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Animal de realidades

Nuestra identidad evolutiva como especie e individuos

by Xosé Gabriel Vázquez ...

Este libro tiene más información y aplicaciones que cualquier smartphone, y se activa fácilmente, mediante el interés. Ni todos los dispositivos juntos pueden decirnos cuál es la clave de nuestra existencia, tanto como especie y también como individuos. Tampoco cómo se articula, ni cómo opera, ni su desarrollo, ni su resultado.Si quieres saber por qué y para qué estamos aquí y, en definitiva, cuál ... Read more

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Este libro tiene más información y aplicaciones que cualquier smartphone, y se activa fácilmente, mediante el interés. Ni todos los dispositivos juntos pueden decirnos cuál es la clave de nuestra existencia, tanto como especie y también como individuos. Tampoco cómo se articula, ni cómo opera, ni su desarrollo, ni su resultado.Si quieres saber por qué y para qué estamos aquí y, en definitiva, cuál
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Neo Evolutionary Blessing

Outline about pregenetic neo-evolutionary supernatural driver DAA, i.e. EskmDAAn> EvmDNA = Emc2.

by Pawel Kozycz ...

This book is a continuation of the previous five books on futuristic topics, or rather an outline of the neo-evolutionary model, active participation in shaping the micro-macro cosmos and its properties. - "Masters of life and universe", - "100 Verses for Life and Space Re-creation: Nature Must Be Changed and It Will Be Done, - "Neo Creation of Life and Space / Matter: Or Micro Drone Revolution", ... Read more

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This book is a continuation of the previous five books on futuristic topics, or rather an outline of the neo-evolutionary model, active participation in shaping the micro-macro cosmos and its properties. - "Masters of life and universe", - "100 Verses for Life and Space Re-creation: Nature Must Be Changed and It Will Be Done, - "Neo Creation of Life and Space / Matter: Or Micro Drone Revolution",
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Darwin's Evolution and the Big Bang are Fake Science - Evidence and Analysis

by Mark Keenan ...

In 1859, Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, containing his theory of evolution and natural selection. It took only a few decades for the theory to pervade the institutions of science to such an extent that no scientist could still be respected unless he was an evolutionist aligned with Darwin's theory. The theory was widely promoted in society and in the education system. It was ... Read more

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In 1859, Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, containing his theory of evolution and natural selection. It took only a few decades for the theory to pervade the institutions of science to such an extent that no scientist could still be respected unless he was an evolutionist aligned with Darwin's theory. The theory was widely promoted in society and in the education system. It was
... Read more
Animals of Ancient Lands

Restored Classics to Go Edition

by Carroll Lane Fenton ...

This lively popular science journey follows the great rise of vertebrate life, from fish to amphibians to reptiles, and then onward into the age when land, sea, and sky were transformed by ever more astonishing creatures. It begins with the rare fossil record of early land animals, showing how an extraordinary Permian delta in ancient Texas preserved scattered clues to a vanished world. There, ... Read more

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This lively popular science journey follows the great rise of vertebrate life, from fish to amphibians to reptiles, and then onward into the age when land, sea, and sky were transformed by ever more astonishing creatures. It begins with the rare fossil record of early land animals, showing how an extraordinary Permian delta in ancient Texas preserved scattered clues to a vanished world. There,
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DNA-bewerking

Knippen en plakken met CRISPR/Cas9

by Kristel Kleijer ...

Series series Pocket Science
Een nieuwe techniek voor het aanpassen van DNA is op dit moment een revolutie aan het ontketenen. Sinds kort kunnen wetenschappers met Crispr/Cas9 heel specifieke stukjes uit genen knippen en vervangen door een stukje naar keuze. Dit boekje legt op een toegankelijke manier uit hoe de techniek werkt. Ook bespreekt het hoe de techniek het genezen van genetische ziekten veel makkelijker maakt. Maar ... Read more

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Een nieuwe techniek voor het aanpassen van DNA is op dit moment een revolutie aan het ontketenen. Sinds kort kunnen wetenschappers met Crispr/Cas9 heel specifieke stukjes uit genen knippen en vervangen door een stukje naar keuze. Dit boekje legt op een toegankelijke manier uit hoe de techniek werkt. Ook bespreekt het hoe de techniek het genezen van genetische ziekten veel makkelijker maakt. Maar
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Comments on David McNeill's Book (2012) How Language Began

Buttressing the Human Niche, #4

by Razie Mah ...

