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Evolution Made to Order Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America
ISBN: PB: 9780226790862, ISBN: HB: 9780226390086, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 halftones
In the mid-twentieth century, American plant breeders, frustrated by their dependence on natural variation in creating new crops and flowers, eagerly sought technologies that could extend human control over nature. Their search led them to celebrate...
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Evolutionary Origins of Life and Death
ISBN: PB: 9780226747767, ISBN: HB: 9780226747620, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones, 3 tables
The question of why an individual would actively kill itself has long been an evolutionary mystery. Pierre M. Durand's ambitious book answers this question through close inspection of life and death in the earliest cellular life. As Durand shows us,...
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Evolutionary Theory A Hierarchical Perspective
ISBN: PB: 9780226426228, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 15 line drawings, 4 tables
The natural world is infinitely complex and hierarchically structured, with smaller units forming the components of progressively larger systems: molecules make up cells, cells comprise tissues and organs that are, in turn, parts of individual organi...
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Evolution Myth or, The Genes Cry Out Their Urgent Song, Mister Darwin Got It Wrong
ISBN: PB: 9788024625201, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2014
150 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 20 halftones, 8 charts
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The origins of life, species, and man continue to interest scientists and stir debate among the general public more than one hundred and fifty years after Charles Darwin published "On the...
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Evolution of Primate Societies
ISBN: PB: 9780226531724, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
744 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 44 tables, 157 halftones, 34 line illus.
In 1987, the University of Chicago Press published "Primate Societies", the standard reference in the field of primate behavior for an entire generation of students and scientists. But in the twenty-five years since its publication, new theories and...
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Evolutionary Restraints The Contentious History of Group Selection
ISBN: PB: 9780226067032, ISBN: HB: 9780226067018, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
228 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 halftones, 1 line illus.
Much of the history of the evolutionary debate since Darwin has focused on the level at which natural selection occurs. Most biologists acknowledge multiple levels of selection – from the gene, the trait, and the organism, to the family, the group, a...
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Ecology and Evolution of Poeciliid Fishes
ISBN: HB: 9780226222745, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
472 pp., 28x22 cm, 54 maps, 25 tables, 34 line illus.
The history of biology is populated by numerous model species or organisms. But few vertebrate groups have aided evolutionary and ecological research more than the live-bearing fishes of the family Poeciliidae. Found throughout tropical and subtropic...
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£74,00
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Evidence for Evolution
ISBN: PB: 9780226723822, ISBN: HB: 9780226723808, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
128 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 3 tables, 27 line illus.
According to polling data, most Americans doubt that evolution is a real phenomenon. And it's no wonder that so many are skeptical: many of today's biology courses and textbooks dwell on the mechanisms of evolution – natural selection, genetic drift,...
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Essential Naturalist Timeless Readings in Natural History
ISBN: PB: 9780226305707, ISBN: HB: 9780226305691, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
552 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 39 tables, 4 halftones, 18 line illus.
Like nearly every area of scholarly inquiry today, the biological sciences are broken into increasingly narrow fields and subfields, its practitioners divided into ecologists, evolutionary biologists, taxonomists, paleontologists, and much more. But...
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