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Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity (Stonewall Inn Editions) by Bagemihl Bruce
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-04-09 | Author:Bagemihl, Bruce [Bagemihl, Bruce]

Frequency: Homosexual activity occurs only sporadically in Moose and Caribou. About a quarter of all male Moose associate together in pairs during at least part of the year. Orientation: Adult ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication July 2,2015 )
Games Primates Play: An Undercover Investigation of the Evolution and Economics of Human Relationships by Maestripieri Dario
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2012-04-09 | Author:Maestripieri, Dario [Maestripieri, Dario]

Love: The Perfect Business Solution? From an economist’s point of view, all cooperative relationships are business partnerships: whether the goal is to make children or to run the Planet Hollywood ...
( Category: Primatology June 22,2015 )
Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners by Michael Erard
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-06-19 | Author:Michael Erard [Erard, Michael]

Possible explanations for talented language learning fall into two general areas. One view says: What matters is a person’s sense of mission and dedication to language learning. You don’t need ...
( Category: Speech June 21,2015 )
Genes, Giants, Monsters, and Men by Joseph P. Farrell
epub |eng | 2015-06-19 | Author:Joseph P. Farrell [Farrell, Joseph P.]

But the method was obviously cumbersome, for with such a technique, mapping the human genome “would take 100,000 years, which alone might explain why a lot of very smart people ...
( Category: Ancient & Controversial Knowledge June 20,2015 )
Care of Bees in Warré and Top Bar Hives by Joe Bleasdale
epub |eng | 2014-01-16 | Author:Joe Bleasdale [Bleasdale, Joe]

a) Honey Spinner or Extractor b) Honey Container with a tap, on top of which is fitted a Honey Strainer fitted with a mesh that filters out the wax c) ...
( Category: Biology June 18,2015 )
River Monsters by Jeremy Wade
epub |eng | 2012-09-28 | Author:Jeremy Wade [Wade, Jeremy]

12 THE WISH YOU WERE DEAD FISH The tail is whipped forwards in a curve with the sting pointing to the area of body contact. The sting easily penetrates rubber ...
( Category: Fish & Sharks June 16,2015 )
Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel by Carl Safina
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2015-03-31 | Author:Carl Safina [Safina, Carl]

But why did dogs start looking less like wolves and more like dogs? That happened on its own, too. Turns out—and no one could have predicted this, and no one ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication June 15,2015 )
Human Nature in an Age of Biotechnology: The Case for Mediated Posthumanism by Tamar Sharon
epub |eng | 2013-10-11 | Author:Tamar Sharon [Sharon, Tamar]

Durbin, R., Eddy, S. R., Krogh, A., & Mitchison, G. (1998). Biological sequence analysis . Cambridge: Cambridge University. Ereshefsky, M. (2010). Microbiology and the species problem. Biology and Philosophy, 25 ...
( Category: General June 14,2015 )
Singularity Rising by James D. Miller
epub |eng | | Author:James D. Miller [D. Miller, James]

DANGEROUS BUT EFFECTIVE COGNITIVE-ENHANCING DRUGS Dangerous but effective cognitive-enhancement drugs would create a much less drug-friendly political situation. Imagine, for example, that a powerful stimulant would “overclock” a user’s brain, ...
( Category: Intelligence & Semantics June 14,2015 )
SAT Subject Test Biology E/M (Barron's SAT Biology E/M)
mobi |eng | 2009-07-31 | Author:Goldberg, Deborah T. [Goldberg, Deborah T.]

• Animals on a cold prairie in winter huddle to decrease heat loss. • Bees swarming in a hive raise the temperature inside the hive. • Dogs pant and sweat ...
( Category: Cell Biology June 14,2015 )
Transhumanism and Society: The Social Debate Over Human Enhancement by Stephen Lilley
epub |eng | 2012-07-31 | Author:Stephen Lilley [Lilley, Stephen]

collapse of Western civilization. They claimed that a growing dependence on technologies was replacing worship of God and eroding a Christian culture based on faith, community, and simplicity of life. ...
( Category: Zoology June 14,2015 )
The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal by Desmond Morris
mobi, pdf |eng | 1967-01-01 | Author:Desmond Morris

Chapter Four: EXPLORATION All mammals have a strong exploratory urge, but for some it is more crucial than others. It depends largely on how specialized they have become during the ...
( Category: Mammals June 14,2015 )
The Proactionary Imperative: A Foundation for Transhumanism by Steve Fuller & Veronika Lipinska
epub |eng | 2014-07-16 | Author:Steve Fuller & Veronika Lipinska [Fuller, Steve & Lipinska, Veronika]

sity of At the level of rhetoric, and often substance, contemporary transhumanism presents itself as advancing, if not accelerating, ‘evolution’. (The term is put in scare quotes to encourage the ...
( Category: Social Philosophy June 14,2015 )
Frozen In Time by Michael Oard
mobi |eng | 2004-09-30 | Author:Michael Oard

Figure 11.6 This is an example of how uniformitarian beliefs can get us into a lot of trouble. As we already know, ice ages are not easy to develop. Although ...
( Category: Science & Religion June 13,2015 )
The Science of Superstition: How the Developing Brain Creates Supernatural Beliefs by Bruce M. Hood
epub |eng | 2010-06-16 | Author:Bruce M. Hood [Hood, Bruce M.]

FIG. 13: Mouse with an implanted bioframe. Many people have misinterpreted this image as an example of genetic engineering. © BRITISH BROADCASTING COMPANY. Who did not feel the “yuck” factor ...
( Category: Science & Religion June 13,2015 )

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