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The Homing Instinct by Bernd Heinrich
epub |eng | | Author:Bernd Heinrich

A just-hatched broad-winged hawk on a freshly inserted green fern frond. No greens are added during the month-long incubation, but after the young hatch, the greens are brought almost daily ...
( Category: Entomology June 12,2015 )
A New History of Life by Peter Ward
epub |eng | 2015-02-20 | Author:Peter Ward

OXYGEN AND TEMPERATURE, REPRODUCTION AND THERMOREGULATION At this point we can summarize and discuss the variables in land animal reproduction and try to relate these to generalizations about both oxygen ...
( Category: Biology June 11,2015 )
Don't Look, Don't Touch, Don't Eat: The Science Behind Revulsion by Valerie Curtis
epub |eng | 2013-06-10 | Author:Valerie Curtis [Curtis, Valerie]

EPILOGUE DISGUST: THE UNFINISHED STORY What does the future hold for disgust? The blooming field of disgustology is going to be an exciting place in the near future. We are ...
( Category: Microbiology June 11,2015 )
What Evolution Is by Ernst Mayr
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-19 | Author:Ernst Mayr

S P E C I A T I O N T H E P R O C E S S O F A L L O P A T R ...
( Category: Biology June 11,2015 )
The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People by David P. Barash; Judith Eve Lipton
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-04-16 | Author:David P. Barash; Judith Eve Lipton

llliam James is said to have composed this ditty, although with insights inspired by opium rather than evolutionary biology: Higamous hogamous, woman monogamous Hogamous higamous, man is polygamous. What earthly ...
( Category: Sexuality June 11,2015 )
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Johnson Steven
mobi |eng | 2006-10-18 | Author:Johnson, Steven [Johnson, Steven]

BY THE END OF THE DAY, SNOW HAD BUILT A CONVINCING statistical case against the pump. Of the eighty-three deaths recorded on Farr’s list, seventy-three were in houses that were ...
( Category: Infectious Disease June 11,2015 )
The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One by Sylvia A. Earle
mobi |eng | 2009-09-29 | Author:Sylvia A. Earle

Perversely spilled oil blackens Saudi Arabian marshes in 1991. Worldwide, more than 4,000 rigs are now working in depths up to 1,830 meters (6,000 feet). The deepest offshore rig, Shell ...
( Category: Oceanography June 11,2015 )
Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome by Nessa Carey
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2015-03-04 | Author:Nessa Carey [Carey, Nessa]

Figure 12.4 The dots represent the positions of protein-coding genes in the nucleus. If genes were positioned in the nucleus solely as a function of their position on chromosomes, we ...
( Category: Cell Biology June 9,2015 )
Starting out in Statistics by de Winter Patricia Cahusac Peter M. B
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:de Winter, Patricia, Cahusac, Peter M. B. [de Winter, Patricia, Cahusac, Peter M. B.]

ina 25 4.24 3.38 2.99 2.76 2.60 m 26 4.22 3.37 2.98 2.74 2.59 eno 27 4.21 3.35 2.96 2.73 2.57 D 28 4.20 3.34 2.95 2.71 2.56 29 4.18 ...
( Category: Biology June 5,2015 )
The Wandering Mind by Michael C Corballis
epub | | 2014-06-02 | Author:Michael C Corballis [C. Corballis, Michael]

And so language itself was born In the early stages, perhaps, stories were told as pantomimes, as people acted out their experiences. But pantomime is inefficient and often ambiguous, and ...
( Category: Cognitive June 3,2015 )
The Log From the Sea of Cortez (Penguin Classics)
mobi |eng | 1960-01-01 | Author:John Steinbeck [Steinbeck, John]

“My mule was a complainer. For a while I thought he simply didn’t like me, but I believe now that he had a sour eye for the world. With every ...
( Category: Marine Biology May 30,2015 )
Creative Evolution
mobi |eng | | Author:Bergson, Henri [Bergson, Henri]

CHAPTER IV THE CINEMATOGRAPHICAL MECHANISM OF THOUGHT AND THE MECHANISTIC ILLUSION--A GLANCE AT THE HISTORY OF SYSTEMS[96]--REAL BECOMING AND FALSE EVOLUTIONISM. It remains for us to examine in themselves two ...
( Category: Cosmology May 30,2015 )
The Natural History of Selborne
mobi |eng | | Author:White, Gilbert [White, Gilbert]

* * * Letter XI To The Honourable Daines Barrington Selborne, Feb. 8, 1772. Dear Sir, When I ride about in the winter, and see such prodigious flocks of various ...
( Category: Natural History May 30,2015 )
Forensics by Val McDermid
epub |eng | | Author:Val McDermid

Ethical issues persist. Troy Duster, a sociologist at New York University, points out that because incarceration rates in the US are eight times higher for black people than for white ...
( Category: Pathology May 27,2015 )
The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2007-12-31 | Author:Steven Johnson

IT IS POSSIBLE SNOW’S INTENSE ROUND OF QUESTIONING may have, on its own, diminished the spread of the epidemic. We know from Snow’s own account that he spoke with hundreds ...
( Category: Infectious Disease May 25,2015 )

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