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Frey, Ulrich J |
Essential Building Blocks of Human Nature |
I05673 |
2011 |
eBook |
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Lessard, S |
Mathematical and Statistical Developments of Evolutionary Theory |
I04810 |
1990 |
eBook |
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Hecht, Max |
Major Patterns in Vertebrate Evolution |
I04146 |
1977 |
eBook |
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Jiin-Ju Chang |
Biophotons |
I03782 |
1998 |
eBook |
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Antonelli, P.L |
Fundamentals of Finslerian Diffusion with Applications |
I03156 |
1999 |
eBook |
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Mosekilde, Erik |
Complexity, Chaos, and Biological Evolution |
I00822 |
1991 |
eBook |
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Rowe, G.T |
Deep-Sea Food Chains and the Global Carbon Cycle |
I00131 |
1992 |
eBook |
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Wolfram Schommers |
Mind and reality: The Space-Time Window |
025906 |
2015 |
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| Title | Essential Building Blocks of Human Nature |
| Author(s) | Frey, Ulrich J;St??rmer, Charlotte;Willf??hr, Kai P |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011. |
| Description | XIV, 159 p. 67 illus., 11 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | To understand why we humans are as we are, it is necessary to look at the essential building blocks that??comprise our nature. The foundations of this structure??are??our evolutionary origins as primates and our social roots. Upon these rest features such as our??emotions, language and aesthetic preferences, with our??self-perceptions, self-deceptions and thirst for knowledge right at the top. The unifying force holding these blocks together is evolutionary theory. Evolution provides a deeper understanding of??human nature and, in particular,??of the??common roots of these different perspectives. To build a reliable and coherent model of man, leading authors from fields as diverse as primatology, anthropology, neurobiology and philosophy have joined forces to present essays?? each describing their own expert perspective. Together they provide a convincing and complete picture of our own human??nature |
| ISBN,Price | 9783642139680 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Cognitive psychology
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. EPISTEMOLOGY
5. Evolutionary Biology
6. Popular Science in Psychology
7. PSYCHOLOGY
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| Title | Mathematical and Statistical Developments of Evolutionary Theory |
| Author(s) | Lessard, S |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1990. |
| Description | 380 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Mathematical and statistical approaches to evolutionary theory are numerous. The NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) held at the Universite de Montreal, Montreal, August 3-21, 1987, was an opportunity to review most of the classical approaches and to study the more recent developments. The participation of theoretical biologists and geneticists as well as applied mathematicians and statisticians made possible exchanges of ideas between students and scholars having different views on the subject. These Proceedings contain the lecture notes of seven (7) of the eleven (11) series of lectures that were given. ESS (Evolutionarily Stable Stragety) theory is considered from many perspectives, from a game-theoretic approach to understanding behavior and evolution (W.G.S. Hines), and a systematic classification of properties and patterns of ESS's (C. Cannings) to particular applications of the differential geometry of the Shahshahani metric (E. Akin). Extensions of ESS theory to sexual populations and finite populations, not to mention games between relatives, are presented (W.G.S. Hines). Special attention is given to the classical game called the War of Attrition but with n players and random rewards (C. Cannings). The Shahshahani metric is also used to show the occurrence of cycling in the two-locus, two-allele model (E. Akin). Various inference problems in population genetics are adressed. Procedures to detect and measure selection components and polymorphism (in particular, the Wahlund effect) at one or several loci from mother-offspring combinations in natural populations are discussed at length (F.B. Christiansen) |
| ISBN,Price | 9789400905139 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. Evolutionary Biology
