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Synthesizes the literature on sex allocation, providing a conceptual framework and demonstrating how sex-allocation studies can answer broader questions in evolutionary and behavioral biology.

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Providing a synthesis of sexual selection, this work describes the theory and its development; examines models, methods, and empirical tests; and identifies unsolved problems. It discusses such topics as the selection and evolution of mating preferences; relations between sexual selection and speciation; constraints on sexual selection; and more.

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What makes populations stabilize What makes them fluctuate Are populations in complex ecosystems more stable than populations in simple ecosystems This text addresses these questions and introduces non-linear mathematical models and the study of deterministic chaos into ecology.

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Examines theories of population stability and shows how laboratory research on model populations - particularly blowflies, Tribolium, and Drosophila - contributes to our understanding of population dynamics and the evolution of stability. This book analyzes techniques for inferring whether a given population is in balance or not.

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These original contributions by symbiosis biologists and evolutionary theorists address the adequacy of the prevailing neo-Darwinian concept of evolution in the light of growing evidence that hereditary symbiosis, supplemented by the gradual accumulation of heritable mutation, results in the origin of new species and morphological novelty.

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The idea of a balance of nature has been a dominant part of Western philosophy since before Aristotle, and it persists in the public imagination and even among some ecologists today. This book demonstrates that nature in fact is not in balance, nor has it ever been at any stage in Earth's history.

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JBS Haldane (1892-1964), one of the founders of the science of population genetics, was also one of the greatest practitioners of the art of explaining science to the layperson. This title provides accessible introduction to the genetical basis of evolution by natural selection.

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This text offers an understanding of how Darwinian processes could operate in the brain to shape mental images in only seconds, using shuffled memories similar to jumbled dreams, but evolving into something of quality, such as a sentence to speak aloud.

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A cognitive science perspective on scientific development, drawing on philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and computational modeling.

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This rhetorical study of the various language strategies and competing world views involved in the 140-year argument between Biblical creationists and Darwinian evolutionists focuses on the 1860 Huxley/Wilberforce debate, the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial, and the 1981 Arkansas Creation-Science Trial.

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In the resurgence of interest in the biological basis of animal behavior and social organization, the ideas and questions pursued by Charles Darwin remain insightful. This title describes that human mental and emotional capacities, far from making human beings unique, are evidence of an animal origin and evolutionary development.

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By bringing together leading researchers from all fields to review common themes and explore emerging ideas, this book represents the most current and comprehensive survey of knowledge about the ecology and evolution of inducible defenses.

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In a singularly fundamental challenge to the positions widespread among social scientists, White distances himself from the reductionist models of the human brain.

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The essays in this collection address the militaristic discourse deployed by humans against invasive species and consider alternative relationships of cohabitation.

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How is it that an egg turns into an elaborate adult How is it that a bacterium, given many millions of years, could have evolved into an elephant The author argues that we can understand this progression in terms of natural selection, but that in order to do so we must consider the role of development in evolutionary change.

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More than fifty illustrations highlight a provocative study tracing the origins of culture as man now knows it back to the early biological evolution of animals.

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What is life Is it just the biologically familiar - birds, trees, snails, people - or is it an infinitely complex set of patterns that a computer could simulate This book outlines many of the challenges and controversies involved in the dynamic and curious science of artificial life.

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Does modern science prove the order of creation as described in the Bible to be true Andrew Parker argues that the Genesis account precisely reflects the order of events as we now understand them. By comparing the data of science with the words and phrases of Genesis 1-11, the remarkable parallels become clear.

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