. The human body is one big pile of compromises. But that is also a testament to our greatness: as Lents shows, humans have so many design flaws precisely because we are very, very good at getting around them. A rollicking, deeply informative tour of humans' four billion year-long evolutionary saga, Human Errors both celebrates our imperfections and offers an unconventional accounting of the cost of our success. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: L.J. Ganser. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/002068/bk_high_002068_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 860min
Survival of the fittest or survival of the nicest? Since the dawn of time man has contemplated the mystery of altruism, but it was Darwin who posed the question most starkly. From the selfless ant to the stinging bee to the man laying down his life for a stranger, evolution has yielded a goodness that in theory should never be. Set against the sweeping tale of 150 years of scientific attempts to explain kindness, The Price of Altruism tells for the first time the moving story of the eccentric American genius George Price (1922-1975), as he strives to answer evolution's greatest riddle. An original and penetrating picture of 20th century thought, it is also a deeply personal journey. From the heights of the Manhattan Project to the inspired equation that explains altruism to the depths of homelessness and despair, Price's life embodies the paradoxes of Darwin’s enigma. His tragic suicide in a squatter’s flat, among the vagabonds to whom he gave all his possessions, provides the ultimate contemplation on the possibility of genuine benevolence. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andi Ackerman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012381/bk_adbl_012381_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar
The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar ab 15.49 € als epub eBook: Evolution's Most Unbelievable Solutions to Life's Biggest Problems. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Wissenschaften allgemein,- Shop: hugendubel
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Hainan Gibbon (eBook, ePUB)
TV scientist Ben Garrod presents the biggest extinction events ever, told from the point of view of evolution's superstars, the most incredible animals ever to swim, stalk, slither or walk our planet. Whether you're 9 or 90, his unique exploration of the most destructive, yet most creative, force in nature makes top level science fun. Can we make the Hainan gibbon a super-survivor? It's one of our closest living relatives and among the most endangered animals on our planet. Can we change our role in the story of life, from being super-careless to being super-savers and do what we can to help our most interesting, incredible and important species from going extinct? The future depends on us. Here are the superstars of the story of life, from the super-weird to the super-ferocious. Usually a species has 10 million years or so of evolving, eating, chasing, playing, maybe doing homework, or even going to the moon before it goes extinct. Collect all eight books about animals we have lost in mass extinctions caused by asteroids or mega-volcanoes, clashing continents and climate change. * Past brought to full-colour life by palaeoartist Gabriel Ugueto * Ask an Expert contributions from leading scientists * Glossary and pronunciation guide- Shop: buecher
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