Biologie

How We Do It: The Evolution and Future of Human Reproduction

Robert Martin

In our time, when medicine and biotechnology are increasingly invading the areas of conception, childbirth and child care, it is more important than ever to understand how these processes arose an...

My Age of Anxiety Fear, Hope, Dread, and the SearCh for Peace of Mind

Scott Stossel

Chronic stress is a hallmark of our era, and anxiety has become a kind of cultural phenomenon of our time. Every sixth person in the world suffers from neurotic disorders at one time or another in...

The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction

Pat Shipman

Why did modern man survive, while Neanderthals - his evolutionary relatives, descendants of an older offshoot of Homo - died out? Anthropologist Pat Shipman defends the idea that we owe the succes...

Before the Dawn: Recovering the lost history of our ancestors

Nicholas Wade

The book helps modern man to understand himself by restoring the history of the origin of our species from the very beginning, from a single common ancestor. It is known that until quite recently ...

Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea

Carl Zimmer

One of the best science journalists of our time, with his characteristic thoroughness, clarity and unfailing humor, gives a complete overview of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in the lig...

Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought

Barbara Tversky

How does the brain process information about the space around us? How do we coordinate movements, say, when playing sports? Why do gestures help us think? How do language and speech relate to spac...

Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything

Robert Hazen

Praised by The New York Times for his clarity and ability to communicate scientific thoughts, Robert M. Hazen offers a radical new approach to the history of the Earth - an intertwined history of ...

Evangelie ot LUCA: V poiskah rodoslovnoy zhivotnogo mira

Maksim Vinarskij

The book "The Gospel According to LUCA" tells about the animal world and the human race. Only LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor) is not an apostle, but our common ancestor, and in order...

The animals of the north sea 2

Sven Erik Gehrmann

Part 2 of this book series puts the invertebrates of the North Sea, from crustaceans to diverse worms and echinoderms, in the context of the changing living conditions in this small part of the on...

Was bedeutet ökologisches Denken wirklich?

Staeck Lothar

Das ausschließlich auf den Menschen bezogene Weltbild in den Gesellschaften Europas und Nordamerikas begünstigt bis heute eine exklusive und un-ökologische Sichtweise auf die natürliche Umwelt...

A Companion to Biological Anthropology

<p>A Companion to Biological Anthropology <p>The discipline of biological anthropology—the study of the variation and evolution of human beings and their evolutionary relationships w...

Nitric Oxide: From Research to Therapeutics

This book entitled "Nitric Oxide: From Research to&nbsp;Therapeutics" includes the&nbsp;most recent information about the&nbsp;role of&nbsp;Nitric Oxide (NO) in physiology,...

Sleep and Clocks in Aging and Longevity

<p>This edited volume focuses on the interplay between sleep and circadian rhythms with health, aging and longevity. Sleep is absolutely important for human health and survival, as insuffici...

Bioinformatics

Meik Kunz / Thomas Dandekar

<p>This book offers a gripping introduction to the fastest growing field of biology with easy-to-follow examples and a well-prepared appendix for the reader to cook up and experience everyth...

Convergent Evolution

This volume presents a series of case studies, at different levels of inclusivity, of how organisms exhibit functional convergence as a key evolutionary mechanism resulting in responses to similar...

Hundeforståelse

Bettina Hvidemose

HundeforstÃ¥else henvender sig til alle, som gerne vil have en god start med sin nye hund, eller bare gerne vil have en dybere forstÃ¥else for den teori, der ligger bag effektiv og hundevenlig trÃ...

Spektrum Kompakt: Altern

Wie alt können wir werden? Jeanne Calment, die 1997 starb, führt bis heute die Liste der 100 ältesten Menschen an – sie wurde 122 Jahre alt. Und auch die auf der Liste folgenden 99 Personen ...

A Companion to Biological Anthropology

<p>A Companion to Biological Anthropology <p>The discipline of biological anthropology—the study of the variation and evolution of human beings and their evolutionary relationships w...

Carlo Darwin

Michele Lessona

DigiCat Editore presenta "Carlo Darwin" di Michele Lessona in edizione speciale. DigiCat Editore considera ogni opera letteraria come una preziosa eredità dell'umanità. Ogni libro Di...

Fossil? Impossible!

Sven Erik Gehrmann

Wenn man die fossilen Relikte urzeitlicher Lebewesen in Beziehung zu den heute lebenden rezenten Arten setzt, dann kommt man zu erstaunlichen Ergebnissen. Viele Fossilien, die angeblich in Jahrmil...