A guide to the ecosystem famously known as Los Angeles, from a field biologist and longtime San Gabriel Valley resident.A worthy and illuminating entry in the tradition of works exploring urbanizations effect on the environment. Los Angeles TimesWit...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 08-Dec-2020, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691222080)
What makes humans unique? What makes us the most successful animal species inhabiting the Earth today? Most scientists agree that the key to our success is the unusually large size of our brains. Our large brains gave us our exceptional thinking capa...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 08-Dec-2020, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691222080)
What makes humans unique? What makes us the most successful animal species inhabiting the Earth today? Most scientists agree that the key to our success is the unusually large size of our brains. Our large brains gave us our exceptional thinking capa...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 19-Mar-2018, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674919754)
Recent discoveries about wild chimpanzees have dramatically reshaped our understanding of these great apes and their kinship with humans. We now know that chimpanzees not only have genomes similar to our own but also plot political coups, wage wars o...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 05-Nov-2012, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674067882)
Can we live with the consequences of wiping our closest relatives off the face of the Earth, and all the biological knowledge about ourselves that would die along with them? Extinction of the great apes threatens to become a reality within a few huma...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 05-Nov-2012, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674071667)
Planet Without Apes demands that we consider whether we can live with the consequences of wiping our closest relatives off the face of the Earth. Leading primatologist Craig Stanford warns that extinction of the great apes-chimpanzees, bonobos, goril...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-May-2010, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674261945)
Apes and dolphins: primates and cetaceans. Could any creatures appear to be more different? Yet both are large-brained intelligent mammals with complex communication and social interaction. In the first book to study apes and dolphins side by side, M...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Jul-2009, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674033795)
Apes and dolphins: primates and cetaceans. Could any creatures appear to be more different? Yet both are large-brained intelligent mammals with complex communication and social interaction. In the first book to study apes and dolphins side by side, M...Daugiau...
Frans B. M. de Waal, Richard Byrne, Robin Dunbar, W. C. McGrew, Anne Pusey, Charles Snowdon, Craig Stanford, Karen B. Strier, Richard W. Wrangham
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Oct-2002, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674262959)
How did we become the linguistic, cultured, and hugely successful apes that we are? Our closest relatives--the other mentally complex and socially skilled primates--offer tantalizing clues. In Tree of Origin nine of the worlds top primate experts re...Daugiau...
When, why, and how early humans began to eat meat are three of the most fundamental unresolved questions in the study of human origins. Before 2.5 million years ago the presence and importance of meat in the hominid diet is unknown. After stone tools...Daugiau...
