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The Princeton Guide to Evolution
The essential one-volume reference to evolution The Princeton Guide to Evolution is a comprehensive, concise, and authoritative reference to the major subjects and key concepts in evolutionary biology, from genes to mass extinctions. Edited by a distinguished team of evolutionary biologists, with contributions from leading researchers, the guide contains some 100 clear, accurate, and up-to-date articles on the most important topics in seven major areas: phylogenetics and the history of life; selection and adaptation; evolutionary processes; genes, genomes, and phenotypes; speciation and macroevolution; evolution of behavior, society, and humans; and evolution and modern society. Complete wit...
Speciation
"Speciation is the evolutionary process by which groups of plants and animals become reproductively isolated. This volume covers recent advances in our understanding of the genetic, ecological, geographical, and environmental factors that drive speciation, the various systems and approaches used to study it, and current challenges and future directions in the field"--
Biology of the Three-Spined Stickleback
Highlighting the growing importance of the sticklebacks as a model species in emerging fields such as molecular genetics, genomics, and environmental toxicology, Biology of the Three-Spined Stickleback examines data from researchers who use studies of the stickleback to address a wide range of biological issues. This state-of-the-art volume
Tinbergen’s Legacy in Behaviour: Sixty Years of Landmark Stickleback Papers
In a flurry of post-war productivity, Niko Tinbergen re-established his lab in Leiden, wrote landmark papers and his famous book The Study of Instinct, and founded the journal Behaviour to serve the burgeoning field of ethology. Tinbergen and his senior assistant, Jan van Iersel, published their classic paper, "Displacement reactions in the three-spined stickleback," in the first issue of his new journal in 1948. Stickleback are now a powerful model in the fields of behavioural ecology, evolutionary biology, developmental genetics, and ecotoxicology - an extraordinary development for a small fish that began its modeling career among an enthusiastic core of Tinbergen students in the 1930s. Fr...
Why Only Us
Berwick and Chomsky draw on recent developments in linguistic theory to offer an evolutionary account of language and humans' remarkable, species-specific ability to acquire it. “A loosely connected collection of four essays that will fascinate anyone interested in the extraordinary phenomenon of language.” —New York Review of Books We are born crying, but those cries signal the first stirring of language. Within a year or so, infants master the sound system of their language; a few years after that, they are engaging in conversations. This remarkable, species-specific ability to acquire any human language—“the language faculty”—raises important biological questions about langu...
The Architecture of Persistence
The Architecture of Persistence argues that continued human use is the ultimate measure of sustainability in architecture, and that expanding the discourse about adaptability to include continuity as well as change offers the architectural manifestation of resilience. Why do some buildings last for generations as beloved and useful places, while others do not? How can designers today create buildings that remain useful into the future? While architects and theorists have offered a wide range of ideas about building for change, this book focuses on persistent architecture: the material, spatial, and cultural processes that give rise to long-lived buildings. Organized in three parts, this book...
The Evolution of Sex Determination
Sexual reproduction is a fundamental aspect of life. It is defined by the occurrence of meiosis and the fusion of two gametes of different sexes or mating types. Sex-determination mechanisms are responsible for the sexual fate and development of sexual characteristics in an organism, be it a unicellular alga, a plant, or an animal. In many cases, sex determination is genetic: males and females have different alleles or different genes that specify their sexual morphology. In animals, this is often accompanied by chromosomal differences. In other cases, sex may be determined by environmental (e.g. temperature) or social variables (e.g. the size of an organism relative to other members of its ...
Тестостерон: гормон, который разделяет и властвует
Наблюдая за холощеными самцами домашних животных, евнухами при императорских гаремах Древнего Китая и певцами-кастратами в Италии XVIII века, люди понимали, что типично мужские особенности физиологии и поведения определяются наличием семенников, иначе известных как яички. Со временем наука выяснила, что именно эти железы — основной источник тестостерона, главного мужского гормо...
Lavoro
Il lavoro: definisce la nostra posizione nella società, determina dove e con chi passeremo gran parte della nostra giornata, è il mediatore della nostra autostima e un mezzo per trasmettere i valori in cui crediamo. Se gli economisti moderni profetizzavano la progressiva scomparsa del giogo del lavoro, oggi siamo sempre più indaffarati e sempre più occupati, a discapito del tempo dedicato a noi stessi. Ma lavorare fa davvero parte della nostra natura? Per rispondere a questa domanda, James Suzman ripercorre la storia dell'umanità dalle origini ai nostri giorni, spaziando tra antropologia e zoologia, fisica e biologia evolutiva, economia e archeologia. Se è vero che oggi troviamo una re...
