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Anthropologie: Ein einführendes Lehrbuch (Springer-Lehrbuch)

Anthropologie: Ein einführendes Lehrbuch (Springer-Lehrbuch)




Review Aus den Rezensionen: "... kaum ein biologisches Fach hat derart um eine aktualisierte Inhaltsbestimmung rin...
Evolution and social life

Evolution and social life


Tim Ingold



Evolution and social life...
Dynamics in Human and Primate Societies: Agent-Based Modeling of Social and Spatial Processes (Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity)

Dynamics in Human and Primate Societies: Agent-Based Modeling of Social and Spatial Processes (Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity)


George G. Gumerman, Timothy A. Kohler



About the Author Timothy A. Kohler, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, Washington State University. George...
Technomics: The Theory of Industrial Evolution

Technomics: The Theory of Industrial Evolution


H. Lee Martin



Technomics: The Theory of Industrial Evolution...
Ökologie: 2. Auflage Übersetzung der 3. englischen Auflage (Springer-Lehrbuch)

Ökologie: 2. Auflage Übersetzung der 3. englischen Auflage (Springer-Lehrbuch)


Colin R. Townsend, John L. Harper, Michael Begon



Review Aus den Rezensionen zur 2. Auflage: “… In vierfarbig gestalteter und verständlicher Form werden...
Fundamentalism and Education in the Scopes Era: God, Darwin, and the Roots of America's Culture Wars

Fundamentalism and Education in the Scopes Era: God, Darwin, and the Roots of America's Culture Wars


Adam Laats



Review “Recommended.”—CHOICE “Laats has written the definitive history of education and the c...
Fungi from Different Environments (Progress in Mycological Research)

Fungi from Different Environments (Progress in Mycological Research)


J. K. Misra, S.K. Deshmukh



Fungi from Different Environments (Progress in Mycological Research)...
Environmental Biology

Environmental Biology


Terry Bruce Hilleman



Environmental Biology...
Ecology of social evolution

Ecology of social evolution


Judith Korb, Jürgen Heinze



Review From the reviews: "The ecology of social evolution … attempt to redress a perceived bias for genetic...
Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution Is Wrong

Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution Is Wrong


Jonathan Wells



Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution Is Wrong...
Why We Talk: The Evolutionary Origins of Language (Studies in the Evolution of Language)

Why We Talk: The Evolutionary Origins of Language (Studies in the Evolution of Language)




Review This is a provocative, erudite and enjoyable book, written to stimulate debate Raphael Salkie, THES About th...
Quantum transport: modelling analysis and asymptotics : lectures given at the C.I.M.E. Summer School held in Cetraro, Italy, September 11-16, 2006

Quantum transport: modelling analysis and asymptotics : lectures given at the C.I.M.E. Summer School held in Cetraro, Italy, September 11-16, 2006


Grégoire Allaire, Giovanni Frosali



From the Back Cover The CIME Summer School held in Cetraro, Italy, in 2006 addressed researchers interested in the mathem...
Animal Signals (Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution)

Animal Signals (Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution)


David Harper, John Maynard Smith



Review `John Maynard Smith is an accomplished expositor and skilled modeller, and his contribution is bound to make this ...
The Origin and Evolution of the Solar System (Graduate Series in Astronomy)

The Origin and Evolution of the Solar System (Graduate Series in Astronomy)


Michael M. Woolfson



The Origin and Evolution of the Solar System (Graduate Series in Astronomy)...
Evolution and Human Behavior: Darwinian Perspectives on Human Nature (Bradford Books)

Evolution and Human Behavior: Darwinian Perspectives on Human Nature (Bradford Books)


John Cartwright



About the Author John Cartwright is Senior Lecturer and teaching fellow at the University of Chester, where he teaches co...
Evolution of Island Mammals: Adaptation and Extinction of Placental Mammals on Islands

Evolution of Island Mammals: Adaptation and Extinction of Placental Mammals on Islands


Alexandra Van Der Geer, George Lyras, John De Vos, Michael Dermitzakis



Review "Van der Geer et al. Have done a thorough job of providing an up-to-date overview of what is now known about the d...
Biodiversity in Agroecosystems

Biodiversity in Agroecosystems


Calvin O. Qualset, Wanda W. Collins



Biodiversity in Agroecosystems...
Darwinism and evolutionary economics

Darwinism and evolutionary economics


John Laurent, John Nightingale



Review 'This outstanding collection of essays by leading scholars helps explain how evolutionary economics has come of a...
Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems: An Introductory Analysis with Applications to Biology, Control, and Artificial Intelligence (A Bradford Book)

Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems: An Introductory Analysis with Applications to Biology, Control, and Artificial Intelligence (A Bradford Book)


John H. Holland



Amazon.com Review John Holland's Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems is one of the classics in the field of com...
Darwin's Conjecture: The Search for General Principles of Social and Economic Evolution

Darwin's Conjecture: The Search for General Principles of Social and Economic Evolution


Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Thorbjorn Knudsen



Review “A long-awaited and desperately needed guide to why the social sciences should take Darwin seriously. Erudi...
Violent Star Formation: From 30 Doradus to QSOs

Violent Star Formation: From 30 Doradus to QSOs




Book Description What impact do massive stellar associations have on their environment through the power of their ionisin...
Principles of Evolution: From the Planck Epoch to Complex Multicellular Life

Principles of Evolution: From the Planck Epoch to Complex Multicellular Life




From the Back Cover With contributions from a team of leading experts, this volume provides a comprehensive survey of rec...
Self-Organization in the Evolution of Speech (Studies in the Evolution of Language)

Self-Organization in the Evolution of Speech (Studies in the Evolution of Language)




Review This original and fascinating account will interest all those interested in the evolution of speech. Folia Linguis...
Parasites and the behavior of animals

