Cooperation in Primates and Humans
Cooperative behavior has been one of the enigmas of evolutionary theory since the days of Darwin. The contributions to this ...
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Creativity, Psychology and the History of Science
The present book includes papers from a wide range of topics. In the contributions to creativity research, Gruber proposes ...
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Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics
offers an integrated historical and philosophical examination of the origin of genetics. The author contends that an integrated ...
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Elwyn Simons : A Search for Origins
Summarizes the current state of knowledge in many aspects of primate and human evolution that have been studied by Simons ...
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Foundations of Systematics and Biogeography
the book highlights three principal messages: biological classifications and their explanatory mechanisms are separate notions; ...
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Genetics of Adaptation
What is the genetic basis of adaptive evolution? In this volume, a new generation of biologists have taken up this challenge. ...
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Origin and Evolution of the Vertebrate Telencephalon, with Special Reference to the Mammalian Neocortex
Following an approach that has been termed "developmental evolutionary genetics," this book seeks to establish a correspondence ...
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Ornithology, Evolution, and Philosophy
This book is the first detailed biography of Ernst Mayr. He was an ‘architect’ of the Synthetic Theory of Evolution, ...
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Positioning the History of Science
The present volume, compiled in honor of an outstanding historian of science, physicist and exceptional human being, Sam ...
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The Descent of Human Sex Ratio at Birth
"Since the 18th century, one phenomenon, the proportion of the sexes at birth among human beings, has contributed to various ...
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The Joy of Science
Scientists have great passion. What could be more exhilarating than to go to work every day feeling as if you were once again ...
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Understanding Nature : Case Studies in Comparative Epistemology
This summons clearly resonates with the “archetypical image” associated with water as a basic element, discussed in Chapter ...
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