Series Book 4 - Buttressing the Human Niche
David McNeill spent years in the Departments of Psychology and Linguistics, exploring the nature of human speech and gesture. Gesture coincides with speech. The gestures are holistic and imagistic. Speech is detailed and propositional. Clearly, these two real elements are contiguous in contemporary talk.The question is why?If this behavior expresses evolved traits, then how did talk evolve?This is ... Read more

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David McNeill spent years in the Departments of Psychology and Linguistics, exploring the nature of human speech and gesture. Gesture coincides with speech. The gestures are holistic and imagistic. Speech is detailed and propositional. Clearly, these two real elements are contiguous in contemporary talk.The question is why?If this behavior expresses evolved traits, then how did talk evolve?This is
... Read more
Humanos: La evolución de nuestra especie (Humans)

by DK ...

¿Quiénes somos los humanos? ¿Cómo pueden nuestros dedos abrir este libro con tanta precisión, separando páginas más finas que un milímetro? ¿Cómo podemos comprender los símbolos que contienen?La combinación de ingenio, destreza y curiosidad del ser humano nos ha permitido explorar, inventar y transformar el mundo y sus entornos: desde la tundra ártica y los desiertos hasta los océanos.Este libro ... Read more

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¿Quiénes somos los humanos? ¿Cómo pueden nuestros dedos abrir este libro con tanta precisión, separando páginas más finas que un milímetro? ¿Cómo podemos comprender los símbolos que contienen?La combinación de ingenio, destreza y curiosidad del ser humano nos ha permitido explorar, inventar y transformar el mundo y sus entornos: desde la tundra ártica y los desiertos hasta los océanos.Este libro
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A Brief History of the Mind

From Apes to Intellect and Beyond

by William H. Calvin ...

This book looks back at the simpler versions of mental life in apes, Neanderthals, and our ancestors, back before our burst of creativity started 50,000 years ago. When you can't think about the future in much detail, you are trapped in a here-and-now existence with no "What if" and "Why me?" William H. Calvin takes stock of what we have now and then explains why we are nearing a crossroads, where ... Read more

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This book looks back at the simpler versions of mental life in apes, Neanderthals, and our ancestors, back before our burst of creativity started 50,000 years ago. When you can't think about the future in much detail, you are trapped in a here-and-now existence with no "What if" and "Why me?" William H. Calvin takes stock of what we have now and then explains why we are nearing a crossroads, where
... Read more
Les métamorphoses et la généagénèse

Traité de physiologie comparée

by Armand de Quatrefages ...

« Nos corps se transforment, a dit Ovide, ce que nous étions hier, ce que nous sommes aujourd’hui, nous ne le serons pas demain. » Le chantre des Métamorphoses proclamait là une vérité bien plus profonde qu’il ne le croyait sans doute. Après trois siècles d’expériences et d’observations, la science moderne a confirmé de tout point les paroles du poète.Ce livre traite des phénomènes de la ... Read more

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« Nos corps se transforment, a dit Ovide, ce que nous étions hier, ce que nous sommes aujourd’hui, nous ne le serons pas demain. » Le chantre des Métamorphoses proclamait là une vérité bien plus profonde qu’il ne le croyait sans doute. Après trois siècles d’expériences et d’observations, la science moderne a confirmé de tout point les paroles du poète.Ce livre traite des phénomènes de la
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The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 24, 1876

by Charles Darwin ...

