History & Philosophy
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-03-16 | Author:John Maynard Smith & Eors Szathmary [Smith, John Maynard]

Mating types and sexual differentiation Almost all sexual protists have two ‘mating types’, + and −99999. Gametes of the + type will fuse only with −, and vice versa. This ...
( Category: History & Philosophy May 17,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-06-03 | Author:Marcelo Gleiser [Gleiser, Marcelo]

CHAPTER 21 LEARNING TO LET GO (Wherein we begin our exploration of quantum physics and how it imposes limits on what we can know of the world) Within a decade, ...
( Category: Philosophy May 16,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Brockman

Christine Finn CHRISTINE FINN is an archaeologist and journalist based in Rome and Visiting Fellow in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Bristol, U.K. She is ...
( Category: Philosophy May 16,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-05 | Author:Stephen Hawking

To my great surprise I found that the black hole seemed to emit particles at a steady rate. Like everyone else at that time, I accepted the dictum that a ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science May 15,2018 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2017-04-11 | Author:Marcus du Sautoy [du Sautoy, Marcus]

IS THERE ANYONE OUT THERE? It is striking how often cosmology and religion have intersected throughout history. The question of what might lie beyond the edge of the universe has ...
( Category: History & Philosophy May 13,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-02-26 | Author:Steven Druker [Druker, Steven]

In light of the foregoing discussion, it’s clear that the bars associated with genetic engineering in the report’s comparative chart must be adjusted to reflect far more than the unintended ...
( Category: Biological Sciences May 11,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Daniel M Davis

7 The Guardian Cells If there’s any single take-home message from all of science, it’s that nothing is simple. Everything has depth. It sounds simple enough that our immune system ...
( Category: Basic Sciences May 11,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alice Major [Alice Major]

Free time Here. Take it. No charge for that hour or two after supper tethered to the television after work, after the dishes, before bed and the alarm clock ticking ...
( Category: History & Philosophy May 10,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-02-25 | Author:Roger Wagner & Andrew Briggs [Wagner, Roger]

The Experimental Club Wilkins was a convinced Copernican who at the age of 24 had published The Discovery of a World in the Moon and followed it up two years ...
( Category: History & Philosophy May 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-31 | Author:John S. Wilkins

up of species. Weismann appears to think that entire species transmute and are changed into new species after a period of fragmentation of forms. However, he realizes that spe- cies ...
( Category: Biological Sciences May 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-13 | Author:Catherine Wilson

Materialism today Although several hundred years of research on the nervous system have elapsed since Descartes took up the problem of the relationship of experience to the brain, it remains ...
( Category: Philosophy May 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-11 | Author:John Dizon [Dizon, John]

CHAPTER FIVE A ndromeda Aries graduated from the Cetan Starfleet Academy four years after new recruit Gravas Drachna. It was after the Civil War, and the Emperor had been exiled ...
( Category: Americas May 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-17 | Author:Kenneth R. Miller [Miller, Kenneth R.]

Chapter 6 Consciousness * * * To steal a line from philosopher David Chalmers,1 right now there’s a movie playing in my head, and there’s one in your head, too. ...
( Category: Religious Studies May 2,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-05-02 | Author:Philip Ball [Ball, Philip]

9 Nature Free and Bound Reason is not to be much trusted when she wanders far from Experiments. Robert Boyle, ‘Of Naturall Philosophie’ (early 1650s) In my judgement the use ...
( Category: History & Philosophy May 2,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-10-17 | Author:Ethan Siegel [Siegel, Ethan]

1. concave mirrors can create an apparent “projected” object to an observer from a particular set of angles, 2. position and motion sensors can detect where a person is located ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science April 30,2018 )