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Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Theo Faron is a bureaucrat in a Britain gone despotic. It is 2027 and the entire planet has gone infertile. Women no longer have babies, and chaos has erupted: war, rebellion, mass destruction, and a huge refugee problem, with the imposition of martial law. One day, Theo is kidnapped. His ex-wife Julian has a proposition for her former spouse, and because of their relationship, she thinks Theo will acquiesce. Theo is about to be tossed into a web...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
How do plant and animal populations change genetically to evolve and adapt to their local environments? How do populations grow and interact with one another through competition and predation? How does behaviour influence ecology and evolution? This second edition of Dick Neal's unique textbook on population biology addresses these questions and offers a comprehensive analysis of evolutionary theory in the areas of ecology, population genetics, and...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"With Adaptation in Metapopulations, Michael J. Wade explores a key component of this new understanding of evolution: interaction. Synthesizing decades of work in the lab and in the field in a book both empirically grounded and underpinned by a strong conceptual framework, Wade looks at the role of interaction across scales from gene selection to selection at the level of individuals, kin, and groups. In so doing, he integrates molecular and organismal...
Author
Series
Monographs in population biology volume 40
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Series
Humanistic implications of science volume forum 6
Pub. Date
1979
Language
English
Description
Scientist Grover Stephens discusses the world population problem and presents scenarios of a crowded future.
Author
Series
Monographs in population biology volume 46
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
20) Rarity
Author
Series
Population and community biology volume 13
Publisher
Chapman & Hall
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English