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-- Darwin's Radio “Virus hunter” Christopher Dicken is a man on a mission, following a trail of rumors, government cover-ups, and dead bodies around the globe in search of a mysterious disease that strikes only pregnant women and invariably results in miscarriage. But when Dicken finds what he’s looking for, the answer proves to be stranger—and far deadlier—than he ever could have imagined. Something that has slept in human DNA for millions...
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Tongue-in-cheek tributes to people whose own lack of judgment led to their demise includes a homeowner who filled his house with natural gas to kill termites, a motorcycle rider who steered with his feet, and a welder who incorporated a grenade into a chain.
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The startling, long ignored, but now widely acclaimed new story of the life and full theory of the Darwin who wrote only twice about "survival of the fittest" but 95 times about the evolutionary drive of LOVE in the lives of all species-including us-in The Descent of Man. This is the first of five books for Darwin's New World View Series. Book by book the series will unfold pioneering evolutionary systems scientist David Loye's reconstruction of the...
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The world ends not with a bang, or a whimper, but a wild crazy howl of insanity as a seeming virus spreads like wildfire and promotes mental disorders among the populace at large. The world goes crazy, descends into an anarchy of insanity, and civilization collapses. In the wake of this, seeming monsters appear... how? what are they? and from where? Avalanche and Angelfire believe themselves to be superheroes, and seek answers...The first four Dancing...
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Esta autobiografía de Charles Darwin se publicó en su primera edición censurada por la familia (especialmente por sus opiniones sobre la religión), y sólo en la década de 1950 se recuperó la versión íntegra, sin recortes, que publicamos aquí. Los pasajes censurados aparecen en negrita.
"Un editor alemán me escribió pidiéndome un informe sobre la evolución de mi mente y mi carácter -escribe Darwin-, junto con un esbozo autobiográfico,...
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When the world goes crazy, Sam is swept along on tide of madness as his town and his own mind are torn apart. He believes he has found a balance between madness and sanity, until two masked Superheroes come to remind him that every decision comes with consequences, every action comes with a price.
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While Dana is working to save the rainforests, someone else is working to end the world. When it all hits the fan, Dana seeks refuge with the last person on earth she would have believed possible - her new friend in the oil industry.Evolving Environment is the third story to be released of a series of many parts, collectively known as Dancing with Darwin
9) Headed Home
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When the world goes crazy, Sheena drives into Los Angeles as part of a military convoy, surrounded by people she knows and trusts with her life. When madness steals over her unit, she is forced away from them... and everyone else. It's only a matter of time before she must deal with her fear and face her inner demons.
10) Rapture Ready
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Claire, a deeply religious young women begins another normal day that turns into a journey into the macabre. Before the end of the day her whole world has fallen apart as the people of her home town abruptly fall victim to a variety of mental disorders. Claire must both survive the madness of her community and somehow retain her own sanity.Even if she succeeds at doing both, she knows the world will never be the same again.
11) What Darwin Didn't Know: The Modern Science of Evolution: Genetic Drift: When Evolution Is Random
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Explore how population bottlenecks and the founder effect lead to random changes in the frequency of genes, an independent mechanism of evolution known as genetic drift. Darwin had an inkling of this process when he proposed that "spontaneous variations" play a role in evolution. But genetic drift has proved far more significant than he ever envisioned.
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Explore one of the ultimate applications of evolutionary principles: harnessing evolution to benefit human health. Study diseases such as malaria, AIDS, influenza, and cancer that evolve rapidly to outmaneuver the body's changing defenses. Also contrast our modern lifestyle with the physiology we inherited from our prehistoric ancestors, who evolved to compete in a far different world.
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What does the future hold? Will we evolve into new species? Or have we reached an optimum state that will see minimal evolutionary changes? Weigh the impact of our ever-more-sophisticated technology and consider what will happen to humans who leave Earth for another planet with new physiological challenges. As you learn in this course, evolution isn't just possible; it's inevitable.
14) What Darwin Didn't Know: The Modern Science of Evolution: Cambrian Explosion to Dinosaur Extinction
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Darwin was puzzled by the sudden appearance of complex, diverse flora and fauna in the fossil record roughly 540 million years ago, a period known as the Cambrian explosion. And Darwin had no idea that the history of life on Earth has included five big mass extinction events followed by accelerated periods of evolution that often took life in radically new directions.
15) What Darwin Didn't Know: The Modern Science of Evolution: Evolution Doesn't Repeat, but It Rhymes
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Convergent evolution occurs when natural selection causes different species to evolve in similar ways. Does this mean that evolution follows a predetermined path? Focus on the recent debate between scientists Stephen Jay Gould and Simon Conway Morris. Gould perceived contingencies and unpredictability, but Conway Morris saw repetition and consistency. How do these views relate to human evolution?
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Missing from On the Origin of Species is any account of how traits pass from one generation to the next. Explore the work on genetic inheritance by Gregor Mendel, whose pioneering rules of heredity remained essentially unknown for 35 years. Follow up with 20th-century pioneers, including Thomas Hunt Morgan and Theodosius Dobzhansky, who established the "modern synthesis" of evolutionary biology.
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Darwin's writings seem to imply that evolution through natural selection should always favor longer lifespans. So why don't we live forever (or at least for several centuries)? Consider ways that evolutionary processes account for aging and death. Weigh factors such as accumulated mutations, programmed cell death, and genes whose multiple effects are antagonistically at odds with one another.
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Why was Darwin afraid that ants might undermine his theory of natural selection? Delve into the sterile worker paradox: the puzzle of why ants and other "eusocial" species evolved to have large numbers of non-reproducing offspring. Since the ability to reproduce is central to natural selection, this feature, which is common among insects and also present in other animals, demands explanation.
19) What Darwin Didn't Know: The Modern Science of Evolution: Geology and Genes: The Geography of Life
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Trace the importance of geology in Darwin's thinking and his many observations that make sense only in light of the theory of plate tectonics, which was not developed until the 1960s. Chart the breakup, movement, and reassembly of continental plates that dispersed related flora and fauna all over the planet. Also look at the Wallace Line in Indonesia, which separates Asian from Australian species.
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Darwin contrasted natural selection with artificial selection - the time-tested techniques for selective breeding that promote desired traits in plants and animals. See how far we've come with 21st-century tools such as CRISPR, which allows precise edits to the DNA sequence of any species. Evaluate the promise and perils of this technology, which lets us take evolution into our own hands.
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