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English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009376055 | 307 Pages | PDF | 6 MB
Natural selection, mutation, and adaptation are well-known and central topics in Darwin's theory of evolution and in the 20th - and 21st -century theories which grew out of it, but many other important topics are used in evolutionary biology that raise interesting philosophical questions. In this book, Elliott Sober analyses a much larger range of topics, including fitness, altruism, common ancestry, chance, taxonomy, phylogenetic inference, operationalism, reductionism, conventionalism, null hypotheses and default reasoning, instrumentalism versus realism, hypothetico-deductivism, essentialism, falsifiability, the principle of parsimony, the principle of the common cause, causality, determinism versus indeterminism, sensitivity to initial conditions, and the knowability of the past. Sober's clear philosophical analyses of these key concepts, arguments, and methods of inference will be valuable for all readers who want to understand evolutionary biology in both its Darwinian and its contemporary forms.

Free Download David B. Rivers, "Insects: Evolutionary Success, Unrivaled Diversity, and World Domination"
English | ISBN: 1421421704 | 2017 | 488 pages | EPUB/pdf | 199 MB
An introduction to the intriguing world of insects, from bullet ants to butterflies.

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English | ISBN: 1629582670 | 2018 | 234 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 5 MB
Why do we fight? Have we always been fighting one another? This book examines the origins and development of human forms of organized violence from an anthropological and archaeological perspective. Kim and Kissel argue that human warfare is qualitatively different from forms of lethal, intergroup violence seen elsewhere in the natural world, and that its emergence is intimately connected to how humans evolved and to the emergence of human nature itself.

Free Download Biological Anthropology: An Evolutionary Perspective [TTC Audio]
English | July 08, 2013 | ASIN: B00DTNW9E0 | M4B@64 kbps | 12h 3m | 330 MB
Lecturer: Barbara J. King
Who are we? It's a question humankind has been asking about itself for a long time.

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Released 8/2023
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Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 9h 39m | Size: 1.26 GB
Discover one-of-a-kind AI strategies never before seen outside of academic papers! Learn how the principles of evolutionary computation overcome deep learning's common pitfalls and deliver adaptable model upgrades without constant manual adjustment.

Free Download The Emergence of Whales: Evolutionary Patterns in the Origin of Cetacea by J. G. M. Thewissen
English | PDF | 1998 | 480 Pages | ISBN : 0306458535 | 62.5 MB
Research in whale origins is now in an explosive phase, with a cascade of discoveries adding to our understanding of the evolutionary pattern and a suite of new techniques being applied to address new questions. The objective of this volume is to provide a snapshot of this explosion. The volume paints the scene with a broad brush. Taken together the chapters clearly indicate that cetacean origins is a field that is dynamic, multidisciplinary, and that the end of the explosive phase is not in sight.

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1997 | 648 Pages | ISBN: 0674582209 | PDF | 34 MB
The idea of evolution: it fascinates some of us, disturbs others, and leaves only a very few people indifferent. In a major new interpretation of evolutionary theory, Michael Ruse pinpoints the common source of this attraction and discomfort. A renowned writer on evolutionary theory and its history, Ruse has long been sensitive to the fact that many people--and not simply religious enthusiasts--find something deeply troubling about much of what passes for science in evolutionary circles. What causes this tension, he finds in his search of evolutionism's 250-year history, is the intimate relationship between evolution and the secular ideology of progress. Ubiquitous in Darwin's time, the idea of an unceasing improvement in life insinuated its way into evolutionary theory from the first. In interviews with today's major figures in evolutionary biology--including Stephen Jay Gould, Edward O. Wilson, Ernst Mayr, and John Maynard Smith--and in an intimate look at the discoveries and advances in the history and philosophy of science, Ruse finds this belief just as prevalent today--however it might be denied or obscured. His book traces the delicate line between those who argue that science is and must be objective and those who deem science a "social construction" in the fashion of religion or the rest of culture. It offers an unparalleled account of evolutionary theory, from popular books to museums to the most complex theorizing, at a time when its status as science is under greater scrutiny than ever before.

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English | ISBN: 0195178033 | 2002 | 348 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 8 MB
This ambitious, interdisciplinary book seeks to explain the origins of religion using our knowledge of the evolution of cognition. A cognitive anthropologist and psychologist, Scott Atran argues that religion is a by-product of human evolution just as the cognitive intervention, cultural selection, and historical survival of religion is an accommodation of certain existential and moral elements that have evolved in the human condition.

Free Download Evolutionary Genetics: Concepts and Case Studies By Charles W. Fox (editor), Jason B. Wolf (editor)
2006 | 608 Pages | ISBN: 0195168178 | PDF | 82 MB
Charles Fox and Jason Wolf have brought together leading researchers to produce a cutting-edge primer introducing readers to the major concepts in modern evolutionary genetics. This book spans the continuum of scale, from studies of DNA sequence evolution through proteins and development to multivariate phenotypic evolution, and the continuum of time, from ancient events that lead to current species diversity to the rapid evolution seen over relatively short time scales in experimental evolution studies. Chapters are accessible to an audience lacking extensive background in evolutionaryy genetics but also current and in-depth enough to be of value to established researchers in evolution biology.

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Title: Structured rapid prototyping : an evolutionary approach to software development
Author: Connell, John L., 1943-
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