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The Biological Universe
Current state of play in astrobiology, including exoplanets and their atmospheres, habitable zones and the likelihood of evolution elsewhere.
Biased Embryos and Evolution
What determines the direction of evolutionary change? This book provides a revolutionary answer to this question. Many biologists, from Darwin's day to our own, have been satisfied with the answer 'natural selection'. Professor Wallace Arthur is not. He takes the controversial view that biases in the ways that embryos can be altered are just as important as natural selection in determining the directions that evolution has taken, including the one that led to the origin of humans. This argument forms the core of the book. However, in addition, the book summarizes other important issues relating to how embryonic (and post-embryonic) development evolves. Written in an easy, conversational style, this is the first book for students and the general reader that provides an account of the exciting new field of Evolutionary Developmental Biology ('Evo-Devo' to its proponents).
Understanding Evo-Devo
A brief and accessible account of the new interdisciplinary science of evo-devo for a general audience.
Evolution
This book is aimed at students taking courses on evolution in universities and colleges. Its approach and its structure are very different from previously-published evolution texts. The core theme in this book is how evolution works by changing the course of embryonic and post-embryonic development. In other words, it is an evolution text that has been very much influenced by the new approach of evolutionary developmental biology, or 'evo-devo'. Key themes include the following: developmental repatterning; adaptation and coadaptation; gene co-option; developmental plasticity; the origins of evolutionary novelties and body plans; and evolutionary changes in the complexity of organisms. As can...
Creatures of Accident
The most important aspect of evolution, from a philosophical viewpoint, is the rise of complex, advanced creatures from simple, primitive ones. This "vertical" dimension of evolution has been downplayed in both the specialist and popular literature on evolution, in large part because it was in the past associated with unsavory political views. The avoidance of evolution's vertical dimension has, however, left evolutionary biology open to the perception, from outside, that it deals merely with the diversification of rather similar creatures, all at the same level of "advancedness" from a common ancestor—for example, the classic case studies of finches with different beaks or moths of differ...
The Origin of Animal Body Plans
This book examines both the origin of body plans in particular and the evolution of animal development in general.
Life Through Time and Space
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- I. From Stars to Embryos -- 1. Galaxy Gazing -- 2. Handy Man and Other Early People -- 3. A Human with No Nerves -- II. Cycles of Life -- 4. From Celestial Furnaces -- 5. Life Cycles: Animals versus Stars -- 6. The Moment of Conception -- III. In the Beginning -- 7. A Universe Begins -- 8. The Opposite of a Whimper -- 9. Our Internal Evolution -- IV. Structures and Functions -- 10. Spacious Heavens -- 11. The Ecological Theater -- 12. Becoming an Adult -- V. From Boulders to Brains -- 13. Rubble around the Sun -- 14. The Very First Animals -- 15. Here Comes the Brain -- VI. Milestones of Discovery -- 16. Exoplanets and Aliens -- 17. From Darwin to Darwinism -- 18. Analyzing the Embryo -- VII. Endings and Enlightenment -- 19. The End of the World -- 20. Extinction and How to Avoid It -- 21. From Embryo to Enlightenment -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Life through Time and Space
All humans share three origins: the beginning of our individual lives, the appearance of life on Earth, and the formation of our planetary home. Life through Time and Space brings together the latest discoveries in both biology and astronomy to examine our deepest questions about where we came from, where we are going, and whether we are alone in the cosmos. A distinctive voice in the growing field of astrobiology, Wallace Arthur combines embryological, evolutionary, and cosmological perspectives to tell the story of life on Earth and its potential to exist elsewhere in the universe. He guides us on a journey through the myriad events that started with the big bang and led to the universe we...
Arthur the King
Retelling the ever-popular King Arthur legends for a younger audience, the titles in this series feature text of no more than 400 words which interacts with the images in order to develop visual literacy.
