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Molecular Evolution on Rugged Landscapes

Protein, RNA, and the Immune System (Volume IX)

by Alan S. Perelson, Stuart A. Kauffman ...

This book lays out a number of the general issues concerning the structure of rugged fitness landscapes and examines both the history and the current status of experimental work on somatic mutation and the maturation of the immune response. ... Read more

$97.55 CAD

This book lays out a number of the general issues concerning the structure of rugged fitness landscapes and examines both the history and the current status of experimental work on somatic mutation and the maturation of the immune response.
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Feats of Strength

How Evolution Shapes Animal Athletic Abilities

by Simon Lailvaux ...

A fascinating exploration of the extreme world of animal athletics, how these stunning abilities have evolved, and their insights into human performance and evolution†‹How is it that fish can climb waterfalls, snakes glide, and cheetahs run so fast? Natural and sexual selection has driven the evolution of diverse and amazing athletic abilities throughout the animal kingdom. Integrative biologist ... Read more

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A fascinating exploration of the extreme world of animal athletics, how these stunning abilities have evolved, and their insights into human performance and evolution†‹How is it that fish can climb waterfalls, snakes glide, and cheetahs run so fast? Natural and sexual selection has driven the evolution of diverse and amazing athletic abilities throughout the animal kingdom. Integrative biologist
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O Abismo

A Rebelião de Sakla, #1

by Frederick Guttmann ...

Series Book 1 - A Rebelião de Sakla
As visões de mundo das culturas da Terra antiga coincidem em várias referências ao início do mundo. É o caso da origem primordial do caos e da escuridão, os abismos profundos. Seria isso literal ou figurado? E se fossem ambos? Esta tese da mitologia comparada fornece um exemplo claro de como o universo é um espelho, uma coisa da outra, visto que o metafísico ou espiritual é uma imagem do material, ... Read more

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As visões de mundo das culturas da Terra antiga coincidem em várias referências ao início do mundo. É o caso da origem primordial do caos e da escuridão, os abismos profundos. Seria isso literal ou figurado? E se fossem ambos? Esta tese da mitologia comparada fornece um exemplo claro de como o universo é um espelho, uma coisa da outra, visto que o metafísico ou espiritual é uma imagem do material,
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Life by Chemical Evolution?

A Review and Evaluation of Experiments and Hypotheses

by Hans R. Kricheldorf ...

Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the hypothesis of chemical evolution that may have led to the origin of life, serving three main purposes: it provides a comprehensive summary of hundreds of chemical experiments and analytical studies from the past 70 years, evaluates their significance in supporting the hypothesis of chemical evolution, and offers a critical review of these experiments ... Read more

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This book provides an in-depth analysis of the hypothesis of chemical evolution that may have led to the origin of life, serving three main purposes: it provides a comprehensive summary of hundreds of chemical experiments and analytical studies from the past 70 years, evaluates their significance in supporting the hypothesis of chemical evolution, and offers a critical review of these experiments
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The Fragile Human: Stress - Anxiety - Depression

The Human Dilemma

by Nathan Shasho ...

Series Book 2 - The Human Dilemma
In The Fragile Human, Nathan Shasho delivers a strikingly original and urgent examination of the human condition. Seamlessly weaving evolutionary biology, anthropology, psychology, and personal reflection, this work unpacks a paradox that defines our age: humanity is more advanced than ever, yet more psychologically fragile.With clarity and compassion, Shasho traces the deep roots of stress and ... Read more

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In The Fragile Human, Nathan Shasho delivers a strikingly original and urgent examination of the human condition. Seamlessly weaving evolutionary biology, anthropology, psychology, and personal reflection, this work unpacks a paradox that defines our age: humanity is more advanced than ever, yet more psychologically fragile.With clarity and compassion, Shasho traces the deep roots of stress and
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Medaka

A Model for Organogenesis, Human Disease, and Evolution

Edited by Kiyoshi Naruse, Minoru Tanaka, Hiroyuki Takeda ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Oryzias latipes, known as medaka, is a model organism from East Asia. Breeding of this small, egg-laying freshwater teleost fish has long been popular among hobbyists in Japan. Now, as biological science has entered the genome era, the medaka provides significant advantages that make it one of the most valuable vertebrate models: a large collection of spontaneous mutants collected over a century, ... Read more

$256.19 CAD

Oryzias latipes, known as medaka, is a model organism from East Asia. Breeding of this small, egg-laying freshwater teleost fish has long been popular among hobbyists in Japan. Now, as biological science has entered the genome era, the medaka provides significant advantages that make it one of the most valuable vertebrate models: a large collection of spontaneous mutants collected over a century,
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Evolutionary Systems and Society

A General Theory

by Vilmos Csányi ...

