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Evolution

Nature

In Search of Mechanisms Discoveries across the Life Sciences

Craver Carl F., Darden Lindley

ISBN: PB: 9780226039794, ISBN: HB: 9780226039657, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 8 line drawings, 4 tables

Neuroscientists investigate the mechanisms of spatial memory. Molecular biologists study the mechanisms of protein synthesis and the myriad mechanisms of gene regulation. Ecologists study nutrient cycling mechanisms and their devastating imbalances i...

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Evolution

Was Hitler a Darwinian? Disputed Questions in the History of Evolutionary Theory

Richards Robert J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226058931, ISBN: HB: 9780226058764, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 colour plates, 33 halftones, 7 line drawings

In tracing the history of Darwin's accomplishment and the trajectory of evolutionary theory during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, most scholars agree that Darwin introduced blind mechanism into biology, thus banishing moral values...

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Evolution

Long and the Short of It The Science of Life Span and Aging

Silvertown Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780226757896, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
208 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 2 halftones, 1 table

Everything that lives will die. That's the fundamental fact of life. But not everyone dies at the same age: people vary wildly in their patterns of aging and their life spans – and that variation is nothing compared to what's found in other animal an...

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Evolution

Animal Body Size Linking Pattern and Process across Space, Time, and Taxonomic Group

Smith Felisa A., Lyons S. Kathleen

ISBN: HB: 9780226012148, University of Chicago Press, July 2013
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 26 line drawings, 24 tables

Galileo wrote that "nature cannot produce a horse as large as twenty ordinary horses or a giant ten times taller than an ordinary man unless by miracle or by greatly altering the proportions of his limbs and especially of his bones" – a statement tha...

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Evolution

Philosophy

Philosophy of Pseudoscience Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem

Pigliucci Massimo, Boudry Maarten

ISBN: PB: 9780226051963, ISBN: HB: 9780226051796, University of Chicago Press, July 2013
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 2 line drawings

What sets the practice of rigorously tested, sound science apart from pseudoscience? In this volume, the contributors seek to answer this question, known to philosophers of science as "the demarcation problem". This issue has a long history in philos...

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Evolution

Relentless Evolution

Thompson John N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226018751, ISBN: HB: 9780226018614, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
512 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 tables, 64 halftones, 25 line illus.

At a glance, most species seem adapted to the environment in which they live. Yet species relentlessly evolve, and populations within species evolve in different ways. Evolution, as it turns out, is much more dynamic than biologists realized just a f...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Evolution

Lost World of Fossil Lake Snapshots from Deep Time

Grande Lance

ISBN: HB: 9780226922966, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
432 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 3 tables, 243 colour plates, 3 line illus.

The landscape of southwestern Wyoming around the ghost town of Fossil is beautiful but harsh; a dry, high mountain desert with cool nights and long, cold winters inhabited by a sparse mountain desert community. But during the early Eocene, more than...

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Evolution

Darwin Deleted Imagining a World without Darwin

Bowler Peter J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226068671, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
328 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 halftones, 4 line illus.

The ideas and terminology of Darwinism are so pervasive these days that it seems impossible to avoid them, let alone imagine a world without them. But in this remarkable rethinking of scientific history, Peter J. Bowler does just that. He asks:What i...

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Mammals

Evolution

Animal Personalities Behavior, Physiology, and Evolution

Carere Claudio, Maestripieri Dario

ISBN: PB: 9780226921976, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
520 pp., 23x15 cm, 11 tables, 12 halftones, 11 line illus.

Ask anyone who has owned a pet and they'll assure you that, yes, animals have personalities. And science is beginning to agree. Researchers have demonstrated that both domesticated and nondomesticated animals – from invertebrates to monkeys and apes...

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