The Hypothetical Species
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The Hypothetical Species
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Author : Michael Charles Tobias
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-03-28
The Hypothetical Species written by Michael Charles Tobias and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-28 with Science categories.
This book is a provocative and invigorating real-time exploration of the future of human evolution by two of the world’s leading interdisciplinary ecologists – Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison. Steeped in a rich multitude of the sciences and humanities, the book enshrines an elegant narrative that is highly empathetic, personal, scientifically wide-ranging and original. It focuses on the geo-positioning of the human Self and its corresponding species. The book's overarching viewpoints and poignant through-story examine and powerfully challenge concepts associated historically with assertions of human superiority over all other life forms. Ultimately, The Hypothetical Species: Variables of Human Evolution is a deeply considered treatise on the ecological and psychological state of humanity and her options – both within, and outside the rubrics of evolutionary research – for survival. This important work is beautifully presented with nearly 200 diverse illustrations, and is introduced with a foreword by famed paleobiologist, Dr. Melanie DeVore.
Classification And Human Evolution
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Author : Sherwood L. Washburn
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-28
Classification And Human Evolution written by Sherwood L. Washburn and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-28 with Social Science categories.
The names given to the variety of man-like fossils known to scientists should reflect no more than scientific views of the nature of human evolution. However, often in the past these names have also reflected confusion regarding the basic principles of scientific nomenclature; and the matter has been further complicated by the many new finds of recent decades. It is the unique purpose of this book to clarify the present state of knowledge regarding the main lines of human evolution by expressing what is known (and what is surmised) about them in appropriate taxonomic language.The papers in this volume were prepared by the world's leading authorities on the subject, and were revised in the light of discussions at a remarkable conference held in Austria in 1962 under the auspices of the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The authors review first the meaning of taxonomic statements as such, and then consider the substance of our present knowledge regarding the number and characteristics of species among living and extinct primates, including man and his ancestors. They also examine the relationship of behavior changes and selection pressures in evolutionary sequences.Ample illustrations, bibliographies and an index enhance the permanent reference value of the book, which will undoubtedly prove to be among the fundamental paleoanthropological works of our time.
The Oxford Handbook Of Food Politics And Society
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Author : Ronald J. Herring
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2014-12-31
The Oxford Handbook Of Food Politics And Society written by Ronald J. Herring and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-31 with Political Science categories.
Food has, for most of our species history, been intensely political: who gets to eat what, how often, and through what means? The scale of polity in question has shifted over time, from very local institutions dividing up grain piles to an international community imagined in the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations. Simultaneously, the numbers and interests of people asserting political stakes in food and agriculture have likewise shifted up and out. Global networks advocate social justice in distal agrarian systems, promotion of some farming techniques and prohibition of others, food sovereignty or efficiencies of markets and trade. Political consumerism allows the well-endowed to "vote with their dollars" for changes in food systems far from home, but depends on certification and labeling from unseen institutions. As an object of governmentality, food has never been so prominent. The thirty-five handbook chapters confront four major themes in the politics of food: property, technology, justice and knowledge. Ronald Herring's editorial introduction asks how food is political, highlighting contention around the role of market, state and information in societal decisions. The first section of the handbook then examines technology, science and knowledge in food production. What is known - and disputed - about malnutrition, poverty and food security? The second section addresses ethics, rights and distributive justice: agrarian reform, gender inequality, entitlements and subsidies, and the social vision of the alternative food movement. The third section looks to intersections of agriculture and nature: wild foods, livestock, agro-ecological approaches to sustainability, and climate change and genetic engineering. The fourth section addresses food values and culture: political consumerism, labeling and certification, the science and cultural politics of food safety, values driving regulation of genetically modified foods and potential coexistence of GMOs, and organic and conventional crops. The fifth and final section looks at frontiers of global contentions: rival transnational advocacy networks, social movements for organic farming, the who and why of international land grabbing, junctures of cosmopolitan and local food narratives, the "supermarket revolution" and the international agrifood industry in low-income countries, and politics of knowledge in agricultural futures.
Stochastic Population Dynamics In Ecology And Conservation
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Author : Russell Lande
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2003
Stochastic Population Dynamics In Ecology And Conservation written by Russell Lande and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Mathematics categories.
1. Demographic and environmental stochasticity -- 2. Extinction dynamics -- 3. Age structure -- 4. Spatial structure -- 5. Population viability analysis -- 6. Sustainable harvesting -- 7. Species diversity -- 8. Community dynamics.
Butterflies Of The Lower Rio Grande Valley
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Author : Roland H. Wauer
language : en
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
Release Date : 2004
Butterflies Of The Lower Rio Grande Valley written by Roland H. Wauer and has been published by Big Earth Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Butterflies categories.
Roland Wauer's "Butterflies of the Lower Rio Grande Valley" is the only field guide to cover all the reported species in what he calls the "number one butterfly area" in the country. This book includes a description of each species, when and where they can be found, a comparison of similar species, and additional remarks.
Machine Learning Methods For Ecological Applications
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Author : Alan Fielding
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 1999-08-31
Machine Learning Methods For Ecological Applications written by Alan Fielding and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-08-31 with Computers categories.
This is the first text aimed at introducing machine learning methods to a readership of professional ecologists. All but one of the chapters have been written by ecologists and biologists who highlight the application of a particular method to a particular class of problem.
Essays Upon Heredity And Kindred Biological Problems
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Author : August Weismann
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
Essays Upon Heredity And Kindred Biological Problems written by August Weismann and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with Evolution categories.
Essays Upon Heredity And Kindred Biological Problems V 1 1891
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Author : August Weismann
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
Essays Upon Heredity And Kindred Biological Problems V 1 1891 written by August Weismann and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with categories.
Quantum Mechanics For Organic Chemists
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Author : Howard Zimmerman
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier
Release Date : 2012-12-02
Quantum Mechanics For Organic Chemists written by Howard Zimmerman and has been published by Elsevier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-02 with Science categories.
Quantum Mechanics for Organic Chemists is based on the author's first-year graduate course on quantum mechanics for Organic Chemistry majors. The book not only makes a gradual transition from elementary to advanced, but also tries an approach that allows students to have a more intuitive learning. The book covers concepts in quantum physics and topics such as the LCAO-MO Huckel Approach; group theory; and extensions, modifications, and applications of the Huckel approach. Also included in the book are the areas of three-dimensional treatments; polyelectron wave functions; the Slater determinant; and Pople's SCF equations. The text is recommended for graduate students of organic chemistry who would like to know more about the applications of quantum mechanics in their field. Quantum physicists who are interested in the field of organic chemistry would also find the book appealing.
Against Dogma And Free Will And For Weismanism
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Author : H. Croft Hiller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893
Against Dogma And Free Will And For Weismanism written by H. Croft Hiller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1893 with Human evolution categories.