Author: Georges baron CuvierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earth
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Essay on the Theory of the Earth
Author: Georges baron CuvierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earth
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
The Theories of Darwin
Author: Rudolf SchmidPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368634968
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
Author: Rudolf SchmidPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis
Author: Elaine MorganPublisher: Souvenir Press
ISBN: 0285639811
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Why do humans differ from other primates? What do those differences tell us about human evolution? Elaine Morgan gives a revolutionary hypothesis that explains our anatomic anomalies: why we walk on two legs, why we are covered in fat, why we can control our rate of breathing? The answers point to one conclusion: millions of years ago our ancestors were trapped in a semi-aquatic environment. In presenting her case Elaine Morgan forces scientists to question accepted theories of human evolution.
The Races of Man: An Outline of Anthropology and Ethnography
Author: Joseph DenikerPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465601716
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
THE innumerable groups of mankind, massed together or scattered, according to the varying nature of the earth’s surface, are far from presenting a homogeneous picture. Every country has its own variety of physical type, language, manners, and customs. Thus, in order to exhibit a systematic view of all the peoples of the earth, it is necessary to observe a certain order in the study of these varieties, and to define carefully what is meant by such and such a descriptive term, having reference either to the physical type or to the social life of men. This we shall do in the subsequent chapters as we proceed to develop this slight sketch of the chief general facts of the physical and psychical life of man, and of the most striking social phenomena of the groups of mankind. But there are some general terms which are of more importance than others, and their meaning should be clearly understood from the first. I refer to expressions like “people,” “nation,” “tribe,” “race,” “species,” in short, all the designations of the different groupings, real or theoretic, of human beings. Having defined them, we shall by so doing define the object of our studies. Since ethnography and anthropology began to exist as sciences, an attempt has been made to determine and establish the great groups amongst which humanity might be divided. A considerable diversity of opinion, however, exists among leading scientific men not only as to the number of these groups, of these “primordial divisions” of the human race, but, above all, as to the very nature of these groups. Their significance, most frequently, is very vaguely indicated. In zoology, when we proceed to classify, we have to do with beings which, in spite of slight individual differences, are easily grouped around a certain number of types, with well-defined characters, called “species.” An animal can always be found which will represent the “type” of its species. In all the great zoological collections there exist these “species-types,” to which individuals may be compared in order to decide if they belong to the supposed species. We have then in zoology a real substratum for the determination of species, those primordial units which are grouped afterwards in genera, families, orders, etc.
Outlines of Geology ... Together with an examination of the question, Whether the days of creation were indefinite periods. Designed for the use of schools and general readers
Author: John Lee COMSTOCKOutlines of Geology
Author: John Lee ComstockPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Manual of Geology
Author: John PhillipsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
A Comparative Estimate of the Mineral and Mosaical Geologies
Author: Granville PennPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible and geology
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
"Received well in religious circles, this work was severely censored as an unscientific attempt to treat the Book of Genesis as a manual of geology" - DNB.
Serengeti II
Author: A. R. E. SinclairPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226760315
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Serengeti II: Dynamics, Management, and Conservation of an Ecosystem brings together twenty years of research by leading scientists to provide the most most thorough understanding to date of the spectacular Serengeti-Mara ecosystem in East Africa, home to one of the largest and most diverse populations of animals in the world. Building on the groundwork laid by the classic Serengeti: Dynamics of an Ecosystem, published in 1979 by the University of Chicago Press, this new book integrates studies of the ecosystem at every level—from the plants at the bottom of the visible food chain, to the many species of herbivores and predators, to the system as a whole. Drawing on new data from many long-term studies and from more recent research initiatives, and applying new theory and computer technology, the contributors examine the large-scale processes that have produced the Serengeti's extraordinary biological diversity, as well as the interactions among species and between plants and animals and their environment. They also introduce computer modeling as a tool for exploring these interactions, employing this new technology to test and anticipate the effects of social, political, and economic changes on the entire ecosystem and on particular species, and so to shape future conservation and management strategies.