Evolution
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 |eng | | Author:Victor K. McElheny

“Get Outside of Hypothesis-Limited Science” Even before the draft human sequences of 2000, one of the first to plunge into human variation was David Altshuler, a physician specializing in endocrinology ...
( Category: Genetics April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-07 | Author:Tim Birkhead

Mixed Encounters The term ‘mule’ originally referred exclusively to the cross-bred offspring of a donkey and a horse but has since been applied to hybrid plants, hybrid fish and in ...
( Category: Ornithology 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 | 2014-04-06 | Author:Steve Olson

Almost all of the world’s 5,000 languages can be sorted into nineteen families. The distributions of these families and of genetic variation bear remarkable similarities, though many of the relationships ...
( Category: Physical April 7,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-29 | Author:Brenda Maddox

Rosalind’s Photograph 51 (shown original size) of the B form of DNA, which told Watson that the molecule was a helix. Events then moved fast. The following day, 31 January, ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American April 3,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-01-20 | Author:Frank Ryan

In 2001, when the first draft of the complete human genome showed that roughly 45 percent of the human genome appeared to be made up of retroviruses, or virus-like entities, ...
( Category: Genetics 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 | 2016-01-04 | Author:John Hands [HANDS, JOHN]

Collaboration Another consequence of adopting the NeoDarwinian model, noted in Chapter 16, was ignoring collaboration as a cause of evolution. However, the examination of behaviour in Chapter 19 led to ...
( Category: Cosmology March 13,2016 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-02-16 | 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 March 13,2016 )
mobi |rus | 2004-06-04 | Author:Ernst Mayr

1979). But the question that is really before us is not so much whether natural selection is now universally adopted by evolutionists – a question one can unhesitatingly answer affirmatively ...
( Category: Zoology March 10,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-04-07 | Author:Brian Skyrms [Skyrms, Brian]

There are various alternatives. It could be that one of these acts is also “right” for state 3. For example, act 1 might be right for state 3. Signaling system ...
( Category: Epistemology March 9,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Dylan Evans

why is she looking at me like that? has she guessed …? Folk Psycology In other words, folk psychology is not just a cultural invention. It is an innate part ...
( Category: Applied Psychology March 7,2016 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2002-10-03 | Author:Stephen Webb [Webb, Stephen]

FIGURE 44: The planetary nebula NGC 7027. Objects like this produce much of the carbon we observe in the Universe. The main producers of cosmic carbon are planetary nebulae, which ...
( Category: Astronomy March 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-05 | Author:Christopher Lloyd

Cow FAMILY: BOVIDAE SPECIES: BOS PRIMIGENIUS RANK: 17 Versatile animals which now pose a serious threat to the global environment Jack’s Mother Was beside herself with fury when her young ...
( Category: Evolution March 6,2016 )