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978-3-540-28277-8
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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978-1-4020-3509-8
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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978-3-030-50617-9
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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978-0-387-73896-3
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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978-0-387-72730-1
Foundations of Systematics and Biogeography

the book highlights three principal messages: biological classifications and their explanatory mechanisms are separate notions; ...

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978-1-4020-3836-5
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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978-3-540-49761-5
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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978-3-540-71779-9
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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978-1-4020-5420-4
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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978-1-4020-6036-6
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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978-1-4020-6099-1
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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978-1-4020-6492-0
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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