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Offers an introduction that presents Darwin's theory. This title includes excerpts from Darwin's correspondence, commenting on the work in question, and its significance, impact, and reception.

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Despite advances in health care, infectious microbes continue to be a formidable adversary to scientists and doctors. This title recounts the scientific adventures of a special group of intrepid individuals who investigate these outbreaks around the world and figure out how to stop them.

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This book provides the mathematical foundations for the analysis of a class of degenerate elliptic operators defined on manifolds with corners, which arise in a variety of applications such as population genetics, mathematical finance, and economics. The results discussed in this book prove the uniqueness of the solution to the Martingale problem a

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Offers an introduction to the field of developmental neuroscience, a discipline concerned with the mechanisms by which complex nervous systems emerge during embryonic growth. Beginning with a presentation of methods for studying neural development, this book provides an overview of human development, followed by an introduction to animal models.

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Dragonflies and damselflies are large, stunningly beautiful insects, as readily observable as birds and butterflies. This title makes identifying them easy and every species is illustrated with full-color photographs and a distribution map, and structural features are illustrated where they aid in-hand identification.

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Plants and animals interact with each other and their surroundings, and these interactions--with all their complexity and contingency--control where species can survive and reproduce. In this comprehensive and groundbreaking introduction to the emerging field of ecological mechanics, Mark Denny explains how the principles of physics and engineering

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This is the first book to cover England's rare and threatened mosses and liverworts, collectively known as bryophytes. As a group, they are the most ancient land plants and occupy a unique position in the colonization of the Earth by plant life. However, many are at risk from habitat loss, pollution, climate change, and other factors. Britain is on

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Evolutionary Community Ecology develops a unified framework for understanding the structure of ecological communities and the dynamics of natural selection that shape the evolution of the species inhabiting them. All species engage in interactions with many other species, and these interactions regulate their abundance, define their trajectories of

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Takes ecocriticism into new areas that include collaboration across the environmental humanities and into the cultural studies of the human response to the environment. -- .

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This package applies the interactive identification and information retrieval program INTKEY to 563 world-level, DELTA descriptions of the families of angiosperms. The CD-ROM carries MS-DOS files containing the program and the data, along with 680 line drawings from early works.

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Members of these two families should be familiar to anyone who has walked into the Australian bush. The biology and anatomy of the flowers, including their usual pollination mechanism, are described, as well as the diverse species making up these distinctly Australian families.

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This volume presents an introduction to the family Asteraceae in Australia, including a synoptic classification and keys.

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Volume 39 of the Flora of Australia describes 17 families of monocots in 76 genera and 256 species. Most of the families are aquatic, and include the sea-grasses, pond weeds, and some major agricultural weed species. Four families are entirely or mostly terrestrial.

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This latest volume in the acclaimed Flora of Australia series covers the subfamilies Arundinoideae, Danthonoideae, Aristidoideae, Micrairoideae and Choridoideae. It describes a mixture of tropical and temperate grasses and includes a number of economically and environmentally important groups.

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Describes and illustrates more than 1000 species of Australian mosses.

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Covers some of the most spectacular and ecologically significant Australian lichens.

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What comes first, form or function Trumpeted as the future of biological science, evolutionary developmental biology (or 'evo-devo') answers this question by showing how evolution controls the development of organisms. This book looks at the history and key issues of evo-devo. It focuses on the ways animal organisms evolve through competition.