The Origin and Early Evolutionary History of Snakes
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1108837344 | 489 Pages | PDF | 27 MB
Snakes comprise nearly 4,000 extant species found on all major continents except Antarctica. Morphologically and ecologically diverse, they include burrowing, arboreal, and marine forms, feeding on prey ranging from insects to large mammals. Snakes are strikingly different from their closest lizard relatives, and their origins and early diversification have long challenged and enthused evolutionary biologists. The origin and early evolution of snakes is a broad, interdisciplinary topic for which experts in palaeontology, ecology, physiology, embryology, phylogenetics, and molecular biology have made important contributions. The last 25 years has seen a surge of interest, resulting partly from new fossil material, but also from new techniques in molecular and systematic biology. This volume summarises and discusses the state of our knowledge, approaches, data, and ongoing debates. It provides reviews, syntheses, new data and perspectives on a wide range of topics relevant to students and researchers in evolutionary biology, neontology, and palaeontology.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 0198849710, 978-0198849728 | 385 pages | True PDF | 26.84 MB
Evolutionary medicine has been steadily gaining recognition, not only in modern clinical research and practice, but also in bioarchaeology (the study of archaeological human remains) and especially its sub-discipline, palaeopathology. To date, however, palaeopathology has note been necessarily recognised as particularly useful to the field and most key texts in evolutionary medicine have tended to overlook it.
This novel text is the first to highlight the benefits of using palaeopathological research to answer questions about the evolution of disease and its application to current health problems, as well as the benefits of using evolutionary thinking in medicine to help interpret historical disease processes. It presents hypothesis-driven research by experts in biological anthropology (including palaeopathology), medicine, health sciences, and evolutionary medicine through a series of unique case studies that address specific research questions. Each chapter has been co-authored by two or more researchers with different disciplinary perspectives in order to provide original, insightful, and interdisciplinary contributions that will provide new insights for both palaeopathology and evolutionary medicine.

Advances in Evolutionary Computing: Theory and Applications by Ashish Ghosh
English | PDF | 2003 | 1001 Pages | ISBN : 3540433309 | 101.59 MB
The term evolutionary computing (EC) refers to the study of the foundations and applications of certain heuristic techniques based on the principles of natural evolution, and thus the aim when designing evolutionary algorithms (EAs) is to mimic some of the processes taking place in natural evolution.

Animal Behaviour - An Evolutionary Perspective | 24.27 MB
English | 403 Pages

Title: Animal Behaviour: An Evolutionary Perspective
Author: Peter M. Kappeler
Year: 2022

The Evolutionary Strategies that Shape Ecosystems By J. Philip Grime, Simon Pierce(auth.)
2012 | 263 Pages | ISBN: 0470674814 | PDF | 3 MB
In 1837 a young Charles Darwin took his notebook, wrote "I think" and then sketched a rudimentary, stick-like tree. Each branch of Darwin's tree of life told a story of survival and adaptation - adaptation of animals and plants not just to the environment but also to life with other living things. However, more than 150 years since Darwin published his singular idea of natural selection, the science of ecology has yet to account for how contrasting evolutionary outcomes affect the ability of organisms to coexist in communities and to regulate ecosystem functioning. In this book Philip Grime and Simon Pierce explain how evidence from across the world is revealing that, beneath the wealth of apparently limitless and bewildering variation in detailed structure and functioning, the essential biology of all organisms is subject to the same set of basic interacting constraints on life-history and physiology. The inescapable resulting predicament during the evolution of every species is that, according to habitat, each must adopt a predictable compromise with regard to how they use the resources at their disposal in order to survive. The compromise involves the investment of resources in either the effort to acquire more resources, the tolerance of factors that reduce metabolic performance, or reproduction. This three-way trade-off is the irreducible core of the universal adaptive strategy theory which Grime and Pierce use to investigate how two environmental filters selecting, respectively, for convergence and divergence in organism function determine the identity of organisms in communities, and ultimately how different evolutionary strategies affect the functioning of ecosystems. This book reflects an historic phase in which evolutionary processes are finally moving centre stage in the effort to unify ecological theory, and animal, plant and microbial ecology have begun to find a common theoretical framework. Visit www.wiley.com/go/grime/evolutionarystrategies to access the artwork from the book.Content: Chapter 1 Evolution and Ecology: A Janus Perspective? (pages 3-7): Chapter 2 Primary Strategies: The Ideas (pages 8-24): Chapter 3 Primary Adaptive Strategies in Plants (pages 25-39): Chapter 4 Primary Adaptive Strategies in Organisms Other Than Plants (pages 40-104): Chapter 5 From Adaptive Strategies to Communities (pages 105-162): Chapter 6 From Strategies to Ecosystems (pages 163-193): Chapter 7 The Path from Evolution to Ecology (pages 194-201):

Evolutionary theory of international trade by Aníbal Sierralta Ríos
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B69MVQMD | 215 pages | EPUB | 0.32 Mb
All theories about international trade explain why and how the countries begin to commercialize. The theory presented in this

Jenner R Ancestors in Evolutionary Biology 2022 | 43.07 MB
N/A | 401 Pages

Title: Evolution The Tree of Life Novelty Biology Science Chart Education Print Poster 24x36
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English | February 27, 2021 | ASIN: B08X7DX23V | MP3 | M4B | 6h 45m | 368 MB
Author: Sam Newman | Narrator: Mitchell Dorian
How do you detangle a monolithic system and migrate it to a microservice architecture? How do you do it while maintaining business-as-usual? As a companion to Sam Newman's extremely popular Building Microservices, this new book details a proven method for transitioning an existing monolithic system to a microservice architecture.

English | 2013 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B00EUC10QC | Duration: 17:42 h | 1,42 GB
Avi Tuschman / Narrated by Jay Snyder
The first book to tell the natural history of political orientations.

Ancestors in Evolutionary Biology: Linear Thinking about Branching Trees
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1107105935 | 401 Pages | PDF | 62 MB
Phylogenetics emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century as a speculative storytelling discipline dedicated to providing narrative explanations for the evolution of taxa and their traits. It coincided with lineage thinking, a process that mentally traces character evolution along lineages of hypothetical ancestors. Ancestors in Evolutionary Biology traces the history of narrative phylogenetics and lineage thinking to the present day, drawing on perspectives from the history of science, philosophy of science, and contemporary scientific debates. It shows how the power of phylogenetic hypotheses to explain evolution resides in the precursor traits of hypothetical ancestors. This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the topic of ancestors, which is central to modern biology, and is therefore of interest to graduate students, researchers, and academics in evolutionary biology, palaeontology, philosophy of science, and the history of science.