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Cheeseman, Peter. Evolutionary tree reconstruction. [Moffett Field, Calif.?]: Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science, NASA Ames Research Center, 1990.

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Lizards in an evolutionary tree: The ecology of adaptive radiation in anoles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.

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The evolutionary relevance of vegetative long-shoot/short-shoot differentiation in gymnospermous tree species. Stuttgart: Schweizerbart Science, 2012.

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International Colloquium on the Ecology of Tree Squirrels (1994 Powdermill Biological Station). Ecology and evolutionary biology of tree squirrels: Proceedings of the International Colloquium on the Ecology of Tree Squirrels, Powdermill Biological Station, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 22-28 April 1994. Martinsville, Va: Virginia Museum of Natural History, 1998.

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Hendy, M. D. Discrete fourier analysis for evolutionary trees. Palmerston North, N.Z: School of Mathematical and Information Sciences, Massey University, 1992.

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Groover, Andrew, and Quentin Cronk, eds. Comparative and Evolutionary Genomics of Angiosperm Trees. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49329-9.

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Kretowski, Marek. Evolutionary Decision Trees in Large-Scale Data Mining. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21851-5.

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Cryan, Mary Elizabeth. Learning and approximation algorithms for problems motivated by evolutionary trees. [s.l.]: typescript, 1999.

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Gill, Jonna. The k-assignment polytope and the space of evolutionary trees. Linköping: Matematiska institutionen, Linköpings universitet, 2004.

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Schwikowski, Benno. A New algorithmic approach to the construction of multiple alignments and evolutionary trees. Sankt Augustin, Germany: GMD-Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik, 1998.

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Ecole d'été de probabilités de Saint-Flour (35th : 2005), ed. Probability and real trees: École d'Été de Probabilités de Saint-Flour XXXV-2005. Berlin: Springer, 2008.

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Mola, Francesco. Evolutionary Algorithms in Decision Tree Induction. INTECH Open Access Publisher, 2008.

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Luckett, W. Patrick. Comparative Biology and Evolutionary Relationships of Tree Shrews. Springer London, Limited, 2013.

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Quammen, David. Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life. HarperCollins Publishers Limited, 2018.

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Quammen, David. Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life. Simon & Schuster, 2018.

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Losos, Jonathan B. Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree: Ecology and Adaptive Radiation of Anoles. University of California Press, 2009.

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Lizards In An Evolutionary Tree Ecology And Adaptive Radiation Of Anoles. University of California Press, 2011.

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Bapteste, Eric, and Gemma Anderson. Intersecting Processes Are Necessary Explanantia for Evolutionary Biology, but Challenge Retrodiction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198779636.003.0014.

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Processes are ubiquitous in biology and play a key explanatory role in evolutionary biology, where they are frequently depicted by patterns. In particular, phylogenetic trees represent divergence from a last common ancestor with a branching pattern. However, the increasingly recognized underdetermination of phylogenetic trees limits the accuracy of tree-based retrodiction. Even phylogenetic networks, which include additional processes intersecting with vertical descent, still provide incomplete descriptions of evolutionary processes, as they usually miss processes that impact unrelated lineages. Interaction networks highlight the intersection of processes that sustain biological diversity. The complex topology of all these networks further challenges retrodiction. Remarkably, when intersecting processes are involved in evolutionary transitions, they introduce new biological processes on Earth. Processes, and hence the explanantia of evolutionary biology, evolve, which challenges uniformitarian approaches to retrodiction. Despite these difficulties, a yet to be introduced typology of processes would help to analyse the (big) processual picture of life.
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Quammen, David. Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life. Simon & Schuster, Incorporated, 2019.

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Quammen, David. Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life. HarperCollins Publishers Limited, 2018.

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Quammen, David. Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life. HarperCollins Publishers Limited, 2019.

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Martin, Roger. Tree-kangaroos of Australia and New Guinea. CSIRO Publishing, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643093126.

