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Modular Evolution: How Natural Selection

📁 Modular Evolution: How Natural Selection Produces Biological Complexity

✍ Lucio Vinicius 📂 Library 📅 2010 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

Natural selection is more than the survival of the fittest: it is a force engendering higher biological complexity. Presenting a new explanation for the tendency of life to become more complex through evolution, this book offers an introduction to the key debates in evolutionary theory, including th

How the World Works: Natural Selection a

📁 How the World Works: Natural Selection and the Evolution of Life, Society, the Economic Crisis, Hip-Hop, and F.A. Hayek's Coming Intellectual Revolution

✍ Jorge Besada 📂 Library 📅 2014 🏛 Jorge Besada 🌐 English

[From Introduction] In June 2010, Nobel Prize winner in Economics Friedrich August von Hayek’s book “The Road to Serfdom” became the bestselling book in Amazon.com thus making it the fastest selling book in the world at the time . In his famous book, first published over 75 years ago in March 1944,

Modularity: Understanding the Developmen

📁 Modularity: Understanding the Development and Evolution of Natural Complex Systems

✍ Werner Callebaut, Diego Rasskin-Gutman 📂 Library 📅 2005 🏛 The MIT Press 🌐 English

Modularity—the attempt to understand systems as integrations of partially independent and interacting units—is today a dominant theme in the life sciences, cognitive science, and computer science. The concept goes back at least implicitly to the Scientific (or Copernican) Revolution, and can be foun

Modularity: Understanding the Developmen

📁 Modularity: Understanding the Development and Evolution of Natural Complex Systems

✍ Werner Callebaut, Diego Rasskin-Gutman 📂 Library 📅 2005 🏛 The MIT Press 🌐 English

This is a very interesting book. Or at least, it's a book about a cluster of very interesting topics, and occasionally contains interesting insights about these topics. The problem is that the book is a bit too modular - the chapters don't work very well together. Every author seems to have his own

Nature outlook: Nutrigenomics. How food

📁 Nature outlook: Nutrigenomics. How food shapes health and evolution

✍ Brody H., et al. (eds.) 📂 Library 📅 2010 🏛 Nature 🌐 English

How Science Works: Evolution: The Nature

📁 How Science Works: Evolution: The Nature of Science & The Science of Nature

✍ John Ellis (auth.) 📂 Library 📅 2016 🏛 Springer Netherlands 🌐 English

<p>Evolution is just a theory, isn’t it? What is a scientific theory anyway? Don’t scientists prove things? What is the difference between a fact, a hypothesis and a theory in science? How does scientific thinking differ from religious thinking? Why are most leading scientists atheists? Are science