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Biotectonics Of Neotropical Transition Zones

by Bernard Michaux, Lize Hermogenes De Mendonca e Malte C. Ebach

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 This book offers an up-to-date review and synthesis of the role of tectonics in Neotropical bioregionalisation, in particular transition zones. These questions are pertinent as they may reveal a new transition zone within the Caribbean (Antillean sub-region), and provides an up-to-date account of the biotectonics of the Caribbean.
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Biotectonics Of Neotropical Transition Zones

by Bernard Michaux, Lize Hermogenes De Mendonca e Malte C. Ebach

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 This book offers an up-to-date review and synthesis of the role of tectonics in Neotropical bioregionalisation, in particular transition zones. These questions are pertinent as they may reveal a new transition zone within the Caribbean (Antillean sub-region), and provides an up-to-date account of the biotectonics of the Caribbean.
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Essays On The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis - Formalizations And Expansions

by Rodrick Wallace

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 From the ‘punctuated equilibrium'' of Eldrege and Gould, through Lewontin''s ‘triple helix'' and the various visions and revisions of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES) of Laland and others, both data and theory have demanded an opening-up of the 1950''s Evolutionary Synthesis that so firmly wedded evolutionary theory to the mathematics of gene frequency analysis. It can, however, be argued that a single deep and comprehensive mathematical theory may simply not be possible for the almost infinite varieties of evolutionary process active at and across the full range of scales of biological, social, institutional, and cultural phenomena. Indeed, the case history of ''meme theory'' should have raised a red flag that narrow gene-centered models of evolutionary process may indeed have serious limitations. What is attempted here is less grand, but still broader than a gene-centered analysis. Following the instruction of Maturana and Varela that all living systems are cognitive, in a certainsense, and that living as a process is a process of cognition, the asymptotic limit theorems of information and control theories that bound all cognition provide a basis for constructing an only modestly deep but wider-ranging series of probability models that might be converted into useful statistical tools for the analysis of observational and experimental data related to evolutionary process. The line of argument in this series of interrelated essays proves to be surprisingly direct.
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Development Ngos And Languages - Listening, Power And Inclusion

by Angela M. Crack, Hilary Footitt e Wine Tesseur

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 This book addresses, for the first time, the question of how development NGOs attempt to 'listen' to communities in linguistically diverse environments.
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Biotectonics - Tectonics As The Driver Of Bioregionalisation

by Bernard Michaux e Malte C. Ebach

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 The question we ask is how tectonics directly influences the distribution of biota in four case studies: the Mesozic and early Palaeogene Australides, which spans the Proto-Pacific coast of the South America, Antaractica and Australiasia;
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Biotectonics - Tectonics As The Driver Of Bioregionalisation

by Bernard Michaux e Malte C. Ebach

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 The question we ask is how tectonics directly influences the distribution of biota in four case studies: the Mesozic and early Palaeogene Australides, which spans the Proto-Pacific coast of the South America, Antaractica and Australiasia;
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Closing Human Evolution: Life In The Ultimate Age

by Ladislav Kovac

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 This volume analyses the evolution of humankind by combining approaches from science and the arts. It offers a novel perspective on the evolution of life on Earth, based on a recent reformulation of the second law of thermodynamics in terms of the "maximum entropy production principle." In essence, the Earth is but one of many "white holes" in the universe, where life functions as a specific arrangement for the rapid dissipation of energy gradients by generating self-organized structures. Evolution of life in the universe is a creative process of increasing complexity as a Bayesian ratchet of knowledge accumulation, advancing in an evolutionary maze characterized by myriad blind alleys. On Earth, the human species has progressed more than any other by creating artefacts that have become both agents and products of in our cumulative cultural evolution. Culture has dramatically enhanced the rate of dissipation of energy gradients. Extrapolating from the acceleration of cultural evolution suggests that humanity will reach the Civilization Singularity in the middle of the 21st century, a point in time at which the rate of changes, and hence their unpredictability and uncontrollability, will converge to infinity. Humankind has now entered the ultimate age, in which the exuberance and splendour of human feats may be metaphorically likened to fireworks.The author highlights a new role of scientists as intellectuals who can create "music for the fireworks" by analysing the consequences of the astounding dynamics in order to make the closing phase of human evolution a sublime one marked by minimal political and social tensions.
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Retrograde Evolution During Major Extinction Crises

by Jean Guex

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 This book is the first of its kind, providing in-depth analysis of the retrograde evolution occurring during major extinction periods. The text offers a non-strictly adaptative explanation of repetition of phyla after the major extinctions, utilizing a study of seven phylogenetically distinct groups.
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Retrograde Evolution During Major Extinction Crises

by Jean Guex

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 This book is the first of its kind, providing in-depth analysis of the retrograde evolution occurring during major extinction periods. The text offers a non-strictly adaptative explanation of repetition of phyla after the major extinctions, utilizing a study of seven phylogenetically distinct groups.
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Macroevolution In Deep Time

by Alexander J. Bartholomew e Rituparna Bose

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 This book discusses the underlying causes behind the fate of once-abundant organisms of earlier geologic eras, helping readers to accurately evaluate patterns of evolution in extinct lineages and to make solid predictions about their modern analogs.
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Robustness, Plasticity, And Evolvability In Mammals - A Thermal Niche Approach

by Clara B. Jones

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 This book offers new views on robustness and weak robustness, plasticity and evolvability, emphasizing the adaptive complex in relation to endogenous and exogenous organismal features which can induce or constrain variability and novelty of form and function.
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Evolution That Anyone Can Understand

by Bernard Marcus

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 This book explores the phenomenon of scientific discovery that disrupts accepted order, the consequences of denial, attack and ridicule of the science that challenges it, and the longer term understanding that the science is usually correct.
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Closing Human Evolution: Life In The Ultimate Age

by Ladislav Kovac

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Macroevolution In Deep Time

by Alexander J. Bartholomew e Rituparna Bose

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 This book discusses the underlying causes behind the fate of once-abundant organisms of earlier geologic eras, helping readers to accurately evaluate patterns of evolution in extinct lineages and to make solid predictions about their modern analogs.
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Relics And Writing In Late Medieval England

by Robyn Malo

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 Relics and Writing in Late Medieval England uses the literary study of relics to address issues of clerical and lay cultures, orthodoxy and heterodoxy, and writing and reform.
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Minority Nations In The Age Of Uncertainty - New Paths To National Emancipation And Empowerment

by Alain-G. Gagnon

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 Already translated into fifteen languages from the original French, Minority Nations in the Age of Uncertainty is an essential text on the theory of multinational federalism and the politics of minority nations.

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