検索キーワード： 進化・遺伝学

With senses that often seem alien to us, bees navigate complex decisions about where to find food, when to fight or flee, and how to work together. The Language of Bees invites listeners into the hidden world of bee communication, a realm where creatures less than an inch long use scent, vibration, movement, and sound to cooperate, share information, and survive.

Every day your body must solve hundreds of hard engineering problems simultaneously, or else you’ll die. Your body enables you to see and hear. It heals you from injuries and diseases. It maintains your temperature. It makes it possible for you to wield a sledgehammer during the day and play...

Перед вами одна из ключевых работ выдающегося философа, теоретика и практика анархизма Петра Алексеевича Кропоткина, которая остается актуальной более ста лет после первой публикации. В ней автор рассматривает общественные отношения через призму эволюционной теории, доказывая, что способность сотрудничать и поддерживать друг друга является важнейшим преимуществом, обеспечивающим процветание колоний муравьев, волчьих стай, групп высших приматов, а также человеческих сообществ во все исторические эпохи.

A vivid and groundbreaking tour of the senses, full of cutting-edge science and thrilling anecdotes, that reveals how they shape our lives and the way we experience the world around us—by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Natural History of the Senses A Feast in Every Sense is...

Eve meets Who We Are and How We Got Here in this exciting new examination of human evolution that puts motherhood at the center of the story. Seven million years ago, a pregnant, apelike ancestor to the whole of our species found a secluded space on the forest floor and began her labor. An hour...

Поражаясь красоте и многообразию окружающего мира, люди на протяжении веков гадали: как он появился? Каким образом сформировались планеты, на одной из которых зародилась жизнь? Почему земная жизнь основана на углероде и использует четыре типа звеньев в ДНК? Где во Вселенной стоит искать другие формы жизни, и чем они могут отличаться от нас? В этой аудиокниге собраны самые свежие ответы науки на эти вопросы. И хотя на переднем крае науки не всегда есть простые пути, автор честно постарался сделать все возможное, чтобы книга была понятна читателям, далеким от биологии.

L'évolution du cerveau humain et la quête incessante d'énergie ont toujours été intimement liées, influençant non seulement nos comportements, mais aussi la manière dont nous élevons nos enfants et transformons notre cadre de vie. Depuis les premières migrations hors d'Afrique jusqu'aux révolutions agricoles et industrielles, biologie et culture n'ont cessé d'interagir. En façonnant leur environnement, les humains fabriquent en réalité leur propre évolution.

Relato en primera persona del hallazgo que reescribió nuestra historia evolutiva, el descubrimiento de Homo antecessor Hace tan solo tres décadas pocos podían imaginar que una especie humana hallada y nombrada en la península ibérica por científicos españoles tuviera el honor de formar...

Una nueva manera de conocer la evolución humana: cómo nuestroorganismo se ha ido modificando para adaptarse y sobrevivir Hace seis millones de años, el entorno en el que vivían nuestros antepasados empezó a cambiar. La selva dio paso al bosque abierto y este a las praderas. La ocupación de...

Un ensayo clarificador sobre las diferentes consecuencias que la evolución ha tenido en mujeres y hombres. Este libro fascinante se adentra en el concepto del sexo desde un punto de vista evolutivo y netamente femenino. El gran invento que fue la reproducción sexual supuso el tributo, en el...

El ADN es la base de la individualidad y de la singularidad humana. Siguiendosus instrucciones se construye un cerebro particular, el tuyo, sobre el que se apoya lo que eres. Los humanos hemos perseguido desde tiempos inmemoriales el sabio consejo «Conócete a ti mismo», inscrito en el templo...

Scientist Rosemary Grant's journey in life has involved detours and sidesteps—not the shortest or the straightest of paths, but one that has led her to the top of evolutionary biology.

The award-winning author of First Steps returns with a revelatory tour of the latest scientific discoveries in archaeology and paleontology to challenge the idea of human exceptionalism, presenting a more complex—and fascinating—portrait of Us: who came before us, and what of us comes from...

Brought to you by Penguin. The half a million species of plant alive today are a mere 3% of the vast number of plant species ever to have existed. All share a single common origin: the first plant-like algae to wash up on land 484 million years ago. Through the stories of sixteen plant families...

This volume traces the origins and evolution of the idea of human extinction, from the ancient Presocratics through contemporary work on "existential risks." Many leading intellectuals agree that the risk of human extinction this century may be higher than at any point in our 300,000-year...

James Dewey Watson (April 6, 1928-November 6, 2025) was an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. Francis Harry Compton Crick (June 8, 1916-July 28, 2004) was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist. In 1953, Watson and Crick co-authored an academic paper in Nature proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule, building on research by Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling. The following TV interview is from 1993.

In a world where scientific progress accelerates faster than public understanding, few subjects provoke as much fear, fascination, and confusion as genetically modified organisms. Are GMOs a threat to nature, health, and human freedom—or a vital tool for feeding a growing population, protecting fragile ecosystems, and reducing the burden of pesticides? In this clear and uncompromising work, Boris Kriger cuts through the noise, myths, and political rhetoric to illuminate what genes truly are, how modification works, and why ordinary people struggle to separate evidence from anxiety.

Our understanding of bacterial genetics has progressed as the genomics field has advanced. Genetics and genomics complement and influence each other; they are inseparable. Under the novel insights from genetics and genomics, once-believed borders in biology start to fade: biological knowledge of...

In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, originally published in 1990, Patricia Hill Collins set out to explore the words and ideas of Black feminist...

The Dawn of War, a new William Collins book, full description to follow when available...