• Roughgarden argues that principal elements of Darwinian sexual selection theory are false and suggests a new theory that emphasizes social inclusion and control of access to resources and mating opportunity. (ucpress.edu)
  • She is the author of several books, including Evolution and Christian Faith: Reflections of an Evolutionary Biologist and The Genial Gene: Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness (UC Press). (ucpress.edu)
  • New findings in molecular biology challenge the gene-centered version of Darwinian theory according to which adaptation occurs only through natural selection of chance DNA variations. (mit.edu)
  • The new system meets all of the requirements for Darwinian evolution and can also be transcribed to RNA. (lifeboat.com)
  • A long-held claim of Darwin-doubters has been that while the neo-Darwinian mechanism of mutation coupled with selection may be capable of doing something, it is incapable of turning an amoeba into a giraffe or algae into an oak tree. (grisda.org)
  • In Darwinian evolution, time is the magic that allows transformation of various types of organisms into very different kinds. (grisda.org)
  • The essence of Behe's argument from IC in Darwin's Black Box is that given any amount of time and natural selection, the jump between nothing and a novel irreducibly complex entity like the bacterial flagellum is larger than the neo-Darwinian mechanism can span and thus it does not account for the IC structures and biochemical pathways that abound in nature. (grisda.org)
  • Plasmodium can be viewed as a natural experiment illustrating what capabilities the neo-Darwinian mutation-selection mechanism possesses. (grisda.org)
  • The product that's being sold is theistic evolution, the view that God brought about the complexity and diversity of living forms, once first life was here, via the Darwinian evolutionary mechanism of natural selection acting on random genetic mutations. (patheos.com)
  • Throughout their book, Giberson and Collins overconfidently proclaim that Darwinian evolution is a slam-dunk. (patheos.com)
  • Giberson and Collins bemoan that many of the critics of Darwinian evolution are not biologists. (patheos.com)
  • Here they look at more insects with strikingly sophisticated innate behavior, suggesting intricate algorithms encoded into their brains from birth, all of which cannot be effectively explained by reference to Darwinian evolution. (idthefuture.com)
  • Darwin's book would go on to change the way we think about the world around us and how different species adapt to it. (gadling.com)
  • On the Organic Law of Change realizes in spirit the project Wallace left unfinished, and asserts his stature as not only a founder of biogeography and the preeminent tropical biologist of his day but as Darwin's equal among the pioneers of evolution. (harvard.edu)
  • not only does he have an excellent grasp of evolutionary theory, but he also has a detailed understanding of the early history of the subject including the development of Darwin's ideas about evolution. (harvard.edu)
  • Social Darwinism is a loose set of ideologies that emerged in the late 1800s in which Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection was used to justify certain political, social, or economic views. (history.com)
  • According to Darwin's theory of evolution, only the plants and animals best adapted to their environment will survive to reproduce and transfer their genes to the next generation. (history.com)
  • Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection was a scientific theory focused on explaining his observations about biological diversity and why different species of plants and animals look different. (history.com)
  • After Darwin published his theories on biological evolution and natural selection, Herbert Spencer drew further parallels between his economic theories and Darwin's scientific principles. (history.com)
  • Michael Behe's sequel to Darwin's Black Box , The Edge of Evolution , has apparently driven many of his critics figuratively over the edge. (grisda.org)
  • November of this year sees the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's famous book, Origin of the Species . (marxist.com)
  • The story portrays Charles Darwin's strategy for changing minds and touches on how he came up with his theory of evolution. (anecdote.com)
  • Repeatedly readers are informed that mountains of overwhelming evidence support Darwin's theory and that the authors are "unfamiliar with any premier scientists who reject evolution. (patheos.com)
