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UNINA9910798222903321 |
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Autore |
Paradise Christopher J. |
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Titolo |
Evolutionary history / / Christopher J. Paradise, A. Malcolm Campbell |
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New York, [New York] (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : , : Momentum Press, , 2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (65 pages) : illustrations |
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Evolution (Biology) |
Plants - Evolution |
Human evolution |
Libros electronicos. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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1. Descent with modification and adaptive radiations can be observed -- Adaptive radiation of orchids from a common ancestor -- Rapid diversification in bats -- |
2. Terrestrial plants evolved from aquatic ancestors millions of years ago -- |
3. Humans evolved from hominid ancestors in Africa -- Ethical, legal, social implications: eugenics yesterday and today -- Ethical, legal, social implications: evolution has not reached its peak; humans are still evolving -- |
4. Evolution can occur quickly in response to strong selection -- Ethical, legal, social implications: overuse of chemicals like pesticides and antibiotics can have detrimental effects -- |
Conclusion -- Glossary -- Index. |
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This book describes how evolutionary history is studied using several well-known examples and also using evolutionary trees. Evolutionary trees are analyzed and used to explain adaptive radiations of orchids and the diversification of bats over geologic time. Evolutionary trees and genetic evidence is used to infer when and from what ancestors terrestrial plants evolved and invaded land. Specific adaptations of early land plants led to the evolution of terrestrial plants and their success |
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on land. Evidence about the ancestors and habitats of humans is used to infer and analyze the evolution of the human family tree, whose populations were subject to the same forces of evolution to which other species are subject. Human evolution was not linear, involved offshoot species that did not survive, and took many thousands of years. In contrast, evolution can be seen in just a few years or less in other examples, and analysis of the evolution of mechanisms of pesticide resistance in insects will be used to illustrate this rapid evolution. |
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UNINA9910746593603321 |
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Autore |
Ribner Jonathan P. |
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Titolo |
Loss in French Romantic art, literature, and politics / / Jonathan P. Ribner |
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2021 |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2022 |
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9781003184737 |
1003184731 |
9781000461855 |
1000461858 |
9781000461893 |
1000461890 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Routledge Research in Art History |
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Romanticism - France |
Loss (Psychology) in art |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Amid the Debris of Our Temples -- 2 Agony in the Garden -- 3 Banished -- 4 "He's Not Dead!" -- 5 Heroism Lost -- Epilogue: After the Terrible Year -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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"An interdisciplinary examination of nineteenth-century French art pertaining to religion, exile, and the nation's demise as a world power, this study concerns the consequences for visual culture of a series of national crises - from the assault on Catholicism and the flight of émigrés during the Revolution of 1789, to the collapse of the Empire and the dashing of hope raised by the Revolution of 1830. The central claim is that imaginative response to these politically-charged experiences of loss constitutes a major shaping force in French Romantic art, and that pursuit of this theme in light of parallel developments in literature and political debate reveals a pattern of disenchantment transmuted into cultural capital. Focusing on imagery that spoke to loss through visual and verbal idioms particular to France in the aftermath of the Revolution and Empire, the book illuminates canonical works by major figures such as Eugène Delacroix, Théodore Chassériau, and Camille Corot, as well as long-forgotten images freighted with significance for nineteenth-century viewers. A study in national bereavement - an urgent theme in the present moment- the book provides a new lens through which to view the coincidence of imagination and strife at the heart of French Romanticism. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, French literature, French history, French politics, and religious studies"-- |
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