Download e-book for iPad: Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism by Lorraine Daston,Gregg Mitman

Is anthropomorphism a systematic sin? Scientists and animal researchers usually warn opposed to "animal stories," and distinction rigorous factors and commentary to facile or even fanciful projections approximately animals. but many people, scientists and researchers integrated, proceed to determine animals as people and people as animals.

New PDF release: Sleep, Neuronal Plasticity and Brain Function (Current

This e-book experiences present wisdom at the significance of sleep for mind functionality, from molecular mechanisms to behavioral output, with unique emphasis at the query of ways sleep and sleep loss finally impact cognition and temper. It presents an in depth review of the most recent insights within the function of sleep in regulating gene expression, synaptic plasticity and neurogenesis and the way that during flip is associated with studying and reminiscence approaches.

L. David Mech,Douglas W. Smith,Daniel R. MacNulty's Wolves on the Hunt: The Behavior of Wolves Hunting Wild Prey PDF

The interactions among apex predators and their prey are the most extraordinary and significant in nature—displays of power, persistence, and a deep coevolutionary historical past. and there's probably no apex predator extra extraordinary and significant in its hunting—or extra notorious, extra misjudged—than the wolf.

J. Stanley Cobb,Bruce F. Phillips's The Biology and Management of Lobsters: Physiology and PDF

This two-volume paintings provides a precis and assessment of the present kingdom of lobster biology, ecology, body structure, habit, and administration. It emphasizes the biology of clawed lobsters (Nephropidae) and spiny lobsters (Palinuridae), with recognition additionally given to slipper lobsters (Scyllaridae) and coral lobsters (Synaxidae).