Evolution
epub |eng | 2012-12-19 | Author:Doan, Thao & Melvold, Roger & Viselli, Susan & Waltenbaugh, Carl [Doan, Thao]

Figure 14.2 Asthma. Asthma is a reversible airway obstruction often caused by the release of inflammatory mediators from mast cells upon encounter with allergen. These inflammatory mediators cause the loosening ...
( Category: Microbiology October 27,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2007-03-26 | Author:Wade, Nicholas [Wade, Nicholas]

The Evolution of Religion The essence of religion is communal: religious rituals are performed by assemblies of people. The word itself, probably derived from the Latin religare, meaning to bind, ...
( Category: General October 16,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Chris Stringer

Neanderthals used pigments too—these are of manganese dioxide from Pech-de-l’Azé in France. In support of that last viewpoint, there is arguably even stronger evidence of complex Neanderthal social behavior from ...
( Category: Physical October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:Wade, Nicholas

The Rise of Christianity Judaism, both before and for some time after the Babylonian exile, was not just a religion but a system of belief constructed around a specific political ...
( Category: General October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Nicholas Wade

Effects on Social and Individual Behavior From the broad sweep of Fukuyama’s analysis, a clear pattern emerges. Each of the major civilizations of Eurasia developed a characteristic set of institutions ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies October 16,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |ru | 1999-12-31 | Author:Brian Fagan

CHAPTER 8 Fat, Flints, and Furs MORAVIA, LATE WINTER, TWENTY-NINE THOUSAND years ago. The twelve-year-old boy sits listlessly by the hearth, shoulders sagging, seemingly exhausted. He has spent the day ...
( Category: Physical October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-16 | Author:Andreas Wagner

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 October 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 1993-08-15 | Author:Charles Darwin [Darwin, Charles]

Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection as Applied to Instincts: Neuter and Sterile Insects It has been objected to the foregoing view of the origin of instincts that “the ...
( Category: General October 1,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-03-30 | Author:Jon Queijo [Queijo, Jon]

Milestone #1 “That’s funny”: the strange and serendipitous discovery of penicillin Although most of us prefer to not think about it, just as we are surrounded by countless bacteria, we ...
( Category: History October 1,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2011-05-24 | Author:Michael Shermer [Shermer, Michael]

Figure 8. A Bipedal Dinosaur as Alien ET In a rerun of the history of life on earth, if dinosaurs had survived might some of them become bipedal tool users? ...
( Category: Medical October 1,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-13 | Author:Lane, Nick [Lane, Nick]

Figure 6.3 Actin filaments derived from the slime mould Physarum polycephalum, decorated with myosin ‘arrowheads’ from rabbit muscle. The little arrowheads bind to actin and nothing else, so adding myosin ...
( Category: Biology September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-19 | Author:Alison Pick [Pick, Alison]

Part Three Occupation 12 March 1939 My dear Max, I am writing from Paris. Anneliese and Pavel were due to meet me yesterday. They never arrived. No wire, nothing. I ...
( Category: Jewish September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 1990-09-17 | Author:Stephen Jay Gould [Gould, Stephen Jay]

3.63. The specimen dissected by Harry Whittington that revealed the true nature of Anomalocaris. In this camera lucida drawing, the mouth misidentified by Walcott as the jellyfish Peytoia is at ...
( Category: Geology September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi | | | Author:Ruth DeFries [DeFries, Ruth]

Scarecrows to Strychnine Agriculture, and particularly stowaway species and genetically uniform monocultures, lock humanity into finding ways to overcome pests. Well before the pesticide bonanza of the past century, humans ...
( Category: Cultural September 17,2014 )
azw3, mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-12-05 | Author:Gene Wallenstein

Part Three The Pleasure Instinct and the Modern Experience Chapter 9 Pleasure from Proportion and Symmetry Our inner faculties are adapted in advance to the features of the world in ...
( Category: Emotions September 15,2014 )