4. Human genetics
5. Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics
6. MATHEMATICAL MODELS
7. Statistics, general
8. Statistics??
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| Title | Major Patterns in Vertebrate Evolution |
| Author(s) | Hecht, Max |
| Publication | New York, NY, Springer US, 1977. |
| Description | IX, 908 p. 356 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This volume is the result of a NATO Advanced Study Institute held in England at Kingswood Hall of Residence, Royal Holloway College (London University), Surrey, during the last two weeks of July, 1976. The ASI was organized within the guide lines laid down by the Scientific Affairs Division of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. During the past two decades, significant advances have been made in our understanding of vertebrate evolution. The purpose of the Institute was to present the current status of our know?? ledge of vertebrate evolution above the species level. Since the subject matter was obviously too broad to be covered adequately in the limited time available, selected topics, problems, and areas which are applicable to vertebrate zoology as a whole were reviewed. The program was divided into three areas: (1) the theory and methodology of phyletic inference and approaches to the an?? alysis of macroevolutionary trends as applied to vertebrates; (2) the application of these methodological principles and an?? alytical processes to different groups and structures, particular?? ly in anatomy and paleontology; (3) the application of these re?? sults to classification. The basic principles considered in the first area were outlined in lectures covering the problems of character analysis, functional morphology, karyological evidence, biochemical evidence, morphogenesis, and biogeography |
| ISBN,Price | 9781468488517 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. Evolutionary Biology
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| Title | Biophotons |
| Author(s) | Jiin-Ju Chang;Fisch, Joachim;Popp, Fritz-Albert |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1998. |
| Description | XII, 414 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | It is now well established that all living systems emit a weak but permanent photon flux in the visible and ultraviolet range. This biophoton emission is correlated with many, if not all, biological and physiological functions. There are indications of a hitherto-overlooked information channel within the living system. Biophotons may trigger chemical reactivity in cells, growth control, differentiation and intercellular communication, i.e. biological rhythms. The basic experimental and theoretical framework, the technical problems and the wide field of applications in the food industry, medicine, pharmacology, environmental science and basic sciences are presented in this book, which also includes the rapidly growing literature. This book is written by the most outstanding international scientists familiar with this topic who have been working in this field for many years |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401709286 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics
2. BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS
3. BIOPHYSICS
4. Biotechnology
5. EBOOK
6. EBOOK - SPRINGER
7. Environmental engineering
8. Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology
9. Evolutionary Biology
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| Title | Fundamentals of Finslerian Diffusion with Applications |
| Author(s) | Antonelli, P.L;Zastawniak, T.J |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1999. |
| Description | VII, 205 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | The erratic motion of pollen grains and other tiny particles suspended in liquid is known as Brownian motion, after its discoverer, Robert Brown, a botanist who worked in 1828, in London. He turned over the problem of why this motion occurred to physicists who were investigating kinetic theory and thermodynamics; at a time when the existence of molecules had yet to be established. In 1900, Henri Poincare lectured on this topic to the 1900 International Congress of Physicists, in Paris [Wic95]. At this time, Louis Bachelier, a thesis student of Poincare, made a monumental breakthrough with his Theory of Stock Market Fluctuations, which is still studied today, [Co064]. Norbert Wiener (1923), who was first to formulate a rigorous concept of the Brownian path, is most often cited by mathematicians as the father of the subject, while physicists will cite A. Einstein (1905) and M. Smoluchowski. Both considered Markov diffusions and realized that Brownian behaviour nd could be formulated in terms of parabolic 2 order linear p. d. e. 'so Further?? more, from this perspective, the covariance of changes in position could be allowed to depend on the position itself, according to the invariant form of the diffusion introduced by Kolmogorov in 1937, [KoI37]. Thus, any time?? homogeneous Markov diffusion could be written in terms of the Laplacian, intrinsically given by the symbol (covariance) of the p. d. e. , plus a drift vec?? tor. The theory was further advanced in 1949, when K |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401148245 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. Evolutionary Biology
5. GLOBAL ANALYSIS (MATHEMATICS)
6. Global Analysis and Analysis on Manifolds
7. Manifolds (Mathematics)
8. PROBABILITIES
9. Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes
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| Title | Complexity, Chaos, and Biological Evolution |
| Author(s) | Mosekilde, Erik;Mosekilde, Lis |
| Publication | New York, NY, Springer US, 1991. |
