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An ET Scientist on the Mission of Jesus follows Prof. Hawkins and his ET scientist friend, Zeus, who previously examined the records of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. They had concluded that Jesus probably did not die on the cross but fell into a coma and was mistakenly thought to be dead. After coming out of the coma after three days, Jesus was assumed to have experienced resurrection. Having determined that Jesus did not die on the cross...
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In 1944, the Nobel Prize—winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger published a groundbreaking little book called What Is Life? In fewer than one hundred pages, he argued that life was not a mysterious or inexplicable phenomenon, as many people believed, but a scientific process like any other, ultimately explainable by the laws of physics and chemistry.
Today, more than sixty years later, members of a new generation of scientists are attempting to create...
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John E. Dowling is the Llura and Gordon Gund Professor of Neurosciences and Harvard College Professor at Harvard University. He has received numerous awards, including the Helen Keller Prize for Vision Research.
Whether our personality, intelligence, and behavior are more likely to be shaped by our environment or our genetic coding is not simply an idle question for today's researchers. There are tremendous consequences to understanding the crucial...
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Que un organismo externo (un virus alienígena, un hongo mutado o un ser extraño) controle el cuerpo y la voluntad de los seres humanos, vivos o muertos, es uno de los temas más recurrentes en la ciencia ficción. Nos aterra que pueda existir un parásito con capacidad de aniquilar nuestro control corporal o modificar nuestras acciones. Por suerte, esto solo pasa en la ficción: 'Alien', 'The Last of Us' o 'The Strain' simplemente son productos...
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Drawing on such diverse antecedents as history, myth, and religion, as well as modern developments in biology and genetics, the author bravely questions and rejects the reigning scientific orthodoxy and shows how humans and apes may have had a common upright ancestoran upright ape that walked on two legs much as we do now. Dr. Aaron G. Filler, M.D., Ph.D. studied evolutionary theory under some of the leading biologists and anthropologists of our time:...
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Niles Eldredge is the Curator of the Department of Invertebrates at the American Museum of Natural History.
Like the bird whose death signaled dangerous conditions in a mine, the demise of animals that once flourished should give humans pause. How is our fate linked to the earth's creatures, and the cycle of flourishing and extinction? Which are the simple workings of nature's order, and which are omens of ecological disaster? Does human activity...
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William Agosta is Professor Emeritus at Rockefeller University and a Visiting Investigator at the University of Washington's Friday Harbor Laboratory. He is the author of Chemical Communication and Bombardier Beetles and Fever Trees.
The tobacco plant synthesizes nicotine to protect itself from herbivores. The female moth broadcasts sex pheromones to attract a mate, while a soldier ant deploys an alarm pheromone to call for help. The carbon dioxide...
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What drives us to eat and accounts for different appetites? Why is breathing at high altitudes easy for birds and difficult for humans? Why do animals have two sets of sensory organs-eyes, ears, nostrils, etc...?
In Why Geese Don't Get Obese, physiologist Eric Widmaier describes the astonishing ways humans and other creatures have adapted to their environmental challenges in order to survive. Surprising examples, a sense of humor, and some insightful...
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Biochemistry is the study of the chemical processes that occur within living organisms. From the intricate mechanisms of DNA replication to the production of ATP in our cells, biochemistry is at the heart of all biological processes."The Molecules of Life" is an accessible and engaging introduction to the world of biochemistry. Through a series of chapters, readers will explore the key concepts and molecules that make life possible.Starting with an...
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Every flu season, sneezing, coughing, and graphic throat-clearing become the day-to-day background noise in every workplace. And coworkers tend to move as far-and as quickly-away from the source of these bodily eruptions as possible. Instinctively, humans recoil from objects that they view as dirty and even struggle to overcome feelings of discomfort once the offending item has been cleaned. These reactions are universal, and although there are cultural...
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All systems produce waste as part of a cycle bacteria, humans, combustion engines, even one as large and complex as a city. To some extent, this waste can be absorbed, processed, or recycled though never completely. In Wasted World, Rob Hengeveld reveals how a long history of human consumption has left our world drowning in this waste.
This is a compelling and urgent work that traces the related histories of population growth and resource consumption....
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Dr. Sharad P. Paul bietet eine ebenso spannende wie verständliche Einführung in die Zusammenhänge zwischen Evolution, Gesundheit und der Wunderwelt der Gene. Er zeigt auf, wie wir diese durch Lebensstil, Ernährung, Bewegung, Stressmanagement und Lebenseinstellung beeinflussen können. Denn unsere Gene sind eine Art Blaupause, aber nicht unser Schicksal. Mit zahlreichen Fallbeispielen und Studien.
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Eric Post is professor of climate change ecology and fellow of the John Muir Institute at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Ecology of Climate Change: The Importance of Biotic Interactions (Princeton) and the coeditor of Wildlife Conservation in a Changing Climate.
Ecologists traditionally regard time as part of the background against which ecological interactions play out. In this book, Eric Post argues that time should be...
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Get the Summary of James DiNicolantonio's The Obesity Fix in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Obesity Fix" by James DiNicolantonio explores the multifaceted causes of the obesity epidemic, challenging the simplistic calorie in vs. calorie out model. The book traces the historical context of obesity, noting that it was once rare and considered a sign of wealth. The Industrial Revolution led to improved nutrition...
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This provocative account of our obsession with neuroscience brilliantly illuminates what contemporary neuroscience and brain imaging can and cannot tell us about ourselves, providing a much-needed reminder about the many factors that make us who we are.
What can't neuroscience tell us about ourselves? Since fMRI -- functional magnetic resonance imaging -- was introduced in the early 1990s, brain scans have been used to help politicians understand...
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A Matter of Life and Death tells fascinating stories of mysterious illnesses and miraculous scientific breakthroughs. But it is also crammed full of extraordinary characters from the forensic anthropologist with his own Body Farm in Tennessee to the doctor who had a heart-and-lung transplant and ended up using her own lungs for research.
17) What Mad Pursuit
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Candid, provocative, and disarming, this is the widely-praised memoir of the co-discoverer of the double helix of DNA. Francis Crick is the Kieckhefer Professor at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. He shared a Nobel Prize with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins in 1962 for the discovery of the structure of DNA, regarded as the greatest biological advance of the twentieth century.
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Get the Summary of Adele Brand's The Hidden World of the Fox in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Hidden World of the Fox" by Adele Brand is an exploration of the red fox's adaptation to the modern British landscape, examining their lives in both rural and urban settings. The book contrasts the idyllic existence of foxes in traditional British countryside with the challenges they face in areas undergoing urban...
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The most important aspect of evolution, from a philosophical viewpoint, is the rise of complex, advanced creatures from simple, primitive ones. This "vertical" dimension of evolution has been downplayed in both the specialist and popular literature on evolution, in large part because it was in the past associated with unsavory political views. The avoidance of evolution's vertical dimension has, however, left evolutionary biology open to the perception,...
20) Is Your Ancestor a Monkey?: An Exploration of Key Issues in the Evolution Versus Creation Debate
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This book examines some important key issues in the evolution versus creation debate, including the importance of the Big Bang, the building blocks of life, DNA information, archeological evidence. intelligent design, and near-death experiences. By the end of this brief discussion, you will better be able to know what you believe and explain why you believe it.
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