Evolution
epub |eng | 2016-02-29 | Author:Stephanie Coontz & Peta Henderson [Coontz, Stephanie]

The Development of a Sexual Division of Labour The earliest human societies were undoubtedly small, loosely organized groups whose survival depended upon generalized sharing and cooperation as well as on ...
( Category: Anthropology May 1,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Nathan H. Lents

Coda: The Grandmother Hypothesis Recently, it was discovered that two species of whales, orcas and pilot whales, undergo menopause. One study found an orca that had died at the ripe ...
( Category: Evolution May 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-13 | Author:Moalem, Sharon & Prince, Jonathan [Moalem, Sharon & Prince, Jonathan]

JEAN-BAPTISTE LAMARCK WAS a French thinker and student of nature who popularized some of the current thinking about evolution and heredity in 1809 with the publication of his book Zoological ...
( Category: Evolution April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 1997-01-01 | Author:Diamond, Jared [Diamond, Jared]

( Category: Social Sciences April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-29 | Author:Ryan, Christopher [Ryan, Christopher]

Stressed to Death If an infectious virus doesn’t get you, a stressed-out lifestyle and high-fat diet probably will. Cortisol, the hormone your body releases when under stress, is the strongest ...
( Category: Evolution April 26,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2012-03-27 | Author:Christopher Ryan & Cacilda Jethá [Ryan, Christopher]

Without access to the skeletal data on body-size dimorphism we have today, Darwin speculated that early humans may have lived in a harem-based system. But we now know that if ...
( Category: Evolution April 26,2018 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Loren Eiseley

9. Strangeness in the Proportion * * * “I may truly say,” wrote Sir Francis Bacon, in the time of his tragic fall in 1621, “my soul hath been a ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-09 | Author:Garey, Laurence, Lledo, Pierre-Marie, Vincent, Jean-Didier

The Brain Under Stress When we experience an unpleasant, potentially dangerous event, our brain chemistry prepares us for flight, an imminent fight, or to inhibit our actions and opt for ...
( Category: Biological Sciences April 25,2018 )
epub, pdf | | 2010-01-07 | Author:Unknown

Once Mica had been milked dry, he scooted down as much as he could and kissed Jarek, putting his ass even closer to Suni. Suni’s lust went into overdrive as ...
( Category: Evolution April 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-18 | Author:Robert Lanza & Bob Berman [Lanza, Robert & Berman, Bob]

11 SPACE OUT Ye Gods! Annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy. —Alexander Pope (1728) How do our animal minds apprehend the world? We’ve all been taught ...
( Category: New Age & Spirituality April 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-25 | Author:Denison, R. Ford

Solar Tracking: An Evolutionary Arms Race? Are there more opportunities for crop genetic improvement, linked to other tradeoffs between individual-plant competitiveness and the collective performance of crops? Solar tracking by ...
( Category: Biological Sciences April 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-18 | Author:Paul Lurquin [PAUL F. LURQUIN]

Boosting Yields Through Enhanced Photosynthesis Increasing the yield of crop plants is probably as old an objective as agriculture itself. Classical breeding techniques, based on Mendel’s laws, have been extremely ...
( Category: Agricultural Sciences April 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-07 | Author:Gary Webster

The White Sox topped Boston, 6–4, to reduce their first place deficit to one game. The Yankees were three back. In his notes column of June 25, Jones pointed out ...
( Category: Americas April 25,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1990-03-22 | Author:Edward O. Wilson & Bert Hölldobler [Wilson, Edward O.]

Another factor to examine is the means by which workers recognize colony odor at the species level. If they have a fully innate, “hard-wired” recognition separating individuals of the same ...
( Category: Biological Sciences April 24,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2018-03-17 | Author:Steve Brusatte

The brain cavity (upper right-hand corner) and sinuses inside the skull of a Tyrannosaurus rex, revealed by CAT scans. Courtesy of Larry Witmer. That’s the final piece of the puzzle, ...
( Category: Evolution April 24,2018 )