The palm family is a group of plants of immense economic and horticultural significance. This book offers genus treatments, including complete descriptions, nomenclature, etymology and discussions of diversity, distribution, phylogeny, morphology, uses and ecology. All genera of…
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The Invertebrates describes the range and diversity of invertebrates and the way they work. The first part of the book describes all the known phyla of invertebrates with living representatives, together with their component classes. Rather than outline all the anatomical featur…
"The body of evolutionary theory that currently occupies a dominant position in biological thought is new-Darwinism. While this theory has considerable explanatory power, it is widely recognized as being incomplete in that lacks a component dealing with individual development, o…
Recent developments in molecular and statistical methods have made it possible to identify the genetic basis of any biological trait and have given rise to spectacular advances in the study of human disease. The book provides an overview of the concepts and methods needed to und…
Recent developments in molecular and statistical methods have made it possible to identify the genetic basis of any biological trait and have given rise to spectacular advances in the study of human disease. The book provides an overview of the concepts and methods needed to und…
An introduction to molecular phylogeny, this text provides an overview of the diversity, systematics and nomenclature of microbes in many branches of biological science.
"Traditional ecological approaches to species evolution have frequently dealt with too few species, relatively small areas, and relatively short time spans. In The Coevolutionary Process, John N. Thompson advances a new conceptual approach to the evolution of species interaction…
The idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually has religious roots in the deist concept of the Great Chain of Being. Yet, the metaphor has lodged itself in the contemporary imagination, and new fossil dis…
Volume 6 (in two parts) of the series Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny, attempts to document most of the important aspects of the reproductive biology of birds and places them in a setting of phylogenetic relationships. The first part of volume 6 discusses classification and p…
Volume 6 (in two parts) of the series Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny, attempts to document most of the important aspects of the reproductive biology of birds and places them in a setting of phylogenetic relationships. The second part of volume 6 discusses sexual selection of…
