The Chemistry of Evolution [[electronic resource] ] : The Development of our Ecosystem |
Autore | Williams R.J.P |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Burlington, : Elsevier Science, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (495 p.) |
Disciplina |
541
576.8 |
Altri autori (Persone) | Fraústo da SilvaJ.J.R |
Soggetto topico | Evolution (Biology) |
ISBN |
1-280-63859-1
9786610638598 0-08-046211-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; The Chemistry of Evolution; Acknowledgements; Preface; Contents; The Evolution of Earth-The Geochemical Partner of the Global Ecosystem (5 Billion Years of History); Introduction; The Formation of the Atomic Elements: Abundances; Earth's Physical Nature: Temperature and Pressure; Earth's Atmosphere and Its Composition; The Initial Formation of Minerals; The Reforming of Solids from Melts: Minority Solids; The Settling Down of Earth's Physical Nature; The Initial Formation of the Sea and Its Contents; Detailed Composition of the Original Sea: Availability
Geological Periods - Chemical and Fossil Records Fissures in the Surface and Impacts of Meteorites; The Geochemical Effects of Oxygen; Conclusion; Further Reading; Basic Chemistry of the Ecosystem; Introduction*; Atoms and The Periodic Table; Inorganic Chemistry; Nature of Inorganic Chemical Compounds: Groups 1 to 3 and 12 to 17; The Nature of Transition Metal Compounds: Groups 4 to 11; Variable Combining Ratios and Spin States; Important Heavy Elements; Availability; Non-Equilibrated Inorganic Systems: Barriers to Change; Non-Equilibrium Inorganic Systems: Energy Storage Reactions and Catalysis by Inorganic Environmental Compounds, Especially Sulfides Summary of Inorganic Compounds Related to the Global Ecosystem; Organic Chemistry; Introduction to Organic Compounds of Ecological Relevance; Stability and Reactivity of Organic Chemicals; Stereochemistry; The Importance of Temperature and Light: Rates of Organic Reactions; Bringing Inorganic and Organic Chemistry Together; Introduction; Complex Formation: Selectivity; Matching Redox Potentials of Inorganic and Organic Chemicals; Electron and Proton Transfer; The Importance of Rates of Exchange Selective Action of Metal Ion Complexes in Catalysis The Special Nature of Hydrogen; Summary of the Basic Chemistry Relevant to Our Global Ecosystem; Further Reading; Energy, Order and Disorder, and Organised Systems; Introduction; Energy; Order and Disorder: Equilibrium; Some Steady States and Organisation; Radiation Energy: Calculating its Disorder and Amount of Flow; Optimal Rates of Energy Conversion and Optimal Retention of Energy in Cyclic Steady States: Content of a System; Shape of Organised Systems and Energy: Maintained Form; Evolution of a System going away from Equilibrium Form and Information: Multiple Component Systems Organisation and Compartments; Organisation Messengers Feedback and Codes; Energy Sources and Controlled Distribution of Energy; Information Defined; Cell Organisation, Equilibrium and Kinetic Constraints; Informed Cellular Systems; Ways of Looking at Ecological Chemical Systems: Summary; A Note on Equilibrium Thermodynamics and Equilibrium Constants; Further Reading; Outline of Biological Chemical Principles: Components, Pathways and Controls; Introduction; Organisms: Their Classification as Thermodynamic Chemotypes Organisms: Their Generalised Element Content |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808897203321 |
Williams R.J.P | ||
Burlington, : Elsevier Science, 2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Climate, Planetary and Evolutionary Sciences : A Machine-Generated Literature Overview / editor Guido Visconti |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, : Springer, 2021 |
Descrizione fisica | XIII, 364 p. . ill. ; 24 cm |
Disciplina |
576.8(Evoluzione - Astrobiologia)
523.1(Cosmologia) 551.6(Clima) 523.01(Astrofisica) 520(Astronomia) |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNICAMPANIA-VAN0241197 |
Cham, : Springer, 2021 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Vanvitelli | ||
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Coevolution / edited by Matthew H. Nitecki |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : The University of Chicago Press, 1983 |
Descrizione fisica | X, 392 p. : ill. ; 23 cm |
Disciplina | 576.8 |
Soggetto non controllato | Evoluzione |
ISBN | 0-226-58686-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-990001728850403321 |
Chicago, : The University of Chicago Press, 1983 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The comparative method in evolutionary biology / Paul H. Harvey, Mark D. Pagel |
