Evolution
epub |eng | | Author:James D. Miller [D. Miller, James]

DANGEROUS BUT EFFECTIVE COGNITIVE-ENHANCING DRUGS Dangerous but effective cognitive-enhancement drugs would create a much less drug-friendly political situation. Imagine, for example, that a powerful stimulant would “overclock” a user’s brain, ...
( Category: Intelligence & Semantics June 14,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rubin, Charles T. [Rubin, Charles]

LOVE OF ONE’S OWN It should not be news that people tend to protect their own interests; it is a manifestation of the love of one’s own that is pervasive ...
( Category: Utopian June 14,2015 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 1967-01-01 | Author:Desmond Morris

Chapter Four: EXPLORATION All mammals have a strong exploratory urge, but for some it is more crucial than others. It depends largely on how specialized they have become during the ...
( Category: Mammals June 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 1905-01-15 | Author:Charles Darwin [Darwin, Charles]

Correlated Variation. I mean by this expression that the whole organisation is so tied together during its growth and development, that when slight variations in any one part occur, and ...
( Category: Essays June 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2000-09-21 | Author:Carl Zimmer [Zimmer, Carl]

• • • As tapeworms moved into new hosts they had to evolve new ways to live inside them. They had to adapt to new geographies of intestines; the tapeworms ...
( Category: Entomology June 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 1996-09-17 | Author:Richard Dawkins [Dawkins, Richard]

CHAPTER 7 CONSTRUCTIVE EVOLUTION People sometimes think that natural selection is a purely negative force, capable of weeding out freaks and failures, but not capable of building up complexity, beauty ...
( Category: Biology June 12,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-12-28 | Author:Robert Wright [Wright, Robert]

BAD TRIBALISM MADE GOOD And what of the more literal, more disturbing forms of tribalism? What of raw nationalism, or the ethnic balkanization of states? These do seem resurgent—not surprisingly, ...
( Category: Organic June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2005-09-15 | Author:Richard Dawkins [Dawkins, Richard]

The Mudskipper's Tale On an evolutionary pilgrimage it is fitting that some of the tales, though told by surviving pilgrims, should deal with recent re-enactments of ancient evolutionary events. Teleost ...
( Category: Organic June 12,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-04-22 | Author:Adam Gopnik [Gopnik, Adam]

These are not just what professors would call rhetorical strategies, things that work. They are a circuit of feelings and implicit themes, of voice, that makes The Origin not just ...
( Category: Great Britain June 12,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1997-01-15 | Author:Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen [Stewart, Ian]

figments of realit y pincer-like claws and is carnivorous; it regards anything less than half its size, which moves, as food, which it attacks, snipping or tearing off any appendages. ...
( Category: Cognitive June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2000-03-08 | Author:Richard Dawkins [Dawkins, Richard]

This kind of argument is best expressed at the level of the separate genes. At each genetic locus, the gene most likely to be favoured is the one that is ...
( Category: Modern June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-28 | Author:Susan B. Martinez, Ph.D.

Figure 7.7. Sign of hin’ kwa (with the same root as Ihin) designating the unseen part within corpor, that is, spirit within body. Oahspe teaches, “they were called Ihins, because ...
( Category: New Thought June 12,2015 )
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 )
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 )
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 )