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Understanding Human Evolution

Consciousness-Based Evolution

Cognition-Based Evolution Natural Cellular Engineering and the Intelligent Cell

Primate Evolution and Human Origins

Evolution of Fossil Ecosystems

The Evolution of Religion and Morality Volume I

The Evolution of Religion and Morality Volume I

This volume assesses the role of religion in cooperation and prosocial behaviour using ethnographic and experimental methods across eight different field sites. The first of two volumes presents results from the first phase of the Evolution of Religion and Morality (ERM) Project. Using a unique combination of both experimental and ethnographic methods the ERM project addresses pressing questions from the burgeoning cultural evolutionary sciences of religion: What is the relationship between religious beliefs and cooperation? When people are committed to punitive knowledgeable and morally concerned gods are they more inclined to behave prosocially towards others? How far does this prosociality extend? Do important individual and contextual factors mediate this relationship? In addition to an omnibus report this book offers seven site-specific reports that contextualize experimental and ethnographic data collected around the world. Collecting data from communities as diverse as the Hadza of Tanzania villagers from two communities on Tanna Island Vanuatu residents of Marajó Brazil Fijians from Yasawa and Lovu Tyvans from southern Siberia and Mauritians this ground-breaking work sets a new standard in the scientific study of religion. The Evolution of Religion and Morality: Volume I will be a key resource for scholars and researchers of religious studies human evolutionary biology psychology anthropology the cultural evolution of religion and the sociology of religion. This book was originally published as a special issue of Religion Brain & Behavior. | The Evolution of Religion and Morality Volume I

GBP 130.00
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Religion and its Evolution Signals Norms and Secret Histories

Religion and its Evolution Signals Norms and Secret Histories

This book examines why individuals and communities invest heavily in their religious life through multi-disciplinary perspectives. It pursues philosophical psychological deep time historical and adaptive answers to this question. Religion is a profoundly puzzling phenomenon from an evolutionary perspective. Commitment to religions are typically expensive and most of the beliefs that motivate them cannot be true (since religious belief systems are inconsistent with one another). Yet some form of religion seems to be universal and resilient in historically known cultures – though not if archaeology is to be trusted in human communities early in the evolution of our species. We have collectively invented religion over about the last 100 000 years. Stemming from an interdisciplinary workshop this book grapples with these challenges and features diverse contributions: some offer evolutionary and historical analyses identifying hidden adaptive benefits to religion independent of the veracity of religious belief. Others see connections between religious commitment and commitment to the social norms that make cooperative life possible and explore aspects of human psychology that make religious belief tempting. Broad in scope and theoretically ambitious Religion and Its Evolution: Signals Norms and Secret Histories will be a key resource for scholars and researchers of religious studies sciences of religion psychology anthropology the cultural evolution of religion and the sociology of religion. This book was originally published as a special issue of Religion Brain & Behavior. | Religion and its Evolution Signals Norms and Secret Histories

GBP 130.00
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The Evolution of Religion and Morality Volume II

The Evolution of Religion and Morality Volume II

This volume draws on a unique dataset to answer pressing questions about human religiosity. Building upon the first volume in this series it presents results from the second phase of the Evolution of Religion and Morality (ERM) project. The second volume investigates key questions in the evolutionary and cognitive sciences of religion and highlights cultural variability and context specificity of diverse religious systems. Chapters draw on a dataset comprising 2 228 participants from 15 ethnographically diverse societies that stretch from Africa and India through Oceania to South America and include hunter-gatherers pastoralists horticulturalists subsistence farmers and wage laborers. Four chapters using the full dataset answer the following questions: What are the general predictors of commitment to supernatural agents? Is there a gender gap in religiosity? Does belief in punitive gods facilitates cooperation? Are supernatural agents implicitly associated with moral concerns? Chapters from individual field sites further explore the distinction between moralizing and local gods the potentially disruptive role of belief in local gods on cooperation with anonymous co-religionists and the relationship between belief in moralizing gods cooperation and differential access to material resources. Above these empirical studies the book also includes an informed discussion with specialists on the challenges of running such a large cross-cultural project and gives concrete recommendations for future projects. The Evolution of Religion and Morality: Volume II will be a key resource for scholars and researchers of religious studies human evolutionary biology psychology anthropology the cultural evolution of religion and the sociology of religion. This book was originally published as a special issue of Religion Brain & Behavior. | The Evolution of Religion and Morality Volume II

GBP 130.00
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Hunters and Gatherers (Vol I) Vol I: History Evolution and Social Change

Swarm Intelligence and Deep Evolution Evolutionary Approach to Artificial Intelligence

