Multicellularity

• Paperback | Engels | Vienna Theoretical Biology
• Scholars consider the origins and consequences of the evolution of multicellularity, addressing a range of organisms, experimental protocols, theoreti... Lees meer

Rethinking Human Evolution

• Paperback | Engels | Vienna Theoretical Biology
• Contributors from a range of disciplines consider the disconnect between human evolutionary studies and the rest of evolutionary biology. The study of... Lees meer

Evolutionary Causation

• Hardcover | Engels | Vienna Theoretical Biology | nr. 23
• A comprehensive treatment of the concept of causation in evolutionary biology that makes clear its central role in both historical and contemporary de... Lees meer

Darwinizing Gaia

W Ford Doolittle

• Paperback | Engels | Vienna Theoretical Biology
• A reinterpretation of James Lovelock's Gaia Hypothesis through the lens of Darwinian natural selection and multispecies community evolution. First con... Lees meer

Transformations of Lamarckism

• Paperback | Engels | Vienna Theoretical Biology
• A reappraisal of Lamarckism--its historical impact and contemporary significance. In 1809--the year of Charles Darwin's birth--Jean-Baptiste Lamarck p... Lees meer

Levels of Organization in the Biological Sciences

Daniel S. Brooks, James DiFrisco

• Paperback | Engels | Vienna Theoretical Biology
• Scientific philosophers examine the nature and significance of levels of organization, a core structural principle in the biological sciences. This vo... Lees meer

Convergent Evolution on Earth

George R McGhee

• Hardcover | Engels | Vienna Theoretical Biology | nr. 24
• An analysis of patterns of convergent evolution on Earth that suggests where we might look for similar convergent forms on other planets. Why does a s... Lees meer

Landscapes of Collectivity in the Life Sciences

• Hardcover | Engels | Vienna Theoretical Biology | nr. 20
• Broad perspective on collectivity in the life sciences, from microorganisms to human consensus, and the theoretical and empirical opportunities and ch... Lees meer

Contingency and Convergence

Russell Powell

• Hardcover | Engels | Vienna Theoretical Biology | nr. 25
• 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 boo... Lees meer

Properties of Life

Bernd Rosslenbroich

• Paperback | Engels | Vienna Theoretical Biology
• A coherent and comprehensive theory of life that synthesizes the specific properties of living organisms. Despite continued advances, science has unti... Lees meer

Convergent Evolution in Stone-Tool Technology

• Hardcover | Engels | Vienna Theoretical Biology | nr. 22
• Scholars from a variety of disciplines consider cases of convergence in lithic technology, when functional or developmental constraints result in simi... Lees meer

How Molecular Forces and Rotating Planets Create Life

Jan Spitzer

• Hardcover | Engels | Vienna Theoretical Biology
• A reconceptualization of origins research that exploits a modern understanding of non-covalent molecular forces that stabilize living prokaryotic cell... Lees meer

From Groups to Individuals

• Hardcover | Engels | Vienna Theoretical Biology
• The biological and philosophical implications of the emergence of new collective individuals from associations of living beings. Our intuitive assumpt... Lees meer

Modularity

• Paperback | Engels | Vienna Theoretical Biology
• Experts from diverse fields, including artificial life, cognitive science, economics, developmental and evolutionary biology, and the arts, discuss mo... Lees meer

Evolution on Purpose

Peter A. Corning, Stuart A. Kauffman

• Paperback | Engels | Vienna Theoretical Biology
• A unique exploration of teleonomy--also known as "evolved purposiveness"--as a major influence in evolution by a broad range of specialists in biology... Lees meer

The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Insects

Ted R. Schultz, Richard Gawne

• Paperback | Engels | Vienna Theoretical Biology
• Contributors explore common elements in the evolutionary histories of both human and insect agriculture resulting from convergent evolution. During th... Lees meer

Rethinking Cancer

Bernhard Strauss, Marta Bertolaso

• Hardcover | Engels | Vienna Theoretical Biology
• Leading scientists argue for a new paradigm for cancer research, proposing a complex systems view of cancer supported by empirical evidence. Current c... Lees meer

The Evolution of Techniques

Mathieu Charbonneau

• Paperback | Engels | Vienna Theoretical Biology
• A novel, interdisciplinary exploration of the relative contributions of rigidity and flexibility in the adoption, maintenance, and evolution of techni... Lees meer

Rethinking Human Evolution

• Hardcover | Engels | Vienna Theoretical Biology | nr. 21
• Contributors from a range of disciplines consider the disconnect between human evolutionary studies and the rest of evolutionary biology. The study of... Lees meer

Vivarium

• Hardcover | Engels | Vienna Theoretical Biology | nr. 19
• The scientific achievements and forgotten legacy of a major Austrian research institute, from its founding in 1902 to its wartime destruction in 1945.... Lees meer

Multicellularity

• Hardcover | Engels | Vienna Theoretical Biology | nr. 18
• Scholars consider the origins and consequences of the evolution of multicellularity, addressing a range of organisms, experimental protocols, theoreti... Lees meer