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To many people, the suggestion that a kangaroo could live up a tree is fantasy. Yet, in the rainforests of Far North Queensland and New Guinea, there are extraordinary kangaroos that do just that. Many aspects of these marsupials' anatomy and biology suggest a terrestrial kangaroo ancestor. Yet no one has, so far, come forward with a convincing explanation of how, why and when mammals that was so superbly adapted for life on the ground should end up back in the trees. This book reviews the natural history and biology of tree-kangaroos from the time of their first discovery by Europeans in the jungles of West Papua in 1826 right up to the present day, covering the latest research being conducted in Australian and New Guinea. Combining information from a number of disparate disciplines, the author sets forth the first explanation of this apparent evolutionary conundrum.
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Quammen, David. The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life. Simon & Schuster Audio, 2018.

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Malassé, Anne Dambricourt. Self-Organization As a New Paradigm in Evolutionary Biology: From Theory to Applied Cases in the Tree of Life. Springer International Publishing AG, 2022.

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Lockhart, P. RECONSTRUCTING MOLECULAR EVOLUTIONARY TREES (Basics). Garland Science, 2004.

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Çolak, Alper H., Simay Kirca, and Ian D. Rotherham, eds. Ancient Woods, Trees and Forests. Pelagic Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.53061/kzad4079.

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As trees age, they become ecologically richer and more full of life. The process of a tree, wood or forest becoming ‘ancient’, however defined, involves a vast and subtle web of relations – among the trees themselves, with other organisms, with the wider landscape and with human beings. A single tree can provide a vast array of habitats which are an integral part of the complex co-evolutionary relationships evolved over its lifetime and later during its sometimes long afterlife. From ancient times until today, trees and woods have inspired artists, writers and scientists; they have shaped cultures and reverberated through belief systems. Yet worldwide, forest cover has declined dramatically over the last 1,000 years, and what remains has been more or less altered from its original condition. Today, ‘virgin forests’ are only to be found at a few sites unreachable by humans, and even then they are affected by climate change, atmospheric pollution and species extinctions. The aim of this book is to help an understanding of the web of connections relating to ancient trees and woodlands, and to offer techniques to ensure effective conservation and sustainability of this precious resource. This book considers the key issues from a range of different aspects and varied geographical locations, beginning with fundamental concepts and reflecting on the strengths and limitations of the idea of ancient trees. Individual chapters then deal with cultural heritage, the archaeology of trees, landscape history, forest rights, tree management, saproxylic insects, the importance of dead wood, practical conservation and monitoring, biodiversity, and wood pasture among many other themes. Fresh perspectives are put forward from across Europe as far as Turkey, as well as Great Britain. Overall, given the urgent need to discover, understand, conserve and restore ancient woodlands and trees, this publication will raise awareness, foster enthusiasm and inspire wonder.
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Groover, Andrew, and Quentin Cronk. Comparative and Evolutionary Genomics of Angiosperm Trees. Springer, 2017.

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Lockhardt, P., and C. J. Howe. Reconstructing Molecular Evolutionary Trees: Phylogenies from Sequences. Springer-Verlag Telos, 2002.

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Groover, Andrew, and Quentin Cronk. Comparative and Evolutionary Genomics of Angiosperm Trees. Springer, 2018.

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Groover, Andrew, and Quentin Cronk. Comparative and Evolutionary Genomics of Angiosperm Trees. Springer, 2017.

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Fleischmann, Andreas, and Aymeric Roccia. Systematics and evolution of Lentibulariaceae: I. Pinguicula. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198779841.003.0006.

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Systematics and evolution of Pinguicula (butterworts) (Lentibulariaceae) are treated. Vegetative and generative morphology of the genus are illustrated and interpreted in the light of available phylogenetic evidence. A new infrageneric classification is proposed for Pinguicula; a simplified phylogenetic tree and detailed distribution maps are provided. Evolutionary history and phylobiogeography are briefly discussed together with the habitats, ecology, and conservation of the genus.
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Blute, Marion, and Fiona M. Jordan. The Evolutionary Approach to History. Edited by Rosemary L. Hopcroft. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190299323.013.32.

