Genetics
epub |eng | 2011-01-03 | Author:Wood, Bernard

Time chart of “possible” early hominin species. Orrorin The second oldest potential primitive hominin species is Orrorin tugenensis, the name given to fossils found in sediments in the Tugen Hills ...
( Category: Developmental Biology November 1,2015 )
epub |eng | 1999-08-04 | Author:Richard Dawkins [Dawkins, Richard]

9 Selfish DNA, Jumping Genes, and a Lamarckian Scare This chapter will be a somewhat miscellaneous one, gathering together the results of my brief and foolhardy incursions into the hinterlands ...
( Category: Genetics October 20,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:Richard Dawkins [Dawkins, Richard]

CHAPTER 4. GOD'S UTILITY FUNCTION {95} My clerical correspondent of the previous chapter found faith through a wasp. Charles Darwin lost his with the help of another: “I cannot persuade ...
( Category: Genetics October 20,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Matthew Cobb [Cobb, Matthew]

That question remains unanswered. In 2014, the ENCODE consortium published a second wave of papers and seemed to back away from their earlier headline claim of 80 per cent function, ...
( Category: Genetics October 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-29 | Author:Richard Dawkins [Dawkins, Richard]

So it was the Canaanites’ fault: they had it coming to them because God wanted their land for his pet tribe’s Lebensraum and the incumbents just refused to get up ...
( Category: Biology October 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-02-17 | Author:Sebastian Seung

Figure 48. Gray versus white matter of the cerebrum The distinction between gray and white matter was known in antiquity, but their fundamental difference became clear only after the discovery ...
( Category: Neurology August 26,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-25 | Author:Collen, Alanna

SIX You Are What They Eat As I sit down with Dr Rachel Carmody for a cup of tea at Harvard University, she tells me about the moment she realised ...
( Category: Genetics July 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-19 | Author:Joseph P. Farrell [Farrell, Joseph P.]

But the method was obviously cumbersome, for with such a technique, mapping the human genome “would take 100,000 years, which alone might explain why a lot of very smart people ...
( Category: Ancient & Controversial Knowledge June 20,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1997-01-15 | Author:Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen [Stewart, Ian]

figments of realit y pincer-like claws and is carnivorous; it regards anything less than half its size, which moves, as food, which it attacks, snipping or tearing off any appendages. ...
( Category: Cognitive June 12,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-04-16 | Author:David P. Barash; Judith Eve Lipton

llliam James is said to have composed this ditty, although with insights inspired by opium rather than evolutionary biology: Higamous hogamous, woman monogamous Hogamous higamous, man is polygamous. What earthly ...
( Category: Sexuality June 11,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2015-03-04 | Author:Nessa Carey [Carey, Nessa]

Figure 12.4 The dots represent the positions of protein-coding genes in the nucleus. If genes were positioned in the nucleus solely as a function of their position on chromosomes, we ...
( Category: Cell Biology June 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2015-02-22 | Author:John Sanford

Figure 12. Poly-constrained information and poly-constrained DNA. Like puns, palindromes, and other word puzzles, DNA contains poly-functional letters, words, and phrases. Such sequences can only arise by very careful design. ...
( Category: Mammals June 6,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-26 | Author:Robert Nussbaum & Roderick R. McInnes & Huntington F Willard [Nussbaum, Robert]

Figure 14-9 Human development begins with cleavage of the fertilized egg. A, The fertilized egg at day 0 with two pronuclei and the polar bodies. B, A two-cell embryo at ...
( Category: Pathology June 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-18 | Author:Daniel J. Fairbanks

In 1981, Stephen J. Gould published one of the most significant works of his illustrious career: a book titled The Mismeasure of Man.1 It reviews how scholars from the eighteenth ...
( Category: Physical May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-18 | Author:Archibald, J. David.

FIGURE 5.6 One of Haeckel’s (A) broom-like tuft diagrams, addressing the issue of the poly- versus monophyletic origin of life, depicted in a slightly different form from his figure in ...
( Category: Genetics April 7,2015 )