epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-24 | Author:Dimitar Sasselov

CHAPTER NINE LIFE AS A PLANETARY PHENOMENON Half a day’s sail northwest of the Cape of Good Hope lies Cape Town, South Africa. Even today, the city feels like an ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-08 | Author:Neil Shubin [Shubin, Neil]

This was an age of exploration of the natural world, and by looking at rocks and fossils, people began to formulate new ideas. Ships returned monthly from the far corners ...

epub |eng | 2013-01-08 | Author:Neil Shubin [Shubin, Neil]

This was an age of exploration of the natural world, and by looking at rocks and fossils, people began to formulate new ideas. Ships returned monthly from the far corners ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-16 | Author:Ashcroft, Frances [Ashcroft, Frances]

Raising the Barriers It is vital that only a single sperm fertilizes an egg because if multiple sperm do so the resulting cell fails to develop normally. Thus the egg ...

epub |eng | | Author:Werner Loewenstein [Loewenstein, Werner R.]

The Feathers of the Brain But what is good for social intercourse is not necessarily good for describing and explaining what goes on beyond the sensory horizon. That calls for ...

epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Matt Ridley

CHROMOSOME 13 Pre-History Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi (Ancient times were the youth of the world) Francis Bacon The surprising similarity of embryological genes in worms, flies, chicks and people sings ...

epub |eng | | Author:Brian Cox & Andrew Cohen

It seems obvious, because of our experience, that small things should bounce whereas big things splash. But why is this? At first glance, one might not expect there to be ...

epub |eng | | Author:Chris Bateman [Bateman, Chris]

4. Metaphors of Design Intelligent Design The wing of the swift resembles the wing of a fighter jet not by coincidence but because it is an effective shape for something ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-11 | Author:James N. Thompson, Jr. Jenna J. Hellack Gerald Braver & David S. Durica & James N. Thompson, Jr. & Jenna J. Hellack & Gerald Braver & David S. Durica [Thompson Hellack Braver and Durica]

III. Termination A. Three different codons can specify termination: UAA, UAG, and UGA. B. When one of these appears in the A site, a termination protein causes the release of ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-17 | Author:Zuk, Marlene [Zuk, Marlene]

(© Kim Warp/The New Yorker Collection/www.cartoonbank.com) On Cavemanforum.com, readers chime in: It’s actually also true than [sic] girls are more likely to settle for the less alpha-type guys, but if ...

epub |eng | | Author:Chris Stringer [Stringer, Chris]

Neanderthals used pigments too—these are of manganese dioxide from Pech-de-l’Azé in France. In support of that last viewpoint, there is arguably even stronger evidence of complex Neanderthal social behavior from ...

epub |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Rebecca Stott [Stott, Rebecca]

By 1798, when he left for Egypt, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire had been professor of vertebrates at the Jardin for five years. Like many serious young men who had been training for ...

epub |eng | | Author:Craig Holdrege & Steve Talbott

Chapter 12 What Does It Mean to Be a Sloth? One more defect and they could not have existed. —George Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Hence we conceive of the ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-01 | Author:Kimberly K. Arcand [Arcand, Kimberly K.]

epub |eng | 2006-03-26 | Author:John Gribbin

7 Where Did the Chemical Elements Come from? Although Alfred Russel Wallace, writing more than a hundred years ago, had no idea of the true extent and complexity of the ...