Origins of biodiversity

A unique introduction to the fields of macroevolution and macroecology, which takes an enquiry-led approach to exploring the evolution and distribution of biodiversity across time, space and lineages.
A unique introduction to the fields of macroevolution and macroecology, which takes an enquiry-led approach to exploring the evolution and distribution of biodiversity across time, space and lineages.
Steve Jones takes on the challenge of going back to the book of the millennium, Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species. Before The Origin, biology was a set of unconnected facts. Darwin made it into a science, linked by the theory of evolution, the grammar of the living world.It reveals ties between cancer and the genetics of fish, between brewing and inherited disease, between the sex lives of crocodiles and the politics of Brazil.
This volume contains three chapters that are written by different authors. These chapters are about the regeneration in vertebrate embryos, the organs and their development in embryos and evolution and its comparison to anatomy and systematics.
Dans ce livre publié à titre posthume, nous retrouverons un certain nombre de pensées qui ont agité l'esprit de l'auteur dans les derniers jours de sa vie.
Nul ne peut regarder vivre un organisme quelconque, sans penser aussitot à la nature et à l'origine des relations de cet organisme avec l'ensemble de ses conditions d'existence. Cette publication décrit comment les adaptations et l'évolution s'expriment
La notion de l'évolution. - Son application à la nature inorganique, aux étres organisés, à l'origine de l'homme, à sa vie psychique. - Son avenir dans l'éthique et les sciences sociales. - Le domaine propre de l'idee évolutionniste : les sciences naturelles.