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Evolution

Newen Albert, Bartels Andreas, Jung Eva-Maria

ISBN: PB: 9781575866307, ISBN: HB: 9781575866314, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, September 2011
242 pp., 23x15 cm

This compilation of cutting-edge philosophical and scientific research comprises a survey of recent neuroscientific research on representational systems in animals and humans. Representational systems provide their owners with useful information abou...

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Evolution

Comparative Approach in Evolutionary Anthropology and Biology

Nunn Charles L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226608990, ISBN: HB: 9780226608983, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
424 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 tables, 20 halftones, 111 line illus.

Comparison is fundamental to evolutionary anthropology. When scientists study chimpanzee cognition, for example, they compare chimp performance on cognitive tasks to the performance of human children on the same tasks. And when new fossils are found,...

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Mathematics

Groups of Circle Diffeomorphisms

Navas Andres

ISBN: HB: 9780226569512, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 line illus.

In recent years scholars from a variety of branches of mathematics have made several significant developments in the theory of group actions".Groups of Circle Diffeomorphisms" systematically explores group actions on the simplest closed manifold, the...

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Evolution

From Man to Ape Darwinism in Argentina, 1870-1920

Novoa Adriana, Levine Alex

ISBN: HB: 9780226596167, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones

Upon its publication, "The Origin of Species" was critically embraced in Europe and North America. But how did Darwin's theories fare in other regions of the world? Adriana Novoa and Alex Levine offer here a history and interpretation of the receptio...

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Sea Life

Amazing Nature

Deep The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss

Nouvian Claire

ISBN: HB: 9780226595665, University of Chicago Press, March 2007
256 pp., 30.7x26.1 cm, 220 colour illus.

On dry land, most organisms are confined to the surface, or at most to altitudes of a hundred meters – the height of the tallest trees. In the oceans, though, living space has both vertical and horizontal dimensions: with an average depth of 3800 met...

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