Thrive In Ecology And Evolution

Author : Alan Beeby
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199644055
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thrive in Ecology and Evolution written by Alan Beeby and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thrive in Bioscience revision guides are written to help undergraduate students achieve exam success in all core areas of bioscience. They communicate all the key concepts in a succinct, easy-to-digest way, using features and tools - both in the book and in digital form - to make learning even more effective.

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ISBN 13 : 9780191005923
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Author : Peter Lucas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118240065
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trillions written by Peter Lucas and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are facing a future of unbounded complexity. Whether that complexity is harnessed to build a world that is safe, pleasant, humane and profitable, or whether it causes us to careen off a cliff into an abyss of mind-numbing junk is an open question. The challenges and opportunities--technical, business, and human--that this technological sea change will bring are without precedent. Entire industries will be born and others will be laid to ruin as our society navigates this journey. There are already many more computing devices in the world than there are people. In a few more years, their number will climb into the trillions. We put microprocessors into nearly every significant thing that we manufacture, and the cost of routine computing and storage is rapidly becoming negligible. We have literally permeated our world with computation. But more significant than mere numbers is the fact we are quickly figuring out how to make those processors communicate with each other, and with us. We are about to be faced, not with a trillion isolated devices, but with a trillion-node network: a network whose scale and complexity will dwarf that of today’s Internet. And, unlike the Internet, this will be a network not of computation that we use, but of computation that we live in. Written by the leaders of one of America’s leading pervasive computing design firms, this book gives a no-holds-barred insiders’ account of both the promise and the risks of the age of Trillions. It is also a cautionary tale of the head-in-the-sand attitude with which many of today’s thought-leaders are at present approaching these issues. Trillions is a field guide to the future--designed to help businesses and their customers prepare to prosper, in the information.

Author : Alison Thomas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199694621
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thrive in Genetics written by Alison Thomas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thrive in Bioscience revision guides are written to help undergraduate students achieve exam success in all core areas of bioscience. They communicate all the key concepts in a succinct, easy-to-digest way, using features and tools - both in the book and in digital form - to make learning even more effective.

Author : Thomas N. Sherratt
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191563455
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big Questions in Ecology and Evolution written by Thomas N. Sherratt and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-02-20 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do we age? Why cooperate? Why do so many species engage in sex? Why do the tropics have so many species? When did humans start to affect world climate? This book provides an introduction to a range of fundamental questions that have taxed evolutionary biologists and ecologists for decades. Some of the phenomena discussed are, on first reflection, simply puzzling to understand from an evolutionary perspective, whilst others have direct implications for the future of the planet. All of the questions posed have at least a partial solution, all have seen exciting breakthroughs in recent years, yet many of the explanations continue to be hotly debated. Big Questions in Ecology and Evolution is a curiosity-driven book, written in an accessible way so as to appeal to a broad audience. It is very deliberately not a formal text book, but something designed to transmit the excitement and breadth of the field by discussing a number of major questions in ecology and evolution and how they have been answered. This is a book aimed at informing and inspiring anybody with an interest in ecology and evolution. It reveals to the reader the immense scope of the field, its fundamental importance, and the exciting breakthroughs that have been made in recent years.

Author : Qiuyu Wang
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199697329
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thrive in Cell Biology written by Qiuyu Wang and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thrive in Bioscience revision guides are written to help undergraduate students achieve exam success in all core areas of bioscience. They communicate all the key concepts in a succinct, easy-to-digest way, using features and tools - both in the book and in digital form - to make learning even more effective.

Author : Peter J. Mayhew
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781383030044
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discovering Evolutionary Ecology written by Peter J. Mayhew and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides a concise and readable introduction to evolutionary ecology, a field of questions united by the intermix of evolutionary and ecological knowledge.

Author : Lynne Cox
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199645485
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thrive in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology written by Lynne Cox and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thrive in Bioscience revision guides are written to help undergraduate students achieve exam success in all core areas of bioscience. They communicate all the key concepts in a succinct, easy-to-digest way, using features and tools - both in the book and in digital form - to make learning even more effective.

Author : David E. Sadava
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780716776741
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life, Vol. II: Evolution, Diversity and Ecology written by David E. Sadava and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text aims to establish biology as a discipline not just a collection of facts. Life develops students' understanding of biological processes with scholarship, a smooth narrative, experimental contexts, art and effective pedagogy.

Author : Chris D. Thomas
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610397282
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inheritors of the Earth written by Chris D. Thomas and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human activity has irreversibly changed the natural environment. But the news isn't all bad. It's accepted wisdom today that human beings have permanently damaged the natural world, causing extinction, deforestation, pollution, and of course climate change. But in Inheritors of the Earth, biologist Chris Thomas shows that this obscures a more hopeful truth -- we're also helping nature grow and change. Human cities and mass agriculture have created new places for enterprising animals and plants to live, and our activities have stimulated evolutionary change in virtually every population of living species. Most remarkably, Thomas shows, humans may well have raised the rate at which new species are formed to the highest level in the history of our planet. Drawing on the success stories of diverse species, from the ochre-colored comma butterfly to the New Zealand pukeko, Thomas overturns the accepted story of declining biodiversity on Earth. In so doing, he questions why we resist new forms of life, and why we see ourselves as unnatural. Ultimately, he suggests that if life on Earth can recover from the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs, it can survive the onslaughts of the technological age. This eye-opening book is a profound reexamination of the relationship between humanity and the natural world.