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There are three forms of modern Darwinian evolutionism in the social sciences and humanities: the gene-based biological, the social learning-based sociocultural, and gene–culture coevolution dealing with their interaction. This chapter focuses on cultural or sociocultural evolution. It begins with a discussion of the Darwinian-inspired evolutionary approach to history. It then outlines modern evolutionary phylogenetic methods borrowed from biology but now used extensively in the social sciences and humanities. The chapter provides examples of how language trees may be inferred; phylogenetic comparative methods that use language trees to answer questions about aspects of geographical, social, political, cultural, or economic organization; and phylogenetic investigations of material culture and traditions. It is concluded that culture does indeed “descend with modification.”
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Fleischmann, Andreas. Systematics and evolution of Lentibulariaceae: II. Genlisea. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198779841.003.0007.

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Systematics and evolution of Genlisea (corkscrew plants) (Lentibulariaceae) are treated. Vegetative and generative morphology of the plants, and anatomy of their rhizophylls (‘root-leaves’) that function as sophisticated eel traps are explained and illustrated. A simplified phylogenetic tree and a detailed distribution map are provided, and the evolutionary history, including genome and karyotype evolution, and phylobiogeography of the 30 currently known species of Genlisea are discussed.
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Kretowski, Marek. Evolutionary Decision Trees in Large-Scale Data Mining. Springer International Publishing AG, 2020.

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Kretowski, Marek. Evolutionary Decision Trees in Large-Scale Data Mining. Springer, 2019.

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Biewener, Andrew A., and Shelia N. Patek, eds. Evolution of Locomotion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198743156.003.0009.

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The evolution of animal locomotion straddles two big areas—what are the major trends in locomotion across the clade of animals (Metazoa) and how should the many principles and patterns of locomotion be analyzed in the context of evolutionary relationships? The first question is a broad examination across the metazoan tree and the second is a methodological issue that is central to locomotor analyses given the current abundance of phylogenies and the availability of computer power. Yet one cannot exist without the other. We need proper analysis tools to figure out the evolution of animal locomotion, and we need effective comparative datasets and phylogenies to run meaningful analyses. The goals of this chapter are twofold—to glean the fundamentals of locomotor evolution and to consider the pathways for performing rigorous evolutionary biomechanical analyses.
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Lake, Morris. Australian Rainforest Woods. CSIRO Publishing, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9781486301805.

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Australian Rainforest Woods describes 141 of the most significant Australian rainforest trees and their wood. The introductory sections draw the reader into an understanding of the botanical, evolutionary, environmental, historical and international significance of this beautiful but finite Australian resource. The main section examines the species and their wood with photographs, botanical descriptions and a summary of the characteristics of the wood. A section on wood identification includes fundamental information on tree growth and wood structure, as well as images of the basic characteristics. With more than 900 colour images, this is the most comprehensive guide ever written on Australian rainforest woods, both for the amateur and the professional wood enthusiast. It is the first time that macrophotographs of the wood have been shown in association with a physical description of wood characteristics, which will aid identification. This technique was developed by Jean-Claude Cerre, France, and his macrophotographs are included in the book.
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Jenner, Ronald A. Ancestors in Evolutionary Biology: Linear Thinking about Branching Trees. Cambridge University Press, 2022.

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Drogosz, Anna. A Cognitive Semantics Approach to Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. Æ Academic, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.52769/bl4.0017.

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DARWIN’S THEORY OF EVOLUTION ranks among the most influential of modern scientific theories. Applying the methodology of COGNITIVE SEMANTICS , this study investigates how metaphors based on domains of JOURNEY, STRUGGLE, TREE and HUMAN AGENCY serve to conceptualize key concepts of Darwin’s theory — such as evolutionary change, natural selection, and relationships among organisms. At the outset the author identifies original metaphors in The Origin of Species, to turn to their realizations in modern discourse on evolution in later chapters. Thus, the study uncovers how metaphors contribute to structuring the theory by expressing it in a coherent and attractive way, and how they provide mental tools for reasoning. As the first comprehensive study of conceptual metaphors that underlie Darwin’s theory and affect the way we talk and think about evolution, it may be of interest not only to linguists and evolutionary biologists but also to anyone interested in the interconnection between thought and language.
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Ruxton, Graeme D., William L. Allen, Thomas N. Sherratt, and Michael P. Speed. Secondary defences. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199688678.003.0006.