  • Darwin's book set off a great, ramifying enquiry into humanity's place in nature. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • Darwin's own position on the sufficiency of Natural Selection shifted a great deal during the twenty or 50 years between the first edition of the Origin and his death in 1882. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • One hundred and fifty years ago, Charles Darwin (1859 [2009]) offered a scientific explanation for biodiversity-natural selection. (ucpress.edu)
  • Although natural selection is an evolutionary process, Darwin argued that at natural selection's core is an ecological process: competition. (ucpress.edu)
  • Selection driven by competition, Darwin held, is the primary engine of diversification. (ucpress.edu)
  • Charles Darwin coined the term 'natural selection. (yahoo.com)
  • With a little help from Darwin himself, we're going to learn how natural selection explains the astonishing complexity and diversity of life on planet Earth. (yahoo.com)
  • In that year he sent to Charles Darwin an essay announcing his discovery of the mechanism for species change: natural selection. (harvard.edu)
  • Darwin postulated natural selection. (wizbangblog.com)
  • Wallace's giant bee ( Megachile pluto ) gets its name from its original discoverer, Alfred Russel Wallace , the British naturalist famous for independently conceiving the theory of evolution through natural selection alongside Charles Darwin. (lifeboat.com)
  • Charles Darwin published his notions on natural selection and the theory of evolution in his influential 1859 book On the Origin of Species . (history.com)
  • Following the footsteps of Copernicus and Galileo three hundred years earlier, Darwin battered an enormous, irreparable breech in the walls of Fortress Theology and for that reason the book has been the source of intense debate right up to the present day. (marxist.com)
  • Listen to hear how Charles Darwin formulated and gained support for his theory of evolution. (anecdote.com)
  • I, in the book, talk a little about Darwin because he was such a famously decent person, and I show some cases where he did that sort of thing. (booknotes.org)
  • Early in the book, Giberson and Collins gesture at evolutionary theory as something more general than Darwinism (biological evolution, they contend, has come a long way since Darwin). (patheos.com)
  • Thus one reads, "There has been no scientific discovery since Darwin-not one-which has suggested that evolution is not the best explanation for the origin of species" (21-22). (patheos.com)
  • Sexual selection in humans concerns the concept of sexual selection , introduced by Charles Darwin as an element of his theory of natural selection , [1] as it affects humans . (wikipedia.org)
  • Charles Darwin conjectured that the male beard, as well as the hairlessness of humans compared to nearly all other mammals, were results of sexual selection. (wikipedia.org)
  • 2023 marks the bicentennial of the birth of Alfred Russel Wallace, co-founder with Charles Darwin of the theory of evolution by natural selection. (discovery.org)
  • She disputes a range of scientific and medical concepts, including Wilson's genetic determinism of behavior, evolutionary psychology, the existence of a gay gene, the role of parenting in determining gender identity, and Dawkins's "selfish gene" as the driver of natural selection. (ucpress.edu)
  • This is where one of the best natural selection examples came into play. (yahoo.com)
  • What Is Natural Selection? (yahoo.com)
  • Natural selection is the engine that drives evolution . (yahoo.com)
  • By understanding natural selection, we can learn why some plants produce cyanide, why rabbits produce so many offspring, how animals first emerged from the ocean to live on land, and how some mammals eventually went back again. (yahoo.com)
  • Evolution is the result of the tendency for some organisms to have better reproductive success than others - natural selection. (yahoo.com)
  • It was that book that first explored the concepts of evolution and the idea of natural selection. (gadling.com)
  • These systems, they argue, can all provide variations on which natural selection can act. (mit.edu)
  • A giant of the discipline of biogeography and co-discoverer of natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace was the most famous naturalist in the world when he died in 1913. (harvard.edu)
  • Presented in facsimile with text transcription and annotations, this never-before-published document provides a new window into the travels, personal trials, and scientific genius of the co-discoverer of natural selection. (harvard.edu)
  • Organisms reproduce over time: with more time, more reproductive events occur resulting in more potentially mutated individuals on which natural selection can work. (grisda.org)
  • Arguments about creation and evolution aside, Behe demonstrates in The Edge of Evolution the very practical importance of assuming design and understanding what unguided natural processes can really do. (grisda.org)
