Evolution
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Jacob Bronowski

It took three years, from 1684 to 1687, before Newton wrote out the proof in full. Halley nursed, wheedled and even financed the Principia. Halley’s letter to Isaac Newton when ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources February 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:Christian De Duve [de Duve, Christian; Patterson, Neil]

III The Human Adventure Introduction W e enter the last episode of the history of life, the one that concerns us most directly, as we are its outcome (most likely ...
( Category: Genetics February 6,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-24 | Author:Randolph M. Nesse

LIFE IN THE STONE AGE Human nature was formed in what anthropologists have recently termed (following a 1966 suggestion by psychiatrist John Bowlby) the environment of evolutionary adaptedness, or EEA. ...
( Category: Anatomy February 3,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Sloan Wilson

FIGURE 7.1 AYN RAND’S WORLDVIEW In short, Rand’s worldview adds a layer of unreality on top of the unreality of Homo economicus. Those who become believers acquire a kind of ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1991-01-28 | Author:Stephen Jay Gould

It was, of course, often done—but rarely said so boldly and without apology. In any case, Caldwell eventually found the eggs of the platypus (usually laid two at a time ...
( Category: Natural History January 29,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-09-30 | Author:Scientific American Editors [Editors, Scientific American]

* * * MAGNETIC MONOPOLES should exist if the Higgs boson exists. Classicall, of course, magnetic monopoles are not found because when a bar magent is cut in half, two ...
( Category: Physics January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 1993-01-28 | Author:Stephen Jay Gould

Towered cities please us then And the busy hum of men. Several years ago I visited India on a trip sponsored by Harvard’s Natural History Museum. My colleagues delighted in ...
( Category: Fauna January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ben Bova

THE GIANT PLANET Jupiter is indeed the giant of the solar system, 11 times wider and nearly 318 times more massive than Earth. Yet this enormous world spins so fast ...
( Category: Cosmology January 29,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2014-07-30 | Author:Miner, Kathy [Miner, Kathy]

THIRTEEN: Naomi and Macy: Manitou Springs, CO Naomi smoothed her hand over Macy’s forehead and pulled the blanket up to snuggle it under her chin. She leaned to kiss her ...
( Category: Metaphysical & Visionary January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Nichols

Much of what FitzRoy “learned” from his dealings with Fuegians must be set against misunderstandings like this—and his reliance on translators who were frequently under coercion. Although they were his ...
( Category: Scientists January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-05 | Author:Marvin Harris [Harris, Marvin]

To questions about when natives could expect electricity, the administrators replied that they would get it as soon as they were able to pay for it and not before. Yali ...
( Category: Evolution January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-30 | Author:Miner, Kathy [Miner, Kathy]

THIRTEEN: Naomi and Macy: Manitou Springs, CO Naomi smoothed her hand over Macy’s forehead and pulled the blanket up to snuggle it under her chin. She leaned to kiss her ...
( Category: Metaphysical & Visionary January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1996-09-01 | Author:Sue Savage-Rumbaugh [Savage-Rumbaugh, Sue]

In this important experiment, Sherman has been shown some bananas being put into a box on his side c a divided room with a window separating him and Austin. Austin ...
( Category: Animal Psychology January 29,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-05-16 | Author:Garreau, Joel [Garreau, Joel]

* * * The Hell Scenario Bill Joy and other advocates of The Hell Scenario see a future in which the advance of The Curve is unstoppable, and unspeakable evil ...
( Category: Social Aspects January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2014-09-10 | Author:Scott Richard Shaw [Shaw, Scott Richard]

FIGURE 7. 1. A xyelid sawfly, Pleroneura californica, a sure sign of spring in Wyoming, is a relict of an ancient insect family that arose during the Triassic period. You’ve ...
( Category: Entomology January 29,2015 )