| Description | XI, 431 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | From time to time, perhaps a few times each century, a revolution occurs that questions some of our basic beliefs and sweeps across otherwise well guarded disciplinary boundaries. These are the periods when science is fun, when new paradigms have to be formulated, and when young scientists can do serious work without first having to acquire all the knowledge of their teachers. The emergence of nonlinear science appears to be one such revolution. In a surprising manner, this new science has disclosed a number of misconceptions in our traditional understanding of determinism. In particular, it has been shown that the notion of predictability, according to which the trajectory of a system can be precisely determined if one knows the equations of motion and the initial conditions, is related to textbook examples of simple; integrable systems. This predictability does not extend to nonlinear, conservative systems in general. Dissipative systems can also show unpredictability, provided that the motion is sustained by externally supplied energy and/or resources. These discoveries, and the associated discovery that even relatively simple nonlinear systems can show extremely complex behavior, have brought about an unprecedented feeling of common interest among scientists from many different disciplines. During the last decade or two we have come to understand that there are universal routes to chaos, we have learned about stretching and folding, and we have discovered the beautiful fractal geometry underlying chaotic attractors |
| ISBN,Price | 9781468478471 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics
2. BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS
3. BIOPHYSICS
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. Evolutionary Biology
7. LIFE SCIENCES
8. Life Sciences, general
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| Title | Deep-Sea Food Chains and the Global Carbon Cycle |
| Author(s) | Rowe, G.T;Pariente, Vita |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1992. |
| Description | X, 400 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Carbon dioxide and other `greenhouse' gases are increasing in the atmosphere due to the burning of fossil fuels, the destruction of rain forests, etc., leading to predictions of a gradual global warming which will perturb the global biosphere. An important process which counters this trend toward potential climate change is the removal of carbon dioxide from the surface ocean by photosynthesis. This process packages carbon in phytoplankton which enter the food chain or sink into the deep sea. Their ultimate fate is a `rain' of organic debris out of the surface-mixed layer of the ocean. On a global scale, the mechanisms and overall rate of this process are poorly known. The authors of the 25 papers in this volume present their state-of-the-art approaches to quantifying the mechanisms by which the `rain' of biogenic debris nourishes deep ocean life. Prominent deep sea ecologists, geochemists and modelers address relationships between data and models of carbon fluxes and food chains in the deep ocean. An attempt is made to estimate the fate of carbon in the deep sea on a global scale by summing up the utilization of organic matter among all the populations of the abyssal biosphere. Comparisons are made between these ecological approaches and estimates of geochemical fluxes based on sediment trapping, one-dimensional geochemical models and horizontal (physical) input from continental margins. Planning interdisciplinary enterprises between geochemists and ecologists, including new field programs, are summarized in the final chapter. The summary includes a list of the important gaps in understanding which must be addressed before the role of the deep-sea biota in global-scale processes can be put in perspective |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401124522 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Aquatic ecology??
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. Evolutionary Biology
5. Freshwater & Marine Ecology
6. GEOCHEMISTRY
7. OCEANOGRAPHY
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| Title | Mind and reality: The Space-Time Window |
| Author(s) | Wolfram Schommers |
| Publication | New Jersey, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., 2015. |
| Description | xvi, 306p. |
| Abstract Note | The relationship between mind and reality is usually perceived as an event that takes place in reality and producing simultaneously an internal image in the mind. So it takes place twice, so to speak, and there is a one-to-one correspondence between the two events. Within this conception, matter is embedded in space and time, and can be designated as âcontainer-principleâ. This monograph emphasizes that the well-known philosopher Immanuel Kant denied this principle and he stated that reality is principally not recognizable to a human being, and modern biological evolution seems to lead exactly to Kant's point of view. Within the theory of evolution, man's image about reality in mind does not have to be complete and true in the sense of a precise reproduction, and it is relatively easy to recognize that even space and time should not be elements of reality outside. Within this conception, only a certain part of reality, which the human being needs for mastering life, is projected onto space and time, and we come to the so-called âprojection principleâ. Then, spacetime defines the window to reality, leading to a number of exciting and essential questions, some of which are discussed in this monograph.
As is known, current physics is mainly based on the container-principle. But this monograph proposes that the projection principle is obviously more suitable and could help to solve open-ended questions as, for example, in connection with the nature of time, the particle-wave duality, the cosmological constant, etc. Regarding the statistical behavior of matter, Einstein's statement "God does not play dice" has to be seen in a new light, but also Feynman's general viewpoint on quantum theory that it cannot be understood by man. However, conventional quantum theory is obviously not a consistent framework as per the projection principle. The term âworld equationâ is critically probed in this monograph. |
| ISBN,Price | 9789814556774 : US $45.00(PB) |
| Classification | 530.145
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| Keyword(s) | 1. CONTAINER PRINCIPLE
2. COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - WORLD SCIENTIFIC
5. Evolutionary Biology
6. KANT'S PHILOSOPHY
7. QUANTUM PHYSICS
8. SPACETIME
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