  • The beautifully simple idea embodied in his book - evolution by natural selection - was a revolutionary departure with profound scientific and philosophical implications. (marxist.com)
  • But natural selection has given us a suite of beneficial social features, including our capacity for love, friendship, cooperation, and learning. (abebooks.com)
  • Using a plethora of accessible examples that range from the social behavior of dolphins and chimpanzees to the tenets that link human behavior in a myriad of settings, from reality shows to arranged marriages, along with a generous look into the author's own past, Christakis reminds us that leadership, friendship, and group tendencies are all rooted in the most fundamental mechanism of our biological sorting: natural selection. (abebooks.com)
  • The book focuses on a new way of understanding the evolution of human nature by looking at how animals evolved through natural selection. (booknotes.org)
  • And a lot of the book is about how is it that animals that evolved through natural selection, this kind of ruthless process, as we apparently did -- how is it that they can be moral in the first place, that they can behave selflessly and be decent people? (booknotes.org)
  • If you have a friend and you do favors for the friend and so on, that's great and, in fact, natural selection designed us to have the impulses of gratitude and affinity that govern these kinds of relationships and they're good for the species and they're fine. (booknotes.org)
  • Sexual selection's role in human evolution cannot be definitively established, as features may result from an equilibrium among competing selective pressures, some involving sexual selection, others natural selection , and others pleiotropy . (wikipedia.org)
  • He also hypothesized that contrasts in sexual selection acting along with natural selection were significant factors in the geographical differentiation in human appearance of some isolated groups, as he did not believe that natural selection alone provided a satisfactory answer. (wikipedia.org)
  • When scientists are addressing the problems of human origins, human evolution and human nature, the boundaries between the scientists, the natural phenomena they investigate, and the theories they formulate, are sometimes so trodden down that it's difficult to see where one stops and the other starts. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • Individual plants and animals vary, and these accidental variations, when submitted to the ruthless rigours of natural selection in a world where there will never be enough food to go round, determine who shall survive and who shall perish. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • In succeeding editions of the Origin and in other books, he steadily reduced the emphasis given in his evolutionary theorising to the Natural Selection of accidental variations, and increased the emphasis on other factors. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • Host Mike Keas concludes his three-part discussion with Michael Flannery about Flannery's book Nature's Prophet: Alfred Russel Wallace and His Evolution from Natural Selection to Natural Theology. (tunein.com)
  • Before a trial and error process like natural selection can even get started, self-replicating molecules must have a minimal accuracy rate to copy genetic material effectively. (tunein.com)
  • Compared with the others, however, Dr. Webber's book is more focused on the effects of diseases on natural selection and evolution. (cdc.gov)
  • I'm looking for apologetics books that fit a theistic evolution point of view. (metafilter.com)
  • Giberson and Collins' newest book is largely an exercise in marketing the BioLogos brand of theistic evolution. (patheos.com)
  • This book helps teens to discern the chronic bias towards belief in evolution that permeates today's three most popular high school biology textbooks. (answersingenesis.org)
  • However, in Evolution Exposed: Biology these misrepresentations are cross-referenced with online articles and publications that provide both scientific and biblical answers. (answersingenesis.org)
  • Updated reference index for the Prentice-Hall Biology textbook by Miller & Levine The popular textbook Biology by Miller and Levine has been added to Evolution Exposed. (answersingenesis.org)
  • In a ruling issued in Atlanta, U.S. District Judge Clarence Cooper said Cobb County's school board had violated the constitutional ban on the separation of church and state when it put the disclaimers on biology books in 2002. (wizbangblog.com)
  • the second is based on real-world biology that evolution has already selected for in certain species. (lifeboat.com)
