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Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods: Early Humans and the Origins of Religion by E. Fuller Torrey
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-09-05 | Author:E. Fuller Torrey

The second thing that had to happen before the higher gods could emerge was the coming together of a critical mass of people. Groups of hunter-gatherers, which usually numbered fewer ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology January 19,2020 )
Turtles as Hopeful Monsters by Olivier Rieppel
epub |eng | 2016-01-15 | Author:Olivier Rieppel [Rieppel, Olivier]

A German Jew in America Richard Benedict Goldschmidt came, as he himself put it, “from an old German-Jewish family” (Stern, 1967:172; for a review of Goldschmidt’s life and work, see ...
( Category: Reptiles & Amphibians January 19,2020 )
One Hot Summer: Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858 by Rosemary Ashton
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Rosemary Ashton [Ashton, Rosemary]

Disraeli tames the Thames Now that a parliamentary committee had been formed to inquire into the state of the Thames and to come up with a plan to improve it, ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents January 19,2020 )
A Foot in the River by Fernández-Armesto Felipe;
epub |eng | 2015-07-17 | Author:Fernández-Armesto, Felipe;

* * * The next few pages cover the merits and defects of how academics currently attempt to apply evolutionary explanations to cultural change. Apart from memetics, which we can ...
( Category: Social Sciences January 19,2020 )
Power, Sex, Suicide by Lane Nick;
epub |eng | 2018-09-20 | Author:Lane, Nick;

1 How do we reconcile Max Rubner’s exponent of 2/3 with Max Kleiber’s 3/4? The usual answer is that within species the metabolic rate does indeed vary with 2/3, and ...
( Category: Cell Biology January 19,2020 )
The Digital Mind by Arlindo Oliveira
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-04-03 | Author:Arlindo Oliveira

Digital Animals The one-millimeter-long worm Caenorhabditis elegans has a long history in science as a result of its extensive used as a model for the study of simple multi-cellular organisms. ...
( Category: Intelligence & Semantics January 19,2020 )
Dinner with Darwin by Jonathan Silvertown
epub |eng | 2017-06-29 | Author:Jonathan Silvertown [Silvertown, Jonathan]

11 Cheese—Dairying Milk is the only food that we can truthfully say has evolved expressly for our consumption. Cheese is the result of sharing this gift of evolution with other ...
( Category: Natural History January 19,2020 )
The Neuroscience of Emotion: A New Synthesis by Ralph Adolphs
epub |eng | 2018-05-31 | Author:Ralph Adolphs

FIGURE 6.5. Distinct brain regions involved in different types of fear. (A) Schematic illustrating coronal section of a mouse brain indicating hippocampus (HC), bed nucleus of the stria terminals (BNST), ...
( Category: Neurology January 19,2020 )
Dinosaurs by Norman David;
epub |eng | 2005-01-15 | Author:Norman, David; [Norman, David;]

29. Deinonychus. A reconstruction from bone to flesh. Perhaps it too had a filamentous covering? Ornithischian dinosaurs All ornithischians are thought to have been herbivorous and, rather like modern-day mammals, ...
( Category: Dinosaurs January 19,2020 )
Blueprint by Robert Plomin
epub |eng | 2018-10-26 | Author:Robert Plomin

12 The DNA fortune teller It has been known for decades that the heritability of psychological disorders and dimensions is caused by many DNA differences, not just one or two ...
( Category: Developmental Biology January 19,2020 )
The History of Emotions (Historical Approaches MUP) by Rob Boddice
epub |eng | 2018-04-01 | Author:Rob Boddice [Boddice, Rob]

6 EXPERIENCE, SENSES AND THE BRAIN Take five How do you feel? The question, a commonplace query if ever there was one, is actually enormously complex. That we handle it ...
( Category: Historiography January 19,2020 )
The Serengeti Rules by Sean B. Carroll
epub |eng | 2016-03-01 | Author:Sean B. Carroll [Carroll, Sean B.]

FIGURE 7.3 The real drama of the Serengeti. The elimination of the rinderpest virus and increased consumption of grass by the exploding wildebeest population unleashed trophic cascades that increased the ...
( Category: Developmental Biology January 19,2020 )
The First Domestication: How Wolves and Humans Coevolved by Raymond Pierotti & Brandy R. Fogg
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Raymond Pierotti & Brandy R. Fogg [Pierotti, Raymond & Fogg, Brandy R.]

HUMANS AS WOLF’S STUDENTS Stories told by Indigenous American peoples about their relationships with wolves suggest that through much of the early stages of the evolution of human hunting practices, ...
( Category: Mammals January 19,2020 )
Against the Grain by James C. Scott
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:James C. Scott [Scott, James C.]

Figure 12. Prisoners in neck fetters. Photo courtesy of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad, Dr. Ahmed Kamel A curious confirmation of the conditions of slave and enslaved debtors in Ur III ...
( Category: Assyria, Babylonia & Sumer January 19,2020 )
Genes, Brains, and Human Potential: The Science and Ideology of Intelligence by Ken Richardson
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-03-21 | Author:Ken Richardson

BASIC PRESUPPOSITIONS Theories of cognition today, are, basically, elaborations of one or the other (or some combination) of three sets of presuppositions. These have been around for at least the ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology January 19,2020 )

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