The Tree of Life: Charles DarwinDrawing on the rich body of work that Darwin left, Peter Sis creates a fascinating picture of this remarkable man's life, from schoolboy to medical student and the world voyage which created Charles Darwin the naturalist.Sis Peter...
According to the Intelligent Design approach, since a million tickets (possible protein sequences/amino acids) exist, the chances of drawing the winning ticket are extremely low, and therefore no ticket will win. However, we know this to be false; one ticket ultimately DOES win. Therefore, as...
The debate over Intelligent Design seemingly represents an extension of the fundamental conflict between creationists and evolutionists. ID proponents, drawing on texts such as Darwin's Black Box and Of Pandas and People, urge schools to... N Comfort,D Kevles,S Gilbert,... - The Johns Hopkins...
(A and B) Holotype specimen BPMC 0042 (A) and a schematic skeletal drawing (B). Scale bars, 50 mm. (C) Phylogenetic relationships of the new species. This simplified topology was consistently found in all three of our analyses, except for the placement of the Anurognathidae, which are...
Holotype of Grana harveydenti gen. et sp. nov. (NMB F3848). (a) Interpretative drawing with additional drawing of the propodeum and first tergite in dorsal view. (b) Photo of face, in front view. On the right side the outlines of facial structures are shown, including an air bubble....
‘Darwinian Revolution’ by examining how people from across all sections of society actually responded to Darwin’s writings. Drawing on the opinions and interventions of over 2,000 Victorians, drawn from an exceptionally wide range of archival and printed sources, it argues that the spread of ...
Drawing of Jenny sitting on a chair. © The British Library Board. Darwin was also convinced that “Jenny understood” human language. Signs of orangutan intelligence were recorded not only from their ability to recognize spoken words but their reactions to a looking glass, ability to untie ...
The repeated, rapid and often pronounced patterns of evolutionary divergence observed in insular plants, or the ‘plant island syndrome’, include changes in leaf phenotypes, growth, as well as the acquisition of a perennial lifestyle. Here, we sequence
but he revisited the topic in a two-volume treatise less than a decade later. In addition to drawing much of his information about heredity from studies of domesticated animals and plants, Darwin saw important parallels between the process of artificial selection by humans and natural selection by...
The house and garden were sold at auction in 1867. The sale particulars and a plan of the property have survived. They give a good idea of the features that the garden contained by 1866: Lot 1 MANSION HOUSE, called "THE MOUNT", Shrewsbury, containing Dining Room, Drawing Room, Morning ...