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Author : Lewis I. Held, Jr.
Publisher :
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 11,32 MB
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781108355520
Author : Lewis I. Held, Jr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 30,73 MB
Release : 2017-01-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 1316982718
Humans and flies look nothing alike, yet their genetic circuits are remarkably similar. Here, Lewis I. Held, Jr compares the genetics and development of the two to review the evidence for deep homology, the biggest discovery from the emerging field of evolutionary developmental biology. Remnants of the operating system of our hypothetical common ancestor 600 million years ago are compared in chapters arranged by region of the body, from the nervous system, limbs and heart, to vision, hearing and smell. Concept maps provide a clear understanding of the complex subjects addressed, while encyclopaedic tables offer comprehensive inventories of genetic information. Written in an engaging style with a reference section listing thousands of relevant publications, this is a vital resource for scientific researchers, and graduate and undergraduate students.
Author : Lewis I. Held, Jr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 40,3 MB
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1108834701
Highlights what we know about the pathways pursued by embryos and evolution, and stresses what we do not yet know.
Author : Lewis I. Held, Jr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 13,10 MB
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 1108892434
Among the offspring of humans and other animals are occasional individuals that are malformed in whole or in part. The most grossly abnormal of these have been referred to from ancient times as monsters, because their birth was thought to foretell doom; the less severely affected are usually known as anomalies. This volume digs deeply into the cellular and molecular processes of embryonic development that go awry in such exceptional situations. It focuses on the physical mechanisms of how genes instruct cells to build anatomy, as well as the underlying forces of evolution that shaped these mechanisms over eons of geologic time. The narrative is framed in a historical perspective that should help students trying to make sense of these complex subjects. Each chapter is written in the style of a Sherlock Holmes story, starting with the clues and ending with a solution to the mystery.
Author : Libby Bryan
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 26,50 MB
Release : 2012-06-06
Category :
ISBN : 9781477597521
How the Snake Lost His Legs: Don't Make This Mistake By Libby Bryan (Paperback).Dear Reader, As a young gawky teenager, my mama told me stories. She made me laugh from my belly with her acting. I turned to the Bible myself to find stories to tell my children. -Libby Bryan
Author : Owen John Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 16,6 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN :
Evolution has had a marked effect on the head region and distal segments of the limbs of mammals. Excellent insights into the evolution of the head region are available from published material, but despite the vast literature, there has been no serious attempt at an overall evolutionary synthesis for the limbs. This book provides such phylogenetic insights, based upon first hand familiarity with the comparative material. It is the author's firm conviction that such an approach leads to a more enlightened understanding of human anatomy. The book will be valued not only by those concerned with human evolution, but also by surgeons and others requiring a detailed understanding of the anatomy of the human hand and foot.
Author : Oliver Sacks
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 41,15 MB
Release : 2012-11-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0345805887
From the bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat • Fascinating portraits of neurological disorder in which men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly adaptive personalities, whose conditions have not so much debilitated them as ushered them into another reality. Here are seven detailed narratives of neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds a new sensibility and creative power in black and white; and an autistic professor who cannot decipher the simplest social exchange between humans, but has built a career out of her intuitive understanding of animal behavior. Sacks combines the well honed mind of an academician with the verve of a true storyteller.
Author : Yuval Noah Harari
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,69 MB
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 0062464353
Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity’s future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods. Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. This may seem hard to accept, but, as Harari explains in his trademark style—thorough, yet riveting—famine, plague and war have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges. For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists and criminals put together. The average American is a thousand times more likely to die from binging at McDonalds than from being blown up by Al Qaeda. What then will replace famine, plague, and war at the top of the human agenda? As the self-made gods of planet earth, what destinies will we set ourselves, and which quests will we undertake? Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century—from overcoming death to creating artificial life. It asks the fundamental questions: Where do we go from here? And how will we protect this fragile world from our own destructive powers? This is the next stage of evolution. This is Homo Deus. With the same insight and clarity that made Sapiens an international hit and a New York Times bestseller, Harari maps out our future.
Author : Katharina Rebay-Salisbury
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 34,64 MB
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1351998722
Identities and social relations are fundamental elements of societies. To approach these topics from a new and different angle, this study takes the human body as the focal point of investigation. It tracks changing identities of early Iron Age people in central Europe through body-related practices: the treatment of the body after death and human representations in art. The human remains themselves provide information on biological parameters of life, such as sex, biological age, and health status. Objects associated with the body in the grave and funerary practices give further insights on how people of the early Iron Age understood life and death, themselves, and their place in the world. Representations of the human body appear in a variety of different materials, forms, and contexts, ranging from ceramic figurines to images on bronze buckets. Rather than focussing on their narrative content, human images are here interpreted as visualising and mediating identity. The analysis of how image elements were connected reveals networks of social relations that connect central Europe to the Mediterranean. Body ideals, nudity, sex and gender, aging, and many other aspects of women’s and men’s lives feature in this book. Archaeological evidence for marriage and motherhood, war, and everyday life is brought together to paint a vivid picture of the past.
Author : Steven Pinker
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 24,72 MB
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0062032526
"A brilliant, witty, and altogether satisfying book." — New York Times Book Review The classic work on the development of human language by the world’s leading expert on language and the mind In The Language Instinct, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistics Society of America. This edition includes an update on advances in the science of language since The Language Instinct was first published.