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Book The Naples Zoological Station at the Time of Anton Dohrn

Download or read book The Naples Zoological Station at the Time of Anton Dohrn written by Stazione zoologica di Napoli and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn

Download or read book The History of the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn written by Bernardino Fantini and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Correspondence of Charles Darwin

Download or read book The Correspondence of Charles Darwin written by Charles Darwin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. Notes and appendixes put these fascinating and wide-ranging letters in context, making the letters accessible to both scholars and general readers. Darwin depended on correspondence to collect data from all over the world, and to discuss his emerging ideas with scientific colleagues, many of whom he never met in person. The letters are published chronologically: Volume 23 includes letters from 1875, the year in which Darwin wrote and published Insectivorous plants, a botanical work that was a great success with the reading public, and started writing Cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom. The volume contains an appendix on the 1875 anti-vivisection debates, with which Darwin was closely involved, giving evidence before a Royal Commission on the subject.

Book Anton Dohrn

Download or read book Anton Dohrn written by Theodor Heuss and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Life s Splendid Drama

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  • Author : Peter J. Bowler
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 1996-11-15
  • ISBN : 9780226069210
  • Pages : 556 pages

Download or read book Life s Splendid Drama written by Peter J. Bowler and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-11-15 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Bowler tracks major scientific debates over the emergence of the vertebrates, the origins of the main types of living animals, and the rise and extinction of groups such as the dinosaurs, his richly detailed accounts bring to light complex interactions among specialists in various fields of biology.

Book Arthropod Brains

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nicholas James Strausfeld
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2012-01-02
  • ISBN : 0674046331
  • Pages : 849 pages

Download or read book Arthropod Brains written by Nicholas James Strausfeld and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Descent of Man, Charles Darwin proposed that an ant’s brain, no larger than a pin’s head, must be sophisticated to accomplish all that it does. Yet today many people still find it surprising that insects and other arthropods show behaviors that are much more complex than innate reflexes. They are products of versatile brains which, in a sense, think. Fascinating in their own right, arthropods provide fundamental insights into how brains process and organize sensory information to produce learning, strategizing, cooperation, and sociality. Nicholas Strausfeld elucidates the evolution of this knowledge, beginning with nineteenth-century debates about how similar arthropod brains were to vertebrate brains. This exchange, he shows, had a profound and far-reaching impact on attitudes toward evolution and animal origins. Many renowned scientists, including Sigmund Freud, cut their professional teeth studying arthropod nervous systems. The greatest neuroanatomist of them all, Santiago Ramón y Cajal—founder of the neuron doctrine—was awed by similarities between insect and mammalian brains. Writing in a style that will appeal to a broad readership, Strausfeld weaves anatomical observations with evidence from molecular biology, neuroethology, cladistics, and the fossil record to explore the neurobiology of the largest phylum on earth—and one that is crucial to the well-being of our planet. Highly informative and richly illustrated, Arthropod Brains offers an original synthesis drawing on many fields, and a comprehensive reference that will serve biologists for years to come.

Book Why Study Biology by the Sea

Download or read book Why Study Biology by the Sea written by Karl S. Matlin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-03-12 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost a century and a half, biologists have gone to the seashore to study life. The oceans contain rich biodiversity, and organisms at the intersection of sea and shore provide a plentiful sampling for research into a variety of questions at the laboratory bench: How does life develop and how does it function? How are organisms that look different related, and what role does the environment play? From the Stazione Zoologica in Naples to the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, the Amoy Station in China, or the Misaki Station in Japan, students and researchers at seaside research stations have long visited the ocean to investigate life at all stages of development and to convene discussions of biological discoveries. Exploring the history and current reasons for study by the sea, this book examines key people, institutions, research projects, organisms selected for study, and competing theories and interpretations of discoveries, and it considers different ways of understanding research, such as through research repertoires. A celebration of coastal marine research, Why Study Biology by the Sea? reveals why scientists have moved from the beach to the lab bench and back.

