Biology
epub |eng | 2016-03-01 | Author:Sean B. Carroll [Carroll, Sean B.]

FIGURE 7.3 The real drama of the Serengeti. The elimination of the rinderpest virus and increased consumption of grass by the exploding wildebeest population unleashed trophic cascades that increased the ...
( Category: Developmental Biology January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-09 | Author:Alain Berthoz & Giselle Weiss

The Bottleneck Hypothesis A paradoxical consequence of cerebral vicariance may be bottlenecks in certain areas. For example, damage to the language region on the left side may be compensated for ...
( Category: Biology January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2005-01-15 | Author:Thomson, Keith; [Thomson, Keith;]

Chapter 6 Bringing fossils to life Palaeontology is rarely a glamorous saga of digging up whole skeletons or entire communities preserved intact in a nice soft rock; most often it ...
( Category: Ichthyology January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-27 | Author:Robert E. Kohler

FOREST WALKING AND WATCHING What Goodall saw upon arriving at Gombe was not what Leakey had led her to expect (he never did see the place firsthand). Leakey conjured up ...
( Category: Biology January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-05-01 | Author:Kevin M. Bailey

7: Crimson Tide The Bay of Fundy Weir Fishery and a Conflict with Green Power “I am a fisherman,” Darren Porter said in a thick Scotian accent. “It’s not only ...
( Category: Marine Biology January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Rob DeSalle [DeSalle, Rob]

* * * BOX 12.1 | HEMISPHERECTOMIES This operation is an extreme version of the one performed on Henry Molaison. Of course, doctors would not do this operation if it ...
( Category: Developmental Biology January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-02 | Author:Jean-Marc Drouin & Anne Trager

POLLINATION: A SECRET OF NATURE? The Greeks, who probably inherited such techniques from the Babylonians, already knew that when cultivating date palms, to ensure a good harvest of dates, one ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-30 | Author:Susan Schneider [Susan Schneider]

( Category: Robotics & Automation January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-18 | Author:Marlene Zuk & Leigh W. Simmons

The genetic basis for this unusually complex set of male morphs was published in 2016, when scientists used sophisticated genomic techniques to discover that a single ‘supergene’ composed of 125 ...
( Category: Zoology January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-15 | Author:Jorgensen, Timothy J.; [Jorgensen, Timothy J.;]

WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS World War II disrupted research on the structure of DNA, and it wasn’t until the early 1950s that work resumed in earnest. One might expect that ...
( Category: Molecular Biology January 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2018-08-10 | Author:Marc Wittmann

Notes 1. Karl Jaspers, Psychologie der Weltanschauungen, 3rd ed. (Berlin: Julius Springer, 1925), 112. 2. See, for example, the ideas of the sociologist Hartmut Rosa in Social Acceleration: A New ...
( Category: Neurology January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Anna Ziegler [Ziegler, Anna]

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( Category: United States January 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-06 | Author:Kit Yates

* * * Mathematics provides multiple ways to be economical with the truth. The stats proclaimed in newspapers, championed in ads, or spouted by politicians are frequently misleading, occasionally disingenuous, ...
( Category: Applied January 10,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-07 | Author:Kit Yates

* * * Mathematics provides multiple ways to be economical with the truth. The stats proclaimed in newspapers, championed in ads, or spouted by politicians are frequently misleading, occasionally disingenuous, ...
( Category: Applied January 9,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-06 | Author:Daniel J Levitin

Cholesterol, Fats, and Brain Health Most of us know of the link between cholesterol, dietary fats, and heart disease, but it is interesting, and illuminating, to learn what these mean ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology January 9,2020 )