Series series The Correspondence of Charles Darwin
This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. Notes and appendixes put these fascinating and wide-ranging letters in context, making the letters accessible to both scholars and general readers. Darwin depended on correspondence to collect data from all over the world, and to discuss his emerging ... Read more

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This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. Notes and appendixes put these fascinating and wide-ranging letters in context, making the letters accessible to both scholars and general readers. Darwin depended on correspondence to collect data from all over the world, and to discuss his emerging
... Read more
Orchid Species from Himalaya and Southeast Asia Vol. 2 (G - P)

by Eng Soon Teoh ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
A presentation of over 700 popular orchid species in 104 genera carefully detailed with beautiful photographs and concise descriptions of plants, their distribution and habitats by a well-known author and photographer. Each genus is assigned a separate chapter. Coverage of the most commonly cultivated Asian species including their varieties and cultivars (e.g. in Bulbophyllum 72 species; Coelogyne ... Read more

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A presentation of over 700 popular orchid species in 104 genera carefully detailed with beautiful photographs and concise descriptions of plants, their distribution and habitats by a well-known author and photographer. Each genus is assigned a separate chapter. Coverage of the most commonly cultivated Asian species including their varieties and cultivars (e.g. in Bulbophyllum 72 species; Coelogyne
... Read more
The Drunken Monkey

Why We Drink and Abuse Alcohol

by Robert Dudley ...

Alcoholism, as opposed to the safe consumption of alcohol, remains a major public health issue. In this accessible book, Robert Dudley presents an intriguing evolutionary interpretation to explain the persistence of alcohol-related problems. Providing a deep-time, interdisciplinary perspective on today’s patterns of alcohol consumption and abuse, Dudley traces the link between the fruit-eating ... Read more

$31.99 USD

Alcoholism, as opposed to the safe consumption of alcohol, remains a major public health issue. In this accessible book, Robert Dudley presents an intriguing evolutionary interpretation to explain the persistence of alcohol-related problems. Providing a deep-time, interdisciplinary perspective on today’s patterns of alcohol consumption and abuse, Dudley traces the link between the fruit-eating
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What is Truth? by Jake & Jahden Krihkori

by Jake Krihkori, Jahden Krihkori ...

Series Book 1 - What Is Truth
What is truth?Is it something we decide-or something we discover?And if truth exists, how do we recognize it?These questions-questions that both kids and adults struggle with in different ways-set two brothers, Jake and Jahden, on a bold journey to explore life's biggest mysteries. In ***What Is Truth?***, the first book in an exciting new series, they invite readers of all ages to join them on a ... Read more

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What is truth?Is it something we decide-or something we discover?And if truth exists, how do we recognize it?These questions-questions that both kids and adults struggle with in different ways-set two brothers, Jake and Jahden, on a bold journey to explore life's biggest mysteries. In ***What Is Truth?***, the first book in an exciting new series, they invite readers of all ages to join them on a
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Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal

by Juan José Millás, Juan Luis Arsuaga ...

Translated by Thomas Bunstead, Daniel Hahn ...

A New Scientist Book of the YearPrehistory is all around us. We just need to know where to look.Juan José Millás has always felt like he doesn’t quite fit into human society. Sometimes he wonders if he is even a Homo sapiens at all, or something simpler. Perhaps he is a Neanderthal who somehow survived? So he turns to Juan Luis Arsuaga, one of the world’s leading palaeontologists and a super-smart ... Read more

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A New Scientist Book of the YearPrehistory is all around us. We just need to know where to look.Juan José Millás has always felt like he doesn’t quite fit into human society. Sometimes he wonders if he is even a Homo sapiens at all, or something simpler. Perhaps he is a Neanderthal who somehow survived? So he turns to Juan Luis Arsuaga, one of the world’s leading palaeontologists and a super-smart
... Read more
Homo Sapiens 2.0: Engineering Our Future Through Radical Evolution

by Josh Luberisse ...

