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The origin of species. Vol. 1. 2 by Charles Darwin
epub |eng | 1905-01-15 | Author:Charles Darwin [Darwin, Charles]

Correlated Variation. I mean by this expression that the whole organisation is so tied together during its growth and development, that when slight variations in any one part occur, and ...
( Category: Essays June 13,2015 )
The Demon Under the Microscope by Thomas Hager
epub |eng | 2006-09-19 | Author:Thomas Hager [Hager, Thomas]

CHAPTER FOURTEEN AS SOON AS it appeared, the first paper by the Pasteur Institute team was translated into German and circulated within Bayer. According to one of the German chemists, ...
( Category: Microbiology June 13,2015 )
Pieces of Light by Charles Fernyhough
epub |eng | 2013-02-26 | Author:Charles Fernyhough [Fernyhough, Charles]

WHEN MEMORY IS DISORDERED, CONFABULATIONS often follow. Moulin’s patient AKP would explain how he had already read the morning paper (which had actually only just arrived) by going out in ...
( Category: Cognitive June 13,2015 )
Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death by Heinrich Bernd
epub |eng | 2012-06-18 | Author:Heinrich, Bernd [Heinrich, Bernd]

Fruit and flower scarabs. All but one of these cetoniines are from East Africa; the South American rhinoceros beetle, Dynastes hercules (lower left), is shown in four views, male and ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication June 13,2015 )
Parasite Rex by Carl Zimmer
epub |eng | 2000-09-21 | Author:Carl Zimmer [Zimmer, Carl]

• • • As tapeworms moved into new hosts they had to evolve new ways to live inside them. They had to adapt to new geographies of intestines; the tapeworms ...
( Category: Entomology June 13,2015 )
Honeybee by C. Marina Marchese
epub |eng | 2009-06-12 | Author:C. Marina Marchese

CHAPTER 10 Honeybees in Autumn: Preparing for Winter It was a lazy August afternoon during my first season of beekeeping. The kind of day where the sun seemed bear down ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders June 13,2015 )
The blind watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
epub |eng | 1996-09-17 | Author:Richard Dawkins [Dawkins, Richard]

CHAPTER 7 CONSTRUCTIVE EVOLUTION People sometimes think that natural selection is a purely negative force, capable of weeding out freaks and failures, but not capable of building up complexity, beauty ...
( Category: Biology June 12,2015 )
Adventures among Ants by Mark W. Moffett
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Mark W. Moffett

13 abduction in the afternoon A week into my stay at California’s Sagehen Creek, I was lounging among the grass tufts next to a Polyergus breviceps ant nest with Faerthen ...
( Category: Entomology June 12,2015 )
The Archaeology of Human Bones by Simon Mays
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-06-21 | Author:Simon Mays [Mays, Simon]

( Category: Mammals June 12,2015 )
The World Is Blue by Sylvia A. Earle
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-06-11 | Author:Sylvia A. Earle

Perversely spilled oil blackens Saudi Arabian marshes in 1991. Worldwide, more than 4,000 rigs are now working in depths up to 1,830 meters (6,000 feet). The deepest offshore rig, Shell ...
( Category: Oceanography June 12,2015 )
Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places by Bill Streever
epub |eng | 2009-07-22 | Author:Bill Streever [Streever, Bill]

It is January ninth and twenty below at the Anchorage airport, close to the record cold set in 1952. The ground hides under four feet of snow, with plowed piles ...
( Category: Polar Regions June 12,2015 )
Remarkable Creatures (2010) by Chevalier Tracy
epub, mobi | | 2011-01-14 | Author:Chevalier, Tracy [Tracy, Chevalier,]

Colonel Birch was to stay for several weeks to build up his collection, taking rooms in Charmouth but coming to Lyme daily. His claim on Mary’s time was sudden and ...
( Category: Biographical June 12,2015 )
Crow Planet by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
epub |eng | 2009-07-26 | Author:Lyanda Lynn Haupt [HAUPT, LYANDA LYNN]

With this is mind, I turn back to my own disgruntled helper at the nest, who, in spite of her scowl, trots dutifully behind me, handing me clothespins as I ...
( Category: Birds June 12,2015 )
This Land : The Battle Over Sprawl and the Future of America by Flint Anthony
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-01-15 | Author:Flint, Anthony. [Anthony., Flint,]

154 T H I S L A N D America’s world-famous big-box shopping strips are spread out and cheaply constructed. They offer millions of acres of parking lots—and unrivaled convenience ...
( Category: Regional Planning June 12,2015 )
The Song of the Dodo by David Quammen
epub, mobi | | | Author:David Quammen [Quammen, David]

105 THESE CASES from Tasmania, Guam, Mauritius, and Hawaii are only a sample. Dozens more species, subspecies, and genetically discrete populations could be mentioned, all native to islands, all lost ...
( Category: Geography June 12,2015 )

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