Evolution
epub |eng | 2010-11-23 | Author:Misha Angrist [Angrist, Misha]

It was early December, the cusp of cold and flu season in Northern California. Hugh Rienhoff, a geneticist turned consultant, turned to his young, slight, Spider-Man-loving pixie of a daughter, ...
( Category: Genetics November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-23 | Author:Lone Frank

I’M THINKING ABOUT depression on the train from Washington, DC, to Richmond, Virginia. I’m on my way to meet Kenneth Kendler, who has been a psychiatric epidemiologist and a professor ...
( Category: Medical November 24,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-01 | Author:Andreas Wagner [Wagner, Andreas]

These examples and hundreds more illustrate the power of regulation to innovate. The lab notebooks of thousands of researchers and the pages of dozens of scholarly journals are overflowing with ...
( Category: Molecular Biology November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-21 | Author:Holmes Rolston, III

Evolutionary Headings: Surprising or Inevitable? Is evolution going anywhere? If so, are these origins and headings surprising or inevitable? Reflecting on the second big bang, we must return to the ...
( Category: Science & Religion November 24,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:Yuval Noah Harari [Harari, Yuval Noah]

The Law of Nature All the religions we have discussed so far share one important characteristic: they all focus on a belief in gods and other supernatural entities. This seems ...
( Category: Mammals November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Clarke, Robert, Merlin, Mark & Mark D. Merlin

Hindu Acceptance of Ritual Bhang Use To the Hindu the hemp plant is holy. A guardian lives in the bhang leaf. . . . so the properties of the bhang ...
( Category: Botany November 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:David Sloan Wilson [Wilson, David Sloan]

Without attempting to prejudge the results, I think that the basic functionality of religion will be amply confirmed. Durkheim was right. Something as elaborate—as time-, energy-, and thought-consuming—as religion would ...
( Category: Sociology November 21,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-07 | Author:Jared Diamond

Class Divisions Farming brought another curse to humanity: class divisions. Hunter-gatherers have little or no stored food, and no concentrated food sources such as orchards or herds of cows. They ...
( Category: Customs, Traditions, Anthropology November 19,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:Riskin, Dan [Riskin, Dan]

Envy is a big part of having a new baby, because you’re constantly comparing notes with other new parents. For Shelby, it was most pronounced when she spoke with other ...
( Category: Wildlife November 19,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-31 | Author:Jared Diamond

THE LIMITED USES and users of early writing suggest why writing appeared so late in human evolution. All of the likely or possible independent inventions of writing (in Sumer, Mexico, ...
( Category: Human Geography November 11,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1997-01-01 | Author:Jared Diamond

First, concealed ovulation. Figure 4.3 By combining facts about modern observed species with inferences about ancestral species, one can infer the mating system prevailing when ovulatory signals underwent evolutionary change. ...
( Category: General November 11,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-10-07 | Author:Bill Bryson

So what accounts for all this wondrous complexity? Well, one possibility is that perhaps it isn’t quite-not quite-so wondrous as at first it seems. Take those amazingly improbable proteins. The ...
( Category: Astronomy November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-29 | Author:Jared Diamond

Step 4. To identify these changes of function, Sillén-Tullberg and Møller got the bright idea of studying the family tree of living primate species. They thereby hoped to identify the ...
( Category: General November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Darwin

Causes of the Sterility of first Crosses and of Hybrids.—We may now look a little closer at the probable causes of the sterility of first crosses and of hybrids. These ...
( Category: Developmental Biology November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Elliott Sober [Sober, Elliott]

I have long regretted that I truckled to public opinion, and used the Pentateuchal term of creation, by which I really meant “appeared” by some wholly unknown process. It is ...
( Category: Molecular Biology November 11,2014 )