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In this chapter we consider defences that are usually deployed during, or just before, contact between a prey and its predator: so-called ‘secondary’ defences. Secondary defences are found right across the tree of life and therefore come in very many forms, including: 1.) chemical defences; 2.) mechanical defences; and 3.) behavioural defences. Here we review selected examples that provide useful illustrations of the ecological and evolutionary characteristics associated with secondary defences. We discuss costs of secondary defences, placing emphasis on the consequences of such costs, especially as they relate to forms of social interaction. We show also that the acquisition of secondary defences may modify niche, life history, and habitat range of prey animals and review a well-known and significant study of predator–prey co-evolution of defensive toxins of prey and resistance to those toxins in predators. We include a small selection of examples and ideas from the plant and microbe defence literature where we think a broader perspective is helpful. We begin the chapter by considering the evolutionary mechanisms that favour secondary defence evolution.
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Kraberg, Alexandra, and Rowena Stern. Phytoplankton: Dinoflagellates. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199233267.003.0013.

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This chapter describes the taxonomy of dinoflagellates. Dinoflagellates occur in marine, brackish, and freshwater habitats, although they are most diverse in the marine environment. About 90% are planktonic and responsible for a large proportion of primary productivity. Their evolutionary history and ability to acquire genes horizontally from unrelated organisms make dinoflagellates a functionally diverse and ecologically important group. The chapter begins with a general description of dinoflagellates. It then discusses their life cycle, ecology and distribution, harmful species, and systematic placement within the tree of life, as well as the key marine representative. It also provides information on the taxonomic authorities responsible for the classification adopted and recent changes which might have occurred, and it lists relevant taxonomic sources.
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Cuneo, Terence. The Evolutionary Challenge to Knowing Moral Reasons. Edited by Daniel Star. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199657889.013.42.

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The “debunker’s puzzle” asks how it could be that (i) moral non-naturalism is true, (ii) we have moral knowledge, and (iii) evolutionary forces have heavily shaped the workings of our moral faculty. This chapter begins by exploring a prominent attempt to dissolve the puzzle, so-called third-factor views, arguing that they are subject to a variety of objections. This discussion highlights a pivotal claim in the dialectic between debunkers and non-naturalists: the debunker’s puzzle has force against moral non-naturalism only if it incorporates an ambitious claim about how far evolutionary forces have operated on the workings of the moral faculty. Non-naturalists can plausibly reject such a strong claim. Still, debunkers can rightly reply that non-naturalists nonetheless lack an explanation regarding how our moral judgments are linked to normative reality. The chapter argues that, by appealing to constitutive explanations, non-naturalists have helpful things to say about what the link might be.
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Schneider, Edgar W. Models of English in the World. Edited by Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, and Devyani Sharma. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199777716.013.001.

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This chapter systematically surveys conceptual frameworks (models) that have been suggested to identify similarities between World Englishes and to classify them accordingly. The earliest suggestions along these lines were static models, which either worked out historically based relationships between national varieties, having branched off in a family-tree-like manner, or classified countries based on whether English is used as a native, second or foreign language in them. Other early categorizations emphasized the global, national or regional outreach of varieties (in “hub-and-spoke” models) or variety types based on sociolinguistic settings in communities and their resulting linguistic properties. In contrast, recent models emphasize the evolutionary or even cyclic character of varieties; these include Trudgill’s deterministic theory and, very widely accepted nowadays, Schneider’s Dynamic Model, which is broadly outlined, including a brief discussion of some applications of and reactions to it.
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Durham, William H. Exuberant Life. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197531518.001.0001.

