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Biogeography and Biodiversity of Western Atlantic Mollusks
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April 02, 2013
Author(s):
Edward J. Petuch
Shallow water marine molluscan faunas are distributed in a pattern of distinct, geographically definable areas. This makes mollusks ideal for studying the distribution of organisms in the marine environment and the processes and patterns that control their evolution. Biogeography and Biodiversity …
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Game-Theoretical Models in Biology
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March 27, 2013
Author(s):
Mark Broom; Jan Rychtar
Covering the major topics of evolutionary game theory, Game-Theoretical Models in Biology presents both abstract and practical mathematical models of real biological situations. It discusses the static aspects of game theory in a mathematically rigorous way that is appealing to mathematicians. In …
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Architecture Follows Nature-Biomimetic Principles for Innovative Design
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March 21, 2013
Author(s):
Ilaria Mazzoleni
Applying Properties of Animals Skins to Inspire Architectural EnvelopesBiology influences design projects in many ways; the related discipline is known as biomimetics or biomimicry. Using the animal kingdom as a source of inspiration, Ilaria Mazzoleni seeks to instill a shift in thinking about the …
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Photographic and Descriptive Musculoskeletal Atlas of Chimpanzees: With Notes on the Attachments, Variations, Innervation, Function and Synonymy and Weight of the Muscles
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February 19, 2013
Author(s):
Rui Diogo; Josep M. Potau; Juan F. Pastor
Chimpanzees, including common chimpanzees and bonobos, are our closest living relatives. This book, which is the first photographic and descriptive musculoskeletal atlas of the genus Pan, adopts the same format as the photographic atlases of Gorilla and Hylobates previously published by the same …
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Landscape Evolution, Neotectonics and Quaternary Environmental Change in Southern Cameroon: Palaeoecology of Africa Vol. 31, An International Yearbook of Landscape Evolution and Palaeoenvironments
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May 30, 2012
Editor(s):
Jürgen Runge
Founded in 1966, the internationally recognized and acclaimed Series ‘Palaeoecology of Africa’ publishes interdisciplinary scientific papers on landscape evolution and on former environments of the African continent. Beginning with topics such as changes in climate and vegetation cover, the papers …
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Photographic and Descriptive Musculoskeletal Atlas of Gibbons and Siamangs (Hylobates): With Notes on the Attachments, Variations, Innervation, Synonymy and Weight of the Muscles
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April 13, 2012
Author(s):
Rui Diogo; Josep M. Potau; Juan F. Pastor; Felix J. dePaz; Eva M. Ferrero; Gaelle Bello; Mercedes Barbosa; M. Ashraf Aziz; Anne M. Burrows; Julia Arias-Martorell; Bernard A. Wood
This book is the first photographic and descriptive musculoskeletal atlas of Hylobates, and adopts the same format as the photographic atlas of Gorilla published by the same authors in 2010. These two books are part of a series of monographs that will set out the comparative and phylogenetic …
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Groupers of the World: A Field and Market Guide
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February 08, 2012
Author(s):
Matthew T. Craig; Yvonne J. Sadovy de Mitcheson; Phillip C. Heemstra
Detailed but easy-to-use, this volume is a guide to the more than 160 recognized species of these mostly large, colorful tropical reef fishes, also known as rockcod. With outstanding color photographs, the book presents up-to-date biological, ecological, and population information for each species. …
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Comparative Anatomy and Phylogeny of Primate Muscles and Human Evolution
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January 11, 2012
Author(s):
Rui Diogo; Bernard A. Wood
This book challenges the assumption that morphological data are inherently unsuitable for phylogeny reconstruction, argues that both molecular and morphological phylogenies should play a major role in systematics, and provides the most comprehensive review of the comparative anatomy, homologies and …
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Systematics and Evolution of Fungi
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January 10, 2012
Editor(s):
J. K. Misra; J. P. Tewari; S. K. Deshmukh
Examining the progress and shifts that have taken place towards understanding fungi, this volume examines most of the major groups, including Chytridiomycota, Zygomycota, Ascomycota, and Basidiomycota. Topics include advances in morphological and molecular taxonomy of the highly toxigenic Fusarium …
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The Biology of Squat Lobsters
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December 20, 2011
Editor(s):
Gary C.B. Poore; Shane T. Ahyong; Joanne Taylor
Squat lobsters of the superfamilies Chirostyloidea and Galatheoidea are highly visible crustaceans on seamounts, continental margins, shelf environments, hydrothermal vents and coral reefs. About 1000 species are known. They frequently feature in deep-sea images taken by submersibles and are caught …
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