Swarm Intelligence and Deep Evolution Evolutionary Approach to Artificial Intelligence

The book provides theoretical and practical knowledge about swarm intelligence and evolutionary computation. It describes the emerging trends in deep learning that involve the integration of swarm intelligence and evolutionary computation with deep learning i. e. deep neuroevolution and deep swarms. The study reviews the research on network structures and hyperparameters in deep learning and attracting attention as a new trend in AI. A part of the coverage of the book is based on the results of practical examples as well as various real-world applications. The future of AI based on the ideas of swarm intelligence and evolution is also covered. The book is an introductory work for researchers. Approaches to the realization of AI and the emergence of intelligence are explained with emphasis on evolution and learning. It is designed for beginners who do not have any knowledge of algorithms or biology and explains the basics of neural networks and deep learning in an easy-to-understand manner. As a practical exercise in neuroevolution the book shows how to learn to drive a racing car and a helicopter using MindRender. MindRender is an AI educational software that allows the readers to create and play with VR programs and provides a variety of examples so that the readers will be able to create and understand AI. | Swarm Intelligence and Deep Evolution Evolutionary Approach to Artificial Intelligence

GBP 160.00
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Digital Transformation in The Recording Industry Evolution of Power: From The Turntable To Blockchain

Evolution of the British Party System 1885-1940

Evolution and Speciation in Plants

Evolution and Speciation in Plants

Plants are autotrophs and sessile while animals are heterotrophs and motile. Sessility has imposed on plants 94% hermaphroditism 23% selfing 3% polyploidization and 39% clonality in comparison to < 5% herma-phroditism < 1% selfing and 2% clonality in motile animals. Whereas plants consist of 374 000 species but 1 664 variety/species animals comprise 1 543 196 species and 210 variety/species. Hence plants have undergone variety diversity while animals have species diversity. In animals and plants the species ratio is reduced from 4. 1 animals : 1. 0 plant to 1. 4 for pollinating animals : 1. 0 pollinated plants. In pollination animals are benefited dietarily but plants are cross pollinated generating new gene combinations – the raw material for evolution and speciation. For the reduced species diversity in plants reasons are traced to 90% hermaphroditism ~ 23% selfing and 39% clonality. Clonality decreases from 100% in 6-7 tissue typed sponges and 3 tissue typed algae drastically to 0. 7% in 60 tissue typed worms but gradually to ~ 23% in 60 tissued typed angiosperms. About 12-15 5-8 and 77-80% of all animal and plant species are distributed in marine freshwater and terrestrial habitats respectively. Animals have conserved the ‘right’ sequence of gametogenesis but plants have gone through a ‘wrong’ sequence prior to settling with right one albeit with double fertilization in angiosperms. Both animals and plants are 80% male heterogametics. Only 0. 5% of them can afford semelparity. While 20 and 57% angiosperms are perennial trees and herbs annual herbs make up 23% only. In all of them 85 > 19 and < 1% are pollinated by fast flying animals wind and water respectively. Increasing pollen load enhances fruit- and seed-set. In contrast to animals the life cycle of plants is direct but complicated. Unlike animals plants have greatly contributed to weathering of rocks and the atmospheric gas composition during the geological past. From dormant spores and seeds of plants life can be restored after thousands of years. | Evolution and Speciation in Plants

GBP 160.00
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Using the R Commander A Point-and-Click Interface for R

The Cryptocurrency Phenomenon The Origins Evolution and Economics of Digital Currencies

The Cryptocurrency Phenomenon The Origins Evolution and Economics of Digital Currencies

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the cryptocurrency phenomenon from a financial/monetary point of view. It offers a unique slant in at least two ways with the financial perspective as the reference point. An examination of the technicalities surrounding blockchain and the mining of cryptocurrencies is included but the reading is oriented to those who seek to better understand how these technical issues help to explain the functioning and the potential of cryptocurrencies without touching on coding aspects. Moreover the book addresses cryptocurrencies as an evolution of the concept of money and it frames the analysis to give readers all the knowledge needed to connect the cryptocurrency phenomenon with traditional monetary theories. In so doing cryptocurrencies are not considered as a completely disconnected trend set apart from traditional financial systems but as innovations that will push the concept of money forward without dismantling previous foundations. The book also includes a discussion on central banks and stresses how their initial diffidence toward cryptocurrencies has turned into a more active approach that includes projects to develop the so-called Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) thereby completing the analysis of the state of the art of the cryptocurrency surge. The mix of theoretical content on the concept of money the description of payment tools and the functioning of the payment industry and the analysis of blockchain and the cryptocurrency markets makes the book interesting reading for researchers scholars and students of economics finance or business enabling them to develop the ability to understand the dynamics of the cryptocurrency phenomenon and its possible evolution. | The Cryptocurrency Phenomenon The Origins Evolution and Economics of Digital Currencies

