"This book addresses basic and advanced questions surrounding the idea of levels or organization in the biological sciences"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A much-needed synthesis of active inference, a theory of mind that addresses cognition, behavior, intelligence, & mental disorders and which can be extended to explain behavior in all living systems"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Originally published in Cambridge, Eng. by University Press and New York by G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912."The first work to explore the major evolutionary transitions in organismal complexity, the many and important roles of individuality, and the relationship between individuals and species"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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A collection of physics and biology stories from Quanta magazine.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
An illustrated exploration of colors and patterns in the animal kingdom, what they communicate, and how they function in the social life of animals. Are animals able to appreciate what humans refer to as "beauty" The term scarcely ever appears nowadays in a scientific description of living things, but we humans may nonetheless find the colors, patterns, and songs of animals to be beautiful in a…
"An overview of how networks develop in the brain; from their emergence during early development to normal aging and in the presence of neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Can we can use the patterns and processes of convergent evolution to make inferences about universal laws of life, on Earth and elsewhere In this book, Russell Powell investigates whether we can use the patterns and processes of convergent evolution to make inferences about universal laws of life, on Earth and elsewhere. Weaving together disparate philosophical and empirical threads, Powell off…
"A new theory about the origins of consciousness that finds learning to be the driving force in the evolutionary transition to basic consciousness. What marked the evolutionary transition from organisms that lacked consciousness to those with consciousness--to minimal subjective experiencing, or, as Aristotle described it, "the sensitive soul" In this book, Simona Ginsburg and Eva Jablonka prop…