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Endless Forms Most Beautiful
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Author : Sean B. Carroll
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-03-29
Endless Forms Most Beautiful written by Sean B. Carroll and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-29 with Science categories.
We not only share nearly 99% of our genes with chimps, we also have some 35% in common with daffodils. Throughout much of the animal and even plant kingdoms, almost the same ancient genes code for almost the same proteins. And further, to everyone's astonishment, the genes involved in making the complex eyes of fruitflies are close matches to those involved in making the very different eyes of octopuses and people. So what leads to the nature's 'endless forms most beautiful'? The key to this mystery is being unravelled by 'Evo Devo' or the new science of evolutionary development biology. By looking at how a single-celled egg gives rise to a complex, multi-billion celled animal, Evo Devo is illuminating exactly how new species - butterflies and zebras, trilobites and dinosaurs, apes and humans - are made and evolved. The key, it turns out, is all about location and timing... For anyone who has ever pondered 'where did I come from', Endless Forms Most Beautiful explores our history, both the journey we have all made from egg to adult, and the long trek from the origin of life to the very recent origin of our species.
Endless Forms Most Beautiful
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Author : Sean B. Carroll
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2005
Endless Forms Most Beautiful written by Sean B. Carroll and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Science categories.
As described in this fascinating book, Evo Devo is evolutionary development biology, the third revolution in the science, which shows how the endless forms of animals--butterflies and zebras, trilobites and dinosaurs, apes and humans--were made and evolved.
Endless Forms Most Beautiful
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Author : Sean B. Carroll
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2005
Endless Forms Most Beautiful written by Sean B. Carroll and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Developmental biology categories.
An introduction to evolutionary developmental biology demonstrates how the many forms of animals evolved and came into being, documenting how the Evo Devo branch of science proved that all animal organs and appendages, from arms and legs to wings and fins, were created from a small number of primitive genes.
Endless Forms Most Beautiful
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Author : Richard Landon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Endless Forms Most Beautiful written by Richard Landon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Convergent Evolution
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Author : George R. McGhee, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2011-11-04
Convergent Evolution written by George R. McGhee, Jr. and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-04 with Science categories.
An analysis of convergent evolution from molecules to ecosystems, demonstrating the limited number of evolutionary pathways available to life. Charles Darwin famously concluded On the Origin of Species with a vision of “endless forms most beautiful” continually evolving. More than 150 years later many evolutionary biologists see not endless forms but the same, or very similar, forms evolving repeatedly in many independent species lineages. A porpoise's fishlike fins, for example, are not inherited from fish ancestors but are independently derived convergent traits. In this book, George McGhee describes the ubiquity of the phenomenon of convergent evolution and connects it directly to the concept of evolutionary constraint—the idea that the number of evolutionary pathways available to life are not endless, but quite limited. Convergent evolution occurs on all levels, from tiny organic molecules to entire ecosystems of species. McGhee demonstrates its ubiquity in animals, both herbivore and carnivore; in plants; in ecosystems; in molecules, including DNA, proteins, and enzymes; and even in minds, describing problem-solving behavior and group behavior as the products of convergence. For each species example, he provides an abbreviated list of the major nodes in its phylogenetic classification, allowing the reader to see the evolutionary relationship of a group of species that have independently evolved a similar trait by convergent evolution. McGhee analyzes the role of functional and developmental constraints in producing convergent evolution, and considers the scientific and philosophical implications of convergent evolution for the predictability of the evolutionary process.
From So Simple A Beginning
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Author : Charles Darwin
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2010-08-31
From So Simple A Beginning written by Charles Darwin and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-31 with Science categories.
