History & Philosophy
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 )
epub |eng | | Author:Popper, Karl; Notturno, M.A.;
NOTES 1 See Maxwell’s masterly article Atom in the ninth edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. 2 For many years I have been in the habit of giving an outline of ...
( Category:
History & Philosophy
August 30,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-30 | Author:Popper, Karl;
This probability estimate, as we know, is defined by objective statistical probabilities; that is to say, it is equivalent to the hypothesis that one half of a given class α ...
( Category:
Philosophy
August 30,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-25 | Author:Popper, Karl; [Karl Popper]
IX My last remarks—on (c)—indicate the direction in which, perhaps, an answer may be found to what I hold to be the most important aspect of our many-sided problem. Yet ...
( Category:
Philosophy
August 30,2018 )
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 )
epub |eng | 2008-08-27 | Author:Cory Doctorow [Doctorow, Cory]
2.3 People are stupid Even when there's a positive benefit to creating good metadata, people steadfastly refuse to exercise care and diligence in their metadata creation. Take eBay: every seller ...
( Category:
History & Philosophy
August 28,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-25 | Author:Paul E. Ceruzzi [Ceruzzi, Paul]
Figure 5.1 Patent for the microprocessor. The Personal Computer Second only to the airplane, the microprocessor was the greatest invention of the twentieth century. Like all other great inventions, it ...
( Category:
History & Culture
August 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-25 | Author:Myron Echenberg
PART TWO Visits to the Mexican Heartland, 14 May to 10 October 1803: Silver Mines and Active Volcanoes CHAPTER 11 Pachuca, Land of Mines, and Mining Haciendas Pachuca was the ...
( Category:
Travelers & Explorers
August 26,2018 )
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 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:David N. Lucsko
6 Of Clunkers and Camaros Policy Makers, Enthusiasts, and Old-Car Scrappage, 1990–2009 Its panels were straight and clean. Its seats were worn but not worn out. Its motor still purred. ...
( Category:
Automotive
August 25,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-10-28 | Author:Frank Close
From bubble chamber to spark chamber A bubble chamber can provide a complete picture of an interaction, but it has some limitations. It is sensitive only when its contents are ...
( Category:
Physics
August 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-08-21 | Author:Chet Raymo
How to account for this rhythm in the rocks? I have posed this puzzle for my students, and after a bit of head-scratching they figure out a solution. All of ...
( Category:
History & Philosophy
August 22,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-29 | Author:HRH The Prince of Wales
Acid oceans As a further consequence of carbon dioxide pollution the oceans are rapidly becoming more acidic. Comparable rates of ocean acidification have not been seen for many millions of ...
( Category:
Social Sciences
August 21,2018 )
epub |eng | 2003-12-01 | Author:Antonio Damasio [Damasio, Antonio]
The Hague, December 2, 1999 The annual Huygens Lecture is named after Christiaan Huygens. Huygens had little to do with brain or mind or philosophy and everything to do with ...
( Category:
Philosophy
August 20,2018 )
epub |eng | 2002-01-01 | Author:Steven Pinker [Pinker, Steven]
It made my heart ache, you know, to see all these beautiful black men in the joint. Goddam; the warriors should be out there helping the masses. I felt that ...
( Category:
Psychology & Counseling
August 19,2018 )
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