Evolution
epub |eng | 2005-06-06 | Author:David Plotz
CHAPTER 8 THE SECRET OF DONOR WHITE A year passed, and I didn’t hear from Donor White. Lots of people offered to help me find him. Two private detectives volunteered ...
( Category:
Genetics
November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:David Rothenberg
Fig. 30. Razzacam, an as-yet-unsold camouflage pattern from the HyperStealth Corporation. Put this idea into camouflage and you can dither it into overlapping scales, like adding the leaves to trees, ...
( Category:
Aesthetics
November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-11-10 | Author:Frans de Waal [Waal, Frans de]
Pointing Primates Nikkie, a chimpanzee, once showed me how to manipulate attention. He had gotten used to my throwing wild berries across the moat at the zoo where I worked. ...
( Category:
Mammals
November 11,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-02-06 | Author:Richard Dawkins
CHAPTER 4. GOD'S UTILITY FUNCTION {95} My clerical correspondent of the previous chapter found faith through a wasp. Charles Darwin lost his with the help of another: “I cannot persuade ...
( Category:
Genetics
November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Shermer
Happiness is a subjective state of well-being that depends on relative frames of reference, grounded in an evolved psychology that finds meaning in the simple social pleasures and purposes of ...
( Category:
Theory
November 7,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-04-01 | Author:Wilson, Edward O. [Wilson, Edward O.]
• 19 • The Emergence of a New Theory of Eusociality THE EVOLUTIONARY ORIGIN of any complex biological system can be reconstructed correctly only if viewed as the culmination of ...
( Category:
General
November 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-13 | Author:Linden, David J. [Linden, David J.]
What does this vole research tell us about our own behavior? Human sexual and social behavior shares some similarities with that of rodents, but has some important differences as well. ...
( Category:
Biology
November 7,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-04-09 | Author:Gottschall, Jonathan [Gottschall, Jonathan]
VIRTUE REWARDED The Greek philosopher Plato banished poets and storytellers from his ideal republic for, among other sins, peddling immoral fare. And Plato’s was just the first in a long ...
( Category:
General
November 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-29 | Author:Antonio Damasio [Damasio, Antonio]
Figure 8.3 : The brain-stem nuclei involved in generating the core self. As shown in Figure 4.1, several brain-stem nuclei work together to ensure homeostasis. But the homeostasis-related nuclei project ...
( Category:
Neurology
November 6,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Peter Matthiessen & Jane Goodall [Matthiessen, Peter]
Until recent years, when the elephant herds have become concentrated in game reserves and parks, it has been difficult to study elephants, since one could not stay close enough to ...
( Category:
Nature Writing & Essays
October 31,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-10-29 | Author:Richard Dawkins
CHAPTER 7 CONSTRUCTIVE EVOLUTION People sometimes think that natural selection is a purely negative force, capable of weeding out freaks and failures, but not capable of building up complexity, beauty ...
( Category:
Biology
October 27,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2009-10-06 | Author:Richard Dawkins
Cellular family tree of Caenorhabditis elegans Embryology seems complicated – is complicated – but it is easy to grasp the important point, which is that we are dealing with local ...
( Category:
Organic
October 27,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-09-30 | Author:Daniel Lieberman [Lieberman, Daniel]
* * * FIGURE 22. Compression of morbidity among graduates of the University of Pennsylvania. The subjects were divided into different risk categories based on BMI, smoking, and exercise habits. ...
( Category:
Anatomy
October 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-02-25 | Author:Geoffrey Miller
For example, I was involved in a couple of studies that examined relationships between intelligence and brain size, and intelligence and body symmetry. The psychologist Lars Penke and I reviewed ...
( Category:
Consumer Behavior
October 27,2014 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-02-26 | Author:Geoffrey Miller
• sizes of specific cortical areas (such as lateral and medial prefrontal cortex and posterior parietal cortex) • concentrations in the brain of particular neurochemicals (such as N-acetyl-aspartate) • age ...
( Category:
Consumer Behavior
October 27,2014 )
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