Adventure diffusion : from meandering molecules to the spreading of plants, humans, and ideas /: from meandering molecules to the spreading of plants, humans, and ideas. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Gero Vogl.
• Authors: Vogl, Gero
• Contents: Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 The Invention of the Flux; 2.1 The Flux of Heat in Solid Matter; 2.2 The Flux of Particles; References; 3 The Mystery of the Unceasing Motion: Brown, Einstein, Perrin; 3.1 The Brownian Motion; 3.2 Surprise by Albert Einstein; 3.3 Jean Baptiste Perrin's Experimental Verification of Einstein's Suggestion: How to Show That Atoms Are Real; References; 4 The Invasions of Genes and Plants; 4.1 Robert Luther's Forgotten Discovery; 4.2 The Wave of Advance of R. A. Fisher; 4.3 The Spread of the Oak After the Last Ice Age 4.4 The Invasion of Non-native Plants in the Wake of Globalization4.4.1 Ragweed, An Allergenic Invader: Observations and Their Modelling; 4.4.2 Predictions for the Future Spread of Ragweed; 4.4.3 Pollen Distribution; 4.4.4 The Additional Burden of Climate Change and Its Costs; 4.5 What Can We Learn by Comparing Past, Present and Future?; References; 5 Have Europeans Always Arrived from the Near East?; 5.1 Early Migrations: Conclusions from Archaeology on the Spread of the Neolithic; 5.2 A Comparison of the Genes of Contemporary Europeans 5.3 Finally, Archaeogenetics with Genes from Neolithic and Palaeolithic Skeletons5.4 Neolithic and Modern Immigrations from the Near East: What Can We Learn from Similarities and Differences?; References; 6 The Puzzles of the First American Immigration; 6.1 A Bunch of Riddles; 6.2 How to Overcome the Canadian Ice Sheet?; 6.3 The Riddle of the Palaeo-Indians' Rapid Population Increase; 6.4 The Riddle of the Palaeo-Indians' Extremely Fast Arrival in Patagonia; References; 7 The Diffusion of the Black Death and Today's Global Epidemics; 7.1 The Black Death 7.2 The Spread of Epidemics in the Twenty-First Century7.2.1 Random Walk; 7.2.2 Long Distance Spread; 7.3 What Has Changed with Globalization?; References; 8 Language Invasion and Language Death; 8.1 The Invasion of the Indo-European Languages; 8.2 Currently Endangered Languages; 8.2.1 Gaelic in Scotland, Studied Using Reaction-Diffusion Equations; 8.2.2 Slovenian in Austria, Studied Using an Agent-Based Model; 8.3 What Happens to Languages in the Era of Globalization?; References; 9 The Diffusion of Ideas; 9.1 The Diffusion of Innovations 9.2 Current Example: The Rise of Wind Power and Its Opposition9.3 Open Innovation: Brave New World; 9.4 Diffusion of Science Fiction into Real Decision; 9.5 Uprooting and Unsettling: Diffusion of Futures Is Too Fast for the Average Citizen; References; Index
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 530.415; Diffusion; Culture diffusion; Language spread; Diffusion of innovations; SCIENCE / Energy; SCIENCE / Mechanics / General; SCIENCE / Physics / General; Culture diffusion; Diffusion; Diffusion of innovations; Language spread; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030046811; 3030046818
• Related ISBNs: 303004680X; 9783030046804
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 22, 2019).
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