Evolution
epub |eng | 2016-12-29 | Author:David Beerling

In his research on gases, Tyndall convincingly demonstrated that ‘perfectly colourless and invisible gases’ differed enormously in their abilities to absorb radiant heat. He correctly identified carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous ...
( Category: Paleontology February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Misty Blowers

WWII Missiles WWII was the first war to use rocket-powered missiles – a weapon developed by the Germans during the war called the V2 rocket. Germans used the V2 rockets ...
( Category: Storage & Retrieval February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-26 | Author:Maggie Ryan Sandford & Rodica Prato

Skull of Felis catus. From specimen collector Hubert Ludwig’s book Schul-Naturgeschichte (School of Natural History), 1891. Under it all, though, cat eyes and human eyes have a lot in common. ...
( Category: Wildlife February 22,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Steven Vogel

9 Cleaning Surfaces Fall has now turned to winter, and my annual raking again impresses me with the enormous area of leaf put out every year by a modest number ...
( Category: Botany February 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-14 | Author:Ardrey, Robert [Ardrey, Robert]

6. The Cultural Animal A gull called the kittiwake very long ago made what many would describe as a cultural advance. This set in motion a long series of biological ...
( Category: Evolution February 21,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mindia E. Salukvadze & Vladislav I. Zhukovskiy

An ordered quadruple forms a noncooperative two-player game under uncertainty. Here 1 and 2 are the numbers of players; their strategies are . By choosing specific strategies, the players construct ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure February 21,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2014-05-29 | Author:D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson & John Tyler Bonner

Fig. 64. (a) Bubble suspended within a cubical cage; (b) Lithocubus geometricus Hkl. Again, if we construct a cage in the form of an equilateral triangular prism, and proceed as ...
( Category: Developmental Biology February 21,2020 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1993-02-20 | Author:Paul Feyerabend

14 Galileo’s inquiries formed only a small part of the so-called Copernican Revolution. Adding the remaining elements makes it still more difficult to reconcile the development with familiar principles of ...
( Category: Anarchism February 21,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Daniel Deardorff

I say that one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. . . . The poet makes himself a seer by a long prodigious, and rational disordering of all ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology February 20,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dilip Hiro

BIRTH PANGS OF KAZAKH NATIONALISM On that day, the state-run media announced that, following the resignation of Kunayev as the CPK’s first secretary due to “poor health and old age,” ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism February 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-24 | Author:Deborah Tannen [Tannen, Deborah]

Emily prevented future attacks by agreeing with Alice’s statement about the balloon and inviting her to join their play. But by doing the inviting, Emily maintained her position as the ...
( Category: Rhetoric February 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-18 | Author:Adam Rutherford

And Death Shall Have No Dominion Briefly, let’s get into one last sexual act that has a precisely zero percent chance of resulting in conception: necrophilia. There is not much ...
( Category: Genetics February 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-09 | Author:David A. Sinclair & Matthew D. LaPlante [Sinclair, David A. & LaPlante, Matthew D.]

( Category: Genetic February 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Nicolelis, Miguel

Forthwith Ajax, son of Telamon, slew the fair youth Simöeisius, son of Anthemion, whom his mother bore by the banks of the Simois, as she was coming down from Mount ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology February 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-14 | Author:Matthew T. Carrano & Kirk R. Johnson & Jay Matternes

Strangely Spiked Skulls Syndoceras was a type of protoceratid, a now-extinct group of hoofed mammals with bony horns like those of today’s pronghorn and cattle. The forked nose horn was ...
( Category: Plants & Animals February 18,2020 )