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Extrait : "Quand on compare les individus appartenant à une même variété ou à une même sous-variété de nos plantes cultivées depuis le plus longtemps et de nos animaux domestiques les plus anciens, on remarque tout d'abord qu'ils diffèrent ordinairement plus les uns des autres que les individus appartenant à une espèce ou à une variété quelconque à l'état de nature."
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WARNING: Everything you know about the peopling of the Americas is wrong. People in the Americas before the Last Ice Age Glaciation Concluded: An Emerging Paradigm on Western Hemisphere Population Origin covers the turn of the century emerging science on the origin of human population in the western hemisphere. It is a booklet that is designed to provide a reference bridge until the new information can be included in textbook presentations. With the...
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In today's fast-paced world, it's tough to find the time to read. But with Joosr guides, you can get the key insights from bestselling non-fiction titles in less than 20 minutes. Whether you want to gain knowledge on the go or find the books you'll love, Joosr's brief and accessible summaries fit into your life. Never before has a single species dominated the planet as humans do today. But just how much are we damaging the world around us? The Sixth...
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"The world that we leave to our children will depend on the children we leave to our world." - FEDERICO MAYOR, former President of Unesco
Study of the effect of Man's activities on the environment is not exclusive to contemporary societies. It has been pondered upon by human minds since thought and philosophy have endeavored to help him to reach his ideal. The quotations found throughout this book are a perfect illustration of this.
The state of...
385) Social Butterflies
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Henry S. Horn (1941–2019) was professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton University. He was the author of The Adaptive Geometry of Trees and the coeditor of Molds, Molecules, and Metazoa: Growing Points in Evolutionary Biology (both Princeton).
An ecologist's investigation of the social lives of butterflies
Throughout his career, Henry Horn took a unique approach to the study of butterflies. This book brings together...
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Travel backward through time from today's scattered billions to the handful of early humans who lived in Africa 60,000 years ago and are ancestors to us all.
In Deep Ancestry, scientist and National Geographic explorer Spencer Wells shows how tiny genetic changes add up over time into a fascinating story. Using scores of real-life examples, helpful analogies, and detailed diagrams and illustrations, he explains exactly how each and every individual's...
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Religions and mythologies from around the world teach that God or gods created humans. Atheist, humanist, and materialist critics, meanwhile, have attempted to turn theology on its head, claiming that religion is a human invention. In this book, E. Fuller Torrey draws on cutting-edge neuroscience research to propose a startling answer to the ultimate question. Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods locates the origin of gods within the human brain, arguing...
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A gripping examination of invasive species' impact. Super species are the phenomenally successful invasive life-forms that are dominating ecosystems. These animals, plants and microbes have spread far from their native habitats, most often as a result of human activities. The key to super species' success is their ability to adapt quickly. Super species may be unusually aggressive, difficult to kill, unfazed by the presence and activity of humans,...
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Partez à la découverte de la paléontologie avec ce Grand Article Universalis !
La paléontologie, terme créé en 1834 par le zoologiste français Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, a pour objet l'étude des êtres (ontologie) qui ont vécu à la surface du globe terrestre avant les temps actuels (palaios en grec signifie «ancien»). Ces êtres sont connus grâce aux fossiles ...
Un ouvrage spécialement conçu pour le numérique afin d'en...
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In " Unraveling Epistemological Boundaries and Power-Knowledge in the Out of Africa Theory," embark on a transformative journey that challenges conventional narratives and explores the dynamic interplay between power-knowledge, epistemology, and alternative theories of human origins. Delve into a world where the narratives of melanated people reclaim their rightful place in shaping the discourse surrounding our shared human history.
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Paul Mellars is both Reader in Prehistory and President of Corpus Christi College of the University of Cambridge. He is the editor, with Christopher Stringer, of The Human Revolution: Behavioral and Biological Perspectives on the Origins of Modern Humans (Princeton).
The Neanderthals populated western Europe from nearly 250,000 to 30,000 years ago when they disappeared from the archaeological record. In turn, populations of anatomically modern humans,...
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What does it mean for the Christian doctrine of the Fall if there was no historical Adam? If humanity emerged from nonhuman primates-as genetic, biological, and archaeological evidence seems to suggest-then what are the implications for a Christian understanding of human origins, including the origin of sin?
Evolution and the Fall gathers a multidisciplinary, ecumenical team of scholars to address these difficult questions and others like them...
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Sauropods, those huge plant-eating dinosaurs, possessed bodies that seem to defy every natural law. What were these creatures like as living animals and how could they reach such uniquely gigantic sizes? A dedicated group of researchers in Germany in disciplines ranging from engineering and materials science to animal nutrition and paleontology went in search of the answers to these questions. Biology of the Sauropod Dinosaurs reports on the latest...
394) Monkeys
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'Monkeys' is an article that appeared in Popular Science Monthly and details the characteristics and geographical distribution of many species of monkey.
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Many books aim to help beginners explore whether or not evolutionary science is compatible with Christian faith. This one probes more deeply to ask: What do we learn from modern evolutionary science about key issues that are of special theological concern? And what does Christian theology, especially in its Reformed expressions, say about those same key issues?
Gijsbert van den Brink begins by describing the layers of meaning in the phrase "evolutionary...
396) The Rooster's Wife
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It's a scientific fact that anyone entering the distance will grow smaller as he proceeds. Eventually becoming so small he might only be found with a microscope, if indeed he is found at all. But there is a vanishing point, where anyone having entered the distance must disappear entirely without hope of his ever returning, leaving only the memory of his ever having been. But then there is fiction, so that one can never really be sure if one is remembering...
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« Le monde que nous laisserons à nos enfants dépendra des enfants que nous laisserons à notre monde. » Federico Mayor, ancien directeur général de l'Unesco
La réflexion sur l'action de l'humanité sur son environnement au sens large n'est pas exclusive de nos sociétés contemporaines. Elle traverse l'esprit de l'homme depuis que la pensée et la philosophie essaient de l'aider à devenir ce qu'il pourrait idéalement être. Les citations...
398) Bang! You're Alive
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Reading this book is a wild ride though the nature of sex, the history of god and religion, stellar physics, hypnotism, genetics, Roman history, theology, biology, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, heaven, hell, gambling, galaxies and Santa delivering toys. It will take you back to the Big Bang and forward into your best possible future. Here is the sudden understanding of how things really are all around you and inside you. Here is the way to save the...
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What do evolutionary science and contextual behavioral science have in common? Edited by David Sloan Wilson and Steven C. Hayes, this groundbreaking book offers a glimpse into the histories of these two schools of thought, and provides a sound rationale for their reintegration. Evolutionary science (ES) provides a unifying theoretical framework for the biological sciences, and is increasingly being applied to the human-related sciences. Meanwhile,...
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Gil G. Rosenthal is professor of biology and of ecology and evolutionary biology at Texas A&M University. He is codirector of the CICHAZ field station in central Mexico.
A major new look at the evolution of mating decisions in organisms from protozoans to humans
The popular consensus on mate choice has long been that females select mates likely to pass good genes to offspring. In Mate Choice, Gil Rosenthal overturns much of this conventional wisdom....
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