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The Caretakers of the Cosmos: Living Responsibly in an Unfinished World by Lachman Gary
epub |eng | 2013-08-21 | Author:Lachman, Gary

The hierarchy of needs Maslow disagreed with Sartre and argued that there is indeed a human nature, which we ignore at our peril. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs parallels Scheler’s hierarchy ...
( Category: Evolution August 10,2018 )
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-10-22 | Author:Jared Diamond [Diamond, Jared]

ALTHOUGH A FEW bands and tribes survive today on remote and ecologically marginal lands outside state control, fully independent chiefdoms had disappeared by the early twentieth century, because they tended ...
( Category: Social Sciences August 9,2018 )
How to be Human by New Scientist
epub |eng | | Author:New Scientist

How survival kits have changed in 5,000 years On the social media site Instagram, thousands of people in the US post photos with the hashtag #edc, meaning ‘everyday carry’. These ...
( Category: Evolution August 9,2018 )
Why Us? by James Le Fanu
epub |eng | | Author:James Le Fanu [James Le Fanu ]

Paralleling the new science of eugenics, The Descent provided the rationale for scientific racism. Darwin scarcely invented racism, and was himself passionately opposed to slavery, though he had no qualms ...
( Category: History & Philosophy August 9,2018 )
The Origin of Species and the Voyage of the 'Beagle' by Charles Darwin
epub |eng | 2012-07-10 | Author:Charles Darwin [Darwin, Charles]

1 It is remarkable how the same disease is modified in different climates. At the little island of St. Helena, the introduction of scarlet-fever is dreaded as a plague. In ...
( Category: Evolution August 8,2018 )
Hosts of Living Forms by Charles Darwin
epub |eng | 2010-07-08 | Author:Charles Darwin

Means of Dispersal – Sir C. Lyell and other authors have ably treated this subject. I can give here only the briefest abstract of the more important facts. Change of ...
( Category: Evolution August 8,2018 )
On Natural Selection by Charles Darwin
epub |eng | 1859-08-07 | Author:Charles Darwin

Summary of Chapter. If during the long course of ages and under varying conditions of life, organic beings vary at all in the several parts of their organisation, and I ...
( Category: Evolution August 8,2018 )
Autobiographies by Charles Darwin
epub |eng | 2008-11-11 | Author:Charles Darwin

Voyage of the Beagle: from Dec. 27, 1831 to Oct. 2, 1836 On returning home from my short geological tour in N. Wales, I found a letter from Henslow, informing ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics August 8,2018 )
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin
epub |eng | 1968-08-07 | Author:Charles Darwin

CHAPTER VIII HYBRIDISM Distinction between the sterility of first crosses and of hybrids – Sterility various in degree, not universal, affected by close interbreeding, removed by domestication – Laws governing ...
( Category: Evolution August 8,2018 )
At Least Know This by Guy P. Harrison
epub |eng | | Author:Guy P. Harrison

RACE AND DISEASE The idea of “race diseases” seems to come up in every discussion that challenges the reality of races. This common claim says that there are race-specific diseases ...
( Category: History & Philosophy August 8,2018 )
Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz by Lucette Matalon Lagnado & Sheila Cohn Dekel
epub |eng | 1991-01-02 | Author:Lucette Matalon Lagnado & Sheila Cohn Dekel [Lagnado, Lucette Matalon & Dekel, Sheila Cohn]

Isabel Ia The pictures Mengele sent home to Gunzburg and to Rolf showed a dapper gentleman, no longer young, to be sure, but still handsome. He was quite fit and ...
( Category: World August 8,2018 )
An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas by Stephen Jay Gould
epub |eng | 2010-11-29 | Author:Stephen Jay Gould [Gould, Stephen Jay]

Jensen devotes most of his book to showing that S-bias does not affect mental tests (or that S-bias can be corrected when it does exist). Yet I found nothing surprising ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 8,2018 )
Beasts: What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good and Evil by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
epub |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson [Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff]

If primal people had such feelings and ideas about animals, how could they hunt, kill, and eat them? . . . They viewed prey animals as equals and, in some ...
( Category: Social Sciences August 7,2018 )
Only a Theory by Kenneth R. Miller
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:Kenneth R. Miller

REWRITING THE PLAN If the concept of facilitated variation has begun to revolutionize our understanding of evolution at the cellular level, developments at a somewhat higher level are even more ...
( Category: Religious Studies August 6,2018 )
Shakespeare and Modern Culture by Marjorie Garber
epub |eng | 2008-12-08 | Author:Marjorie Garber

BUT IT IS OFTEN OUTSIDE the theater that the most virulent use of the play, and of Shylock, is made. And not only in Nazi Germany and Austria. An example ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 5,2018 )

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