Life The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science by John Brockman | 870.04 KB
English | 328 Pages

Title: Life
Author: Mr. John Brockman
Year: 2016

Exuberant Life : An Evolutionary Approach to Conservation in Galápagos
by William H. Durham
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0197531512 | 409 Pages | True PDF | 101 MB

Andre J From Evolutionary Biology to Economics and Back 2023 | 1.59 MB
N/A | 193 Pages

Title: From Evolutionary Biology to Economics and Back
Author: N/A
Year: N/A

From Evolutionary Biology to Economics and Back: Parallels and Crossings between Economics and Evolution
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031087895 | 308 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2 MB
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the major key concepts common to economics and evolutionary biology. Written by a group of philosophers of science, biologists and economists, it proposes analyses of the meaning of twenty-five concepts from the viewpoint respectively of economics and of evolutionary biology -each followed by a short synthesis emphasizing major discrepancies and commonalities. Thisanalysis is surrounded by chapters exploring the nature of the analogy that connects evolution and economics, and chapters that summarize the major teachings of the analyses of the keywords. Most scholars in biology and in economics know that their science has something in common with the other one, for instance the notions of competition and resources. Textbooks regularly acknowledge that the two fields share some history - Darwin borrowing from Malthus the insistence on scarcity of resources, and then behavioral ecologists adapting and transforming game theory into evolutionary game theory in the 1980s, while Friedman famously alluded to a Darwinian process yielding the extant firms. However, the real extent of the similarities, the reasons why they are so close, and the limits and even the nature of the analogy connecting economics and biological evolution, remain inexplicit. This book proposes basis analyses that can sustain such explication. It is intended for researchers, grad students and master students in evolutionary and in economics, as well as in philosophy of science.

Diego E. Machuca, "Evolutionary Debunking Arguments "
English | ISBN: 0367458446 | 2022 | 380 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in evolutionary debunking arguments directed against certain types of belief, particularly moral and religious beliefs. According to those arguments, the evolutionary origins of the cognitive mechanisms that produce the targeted beliefs render these beliefs epistemically unjustified. The reason is that natural selection cares for reproduction and survival rather than truth, and false beliefs can in principle be as evolutionarily advantageous as true beliefs. The present volume brings together fourteen essays that examine evolutionary debunking arguments not only in ethics and philosophy of religion, but also in philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics, and epistemology. The essays move forward research on those arguments by shedding fresh light on old problems and proposing new lines of inquiry. The book will appeal to scholars and graduate students interested in the possible skeptical implications of evolutionary theory in any of the above domains.

Evolutionary Deep Learning (MEAP V10)
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9781617299520 | 702 pages | PDF,EPUB | 20.61 MB
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.

Mary Brown, "The Twelve Cakes of Christmas: An evolutionary history, with recipes"
English | ISBN: 1877578193 | 2011 | 192 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
Many popular recipes come from lineages that can be traced back for decades, even centuries. Festive cakes have been made in December for at least two thousand years. Using archaeological evidence and ancient books, the authors define the key ingredients of the cakes that would eventually be served on Twelfth Night, at the end of the Christmas season. From 17th century English cookbooks, they identify recipes that would have been made as twelfth cakes, full of expensive ingredients like raisins, almonds, sweet wine and candied peel, but made like fruit-breads, with yeast.

The Female Turn: How Evolutionary Science Shifted Perceptions About Females
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811971609 | 432 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 8 MB
This book traces the history of how evolutionary biology transformed its understanding of females from being coy, reserved and sexually passive, to having active sexual strategies and often mating with multiple males. Why did it take so long to discover female active sexual strategies? What prevented some researchers from engaging in sexually active females, and what prompted others to develop this new knowledge?

Human Birth: An Evolutionary Perspective By Wenda R. Trevathan
2011 | 286 Pages | ISBN: 1412815029 | PDF | 29 MB
The story of human evolution has been told hundreds of times, each time with a focus that seems most informative of the teller. No matter how it is told the primary characters are rarely mothers and infants. Darwin argued survival, but today we know that reproduction is what evolution is all about. Centering on this, Trevathan focuses on birth, which gives the study of human evolution a crucial new dimension. Unique among mammals, humans are bipedal. The evolution of bipedalism required fundamental changes in the pelvis and resulted in a narrow birth canal. Humans are also large-brained animals, which means that birth is much more challenging for our species than for most other animals. The result of this mismatch of large head and narrow pelvis is that women are highly dependent on assistance at birth and their babies are born in an unusually undeveloped state when the brain is still small. Human Birth discusses how the birth process has evolved and ways in which human birth differs from birth in all other mammals. Human Birth is also concerned with mother-infant interaction immediately after birth. While working as a midwife trainee, Trevathan carefully documented the births of more than one hundred women and recorded maternal and infant behaviors during the first hour after birth. She suggests ways in which the interactions served not only to enhance mother-infant bonding, but also to ensure survival in the evolutionary past. With clarity and compelling logic Trevathan argues that modern birth practices often fail to meet evolved needs of women and infants and suggests changes that could lead to better birth experiences. This paperback edition includes a new introduction by the author.

Estimating Ore Grade Using Evolutionary Machine Learning Models
by Mohammad Ehteram, Zohreh Sheikh Khozani, Saeed Soltani-Mohammadi, Maliheh Abbaszadeh
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811981051 | 109 pages | True PDF EPUB | 20.79 MB