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Ingenious Genes: How Gene Regulation Networks Evolve to Control Development
"A Bradford book."In this text, Roger Sansom investigates how gene regulation works and how such a refined but simple system evolved. Sansom describes in detail two frameworks for understanding gene regulation.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298209
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- 1 online resource (x, 128 pages) :illustrations.
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Sexualized Brains: Scientific Modeling of Emotional Intelligence from a Cultu…
The cultural and political implications of research on emotions and recent studies of the "essential difference" in male and female brains and behaviors.The now-popular idea that emotions have an intelligent core (and the reverse, that intelligence has an emotional core) comes from the neurosciences and psychology. Similarly, the fundamental sexualization of the brain--the new interest in "esse…
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- 9780262276719
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 429 pages) :illustrations (some color)
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Managers of Global Change: The Influence of International Environmental Burea…
This title is an examination of the role and relevance of international bureaucracies in global environmental governance. After a discussion of theoretical context, reaserch design, and empiral methodology, the book presents nine in-depth case studies of bureaucracies.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262258593
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 367 pages)
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The Nature of the Word: Studies in Honor of Paul Kiparsky
Paul Kiparksy's work in linguistics has been wide-ranging and fundamental. His contributions have influenced virtually every field of contemporary linguistics, from generative phonology to poetic theory. This is a collection of essays by his colleagues and students.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262274890
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 750 pages) :illustrations.
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Introducing Arguments
This compositional theory of verbal argument structures explores how 'noncore' arguments (i.e. arguments that are not introduced by verbal roots themselves) are introduced into argument structure, and examines cross-linguistic variation in introducing arguments.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262281980
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 156 pages).
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ReCombinatorics :the algorithmics of ancestral recombination graphs and expli…
Combinatorial structure and algorithms for deducing genetic recombination history, represented by ancestral recombination graphs and other networks, and their role in the emerging field of phylogenetic networks.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262324472
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 580 pages)
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Genetic twists of fate
How tiny variations in our personal DNA can determine how we look, how we behave, how we get sick, and how we get well.News stories report almost daily on the remarkable progress scientists are making in unraveling the genetic basis of disease and behavior. Meanwhile, new technologies are rapidly reducing the cost of reading someone's personal DNA (all six billion letters of it). Within the nex…
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- 9780262289382
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- 1 online resource (ix, 222 pages) :illustrations, map
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Cardinals: The syntax and semantics of cardinal-containing expressions
"This book provides a semantic and syntactic analysis of nominal expressions containing complex cardinals (e.g., two hundred and thirty-five books), and shows that this analysis accounts for the internal composition of cardinal-containing expressions cross-linguistically, as well as a range of related phenomena. While there is much prior linguistic literature on numerals, this literature has no…
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- 9780262349000
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The final-over-final condition: A syntactic universal
An examination of the evidence for and the theoretical implications of a universal word order constraint, with data from a wide range of languages. This book presents evidence for a universal word order constraint, the Final-over-Final Condition (FOFC), and discusses the theoretical implications of this phenomenon. FOFC is a syntactic condition that disallows structures where a head-initial phr…
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- 9780262342018
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- 1 online resource (464 pages).
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Transformations of Lamarckism: From Subtle Fluids to Molecular Biology
This title shows the advantages of a Lamarckian perspective on evolution. Indeed the development-oriented approach it presents is becoming central to current evolutionary studies.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295642
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 457 pages) :illustrations.
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