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A Planet of Viruses by Zimmer Carl
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-14 | Author:Zimmer, Carl [Zimmer, Carl]

Proteins like APOBEC3 disable endogenous retroviruses, but they don’t eliminate them. Over millions of years, our genomes have picked up a vast amount of DNA from dead viruses. Each of ...
( Category: Microbiology March 25,2014 )
Reef Madness by David Dobbs
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-10-14 | Author:David Dobbs

4 Even as he was composing his Chile notes, Darwin was turning his mind west. The Beagle, having finished its laborious survey of the South American coast, was making ready ...
( Category: Marine Life March 25,2014 )
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions by David Quammen
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 1996-01-02 | Author:David Quammen

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: Endangered Species March 25,2014 )
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1993-01-01 | Author:Matt Ridley

The Rewards of Violence If reproduction has been the reward and goal of power and wealth, then it is little wonder that it has also been a frequent cause, and ...
( Category: Organic March 25,2014 )
Sweetness and Light: The Mysterious History of the Honeybee by Hattie Ellis
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-04-25 | Author:Hattie Ellis

How to track down wild honeybees in eighteenth-century America. On the other hand, Patrick Campbell, in his Travels in the Interior Inhabited Parts of North America in the years 1791 ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders March 25,2014 )
Honeybee Democracy by Thomas D. Seeley
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2010-09-20 | Author:Thomas D. Seeley

Heinrich discovered many marvelous things about temperature regulation in honeybee swarms, all of which are key to understanding how a swarm prepares to fly to its new home. First, he ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders March 25,2014 )
Adventures Among Ants by Mark W. Moffett
mobi |eng | 2011-12-01 | 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: Insects & Spiders March 25,2014 )
Winter World by Heinrich Bernd
mobi |eng | 2007-07-16 | Author:Heinrich, Bernd [Heinrich, Bernd]

14 INSECTS: FROM THE DIVERSITY TO THE LIMITS It seems astounding to us that some frogs can survive months being frozen, or that a bird as small as a kinglet ...
( Category: Wildlife March 25,2014 )
Extraterrestrial Civilizations by Isaac Asimov
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-04-20 | Author:Isaac Asimov

HABITABILITY The mere fact that a planet is in the ecosphere does not mean that it is a suitable abode for life; that it is habitable, in other words. For ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 25,2014 )
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations by David R. Montgomery
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-10-02 | Author:David R. Montgomery

Figure 15. Map of the Piedmont region of the southeastern United States showing the net depth of topsoil eroded from colonial times to i98o (modified from Meade i98z, 241, fig. ...
( Category: Soil Science March 25,2014 )
A Devil's Chaplain: Selected Writings by Richard Dawkins
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-06 | Author:Richard Dawkins

The Infected Mind I have already alluded to the programmed-in gullibility of a child, so useful for learning language and traditional wisdom, and so easily subverted by nuns, Moonies and ...
( Category: Biology March 25,2014 )
The Biology of Belief by Bruce H. Lipton
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2008-09-15 | Author:Bruce H. Lipton

CHAPTER 5 BIOLOGY AND BELIEF In 1952 a young British physician made a mistake. It was a mistake that was to bring short-lived scientific glory to Dr. Albert Mason. Mason ...
( Category: Cell Biology March 25,2014 )
Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science, and Evolution by David Rothenberg
mobi |eng | 2012-03-01 | 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: Biology March 25,2014 )
Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science by Richard Preston
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-05-27 | Author:Richard Preston

3. Identification IN PAVILION THREE of the Kikwit General Hospital, Dr. Mpia Bwaka collected samples of blood from fourteen of his patients. Somebody drove the samples over the terrible road ...
( Category: Cultural March 25,2014 )
Being a green mother by Piers Anthony
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-22 | Author:Piers Anthony

Chapter 10 - NATASHA The Sludge continued to tour, and Orb continued to explore the powers of the melodies that had come to her. They rehearsed while traveling in Jonah ...
( Category: Biology March 25,2014 )

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