Energy and Evolutionary Conflict: The Metabolic Roots of Cooperation
English | 2022 | ISBN: 303106058X | 125 Pages | PDF (True) | 3 MB
In the mid- to late-twentieth century, large scientific conflicts flared in two seemingly distinct fields of scientific inquiry. In bioenergetics, which examines how organisms obtain and utilize energy, the chemiosmotic hypothesis of Mitchell suggested a novel mechanism for energy conversion. In evolutionary biology, meanwhile, Wynne Edwards strongly articulated the view that organisms may act for the "good of the group." This work crystalized a long history of imprecise thinking about the evolution of cooperation. While both controversies have received ample attention, no one has ever suggested that one might inform the other, i.e., that energy metabolism in general and chemiosmosis in particular might be relevant to the evolution of cooperation. The central idea is nevertheless remarkably simple. Chemiosmosis rapidly converts energy, and once storage capacity is exceeded, an overabundance of product has various negative consequences. While to some extent chemiosmotic processes can be modulated, under certain circumstances it is also possible to simply disperse the products into the environment.

Evolutionary Religion By J. L. Schellenberg
2013 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 0199673764 | PDF | 4 MB
J. L. Schellenberg articulates and defends a simple but revolutionary idea: we are still at a very early stage in the possible history of intelligent life on our planet, and should frame our religious attitudes accordingly. Humans have begun to adapt to a deep past--one measured in billions of years, not thousands. But we have not really noticed how thin is the sliver of past time in which all of our religious life is contained. And the eons that may yet see intelligent life have hardly started to come into focus. When these things are internalized, our whole picture of religion may change. For then we will for the first time be in a position to ask: Might there be a form of religion appropriate to such an early stage of development as our own? Might such 'evolutionary religion' be rather different from the forms of religion we see all around us today? And might it be better fitted to meet the demands of reason?Though most concerned simply to get a new discussion going, Evolutionary Religion maintains that the answer is in each case "yes." When the light of deep time has fully been switched on, a new form of skepticism but, at the same time, new possibilities of religious life will come into view. We will find ourselves drawn to religious attitudes that, while not foregoing the idea of a transcendent ultimate, manage to do without believing and without details. As Schellenberg reveals, pursuing evolutionary religion instead of embracing a scientific naturalism is something that can rationally be done, even if traditional religious belief is placed out of bounds by argument. And ironically it is science that should help us see this. Indeed, in a new cultural dispensation evolutionary religion may come to be a preferred option among those most concerned for our intellectual enrichment and for our survival into the deep future.

What We Are: The Evolutionary Roots of Our Future
English | 2022 | ISBN: 303105878X | 376 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 33 MB
Other animals are driven to spend essentially their whole lives just trying to get fed, stay alive, and get laid. That's about it. The same was true for our proto-human ancestors. And modern humans of course also require a Survival Drive and a Sex Drive in order to leave descendants. But today we spend most of our lives mainly just trying to convince ourselves that our existence is not absurd.

Self-Organization as a New Paradigm in Evolutionary Biology: From Theory to Applied Cases in the Tree of Life by Anne Dambricourt Malassé
English | PDF,EPUB | 2022 | 393 Pages | ISBN : 3031047826 | 58.5 MB
The epistemological synthesis of the various theories of evolution, since the first formulation in 1802 with the transmission of the inherited characters by J.B. Lamarck, shows the need for an alternative synthesis to that of Princeton (1947). This new synthesis integrates the scientific models of self-organization developed during the second half of the 20th century based on the laws of physics, thermodynamics, and mathematics with the emergent evolutionary problematics such as self-organized memory.

Early Evolutionary History of the Synapsida By Robert R. Reisz (auth.), Christian F. Kammerer, Kenneth D. Angielczyk, Jörg Fröbisch (eds.)
2014 | 337 Pages | ISBN: 9400768400 | PDF | 14 MB
Non-mammalian synapsids were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates from the Late Carboniferous to the Middle Triassic and play a key role in understanding the origin and evolution of mammals. Despite these facts and the outstanding fossil record of the group, early synapsids remain obscure. This book showcases the full breadth of contemporary research on non-mammalian synapsids, ranging from taxonomy and phylogenetics to functional morphology, biogeography, paleoecology, and patterns of diversity. It also underscores the importance and potential of studying non-mammalian synapsid paleobiology in its own right, not just in the context of mammalian evolution.​

Evolutionary Paths Towards the Mobility Patterns of the Future By Christian Hanke, Michael Hülsmann (auth.), Michael Hülsmann, Dirk Fornahl (eds.)
2014 | 334 Pages | ISBN: 364237557X | PDF | 6 MB
This edited volume presents new insights and challenges in the field of electric mobility in relation to new mobility and infrastructure concepts as well as to renewable energies. The book covers the socio-economic view on the topic as well as technical aspects and thus offers valuable knowledge for future business models. It primarily addresses practitioners and researchers in the field but may also be of use to graduate students.

Support Vector Machines and Evolutionary Algorithms for Classification: Single or Together? by Catalin Stoean
English | PDF | 2014 | 129 Pages | ISBN : 3319069403 | 2.5 MB
When discussing classification, support vector machines are known to be a capable and efficient technique to learn and predict with high accuracy within a quick time frame. Yet, their black box means to do so make the practical users quite circumspect about relying on it, without much understanding of the how and why of its predictions.

English | ASIN: B08F2TB6TD | 2020 | 20 hours and 40 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 564 MB
How different might the history of our species have been had our hunter-gatherer forebears failed to migrate out of Africa in time to survive 70,000 years ago when threatened by extinction due to climate change brought on by the last ice age? Simply put, we would not exist. Now, similarly threatened, we too must act quickly if we hope to survive. Yet despite all the signs of a potential greenhouse mass extinction, again due to climate change, this threat is still being ignored. Like the passengers aboard the Titanic, who knew that in two hours and 40 minutes they would either be in a lifeboat or drowning in the cold waters of the Atlantic but waited a full hour before taking action - we too are not getting our lifeboats ready. This book is a wake-up call and looks to evolution itself for guidance on how to avoid extinction.

Respiratory Biology of Animals - evolutionary and functional morphology | 186.53 MB
English | 250 Pages

Title: Respiratory Biology of Animals: evolutionary and functional morphology
Author: Steven F. Perry
Year: 2019

Richard M Kliman Editor Encyclopedia Of Evolutionary Biology Academic Press 2016 | 55.09 MB
N/A | 2135 Pages

Title: Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology
Author: KLIMAN
Year: 2018