Catálogo de libros: Ciencias de la vida: cuestiones generales

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  • Forerunners of Darwin
    Published to commemorate the centennial of the publication of Darwin’s 'Origin of Species', this volume brings together several important essays on the history of the idea of evolution. Included are discussions of Maupertuis, Buffon, Diderot, Kant, Herder, Lamarck, and Schopenhauer by such leading scholars as Arthur O. Lovejoy, Bentley Glass, Owsei Temkin, C. C. Gillispie, Fran...
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    50,25 €

  • Evolution in Changing Environments
    Richard Levins
    Professor Levins, one of the leading explorers in the field of integrated population biology, considers the mutual interpenetration and joint evolution of organism and environment, occurring on several levels at once. Physiological and behavioral adaptations to short-term fluctuations of the environment condition the responses of populations to long-term changes and geographic ...
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    86,65 €

  • The Natural History of Viruses
    C. H. Andrewes / CHAndrewes / Christopher Andrewes
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    19,18 €

  • The Living Brain
    Grey W. Walter / Grey WWalter / W. Grey Walter / WGrey Walter
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    18,96 €

  • Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development
    Francis Galton
    'The moral and intellectual wealth of a nation largely consists in the multifarious variety of the gifts of the men who compose it . . .'-Sir Francis Galton, Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its DevelopmentInquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development (1907) by Francis Galton is a landmark work in the field of anthropology. In it, Galton coined the term 'eugenics,' arguing f...
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    19,77 €

  • The Power of Movement in Plants
    Charles Darwin / Francis Darwin
    '...I think that I have succeeded in showing. . . kind of movement common to all parts of all plants from their earliest youth.' - Charles Darwin, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II (1880) The Power of Movement in Plants (1880) includes illustrations and documents the extensive research and study of phototropism among other plant movements by Charles Darwin and h...
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    30,23 €

  • The Power of Movement in Plants
    Charles Darwin / Francis Darwin
    '...I think that I have succeeded in showing. . . kind of movement common to all parts of all plants from their earliest youth.' - Charles Darwin, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II (1880) The Power of Movement in Plants (1880) includes illustrations and documents the extensive research and study of phototropism among other plant movements by Charles Darwin and h...
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    37,71 €

  • The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
    Charles Darwin
    'He who admits that the structure and habits of all animals have been gradually evolved, will look at the whole subject of Expression in a new and interesting light.' - Charles Darwin, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872)The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) includes original photographic as well as other illustrations by noted scientists...
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    27,14 €

  • The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
    Charles Darwin
    'He who admits that the structure and habits of all animals have been gradually evolved, will look at the whole subject of Expression in a new and interesting light.' - Charles Darwin, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872)The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) includes original photographic as well as other illustrations by noted scientists...
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    38,54 €

  • The Descent of Man
    Charles Darwin
    'It has often and confidently been asserted, that man’s origin can never be known: but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.' -Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, (1871)The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relat...
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    27,16 €

  • The Descent of Man
    Charles Darwin
    'It has often and confidently been asserted, that man’s origin can never be known: but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.' -Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, (1871)The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relat...
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    45,41 €

  • The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms
    Charles Darwin
    '...I was led to keep in my study during many months worms in pots filled with earth, I became interested in them, and wished to learn how far they acted consciously...' - Charles Darwin, The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms (1881)The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits (1881) includes original illu...
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    22,16 €

  • An Essay on the Principle of Population
    Thomas Robert Malthus
    The book An Essay on the Principle of Population was first published anonymously in 1798, but the author was soon identified as Thomas Robert Malthus. The book predicted a grim future, as population would increase geometrically, doubling every 25 years, but food production would only grow arithmetically, which would result in famine and starvation, unless births were controlled...
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    15,52 €