Evolution
epub |eng | 2017-10-10 | Author:PJ Manney [Manney, PJ]

After 20.7 minutes, a dinghy came to rest at the base of the rocks. A man jumped out of the dinghy and came straight for Tom 2. Time to play ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense February 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-02 | Author:F. Paul Wilson [Wilson, F. Paul]

2 MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE By the time she and Rick set down at Maputo International Airport, Laura was tired enough to cry. They’d left JFK late Monday morning and arrived in ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense February 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-18 | Author:Suzana Herculano-Houzel [Herculano-Houzel, Suzana]

It seems fitting that great apes, elephants, and probably cetaceans have similar numbers of neurons in the cerebral cortex, in the range of 3 to 9 billion: fewer than humans ...
( Category: Evolution January 30,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-05 | Author:Ted Anton [Anton, Ted]

A new world At sunset the nocturnal squid awakens and imbibes its fresh set of bacteria, whose whitish light hides it from predators. But the same bacteria’s cousins cause cholera, ...
( Category: Evolution January 30,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2006-10-31 | Author:Thomas Woodward [Woodward, Thomas]

This concludes my brief sketch of several high points of Mystery. The positive case for design of the first cell, which was only hinted at in the chapters on thermodynamics ...
( Category: Religious Studies January 28,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-27 | Author:Sean P. Graham

Florida kingsnake eating a gartersnake. Photograph by Ian Deery Ironically, snakes are the reptiles responsible for killing the most snakes, and they are the only animals in the United States ...
( Category: Evolution January 27,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-02-17 | Author:Kate Distin [Distin, Kate]

10 Early Cultural Evolution Evolution cannot create something out of nothing, and it is time to ask where memes came from in the first place. What must the minds of ...
( Category: History & Philosophy January 24,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-04 | Author:Eric Simons [Simons, Eric]

When the sailors finished singing and stomped off to work, Darwin and FitzRoy took center stage for a duet about searching for truth (in Darwin’s case) and the work of ...
( Category: Travel Writing January 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-17 | Author:William D. Casebeer [Casebeer, William D.]

6750 CH05 UG 4/2/03 6:57 PM Page 112 112 Chapter 5 Deeply ingrained habits are richly structured cognitive acts that we can’t help but engage in. Automaticity is part and ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling January 24,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-08-18 | Author:Ray Kurzweil [Kurzweil, Ray]

. . . on Human Longevity It is one of the most remarkable things that in all of the biological sciences there is no clue as to the necessity of ...
( Category: Social Sciences January 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-23 | Author:Stephen Jay Gould [Gould, Stephen Jay]

CODA The Burgess work will continue, for many genera remain ripe for restudy (the bulk of the arthropods have been monographed, but only about half of the known weird wonders). ...
( Category: History & Philosophy January 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-17 | Author:Tim Lewens [Lewens, Tim]

book October 9, 2003 11:47 Function, Selection, and Explanation 91 caused past hearts to be selected. Finally, some of the heart’s beneficial effects, although they may contribute to fitness or ...
( Category: History & Philosophy January 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-17 | Author:Jonathan Marks [Marks, Jonathan]

benefits to some scientists who pursue these lines of argument, they are counteracted by the long-term harm both to the science of genetics and to the authority of science generally. ...
( Category: Evolution January 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-16 | Author:J. William Schopf [Schopf, J. William]

Pyrite-based chemolithotrophic metabolic networks 106 Stanley L. Miller and Antonio Lazcano emergent chemical systems synthesized their own organic compounds instead of incorporating ready-made environmental organics. The most articulate proponent of ...
( Category: Evolution January 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-05 | Author:Daniel C. Dennett [Dennett, Daniel C.]

268 BULLY FOR BRONTOSAURUS The Spandrel's Thumb 269 to be a highly successful coinage in one sense: it has spread through evolutionary biology and beyond. In a recent retrospective essay, ...
( Category: Evolution January 24,2018 )