epub |eng | | Author:Roger L.H. Dennis

mobi |eng | 2012-08-14 | Author:Charles Darwin

1 It is remarkable how the same disease is modified in different climates. At the little island of St. Helena, the introduction of scarlet-fever is dreaded as a plague. In ...

epub |eng | 2019-09-06 | Author:Vaclav Smil [Smil, Vaclav]

5 Populations, Societies, Economies: or growth of the most complex assemblies Terms always need clarifying in order to avoid misunderstandings and ambiguities. This book deals with nothing but the growth ...

epub |eng | 2019-07-14 | Author:Andrew May [Andrew May]

5 STARTING SMALL After all the excitement of interstellar messages and alien megastructures in the previous two chapters, it may seem like a backward step to start talking about far ...

epub |eng | | Author:William Berman

9 A Member of the Master Class of Fishes THE PERCH STAND ON THE FOREFRONT ROCKS OF A BREAKWATER AND WATCH the surging schools of minnows contesting the tidal currents, ...

epub |eng | | Author:Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz & Roger Highfield [Zernicka-Goetz, Magdalena & Highfield, Roger]

TRISOMY The best-known example of a chromosomal abnormality involves one of our smallest chromosomes, when children inherit three copies of chromosome 21 instead of the usual two; hence it is ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2020-06-08 | Author:Leung, Carmen [Leung, Carmen]

The Sacred Sounds and Practice of Mantra Over the years, it has been an honor to be imparted with a series of ancient mantras that were passed down by yogis ...

mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Richard Lewontin

III PARTS AND WHOLES, CAUSES AND EFFECTS The previous two chapters dealt with two aspects of a common theme. How is the natural world of objects and processes to be ...

epub |eng | 2001-04-04 | Author:Michael J. Behe

GETTING THERE I assume I’ve lost most readers in the labyrinth by now, so let me play accountant and summarize the biosynthesis of AMP. The synthesis takes thirteen steps and ...

epub |eng | 2011-09-02 | Author:Lewis Wolpert [Wolpert, Lewis]

epub |eng | 2012-12-17 | Author:Richard Grossinger [Grossinger, Richard]

There are so many variant, interdependent pathways among genes and proteins that developmental potential from mutations, recombinations, transpositions, codon jumbles, as well as overall systemic promiscuity and built-in thermodynamic uncertainty, ...

epub |eng | | Author:Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Cell Death. When the divisions of cells in a tissue are completed, a stop signal tells the cell to rest. The stop signal has to be inactivated by a growth ...

epub |eng | | Author:Joaquín Marro

When the aggregate has reached a certain size, a new particle—always generated in a place at random—is easily trapped by its outer parts, then it rarely manages to penetrate inside ...

epub |eng | 2020-03-16 | Author:Neil Shubin

Copies Everywhere The genome at every level resembles a musical score in which the same musical phrases are repeated in different ways to make vastly different songs. In fact, if ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Charles Darwin [Darwin, Charles]

CELL-MAKING INSTINCT OF THE HIVE-BEE. I will not here enter on minute details on this subject, but will merely give an outline of the conclusions at which I have arrived. ...