This work is a bold new effort to embrace all aspects of life—molecular, cellular, behavioral, and cultural—within the formulation of a general theory of evolution that extends classical Darwinian theory to include human society. ... Read more

$32.99 CAD

This work is a bold new effort to embrace all aspects of life—molecular, cellular, behavioral, and cultural—within the formulation of a general theory of evolution that extends classical Darwinian theory to include human society.
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Macroevolutionaries

Reflections on Natural History, Paleontology, and Stephen Jay Gould

by Dr. Bruce Lieberman, Niles Eldredge ...

One of the twentieth century’s great paleontologists and science writers, Stephen Jay Gould was, for Bruce S. Lieberman and Niles Eldredge, also a close colleague and friend. In Macroevolutionaries, they take up the tradition of Gould’s acclaimed essays on natural history, offering a series of wry and insightful reflections on the fields to which they have devoted their careers.Lieberman and ... Read more

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One of the twentieth century’s great paleontologists and science writers, Stephen Jay Gould was, for Bruce S. Lieberman and Niles Eldredge, also a close colleague and friend. In Macroevolutionaries, they take up the tradition of Gould’s acclaimed essays on natural history, offering a series of wry and insightful reflections on the fields to which they have devoted their careers.Lieberman and
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The Funny Society

by Lorenzo Bonanni ...

The book describes scientifically but with a simple terminology, sometimes with irony and humour, the evolutionary and ethological reasons of the love and hate within the couple, why we use deception, why we are attracted to flowers. ... Read more

$8.99 CAD

The book describes scientifically but with a simple terminology, sometimes with irony and humour, the evolutionary and ethological reasons of the love and hate within the couple, why we use deception, why we are attracted to flowers.
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Origins & Symbiotic “Doubling”

Couplets in Evolutionary Time, #1

by Michael A. Susko ...

Series Book 1 - Couplets in Evolutionary Time
Origins & Symbiotic "Doubling" is the opening volume of Couplets in Evolutionary Time, a five-part exploration of life's major evolutionary transitions through a logarithmic framework. Drawing upon recent discoveries in geology, molecular biology, paleontology, and evolutionary theory, the author proposes that life's earliest history can be understood as a paired evolutionary movement.The first ... Read more

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Origins & Symbiotic "Doubling" is the opening volume of Couplets in Evolutionary Time, a five-part exploration of life's major evolutionary transitions through a logarithmic framework. Drawing upon recent discoveries in geology, molecular biology, paleontology, and evolutionary theory, the author proposes that life's earliest history can be understood as a paired evolutionary movement.The first
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ADVANCED TREATMENT FOR POMPE DISEASE: APOMETRY, NLP, REGRESSION AND HYPNOSIS

by Edenilson Brandl, Thor Otto Alexsander ...

Pompe disease is a rare and serious genetic disorder that affects the body's ability to break down glycogen, a type of sugar. This can lead to muscle weakness, breathing problems, and heart failure.There is no cure for Pompe disease, but there are treatments that can help to manage the symptoms. One promising treatment is apometry, a form of energy healing that uses the power of the mind to remove ... Read more

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Pompe disease is a rare and serious genetic disorder that affects the body's ability to break down glycogen, a type of sugar. This can lead to muscle weakness, breathing problems, and heart failure.There is no cure for Pompe disease, but there are treatments that can help to manage the symptoms. One promising treatment is apometry, a form of energy healing that uses the power of the mind to remove
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Apan med den vackra dräkten.

Från ursprunglig bräcklighet till universellt medvetande.

by Bruno Del Medico ...

Series Book 953 - SWE - PensareDiverso
I årtusenden har vi beskrivit oss själva som en ”naken apa”: ett ömtåligt djur, plötsligt kastat ut i världen utan klor eller pansar, omgivet av obegripliga naturkrafter och bättre rustade rovdjur, gjort känt av Desmond Morris, etolog och antropolog, tack vare hans berömda bok från 1967 med titeln just ”The Naked Ape”. Ett skrämt djur som har lärt sig att överleva genom att uppfinna historier, ... Read more

$10.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

I årtusenden har vi beskrivit oss själva som en ”naken apa”: ett ömtåligt djur, plötsligt kastat ut i världen utan klor eller pansar, omgivet av obegripliga naturkrafter och bättre rustade rovdjur, gjort känt av Desmond Morris, etolog och antropolog, tack vare hans berömda bok från 1967 med titeln just ”The Naked Ape”. Ett skrämt djur som har lärt sig att överleva genom att uppfinna historier,
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Ang unggoy na nakasuot ng marangyang kasuotan.

