Evolution
epub |eng | 2015-01-06 | Author:Matt Wilkinson

THE SPICE OF LIFE Up to now we’ve assumed that once activated, the repeated appendage developmental modules pay no attention to the GPS coordinates given by the Wnt/BMP gradients. But ...
( Category: Natural History March 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-01 | Author:Ted Anton [Anton, Ted]

10 Live Long and Prosper: 2009–2010 December fog hugged the Pacific coast as I drove to one of the new labs in the study of longevity genes. Andy Dillin, now ...
( Category: Physiology March 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-15 | Author:William H. Calvin

RATIONAL argument alone often cannot overcome those who simply and passionately believe. Yet logic is often bent and distorted in the service of those belief systems; it can even override ...
( Category: Neurology February 16,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-06-08 | Author:Jacky Colliss Harvey

In fact the days of the smooth and perfect limbs of the Salon nudes were already numbered. Over the Channel the French Impressionists were also creating works in which redheads ...
( Category: Natural History February 3,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dylan Evans

Many bacteria live inside us all. We could not survive without them and they could not survive without us. They have co-evolved with us in a co-operative relationship that biologists ...
( Category: Evolution February 2,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-03-28 | Author:Gerald E. Schneider [Schneider, Gerald E.]

Readings Altman, J., & Das, G. D. (1965). Post-natal origin of microneurones in the rat brain. Nature, 207, 953–956. See also the Altman papers listed in the Intermission after chapter ...
( Category: Neurology January 24,2016 )
epub |eng | 2001-08-23 | Author:Friedrich Nietzsche [Nietzsche, Friedrich]

153 Homo poeta.27 – ‘I myself, who most single-handedly made this tragedy of tragedies, insofar as it is finished; I, having first tied the knot of morality into existence and ...
( Category: Modern January 19,2016 )
epub, azw, pdf |eng | 2015-10-27 | Author:Joseph Henrich [Henrich, Joseph]

Sonority A successful communicator is one who can most effectively be understood, given the local social, environmental, or ecological conditions. As young or naïve learners focus on and learn from ...
( Category: General January 18,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-26 | Author:Catling, David C. [Catling, David C.]

An inside view of terrestrial life: the cell We have just considered biology on a global scale but under the microscope all organisms are composed of cells of different types ...
( Category: Astronomy January 10,2016 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2007-06-04 | Author:Michael J. Behe [Behe, Michael J.]

DARWIN MEETS MICHELSON-MORLEY P. falciparum, HIV, and E. coli are all very, very different from each other. They range from the simple to the complex, have very different life cycles, ...
( Category: Science & Religion January 6,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-23 | Author:Holland, Peter [Holland, Peter]

In the true flies, Diptera, the ancestral hind-wings have been modified into tiny club-shaped ‘halteres’. These are vibrated up and down during flight, out of phase with the flapping of ...
( Category: Zoology January 5,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-06-25 | Author:Charlesworth, Brian & Deborah Charlesworth [Charlesworth, Brian]

To illustrate selection of an advantageous mutation, consider the arms race between humans and rats, in which we try to develop rat poisons, and rats evolve resistance. The rat poison ...
( Category: France December 21,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bill Mesler

J. B. S. Haldane in 1941. During his college years at Eton, Haldane so distinguished himself in the sciences that many of his fellow students felt as if he was ...
( Category: Biology December 21,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-11-05 | Author:Lee Spetner

Whales, dolphins, and bats are the only mammals that have echolocation systems. These systems enable the animal to “see” by means of sound waves, as in naval sonar systems. The ...
( Category: Biology December 14,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-02-21 | Author:Howard, Jonathan [Howard, Jonathan]

6. The final form of the thought pictures shown in chapter 3 and the only illustration in the Origin of Species. The diagram depicts the evolution of ancient lineages A–L ...
( Category: Scientists December 14,2015 )