epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-08-30 | Author:Loren Eiseley [Eiseley, Loren]

FIVE How Human Is Man? Be not under any Brutal Metempsychosis while thou livest and walkest about erectly under the scheme of Man. —SIR THOMAS BROWNE OVER A HUNDRED years ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:Jerry Fodor & Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini

Second option: laws of selection Laws can support counterfactuals. That’s most of what they do for a living; arguably, it’s what makes them different from mere true empirical generalizations. So, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-25 | Author:Eva Jablonka & Marion J. Lamb [Jablonka, Eva & Lamb, Marion J.]

Whereas the first table focuses on the nature and reproduction of information, the second one summarizes the more Lamarckian aspects of information generation and transmission. It shows whether newly generated ...

epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Eric R. Pianka

Figure 13. 1. Niche relationships among members of competitive communities are usually modeled with bell-shaped utilization curves along a resource spectrum such as height above ground or prey size. Among ...

azw3 |eng | 2015-11-30 | Author:Johnson, Phillip E. [Johnson, Phillip E.]

1 The “phenotype” refers to the visible features of an organism, or more precisely to the detectable expression of the interaction between the genotype and the environment. The genotype is ...

epub |eng | 2007-06-04 | Author:Behe, Michael J. [Behe, Michael J.]

DARWIN MEETS MICHELSON-MORLEY P. falciparum, HIV, and E. coli are all very, very different from each other. They range from the simple to the complex, have very different life cycles, ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2016-07-11 | Author:Douglas Axe [Axe, Douglas]

MAKING SENSE WITH PIXELS For this we return briefly to the subject of digital images, this time focusing on photographs. The pattern of hierarchical functional coherence is present here as ...

epub |eng | 2003-10-26 | Author:Richard Dawkins [Dawkins, Richard]

These kosher investigators run a telephone hotline on which up-to-the-minute red-alerts of suspicion are recorded against chocolate bars or cod-liver oil. The rabbi sighs that the green-inspired trend away from ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2007-06-04 | Author:Michael J. Behe [Behe, Michael J.]

DARWIN MEETS MICHELSON-MORLEY P. falciparum, HIV, and E. coli are all very, very different from each other. They range from the simple to the complex, have very different life cycles, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2003-06-25 | Author:Charlesworth, Brian & Deborah Charlesworth [Charlesworth, Brian]

To illustrate selection of an advantageous mutation, consider the arms race between humans and rats, in which we try to develop rat poisons, and rats evolve resistance. The rat poison ...

epub |eng | | Author:Bill Mesler

J. B. S. Haldane in 1941. During his college years at Eton, Haldane so distinguished himself in the sciences that many of his fellow students felt as if he was ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2001-02-21 | Author:Howard, Jonathan [Howard, Jonathan]

6. The final form of the thought pictures shown in chapter 3 and the only illustration in the Origin of Species. The diagram depicts the evolution of ancient lineages A–L ...

epub |eng | 2015-11-03 | Author:Stephen Rothman

THE TELEOLOGY OF DANGER It should be understood that introducing purpose into biology is not an argument for higher purposes. As I have described them, they are ordinary, not higher ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2003-10-26 | Author:Richard Dawkins [Dawkins, Richard]

These kosher investigators run a telephone hotline on which up-to-the-minute red-alerts of suspicion are recorded against chocolate bars or cod-liver oil. The rabbi sighs that the green-inspired trend away from ...

epub |eng | 2006-04-24 | Author:Richard Dawkins [Dawkins, Richard]

These three statements represent three benchmark views about the uniqueness of life. The actual uniqueness of life probably lies somewhere between the extremes represented by Statement 1 and Statement 3. ...