Evolution
epub |eng | 2014-01-31 | Author:Avise, John C.
The Conceptual Revolution Scientists had long suspected that particular organelles (notably mitochondria and chloroplasts) contain their own tiny snippets of genetic material, separate from the cell’s primary genome housed within ...
( Category:
Ecology
May 13,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2005-10-12 | Author:Lane, Nick [Lane, Nick]
Proton leak But there is a diabolical catch. We have seen that the muscles contribute little to the resting metabolic rate: the danger of oxygen toxicity means that blood is ...
( Category:
Cell Biology
May 13,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:Nicholson Baker
LITTLE INJURY TODAY, actually. I was carrying my computer downstairs in order to continue the cleanup of my office, which is progressing well, although slowly. I thought if I get ...
( Category:
Humorous
May 7,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Nicholas Wade [Wade, Nicholas]
Effects on Social and Individual Behavior From the broad sweep of Fukuyama’s analysis, a clear pattern emerges. Each of the major civilizations of Eurasia developed a characteristic set of institutions ...
( Category:
Ethnic Studies
May 6,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-27 | Author:Greg Graffin & Steve Olson
From my earliest childhood, my parents encouraged and highly valued creativity. My dad’s favorite gifts around holidays and birthdays were oil paints, sable brushes, and plastic models of aircraft or ...
( Category:
Science & Religion
May 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-21 | Author:Carl Sagan [Sagan, Carl]
A nest of Protoceratops eggs from the Cretaceous of the Mongolian People’s Republic. Courtesy of The American Museum of Natural History The immobilization hypothesis seems particularly apt in light of ...
( Category:
Developmental Biology
April 19,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-02-25 | Author:Charles Darwin
Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection as Applied to Instincts: Neuter and Sterile Insects It has been objected to the foregoing view of the origin of instincts that “the ...
( Category:
Organic
April 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-07 | Author:Gregory Chaitin [Chaitin, Gregory]
There is a beautiful essay on the web about this by the quantum computer complexity theorist Scott Aaronson, “Who Can Name the Biggest Number?,” which I highly recommend and which ...
( Category:
Discrete Mathematics
April 17,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Midgley, Mary
This again is melodrama. A casino is a human institution, devised to serve specific human motives. ‘Chance’ in a casino context means the deliberate randomizing of a small section of ...
( Category:
Modern
April 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Charles Krauthammer [Charles Krauthammer]
ESSAY: ON THE ETHICS OF EMBRYONIC RESEARCH THE PROBLEM You were once a single cell. Every one of the 100 trillion cells in your body today is a direct descendant ...
( Category:
Commentary & Opinion
April 13,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-20 | Author:Jean M. Auel
Spring followed close on the heels of a heavy snow. Flooding kept them all restricted, Whinney more than the others. Ayla could climb to the steppes above, and Baby could ...
( Category:
Family Saga
April 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-28 | Author:Goering, Richard & Dockrell, Hazel & Zuckerman, Mark & Roitt, Ivan & Chiodini, Peter L. [Goering, Richard]
( Category:
Genetics
April 3,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-09 | Author:Davies, Jamie A. [Davies, Jamie A.]
13 WIRED Only Connect! … Live in fragments no longer. E. M. Forster Of all of the organs that the human foetus develops, the central nervous system is surely the ...
( Category:
Genetics
April 2,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2010-01-21 | 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
March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1990-05-01 | Author:David Brin [Brin, David]
As his duties expanded, taking him from the regulated pools and fountains of the recycling dome to the rain forest habitat to the enclosed plain where elands stretched their legs ...
( Category:
Hard Science Fiction
March 27,2014 )
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