  • In a book of great wisdom and unusual breadth, Christakis pulls together philosophy, history, anthropology, sociology, genetics, and evolutionary biology to make an extraordinarily optimistic argument: evolution has pre-wired us for goodness. (abebooks.com)
  • Genome Biology and Evolution. (lu.se)
  • 1974. Biological handbooks: Biology data book. (cdc.gov)
  • He embraced Christianity until halfway through his teenage years, at which point he concluded that the theory of evolution alone was a better explanation for life's complexity, and ceased believing in a god. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Galapagos served as his living laboratory while he observed his Theory of Evolution in action for the first time. (gadling.com)
  • A groundbreaking synthesis of evolutionary theory arguing that induced and acquired changes also play a role in evolution. (mit.edu)
  • Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things. (wizbangblog.com)
  • SO, I'm looking for apologetics or philosophical literature written by Christians who accept evolution as the method by which God created life, who don't use the argument from design to 'prove' God exists, and who explore the implications that the theory of evolution has in thinking about death and suffering (an evolutionary theodicy ? (metafilter.com)
  • Peter Enn's The Evolution of Adam offers a more nuanced interpretation of Genesis in light of evolutionary theory) but rather studies that go about 'defending the faith' without attacking evolution or falling back on Intelligent Design. (metafilter.com)
  • both the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion endorsed evolution theory as the most accurate explanation of the origin of species in the 20th century. (metafilter.com)
  • The essay caused him to formulate his theory of evolution. (anecdote.com)
  • In accepting the theory of evolution, we are asked to accept as fact many other theories. (jesus-is-savior.com)
  • Evolution is not one theory, but a complex series of theories. (jesus-is-savior.com)
  • What evidence is there to prove or disprove the theory of evolution? (jesus-is-savior.com)
  • My incentive is that I feel the public has been grossly misinformed as to the validity of the theory of evolution. (jesus-is-savior.com)
  • Christmas Book Catalog for Lovers of Intelligent Design! (evolutionnews.org)
  • The ID The Future (IDTF) podcast carries on Discovery Institute's mission of exploring the issues central to evolution and intelligent design. (tunein.com)
  • In the first chapter, he covers the evolution of sexual reproduction and its effect on survival of species. (cdc.gov)
  • This post was about evolution, not about the origin of the universe. (wizbangblog.com)
  • Is evolution a workable explanation for the origin of life on the planet Earth? (jesus-is-savior.com)
  • More alarming still was the survey conducted in Britain among science teachers last year, indicating that a sizeable minority (29 per cent) thought that creationism should be taught as a valid alternative to evolution! (marxist.com)
  • MIT Press Direct is a distinctive collection of influential MIT Press books curated for scholars and libraries worldwide. (mit.edu)
  • In her influential book "Developmental Plasticity and Evolution," Mary Jane West-Eberhard introduced the concept of cross-sexual transfer, where traits expressed in one sex in an ancestral species become expressed in the other sex. (bvsalud.org)
  • Given that the book was just published (2011), it follows that the bulk of it was written not by biologist Francis Collins but by non-biologist Karl Giberson, who is a physicist. (patheos.com)
  • Jablonka is coauthor (with Simona Ginsburg) of The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul: Learning and the Origins of Consciousness (MIT Press). (mit.edu)
  • See, for example, John Walton's book The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate . (metafilter.com)
  • The fascinating question of the origins and evolution of language has been drawing a lot of attention recently, not only from linguists, but also from anthropologists, evolutionary biologists, and brain scientists. (google.es)
  • The book begins with a brief review of the origins of life on earth, including a discussion of the earliest life forms, the archaea and bacteria. (cdc.gov)
  • Antibiotic resistance : origins, evolution, selection and spread. (who.int)
  • The edge of evolution - the limit to what mutation coupled with selection can achieve - seems to be restricted to mutations that disrupt to varying degrees the normal function of already existing proteins. (grisda.org)
