1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911093748403321

Titolo

Forerunners of mammals : radiation, histology, biology / / edited by Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-280-59650-3

9786613626332

0-253-00533-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (373 p.)

Collana

Life of the past

Altri autori (Persone)

Chinsamy-TuranAnusuya

Disciplina

567.9/3

Soggetti

Reptiles, Fossil

Mammals - Evolution

Bones - Histology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; 1 The Origin and Radiation of Therapsids; 2 Therapsid Biodiversity Patterns and Paleoenvironments of the Karoo Basin, South Africa; 3 The Microstructure of Bones and Teeth of Nonmammalian Therapsids; 4 The Paleobiology and Bone Microstructure of Pelycosaurian-Grade Synapsids; 5 Dicynodont Growth Dynamics and Lifestyle Adaptations; 6 Biological Inferences of the Cranial Microstructure of the Dicynodonts Oudenodon and Lystrosaurus; 7 Bone and Dental Histology of Late Triassic Dicynodonts from North America

8 Bone Histology of Some Therocephalians and Gorgonopsians, and Evidence of Bone Degradation by Fungi9 The Radiation and Osteohistology of    Nonmammaliaform Cynodonts; 10 The Radiation, Bone Histology, and Biology of Early Mammals; 11 The Evolution of Mammalian Endothermy; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

About 320 million years ago a group of reptiles known as the synapsids emerged and forever changed Earth's ecological landscapes. This book discusses the origin and radiation of the synapsids from their sail-backed pelycosaur ancestor to their diverse descendants, the therapsids or mammal-like reptiles, that eventually gave rise to



mammals. It further showcases the remarkable evolutionary history of the synapsids in the Karoo Basin of South Africa and the environments that existed at the time. By highlighting studies of synapsid bone microstructure, it offers a unique perspective of how suc

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911146060603321

Autore

Noddings Nel

Titolo

Women and evil / / Nel Noddings

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1989

ISBN

9786612356032

9781282356030

1282356038

9780520911208

0520911202

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (295 pages)

Disciplina

170/.88042

Soggetti

Good and evil

Women

Feminism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-272) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Evil and Ethical Terror -- 2. The Devil's Gateway -- 3. The Angel in the House -- 4. Toward a Phenomenology of Evil -- 5. Pain as Natural Evil -- 6. Helplessness: The Pain of Poverty -- 7. War -- 8. Terrorism, Torture, and Psychological Abuse -- 9. Educating for a Morality of Evil -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Human beings love to fictionalize evil--to terrorize each other with stories of defilement, horror, excruciating pain, and divine retribution. Beneath the surface of bewitchment and half-sick amusement, however, lies the realization that evil is real and that people must find a way to face and overcome it. What we require, Carl Jung suggested, is a morality of evil--a carefully thought out plan by which to manage the



evil in ourselves, in others, and in whatever deities we posit. This book is not written from a Jungian perspective, but it is nonetheless an attempt to describe a morality of evil. One suspects that descriptions of evil and the so-called problem of evil have been thoroughly suffused with male interests and conditioned by masculine experience. This result could hardly have been avoided in a sexist culture, and recognizing the truth of such a claim does not commit us to condemn every male philosopher and theologian who has written on the problem. It suggests, rather, that we may get a clearer view of evil if we take a different standpoint. The standpoint I take here will be that of women; that is, I will attempt to describe evil from the perspective of women's experience.