Evolution
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-03-09 | Author:Melvin Konner [Konner, Melvin]

Chapter 9 ♦ Developing Daughters Men have ceded some power to women partly because we have daughters and want them to succeed. It’s not that we don’t love our boys, ...
( Category: Evolution November 22,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-03-22 | Author:Andrew H. Knoll [Knoll, Andrew H.]

Figure 9.2. A spiny microfossil found commonly in Doushantuo cherts and phosphatic rocks. Such fossils are thought to be the reproductive spores of eukaryotic organisms. Fossil is 250 microns in ...
( Category: Evolution November 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-15 | Author:Daniel C. Dennett

There are many unanswered questions about memes, and many objections. Can the meme’s—eye perspective be turned into a proper science of memetics, or is it “just” a vivid imagination—stretcher, a ...
( Category: Philosophy November 21,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-11-07 | Author:Darren Naish [Naish, Darren]

Evo-devo A combined understanding of the fossil history of modern organisms, the development of their embryos, and the genetics that control their development has resulted in a field known as ...
( Category: Evolution November 21,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-11-07 | Author:Naish, Darren [Naish, Darren]

Evo-devo A combined understanding of the fossil history of modern organisms, the development of their embryos, and the genetics that control their development has resulted in a field known as ...
( Category: Evolution November 21,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dimitra Papagianni

A modern human skull found at Qafzeh, Israel, dated to around 100,000 years ago. Researchers were surprised to discover that the first modern humans reached northern Israel, and probably the ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations November 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-29 | Author:Menno Schilthuizen

Resisting rape. The clockwise-coiled vagina of a female mallard duck (A) blocks entry by the counterclockwise penis (B), unless the female relaxes her vaginal muscles. Not Harpactea sadistica. When a ...
( Category: Biological Sciences November 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-06-28 | Author:The Dark Mountain Project

Small Gods MARTIN SHAW Issue 7, Spring 2015 We hear it everywhere these days. Time for a new story. Some enthusiastic sweep of narrative that becomes, overnight, the myth of ...
( Category: Social Sciences November 18,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:James D. Watson & Alexander Gann & Jan Witkowski [Watson, James D.]

Watson, his father and sister pose for a Scandinavian Airline Systems (SAS) publicity photograph. The first formal event of the week was the Nobel Foundation’s reception for all the year’s ...
( Category: Biological Sciences November 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-17 | Author:Richard Ellis [Ellis, Richard]

Figure 6.4. Spearfish. Drawing by Richard Ellis. The striped marlin is Tetrapturus audax; the spearfishes have been placed in the same genus. The International Game Fish Association recognizes two species, ...
( Category: Biological Sciences November 17,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-07-29 | Author:Alex Mesoudi [Mesoudi, Alex]

Objections to Cultural Evolutionary Analyses of History It is important to recognize that the research described in this chapter and the previous one is in the most part entirely compatible ...
( Category: Politics & Government November 17,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Diana Santos, Krister Lindén & Wanjiku Ng’ang’a

( Category: Computer Science November 17,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Roughgarden, Joan

THE HAMER-PATTATUCCI STUDY AND THE QUESTION OF A GAY GENE A milestone in the genetic analysis of gayness in males came in 1993 with the publication of a paper in ...
( Category: Evolution November 16,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Kaufmann, Claudia Klinger & Andreas Savelsbergh

1.2 Multiplex Sequencing Strategy Starting from frozen or fresh tissue, cell culture, FFPE or blood samples, total RNA is isolated by using a mixture of acidified phenol/guanidine thiocyanate and chloroform ...
( Category: Basic Sciences November 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-17 | Author:Roderick Kaine [Kaine, Roderick]

Of the traits considered here and probably among all possible traits as well, wealth is proposed to be the primary (though not exclusive) male phenotype on which female mate selection ...
( Category: Social Sciences November 15,2017 )