Biological Sciences
mobi |eng | 2012-06-13 | Author:Gauger, Ann & Axe, Douglas & Luskin, Casey [Gauger, Ann]

Figure 3-6: Got a big head? Don’t get a big head. Brain size not always a good indicator of intelligence or evolutionary relationships. Case in point: Neanderthals had a larger ...
( Category: Developmental Biology November 24,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-06-02 | Author:Hugh Aldersey-Williams [Aldersey-Williams, Hugh]

I find that many of these old beliefs seem to persist when, for the first time, I enrol to give blood. First, I must complete an online questionnaire. By doing ...
( Category: Anatomy November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-23 | Author:Lone Frank

I’M THINKING ABOUT depression on the train from Washington, DC, to Richmond, Virginia. I’m on my way to meet Kenneth Kendler, who has been a psychiatric epidemiologist and a professor ...
( Category: Medical November 24,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-01 | Author:Andreas Wagner [Wagner, Andreas]

These examples and hundreds more illustrate the power of regulation to innovate. The lab notebooks of thousands of researchers and the pages of dozens of scholarly journals are overflowing with ...
( Category: Molecular Biology November 24,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-10-26 | Author:Chip Brantley

In mid-March, Rod started thinning his trees. The act of thinning was what made the coming season begin to feel real to Rod. Each grower had a different take on ...
( Category: Horticulture November 24,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-27 | Author:Adamson, Joy [Adamson, Joy]

18. Elsa’s Fight One morning Makedde observed vultures circling and, going to the spot about a mile downstream, found the remains of a rhino which had been killed by poisoned ...
( Category: Wildlife November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:William Souder [Souder, William]

In the spring of 1826, Audubon was at last ready to go. He packed up more than four hundred drawings, put $1,600 of his and Lucy’s savings into his pocketbook, ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists November 23,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:William Jordan [Jordan, William]

9. Hospice Care THE WEEKS PASSED. Our bond deepened, grew more subtle. Things were good. One afternoon at the beginning of March, I was sitting at my desk, writing and ...
( Category: Animal Psychology November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-22 | Author:Mark A. Simmons

Boy in a Bubble Sadly, “I told you so” turned out to be the flavor of the first week of Keiko’s access to the bay. We saw a complete setback ...
( Category: Mammals November 23,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:Yuval Noah Harari [Harari, Yuval Noah]

The Law of Nature All the religions we have discussed so far share one important characteristic: they all focus on a belief in gods and other supernatural entities. This seems ...
( Category: Mammals November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-08 | Author:Burgess, Thornton W. [Burgess, Thornton W.]

This shows how he uses his spade-like hands in digging. At once everybody looked at Miner's hands. No one ever had seen such hands before. The arms were short but ...
( Category: Zoology November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Clarke, Robert, Merlin, Mark & Mark D. Merlin

Hindu Acceptance of Ritual Bhang Use To the Hindu the hemp plant is holy. A guardian lives in the bhang leaf. . . . so the properties of the bhang ...
( Category: Botany November 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-20 | Author:Shlain, Leonard

Nowhere in the thousands of pages that Leonardo wrote does he ever explicitly offer his personal concept of beauty. Yet, there can be no other subject that consumed Leonardo more. ...
( Category: History November 21,2014 )
mobi, pdf, epub |eng | 2014-02-06 | Author:Fong M.D., Kevin

November 2011: Me diving in the Red Sea using a vintage scuba rig of the type first seen in the 1950s. (© Michael Pitts) WATER Brace! Brace! Brace!” he shouts, ...
( Category: Expeditions & Discoveries November 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-18 | Author:Eugene Toy

TREATMENT AND PREVENTION Several antiviral drugs have been developed to treat HSV infections, including acyclovir, valacyclovir, and famciclovir. All of these drugs function as inhibitors of viral DNA synthesis and ...
( Category: Microbiology November 19,2014 )