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Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole by Ropper Allan Burrell Brian David
epub |eng | | Author:Ropper, Allan, Burrell, Brian David

7. THE BRAIN MAKES POETRY In those days, medical students tended to be down on neurology. They called it a masturbatory specialty. You couldn’t do much of anything in the ...
( Category: Neurology November 14,2014 )
The Autistic Brain by Temple Grandin & Richard Panek
epub |eng | 2013-04-29 | Author:Temple Grandin & Richard Panek [Grandin, Temple & Panek, Richard]

1. The rifle target iris from the opening credits of James Bond movies 2. Camera iris 3. Bike wheel 4. Periscope image of a boat 5. Round bison facility (which ...
( Category: Neurology November 13,2014 )
The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond
mobi |eng | 1990-12-31 | Author:Jared Diamond

TWELVE ALONE IN A CROWDED UNIVERSE While humans are unique among Earth's species, the enormous number of stars suggests that intelligent creatures like us must have evolved elsewhere in the ...
( Category: Physical November 11,2014 )
Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution Of Human Sexuality
mobi |eng | 1997-01-01 | Author:Jared Diamond

First, concealed ovulation. Figure 4.3 By combining facts about modern observed species with inferences about ancestral species, one can infer the mating system prevailing when ovulatory signals underwent evolutionary change. ...
( Category: General November 11,2014 )
Why Is Sex Fun? by Jared Diamond
epub |eng | 2011-05-29 | Author:Jared Diamond

Step 4. To identify these changes of function, Sillén-Tullberg and Møller got the bright idea of studying the family tree of living primate species. They thereby hoped to identify the ...
( Category: General November 11,2014 )
Microcosm by Carl Zimmer
epub |eng | 2008-05-06 | Author:Carl Zimmer [Zimmer, Carl]

ASSEMBLING ASSASSINS Among its many accomplishments, open-source evolution has produced a lot of ways for us to get sick. When Kiyoshi Shiga discovered Shigella, he believed it was a distinct ...
( Category: Microbiology November 11,2014 )
Origin of Species (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Charles Darwin
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Darwin

Causes of the Sterility of first Crosses and of Hybrids.—We may now look a little closer at the probable causes of the sterility of first crosses and of hybrids. These ...
( Category: Developmental Biology November 11,2014 )
Did Darwin Write the Origin Backwards?: Philosophical Essays on Darwin's Theory by Elliott Sober
epub |eng | | Author:Elliott Sober [Sober, Elliott]

I have long regretted that I truckled to public opinion, and used the Pentateuchal term of creation, by which I really meant “appeared” by some wholly unknown process. It is ...
( Category: Molecular Biology November 11,2014 )
Survival of the Beautiful by David Rothenberg
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:David Rothenberg

Fig. 30. Razzacam, an as-yet-unsold camouflage pattern from the HyperStealth Corporation. Put this idea into camouflage and you can dither it into overlapping scales, like adding the leaves to trees, ...
( Category: Aesthetics November 11,2014 )
The Mind of the Market by Michael Shermer
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Shermer

Happiness is a subjective state of well-being that depends on relative frames of reference, grounded in an evolved psychology that finds meaning in the simple social pleasures and purposes of ...
( Category: Theory November 7,2014 )
Think Smart A Neuroscientist's Prescription for Improving Your Brain's Performance by Richard Restak
epub |eng | 2014-10-12 | Author:Richard Restak [Restak, Richard]

Spell More Challenging Words In order to learn a new word, it’s necessary to spell it correctly. In an age of spell-checkers, finely honed spelling skills seem less important to ...
( Category: Biology November 7,2014 )
The Compass of Pleasure: How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning, and Gambling Feel So Good by Linden David J
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-13 | Author:Linden, David J. [Linden, David J.]

What does this vole research tell us about our own behavior? Human sexual and social behavior shares some similarities with that of rodents, but has some important differences as well. ...
( Category: Biology November 7,2014 )
The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human by Gottschall Jonathan
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-04-09 | Author:Gottschall, Jonathan [Gottschall, Jonathan]

VIRTUE REWARDED The Greek philosopher Plato banished poets and storytellers from his ideal republic for, among other sins, peddling immoral fare. And Plato’s was just the first in a long ...
( Category: General November 7,2014 )
Black Holes and Time Warps by Kip Thorne
mobi |eng | 2014-11-04 | Author:Kip Thorne

(a) Karl Jansky and the antenna with which he discovered, in 1952, cosmic radio waves from our galaxy, (b) Grote Reber, ca 1940. (c) The world’s first radio telescope, constructed ...
( Category: Microbiology November 7,2014 )
Self Comes to Mind by Antonio Damasio
epub |eng | 2011-08-29 | Author:Antonio Damasio [Damasio, Antonio]

Figure 8.3 : The brain-stem nuclei involved in generating the core self. As shown in Figure 4.1, several brain-stem nuclei work together to ensure homeostasis. But the homeostasis-related nuclei project ...
( Category: Neurology November 6,2014 )

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