Mula sa orihinal na kahinaan tungo sa unibersal na kamalayan

by Bruno Del Medico ...

Series Book 953 - TAG - PensareDiverso
Sa loob ng libu-libong taon, inilalarawan natin ang ating sarili bilang 'hubad na ape': marupok na mga hayop, biglang itinapon sa mundo nang walang kuko o baluti, napapaligiran ng hindi mauunawaan na puwersang natural at mga mandaragit na mas may kagamitan, na pinasikat ni Desmond Morris, isang etologo at antropologo, sa kanyang tanyag na aklat noong 1967 na pinamagatang 'The Naked Ape'. Isang ... Read more

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Sa loob ng libu-libong taon, inilalarawan natin ang ating sarili bilang 'hubad na ape': marupok na mga hayop, biglang itinapon sa mundo nang walang kuko o baluti, napapaligiran ng hindi mauunawaan na puwersang natural at mga mandaragit na mas may kagamitan, na pinasikat ni Desmond Morris, isang etologo at antropologo, sa kanyang tanyag na aklat noong 1967 na pinamagatang 'The Naked Ape'. Isang
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호화로운 옷을 입은 원숭이

원초적 취약성에서 보편적 의식으로.

by Bruno Del Medico ...

Series Book 953 - KOR - PensareDiverso
수천 년 동안 우리는 스스로를 '벌거벗은 원숭이'라고 묘사해왔다: 발톱도 갑옷도 없이 갑자기 세상에 내던져진 연약한 동물, 이해할 수 없는 자연의 힘과 더 잘 무장한 포식자들에게 둘러싸인 존재. 데스먼드 모리스, 동물행동학자이자 인류학자가 1967년 발표한 그의 유명한 저서 『벌거벗은 원숭이』를 통해 유명해진 개념이다. 공포에 질린 생물로서, 이야기를 만들고 상징과 신, 의식을 창조하며 생존하는 법을 배운 존재. 자신의 취약함을 보호하기 위해 신화로 자신을 감싼 원숭이.20세기에 유명해져 거의 인류학적 상징이 된 그 이미지는 여전히 일정한 매력을 발휘한다. 아이러니하고 도발적이며 심지어 해방감마저 주는 이 이미지는 우리의 야망에도 불구하고 우리가 여전히 동물임을 상기시킨다. 그러나 바로 이 생각이 인간 ... Read more

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수천 년 동안 우리는 스스로를 '벌거벗은 원숭이'라고 묘사해왔다: 발톱도 갑옷도 없이 갑자기 세상에 내던져진 연약한 동물, 이해할 수 없는 자연의 힘과 더 잘 무장한 포식자들에게 둘러싸인 존재. 데스먼드 모리스, 동물행동학자이자 인류학자가 1967년 발표한 그의 유명한 저서 『벌거벗은 원숭이』를 통해 유명해진 개념이다. 공포에 질린 생물로서, 이야기를 만들고 상징과 신, 의식을 창조하며 생존하는 법을 배운 존재. 자신의 취약함을 보호하기 위해 신화로 자신을 감싼 원숭이.20세기에 유명해져 거의 인류학적 상징이 된 그 이미지는 여전히 일정한 매력을 발휘한다. 아이러니하고 도발적이며 심지어 해방감마저 주는 이 이미지는 우리의 야망에도 불구하고 우리가 여전히 동물임을 상기시킨다. 그러나 바로 이 생각이 인간
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Opice v nádherném oděvu.

Od původní křehkosti k univerzálnímu vědomí.

by Bruno Del Medico ...

Series Book 953 - CZE - PensareDiverso
Po tisíciletí jsme o sobě mluvili jako o „nahé opici“: křehkém zvířeti, které bylo náhle vrženo do světa bez drápů a brnění, obklopeném nepochopitelnými přírodními silami a lépe vybavenými predátory. Proslavil ho etolog a antropolog Desmond Morris ve své slavné knize z roku 1967 s názvem „The Naked Ape“ (Nahá opice). Vystrašená bytost, která se naučila přežívat vymýšlením příběhů, symbolů, bohů a ... Read more

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Po tisíciletí jsme o sobě mluvili jako o „nahé opici“: křehkém zvířeti, které bylo náhle vrženo do světa bez drápů a brnění, obklopeném nepochopitelnými přírodními silami a lépe vybavenými predátory. Proslavil ho etolog a antropolog Desmond Morris ve své slavné knize z roku 1967 s názvem „The Naked Ape“ (Nahá opice). Vystrašená bytost, která se naučila přežívat vymýšlením příběhů, symbolů, bohů a
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Biology in Transition

The Life and Lectures of Arthur Milnes Marshall

by Martin Luck ...

