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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition) by Charles Darwin
epub |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:Charles Darwin [Darwin, Charles]

Causes of the Sterility of first Crosses and of Hybrids.—We may now look a little closer at the probable causes of the sterility of first crosses and of hybrids. These ...
( Category: Engineering September 15,2020 )
Riveted--The Science of Why Jokes Make Us Laugh, Movies Make Us Cry, and Religion Makes Us Feel One with the Universe by Jim Davies
epub |eng | 2014-06-03 | Author:Jim Davies

6 Our Psychological Biases We evolved to survive and flourish in the world we happen to live in. But during the course of our lifetimes, we also learn to deal ...
( Category: Evolution September 10,2020 )
Twilight of the Gods by Ian W. Toll
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ian W. Toll

Nearing the beach, the coxswains struggled to keep the little flat-bottomed craft from broaching. Six-foot waves lifted the boats and set them down hard, with a crunch of coarse sand ...
( Category: Historical Biographies September 9,2020 )
The First Human by Ann Gibbons
epub |eng | 2006-09-14 | Author:Ann Gibbons

Lucy’s status as earliest hominid had been usurped by A. ramidus. The reaction to the ascension of A. ramidus to Lucy’s place of honor as matriarch of the human family ...
( Category: Action & Adventure September 6,2020 )
Statistical Population Genomics by Unknown
epub |eng | | Author:Unknown

3.2 Empirical Results Several empirical results have confirmed the theoretical predictions regarding the population genetics effects of selfing. Figure 3 summarizes some empirical population genetics results from selfing and outcrossing ...
( Category: Computer Software September 2,2020 )
Mobile Life. Settled Life. The origins of social sex differences. by Iwao Otsuka
epub |eng | | Author:Iwao Otsuka

(First published June 2020) Home and family as a settled group The home is the bastion of the woman who is a life investor, globally. Any woman who is a ...
( Category: Evolution September 1,2020 )
The Darwin Awards: Intelligent Design by Wendy Northcutt
epub |eng | 2006-10-25 | Author:Wendy Northcutt [Northcutt, Wendy]

Reference: David R. Organ, Personal Account; Edmonton Journal * * * Readers say bison aren’t just strong, they’re also quick. They have seen a buffalo cow toss a pesky calf ...
( Category: Evolution September 1,2020 )
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos by M. Mitchell Waldrop
epub |eng | 2019-10-01 | Author:M. Mitchell Waldrop [Waldrop, M. Mitchell]

The talk was a hit—especially when Holland pointed out to his audience that Samuel’s program was still pretty much the state of the art in checkers playing some thirty years ...
( Category: Evolution August 31,2020 )
The Invention of the Modern Dog by Michael Worboys Julie-Marie Strange and Neil Pemberton
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Worboys, Julie-Marie Strange, and Neil Pemberton

The only elaboration he made of his schema was with respect to his first point on “quality,” which he described as having to do with “ ‘blood,’ nervous development, vigour, ...
( Category: Evolution August 30,2020 )
North America Before the European Invasions by Alice Beck Kehoe
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-11-11 | Author:Alice Beck Kehoe

Cahokia is bigger by far than any other archaeological site north of central Mexico. It filled the Mississippi River floodplain at what is now St. Louis with well over one ...
( Category: European History August 30,2020 )
Genomic Selection for Crop Improvement by Rajeev K. Varshney Manish Roorkiwal & Mark E. Sorrells
epub |eng | | Author:Rajeev K. Varshney, Manish Roorkiwal & Mark E. Sorrells

Bernardo R, Yu J (2007) Prospects for genome-wide selection for quantitative traits in maize. Crop Sci 47:1082–1090Crossref Bertioli DJ, Cannon SB, Froenicke L, Huang G, Farmer AD et al (2016) ...
( Category: Evolution August 30,2020 )
Planet of the Bugs by Scott Richard Shaw
epub |eng | 2014-08-14 | 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: Evolution August 30,2020 )
The Origin of Snakes by Michael Wayne Caldwell
epub |eng | 2019-06-10 | Author:Michael Wayne Caldwell

The Postcranial Skeleton Basics of the Postcranium and “Short Tails” While it is a commonly recognized fact that modern snake lizards are legless, having lost the fore- and rear limbs, ...
( Category: Evolution August 29,2020 )
Tales from the Ant World by Edward O. Wilson
epub, azw3 |eng | 2020-08-14 | Author:Edward O. Wilson

For a moment I was desperate, like perhaps a Cataglyphis realizing there is no entrance at the end of her long walk home. Think, think. Here is my Cataglyphis-like solution. ...
( Category: Children's Animals Books August 29,2020 )
Numberland: The World in Numbers by Mitchell Symons
epub |eng | 2014-09-01 | Author:Mitchell Symons [Symons, Mitchell]

999,999 The 762nd to 767th digits of pi are 999999. 1,274,953,680 The number that uses all the digits 0–9 that can also be divided by any number from 1 to ...
( Category: Evolution August 29,2020 )

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