In what is a monumental and deeply impressive exploration of humanity's next chapter, Homo Sapiens 2.0 delivers a landmark analysis of the advent of self-directed evolution. This is not a simple overview of future technology, but a work of profound intellectual rigor and startling clarity that synthesizes complex science, cutting-edge philosophy, and pragmatic political analysis into a single, ... Read more

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In what is a monumental and deeply impressive exploration of humanity's next chapter, Homo Sapiens 2.0 delivers a landmark analysis of the advent of self-directed evolution. This is not a simple overview of future technology, but a work of profound intellectual rigor and startling clarity that synthesizes complex science, cutting-edge philosophy, and pragmatic political analysis into a single,
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Plant Microtechniques and Protocols

Edited by Edward Chee Tak Yeung, Michael John Sumner, Claudio Stasolla, Bing Quan Huang ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
A proper understanding of the structural organization of the plant body is essential to any study in plant biology. Experimental studies in vivo and in situ will lead to structural, physiological, and cellular changes of the experimental material. To study macroscopic and microscopic changes, different histological methods and microtechniques can be used as they provide valuable information of the ... Read more

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A proper understanding of the structural organization of the plant body is essential to any study in plant biology. Experimental studies in vivo and in situ will lead to structural, physiological, and cellular changes of the experimental material. To study macroscopic and microscopic changes, different histological methods and microtechniques can be used as they provide valuable information of the
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Why Do We All Behave In The Way We Do?

The Secrets of Life - From Big Bang to Trump

by SS O'Connor ...

Series Book 3 - The Secrets of Life Series: From Big Bang to Trump
Why is life like a poker game? How did a failed robbery help to explain human nature? Why are we so certain bad men will win - and yet we're so wrong?In this, the third volume of The Secrets of Life quartet, SS O'Connor once more uses his easy-going, conversational style to explain how the science of decision analysis developed, and why it has come to show us not only the reasoning behind how ... Read more

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Why is life like a poker game? How did a failed robbery help to explain human nature? Why are we so certain bad men will win - and yet we're so wrong?In this, the third volume of The Secrets of Life quartet, SS O'Connor once more uses his easy-going, conversational style to explain how the science of decision analysis developed, and why it has come to show us not only the reasoning behind how
... Read more
Biotectonics

Tectonics as the Driver of Bioregionalisation

by Malte C. Ebach, Bernard Michaux ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Tectonic plates are constantly moving, either crashing into one another creating a mosaic of mountains and shallow seas, or tearing apart and isolating large swathes of land. In both cases plate tectonics separates populations leading to the evolution of biota. Tectonics is also responsible for the destruction life, for instance when large coral reefs or shallow seas are compressed to form ... Read more

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Tectonic plates are constantly moving, either crashing into one another creating a mosaic of mountains and shallow seas, or tearing apart and isolating large swathes of land. In both cases plate tectonics separates populations leading to the evolution of biota. Tectonics is also responsible for the destruction life, for instance when large coral reefs or shallow seas are compressed to form
... Read more
Weltgeschichte zwischen Wissenschaft und Glaube Teil 1

Evolution aus naturalistischer Weltsicht oder Schöpfung

by Horst Jentsch ...

Auf jeden Fall „ein heißes Eisen“! Evolution aus naturalistischer Sicht oder Schöpfung? Das naturwissenschaftliche Establishment aller Fachgebiete hält die sich auf reinen Zufall und Selbstorganisation gründende Urknall- und Evolutionstheorie für eine bewiesene Tatsache. Auf ihrer Basis hat man versucht, eine rein naturalistische Erklärung für den Ursprung und die Entwicklung des Universums zu ... Read more

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Auf jeden Fall „ein heißes Eisen“! Evolution aus naturalistischer Sicht oder Schöpfung? Das naturwissenschaftliche Establishment aller Fachgebiete hält die sich auf reinen Zufall und Selbstorganisation gründende Urknall- und Evolutionstheorie für eine bewiesene Tatsache. Auf ihrer Basis hat man versucht, eine rein naturalistische Erklärung für den Ursprung und die Entwicklung des Universums zu
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Imperfección

by Telmo Pievani ...

Translated by Francisco José Martín Cabrero ...

