Evolution
epub |eng | 2015-11-03 | Author:Stephen Rothman

THE TELEOLOGY OF DANGER It should be understood that introducing purpose into biology is not an argument for higher purposes. As I have described them, they are ordinary, not higher ...
( Category: Biochemistry December 11,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-12-09 | Author:Christopher Ryan

Without access to the skeletal data on body-size dimorphism we have today, Darwin speculated that early humans may have lived in a harem-based system. But we now know that if ...
( Category: General December 10,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-15 | Author:Francis Fukuyama

The Tabula Rasa Filled In Much of what we have learned in recent years about human nature concerns, as we will see below, the species-typical ways in which we perceive, ...
( Category: Biotechnology December 4,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-01-14 | Author:Hank Hanegraaff [Hanegraaff, Hank]

From a purely logical point of view it should be self-evident that nothing comes from nothing. In other words, it is illogical to believe that something could come from nothing. ...
( Category: Science & Religion November 24,2015 )
epub |eng | 1994-10-06 | Author:Richard Leakey [Leakey, Richard]

FIGURE 5.1 Neanderthal relations. Neanderthals share some features with Homo sapiens, such as a large brain, and some with Homo erectus, such as a long, low skull and prominent brow ...
( Category: Physical November 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-03 | Author:Nora Roberts [Roberts, Nora]

She felt odd as she wrapped the towel around her freshly scrubbed body. Different. It was something that could never be explained to a man, she supposed. They lost nothing ...
( Category: Sisters November 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-06-01 | Author:Fazale Rana [Rana, Fazale]

Figure 10.2. Protein Synthesis at the Ribosome The mechanism of protein synthesis involves the binding of tRNA–amino acid adducts to the A site and the subsequent transfer of the amino ...
( Category: Science & Religion November 8,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Wendy Williams

The ethereal reindeer and horse of El Castillo Cave (Courtesy of Paul Bahn) We can tell from this art that, although horse population numbers were dropping, horses continued to be ...
( Category: Horses November 8,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-06-30 | Author:Simon Conway Morris [Morris, Simon Conway]

FOOLING AROUND The exuberance of play—sometimes its edginess and irony, not to mention being helpless with laughter (a perhaps all-too-common occurrence in reading this book)—remind us that at heart the ...
( Category: Cell Biology November 4,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Humphrey, Nicholas

Our mental conditions are simply the symbols in consciousness of the changes which take place automatically in the organism. . . . [Thus] the feeling we call volition is not ...
( Category: Neuropsychology November 2,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-03 | Author:Wood, Bernard

Time chart of “possible” early hominin species. Orrorin The second oldest potential primitive hominin species is Orrorin tugenensis, the name given to fossils found in sediments in the Tugen Hills ...
( Category: Developmental Biology November 1,2015 )
epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Paul Davies [Davies, Paul]

CHAPTER 7 Superbugs IN THE LATE 1920S, the Egyptian capital of Cairo was plagued by a spate of main drain collapses. Investigations revealed that the concrete lining of the sewer ...
( Category: Biology November 1,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-05-23 | Author:Antony Latham [Latham, Antony]

The Bacterial Flagellum It is easy to assume that the mechanisms in the lowly bacterium are somehow less sophisticated than in so-called higher animals. You would be wrong. Some bacteria ...
( Category: Biochemistry October 31,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-20 | Author:Ian Tattersall [Tattersall, Ian]

East African hominid fossils discussed in this chapter. Left: “Lucy” skeleton, MNE AL 288, from Hadar, Ethiopia, assigned to Australopithecus afarensis. Upper right: Bodo cranium from Middle Awash, Ethiopia, first ...
( Category: Paleontology October 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 1999-08-04 | Author:Richard Dawkins [Dawkins, Richard]

9 Selfish DNA, Jumping Genes, and a Lamarckian Scare This chapter will be a somewhat miscellaneous one, gathering together the results of my brief and foolhardy incursions into the hinterlands ...
( Category: Genetics October 20,2015 )