The Hierarchies in Biological Systematics: A Conceptual Perspective examines the diverse hierarchies shaping the field of biology. From the overarching cognitive frameworks to the specific classifications that define biological taxonomy, this book i...Loe edasi...
The main body of the book focuses on diet, brain, locomotion and skin. This book not only promises to enrich our understanding of human evolution but also challenges us to reconsider what it means to be human in the light of our ancient lineage and...Loe edasi...
The Cauvery Basin is one of the most known and geologically important basins of India and has been, for decades, and still is, the focus of study. This comprehensive multidisciplinary collection addresses various aspects of the Cauvery Basin and the...Loe edasi...
This book provides a groundbreaking exploration of satellite remote sensings role in tracking the mobility and spread of COVID-19, focusing on its origin in Wuhan City....Loe edasi...
This book aims to integrate exploration geophysics with remote sensing as a cost-effective method and easy to implement for prospecting in different areas. It provides exploration geophysicists with the necessary information on how to use advanced r...Loe edasi...
This book is a unique text that illustrates and describes all the nominal genera of Cretaceous ammonites and their Jurassic progenitors on the basis of their type species....Loe edasi...
Recent biodiversity studies, reported here for the first time, have shown that the molluscan fauna of the Gulf of Mexico is far richer and more complex than previously thought. These species are illustrated here on 132 color plates and discussed in...Loe edasi...
Geology and Natural Resources of Nigeria is an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of the geological framework of the continental crust of Nigeria, its evolution, and the natural resources it holds. It covers a wide set of topics and provides a mu...Loe edasi...
Ammonites are an extinct and charismatic lineage that persisted for over 300 million years. They were used, with other fossils, to corroborate the principle of faunal succession and launch the field of biostratigraphy....Loe edasi...
This book presents a hypothesis and evidence that organisms promote and ecosystems maximize biodiversity. All species have a net positive effect on their environment, other species, and diversity....Loe edasi...
Synthesizing current advances in the biological problems of growth, metabolism, evolution, ecology, and behavior, this comprehensive and authoritative volume is built upon a foundation of concepts and technology generated over the past fifty years....Loe edasi...
This book describes ecphora formations and their components in detail. The authors list the 67 known species and subspecies that are recognized as valid, arranged by the eight genera and five subgenera that encompass these taxa....Loe edasi...
This volume discusses the aspects of a phylogenetic analysis that go beyond basic calculation of most parsimonious trees. Practical application of all principles discussed is illustrated by reference to TNT, a freely available software package that...Loe edasi...
This book presents opposing views on the current philosophical and conceptual issues of the Species Problem in biology. Topics include ontology of species, definitions of species category and units, species rank, speciation issues, nomenclature, eco...Loe edasi...
The first vertebrate animals appear in the fossil record over 520 million years ago. These lineages diversified and eventually crept ashore leading to further evolutionary divergence and the appearance of the familiar charismatic vertebrates of toda...Loe edasi...
This book comprehensively explores the early evolution of life and the Archean environment. Topics include the differences between prokaryotes and eukaryotes, variations in metabolisms, concepts of ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles (nitrogen, sul...Loe edasi...
Using this textbook, students will learn about cladistics, molecular phylogenies and the molecular-genetical basis of evolutionary change, including the important role of protein networks, symbionts and holobionts, together with the core principles...Loe edasi...
This book presents perspectives on the past and present state of the understanding of snake origins. It reviews and critiques data and ideas from paleontology and neontology (herpetology), as well as ideas from morphological and molecular phylogenet...Loe edasi...
This book covers scientific aspects of past and present climatic changes of quaternary period focussed on Indian subcontinent via response of modern environmental conditions on climate proxies, reconstruction of paleo-climate, paleo-monsoon, glacial...Loe edasi...
This book continues the pioneering research into the distributions of molluscan faunas, illustrating 1778 species of gastropods in full color, many of which are extremely rare and poorly known endemic species illustrated for the first time outside o...Loe edasi...