Series series El libro de bolsillo - Filosofía
Si se analiza el universo con las herramientas hoy a nuestro alcance, comprobamos que se funda en la imperfección, y no sólo eso, sino que ésta es su principal motor. Sólo donde hay imperfección hay algo que sucede -un evento, un proceso, un cambio, una relación-, mientras que la perfección es, por el contrario, algo completo y atemporal. En estas páginas, el filósofo de la ciencia Telmo Pievani ... Read more

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Si se analiza el universo con las herramientas hoy a nuestro alcance, comprobamos que se funda en la imperfección, y no sólo eso, sino que ésta es su principal motor. Sólo donde hay imperfección hay algo que sucede -un evento, un proceso, un cambio, una relación-, mientras que la perfección es, por el contrario, algo completo y atemporal. En estas páginas, el filósofo de la ciencia Telmo Pievani
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Evolución humana y vulnerabilidad

by Oscar Raúl Sánchez Rubio ...

Series series Ciencias sociales
Esta revisión de la perspectiva evolutiva de la salud busca constituirse en un nuevo recurso de estudio, análisis y discusión para los profesionales interesados. El libro presenta las nuevas tendencias en investigación en medicina evolutiva, campo que está generando gran cantidad de estudios y publicaciones; en particular, busca resolver el interrogante en torno a las razones por las cuales surgen ... Read more

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Esta revisión de la perspectiva evolutiva de la salud busca constituirse en un nuevo recurso de estudio, análisis y discusión para los profesionales interesados. El libro presenta las nuevas tendencias en investigación en medicina evolutiva, campo que está generando gran cantidad de estudios y publicaciones; en particular, busca resolver el interrogante en torno a las razones por las cuales surgen
... Read more
Late Cretaceous/Paleogene West Antarctica Terrestrial Biota and its Intercontinental Affinities

by Marcelo Reguero, Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche, Tania Dutra, Sergio Marenssi, Francisco Goin ...

Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
One of the most intriguing paleobiogeographical phenomena involving the origins and gradual sundering of Gondwana concerns the close similarities and, in most cases, inferred sister-group relationships of a number of terrestrial and freshwater vertebrate taxa, e.g., dinosaurs, flying birds, mammals, etc., recovered from uppermost Cretaceous/ Paleogene deposits of West Antarctica, South America, ... Read more

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One of the most intriguing paleobiogeographical phenomena involving the origins and gradual sundering of Gondwana concerns the close similarities and, in most cases, inferred sister-group relationships of a number of terrestrial and freshwater vertebrate taxa, e.g., dinosaurs, flying birds, mammals, etc., recovered from uppermost Cretaceous/ Paleogene deposits of West Antarctica, South America,
... Read more
Een kaars in het donker

Mijn leven in de wetenschap

by Richard Dawkins ...

Translated by Bart Voorzanger ...

'Een kaars in het donker' is het uitermate onderhoudende vervolg op 'Verwondering of hoe ik wetenschapper werd'. Richard Dawkins vertelt over zijn intellectuele leven sinds het verschijnen van De zelfzuchtige genen. Dankzij dit werk genoot hij in deze jaren wereldwijde bewondering. Dawkins drijft minzaam de spot met de wereld van universiteiten, uitgeverijen en televisie, en met de mannen en ... Read more

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'Een kaars in het donker' is het uitermate onderhoudende vervolg op 'Verwondering of hoe ik wetenschapper werd'. Richard Dawkins vertelt over zijn intellectuele leven sinds het verschijnen van De zelfzuchtige genen. Dankzij dit werk genoot hij in deze jaren wereldwijde bewondering. Dawkins drijft minzaam de spot met de wereld van universiteiten, uitgeverijen en televisie, en met de mannen en
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Why Gould Was Wrong

by Nils K. Oeijord ...

Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was a leading critic of human behavioral genetics, human sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, and the modern evolutionary synthesis. Why Gould Was Wrong explains why Gould's claims were horribly wrong. ... Read more

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Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was a leading critic of human behavioral genetics, human sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, and the modern evolutionary synthesis. Why Gould Was Wrong explains why Gould's claims were horribly wrong.
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