Evolution
epub |eng | 2019-09-16 | Author:James Trefil & Michael Summers

The paradise hypothesis: The extraterrestrials are fat and happy in an ideal environment and have no interest in exploration. The replacement hypothesis: Organic life has been replaced by intelligent machines ...
( Category: Astronomy September 19,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-09-09 | Author:David A. Sinclair & Matthew D. LaPlante

THE HUNDRED YEARS’ WARNING The number of Homo sapiens grew slowly over the first few hundred thousand years of our history, and at least on one occasion, we almost went ...
( Category: Genetics September 16,2019 )
epub |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:Arthur Clarke [Clarke, Arthur]

- PART FOUR - Edge of Darkness Chapter twenty one Birthday Party The familiar sound of 'Happy Birthday' died away among the screens of the Control Room. The Poole family, ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction September 14,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-27 | Author:Bryan Walsh [Walsh, Bryan]

DISEASE Twenty-First-Century Plague The existential threats I’ve covered in this book are either historical or theoretical. I haven’t lived through an asteroid strike or a supereruption or a full-scale nuclear ...
( Category: Geology September 11,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Daniel S. Milo

Figure 6.5. The C-value paradox demonstrates waste in nature: There is no correlation between genome size and organism complexity. The flower Utricularia gibba has 82 million DNA base pairs; Homo ...
( Category: Evolution September 10,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-11-30 | Author:Paul Davies

DEMONS IN THE GENES Surprising though adaptive mutations may be, they still imply that genomes are the passive victims of randomly inflicted externally generated blows or blunders, albeit with rigged ...
( Category: Biology September 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 1983-09-05 | Author:Hall, Edward T. (Edward Twitchell), 1914-2009

cumulative changes in which the generation is the shortest interval in which genetic changes may occur. Therefore, small animals like flies, and bacteria and viruses that reproduce very fast, can ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions September 6,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lee McIntyre

6 How the Scientific Attitude Transformed Modern Medicine It is easy to appreciate the difference that the scientific attitude can make in transforming a previously undisciplined field into one of ...
( Category: History & Philosophy September 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-24 | Author:Felipe Fernández-Armesto

‌Redefining Humanity In the sixteenth century, a further consequence of the construction of extra-European empires was to turn political thought back to wider considerations that transcended the limits of states. ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology September 5,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-16 | Author:Rafe Sagarin [Sagarin, Rafe]

chapter seven CALLING YOUR BLUFF AND BLUFFING YOUR CALL THROUGH MY NATURAL SECURITY PROJECT, I met Dan B., an expert in surveillance and threat assessment. He is a critically important ...
( Category: Developmental Biology September 5,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-15 | Author:Kevin J Mitchell [Mitchell, Kevin J]

1The Matrix, directed by the Wachowski brothers (United States: Village Roadshow Pictures, Groucho II Film Partnership, and Silver Pictures, March 31, 1999). 2R. E. Cytowic and D. M. Eagleman, Wednesday ...
( Category: Personality September 5,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-29 | Author:John Gribbin & Adam Hook

The ‘Darwinian Revolution’ Charles Lyell: his life – His travels in Europe and study of geology – He publishes the Principles of Geology – Lyell’s thoughts on species – Theories ...
( Category: Biology September 4,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-26 | Author:Joseph LeDoux

PART 11 Cognitive Hardware Chapter 48: Perception and Memory Share Circuitry Chapter 49: The Cognitive Coalition Chapter 50: Rewired and Running Hot Chapter 48 PERCEPTION AND MEMORY SHARE CIRCUITRY Human ...
( Category: Natural History September 2,2019 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2019-08-05 | Author:Bill Sullivan

Is There a Devil Inside Us? Susannah Cahalan led a normal life until she turned 24 in 2009, when bizarre problems began to plague her. From out of nowhere, she ...
( Category: Microbiology August 19,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-20 | Author:Ian Hodder

YOUR ENTANGLED CAR I want to emphasize two points about these webs of dependency, these entanglements. First, they are heterogeneous. They include an enormous battery of diverse things, from the ...
( Category: Evolution August 17,2019 )