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Designing with Succulents by Debra Lee Baldwin
epub |eng | 2007-01-25 | Author:Debra Lee Baldwin

HARMFUL INSECTS Just when I have led you to the conclusion that the only answer to keeping your succulents beautiful is to grow them indoors, let me caution you about ...
( Category: Gardening & Landscape Design January 25,2018 )
Dragons by Michael Dobrzycki
epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Michael Dobrzycki

DRAKE Often mistaken for an adolescent dragon, the drake is merely a type of dragon without wings. (Dragons’ wings do not grow until adulthood.) A drake usually is referred to ...
( Category: Drawing January 25,2018 )
The Serengeti Lion by George B. Schaller
epub |eng | 2009-10-30 | Author:George B. Schaller [Schaller, George B.]

The woodlands sample reflects primarily the lions' dry season food habits, not those for the whole year. I searched for kills intensively for several days in September, 1967, and in ...
( Category: Biological Sciences January 24,2018 )
The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-08-18 | Author:Ray Kurzweil [Kurzweil, Ray]

. . . on Human Longevity It is one of the most remarkable things that in all of the biological sciences there is no clue as to the necessity of ...
( Category: Social Sciences January 24,2018 )
Animals Make Us Human by Temple Grandin
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-06 | Author:Temple Grandin [Johnson, Catherine]

Intensification of the Pig Industry and the Problems for Pigs Raising hogs for market is not an easy job. Fifty years ago, farmers kept their pigs outdoors in dirt lots ...
( Category: Biological Sciences January 24,2018 )
Wonderful Life by Stephen Jay Gould
epub |eng | 2011-08-23 | Author:Stephen Jay Gould [Gould, Stephen Jay]

CODA The Burgess work will continue, for many genera remain ripe for restudy (the bulk of the arthropods have been monographed, but only about half of the known weird wonders). ...
( Category: History & Philosophy January 24,2018 )
Organisms and Artifacts by Tim Lewens
epub |eng | 2011-02-17 | Author:Tim Lewens [Lewens, Tim]

book October 9, 2003 11:47 Function, Selection, and Explanation 91 caused past hearts to be selected. Finally, some of the heart’s beneficial effects, although they may contribute to fitness or ...
( Category: History & Philosophy January 24,2018 )
What It Means to Be 98% Chimpanzee by Jonathan Marks
epub |eng | 2011-02-17 | Author:Jonathan Marks [Marks, Jonathan]

benefits to some scientists who pursue these lines of argument, they are counteracted by the long-term harm both to the science of genetics and to the authority of science generally. ...
( Category: Evolution January 24,2018 )
Life's Origin by J. William Schopf
epub |eng | 2011-02-16 | Author:J. William Schopf [Schopf, J. William]

Pyrite-based chemolithotrophic metabolic networks 106 Stanley L. Miller and Antonio Lazcano emergent chemical systems synthesized their own organic compounds instead of incorporating ready-made environmental organics. The most articulate proponent of ...
( Category: Evolution January 24,2018 )
Darwin's Dangerous Idea - Evolution and the Meanings of Life by Daniel C. Dennett
epub |eng | 2011-02-05 | Author:Daniel C. Dennett [Dennett, Daniel C.]

268 BULLY FOR BRONTOSAURUS The Spandrel's Thumb 269 to be a highly successful coinage in one sense: it has spread through evolutionary biology and beyond. In a recent retrospective essay, ...
( Category: Evolution January 24,2018 )
Neurosociology by David D. Frank
epub |eng | 2011-02-16 | Author:David D. Frank [Frank, David D.]

106 6 The Neuroscience of Emotion and Its Relation to Cognition There are many examples which suggest the ways in which the varied fields can be compatible. For example, many ...
( Category: Medicine January 24,2018 )
Life Evolving by Christian de Duve
epub |eng | 2011-02-16 | Author:Christian de Duve [Duve, Christian de]

176 life evolving One easily calculates in the same manner12 that a 99.9 percent probability of winning a bet is reached by throwing a die 38 times or by giving ...
( Category: History & Philosophy January 24,2018 )
What Does a Martian Look Like? by Jack Cohen & Ian Stewart
epub |eng | 2002-01-01 | Author:Jack Cohen & Ian Stewart [Cohen, Jack & Stewart, Ian]

The Voyage of the Space Beagle (A. E. van Vogt 1950) The Space Beagle is on a mission to explore the distant reaches of the galaxy, where it encounters a ...
( Category: Evolution January 24,2018 )
Better Beekeeping by Kim Flottum
epub |eng | 2011-01-23 | Author:Kim Flottum

This was one of the good ones. She was advertised as an Italian, looked like one, behaved like one, and produced like one. She was everything I expected, and I ...
( Category: Agricultural Sciences January 23,2018 )
The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science by Armand Marie Leroi
epub |eng | 2014-08-27 | Author:Armand Marie Leroi [Leroi, Armand Marie]

* He also thinks that some over-winter, naked, in holes. In 1862 Philip Henry Gosse (Romance of Natural History, 2nd series) was still wondering whether this is true. † Chicken ...
( Category: Philosophy January 23,2018 )

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