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Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa by Robert Paarlberg
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Robert Paarlberg

Uncertain Support from Philanthropic Foundations Independently endowed philanthropic foundations—such as the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations—played an essential role in launching Asia’s Green Revolution almost half a century ago. Times have ...
( Category: Agricultural Sciences July 15,2018 )
The Survival Game: How Game Theory Explains the Biology of Cooperation and Competition by Barash Ph.D. David P
epub |eng | 2004-09-01 | Author:Barash Ph.D., David P.

Such pessimism isn’t only a product of twentieth-century scholarship. “What is common to the greatest number gets the least amount of care,” wrote Aristotle, in his Politics. “Men pay most ...
( Category: Mathematics July 14,2018 )
Oxygen. The Molecule that Made the World (Popular Science) by Nick Lane
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Nick Lane [Lane, Nick]

C H A P T E R T E N The Antioxidant Machine A Hundred and One Ways of Living with Oxygen Governments work with tight definitions of words like ...
( Category: Earth Sciences July 13,2018 )
Among the Great Apes: Adventures on the Trail of Our Closest Relatives by Raffaele Paul
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-29 | Author:Raffaele, Paul [Raffaele, Paul]

From witnessing one of the rarest of the great ape species in the Congo wild and in captivity, I journey to the Central African Republic. There, I will find the ...
( Category: Biological Sciences July 13,2018 )
Biophysics DeMYSTiFied by Daniel Goldfarb
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-07-12 | Author:Daniel Goldfarb

FIGURE 8-7 • Illustration of cytoskeleton fibers, from left to right: microtubules, intermediate filaments, and microfilaments. As mentioned, one of the roles of the cytoskeleton is in movement. The cytoskeleton ...
( Category: Biological Sciences July 13,2018 )
Storey's Guide to Keeping Honey Bees by Malcolm T. Sanford
epub |eng | 2018-04-11 | Author:Malcolm T. Sanford

Last-Minute Swarm Prevention Usually when the colony begins rearing queen cells, it means the swarming instinct has been triggered. Two more drastic procedures are then sometimes recommended, but they are ...
( Category: Engineering July 13,2018 )
Histories of Maize by Staller John; Tykot Robert; Benz Bruce
epub |eng | | Author:Staller, John; Tykot, Robert; Benz, Bruce

CONCLUSIONS In conclusion, the spread of maize appears to have been initially tied to its use for sugars, at first from the stalks of teosinte, but later from the maize ...
( Category: Biological Sciences July 12,2018 )
Intelligence in Nature by Jeremy Narby & Jeremy Narby
epub |eng | 2004-12-31 | Author:Jeremy Narby & Jeremy Narby

TRANSFORMERS AND TRANSFORMATION kept cropping up during this investigation. My hunch is that part of nature’s essence is to transform itself, to evolve. The beings of this world seem driven ...
( Category: New Age & Spirituality July 12,2018 )
Chasing the Ghost by Peter Marren
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Marren

The Wettest Place in England 27 Thread Rush Juncus filiformis A miniature rush with a pompom head halfway along a thread-like stem On the shingle shore of Derwentwater, Cumbria 26 ...
( Category: Biological Sciences July 12,2018 )
King of Hearts by G. Wayne Miller
epub, azw3 |eng | 2000-07-11 | Author:G. Wayne Miller [Miller, G. Wayne]

Lillehei’s colleagues in Atlantic City had reached no consensus on cross-circulation. At least one other surgeon had now tried the technique on a person, without success; some surgeons remained enticed, ...
( Category: Medicine July 12,2018 )
Field Guide to the Street Trees of New York City by Leslie Day
epub |eng | 2011-07-10 | Author:Leslie Day

Spring leaves of the American linden about to emerge from their buds Creamy yellow American linden flowers are attached to bracts American linden nutlets attached to their bracts Soaring trunk ...
( Category: Biological Sciences July 11,2018 )
A Handful of Happiness by Massimo Vacchetta & Antonella Tomaselli & Jamie Richards
epub |eng | 2018-07-09 | Author:Massimo Vacchetta & Antonella Tomaselli & Jamie Richards

For several days, I thought I really needed to go home. I was happy at my mother’s, really. But it didn’t seem right to linger. I didn’t have an outdoor ...
( Category: Memoirs July 11,2018 )
Urban Raptors by Clint W. Boal & Cheryl R. Dykstra
epub |eng | | Author:Clint W. Boal & Cheryl R. Dykstra

IMMIGRATION, EMIGRATION, AND DISPERSAL In one study, we radio-tagged 8 young owls in rural and 14 young owls in suburban populations in and around Charlotte, North Carolina, to compare juvenile ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology July 11,2018 )
Buzz by Thor Hanson
epub |eng | 2018-07-10 | Author:Thor Hanson [Thor Hanson]

“My platform is nutrition,” Alyssa Crittenden told me. “Everything builds from there. Diet is not where the story of human evolution ends, it’s where it begins.” I found Alyssa’s door ...
( Category: Biological Sciences July 11,2018 )
Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans by Marzluff John & Angell Tony
epub |eng | 2012-06-05 | Author:Marzluff, John & Angell, Tony [Marzluff, John]

Ravens use sticks and branches to taunt a great-horned owl. When two corvid species resort to using weapons against each other, the results are less predictable. Noted ornithologist Russell Balda ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology July 10,2018 )

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