Evolution
epub |eng | 2017-04-17 | Author:Mercier, Hugo

Is Bias Always Bad? How should cognitive mechanisms in general go about producing sound beliefs? Part of the answer, it seems, is that they should be free of bias. Biases ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology January 19,2020 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Pascal Boyer [Boyer, Pascal]

The Psychology of Exchange However limited compared to modern commerce, prehistoric trade demonstrates that humans had at some point developed the specific psychological capacities that make it possible to exchange ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2005-01-15 | Author:Thomson, Keith; [Thomson, Keith;]

Chapter 6 Bringing fossils to life Palaeontology is rarely a glamorous saga of digging up whole skeletons or entire communities preserved intact in a nice soft rock; most often it ...
( Category: Ichthyology January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Rob DeSalle [DeSalle, Rob]

* * * BOX 12.1 | HEMISPHERECTOMIES This operation is an extreme version of the one performed on Henry Molaison. Of course, doctors would not do this operation if it ...
( Category: Developmental Biology January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-02 | Author:Paul B. Wignall

The first extinctions For the first few billion years of Earth history, during the Precambrian Eon, evolution was on the microbial, single-celled level. This changed around 540 million years ago ...
( Category: Paleontology January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-18 | Author:Marlene Zuk & Leigh W. Simmons

The genetic basis for this unusually complex set of male morphs was published in 2016, when scientists used sophisticated genomic techniques to discover that a single ‘supergene’ composed of 125 ...
( Category: Zoology January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Unknown

Figure 9.1 | Ontario unemployed and discouraged workers, annual average (%), 1947–2016 (Source: Statistics Canada (2018), CANSIM series 282-0086) THE LIMITS OF ONTARIO’S POSTWAR BOOM Ontario’s postwar Keynesian “golden age” ...
( Category: Historical January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Catherine Bliss [Bliss, Catherine]

CHAPTER 7 APPLIED SCIENCE The team had been working with these miniscule variations in DNA for some time now. They had found success with a variety of mutations and were ...
( Category: Medicine January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-01-12 | Author:Matthew Rampley [Rampley, Matthew]

Theoretical Questions The discussion so far has focused on the issue of domains of knowledge and the status of neuroscience for art history. My basic contention is that at best ...
( Category: Historiography January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-05-02 | Author:Scott Lidgard & Lynn K. Nyhart [Lidgard, Scott & Nyhart, Lynn K.]

7 Biological Individuality and Enkapsis: From Martin Heidenhain’s Synthesiology to the Völkisch National Community OLIVIER RIEPPEL Introduction Individuality is generally tied to indivisibility and self-identity, and hence analyzed in terms ...
( Category: History & Philosophy January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-05-04 | Author:Stephen T. Asma [Asma, Stephen T.]

We’ve tuned the theory as best we can, at this juncture. Some of our instruments are more obscure than others; some intonation is dodgy, some strings missing, and valves broken. ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-09 | Author:Jonny Keeling & Alexander Scott

The krill crisis Antarctic krill are shrimp-like crustaceans about six centimetres long, but what they lack in size, they more than make up for in numbers. It is estimated that ...
( Category: Plants & Animals January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 1994-01-17 | Author:Kuhl, Stefan;

Foreign Reception of Nazi Race Policies The international reception of Nazi race policies passed through several phases, at least in the perception of National Socialists. In looking back, Walter Gross, ...
( Category: Minority Studies January 18,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2018-10-23 | Author:Michel Aglietta

TWENTIETH-CENTURY HYPERINFLATION CRISES Hyperinflation is an extreme phenomenon that leads to the destruction of the official currency. It can only be halted by monetary reform that establishes new rules and, ...
( Category: History & Theory January 18,2020 )