By Alma E. Cavazos-Gaither, Carl C. Gaither

ISBN-10: 0387495754

ISBN-13: 9780387495750

Discovering phrases of knowledge approximately technological know-how is now effortless with Gaither's Dictionary of clinical Quotations. equipped thematically and listed alphabetically through writer, this paintings makes available an unparalleled selection of nearly 21,000 quotations on the topic of a extensive variety of clinical themes, together with astronomy, biology, chemistry, engineering, and physics. The thematic association permits you to without difficulty discover a pertinent citation from quite a few assets and views. The ensuing compendium permits a reader to conceptualize and include the written photos of scientists, laymen, politicians, novelists, playwrights, and poets approximately humankind's clinical achievements. Quotations are indexed with the credited writer, name, bankruptcy, web page quantity, birth/death date, and profession the place possible.

By K.H. Olsen

ISBN-10: 0444895663

ISBN-13: 9780444895660

ISBN-10: 0444895671

ISBN-13: 9780444895677

This multi-author ebook has been ready by way of a world team of geoscientists which have been lively in rift learn because the overdue Nineteen Sixties. In 1984, a casual, grass-roots research crew used to be initiated to check person examine effects and to discover in higher intensity the obvious modifications and similarities within the interpretations from a variety of rift platforms. the gang grew to become referred to as the CREST operating crew, an acronym of Continental Rifts: Evolution, constitution and Tectonics, which no longer unusually grew to become the name of this book.Continental Rifts: Evolution, constitution, Tectonics offers an summary of the current nation of knowing and data of the tactics of continental rifting from a multidisciplinary, lithospheric scale viewpoint. The chapters were dependent on every one rift method in nearly a similar synoptic series, as a way to facilitate comparisons of rifts through the reader. The booklet enhances its predecessors via featuring a extra unified photo. It succeeds in providing the prestige of a consultant majority of the continental rift structures which have been on the vanguard of contemporary study. for college students and skilled researchers alike, this booklet should be of important price in assessing the present nation of data and in serving as a framework for destiny study

By Jerome H. Barkow

ISBN-10: 0195060237

ISBN-13: 9780195060232

ISBN-10: 0195101073

ISBN-13: 9780195101072

Even though researchers have lengthy been acutely aware that the species-typical structure of the human brain is the manufactured from our evolutionary historical past, it has in basic terms been within the final 3 many years that advances in such fields as evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, and paleoanthropology have made the very fact of our evolution illuminating. Converging findings from numerous disciplines are resulting in the emergence of a essentially new view of the human brain, and with it a brand new framework for the behavioral and social sciences. First, with the appearance of the cognitive revolution, human nature can eventually be outlined accurately because the set of common, species-typical information-processing courses that function underneath the outside of expressed cultural variability. moment, this choice of cognitive courses advanced within the Pleistocene to resolve the adaptive difficulties on a regular basis confronted through our hunter-gatherer ancestors--problems corresponding to mate choice, language acquisition, cooperation, and sexual infidelity. for that reason, the conventional view of the brain as a general-purpose desktop, tabula rasa, or passive recipient of tradition is being changed via the view that the brain resembles an complex community of functionally really expert pcs, every one of which imposes contentful constitution on human psychological association and tradition. The tailored brain explores this new approach--evolutionary psychology--and its implications for a brand new view of tradition.

By David Rains Wallace

ISBN-10: 0520256166

ISBN-13: 9780520256163

By Richard Fortey

An awe-inspiring trip in the course of the eons of time and around the globe, looking for obvious lines of evolution in dwelling creatures that have survived from earliest instances and whose tales communicate to us of seminal occasions within the historical past of lifestyles. 'Reading Richard Fortey is often natural pleasure' invoice BRYSON The historical past of existence on the earth is way older -- and much odder -- than many people have an understanding of. during this booklet, acclaimed writer Richard Fortey strains this historical past now not via fossil files, yet within the dwelling tales of organisms that experience survived approximately unchanged for hundreds of thousands of thousands of years and whose life at the present time provides us tantalising glimpses of landscapes lengthy vanished. For evolution has now not obliterated its tracks. Scattered around the globe, unusual and marvellous crops and animals have survived nearly unchanged in view that lifestyles first begun. they vary from humble algal mats courting again virtually billion years to hardy musk oxen, which linger because the final vestiges of Ice Age fauna. Following in Fortey's questing footsteps, Survivors takes us on interesting trip to those historical worlds. On a moonlit seashore in Delaware the place the horseshoe crab shuffles its manner via a violent romance, we seize a glimpse of lifestyles 450 million years in the past, almost immediately after it different at the ocean flooring. alongside a stretch of Australian sea coast, we endure witness to the attractions and sounds that might have greeted a Precambrian sunrise. eventually, within the dense rainforests of latest Zealand the place the secretive velvet computer virus burrows into the rotting trees of the jungle flooring, we wonder at a dwelling fossil which has survived unchanged on account that earlier than the dissolution of the Gondwana supercontinent. Written with Fortey's prevalent sparkle and gusto, this splendidly engrossing exploration of the world's oldest wildlife brilliantly combines the easiest technology writing in regards to the origins of existence with an explorer's feel of event and a poet's ask yourself on the flora and fauna. completely compelling, eye-opening and awe-inspiring, this can be a booklet for a person with an curiosity in evolution, in nature, within the impressive scope of geological time and our personal modest interplay with it -- briefly, in lifestyles itself.