GBP 130.00
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The R Student Companion

The R Student Companion

R is the amazing free open-access software package for scientific graphs and calculations used by scientists worldwide. The R Student Companion is a student-oriented manual describing how to use R in high school and college science and mathematics courses. Written for beginners in scientific computation the book assumes the reader has just some high school algebra and has no computer programming background. The author presents applications drawn from all sciences and social sciences and includes the most often used features of R in an appendix. In addition each chapter provides a set of computational challenges: exercises in R calculations that are designed to be performed alone or in groups. Several of the chapters explore algebra concepts that are highly useful in scientific applications such as quadratic equations systems of linear equations trigonometric functions and exponential functions. Each chapter provides an instructional review of the algebra concept followed by a hands-on guide to performing calculations and graphing in R. R is intuitive even fun. Fantastic publication-quality graphs of data equations or both can be produced with little effort. By integrating mathematical computation and scientific illustration early in a student‘s development R use can enhance one's understanding of even the most difficult scientific concepts. While R has gained a strong reputation as a package for statistical analysis The R Student Companion approaches R more completely as a comprehensive tool for scientific computing and graphing.

GBP 175.00
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Visualizing Surveys in R

Families in Business The Next Generation of Family Evolution

Families in Business The Next Generation of Family Evolution

This book offers a ‘contemporary’ understanding of families in business and serves as a springboard for ongoing evolution of families their composition transformations and activities. The first chapter in this volume highlights the different approaches to family and concludes that identifying and understanding the entity ‘family in business’ is the cornerstone to understanding behaviours of family businesses. The concept of ‘family in business’ as a socially constructed entity allows for not only a broader scope of the concept to include individuals who share a faith (chapter 2) but also multi- generational families and chosen families. Narratives or stories are means for families in business to mark the boundary of the family in business (chapter 3) because not all members of the family are necessarily members of the family in business. Families and their businesses influence each other (chapter 4) and engender the family influence on the firm (‘familiness’) and firm influence of the family (‘enterpriseness’). The last two chapters are dedicated to transgenerational family businesses with a focus on learning between generations—chapter 5 highlights the importance of unlearning (to learn new knowledge and different ways of conducting business) and the final chapter focuses on what knowledge is actually transferred relative to initial plans. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Entrepreneurship & Regional Development. | Families in Business The Next Generation of Family Evolution

GBP 120.00
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The Evolution of American Urban Society

Evolution and Fossil Record of African Proboscidea

Intelligence Race And Genetics Conversations With Arthur R. Jensen

The Structure of Policy Evolution Painting an Integrated Picture of Change in Policy and Institutional Systems

Structural Change and Evolution of China’s Internet Society

Essays On Entrepreneurs Innovations Business Cycles and the Evolution of Capitalism

Essays On Entrepreneurs Innovations Business Cycles and the Evolution of Capitalism

Ordinarily the word essays is invoked at great risk by authors and publishers alike. But in the case of this special collection by Joseph A. Schumpeter the great Austrian economist who finally settled at Harvard the scholarly world knows this particular volume as his Essays. For a less pious younger generation a subtitle has been added describing what these essays are about. In addition to the major themes of Schumpeter's life: the place of the entrepreneur in economic development the risks and rewards of innovation business cycles and why they occur and the evolution of capitalism in Europe and America the Essays contain statements on how Schumpeter viewed his own development; they discuss how he looked at Marxism and how he feared that economics was in danger of becoming too ideological. Several of the Essays are classics. This is the case for The Creative Response in Economic History in which Schumpeter makes a plea for the close cooperation between economic theory and economic history. Another is Science and Ideology which constitutes Schumpeter's presidential address before the American Economic Association. Finally there is the intriguing preface to the Japanese translation of Theory of Economic Development in which Schumpeter names Walras and Marx as his two great predecessors. Even those who treasure the original publication were irritated by the remarkably poor quality of much of the book which reproduced everything from typewriter script to nearly unreadable reduced double columns. These lapses have been corrected in this new edition. Here Schumpeter's Essays can finally be read with the enjoyment no lesS than enlightenment they deserve. The volume is alive to the basic issues of our time. The reader can look forward to intellectual insight and stimuli of the highest order. | Essays On Entrepreneurs Innovations Business Cycles and the Evolution of Capitalism

GBP 145.00
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