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Why is Galápagos so endlessly fascinating, whether to read about, to visit, or both? Reasons include its menagerie of truly unusual organisms (like tree daisies, marine iguanas, and flightless cormorants), its relatively low human impact (most of its endemic biodiversity is still extant), and its unrivalled role in the history of science ever since Charles Darwin. Exuberant Life offers a contemporary synthesis of what is known about the evolution of the curiously wonderful organisms of Galápagos, of how they are faring in the tumultuous world of human-induced change, and how evolution can guide efforts today for their conservation. In eight case-study chapters, the book looks at each organism’s ancestry, at how and when it came to Galápagos, and how and why it changed since its arrival, all with an eye to its conservation today. Such analysis often provides surprises and suggestions not previously considered, like the potential benefits to joint conservation efforts with tree daisies and tree finches, for example, or ways that a new explanation for peculiar behaviors in Nazca and blue-footed boobies can benefit both species today. In each chapter, a social-ecological systems framework is used, because human influence is always present, and because it allows an explicit link to evolution. We see how the evolutionary fitnesses of Galápagos organisms are now a product of both ecological conditions and human impact, including climate change. Historically, Galápagos has played a central role in the understanding of evolution; what it now offers to teach us about conservation may well prove indispensable for the future of the planet.
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Moyal, Ann. Koala. CSIRO Publishing, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643096226.

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The koala is both an Australian icon and an animal that has attained ‘flagship’ status around the world. Yet its history tells a different story. While the koala figured prominently in Aboriginal Dreaming and Creation stories, its presence was not recorded in Australia until 15 years after white settlement. Then it would figure as a scientific oddity, despatched to museums in Britain and Europe, a native animal driven increasingly from its habitat by tree felling and human settlement, and a subject of relentless hunting by trappers for its valuable fur. It was not until the late 1920s that slowly emerging protective legislation and the enterprise of private protectors came to its aid. This book surveys the koala’s fascinating history, its evolutionary survival in Australia for over 30 million years, its strikingly adaptive physiognomy, its private life, and the strong cultural impact it has had through its rich fertilisation of Australian literature. The work also focuses on the complex problems of Australia’s national wildlife and conservation policies and the challenges surrounding the environmental, economic and social questions concerning koala management. Koala embraces the story of this famous marsupial in an engaging historical narrative, extensively illustrated from widely sourced pictorial material.
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Fleischmann, Andreas, Adam T. Cross, Robert Gibson, Paulo M. Gonella, and Kingsley W. Dixon. Systematics and evolution of Droseraceae. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198779841.003.0004.

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The Droseraceae belongs to the botanical order Nepenthales and comprises three genera: Drosera (sundews) with adhesive traps; and the sister genera Dionaea (Venus’ flytrap) and Aldrovanda (waterwheel plant), each of which evolved snap-traps. Vegetative and generative morphology of each genus are illustrated and interpreted based on phylogenetic evidence. Phylogeny, evolutionary history, and infrageneric classification of Drosera are discussed in light of molecular phylogenetic data, and illustrated with phylogenetic trees and maps of their distribution.
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Koons, Robert C., and Alexander Pruss. Must Functionalists Be Aristotelians? Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198796572.003.0013.

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Functionalism in the theory of mind requires an account of function that has a normative component—mere conditional connection (whether indicative or sub-junctive) is not enough. For instance, a component of a computing system isn’t an adder just in case its output is always or would always be the sum of the inputs, since any computing system in a world with as much indeterminism as ours can err or malfunction. Two general reductions of normative language have been proposed that one might wish to apply to the problem of defining proper function: the evolutionary reduction (Wright, Millikan) and the agential reduction (Plantinga). We argue that whatever the merits of the reductions in other contexts, a functionalist theory of mind that defines proper function in either of these ways must fail. The argument proceeds by first showing the agential reduction is viciously circular in the context of a functionalist theory of agency. Second, if functionalism about mind is true and proper function is reducible evolutionarily, then it is possible to have a situation in which the presence or absence of mental properties depends in an implausibly spooky, acausal way on remote facts. It is plausible that the only currently avail-able way for the functionalist to meet these challenges is to accept irreducible end-directed causal powers of minds and/or their functional parts, in accordance with a broadly Aristotelian tradition.
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Bilański, Piotr. Trypodendron laeve Eggers w Polsce na tle wybranych aspektów morfologicznych i genetycznych drwalników (Trypodendron spp., Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae). Publishing House of the University of Agriculture in Krakow, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.15576/978-83-66602-38-0.

