Evolution
epub |eng | 2014-10-14 | Author:Paul D. Taylor,Aaron O'Dea [Taylor, Paul D.]

Losing a skeleton octopus OCTOPUSES ARE PECULIAR CREATURES. With their large eyes and head seemingly capable of accommodating an oversized brain, these molluscs resemble humanoid aliens from a science fiction ...
( Category: Biological Sciences April 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-15 | Author:FRANK H. T. RHODES

Cenozoic Plants To write of Cenozoic plants is to risk confusion, for the Cenozoic, the era of modern life, is based on characteristic fossil animals. Had it been based on ...
( Category: Biological Sciences April 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Love Evolution (epub)

CHAPTER 14 “We plan to release ‘Brothers’ as the first single,” Mary announced to the group as they gathered around the conference table at Black Cat the next morning. “It’s ...
( Category: Evolution April 6,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Darwin

( Category: Evolution April 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-07 | Author:Glenn Croston

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE Taking vitamins is another example of risk compensation. We're told that many people do not receive sufficient vitamins and minerals in their diets due to a ...
( Category: Anthropology April 5,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:E. Fuller Torrey

The second thing that had to happen before the higher gods could emerge was the coming together of a critical mass of people. Groups of hunter-gatherers, which usually numbered fewer ...
( Category: Evolution April 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-05 | Author:Ungar, Peter S.

Working Out the Details It was clear heading into the 1980s that microwear had promise, but that the devil was in the details. Alan Walker had moved once again, this ...
( Category: Evolution April 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-05 | Author:G. A. Bradshaw

Beverly protecting her nest. Photo credit: Roger Repp. Aside from ground squirrels, what other kinds of relationships do rattlesnakes have, and what is known about a rattler’s inner world? For ...
( Category: Biological Sciences April 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-04 | Author:New Scientist

New species in next to no time In the right circumstances, even new species can evolve in next to no time. In 1866, farmers in the US reported that an ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-13 | Author:PZ Myers [Myers, PZ]

One Nation Free of Gods A strange thing has happened to this country: somehow the United States of America has become a biblical entity. I know, the country didn’t even ...
( Category: Evolution April 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 1986-09-01 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut [Vonnegut, Kurt]

( Category: Humor April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-04 | Author:Donovan Webster

The Stone Age, it has been noted in other places, did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended when Homo sapiens made a huge Neolithic-age leap forward ...
( Category: Anthropology April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2006-08-08 | Author:Edward J. Larson

Thomas Hunt Morgan’s 1915 diagram of the Mendelian genetics of eye color in fruit flies, with the mother’s egg containing an X chromosome carrying a gene for red eyes and ...
( Category: Evolution April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-04-04 | Author:Thornhill, Randy; Gangestad, Steven W.;

Estrus Will (Nearly) Always Accompany Extended Female Sexuality In many species, females have estrus with no accompanying extended female sexuality. The converse, however, should occur rarely, if ever: Females should ...
( Category: Evolution April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Philip Lieberman

NEURAL CIRCUITS A discussion on how brains work first entails showing that the traditional theory, proposed in the early years of the nineteenth century, is wrong. Coming of Age in ...
( Category: Evolution April 4,2018 )