Series series History of Evolutionary Biology
Arthur Milnes Marshall was a 19th-century scientist who gave lectures addressing the biological debates of his time. They covered topics including evolution, embryology, development and inheritance, with Charles Darwin’s name and those of other important biologists distributed liberally throughout.Marshall was a zoologist, embryologist, anatomist and Darwin enthusiast, as well as an accomplished ... Read more

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Arthur Milnes Marshall was a 19th-century scientist who gave lectures addressing the biological debates of his time. They covered topics including evolution, embryology, development and inheritance, with Charles Darwin’s name and those of other important biologists distributed liberally throughout.Marshall was a zoologist, embryologist, anatomist and Darwin enthusiast, as well as an accomplished
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Darwin'in Evrim Teorisi

Türlerin ortaya çıkışı

by Romain Parmentier ...

Translated by Baris Şahin ...

1859 yılında Charles Darwin'in doğal seçilim yoluyla türlerin kökeni üzerine çığır açan kitabı yayınlandı ve yeryüzündeki tüm türlerin yavaş bir evrimsel sürecin sonucu olduğu ve günümüzde en uygun olanın hayatta kalması olarak bilinen mücadelenin bir parçası olarak evrimleşmeye devam ettiği fikri ortaya atıldı. Darwin'in vardığı sonuçlar uzun yıllar süren dikkatli gözlemlerin sonucuydu, ancak ... Read more

$14.99 CAD

1859 yılında Charles Darwin'in doğal seçilim yoluyla türlerin kökeni üzerine çığır açan kitabı yayınlandı ve yeryüzündeki tüm türlerin yavaş bir evrimsel sürecin sonucu olduğu ve günümüzde en uygun olanın hayatta kalması olarak bilinen mücadelenin bir parçası olarak evrimleşmeye devam ettiği fikri ortaya atıldı. Darwin'in vardığı sonuçlar uzun yıllar süren dikkatli gözlemlerin sonucuydu, ancak
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Hawkey's Atlas of Wild and Exotic Animal Haematology

by Jaime Samour, Mike Hart ...

This revised, updated and expanded edition of Christine Hawkey’s A Colour Atlas of Comparative Veterinary Haematology is bursting with high-quality images to aid identification of blood cells and haemoparasites in the different species commonly seen in private practice and zoological collections. It will assist veterinarians in the identification of normal and abnormal blood cells and in ... Read more

$261.08 CAD

This revised, updated and expanded edition of Christine Hawkey’s A Colour Atlas of Comparative Veterinary Haematology is bursting with high-quality images to aid identification of blood cells and haemoparasites in the different species commonly seen in private practice and zoological collections. It will assist veterinarians in the identification of normal and abnormal blood cells and in
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Goldfish Development and Evolution

by Kinya G. Ota ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This book explains how the beautiful goldfish body develops from a single fertilized egg and how this developmental process was changed during the process of domestication. The contents can be categorized as follows: i) numerous high-quality live photo images of embryonic and larval stage goldfish, ii) detailed descriptions of skeletogenesis with fluorescent microscopic and histological images, ... Read more

$153.69 CAD

This book explains how the beautiful goldfish body develops from a single fertilized egg and how this developmental process was changed during the process of domestication. The contents can be categorized as follows: i) numerous high-quality live photo images of embryonic and larval stage goldfish, ii) detailed descriptions of skeletogenesis with fluorescent microscopic and histological images,
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Major Events in Early Vertebrate Evolution

Edited by Per Erik Ahlberg ...

Series series Systematics Association Special Volumes
A multi-author volume Major Events in Early Vertebrate Evolution examines the origin and early evolution of the backboned animals (vertebrates)-the group which comprises all fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, including ourselves. This volume draws together evidence from fossils, genes, and developmental biology (the study of how embry ... Read more

$384.77 CAD

A multi-author volume Major Events in Early Vertebrate Evolution examines the origin and early evolution of the backboned animals (vertebrates)-the group which comprises all fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, including ourselves. This volume draws together evidence from fossils, genes, and developmental biology (the study of how embry
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The 3 Percepts Origin of the Ego & How Civilization Wil be Conquered

by Burton Martel ...

