Science & Math
mobi |eng | 2009-02-24 | Author:David Quammen
Now we come to the question of human survival, a matter of some interest to many. We come to a certain fretful leap of logic that otherwise thoughtful observers seem ...
( Category:
Ecology
March 25,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-11-05 | Author:Watson, James D. & Gann, Alexander & Witkowski, Jan [Watson, James D.]
Watson, his father and sister pose for a Scandinavian Airline Systems (SAS) publicity photograph. The first formal event of the week was the Nobel Foundation’s reception for all the year’s ...
( Category:
Developmental Biology
March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2008-05-06 | Author:Carl Zimmer
ASSEMBLING ASSASSINS Among its many accomplishments, open-source evolution has produced a lot of ways for us to get sick. When Kiyoshi Shiga discovered Shigella, he believed it was a distinct ...
( Category:
Microbiology
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-14 | Author:Zimmer, Carl [Zimmer, Carl]
Proteins like APOBEC3 disable endogenous retroviruses, but they don’t eliminate them. Over millions of years, our genomes have picked up a vast amount of DNA from dead viruses. Each of ...
( Category:
Microbiology
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-10-14 | Author:David Dobbs
4 Even as he was composing his Chile notes, Darwin was turning his mind west. The Beagle, having finished its laborious survey of the South American coast, was making ready ...
( Category:
Marine Life
March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 1996-01-02 | Author:David Quammen
105 THESE CASES from Tasmania, Guam, Mauritius, and Hawaii are only a sample. Dozens more species, subspecies, and genetically discrete populations could be mentioned, all native to islands, all lost ...
( Category:
Endangered Species
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1993-01-01 | Author:Matt Ridley
The Rewards of Violence If reproduction has been the reward and goal of power and wealth, then it is little wonder that it has also been a frequent cause, and ...
( Category:
Organic
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Thomas French
That spring taught them all a new definition of hectic. The construction crews hurried to finish Safari Africa before the grand opening, and giraffes and zebras and warthogs were being ...
( Category:
Wildlife
March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-03-24 | Author:Bernd Heinrich
12 New England Longhorns 23 July 2005. TODAY I FOUND SEVERAL FOOT-LONG LIVE oak twigs on the ground under the tree I had planted about fifteen years ago next to ...
( Category:
Wildlife
March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2006-04-11 | Author:Margaret Mittelbach; Michael Crewdson; Alexis Rockman
After what seemed like hours of silence (but was actually exactly twenty-three minutes), a voice suddenly rose from the darkness. “I wasn't really into those beets on the sandwiches,” Chris ...
( Category:
Wildlife
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-07-11 | Author:Philip Hoare
NEGRO SLAVERY ABOLISHED 1 AUGUST MDCCCXXXIV –although it faces another building, one that belies the city’s claim to manumission. Passing through the double doors with their polished brass fingerplates, I ...
( Category:
Marine Life
March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-09-13 | Author:Frank Randall
The interesting thing about a smoker is that it doesn’t just put bees “to sleep.” It causes them to eat a lot of honey. They stock up because they expect ...
( Category:
Science & Math
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-04-25 | Author:Hattie Ellis
How to track down wild honeybees in eighteenth-century America. On the other hand, Patrick Campbell, in his Travels in the Interior Inhabited Parts of North America in the years 1791 ...
( Category:
Insects & Spiders
March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2010-09-20 | Author:Thomas D. Seeley
Heinrich discovered many marvelous things about temperature regulation in honeybee swarms, all of which are key to understanding how a swarm prepares to fly to its new home. First, he ...
( Category:
Insects & Spiders
March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-12-01 | Author:Mark W. Moffett
13 abduction in the afternoon A week into my stay at California’s Sagehen Creek, I was lounging among the grass tufts next to a Polyergus breviceps ant nest with Faerthen ...
( Category:
Insects & Spiders
March 25,2014 )
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