Biological Sciences
epub |eng | 2008-02-12 | Author:Heather Angel [Angel, Heather]

A Riverside Walk At first pondering a safe place to step, a panda eventually picks out a route across an exposed boulder beach bordering the Pitiao River. It walks with ...
( Category: Biological Sciences July 26,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mike Davis

Chupacabra taco stand in Hollywood In Los Angeles, the Chupacabra craze was something of an antidote to the monomania of the Simpson trial. While O.J. was saturating English-language television in ...
( Category: Sociology July 26,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2012-03-25 | Author:Erwin Schrodinger

ETHICS Even without this last generalization, which to me is very important but may still seem rather dubious to others, the theory of consciousness that I have adumbrated seems to ...
( Category: Physics July 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-07-24 | Author:Jonny Bowden

Notes from the Kitchen • Asparagus is a versatile vegetable. While its true growing season is spring, you can find it in most grocery stores year-round. It can be served ...
( Category: Special Diet July 25,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-02-11 | Author:Carl Zimmer

PART THREE Evolution’s Dance EIGHT COEVOLUTION Weaving the Web of Life One of the many reasons we need to save endangered species from extinction is because we can find among ...
( Category: Evolution July 23,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2004-09-30 | Author:Lubenow, Marvin L. [Lubenow, Marvin L.]

SECTION V TRASHING NEANDERTALS As recently as 35,000 years ago western Europe was still occupied by Neanderthals, primitive beings for whom art and progress scarcely existed. Then there was an ...
( Category: Evolution July 22,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-04-23 | Author:Russell, Nerissa [Russell, Nerissa]

Companion Most modern western people would probably consider the primary role of dogs to be as pets or companion animals (Serpell 1986, 1995). There are good indications that dogs have ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations July 22,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-13 | Author:Michael T. Osterholm

The potential for similar outbreaks anywhere in the world should be noted from a single traveller as long as MERS-CoV transmission continues in the Middle East. Emergency preparedness and vigilance ...
( Category: Biological Sciences July 22,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-07-20 | Author:Jeff Corwin [Jeff Corwin]

The ferret isn’t safe yet, though. Its old nemesis the plague struck a colony of 300 in South Dakota during the wet spring and early summer of 2008, killing as ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology July 21,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-13 | Author:Brian J. Ford

CO2 + H2O ↔ H2CO3 The reaction is reversible and in the oceans we find a chemical equilibrium between CO2 and H2CO3. Ions of hydrogen and bicarbonate can be released: ...
( Category: Biological Sciences July 21,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-19 | Author:T. DeLene Beeland

Paradiso’s take on why hybridization became widespread was a very different interpretation than the idea that simple habitat destruction and alteration had frayed existing social structures and allowed hybridization, which ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology July 20,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-03 | Author:Paul Broks

Coda In his book The Demon-Haunted World, a paean to science and skepticism, Carl Sagan writes of a yearning to communicate with his dead parents. He misses them terribly and ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics July 20,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-10-19 | Author:Charles Darwin

Fig. 39. Tetrao cupido; male. (From Brehm.) In some birds the vocal organs differ greatly in the two sexes. In the Tetrao cupido (fig. 39) the male has two bare, ...
( Category: Evolution July 20,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-20 | Author:Paul Bogard

The original grasslands in all their glory are something we will never see. “The most decimated ecosystem in continental North America,” the prairie is sometimes called. Gone are the grizzly ...
( Category: Earth Sciences July 20,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-18 | Author:Jaret C. Daniels

White-lined Sphinx 2.4–3.6" forewing with wide diagonal white line from apex; hindwing with pink center; feeds like a hummingbird at flowers; active at dusk and dawn Abbott’s Sphinx 2–2.8" forewing ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology July 19,2018 )