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This volume, published in honor of the occasion of David Pilbeam's 65th birthday, covers major topics in human, primate, and mammalian evolution, mostly from the Miocene to the present. The papers emphasize novel interpretations of several key areas of longstanding interest and importance, including Miocene biogeography and hominoid evolution, the origins of hominids, and new interpretations of the hominid fossil record. In terms of content, most of the papers tackle key issues in the evolution of hominoids and hominids in terms of systematic paleoenvironmental and behavioral questions. More broadly, however, the papers explore the epistemological problems of how one interprets the past from the available data.

Biological Evolution --- Human evolution --- Mammals --- Primates --- Evolution --- Evolution

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Genetic Processes --- Environment --- Host-Pathogen Interactions --- Cladocera --- Environment and Public Health --- Biological Phenomena --- Ecological and Environmental Phenomena --- Crustacea --- Genetic Phenomena --- Health Care --- Phenomena and Processes --- Arthropods --- Invertebrates --- Animals --- Eukaryota --- Organisms --- Daphnia --- Biological Evolution --- Host-Parasite Interactions --- Ecosystem --- Biological Evolution. --- parasitology.

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Quelle est l'origine de la vie ? Terrestre ou extraterrestre ? Et sur Terre, d'origine maritime ou volcanique ? Quelle est la chaîne des événements chimico-biologiques qui ont conduit à la vie ? Propose un modèle d'explication de l'origine de la vie, le modèle du multimère, qui n'est pas exclusif des autres modèles imaginés. Explique cette origine comme une succession de hasards et de nécessités. [Source : Electre]

Life --- Origin --- Evolution (Biology) --- Singularities (Mathematics) --- Biological Evolution --- Evolution, Biological --- Sociobiology --- Geometry, Algebraic --- Animal evolution --- Animals --- Biological evolution --- Darwinism --- Evolutionary biology --- Evolutionary science --- Origin of species --- Biology --- Evolution --- Biological fitness --- Homoplasy --- Natural selection --- Phylogeny --- Abiogenesis --- Biogenesis --- Germ theory --- Heterogenesis --- Life, Origin of --- Life (Biology) --- Origin of life --- Plasmogeny --- Plasmogony --- Exobiology --- Spontaneous generation

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The editors and contributors to this volume should be justifiably proud of their participation in the tenth triennial meeting of the Chemical Signals in Vertebrates International Symposium. This meeting was held 27 years after the initial gathering of participants in Saratoga Springs, New York from June 6* to 9*, 1976. Subsequent meetings have been held every three years in Syracuse, New York; Sarasota, Florida; Laramie, Wyoming; Oxford, England; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Tubingen, Germany; Ithaca, New York; and Krakow, Poland. This tenth aimiversary symposium was held from July 29* through August 1*' in Corvallis, Oregon and was hosted by the Zoology Department and Biology Programs of Oregon State University. This book also represents the tenth in a series of books on chemical communication, chemical ecology, olfactory and vomeronasal research in vertebrate species. The species covered in the chapters herein range from fish to mammals including humans. By taxonomic breakdown the mammals are the most represented in number of species and chapter contributions. However, the hosts of the meeting endeavored to have some representative contributions covering all of the major vertebrate taxa. As in past years, the meeting was well-represented with just over 100 participants from 13 different nations. Plenary talks focused on some of the non-mammalian groups that have tended to be less represented in these symposia. Thus, we had a very nice overview of comparisons and contrasts of invertebrate chemical commimication to vertebrate systems.

Chemical senses --- Vertebrates --- Physiology --- Ecology. --- Evolution (Biology). --- Vertebrates. --- Zoology. --- Evolutionary Biology. --- Biology --- Natural history --- Animals --- Vertebrata --- Chordata --- Animal evolution --- Biological evolution --- Darwinism --- Evolutionary biology --- Evolutionary science --- Origin of species --- Evolution --- Biological fitness --- Homoplasy --- Natural selection --- Phylogeny --- Balance of nature --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Ecology --- Ecology . --- Evolutionary biology.

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It has been claimed that following the decline of Marxism and Freudianism, Darwinism has become the dominant intellectual paradigm of our day. In the mass media there are many bitter disputes between today's new Darwinians and their opponents, often over religion. But the 'neo-Darwinian paradigm' is not as simple or as seamless as either its advocates or its opponents would sometimes have us believe. Biology is in a state of development which defies the standard stereotypes. The papers in this volume, written by some of the leading philosophers in the field, bring out many of the fascinating and complex issues which arise in current attempts to account for life and its development.

Biology --- General ethics --- Animal evolution --- Animals--Evolution --- Animaux--Evolution --- Biological evolution --- Biologische evolutie --- Darwinism --- Darwinisme --- Dieren--Evolutie --- Evolutie (Biologie) --- Evolution (Biologie) --- Evolution (Biology) --- Evolution biologique --- Origin of species --- Philosophy --- Animals --- Evolutionary biology --- Evolutionary science --- Evolution --- Biological fitness --- Homoplasy --- Natural selection --- Phylogeny --- Vitalism --- Arts and Humanities --- Biology - Philosophy --- Philosophy.