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By knowing more about how animals behave and live, we gain a greater understanding of how life evolved and the importance of biodiversity. This work investigates the animal behavioural trait with which we are most familiar - how various species of animals have become useful members of human societies.

This book is a record of some 2,700 people who have collected herbarium specimens in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, designed as a supplement to the now complete Flora of Tropical East Africa.

Prepared for the international working group on Taxanomic Databases for Plant Sciences (TDWG)

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Richard Lynn argues that the condemnation of eugenics in the 20th century went too far and offers a reassessment. He argues that the objectives of eugenics are desirable and achievable by human biotechnology, cloning, and embryo selection, rather than controling natural reproduction.

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Provides a guide to those birds that have evolved a trait that would seem to harm their ability to survive - flightlessness. This book covers the loss of flight in birds, both permanently after years of evolution, and temporarily as a result of unusual moulting behaviour, and those species that are in various stages of losing their flight.

A complete listing of all validly published generic names in the Umbelliferae, with references to author(s), date and place of publication, typification, synonyms, geographical distribution, number of species, and essential bibliography.

A revision of the 79 recognised species, five of these with subspecies or varieties. Sixteen species and nine subspecies or varieties are described as new.

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This volume in the Greenwood Guides to Biomes of the World covers grasslands, those biomes the cover vast areas of the landmass of earth. It covers the two major types of grassland biomes: the temperate grasslands (such as the North American prairie), and the tropical grassland (e.g.

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The standard reference for all botanists, herbarium managers and technicians involved with the making and maintenance of herbarium collections. Many figures and text illustrations.

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This text sets out to prove that classic ideas of the mind, learning and memory must be re-examined through the lens of modern biology. It shows that research in the molecular and brain sciences has made it possible to develop research programmes that unravel problems like human nature and society.

The book is a horticultural, botanical and ethnobotanical monograph of Brugmansia (Solanaceae), the most potent of South American entheogens (psychoactive plants used for religious/spiritual purposes in shamanic cultures) and one of the most spectacularly beautiful groups of plants.

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What makes us human How did we develop language, thought and culture Why did we survive, and other human species fail How did this extraordinary proliferation of species come about - and then go extinct This book shows it was our social and cognitive changes which truly made us distinct from other species.

The IOS Index of Names of Cactaceae gives a complete overview of name changes for cacti over the past 40 years, listing alphabetically valid and invalid names with a full bibliographic reference.

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This is a comprehensive overview of the natural history of Kenya, a country with an incredibly diverse range of habitats, flora and fauna.

A Lacquer Legacy at Kew depicts the unique collection of raw materials, tools and the exquisite Japanese lacquer collection commissioned by Kew in 1881, accompanied by the original report.

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Epigenetics upends natural selection and genetic mutation as the sole engines of evolution, and offers startling insights into our future heritable traits.

A checklist of the legumes of Indo-China.

A checklist of the Legumes of Malesia.

This checklist of legumes, produced from a database compiled by the ILDIS project, covers northern Eurasia, Russia and much of the former Soviet Union.

A checklist of the Legumes of South Asia.

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"A coral reef is colorful. Many different animals live nearby." --

A Monograph of Cupressaceae and Sciadopitys, describing all species in these two families.

Hookers Icones Plantarum. 37(4). Fully illustrated.