Biology
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Ellis

In other words, we’re all in this together: parrots, houseflies, killer whales, spiders, hippos, cassowaries, corals, crabs, dugongs, dingos, flamingos, anacondas, ants, bees, beagles, beetles, beavers, leopards, iguanas, ducks, platypuses, ...
( Category: Fish & Sharks April 11,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2007-03-16 | Author:Kandel, Eric R. [Kandel, Eric R.]

WITH THE TOOLS OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND THE SUPPORT of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in hand, we could now address questions about genes and memory. Since 1961 my experimental ...
( Category: Neurology April 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-08 | Author:Dale Purves [Purves, Dale]

The difficulty of explaining lightness or brightness perceptions is compounded by the absence of any cortical region dedicated to processing luminance. And although a relatively close link exists between light ...
( Category: Biology April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Heidi M. Ravven [Ravven, Heidi M.]

Can anyone ever engage in open-minded, non–post hoc reasoning [i.e., moral reasoning that does not consist in rationalizations after the fact] in private? Yes . . . [but that is] ...
( Category: Free Will & Determinism April 8,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Alexander Rosenberg [Rosenberg, Alexander]

CHAPTER NINE Holism and Antireductionism in Sociology and Psychology Among social scientists there is a long tradition of insisting that the distinctive subject matter of their sciences are facts that ...
( Category: Methodology April 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Giancarlo Genta

16 The Fourteenth Fleet The round trip to Isqaht, Ytl and Gorkh’ar took more than a month, and Tom got back to the Gatlaat system on the 35th day. The ...
( Category: Regional April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-07 | Author:Avise, John

Factoid: Did you know? Gestational diabetes occurs in about 4% of human pregnancies, meaning that approximately 135,000 pregnant women per year experience this condition in the United States alone. Factoid: ...
( Category: Marine Biology April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Desmond Morris

* * * HAND PURSE (5) Meaning: Many. Action: The hand is held in front of the body, with the fingertips bunched together and then opened and closed slightly several ...
( Category: Biology April 3,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-23 | Author:David Wolfe [DAVID W . WOLFE]

To determine whether his worms could hear, Darwin got the entire family involved. He noted that the worms “took not the least notice of the shrill notes of a metal ...
( Category: Natural History April 3,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Irene Pepperberg

Not too long before we left Chicago, Alex gave me a terrible scare. In early September 1990, I returned from a short trip and found a message from a student ...
( Category: Ornithology April 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-01 | Author:James R. Doty, MD

SEVEN Unacceptable Just under the cerebrum, and in front of the cerebellum, sits the brainstem. If you imagine the cerebrum as a world-famous rock star on a concert tour, the ...
( Category: Biology March 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-13 | Author:Jonathan Weiner [Weiner, Jonathan]

CHAPTER TWELVE Cloning an Instinct No doubt the process of decipherment was difficult, but only by accomplishing it could one arrive at whatever truth there was to read. —MARCEL PROUST, ...
( Category: Physiological Aspects March 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2008-03-13 | Author:Vincent Carruthers

Dimensions For small mammals, dimensions given are the body length from the tip of the snout to the base of the tail, plus the length of the tail. For large ...
( Category: Wildlife March 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-27 | Author:Jones, Russell L.; Ougham, Helen; Thomas, Howard & Helen Ougham & Howard Thomas & Susan Waaland

11.4 Cell Cycle Control during Development In contrast to animals, plants can continue to form new organs and tissues throughout their life span. They can do this because they have ...
( Category: Molecular Biology March 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-26 | Author:Sy Montgomery

— 9 — The Kingdom of a Million Elephants Perhaps in the Pleistocene, the Cardamoms were an upland refuge when the lowlands were too dry,” Gary mused. “It’s hard “ ...
( Category: Bears March 14,2016 )