Evolution
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-06-04 | Author:Walter Mosley [Mosley, Walter]

Sixteen GRAY MAN WALKED THROUGH the towering forest, unconcerned with the beauty of the redwoods, unconvinced by their grandeur. His leather dress shoes were broken, his black jacket torn. Gray ...
( Category: Science Fiction July 31,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-28 | Author:Tim Spector [SPECTOR, TIM]

Willpower and marshmallows Jenny and Florence looked very similar but were always fighting. Until we first tested them at the age of 40 they had no idea they were identical ...
( Category: Biotechnology July 31,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Henry Gee [Gee, Henry]

7: The Way We Walk It happened a long time ago, but the experience was so traumatic that I remember it as if it were yesterday—the moment when the outraged, ...
( Category: Paleobiology July 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-18 | Author:Fairbanks, Daniel J. [Fairbanks, Daniel J.]

It is nothing short of spectacular that scientists have found so much evidence of evolution in so many diverse places—in fossils entombed in sequential layers of sedimentary rocks, in molecules ...
( Category: Genetics July 19,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-07-11 | Author:Katie McKissick [McKissick, Katie]

To understand how this one piddly gene affects something as complex as vision, we have to go into your eyeballs. But before that, let me take my contacts out. Okay, ...
( Category: Genetics July 12,2014 )
epub |deu | 2010-03-20 | Author:Icons of Evolution [Evolution, Icons of]

Archaeopteryx: The Missing Link • 129 FIGURE 6-4 Feathered Bambiraptor. Recomstructed animal displayed at the April 2000 Florida Symposium on Dinosaur Bird Evolution showing "conceptual integumentary structures." 130 • ICONS ...
( Category: Evolution July 10,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-03-13 | Author:Michael Hayes [Michael Hayes]

7 Extraterrestrial DNA In this chapter we shall be considering some of the further implications of the theory of transcendental evolution. As we have seen, the neo-Darwinian theory of evolution ...
( Category: Numerology July 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2000-03-24 | Author:Edward O. Wilson [Wilson, Edward O.]

Out of this unsentimental calculus of marital conflict and deceit can be drawn a new perception of cuckoldry. When fertilization occurs by insemination, the universal mode of reptiles, birds, and ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication July 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:Steven Johnson

In the late nineties, a Stanford Business School professor named Martin Ruef decided to investigate the relationship between business innovation and diversity. Ruef was interested in the coffeehouse model of ...
( Category: Motivation & Self-Improvement July 6,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2005-08-18 | Author:Ray Kurzweil [Kurzweil, Ray]

. . . on Human Longevity It is one of the most remarkable things that in all of the biological sciences there is no clue as to the necessity of ...
( Category: Intelligence & Semantics July 5,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1998-12-31 | Author:Ray Kurzweil [Kurzweil, Ray]

Disabilities Persons with disabilities are rapidly overcoming their handicaps through the intelligent technology of 2009. Students with reading disabilities routinely ameliorate their disability using print-to-speech reading systems. Print-to-speech reading machines ...
( Category: Intelligence & Semantics July 4,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-23 | Author:Alan Lightman [Lightman, Alan]

Goodness in Every Atom I did not tell my aunt and uncle about Belhor et al.’s latest visit, as I knew their hostility towards him. Nonetheless, Uncle Deva seemed uncannily ...
( Category: Cosmology July 4,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-01 | Author:Tara Rodden Robinson

X-linked dominant traits Like autosomal dominant disorders, X-linked dominant traits don’t skip generations. Every person who inherits the allele expresses the disorder. The family tree in Figure 12-5 shows many ...
( Category: Genetics July 2,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-30 | Author:Barash, David P.

Gossip and “Theory of Mind” Turning now from the visual to the narrative arts, another practical teaching payoff may derive from its role as a vehicle for sharing social information, ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions July 1,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-22 | Author:David Brin [Brin, David]

Chasing squid— In deepest water * There was that sound again! A rapid clicking, coming from not far away. Curse the necessity to keep his neural socket linked to the ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction June 26,2014 )