Hailed as "superior" by Nature, this landmark volume is available in a collectible, boxed edition. Never before have the four great works of Charles Darwin—Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle (1845), The Origin of Species (1859), The Descent of Man (1871), and The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals (1872)—been collected under one cover. Undertaking this challenging endeavor 123 years after Darwin's death, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Edward O. Wilson has written an introductory essay for the occasion, while providing new, insightful introductions to each of the four volumes and an afterword that examines the fate of evolutionary theory in an era of religious resistance. In addition, Wilson has crafted a creative new index to accompany these four texts, which links the nineteenth-century, Darwinian evolutionary concepts to contemporary biological thought. Beautifully slipcased, and including restored versions of the original illustrations, From So Simple a Beginning turns our attention to the astounding power of the natural creative process and the magnificence of its products.
Trees Of Life
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Author : Theodore W. Pietsch
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2013-07
Trees Of Life written by Theodore W. Pietsch and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Evolution.
The Making Of The Fittest Dna And The Ultimate Forensic Record Of Evolution
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Author : Sean B. Carroll
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2007-08-28
The Making Of The Fittest Dna And The Ultimate Forensic Record Of Evolution written by Sean B. Carroll and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-28 with Science categories.
A geneticist discusses the role of DNA in the evolution of life on Earth, explaining how an analysis of DNA reveals a complete record of the events that have shaped each species and how it provides evidence of the validity of the theory of evolution.
Endless Forms
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Author : Seirian Sumner
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2022-07-12
Endless Forms written by Seirian Sumner and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-12 with Nature categories.
“A book that draws us in to the strange beauty of what we so often run away from.” — Robin Ince, author of The Importance of Being Interested In this eye-opening and entertaining work of popular science in the spirit of The Mosquito, Entangled Life, and The Book of Eels, a leading behavioural ecologist transforms our understanding of wasps, exploring these much-maligned insects’ secret world, their incredible diversity and complex social lives, and revealing how they hold our fragile ecosystem in balance. Everyone worries about the collapse of bee populations. But what about wasps? Deemed the gangsters of the insect world, wasps are winged assassins with formidable stings. Conduits of Biblical punishment, provokers of fear and loathing, inspiration for horror movies: wasps are perhaps the most maligned insect on our planet. But do wasps deserve this reputation? Endless Forms opens our eyes to the highly complex and diverse world of wasps. Wasps are 100 million years older than bees; there are ten times more wasp species than there are bees. There are wasps that spend their entire lives sealed inside a fig; wasps that turn cockroaches into living zombies; wasps that live inside other wasps. There are wasps that build citadels that put our own societies to shame, marked by division of labor, rebellions and policing, monarchies, leadership contests, undertakers, police, negotiators, and social parasites. Wasps are nature’s most misunderstood insect: as predators and pollinators, they keep the planet’s ecological balance in check. Wasps are nature’s pest controllers; a world without wasps would be just as ecologically devastating as losing the bees, or beetles, or butterflies. Wasps are diverse and beautiful by every measure, and they are invaluable to planetary health, Professor Sumner reminds us; we’d do well to appreciate them as much as their cuter cousins, the bees.
Remarkable Creatures
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Author : Sean B. Carroll
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 2014-10-16
Remarkable Creatures written by Sean B. Carroll and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-16 with Science categories.
National Book Award Finalist: A biologist’s “thoroughly enjoyable” account of the expeditions that unearthed the history of life on our planet (Publishers Weekly). Not so long ago, most of our world was an unexplored wilderness. Our sense of its age was vague and vastly off the mark, and much of the knowledge of our own species’ history was a set of fantastic myths and fairy tales. But scientists were about to embark on an amazing new era of understanding. From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Big Picture, this book leads us on a rousing voyage that recounts the most important discoveries in two centuries of natural history: from Darwin’s trip around the world to Charles Walcott’s discovery of pre-Cambrian life in the Grand Canyon; from Louis and Mary Leakey’s investigation of our deepest past in East Africa to the trailblazers in modern laboratories who have located a time clock in our DNA. Filled with the same sense of adventure that spurred on these extraordinary men and women, Remarkable Creatures is a “stirring introduction to the wonder of evolutionary biology” (Kirkus Reviews). “Charming and enlightening.” —San Francisco Chronicle “As fast-paced as a detective story.” —Nature