Evolution
epub, azw3 |eng | 2003-10-26 | Author:Richard Dawkins [Dawkins, Richard]

These kosher investigators run a telephone hotline on which up-to-the-minute red-alerts of suspicion are recorded against chocolate bars or cod-liver oil. The rabbi sighs that the green-inspired trend away from ...
( Category: Organic October 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 2006-04-24 | Author:Richard Dawkins [Dawkins, Richard]

These three statements represent three benchmark views about the uniqueness of life. The actual uniqueness of life probably lies somewhere between the extremes represented by Statement 1 and Statement 3. ...
( Category: Organic October 20,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-08-22 | Author:Richard Dawkins [Dawkins, Richard]

Sunset and the evening star From Aden to Zanzibar. The bonds of the Empire sundering And final salutes are thundering And man will not cease his wondering . . . ...
( Category: Scientists October 20,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:Richard Dawkins [Dawkins, Richard]

CHAPTER 4. GOD'S UTILITY FUNCTION {95} My clerical correspondent of the previous chapter found faith through a wasp. Charles Darwin lost his with the help of another: “I cannot persuade ...
( Category: Genetics October 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 1996-10-16 | Author:Richard Dawkins [Dawkins, Richard]

Figure 5.13 Two kinds of complex lens. But I was starting to tell the story of how lenses might have evolved in the first place, from a vitreous mass that ...
( Category: Evolution October 20,2015 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2004-10-14 | Author:Richard Dawkins [Dawkins, Richard]

Overgrown tadpole. Axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) Bearing in mind the adult Pekinese as an overgrown puppy, think of the heads of juvenile apes. What do they remind you of? Wouldn't you ...
( Category: Organic October 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-21 | 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: Biology October 14,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Matthew Cobb [Cobb, Matthew]

That question remains unanswered. In 2014, the ENCODE consortium published a second wave of papers and seemed to back away from their earlier headline claim of 80 per cent function, ...
( Category: Genetics October 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-14 | Author:Greg Graffin [Graffin, Greg]

7 WAR IS UNWINNABLE America’s most infamous war is the one we call “Civil.” After its brutal conclusion, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman told the citizens of the united Republic, in ...
( Category: Violence in Society October 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:Douglas T. Kenrick [Kenrick, Douglas T.]

The Evolved Computer Inside Your Head Imagine you are on the subway with a man sitting across from you. You may not notice whether he is wearing a plaid jacket, ...
( Category: Cognitive October 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-29 | Author:Richard Dawkins [Dawkins, Richard]

So it was the Canaanites’ fault: they had it coming to them because God wanted their land for his pet tribe’s Lebensraum and the incumbents just refused to get up ...
( Category: Biology October 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-25 | Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

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( Category: Modern October 10,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-10-08 | Author:Don Lincoln

FIGURE 4.4. The mother ship in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (left) was huge, many hundreds of feet across, while the Aliens (right) were classic examples of the diminutive ...
( Category: Astronomy October 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-02-17 | Author:Sebastian Seung

Figure 48. Gray versus white matter of the cerebrum The distinction between gray and white matter was known in antiquity, but their fundamental difference became clear only after the discovery ...
( Category: Neurology August 26,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-05-23 | Author:Carl Zimmer

The secret to parasitizing ants this way is creating illusions of smell. Ants depend mainly on smells to perceive the world, and they've evolved a complicated vocabulary of airborne chemicals ...
( Category: Biology August 21,2015 )