Preventa de eBooks de Biología

Un alegato brillante contra el antropocentrismo que revela un planeta lleno de inteligencias y culturas más allá de la humana.Darwin consideraba que los seres humanos formamos parte de la red de la vida, no la cuspide de una jerarquia natural. Sin embargo, hoy muchos siguen convencidos de que somos la especie mas inteligente, virtuosa y exitosa que ha existido. Este pensamiento erroneo nos permite explotar la Tierra en beneficio propio, llevandonos a un peligroso desequilibrio planetario. Pero ¿es inevitable esta vision y forma de vida? El mono arrogante demuestra que el excepcionalismo humano es una ideologia que depende mas de la cultura que de la biologia, mas de la ilusion y la fe que de la evidencia.Christine Webb, primatologa de Harvard, lleva años investigando las ricas vidas sociales, emocionales y cognitivas de nuestros parientes mas cercanos. Pone al descubierto los sesgos con que muchas investigaciones cientificas juzgan a otras especies y revela la complejidad a menudo ignorada del mundo no humano: desde el lenguaje de los pajaros cantores y los perritos de las praderas hasta las culturas de los chimpances y los peces de arrecife, o la sorprendente inteligencia de las plantas y los hongos. Con relatos fascinantes y nuevas investigaciones, nos ofrece una perspectiva transformadora para comprender a otros seres vivos en sus propios terminos, una vision que esta revolucionando nuestra manera de entender tanto a los demas como a nosotros mismos.Las criticas al excepcionalismo humano suelen centrarse en nuestra obligacion moral hacia las demas especies, pero olvidan lo que tambien podriamos ganar si desmontamos nuestras ilusiones de singularidad y superioridad. Este cambio de perspectiva nos llena de asombro y satisface uno de nuestros deseos mas profundos: el de pertenecer al gran conjunto del que formamos parte. Lo que esta en juego es una forma de vida mejor y sostenible, con el potencial de sanar y regenerar nuestro planeta comun.

Hormones animate every aspect and every moment of our lives, controlling our milestone moments as well as our day-to-day emotions and behaviour. Dr Saira Hameed is one of the UKs leading endocrinologists and in Signals she invites us into her clinic to see the lives interrupted by misfiring hormones and how fixing the problem recalibrates a life.We sit beside Dr Hameed as she hears stories from spirit-sapping exhaustion to agonising infertility, absent libido to frenzied disorientation. We see an emaciated girl who is close to death and another battling obesity. We meet a young boy who cant stay awake and a teenage girl a whose racing heart will not be able to keep going much longer.Signals takes us on a journey inside our bodies to reveal the spectacular endocrine life force at work. Combining compassionately told patient histories, with stories of pioneering medical breakthroughs and addressing common misconceptions and hormone hacks, this is a vital book for anyone who wants to understand their health and their happiness and to appreciate the wonder that to be human is to be hormonal too.

Many people as they get older have to face leaving a village or town they have loved, a place redolent with memories and connections, to relocate somewhere more as they say manageable. It is different for everyone, and not always easy, for our ghosts go with us.But everything connects with everything else. There is no such thing as a new beginning. Such a move need not be a matter for repining and regret, but a new adventure.This book records just that journey, of having to learn that new place to which Time is bringing you and populate it with its own stock of private memories.Charles Moseley writes about his move from a fenland village to the nearby historic little city of Ely and breathes life into the history, natural world and people who have made his new home what it is today.

Gods Providential Work in Creation Before Life Began God has been present and active in creation from the moment he created it ex nihilo. Few Christians would question this claim, but its implications for ongoing theology and science dialogues have not been fully explored.In this pathbreaking and field-advancing work, Ross Hastings brings his expertise in both scientific and theological disciplines to bear on the topic of divine providence in chemical evolution. Based on the latest research in the developing field of chemical evolution and the work of theological giants such as Karl Barth, Hastings shows how God may have been providentially and non-competitively at work in the process by which simple prebiotic molecules gave rise to the complex molecules in the first living organisms.In God and Molecules, Hastings provides cutting-edge theological engagement with the developing scientific field of chemical evolution, advances the discussion in theology and science with this new integrative work, and offers a holistic alternative for thinking about chemical evolution that overcomes the binary of theology versus science. God and Molecules pushes toward new frontiers in theology and science and casts a compelling, integrative, and ultimately healing vision for how God has been lovingly involved in the developmental process of the earliest life on earth.

As belíssimas colagens de Geraldo Valério retratam em todo o seu colorido conhecidas flores brasileiras da nossa flora, abrindo nossos olhos para a observação da natureza e para a apreciação do traba

Where the land meets the sea, life clings to the margins in a world of relentless change. The intertidal zone is a place of extremes - where creatures endure crashing waves, scorching sun, and the constant ebb and flow of the tides. It is a place of resilience and adaptation and home to some of the most extraordinary organisms on the planet.Blending marine biology, oceanography and evolutionary science, marine biologist Ruth Searle takes us on a journey through the deep history of the intertidal zone - from its ancient origins as the possible cradle of life to the remarkable adaptations of the species that inhabit it today. Exploring the geological forces that shape coastlines, the mechanics of tides and waves, and the evolutionary arms race that has unfolded on the shore, this book reveals how the intertidal zone has not only survived mass extinctions but has driven some of natures most extraordinary innovations.The Intertidal Zone: Life on the Edge is a celebration of one of Earths most dynamic ecosystems - its beauty, its mysteries, and its fragility. As climate change and human activity reshape coastlines across the planet, understanding this environment has never been more urgent.