Book Geological Magazine

Download or read book Geological Magazine written by Henry Woodward and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Correspondence of Charles Darwin  Volume 20  1872

Download or read book The Correspondence of Charles Darwin Volume 20 1872 written by Charles Darwin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 1013 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. Notes and appendixes put these fascinating and wide-ranging letters in context, making the letters accessible to both scholars and general readers. Darwin depended on correspondence to collect data from all over the world and to discuss his emerging ideas with scientific colleagues, many of whom he never met in person. The letters are published chronologically: volume 20 includes letters from 1872, the year in which The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals was published, making ground-breaking use of photography. Also in this year, the sixth and final edition of On the Origin of Species was published and Darwin resumed his work on carnivorous plants and plant movement, finding unexpected similarities between the plant and animal kingdoms.

Book Bulletin

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1925
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 934 pages

Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of Data

Download or read book Catalogue of Data written by World Data Center A--Oceanography and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book ESSA Libraries Holdings in Oceanography and Marine Meteorology  1710 1967  Keyword  KWIC  index

Download or read book ESSA Libraries Holdings in Oceanography and Marine Meteorology 1710 1967 Keyword KWIC index written by United States. Environmental Science Services Administration. Scientific Information and Documentation Division and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Correspondence of Charles Darwin  Volume 15  1867

Download or read book The Correspondence of Charles Darwin Volume 15 1867 written by Charles Darwin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During 1867 Darwin intensified lines of research on human expression and sexual selection.

Book Modern Art and the Idea of the Mediterranean

Download or read book Modern Art and the Idea of the Mediterranean written by Vojtech Jirat-Wasiuty?ski and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mediterranean is an invented cultural space, on the frontier between North and South, West and East. Modern Art and the Idea of the Mediterranean examines the representation of this region in the visual arts since the late eighteenth century, placing the 'idea of the Mediterranean' - a cultural construct rather than a physical reality - at the centre of our understanding of modern visual culture. This collection of essays features an international group of scholars who examine competing visions of the Mediterranean in terms of modernity and cultural identity, questioning and illuminating both European and non-European representations. An introductory essay frames the analysis in terms of a new spatial paradigm of the Mediterranean as a geographic, historical, and cultural region that emerged in the late eighteenth century, as France and Britain colonized the surrounding territories. Essays are grouped around three vital themes: visualization of the space of the new Mediterranean; varied uses of the classical paradigm; and issues of identity and resistance in an age of modernity and colonialism. Drawing on recent geographical, historical, cultural and anthropological studies, contributors address the visual representation of identity in both the European and the 'Oriental, ' the colonial and post-colonial Mediterranean.

Book Marine Genomics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cinzia Verde
  • Publisher : Springer Nature
  • Release : 2022-06-21
  • ISBN : 1071623133
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book Marine Genomics written by Cinzia Verde and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed volume provides an overview of recent advances in the application of genomic technologies in several domains of marine biology, raising awareness of various DNA- and RNA-based technologies. Genomic methods are essential in identifying previously undetected taxonomic (e.g. DNA barcoding), genetic (e.g. sequencing), and functional (e.g. gene expression, analysis of metabolites) diversity, as shown in the chapters of this book, with sections focusing on next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies, bioinformatics in marine genomics research, marine biotechnology, as well as a variety of methods successfully applied in fish. Written for the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Authoritative and practical, Marine Genomics: Methods and Protocols highlights the utility of numerous lab protocols and their potential to provide deeper insight into physiological and ecological mechanisms in marine life.

Book Natural Selection and Beyond

Download or read book Natural Selection and Beyond written by Charles H. Smith and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-11-27 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 - 1913) was one of the late nineteenth century's most potent intellectual forces. His link to Darwin as co-discoverer of the principle of natural selection alone would have secured him a place in history, but he went on to complete work entitling him to recognition as the 'father' of modern biogeographical studies, as a pioneer in the field of astrobiology, and as an important contributor to subjects as far-ranging as glaciology, land reform, anthropology and ethnography, and epidemiology. Beyond this, many are coming to regard Wallace as the pre-eminent field biologist, collector, and naturalist of tropical regions. Add to that the fact that he was a vocal supporter of spiritualism, socialism, and the rights of the ordinary person, and it quickly becomes apparent that Wallace was a man of extraordinary breadth of attention. Yet his work in many of these areas is still not well known, and still less recognized is his relevance to current day research almost 100 years after his death. This rich collection of writings by more than twenty historians and scientists reviews and reflects on the work that made Wallace a famous man in his own time, and a figure of extraordinary influence and continuing interest today.