Biological Sciences
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-08-04 | Author:Fairbairn, Daphne J. [Fairbairn, Daphne J.]

FIGURE 10.1. Top panel: A mature female burrowing barnacle, Trypetesa lampas, removed from her burrow. Only the exterior surface of her mantle is visible, and the opening to her mantle ...
( Category: Biological Sciences June 13,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:David Norman

The cladogram that results from this type of analysis represents no more than a working hypothesis of the relationships of the animals that are being investigated. Each of the branches ...
( Category: Evolution June 13,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-12 | Author:Edward O. Wilson

NOVEMBER 7, 1777 (MINES OF CERRO DEL SAPO) Today, as I was going to the mine of La Concepción, I also saw the long-awaited spectacle of ants fighting. Undoubtedly, they ...
( Category: History & Philosophy June 13,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-02 | Author:Foer, Joshua [Foer, Joshua]

Twain lived in an age when the technologies for storing and retrieving external memories—paper, books, the recently invented photograph and phonograph—were still primitive compared to what we have today. He ...
( Category: Memory Improvement June 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Sean Esbjorn-Hargens & Michael E. Zimmerman [Esbjorn-Hargens, Sean & Zimmerman, Michael E.]

To truly engage with inhabitants in community-directed work, the development practitioner must be able to “meet people where they are,” in terms of both their value systems and their ways ...
( Category: Philosophy June 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-02 | Author:Subhankar Banerjee

Red Dog Mine—the second largest zinc and fourth largest lead mine in the world, Western Arctic, Alaska. (Photograph by Florian Schulz, 2009.) Sadly, that too is already twenty years ago. ...
( Category: Photography & Video June 13,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:David N. Reznick [Reznick, David N.]

( Category: Evolution June 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-13 | Author:Frances Moore Lappe [Lappe, Frances Moore]

thought trap 7: IT’S TOO LATE! It’s too late! Human beings have so far overshot what nature can handle that we’re beyond the point of no return. Democracy has failed—it’s ...
( Category: Engineering June 13,2017 )
mobi |eng | 1968-12-30 | Author:Leopold, Aldo [Leopold, Aldo]

The sign says, ‘You are entering the Green River Soil Conservation District.’ In smaller type is a list of who is cooperating; the letters are too small to be read ...
( Category: Biological Sciences June 13,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-19 | Author:Bradt, Hilary [Bradt, Hilary]

In the south, zebu meat is always served at funerals, and among certain southern tribes the cattle are used as marriage settlements, as in mainland Africa. Whenever there is a ...
( Category: Africa June 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-01 | Author:Poliquin, Rachel [Poliquin, Rachel]

ANIMAL ATTRACTION Because species diversity was created prior to humanity, and because we evolved within it, we have never fathomed its limits. —EDWARD O. WILSON, Biophilia (1984), 10 For purposes ...
( Category: Biological Sciences June 13,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-10-11 | Author:Margulis, Lynn & Sagan, Dorion [Margulis, Lynn]

It must not be forgotten that . . . a high standard of morality gives but a slight or no advantage to each individual man and his children over other ...
( Category: Evolution June 13,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Colin Renfrew [Renfrew, Colin]

X represents Y in context C. In linguistics, X is sometimes referred to as the signifier, and Y is the thing signified. This simple definition is a convenient one, and, ...
( Category: Archaeology June 13,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Rachel Carson

11 Indian Summer of the Sea THE SPIRIT OF THE autumn sea was heard in the voices of the kittiwakes, or frost gulls, who began to arrive in flocks by ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology June 13,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Benjamin K. Bergen

CHAPTER 7 What Do Hockey Players Know? Thus far we’ve emphasized the features of embodied simulation that people have in common. But the truth is far more nuanced. People don’t ...
( Category: Biological Sciences June 13,2017 )