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Darwinizing Gaia: natural selection and multispecies community evolution
A reinterpretation of James Lovelock's Gaia Hypothesis through the lens of Darwinian natural selection and multispecies community evolution. First conceived in the 1970s, James Lovelock's Gaia Hypothesis proposed that living organisms developed in tandem with their inorganic surroundings, forming a complex, self-regulating system. Today, most evolutionary biologists consider the theory probl…
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- 9780262380638
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- xxii, 247p.: ill.
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- Vienna series in theoretical biology
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- 570.1 DOO d
From sensing to sentience: how feeling emerges from the brain
A new theory of Neurobiological Emergentism that explains how sentience emerges from the brain. Sentience is the feeling aspect of consciousness. In From Sensing to Sentience, Todd Feinberg develops a new theory called Neurobiological Emergentism (NBE) thatintegrates biological, neurobiological, evolutionary, and philosophical perspectives to explain how sentience naturally emerges from the …
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- 9780262381475
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- 1 online resource
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- 612.82 FEI f
Population and the new biology: proceedings of the tenth annual symposium of …
edited by Bernard Benjamin, Peter R. Cox, John Peel.
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- 0120883406
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- x, 187 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Prevention and Treatment of Atherosclerosis : Improving State-of-the-Art Mana…
This open access book is supported by the European Atherosclerosis Society Association (EAS). This follow-up edition of the well-received Handbook volume 'Atherosclerosis: Diet and Drugs' reflects the state-of-the-art and most recent developments in atherosclerosis research. Outstanding international experts give a comprehensive overview of the field covering topics, such as improving the trea…
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- 9783030860769
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- iv, 538p. ill.
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- Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology
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- 616.136 ECK p
Impacts of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident on Fish and Fishing Grounds
As a result of the Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident in March 2011, a large volume of radionuclides was released into the environment, thus contaminating marine and freshwater systems. The Fisheries Research Agency has conducted research beginning soon after the accident. Our research addressed the contamination processes of radionuclides (mainly radiocesium) through water, sedime…
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- 9784431555377
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- XI, 238p
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- 571.954 SUG
Islam and evolution : al-Ghazali and the modern evolutionary paradigm
This book attempts to equip the reader with a holistic and accessible account of Islam and evolution. It guides the reader through the different variables that have played a part in the ongoing dialogue between Muslim creationists and evolutionists. This work views the discussion through the lens of al-Ghazālī (1058-1111), a widely-known and well-respected Islamic intellectual from the mediev…
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- 9780429345753
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- xvi + 347 p
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- Routledge science and religion
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- 297.12285 MAL i
The Impact of Food Bioactives on Health: in vitro and ex vivo models
“Infogest” (Improving Health Properties of Food by Sharing our Knowledge on the Digestive Process) is an EU COST action/network in the domain of Food and Agriculture that will last for 4 years from April 4, 2011. Infogest aims at building an open international network of institutes undertaking multidisciplinary basic research on food digestion gathering scientists from different origins (fo…
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- 9783319161044
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- XVII, 338
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- 664.001579 KIT t
Modeling excitable tissue : the EMI framework
This open access volume presents a novel computational framework for understanding how collections of excitable cells work. The key approach in the text is to model excitable tissue by representing the individual cells constituting the tissue. This is in stark contrast to the common approach where homogenization is used to develop models where the cells are not explicitly present. The approach …
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- 9783030611576
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- XVII, 100 p
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- 612.014 ASL m
Coronaviruses : Methods and Protocols
This volume aims to describe a variety of techniques that reflects the wide range of research currently performed in the field of coronavirology, and begins with an overview of current understandings of coronavirus replication and pathogenesis to introduce specialists and non-specialists to the field. The rest of the book is divided into several sections of chapters beginning with those that de…
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- 9781493924387
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- xi, 285p. : ill.
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- 579.256 COR c
Decision science for future Earth : theory and practice
This open access book provides a theoretical framework and case studies on decision science for regional sustainability by integrating the natural and social sciences. The cases discussed include solution-oriented transdisciplinary studies on the environment, disasters, health, governance and human cooperation. Based on these case studies and comprehensive reviews of relevant works, including l…
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- 9789811586323
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- xi, 251p. : ill.
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- 338.927 DEC d
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