Parasites and the behavior of animals


Janice Moore



Review "Her book is a gripping account of the sometimes spectacular behavioural (and morphological) alterations caused by...
Pink Noise: A Posthuman Tale

Pink Noise: A Posthuman Tale


Leonid Korogodski



Review "Explosive in its approach to language and imaginative in its portrayal of a life lived in cyberspace as well as i...
From Monkey Brain to Human Brain: A Fyssen Foundation Symposium (Bradford Books)

From Monkey Brain to Human Brain: A Fyssen Foundation Symposium (Bradford Books)




Review "This amazing volume modernizes Darwin by showing how closely the human and monkey brain are linked...
An Introduction to Behavioural Ecology (Third Edition)

An Introduction to Behavioural Ecology (Third Edition)


John R. Krebs, Nicholas B. Davies



From the Back Cover The third edition of this successful textbook looks again at the influence of natural selection on be...
Forging New Frontiers: Fuzzy Pioneers II

Forging New Frontiers: Fuzzy Pioneers II


Masoud Nikravesh



From the Back Cover The 2005 BISC International Special Event-BISCSE’05 " FORGING THE FRONTIERS" was held in the U...
Forging New Frontiers: Fuzzy Pioneers I

Forging New Frontiers: Fuzzy Pioneers I


Masoud Nikravesh



From the Back Cover The 2005 BISC International Special Event-BISCSE’05 " FORGING THE FRONTIERS" was held in the U...
Foundations of Social Evolution (Monographs in Behavior and Ecology)

Foundations of Social Evolution (Monographs in Behavior and Ecology)


Steven A. Frank



About the Author Steven A. Frank is Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine...
Men: Evolutionary and Life History

Men: Evolutionary and Life History


Richard G. Bribiescas



From Why are human males the way they are? Biological anthropologist Bribiescas explains the two leading methods of inqu...
The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution

The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution


P. D. Ouspensky



Review Through a series of five lectures, the Russian philosopher whose writings include Tertium Organum and most recentl...
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature


Matt Ridley



From Publishers Weekly Why do we have sex? One of the main biological reasons, contends Ridley, is to combat disease. By ...
Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (Cambridge Library Collection - Life Sciences)

Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (Cambridge Library Collection - Life Sciences)


Thomas Henry Huxley



Book Description In 1863, the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley published a compilation of his public lectures on Darwin's th...
Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition

Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition


Merlin Donald



From Kirkus Reviews ``The modern era, if it can be reduced to any single dimension, is especially characterized by its o...
Human Evolution, Language and Mind: A Psychological and Archaeological Inquiry

Human Evolution, Language and Mind: A Psychological and Archaeological Inquiry


Iain Davidson, William Noble



Review ."..an important contribution to the gathering interest in the origins of language, the role of the symbolic, the ...
Life on Earth: An Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Ecology, and Evolution (2 vol. set)

Life on Earth: An Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Ecology, and Evolution (2 vol. set)


Niles Eldredge



From Life on Earth is intended to introduce "younger generations" to biological diversity, "the variety of life on Earth...
The Material Basis of Evolution

The Material Basis of Evolution


Richard Goldschmidt



The Material Basis of Evolution...
Conceptual ecology and invasion biology: reciprocal approaches to nature

Conceptual ecology and invasion biology: reciprocal approaches to nature


Marc William Cadotte, Sean Maurice Mcmahon, Tadashi Fukami



Review From the reviews: "The subject of biological invasions is typically introduced in terms of its significance for co...
Late Cainozoic Floras of Iceland: 15 Million Years of Vegetation and Climate History in the Northern North Atlantic

Late Cainozoic Floras of Iceland: 15 Million Years of Vegetation and Climate History in the Northern North Atlantic


Friðgeir Grimsson, Leifur A. Símonarson, Reinhard Zetter, Thomas Denk



From the Back Cover Being the only place in the northern North Atlantic yielding late Cainozoic terrestrial sediments ric...
Early Humans and Their World

Early Humans and Their World


Bo Gräslund



About the Author Bo Gräslund was Professor of Archeaology at Uppsala University, Sweden from 1985 - 2000. ...
The Neurobiology of Australian Marsupials: Brain Evolution in the Other Mammalian Radiation

The Neurobiology of Australian Marsupials: Brain Evolution in the Other Mammalian Radiation


Ken Ashwell



Book Description As early as 1836, Charles Darwin recognised that Australian marsupials and monotremes represented a 'sec...
Charles Darwin's Natural Selection: Being the Second Part of his Big Species Book Written from 1856 to 1858

Charles Darwin's Natural Selection: Being the Second Part of his Big Species Book Written from 1856 to 1858


Charles Darwin, R. C. Stauffer



Review 'Natural Selection is a joy to read. It is full of insights and subtle observations that never found their way int...
Human Evolutionary Biology

Human Evolutionary Biology


Michael P. Muehlenbein



Review "More than simply a textbook or compilation, this volume is nothing short of a handbook for a young and vigorous b...
Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations)

Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations)


Robert J. Richards



From Library Journal Richards traces scientific and philosophical concepts of the mind's evolution through scholarly writ...
Fossil Behavior Compendium

Fossil Behavior Compendium


Arthur J. Boucot, George O. Poinar



Review "This book is just what the title promises - it is an exhaustive compendium of diverse information about the fossili...
The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature

The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature


Loren Eiseley



From the Inside Flap Anthropologist and naturalist Loren Eiseley blends scientific knowledge and imaginative vision in th...
Cognitive Archaeology and Human Evolution

Cognitive Archaeology and Human Evolution


Frederick L. Coolidge, Thomas Wynn, Sophie A. De Beaune



Book Description This book presents new directions in the study of cognitive archaeology. Seeking to understand the condi...