  • 7. Mutations are the only proposed mechanism by which new genetic material becomes available for evolution. (jesus-is-savior.com)
  • The creation and selection of mutations resistant to a gene drive over multiple generations in the malaria mosquito. (cdc.gov)
  • Eva Jablonka and Marion Lamb have been challenging orthodoxy and promoting heresy in genetics and evolution for twenty years. (mit.edu)
  • Genetics and Evolution of Infectious Diseases, 2nd ed. (book review) Tibayrenc M, ed. (cdc.gov)
  • This book explores how competitively mediated selection generates biodiversity. (ucpress.edu)
  • In this wisely optimistic book, Christakis explores the evolutionary imperative of forming bonds that are both cultural and genetic. (abebooks.com)
  • This groundbreaking book explores the cultural side of language evolution. (google.es)
  • It proposes a new overarching framework based on linguistic selection and self-organization and explores it in depth through sophisticated computer simulations and robotic experiments. (google.es)
  • In one section, headed "Note for Organic Law of Change"--an extended critique of geologist Charles Lyell's anti-evolutionary arguments--Wallace sketches a book he would never write, owing to the unexpected events of 1858. (harvard.edu)
  • and we owe a debt to him for making it available at last…Wallace was a polymath, to be sure, and probably among the last to be so, which makes him one of the most interesting figures in the history of English-language ideas…You need to read the man for yourself, and Costa's book provides you with one more important way to do this. (harvard.edu)
  • Check out Compass' selection of paperback, digital and audio books - from Biblically accurate historical fiction to hard-hitting, biblical topics. (compass.org)
  • A lot of the anti-evolution content was written in response to the 'new' atheists like Richard Dawkins who argue that evolution makes belief in God unnecessary. (metafilter.com)
  • Evolution is all about change over time, but what is the mechanism that causes these changes? (yahoo.com)
  • The disagreement is over the mechanism that drives evolution. (wizbangblog.com)
  • Wrangham details the hormonal and developmental mechanisms producing this pattern of traits through selection for one trait: juvenilisation. (timeshighereducation.com)
  • They trace four "dimensions" in evolution-four inheritance systems that play a role in evolution: genetic, epigenetic (or non-DNA cellular transmission of traits), behavioral, and symbolic (transmission through language and other forms of symbolic communication). (mit.edu)
  • When selection is strong and traits are heritable, it is expected that standing genetic variance for fitness should be rapidly depleted. (lu.se)
  • Instead, he describes evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker, in that reproduction, mutation, and selection are unguided by any sentient designer. (wikipedia.org)
  • they cannot accumulate in many small steps over any amount of time via mutation and selection. (grisda.org)
  • His 1976 book The Selfish Gene popularised the gene-centred view of evolution, as well as coining the term meme. (wikipedia.org)
  • The selection pressures that domesticated modern humans reduced reactive violence, while enhancing their ability to plan group violence. (timeshighereducation.com)
  • These books also explained away the existence of pain, suffering, and death by saying that God originally made a perfect world, but since humans have free will, we rejected God, brought in death, and royally screwed things up. (metafilter.com)
  • This has shaped human evolution for many years, but reasons why humans choose their mates are not fully understood. (wikipedia.org)
  • Sexual selection is quite different in non-human animals than humans as they feel more of the evolutionary pressures to reproduce and can easily reject a mate. (wikipedia.org)
  • Later, he discusses the role of diseases and the likely influence of endogenous viruses in the evolution of higher life forms, including humans. (cdc.gov)
  • Dr. Webber has succeeded in the ambitious task of describing the evolution of a broad range of organisms and their interrelationships during that process, with special emphasis on how diseases have influenced the evolution of humans. (cdc.gov)
  • Evolutionists claim that they have found abundant, observable evidence of evolution. (heritagebooks.org)
  • For what it is worth, if evolution is the process that accounts for the creation of life, or the ability for one species to evolve into another, it would not disprove the existence of God. (wizbangblog.com)
  • Dr. Webber then describes the development of the various means of reproduction and their effects on the evolution of species and increasing complexity of life forms. (cdc.gov)