By Marcello Barbieri

ISBN-10: 0521824141

ISBN-13: 9780521824149

Saying that there are lots of extra natural codes in nature than simply the genetic code, Marcello Barbieri states that the lifestyles of those codes and their corresponding natural stories can be utilized to give an explanation for the main steps within the evolutionary historical past of lifestyles. With significant occasions equivalent to the looks of recent codes, the natural codes and their corresponding natural thoughts may also shed new gentle at the difficulties of epigenesis and the way embryos generate their very own complexity.

By Paul A Collinvaux, Paulo E. De Oliveira, Enrique Moreno

ISBN-10: 9057025876

ISBN-13: 9789057025877

Amazon will turn out a strong device for ecologists and weather modelers. It additionally includes short studies of pioneering pollen paintings within the Amazon thus far; sections on pollen tools, pollen facts, paleoecology, and lake coring tools.

By Jonathan M. Adrain, Gregory D. Edgecombe, Bruce S. Lieberman

ISBN-10: 1461351375

ISBN-13: 9781461351375

ISBN-10: 1461505712

ISBN-13: 9781461505716

Phylogenetic research and morphometrics were constructed through biologists into rigorous analytic instruments for trying out hypotheses concerning the relationships among teams of species. This e-book applies those instruments to paleontological information.

The fossil checklist is our one precise chronicle of the heritage of existence, protecting a suite of macroevolutionary styles; hence a variety of hypotheses approximately evolutionary techniques could be validated within the fossil checklist utilizing phylogentic research and morphometrics.

The first booklet of its variety, Fossils, Phylogeny, and Form might be valuable in evolutionary biology, paleontology, systematics, evolutionary improvement, theoretical biology, biogeography, and zoology. it's going to additionally offer a realistic, researcher-friendly gateway into computer-based phylogenetics and morphometrics.

By J. Rabassa

ISBN-10: 0080558895

ISBN-13: 9780080558899

ISBN-10: 0444529543

ISBN-13: 9780444529541

Written by means of highly-qualified Argenitne scientists and students, this publication specializes in the uninterrupted geological and palaeontological checklist of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego because the Miocene-Pliocene boundary to the coming of guy and sleek occasions. This sector is a phenomenal quarter for learn, with major curiosity on the foreign point. It offers an up to date evaluate of the clinical paintings in all comparable fields with a robust palaeoclimatic method. Patagonia has additionally been a type of a "palaeoclimatic bridge" among the Antartic Peninsula and the extra northerly landmasses, because the ultimate starting of the Drake Passage within the heart Miocene. well timed and accomplished, The overdue Cenozoic of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego is the one monographic ebook written in English. * One-stop source for paleontological details of the past due Cenozoic of Patagonia* Covers five million years within the uninterrupted heritage of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego* finished assurance of the zone written via highly-qualified Argentine scientists and student

By David B. Weishampel, Coralia-Maria Jianu

ISBN-10: 1421400278

ISBN-13: 9781421400273

On the finish of the time of the dinosaurs, Transylvania was once an island in what used to be to develop into southeastern Europe. The island's constrained assets affected the scale and existence histories of its animals, leading to an area dwarfism. for instance, sauropods stumbled on at the island measured merely six meters lengthy, whereas their cousins in different places grew as much as 5 instances greater. right here, David B. Weishampel and Coralia-Maria Jianu current certain evolutionary interpretations of this phenomenon.

The authors compile the most recent info at the fauna, plants, geology, and paleogeography of the quarter, casting those historical reptiles of their phylogenetic, paleoecological, and evolutionary contexts. What the authors locate is that Transylvanian dinosaurs skilled a number of unpredictable successes as they evolved.

Woven in the course of the special historical past and technological know-how of those diminutive dinosaurs is the attention-grabbing tale of the guy who first came across them, the mysterious twentieth-century paleontologist Franz Baron Nopcsa, whose identify is synonymous with Transylvanian dinosaurs. Hailed via a few because the father of paleobiology, it was once Nopcsa by myself who understood the significance of the dinosaur discoveries in Transylvania; their tale can't be informed with out recounting his.

Transylvanian Dinosaurs moves an interesting stability among biography and medical treatise and is certain to trap the mind's eye paleontologists and beginner dinophiles alike.