Rauchfuss H. Chemical Evolution and the Origin of Life

Современный взгляд ведущих исследователей в области эволюции, таксономии, приматологии. Издательство - Springer US, 2007. Part i: Supraordinal relationships of primates and their time of origin. a molecular Classification for the Living Orders of Placental Mammals and the Phylogenetic Placement of Primates. New Light on the dates of Primate Origins and divergence. The Postcranial Morphology of Ptilocercus lowii (Scandentia, Tupaiidae) and its I...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2011, 319 pages In 1995, John Maynard Smith and Ers Szathmry published their influential book The Major Transitions in Evolution. The "transitions" that Maynard Smith and Szathmry chose to describe all constituted major changes in the kinds of organisms that existed but, most important, these events also transformed the evolutionary process itself. The evolution of new levels of biological organizati...

Why evolution is true Oxford University Press, 2009, 336 р. ISBN 9780199230846 The very latest research is uncovering a stream of evidence revealing evolution in action - from the actual observation of a species splitting into two, to new fossil discoveries, to the deciphering of the evidence stored in our genome. Why Evolution is True weaves together the many threads of modern work in genetics, palaeontology, geology, molecular biology, anatom...

Cambridge University Press, 2011, 526 pages Devoted to exploring questions about the origin and evolution of life in our Universe, this highly interdisciplinary book brings together a broad array of scientists. Thirty chapters assembled in eight major sections convey the knowledge accumulated and the richness of the debates generated by this challenging theme. The text explores the latest research on the conditions and processes that led to the...

Chelsea House Publications, 2008. - 224 pages. Series "The Prehistoric Earth" The first bursts of life found in the fossil record were single-celled bacteria and algae, the foundation of life that led to the extraordinary cavalcade of organisms that have walked the stage of Earth ever since. From the initial signs of life in the Precambrian Period to the end of the Cambrian Period about 488 million years ago, "Early Life" explores the developme...

Gale, 2011. - 371 pages. Originally edited by the famous Frankfurt Zoo director and conservationist, Bernhard Grzimek, and translated into English in the early 1970s, the first English edition, consisting of 11 volumes, was published by Van Nostrand Reinhold in both England and the United States. That version was very popular, but after 30 years the series was in urgent need of updating. During that time, thousands of biologists, working in both...

Oxford University Press, USA. Дата публикации: 2007-07-06 Revealing the Natural History of Genes and Genomes. Natural selection: - negative selection and the Neural Theory of Molecular Evolution - Detecting Positive Selection - Balancing Selection and Disease Human Origins and Evolution: - Finding Our Roots: Did Eve Know Adam? - Who Were the Neanderthals? - Are We the Third Chimpanzee? - What Are the Genetic Differences, That Made Us Human? - Cl...

Prehistoric life: evolution and the fossil record Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, 400 p. ISBN: 978-0-632-04472-6 Prehistoric life is the archive of evolution preserved in the fossil record. This book focuses on the meaning and significance of that archive and is designed for introductory college science students, including non-science majors, enrolled in survey courses emphasizing paleontology, geology and biology. 1 Introduction to Fossils 2 The Nature...

Columbia University Press, 2007, 381 pages Over the past twenty years, paleontologists have made tremendous fossil discoveries, including fossils that mark the growth of whales, manatees, and seals from land mammals and the origins of elephants, horses, and rhinos. Today there exists an amazing diversity of fossil humans, suggesting we walked upright long before we acquired large brains, and new evidence from molecules that enable scientists to...

Oxford University Press, 2009 - Science - 264 pages Animal life, now and over the past half billion years, is incredibly diverse. Describing and understanding the evolution of this diversity of body plans - from vertebrates such as humans and fish to the numerous invertebrate groups including sponges, insects, molluscs, and the many groups of worms - is a major goal of evolutionary biology. In this book, a group of leading researchers adopt a mod...