La biología en el siglo XIX

Charles Darwin spent the majority of his 1832-1833 voyage around the world in southern South America, and his early experiences in the Cape Horn region may have triggered his first ideas on human evolution. Darwin was not only a field naturalist, but also a scholar of the observations of the European explorers who preceded him. This book illuminates the foundations of Cape Horn’s natural history records as they oriented Darwin’s own explorations and his ideas on natural selection. Richly illustrated with maps and color photographs, this book also offers a guide to the sites visited by...

Este libro trata de la geologia aplicada a la mineria. La geologia mineral ha sido una profesión por sus méritos propios durante una generación o más, y en todo este tiempo muchos hombres capacitados del mundo entero han ideado técnicas de invenstigación, y desarrollado sistemas de búsqueda de minerales.

The Smart Neanderthal casts a new light on the Neanderthals and the "Cognitive Revolution". Finlayson argues that there was no revolution and, instead, modern behavior arose gradually and independently among different populations of Modern Humans and Neanderthals, raising questions about who we really are.

El autor de este libro explica en qué consiste el asombroso conjunto de astros que vemos moverse en el cielo. Describe los cuerpos del sistema solar y sus movimientos dentro del espacio infinito poblado de estrellas y galaxias.