Evolution
epub |eng | 2012-05-07 | Author:Gregory Chaitin [Chaitin, Gregory]

There is a beautiful essay on the web about this by the quantum computer complexity theorist Scott Aaronson, “Who Can Name the Biggest Number?,” which I highly recommend and which ...
( Category: Discrete Mathematics April 17,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Midgley, Mary

This again is melodrama. A casino is a human institution, devised to serve specific human motives. ‘Chance’ in a casino context means the deliberate randomizing of a small section of ...
( Category: Modern April 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Charles Krauthammer [Charles Krauthammer]

ESSAY: ON THE ETHICS OF EMBRYONIC RESEARCH THE PROBLEM You were once a single cell. Every one of the 100 trillion cells in your body today is a direct descendant ...
( Category: Commentary & Opinion April 13,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-20 | Author:Jean M. Auel

Spring followed close on the heels of a heavy snow. Flooding kept them all restricted, Whinney more than the others. Ayla could climb to the steppes above, and Baby could ...
( Category: Family Saga April 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-28 | Author:Goering, Richard & Dockrell, Hazel & Zuckerman, Mark & Roitt, Ivan & Chiodini, Peter L. [Goering, Richard]

( Category: Genetics April 3,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-09 | Author:Davies, Jamie A. [Davies, Jamie A.]

13 WIRED Only Connect! … Live in fragments no longer. E. M. Forster Of all of the organs that the human foetus develops, the central nervous system is surely the ...
( Category: Genetics April 2,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2010-01-21 | Author:David Brin [Brin, David]

Chasing squid— In deepest water * There was that sound again! A rapid clicking, coming from not far away. Curse the necessity to keep his neural socket linked to the ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1990-05-01 | Author:David Brin [Brin, David]

As his duties expanded, taking him from the regulated pools and fountains of the recycling dome to the rain forest habitat to the enclosed plain where elands stretched their legs ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction March 27,2014 )
epub | | | Author:Steve Jones

( Category: Evolution March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-11-18 | Author:Charles Lyell

CHAPTER 4 Hybrids We have yet to consider another class of phenomena, those relating to the production of hybrids, which have been regarded in a very different light with reference ...
( Category: Regional March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-03-22 | Author:Richard Fortey [Fortey, Richard]

Chapter 7 Silent Forests, Crowded Oceans TREE-TRUNKS RISE to more than thirty metres. They are sheer, virtually unbranched up to their crowns. The air is so humid that the moisture ...
( Category: Paleontology March 27,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2000-03-26 | Author:Richard Fortey [Fortey, Richard]

Anomalocaris, at first claimed as a “weird wonder,” but now known to be related to primitive arthropods and hence to trilobites. But when you reach the scene of crime McCavity’s ...
( Category: Fossils March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1992-01-01 | Author:Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan [Sagan, Carl & Druyan, Ann]

* One of the expert reviewers of this book complains, “I would struggle to help noticing. . You don’t need to be right at armpit level to smell Consider any ...
( Category: Genetics March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 1845-03-26 | Author:Charles Darwin [Darwin, Charles]

One day I rode up the valley to the farthest inhabited spot. Shortly above that point, the Cachapual divides into two deep tremendous ravines, which penetrate directly into the great ...
( Category: Marine Biology March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-26 | Author:Jonathan Weiner

After half a day of talking with Aubrey, I wasn’t sure what to make of him. He did seem enormously well-informed. And he had credentials. He’d hosted an international meeting ...
( Category: Anatomy March 27,2014 )