Temas Selectos de Física 2

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...

Las (mal llamadas) clases de problemas constituyen una herramienta fundamental en cualquier disciplina científica. Tradicionalmente, estas clases cumplen el objetivo de complementar aspectos más o menos difíciles de la disciplina en cuestión. Sin embargo

¿Podemos resaltar la originalidad de un grupo indígena fruto de un proceso de etnogénesis colonial? ¿Podemos hablar de relativismo, de redes de intercambio, de dinamismo, para describir su lógica cultural? ¿Cuál es el rol de los chamanes en una sociedad indígena contemporánea? A las cuestiones que plantea la etnografía del pueblo indígena Tsachila del Ecuador, a medio camino entre los Andes y la cosía del Pacífico, esta obra propone la descripción de una sociedad en el cruce de caminos. Al hilo de la historia y de las prácticas, Montserrat Ventura descubre las relaciones...

This book provides a comprehensive, self-contained introduction to one of the most exciting frontiers in astrophysics today: the quest to understand how the oldest and most distant galaxies in our universe first formed. Until now, most research on this question has been theoretical, but the next few years will bring about a new generation of large telescopes that promise to supply a flood of data about the infant universe during its first billion years after the big bang. This book bridges the gap between theory and observation. It is an invaluable reference for students and researchers on...