mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-10-29 | Author:Richard Dawkins

CHAPTER 7 CONSTRUCTIVE EVOLUTION People sometimes think that natural selection is a purely negative force, capable of weeding out freaks and failures, but not capable of building up complexity, beauty ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2009-10-06 | Author:Richard Dawkins

Cellular family tree of Caenorhabditis elegans Embryology seems complicated – is complicated – but it is easy to grasp the important point, which is that we are dealing with local ...

epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 1990-09-17 | Author:Stephen Jay Gould [Gould, Stephen Jay]

3.63. The specimen dissected by Harry Whittington that revealed the true nature of Anomalocaris. In this camera lucida drawing, the mouth misidentified by Walcott as the jellyfish Peytoia is at ...

epub |eng | 2014-05-13 | Author:Jonathan Weiner [Weiner, Jonathan]

EVEN THOUGH HIS THINKING about evolution was formed by what he had seen in the Galápagos, Darwin never quite understood how much species are like islands. The momentum of his ...

mobi |eng | 2010-10-23 | Author:Richard Dawkins

the number of molecules fixed and adjusting the pressure, the fish adjust the number of molecules. To sink, the fish absorbs some molecules of gas from its swim bladder into ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-10-23 | Author:Geoffrey Miller

7 Bodies of Evidence By primate standards, humans look strange, even after we step out of our sport utility vehicles. Compared with other apes, we have less hair on our ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-02-25 | Author:Charles Darwin

Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection as Applied to Instincts: Neuter and Sterile Insects It has been objected to the foregoing view of the origin of instincts that “the ...

epub |eng | 2012-05-07 | Author:Gregory Chaitin [Chaitin, Gregory]

There is a beautiful essay on the web about this by the quantum computer complexity theorist Scott Aaronson, “Who Can Name the Biggest Number?,” which I highly recommend and which ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1992-01-01 | Author:Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan [Sagan, Carl & Druyan, Ann]

* One of the expert reviewers of this book complains, “I would struggle to help noticing. . You don’t need to be right at armpit level to smell Consider any ...

epub |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Rebecca Stott [Stott, Rebecca]

By 1798, when he left for Egypt, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire had been professor of vertebrates at the Jardin for five years. Like many serious young men who had been training for ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-28 | Author:Stephen C. Meyer

Order vs. Information Self-organizational theorists face, in addition, a conceptual distinction that has cast doubt on the relevance of their theories to biological systems. Self-organizational theorists seek to explain the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-23 | Author:Switek, Brian

FIGURE 53 - An illustration of Koch’s Hydrarchos as it appeared on display. To Koch’s surprise, the fossils were among the salvage and were sent to New York on the ...

epub |eng | 2001-03-25 | Author:Carl Zimmer [Zimmer, Carl]

PART THREE Evolution’s Dance EIGHT COEVOLUTION Weaving the Web of Life One of the many reasons we need to save endangered species from extinction is because we can find among ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-05-29 | Author:Richard Dawkins

THE BLIND CAVE FISH’S TALE Animals of various kinds have found their way into dark caves, where living conditions are obviously very different from outside. Repeatedly, and in many different ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1993-01-01 | Author:Matt Ridley

The Rewards of Violence If reproduction has been the reward and goal of power and wealth, then it is little wonder that it has also been a frequent cause, and ...