There are only three ways to percieve reality for all creatures, based on physiology.You will be taken on a never before seen path of psychopath evolution from fifty thousand years ago, to the modern empath of today.Choosing to realize percept control is new strategy, a technique to mechanically self induce joy and an extreme competitive edge towards all action. ... Read more

$6.99 CAD

There are only three ways to percieve reality for all creatures, based on physiology.You will be taken on a never before seen path of psychopath evolution from fifty thousand years ago, to the modern empath of today.Choosing to realize percept control is new strategy, a technique to mechanically self induce joy and an extreme competitive edge towards all action.
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The Genomic Potential Hypothesis

A Chemist's View of the Origins, Evolution and Unfolding of Life

by Christian Schwabe ...

The Genomic Potential Hypothesis is a biochemist's view of the origin, evolution, and development of life. Large numbers are second nature to a biochemist and though he rarely ever thinks of it explicitly, the concept of mass action is a part of the definition of chemistry. The origin of life, from that perspective, will turn into an event that occurs on the molar scale in units of 1023 and is ... Read more

$321.55 CAD

The Genomic Potential Hypothesis is a biochemist's view of the origin, evolution, and development of life. Large numbers are second nature to a biochemist and though he rarely ever thinks of it explicitly, the concept of mass action is a part of the definition of chemistry. The origin of life, from that perspective, will turn into an event that occurs on the molar scale in units of 1023 and is
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Майдони огоҳӣ. Ба сӯи зеҳни умумиҷаҳонӣ

Назарияи нави майдонҳо шуури инфиродиро ба воқеияти кайҳонӣ табдил медиҳад.

by Bruno Del Medico ...

Series Book 956 - TGK - PensareDiverso
Муддати тӯлонӣ мо бовар доштем, ки огоҳӣ масъалаи хусусӣ аст, ки дар даруни сари ҳар кас ниҳон аст. Як навъ ҳуҷраи баста, як шамъи инфиродӣ, ки танҳо ҷаҳони ботинии моро равшан мекард. Аммо имрӯз чизе тағйир меёбад. Тадқиқоти илмӣ дар бораи рафтори коллективӣ, кашфиётҳо дар нейроиҷтимоӣ, назарияҳои муосири зеҳни паҳншуда ва ҳатто баъзе дарки анъанаҳои тафаккури маънавӣ ҳама ба назар мерасанд, ки ... Read more

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Муддати тӯлонӣ мо бовар доштем, ки огоҳӣ масъалаи хусусӣ аст, ки дар даруни сари ҳар кас ниҳон аст. Як навъ ҳуҷраи баста, як шамъи инфиродӣ, ки танҳо ҷаҳони ботинии моро равшан мекард. Аммо имрӯз чизе тағйир меёбад. Тадқиқоти илмӣ дар бораи рафтори коллективӣ, кашфиётҳо дар нейроиҷтимоӣ, назарияҳои муосири зеҳни паҳншуда ва ҳатто баъзе дарки анъанаҳои тафаккури маънавӣ ҳама ба назар мерасанд, ки
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Opica v čudoviti obleki.

Od prvotne krhkosti do univerzalne zavesti.

by Bruno Del Medico ...

Series Book 953 - SLV - PensareDiverso
Tisočletja smo se opisovali kot »gola opica«: krhko žival, ki je bila nenadoma vržena v svet brez krempljev in oklepa, obkrožena z nerazumljivimi naravnimi silami in bolje opremljenimi plenilci, ki jo je proslavil Desmond Morris, etolog in antropolog, s svojo znamenito knjigo iz leta 1967 z naslovom »The Naked Ape« (Gola opica). Strašljivo bitje, ki se je naučilo preživeti z izmišljanjem zgodb, ... Read more

$10.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Tisočletja smo se opisovali kot »gola opica«: krhko žival, ki je bila nenadoma vržena v svet brez krempljev in oklepa, obkrožena z nerazumljivimi naravnimi silami in bolje opremljenimi plenilci, ki jo je proslavil Desmond Morris, etolog in antropolog, s svojo znamenito knjigo iz leta 1967 z naslovom »The Naked Ape« (Gola opica). Strašljivo bitje, ki se je naučilo preživeti z izmišljanjem zgodb,
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