This beautifully illustrated book unlocks nature’s colorful purpose, revealing how creatures see color as well as shedding light on the important part that it plays in animal behavior, from reproduction and communication to aggression and defense. Color in Nature also places the human experience and uses of color in the context of all the colors around us, both in the natural world and in the world that we humans create for our own pleasure and purpose.

Uploaded June 2025

Speciation is the evolutionary process by which groups of plants and animals become reproductively isolated. This volume covers recent advances in our understanding of the genetic, ecological, geographical, and environmental factors that drive speciation, the various systems and approaches used to study it, and current challenges and future directions in the field.

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Human evolutionary demography is an emerging field blending natural science with social science. This edited volume provides a much-needed, interdisciplinary introduction to the field and highlights cutting-edge research for interested readers and researchers in demography, the evolutionary behavioral sciences, biology, and related disciplines.

Uploaded June 2025

Embracing the circular logic of life and engineering systems, the Gaia theory states that Earth is a self-regulating complex system in which life interacts with and eventually becomes its own environment. Gaia describes a living Earth: a body in the form of a planet.

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From its ancient Greek roots to Lovelock's groundbreaking 1979 book, the concept of Gaia has evolved to depict Earth as a single, intricate organism sustaining life through the interplay of its organic and inorganic elements. From the Hadean epoch, where life's emergence radically transformed our planet, to the present, Earth stands as our sole model for understanding life's potential on other Earth-like worlds.

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Hoyle and Wickramasinghe's research, supported by advancements in space technology and astronomy, argued that the origins of life required a cosmological scale beyond the solar system or galaxy. Their work contributed to the emergence of astrobiology, merging astronomy and biology, and indicated a shift from Earth-centered theories of life.

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The book presents innovative methodologies such as: standard error for the median, leaf-to-stem sampling for epidemiological studies, sampling for cellular studies, the confidence interval as a test of significance, the least significant difference (LSD) test for many groups comparison, meta-analysis, and the confidence limits in calculation of cut-off values. It is hoped that users of all levels and fields will be satisfied with the contents and presentation.

Uploaded June 2025

A First Course in Systems Biology is an introduction to the growing field of systems biology for advanced undergraduates and grad students. Its focus is the design and analysis of computational models and their applications to diverse biomedical phenomena, from simple networks to complex pathway systems, signal transduction, and interacting populations.

June 2025

This book challenges conventional notions of the "Darwinian Revolution" by examining how people from across all sections of society actually responded to Darwin's writings. Drawing on the opinions and interventions of over 2,000 Victorians, gleaned from an exceptionally wide range of archival and printed sources, it argues that the spread of Darwinian belief was slower, more complicated more stratified by age, and ultimately shaped far more powerfully by divergent generational responses, than has previously been recognised.

June 2025

Biological Science: Exploring the Science of Life responds to the key needs of lecturers and their students by placing a clear central narrative, carefully-structured active learning, and confidence with quantitative concepts and scientific enquiry central to its approach. With coverage that spans the full scale of biological science - from molecule to ecosystem - and with an approach that fully supports flexible, self-paced learning, Biological Science: Exploring the Science of Life will set you on a path towards a deeper understanding of the key concepts in biology, and a greater appreciation of biology as a dynamic experimental science.

June 2025