Thoroughly revised and updated to include the latest research in the field, A Dictionary of
Environment and Conservation provides over 9,000 alphabetically arranged entries on scientific and social aspects of the environment, including concise and authoritative information on key thinkers, ...
A World From Dust describes how a set of chemical rules combined with the principles
of evolution in order to create an environment in which life as we know it could unfold. Beginning with simple mathematics, these predictable rules led ...
Animals perform many athletic tasks to an amazing degree of accomplishment: not only spectacular feats
of running and jumping but also routine actions that ensure survival such as feeding, vocalization, diving, flying, and many more. The study of performance capacity ...
There is a paradox when it comes to Darwinian ideas within the academy. On one
hand, Darwin's theories have famously changed the foundational ideas related to the origins of life, shaping entire disciplines in the biological sciences. On the other ...
The study of genetic exchange resulting from natural hybridization, horizontal gene transfer, and viral recombination
has long been marked by controversy between researchers holding different conceptual frameworks. Those subscribing to a doctrine of 'species purity' have traditionally been reluctant to ...
Early Thoughts on RNA and the Origin of Life The full impact of the essential
role of the nucleic acids in biological systems was forcefully demonstrated by the research community in the 1950s. Although Avery and his collaborators had identified ...
One of the greatest unmet challenges in conservation biology is the genetic management of fragmented
populations of threatened animal and plant species. More than a million small, isolated, population fragments of threatened species are likely suffering inbreeding depression and loss ...
Oxford Textual Perspectives is a series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts
(conceived of in the broadest sense of that term) and the technologies, cultures, and communities that produce, inform, and receive them. It provides fresh interpretations ...