Autore | Harvey, Paul H., 1947- |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1991 |
Descrizione fisica | viii, 239 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
Disciplina | 576.8 |
Altri autori (Persone) | Pagel, Mark D. |
Collana | Oxford series in ecology and evolution |
Soggetto topico | Evolution (Biology) - Research - Methodology |
ISBN | 0198546408 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNISALENTO-991001696639707536 |
Harvey, Paul H., 1947- | ||
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1991 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. del Salento | ||
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Complex organismal functions : integration and evolution in vertebrates : report of the Dahlem Workshop on Complex Organismal Functions: integration and evolution in vertebrates, Berlin 1988, August 28-September 2 / edited by D. B. Wake, G. Roth ; rapporteurs, S. J. Arnold ... [et al.] ; program advisory committee, D. B. Wake ... [et al.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, : Wiley, 1989 |
Descrizione fisica | xiii, 451 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Disciplina | 576.8(Evoluzione) |
ISBN | 04-7192-375-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNICAMPANIA-SUN0021438 |
Chichester, : Wiley, 1989 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Vanvitelli | ||
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Complex organismal functions : integration and evolution in vertebrates : report of the Dahlem Workshop on Complex Organismal Functions: integration and evolution in vertebrates, Berlin 1988, August 28-September 2 / edited by D. B. Wake, G. Roth ; rapporteurs, S. J. Arnold ... [et al.] ; program advisory committee, D. B. Wake ... [et al.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, : Wiley, 1989 |
Descrizione fisica | xiii, 451 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
Disciplina | 576.8(Evoluzione - Astrobiologia) |
ISBN | 04-7192-375-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNICAMPANIA-VAN0021438 |
Chichester, : Wiley, 1989 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Vanvitelli | ||
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Conceptual issues in evolutionary biology / edited by Elliott Sober |
Autore | Sober, Elliott |
Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1994 |
Descrizione fisica | xx, 506 p. : ill. ; 26 cm |
Disciplina | 576.8 |
Soggetto topico | Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy |
ISBN | 0262193361 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNISALENTO-991003451569707536 |
Sober, Elliott | ||
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1994 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. del Salento | ||
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Conceptual issues in evolutionary biology [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Elliott Sober |
Edizione | [3rd ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (641 p.) |
Disciplina | 576.8 |
Altri autori (Persone) | SoberElliott |
Soggetto topico |
Evolution (Biology)
Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy Biology - Philosophy |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-262-29995-X
1-282-09813-6 9786612098130 0-262-28400-6 1-4294-7768-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452053103321 |
Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Conceptual issues in evolutionary biology [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Elliott Sober |
Edizione | [3rd ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (641 p.) |
Disciplina | 576.8 |
Altri autori (Persone) | SoberElliott |
Soggetto topico |
Evolution (Biology)
Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy Biology - Philosophy |
ISBN |
0-262-29995-X
1-282-09813-6 9786612098130 0-262-28400-6 1-4294-7768-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777637903321 |
Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Conceptual issues in evolutionary biology [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Elliott Sober |
Edizione | [3rd ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (641 p.) |
Disciplina | 576.8 |
Altri autori (Persone) | SoberElliott |
Soggetto topico |
Evolution (Biology)
Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy Biology - Philosophy |
ISBN |
0-262-29995-X
1-282-09813-6 9786612098130 0-262-28400-6 1-4294-7768-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910824962803321 |
Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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