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In Poland, there are 4 species of the liypodendron genus: T lineaium Oliv., T domestkum L., T signature Fakir. and 7: laeve Egg. Trypodendron laeve is the leastknown of this group. Many factors had influence on the state of research on this species, including taxonomic aspects. Taking into account the unsatisfactory state of knowledge regarding the prevalence of T iaeve in Poland, as well as scarce information on the morphology of this species, research was undertaken to I) document the presence, including new sites, of T laeve in Poland and define, if possible, the habitat and trophic conditions that may affect its occurrence, as well as II) determinate suitability of biometric and genetic methods for correct identification of t laeve against the background of other ambrosia beetle species. Research on the occurrence of T laeve in Poland, was carried out on 143 areas located throughout the country, representing various environmental conditions, primarily such as species composition of tree stands, terrain, altitude (from 16 to 929 meters above sea level) and their location in relation to zoogeographic regions. The research material was obtained mainly using various types of traps for catching ambrosia beetles baited with pheromone. Only in a few cases when attacking the wood of trees, the imagines of ambrosia beetles were obtained without luring agents. The research was conducted in 2007-2016. From the insect individuals identified on the grounds of morphological traits as T lineatum, T laeve, T domesticum and T signatum, originating from selected locations in Poland, 3-11 specimens were collected, for which genetic analyses were performed based on the COI gene fragments obtained by PCR. The research included tests for following paramcter: s sequence similarity, phylogenetic, evolutionary divergence and genetic. structure. As a result of research on the occurrence of ambrosia beetles in Poland, a total of 44207 individuals belonging to four species were collected: T lineatutn, 7: laeve, T domesticum and T signatum, whose share was respectively: 49.2%, 31.4%; 19.1% and 0.3%. In Poland, 1: laeve's imagines were found in 124 out of 143 examined sites. The presence of L reeve has been documented for the first time in 14 zoogeographic regions. This species was commonly found on study areas located from 118 to 929 m above sea level. In Poland the tree species attacked by T Mate include Pinus sylvestris L. and Picea abies (L) H. Karst. In Poland, T laeve as a host plant prefers sylvestris and reaches the highest population densities in the stands of this species. The work presents the exact morphological characteristics of T laeve and indicates the most important features that distinguish it from the other Trypodendrun spp. occurring in Poland. It has also been shown that the best results in the determination of species of the liypodendron genus, regardless of their sex, can be obtained using phylogenetic analysis based on a fragment of the COI gene.
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Evans, Steven N. Probability and Real Trees: École d'Été de Probabilités de Saint-Flour XXXV-2005. Springer London, Limited, 2007.

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Cousins, Alita J., and Theresa Porter. Darwinian Perspectives on Women’s Progenicide. Edited by Maryanne L. Fisher. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199376377.013.33.

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Evolutionary perspectives on infanticide suggest that women kill their offspring under specific circumstances: for instance, when children have low fitness, when women are young and unpartnered, when they have older children, and when the birth spacing is too close. Infanticide may also serve as a way to increase women’s ability to compete for access to mates, especially when the mating market has a surplus of males. Under these circumstances, to stay intrasexually competitive, unpartnered women are more likely to commit infanticide, indicating that women may sometimes kill their infants as a mechanism to be able to compete for access to better mates. This may be especially true for young women. Stepmothers may also abuse or kill stepchildren to increase access to a mate and increase intrasexual competition. This chapter addresses the circumstances under which mothers abuse, neglect, and kill their offspring, including how intrasexual competition may increase infanticide.
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