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Beginning in 1925, when at twenty-three she embarked on her first field work in Samoa, Mead sent family and friends these letters from the field to make a little more real for them the exotic worlds that absorbed her.
An authoritative exploration of why understanding evolution is crucial to human life todayIt is easy to think of evolution as something that happened long ago, or that occurs only in "e;nature,"e; or that is so slow that its ongoing impact is virtually nonexistent when viewed from the perspective of a single human lifetime.
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Este libro nace del interés de las instituciones académicas latinoamericanas y europeas agrupadas en el Colectivo Iberoamericano de Bioética y Cine (CIBC) en contribuir a la búsqueda de sentido en medio del absurdo que representa la perseverancia de la vida durante la pandemia de COVID-19.
Das Standardwerk der Bestsellerautorin überarbeitet, aktualisiert und extrem unterhaltsam: Franca Parianen schreibt über ein Thema, das uns alle angeht: Hormone.
The human brain is an impossibly complex and delicate instrument - capable of extraordinary calculations, abundant creativity and linguistic dexterity.
Inhaltlich stellt der Text zunächst die aktuelle neurobiologische und paarpsychologische Forschung zum Thema Liebesbeziehungen vor, ergänzt durch eine Übersicht der Entwicklung von Partnerschaften aus soziologischer und juristischer Perspektive.
The marvelous microbes that made life on Earth possible and support our very existenceFor almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans all to themselves.
El presente volumen ofrece al lector reflexiones y sugerencias interpretativas sobre los aspectos capitales de la nueva Ley Orgánica 3/2021, de Regulación de la Eutanasia, realizadas por especialistas de primer orden en las diferentes vertientes de la materia.
Charles Darwin desempeñó un papel crucial a la hora de convertir la herencia en una cuestión científica y, sin embargo, fracasó estrepitosamente a la hora de responderla.
En abril de 2006, Neil Shubin y su equipo aparecieron en los titulares de prensa mundiales cuando dieron a conocer al Tiktaalik, un pez fósil con extremidades de 375 millones de años de edad, el eslabón perdido entre las antiguas criaturas del mar y las primeras criaturas en empezar a caminar en tierra.
Si hay algo que nos ha mostrado la pandemia, es la fragilidad de las bases sobre las que creíamos que se sostenía nuestro mundo y las profundas crisis sociales y ecológicas que estaban presentes desde hace tiempo pero que, por diversas razones, éramos incapaces de abordar en profundidad.
An engaging journey into the biological principles underpinning a beloved science-fiction franchiseIn Star Trek, crew members travel to unusual planets, meet diverse beings, and encounter unique civilizations.
This book is an authoritative work on the ecology of some of America's most iconic large mammals in a natural environment - and of the interplay between climate, landscape, and animals in the interior of the world's first and most famous national park.
Virus Taxonomy is a standard and comprehensive source for the classification of viruses, created by the International Committee of the Taxonomy of Viruses.
Principles of Behavioral Genetics provides an introduction to the fascinating science that aims to understand how our genes determine what makes us tick.
The child is neither an adult miniature nor an immature human being: at each age, it expresses specific abilities that optimize adaptation to its environment and development of new acquisitions.
During the 1990's, scientific advances in understanding the mechanisms and pathophysiology of acute central nervous system injury were offset by a history of disappointing results from Phase III clinical trials of novel neuroprotective drugs.
The Ecology of Sandy Shores provides the students and researchers with a one-volume resource for understanding the conservation and management of the sandy shore ecosystem.
The Evolution of the Genome provides a much needed overview of genomic study through clear, detailed, expert-authored discussions of the key areas in genome biology.
This book presents work that has been conducted as part of the research project "e;Discourse on ethical questions of biomedicine"e; of the interdisciplinary Working Group Bioethics and Science Communication at the Max-Delbrueck-Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC)in Berlin-Buch, Germany.
In this book, the progress during the last ten years is reviewed and future plans outlined to realize and establish the concept of design in the biological sciences.
International Review of Neurobiology is a well-respected series appealing to neuroscientists, clinicians, psychologists, physiologists, and pharmacologists.