  • What started as an online bookstore in 1995 has since transformed into a global marketplace that offers everything from books to electronics. (ask.com)
  • When Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1995, his vision was to create an online bookstore that would offer an extensive selection of titles to customers worldwide. (ask.com)
  • The MIT Press has been a leader in open access book publishing for over two decades, beginning in 1995 with the publication of William Mitchell's City of Bits, which appeared simultaneously in print and in a dynamic, open web edition. (mit.edu)
  • In The Edge of Evolution , Behe uses malaria as a case study to circumvent appeals to the magic of deep time. (grisda.org)
  • The book is clearly written for a knowledgeable lay audience, a difficult task when covering evolution, microbiology, a wide variety of diseases and modes of their transmission, and immunologic responses to those diseases. (cdc.gov)
  • IDTF is a short podcast providing you with the most current news and views on evolution and ID. (tunein.com)
  • As evolutionary biologists increasingly recognize the nonbinary and often continuous nature of sexual heteromorphism, the cross-sexual framework has important utility for generating novel insights and perspectives on the evolution of sexual phenotypes across diverse taxa. (bvsalud.org)
  • Insights where a selection of Swedish trade research was presented. (lu.se)
  • These are explained in terms of life history and gene flow, adaptation to selection by predators and the physical environment and ecophenotypic influences. (nhbs.com)
  • So sure are some that Behe must be wrong that they clearly have not bothered to actually read the book before writing "reviews," focusing more on Behe's intelligence and sanity than addressing his carefully constructed argument and the exhaustive empirical evidence he marshals in support of it. (grisda.org)
  • Dr. Jarvis lays out numerous pieces of evidence that jeopardize Dawkins's view that genes are selfish and act as the units of selection. (evolutionnews.org)
  • If you ever bred animals for a particular trait, or roses for that matter, then you have proved evolution. (wizbangblog.com)
  • Some hypotheses about the evolution of the human brain argue that it is a sexually selected trait, as it would not confer enough fitness in itself relative to its high maintenance costs (a fifth to a quarter of the energy and oxygen consumed by a human). (wikipedia.org)
  • Here, we aim to reintroduce cross-sexual transfer as a powerful framework for explaining sex variation and highlight its relevance in current studies on the evolution of sexual heteromorphism (different means or modes in trait values between the sexes). (bvsalud.org)
  • This lends support to the concept of selection of populations resistant to diseases after substantial proportions of the populations have been killed by these diseases. (cdc.gov)
  • The patients were diag- resistance is believed to result from clonal nosed with ulcer (9), oesophagitis (18), Bar- selection of resistant variants rather than rett's oesophagus (15) and gastritis (28). (who.int)
  • It is scientists who are working on what are described as the "flaws" in evolution. (wizbangblog.com)
  • Evolutionists argue that there are reasonable theories for even the biggest 'surprises' of evolution. (heritagebooks.org)
  • They consider how each may have originated and guided evolutionary history and they discuss the social and philosophical implications of the four-dimensional view of evolution. (mit.edu)
  • If you picked up this book, it is not unlikely that you may have heard of the early 20th century philosophical movement of Cosmism. (lifeboat.com)
  • Their systematic and comprehensive perspective on genetic, epigenetic, behavioral, and symbolic inheritance in evolution is backed up with detailed empirical data, illustrated in a wide survey of phenomena, and presented in clear and forthright prose. (mit.edu)
  • An entrancing tale of sexual ambiguity in animals and people, but also that rarest of literary beasts-a science book written from the heart. (ucpress.edu)
  • Established in 1962, the MIT Press is one of the largest and most distinguished university presses in the world and a leading publisher of books and journals at the intersection of science, technology, art, social science, and design. (mit.edu)
  • The French Roman Catholic priest and paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin wrote a bunch of books about the connection between theology and science. (metafilter.com)
  • A masterful achievement that is surely the best and most original science book of the year. (abebooks.com)
  • Robert Wright discussed his book, "The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology. (booknotes.org)