This illustrated introduction to Central American Chironomidae offers two keys alongside extensive photography material, detailed morphological and ecological description of chironomids found in Central American lakes....Loe edasi...
The phylum Mollusca is the second largest group of animals (after Arthropoda) and they occur in virtually all habitats. In this volume general chapters draw from a diverse and extensive literature on molluscan physiology, natural history (including...Loe edasi...
This book presents evidence for the controversial Waterside Ape theory of human origins formerly known as the Aquatic Ape theory. The Savannah Ape hypothesis that hominid apes evolved on the grass plains of East Africa has been long-accepted based o...Loe edasi...
This detailed expositon gives background and context to how modern biogeography has got to where it is now. For biogeographers and other researchers interested in biodiversity and the evolution of life on islands, it provides an overview of a large...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1913, The Theory of Evolution in the Light of Facts examines the theory of Descent; the book is a time capsule of information, providing a record of the explorations into Darwinian theory during the first half of the 20th cen...Loe edasi...
Published in 1913: The object of the present work is to throw some light on the theory of Descent. Among many of the students of nature of the present day we perceive that greater and greater contradictions arise between the actual results of their...Loe edasi...
The Laboratory for Vertebrate Paleontology at the University of Allberta houses type specimens of fossil fishes. This book is a catalogue of these specimens. Included for each entry is taxonomy, detailed collection locality information, the citation...Loe edasi...
This book documents astonishing discoveries revealing the first 85 of of the history of life. These earliest periods of life on Earth, once perceived as unknowable, emerge as a tale of individual exploration told by a scholar whose 60 years of rese...Loe edasi...
Presents the advances made in Paleolithic archaeology and palaeoanthropology in the Peoples Republic of China. With maps, illustrations and tables, this title includes chapters dealing with the development of chronological frameworks, the compositi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-May-2017, Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781118515624)
The graptolites constitute one of the geologically most useful taxonomic groups of fossils for dating rock successions, understanding paleobiogeography and reconstructing plate tectonic configurations in the Lower Palaeozoic....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Apr-2017, Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781118896372)
The celebrated lower Cambrian Chengjiang biota of Yunnan Province, China, represents one of the most significant ever paleontological discoveries. Deposits of ancient mudstone, about 520 million years old, have yielded a spectacular variety of exqui...Loe edasi...
Knowledge of the evolutionary history of birds has much improved in recent decades. Fossils from critical time periods are being described at unprecedented rates and modern phylogenetic analyses have provided a framework for the interrelationships o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-May-2016, Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781118561546)
Cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) have fascinated and bewildered humans throughout history. Their mammalian affinities have been long recognized, but exactly which group of terrestrial mammals they descend from has, until recently, remaine...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Apr-2014, Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781118759127)
This book focuses on the first vertebrates to conquer land and their long journey to become fully independent from the water. It traces the origin of tetrapod features and tries to explain how and why they transformed into organs that permit life on...Loe edasi...
Sari: Analytical Methods in Earth and Environmental Science
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Jan-2014, Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781118591192)
Virtual palaeontology, the use of interactive three-dimensional digital models as a supplement or alternative to physical specimens for scientific study and communication, is rapidly becoming important to advanced students and researchers....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Oct-2013, Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781118850657)
This monograph describes early Ordovician (Ibexian:Tremadocian early Floian) trilobites from Northern Spitsbergen from the section through the Kirtonryggen Formation adjacent to Hinlopen Strait....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-May-2013, Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781118452493)
* An up-to-date and reliable atlas of an important fossil and living group * Comprehensive coverage of 300 species *1000 Spectacular full colour images * Detailed morphological, ecological and biogeographical information ....Loe edasi...
Echinoderms in a Changing World will be useful to all students of echinoderm biology, ecology and palaeontology, from undergraduate level to professional researchers....Loe edasi...
This book presents four comprehensive papers on long- and short-term processes of landscape evolution (geological history, neotectonics and proxy Quaternary alluvia), as well as a recent regional perspective on environmental problems in Southern Cam...Loe edasi...
