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Astrobiology_A Very Short Introduction by David C. Catling
epub |eng | 2013-09-27 | Author:David C. Catling [Catling, David C.]

An inside view of terrestrial life: the cell We have just considered biology on a global scale but under the microscope all organisms are composed of cells of different types ...
( Category: Evolution September 6,2018 )
Beasts_What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good and Evil by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
epub |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson [Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff]

If primal people had such feelings and ideas about animals, how could they hunt, kill, and eat them? . . . They viewed prey animals as equals and, in some ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 6,2018 )
Faint Echoes, Distant Stars_The Science and Politics of Finding Life Beyond Earth by Ben Bova
epub |eng | 2009-10-13 | Author:Ben Bova [Bova, Ben]

THE GIANT PLANET Jupiter is indeed the giant of the solar system, 11 times wider and nearly 318 times more massive than Earth. Yet this enormous world spins so fast ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science September 6,2018 )
Born to Be Good_The Science of a Meaningful Life by Dacher Keltner
epub |eng | 2009-10-05 | Author:Dacher Keltner [Keltner, Dacher]

BENEDICK Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am lov’d of all ladies, only you excepted; and I would I could find in my heart that I ...
( Category: Mental Health September 6,2018 )
Primates and Philosophers_How Morality Evolved by Frans de Waal
epub |eng | 2006-08-15 | Author:Frans de Waal [Waal, Frans de]

In an essay called “Conjectures on the Beginnings of Human History,” Kant speculated that the form of self-consciousness that underlies our autonomy may also play a role in the explanation ...
( Category: Evolution September 6,2018 )
Superhuman by Rowan Hooper
epub |eng | | Author:Rowan Hooper

Part III BEING 8 LONGEVITY For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with ...
( Category: Evolution September 5,2018 )
Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science by David Sloan Wilson
epub |eng | 2018-08-21 | Author:David Sloan Wilson

Introduction In this chapter, we explore how evolutionary theory can help managers guide organizational development—taking business firms as our main example. From an evolutionary perspective, that is, based on the ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling September 2,2018 )
The Human Story by Dunbar Robin
mobi |eng | 2011-02-02 | Author:Dunbar, Robin [Dunbar, Robin]

Whatever else may be the case, humans differ from all other species of animals – including our ape cousins – in one obvious respect: language. There are some 4000 species ...
( Category: Anthropology September 1,2018 )
Entangled Life by Gillian Barker Eric Desjardins & Trevor Pearce
epub |eng | | Author:Gillian Barker, Eric Desjardins & Trevor Pearce

4 Type Fitness and Coarse-Grained Environmental Variation The preceding section provided a framework for thinking about how fitness depends on environmental variation. In this section, I’ll discuss in more detail ...
( Category: Evolution August 31,2018 )
Ten Thousand Birds by Birkhead Tim; Wimpenny Jo; Montgomerie Bob
epub |eng | 2014-08-28 | Author:Birkhead, Tim; Wimpenny, Jo; Montgomerie, Bob [Birkhead, Tim, Wimpenny, Jo and Montgomerie, Bob]

Artist’s impression of the way Tinbergen and Lorenz conducted their hawk-goose model experiments with a pulley system that allowed them to fly hawk and other shapes over turkey poults. Inset ...
( Category: Biological Sciences August 29,2018 )
Evolution, Creationism, and Other Modern Myths by Vine Deloria Jr
epub |eng | 2016-11-29 | Author:Vine Deloria, Jr.

CHAPTER SEVEN THE PHILOSOPHY/SCIENCE OF OTHER “RELIGIONS” In most other cultures of the world, religion does not exist in the form in which we encounter it in the West. Many ...
( Category: Philosophy August 27,2018 )
Memes in Digital Culture by Limor Shifman
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-08-26 | Author:Limor Shifman [Shifman, Limor]

Figure 10 Stock character macros: “Scumbag Steve,” “Success Kid,” and “Socially Awkward Penguin.” Source: http://www.quickmeme.com/. Rage Comics Rage comics are amateur-looking comics featuring “rage faces”—a set of expressive characters, each ...
( Category: Graphics & Design August 27,2018 )
Evolution for Everyone by David Sloan Wilson
epub |eng | 2007-03-26 | Author:David Sloan Wilson

26 How Many Inventors Does It Take to Make a Lightbulb? HOW MANY QUALITY MANAGERS does it take to change a lightbulb? We’ve formed a quality circle to study the ...
( Category: Biological Sciences August 26,2018 )
Inheritance by Sharon Moalem MD PhD
epub |eng | 2014-04-14 | Author:Sharon Moalem MD PhD

You don’t have to be a Mormon to give your siblings, children, and grandchildren a better shot at having the important information they’ll need to make better sense of their ...
( Category: Social Sciences August 25,2018 )
Origins by Baggott Jim;
epub |eng | 2015-08-23 | Author:Baggott, Jim;

LIFE’S BUILDING BLOCKS Despite the extraordinary diversity of life on Earth today, all life forms rely on broadly the same set of cellular structures and biochemical systems that are used ...
( Category: Evolution August 24,2018 )

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