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  • Predator–Prey Interactions: Co-evolution between Bats and Their Prey

    by David Steve Jacobs, Anna Bastian ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive review of the evolution of traits associated with predation and predator defense for bats and all of their prey, both invertebrates (e.g. insects) and vertebrates (e.g. frogs), in the context of co-evolution. It reviews current knowledge of how echolocation and passive hearing are used by bats to hunt prey in complete darkness. Also it highlights how prey have ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

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  • The Voyage Of The Beagle

    by Charles Darwin ...
    Voyage of the Beagle chronicles Charles Darwin's five years as a naturalist on board the H.M.S. Beagle. The notes and observations that he recorded in his diary included Chile, Argentina and Galapagos Islands and encompasses the ecology, geology and anthropology of the places he visits. A fascinating travel memoir the ideas that were later to evolve into Darwin's theory of natural selection find ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Serengeti Rules

    The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters - With a new Q&A with the author

    by Sean B. Carroll ...
    Now the subject of an Emmy Award–winning film the New York Times calls "spellbinding"How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or fish in the ocean? How do our bodies produce the right numbers of cells in our organs and bloodstream? In The Serengeti Rules, award-winning biologist and author Sean Carroll tells the stories of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Nature's Compass

    The Mystery of Animal Navigation

    by James L. Gould, Carol Grant Gould ...
    Series series Science Essentials
    The mysterious and remarkable ways that animals navigateWe know that animals cross miles of water, land, and sky with pinpoint precision on a daily basis. But it is only in recent years that scientists have learned how these astounding feats of navigation are actually accomplished. With colorful and thorough detail, Nature's Compass explores the remarkable methods by which animals find their way ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Animals Among Us

    How Pets Make Us Human

    by John Bradshaw ...
    A leading anthrozoologist and the bestselling author of Dog Sense and Cat Sense explains why we are so drawn to pets.Historically, we relied on our pets to herd livestock, guard homes, and catch pests. But most of us don't need animals to do these things anymore. Pets have never been less necessary. And yet, pet ownership has never been more common than it is today: half of American households ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Giraffe

    Biology, Behaviour and Conservation

    by Anne Innis Dagg ...
    With its iconic appearance and historic popular appeal, the giraffe is the world's tallest living terrestrial animal and the largest ruminant. Recent years have seen much-needed new research undertaken to improve our understanding of this unique animal. Drawing together the latest research into one resource, this is a detailed exploration of current knowledge on the biology, behaviour and ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Phylogenomics

    An Introduction

    by Christoph Bleidorn ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This unique textbook provides a clear and concise overview of the key principles of the complex field of phylogenomics, with a particular focus on sequencing technologies that are crucial to studying and understanding interrelations in evolutionary genomics. It includes chapters dedicated to the analysis of nucleotide sequences using assembling and alignment methods and also discusses the main ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • How the Snake Lost its Legs

    Curious Tales from the Frontier of Evo-Devo

    by Lewis I. Held, Jr ...
    How did the zebra really get its stripes, and the giraffe its long neck? What is the science behind camel humps, leopard spots, and other animal oddities? Such questions have fascinated us for centuries, but the expanding field of evo-devo (evolutionary developmental biology) is now providing, for the first time, a wealth of insights and answers. Taking inspiration from Kipling's 'Just So Stories' ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Dog Behaviour, Evolution, and Cognition

    by Adam Miklosi ...
    This is the first book to collate and synthesize the recent burgeoning primary research literature on dog behaviour, evolution, and cognition. The author presents a new ecological approach to the understanding of dog behaviour, demonstrating how dogs can be the subject of rigorous and productive scientific study without the need to confine them to a laboratory environment. This second, fully ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Reconstructing Mobility

    Environmental, Behavioral, and Morphological Determinants

    Edited by Kristian J. Carlson, Damiano Marchi ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Assembles a collection of experts to provide a current account of different approaches (e.g., traditional, comparative and experimental) being applied to study mobility. Moreover, the book aims to stimulate new theoretical perspectives that adopt a holistic view of the interaction among intrinsic (i.e. skeletal) and extrinsic (i.e. environmental) factors that influence differential expression of ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Evolution in the Dark

    Darwin's Loss Without Selection

    by Horst Wilkens, Ulrike Strecker ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book provides fascinating insights into the development and genetics of evolutionary processes on the basis of animals living in the dark, such as the Astyanax cave fish.Biologically functionless traits show high variability, which results from neutral deleterious mutations no longer being eliminated by natural selection, which normally acts to preserve functional capability. These negative ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • The Parasite-Stress Theory of Values and Sociality

    Infectious Disease, History and Human Values Worldwide

    by Randy Thornhill, Corey L. Fincher ...
    This book develops and tests an ecological and evolutionary theory of the causes of human values—the core beliefs that guide people’s cognition and behavior—and their variation across time and space around the world. We call this theory the parasite-stress theory of values or the parasite-stress theory of sociality. The evidence we present in our book indicates that both a wide span of human ... Read more

    $188.99 USD