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Body heat : temperature and life on earth
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ISBN: 0674023765 9780674023765 9780674007628 067400762X 0674013697 9780674013698 0674262123 9780674262126 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press,

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In this illuminating book, biopsychologist Mark Blumberg explores the many ways that temperature rules the lives of all animals. In the process Blumberg tells wonderful stories of evolutionary and scientific ingenuity.


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Freaks of nature : and what they tell us about evolution and development
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ISBN: 0191549916 9780191549915 9780198043430 0198043430 9780199213054 0199213054 9780199213061 0199213062 0191075469 Year: 2009 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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From two-legged goats and double-headed snakes, to 'Cyclops' infants with a single eye in the middle of their forehead, Mark S. Blumberg looks at 'freak' bodily anomalies in both humans and other animals to reveal how such deformities provide valuable windows on the intimate connections between genetics, evolution, development, and the environment. - ;Two-legged goats, conjoined twins, 'Cyclops' infants with a single eye in the middle of their forehead, double-headed snakes, and Laloo, a man with a partially formed twin attached to his chest... In Freaks of Nature, Mark S. Blumberg turns a sci

Basic instinct : the genesis of behavior
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ISBN: 1560256591 Year: 2005 Publisher: New York : Thunder's Mouth Press,

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A panicked mother runs through highway traffic to save her wandering child. A green turtle swims hundreds of miles to return to the beach on which it was hatched. Your child utters her first word. Have you ever wondered what causes you to react in a certain way to a certain situation, and if you would react differently under different circumstances? From Charles Darwin to Malcolm Gladwell, writers and scientists have been fascinated by what prompts us to snap decisions. In Basic Instinct, neuroscientist Mark Blumberg provides readers with a logical perspective that does not rely on the cliche;d explanations that have become so prevalent among scientists and laypeople alike. Blumberg delves into the debate between the nativists and evolutionary psychologists, who believe we are born with an instinctive knowledge about the world, and the epigeneticists, who believe that instincts are built anew in each of us& generation after generation. The result is an entertaining and balanced examination of the role of genes, experience, and evolution in the construction of behavior.


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The Oxford handbook of developmental behavioral neuroscience
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ISBN: 9780199372430 9780195314731 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York Oxford University Press

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This is a seminal reference work in the field of developmental behavioural neuroscience, which has emerged in recent years as an important sister discipline to developmental psychobiology. The handbook provides an introduction to recent advances in research at the intersection of developmental science and behavioural neuroscience.

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