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The Media Systems in Europe
Stylianos Papathanassopoulos is a Professor of Media Organization and Policy at the Department of Communication and Media Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece. Between 2007 and 2011 he was the head of the faculty and member of the Board of the Hellenic Audiovisual Institute. Further, he is a Visiting Professor at City University, London, United Kingdom. Previou…
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Evolution, the Extended Synthesis
Outgrowth of a meeting of the "Altenberg 16" at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research in Altenberg, Austria, in July 2008. Cf. pref.In this volume, 16 leading evolutionary biologists and philosophers of science survey the conceptual changes that have emerged since Huxley's landmark publication, not only in such traditional domains of evolutionary biology as quantitati…
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- 9780262315142
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- 1 online resource (viii, 495 pages) :illustrations
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Artificial Chemistries
The field of Artificial life (ALife) is now firmly established in the scientific world, but it has yet to achieve one of its original goals: an understanding of the emergence of life on Earth. The new field of artificial chemistries draws from chemistry, biology, computer science, mathematics, and other disciplines to work toward that goal. For if, as it has been argued, life emerged from pirmi…
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- 9780262329460
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- 1 online resource (xv, 555 pages) :illustrations (some color)
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Innovation in Cultural Systems: Contributions from Evolutionary Anthropology
Here, leading scholars offer a range of perspectives on the roles played by innovation in the evolution of human culture. The contributors consider innovation in biological terms discussing epistemology, animal studies, systematics and phylogeny, phenotypic plasticity and evolvability, and much more.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262259101
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- 1 online resource (xi, 284 pages) :illustrations.
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The genesis of animal play : testing the limits
In The Genesis of Animal Play, Gordon Burghardt examines the origins and evolution of play in humans and animals. He asks what play might mean in our understanding of evolution, the brain, behavioral organization, and psychology. Is play essential to development? Is it the driving force behind human and animal behavior? What is the proper place for the study of play in the cognitive, behavioral…
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- 9780262269551
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 501 pages) : illustrations
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Genetic programming 1996 : Proceedings of the First Annual Conference, July 2…
Genetic programming is a domain-independent method for automatic programming that evolves computer programs that solve, or approximately solve, problems. Starting with a primordial ooze of thousands of randomly created computer programs composed of functions and terminals appropriate to a problem, a population of programs is progressively evolved over many generations using the Darwinian princi…
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- 9780262315876
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 568 pages) : illustrations.
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The techno-human condition
A provocative analysis of what it means to be human in an era of incomprehensible technological complexity and change.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295666
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- 1 online resource (xi, 222 pages) :illustrations
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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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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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Parasites, pathogens, and progress: Diseases and economic development
In this work, the authors combine biological and economic perspectives to suggest an innovative view of American history with implications for how we understand history as a whole.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298391
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- 1 online resource (viii, 343 pages) :illustrations
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