Why do we get cancer mostly when we are old? According to current paradigms, the answer
is simple: mutations accumulate in our tissues throughout life, and some of these mutations …

An adaptive landscape concept outlined by GG Simpson constitutes the major conceptual
bridge between the fields of micro-and macroevolutionary study. Despite some important …

Why a thoroughly updated and revised second edition of this book about theories of disease
distribution, in past and present societal and ecological context? Because the lived realities …

The creation of institutions to meet the challenge of sustainability is an important task
confronting society. Panarchy, a term devised to describe evolving hierarchical systems …

The world's most revered and eloquent interpreter of evolutionary ideas offers here a work of
explanatory force unprecedented in our time—a landmark publication, both for its historical …

Beim Studium der jüngeren Kontroversen über den Darwinismus fiel mir wiederholt auf, das
sie falsche Darstellungen enthielten, so als würde es sich um irgendetwas Umfassenderes …

This book updates the Dual Coding Theory of mind (DCT), a theory of modern human
cognition consisting of separate but interconnected nonverbal and verbal systems. Allan …

Causal thinking in public health, and especially in the growing literature on social
determinants of health, routinely employs the terminology of proximal (or downstream) and …

This widely anticipated revision of the groundbreaking book, Ecological Understanding,
updates this crucial sourcebook of contemporary philosophical insights for practicing …

The central paradox of schizophrenia is that the condition, apparently genetic in origin,
persists in spite of a substantial fecundity disadvantage. The hypothesis is proposed that the …