Bøker av Andreas Wagner

Wir alle kennen das traditionelle Traumhaus, das wir anstreben. Wir beginnen mit einer kleinen Wohnung, treffen unseren Partner und denken darüber nach, eine Familie zu gründen. Wenn die Kinder kommen, locken die Vororte. Dann kommt das große Einfamilienhaus mit riesigem Garten und Lattenzaun mit dem selbstgefälligen Gefühl, den Traum verwirklicht zu haben.Nun, wie Bob Dylan einmal sagte: Die Zeiten ändern sich! Wir sind uns der Auswirkungen unserer Häuser auf die Umwelt bewusster. Wir sind uns des Stresses und Drucks, den eine hohe Hypothek auf uns ausübt, stärker bewusst. Kurz gesagt, wir überdenken, wie wir leben. Kleinere Häuser bedeuten geringere Rechnungen, weniger Schulden und ein unbeschwertes Leben. Stellen Sie sich vor, Sie könnten Ihre Arbeitszeit verkürzen und mehr reisen. Was wäre, wenn Sie mit Ihrem Zuhause reisen könnten? In diesem Buch geht es um das kleine Leben und die Chance, Ihr Leben zu verändern. Steigen Sie ein und finden Sie heraus, ob ein reduzierter Lebensstil die richtige Wahl für Sie ist.

Why do some of nature's marvels have to wait millions of years for their time in the sun?

Research into the Hebrew Bible, Ancient Near East, Philosophy and History have long considered whether thought in the cultural area of the ancient Middle East differs from that in the western Mediterranean. The inclusion of neurobiology, psychology, brain research and evolutionary research will widen this horizon and allow new approaches. This volume provides in depth insides into this Archaeology of Mind in 22 contributions.

Why do some of nature's marvels have to wait millions of years for their time in the sun?

A study in monograph form of the applicability of speech act analysis to the historical research of language, exemplified by biblical Hebrew.

How can new insights into evolution help us solve problems in life, art, business and science?

The power of Darwin's theory of natural selection is beyond doubt, it explains how useful adaptations are preserved over generations. But evolution's biggest mystery eluded Darwin: how those adaptations arise in the first place. Can random mutations over a 3.8 billion years be solely responsible for wings, eyeballs, knees, photosynthesis, and the rest of nature's creative marvels? And by calling these mutations ';random', are we not just admitting our own ignorance? What if we could now uncover the wellspring of all biological innovation? Renowned evolutionary biologist Andreas Wagner presents the missing piece in Darwin's theory. Using cutting-edge experimental and computational technologies, he has found that adaptations are in fact driven by a set of laws that allow nature to discover new molecules and mechanisms in a fraction of the time that random variation would take. Consider the Arctic cod, a fish that lives in waters cold enough to turn the internal fluids of most organisms into ice crystals. And yet the Arctic cod survives by producing ';natural anti-freeze', proteins that lower the freezing temperature of its body fluids. The invention of those proteins is an archetypal example of nature's enormous powers of creativity. Meticulously researched, carefully argued, and full of fascinating examples from the animal kingdom, Arrival of the Fittest offers up the final puzzle piece in the mystery of life's rich diversity.

What can a fingernail tell us about the mysteries of creation? In one sense, a nail is merely a hunk of mute matter, yet in another, its an information superhighway quite literally at our fingertips. Every moment, streams of molecular signals direct our cells to move, flatten, swell, shrink, divide, or die. Andreas Wagners ambitious new book explores this hidden web of unimaginably complex interactions in every living being. In the process, he unveils a host of paradoxes underpinning our understanding of modern biology, contradictions he considers gatekeepers at the frontiers of knowledge.Though we tend to think of concepts in such mutually exclusive pairs as mind-matter, self-other, and nature-nurture, Wagner argues that these opposing ideas are not actually separate. Indeed, they are as inextricably connected as the two sides of a coin. Through a tour of modern biological marvels, Wagner illustrates how this paradoxical tension has a profound effect on the way we define the world around us. Paradoxical Life is thus not only a unique account of modern biology. It ultimately serves a radicaland optimisticoutlook for humans and the world we help create.

Explores why genetic changes do not cause organisms to fail catastrophically and how evolution shapes organisms' robustness. This book looks at this problem, starting with the alphabet of DNA, the genetic code, RNA, and protein molecules, moving on to genetic networks and embryonic development, and working his way up to whole organisms.