La voz de los padres

Se presenta la diversidad fitocenótica de los bosques extratropicales con Ciprés de la Cordillera, Austrocedrus chilensis, como especie dominante o codominante, a partir de la recopilación bibliográfica y con datos propios inéditos. Los estudios fitosociológicos no han tenido en estos dos países latinoamericanos la intensidad y la profundidad que alcanzaron en Europa. A pesar de compartir ambos un colectivo de flora y vegetación endémicos muy importante, han sido escasos los trabajos que intentaron abordar las comunidades vegetales buscando la visión de ambos lados de la Cordillera...

Brillante síntesis de la historia de uno de los sistemas decorativos más importantes del arte occidental, desde su descubrimiento en la Roma del siglo XVI hasta nuestros días, con especial énfasis en el mundo del Renacimiento y el Rococó.

Making knowledge about evolution available to everyone, this simple and entertaining book offers answers to the most frequently asked questions. Throughout the text, the reader is reminded of the importance of understanding evolutionary processes in order to approach present day human behavior, including social conduct, as well as the difficulty of trying to decipher the nature of modern human beings without going back to their zoological origin. Divided into two sections, the first one builds the foundation for the latter, which explains the evolution of life, beginning at the physical...

In the beginning, Earth was an inhospitably alien place―in constant chemical flux, covered with churning seas, crafting its landscape through incessant volcanic eruptions. Amid all this tumult and disaster, life began. The earliest living things were no more than membranes stretched across microscopic gaps in rocks, where boiling hot jets of mineral-rich water gushed out from cracks in the ocean floor. Although these membranes were leaky, the environment within them became different from the raging maelstrom beyond. These havens of order slowly refined the generation of energy, using it to...