  • He has also written several near-future science fiction books, set in the current space program. (thespacereview.com)
  • To me, they were the first steps toward the science fiction worlds of Heinlein's books. (thespacereview.com)
  • Rudolph Chelminski, in his book I'LL DRINK TO THAT: Beaujolais Nouveau and the French Peasant Who Made it the World's Most Popular Wine , draws on decades of first hand perspective to detail how the people, land, and culture of Beaujolais -not to mention a peasant vintner named Georges Duboeuf- come together to form the most unique of wine stories. (intowine.com)
  • pre-empted, Wallace's first book on evolution waited two decades, but by then he had abandoned his original concept. (harvard.edu)
  • 16:58 David defends group selection against its strongest critics. (lifeboat.com)
  • We are offering as a free download the index from the updated version of Evolution Exposed, which offers a page-by-page reference to the evolutionary content of this newly-reviewed text. (answersingenesis.org)
  • That evolution occurred is accepted as fact because the evidence is so utterly overwhelming that it did occur. (wizbangblog.com)
  • I was intellectually satisfied with this way of thinking until I went to college and realized the mountain of evidence in favor of evolution and a really stinkin' old universe. (metafilter.com)
  • We performed a categorization in stages of evolution of the verbal behavior and a special topic for writing. (bvsalud.org)
  • In Evolution in Four Dimensions , Eva Jablonka and Marion Lamb argue that there is more to heredity than genes. (mit.edu)
  • Published eight times a year, British Wildlife bridges the gap between popular writing and scientific literature through a combination of long-form articles, regular columns and reports, book reviews and letters. (nhbs.com)
  • It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. (lu.se)
  • This authoritative collection brings together a careful selection of previously published articles that use economics to analyze the interaction of law, on the one hand, and social norms and nonlegal sanctions on the other. (e-elgar.com)
  • Looking for recommendations for books on Christian apologetics that take seriously the reality of evolution rather than denying it in favor of the argument from design. (metafilter.com)
  • This led to mutual mindreading and readiness to mesh mental states - the necessary platform for subsequent language evolution. (timeshighereducation.com)
  • The book is ideally suited as study material for an advanced course on language evolution and it will be of interest to anyone who wonders how human languages may have originated. (google.es)
  • We were having lunch a while back, talking about various articles I've done in the past on Beaujolais and French wines in general, and suddenly he said why not do a book on the Beaujolais? (intowine.com)
  • The Evolution of Organizations brings together a selection of significant articles by leading academics as to how organizations and their environments evolve over time. (e-elgar.com)
  • The articles within this book explore a range of family law issues and include discussions on a variety of topics including cohabitation, births outside marriage, courtship, premarital contracting, marriage and parenting. (e-elgar.com)
  • This volume contains a selection of the most important articles on the issue of the evolution of the common law. (e-elgar.com)
  • Regulation, Economics and the Law presents a selection of the most important published articles on key issues arising in the design of social regulation. (e-elgar.com)
  • Only a selection of our reviews and articles are free. (literaryreview.co.uk)
  • This enquiry is of interest to anarchists because in 1890 Kropotkin pitched into it with the first of a series of articles which were eventually published in book form as Mutual Aid , in 1902. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • We selected 20 works of the author among articles and books that refer to themes of evolution and verbal behavior. (bvsalud.org)
  • Respected CMI scientist Dr Jonathan Sarfati, author of the best-seller Refuting Evolution , has written a sequel that comprehensively refutes arguments to support evolution (as presented in TV documentaries and Scientific American) . (heritagebooks.org)
  • So either this book was not properly vetted (at least not by its biologist co-author) or Collins was in fact providing input right along, which this disclaimer denies. (patheos.com)
  • Please check out Dr. Peter Enns and his new book, The Evolution of Adam . (metafilter.com)
  • With its user-friendly interface and vast inventory, Amazon quickly gained traction among book lovers. (ask.com)